UPTOWN — If this election cycle has left your skin crawling, you're not alone.
For Uptown resident Erin Wold, though, voting Tuesday took a particularly shudder-worthy turn.
The Chicago marketing executive said she cast her ballot at the Uptown Library, 929 W. Buena Ave., on Tuesday. As she submitted her vote, "a family of cockroaches came running out," she said on Twitter.
It wasn't an isolated incident, either: Wold said the man who voted with the same machine after her "got even more" of the creepy crawlies.
Time for #Chicago to update their ballot machines. Cast my ballot & a family of cockroaches came running out! @arielfab #ElectionDay
— Erin Wold (@ErinEWold) November 8, 2016
Wold didn't manage to snap a photo of the skittering insects, she said.
"I screamed and jumped back," she said. Afterward, Wold was "too embarrassed, so I left quickly."
While the voting machine was invited by Chicago's Anthony Beranek in the 1880s, let's hope Wold's machine wasn't quite that ancient.
"Time for Chicago to update their ballot machines," she concluded.
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