Stupidity really does know no bounds -- and this election day mess in Illinois leaves me speechless.

Election officials reported few problems with primary voting in Illinois on Tuesday despite a snafu involving invisible ink.

An election judge gave voters styluses used for touch screen voting instead of ink pens in one precinct, said Jim Allen, a spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections.

Voters complained that they were unable to make a mark after the judge told them that the pens used invisible ink.

About 20 voters got the “invisible ink” pens that didn’t cast any votes. Officials contacted five of the 20 people and were waiting to hear back from the others, Allen said.

I am an election judge. And while the only pens we need down here in my county are for signing the registration books and recording the voters, I hope that my clerks and I would be smart enough not to give out "invisible ink pens" to voters.

What were these people thinking!

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