helping people vote

So there's been all this talk about early voting etc. One of the unexpected side effects of early voting is that people get more confused than usual about where to go vote on Election Day, because the early voting locations are just one for each ward, whereas there are 60+ polling places in each ward on Election Day.

In the 35th Ward, early voting was at the Logan Square library. So a lot of people file toward the library thinking that's where they're supposed to vote. And then they find out they're in the wrong place, but nobody there knows what to do. Except us: because we ran into this problem on primary election day, we expected it, and we've been able to help route people through using the Chicago Board of Elections page to look up polling places.

We've even had two people walk into the office looking for help finding their polling places.

This is really the core of what good political work is. We're doing things that I haven't seen Greens do before and it's really making a big difference.