Early voting began in Chicago on Friday, with city election officials saying they are working to ensure there are enough election judges ready to staff polling places across the city on Election Day.
Election official Cynthia Webb puts out thank you for voting stickers during the first day of early voting at the Chicago Board of Elections Super Site on Oct. 7, 2022.
Monique Babbs, who traveled to the downtown site from Hyde Park, emerged from the maze of blue curtains and stepped up to a row of machines ready to process her ballot.Babbs also said she shared some of the concerns that have been raisedher 87-year-old mother who needs physical assistance to get to polling places. Babbs said she plans to bring her mother back to the Super Site on a day with better weather.
While all of the early voting sites and the Super Site are ADA-compliant, the board will miss its target of having all polling places accessible by the 2022 general election as set out by a settlement agreement in 2017, amended once already in 2019, with the U.S. Department of Justice.
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