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Tech Transforms Elections, But Nostalgia Remains
Mary Schulte, Joan Tierney, Shirley Hacker share their Election night memories and mishaps.
By Kelly Rohder
It was mid-afternoon on Election Day when I received the call. The voice on the other end was steeped in euphoria. It was a Sun-Times Media reporter calling to thank the college for the Board of Trustees election results matrix on the college website, which collected with ease the real-time voting numbers from seven counties and 468 precincts.
 In over 20 years as a local journalist, she had spent countless election nights laboriously driving, dialing and tabulating. Now, she was pushing the button of her computer mouse and results flowed freely into her developing story.
Since 2009, the college has utilized an online election results application built by Jake Chase, JJC webmaster (shown above), who initially developed the tool because there was no other way to find this information online. Read more >>
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