For the first time, IL residents can register to vote and cast ballots on the same day at all polling sites.
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Confusion: Voters might be a bit confused when they see this year’s ballot, particularly when it comes to Republican presidential contenders.
Here’s why: There are two spots to a pick a candidate for the presidential race. Voters who are not registered to vote can register and vote at their home precinct only, on Election Day.
But Sheri Scott, a customer service worker and single mother of three, voted for Sanders, saying she thinks the US senator from Vermont has a better shot against Trump because she believes he’s more trustworthy than Clinton.
More than 230,000 early ballots have been cast in Cook County with almost 130,000 of them in Chicago and more than 100,000 in the suburbs.
Election officials said the law still requires a second box for presidential candidates labeled “District Delegates”.
Subsequently, The New American interviewed Jan Loar of Ohio Counts at the 2013 True The Vote National Summit in Houston, Texas.
“It seems like The Highlands where Wright State students are, there seems like is a heavy turnout there from what I’ve heard”, McCoy said.
Voters are heading to the polls today to select nominees for a number of offices, including presidential candidates for both the Republican and Democratic parties. Voters can find their polling location, check their registration and view a sample ballot by going to www.MyOhioVote.com/VoterToolkit.
Jeremy Alexander of Englewood said he and others had issues when they voted at First Methodist Church on Herr Street this morning. You don’t have to be members of the party to vote.
“There’s interest there”, says Washington County Board of Elections Director, Tara Hupp.
Dayton Daily News reporter Jeremy Kelley also was given the wrong ballot when trying to vote at LifePointe Church on Marshall Road in Kettering, but with a different outcome.
The state Republican Party is awarding delegates only to candidates who are still actively campaigning Cruz, Trump, John Kasich, Marco Rubio and Jim Lynch.
The 65-year-old retiree says she “can’t stand him” and jokes that if Trump wins, she’ll “go back to Africa”, adding, “And I’ve never been”.
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Hilton and his wife now plan on voting at the polls in person. Join us for a live blog beginning when the polls close at 7:30 p.m. hosted by Executive Editor Michael Shearer.
