Check the status of your Illinois voter registration on-line

[Jean4CountyClerk]

It's easy to check the status of your voter registration and to find your polling place location on-line:

http://www.elections.il.gov/VotingInformation/RegistrationLookup.aspx



Never take the right to vote for granted.

Jean Kaczmarek, Democratic Candidate for DuPage County Clerk

[4b5f940728b232b034e4]

1. Interesting

King County Washington (Seattle) has the same sort of site:

https://info.kingcounty.gov/elections/ballottracker.aspx

It shows you if your vote had been thrown away. Mine has the past seven years.

[Jean4CountyClerk]

2. Thrown away?

What did you do about it?

[4b5f940728b232b034e4]

8. ?

What could I do about it?

[4b5f940728b232b034e4]

9. sigh

They have a contact phone number of 206-296-VOTE, but you can call it yourself to verify that they don't give a damn.

[Dragonfli]

5. I hope you don't mind my asking, but why did you choose a hexadecimal number for a name? /nt

[4b5f940728b232b034e4]

6. well

It's the MD5 checksum of green.

To answer the King County part, most valid votes are thrown in the trash.

[Dragonfli]

7. Thank you, I know it was off topic, but I was just curious.

Welcome to DU

There are very serious issues regarding our votes, it is something that needs to be fully investigated and for the life of me I do not know why it is all just let go in most cases instead.

[4b5f940728b232b034e4]

10. LOL

Fully investigated? Ha! Their kind just throws away our votes. My vote hasn't counted a single time since I moved back to Seattle over seven years ago.

[lunasun]

3. Thank you

Good luck

[Snarkoleptic]

4. K&R

Spread the word as we don't want to follow Florida down the "oops, we elected a creepy billionaire" rabbit hole.

[frazzled]

11. Your local election authority probably is a better bet

Unless perhaps you live in a rural area. I've been using the Chicago Board of Elections website , for years. There (see http://www.chicagoelections.com/en/home.html and http://www.chicagoelections.com/en/your-voter-information.html ) you see not just your polling place, but much more:

• Verify your voter registration
• Locate your polling place
• Obtain a sample ballot
• Find contact information for your public officials
• Check the status of your absentee ballot
• Apply online for an absentee ballot

You don't register to vote with the state, but rather with your municipality. It's important not just to be registered and to be sure of your polling place (mine changed this past year), but to be able to study the sample ballot for upcoming races for your city, state, and federal offices (these will all be different, depending on where you live, with lots of local offices and judgeships, and different US Representatives, even).

For every primary and election, I print up a sample ballot and do lots of research, and then bring my "cheat sheet" ballot to the poll. I can also check election returns on the same site, after I've voted.

It's a good service from the state, but it's not complete enough to help inform voters fully.

[Jean4CountyClerk]

12. Yes

There are counties which do have this information on-line. I was sending out general info the entire state. It's a very quick way to find out whether or not you're in the database. If you should be and aren't, then you need to resolve it at your county clerk's office unless you live in DuPage County. DuPage is the only county in the state with an independent county-wide electoral board. One would need to go to the Election Commission to resolve not being in the database.

Never take the right to vote for granted.

Jean Kaczmarek, 2014 Democratic Candidate for DuPage County Clerk