One week from Election Day, more than half a million voters in Cook County have either voted early in person or sent their ballots in by mail.
This year’s pace lags behind 2020 when most voters chose to vote early because of the pandemic. The early vote numbers are outpacing 2016.A group of students at Arupe College — affiliated with Loyola — traveled to the Loop together to cast their ballots at the Supersite on Clark and Lake."I’m a bit of a procrastinator, so my school offered us the opportunity to vote early, and I said, ‘Why not’?" said student Jada Lucious.
"We have to take those memory cards and we have to take those paper ballots at the end of each night and put those paper ballots under lock and key in our warehouse."Bever says the servers and paper ballots are kept under 24/7 surveillance, and the process can be observed by poll watchers from either party. The city also has 52 mail-in drop boxes – all but one of them located inside an early voting site.
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