Just a quick note (again, from JP Paulus) about Early voting in the city of Chicago.
I would encourage you to bug your friends & relatives who might get distracted or come up with some excuse NOT to vote on November 4. If they vote now, they can stop being concerned about it (until the results come in)
You may vote at any one of 51 locations from now until October 30th. They will all be open 9am -5pm Monday – Saturday. One location will be open on Sunday – the Chicago Board of Elections downtown. Those will be shortened hours.
The location in the 6th ward is located at the Whitney Young Public Library at 79th & King Drive.
My wife reported that there were long lines forming before 9am. One person allegedly got into a fight (i think only verbal) with another (McCain vs. Bush).
At the end of the day, when I voted, there had been at least 600 who voted. Alderman Freddrenna Lyle, a fan of TheSixthWard blog, was disappointed that we didn’t make her hope of 1,000. However, it’s still very good….According to an Associated Press Story, 11,748 Chicagoans voted. The percentage of 6th ward voters was ~ 5%...which is great, if you divide that 11,748 by the 50 wards, which should equal an average of 235 votes per ward (so if distributed evenly, each ward should have had 2% of the vote.
(Note that Ald. Lyle is also the 6th Ward Democratic Committeewoman as well as the City Vice Chair of the Cook County Democratic Party – so you could say she is passionate for voter turnout, for many reasons).
Ald. Lyle will hopefully give her perspective on the day, and how things look for the future.
As always, voting at Whitney Young was great – people were friendly, and no problems. I had to wait a few minutes, but that was just due to the sheer numbers of people voting, from every age group. A beautiful thing.
Vote early – just not often (in the same election).
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