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Some voters in Chicago wait 9 hours to vote: 'I just didn't want to be denied'
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-sameday-registration-voters-20141105-story.htmlThe speeches were long over and most of the races were called, but Decorda McGee still waited in line at a North Side polling place to cast his ballot.
After nine hours, McGee finally voted around 3 a.m. Wednesday, the last person in a long, slow line of people who took advantage of same-day registration voting.
“I just didn't want to be denied,” McGee said after walking out of the Welles Park polling place in Ravenswood. “I wasn't going to be denied my right to vote, and that was the sentiment of everybody in there.”
Under a new law signed this past summer, people were allowed to both register and vote on election day at designated polling places throughout the state.
After nine hours, McGee finally voted around 3 a.m. Wednesday, the last person in a long, slow line of people who took advantage of same-day registration voting.
“I just didn't want to be denied,” McGee said after walking out of the Welles Park polling place in Ravenswood. “I wasn't going to be denied my right to vote, and that was the sentiment of everybody in there.”
Under a new law signed this past summer, people were allowed to both register and vote on election day at designated polling places throughout the state.
Amazingly, Ravenswood is on the largely white North Side. 
And IL has same-day registration and we still lost?!
