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Voting resources-- let's get out the bicycle vote!

I just downloaded my sample ballot and thought I'd seen one of the names
in my inbox.
The bike community's own Karen Roothan is running for Water Reclamation Commissioner on
the Green ticket.  Go Karen!

Also, a few resources for voting:

Go here and check your registration status, download a sample ballot,
and above all check your polling place (mine was quietly changed for
this year):
http://www.chicagoelections.com/voterinfo.php


I always print this and take it to the polls with me:
http://voteforjudges.org/2012_GENERAL_ELECTION_RATINGS_from_the_All...

And for general endorsements- The IVI-IPO sends its own questionnaires
to candidates and evaluates them based on there response. If you don't
see a candidate on the list, it could mean they didn't bother to return
the questionnaire.
http://www.iviipo.org/2012Endorsements.html

I'm sure others will chime in with their favorite "informed voter"
resources.

Would be great if we could keep any responses focused on voter resources
and otherwise keep the partisan political views to a minimum here....

-h

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Permalink Reply by Duppie on November 5, 2012 at 9:25pm

Here is an alternative sample ballot site:

http://elections.chicagotribune.com/ballot/

Duppie said:

Not quite. It is also the place where you can print a sample ballot for your specific precinct.

It is still down. This being Chicago, I'm guessing that is down because somebody wanted it to be down.

Tony Adams said:


Also, the http://www.chicagoelections.com/voterinfo.php seems to be down at the moment. I'm pretty sure all the information you'd get from there is on your voter card isn't it? 

Permalink Reply by Zoetrope on November 5, 2012 at 9:56pm
Permalink Reply by Michelle S on November 6, 2012 at 7:17am

Next time, I'm early voting. I've been casting my ballots at the same place for 10 years and never had to wait in line at 6:45 am. Today there were 15 people ahead of me.

Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on November 6, 2012 at 8:56am

Messed up bigtime. Can't get to sample ballot at all now. Sad.

Duppie said:

Not quite. It is also the place where you can print a sample ballot for your specific precinct.

It is still down. This being Chicago, I'm guessing that is down because somebody wanted it to be down.

Tony Adams said:


Also, the http://www.chicagoelections.com/voterinfo.php seems to be down at the moment. I'm pretty sure all the information you'd get from there is on your voter card isn't it? 

Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on November 6, 2012 at 9:45am

The few people I spoke with who did early voting also waited in line. One of them waited for two hours last week. So, if you do it, bring a book or something.

There was the longest line this morning I've ever seen at a polling place, but there were only a few people ahead of me.

Bikey content: I also saw Chuck and his wife (fellow Working Bikes volunteers) locking up their bikes at the shiny new bike racks.

Michelle Stenzel said:

Next time, I'm early voting. I've been casting my ballots at the same place for 10 years and never had to wait in line at 6:45 am. Today there were 15 people ahead of me.

Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on November 6, 2012 at 9:56am
There was a line, but Im pretty sure it was because the volunteer was in his 70s and took a long time sifting through the huge book to find my name. M -Zs line was moving just fine.

Since they need to have an equal number of rep and dem volunteers helping (and wearing their party stickers), I think there is a smaller pool of republican volunteers to choose from. I wanted to say something like, hey he should be doing something else, but of course kept my mouth shut.
Permalink Reply by h' Zerocats on November 6, 2012 at 12:22pm

This one is not personalized to your exact location, as far as I can tell.

Duppie said:

Here is an alternative sample ballot site:

http://elections.chicagotribune.com/ballot/

Duppie said:

Not quite. It is also the place where you can print a sample ballot for your specific precinct.

It is still down. This being Chicago, I'm guessing that is down because somebody wanted it to be down.

Tony Adams said:


Also, the http://www.chicagoelections.com/voterinfo.php seems to be down at the moment. I'm pretty sure all the information you'd get from there is on your voter card isn't it? 

Permalink Reply by Thunder Snow on November 6, 2012 at 1:40pm

I'm very happy I voted early ten days ago.  Even then, there were a dozen folks ahead of me.  And even though I had spent an hour at home researching judge retentions and referenda, it still took me a good fifteen minutes just to key in all my choices, then verify against the scrolling paper ballot (early voting is done on touch screens only).  But I'm glad to hear there's a big turnout today.  I'm thinking the results will take days or weeks to count/sort out/fight over.

As far as the voter info site not working this morning, the Tribune is reporting that the board of elections is thinking this was a deliberate "denial of service" attack on the computer system, as they saw a huge number of automated logins from servers, not humans.  Hopefully the FBI will investigate and kick butt if the attack was from within the USA (though it probably was from overseas).

 

Tribune: "And when voters and elections officials tried to find the correct locations, the Chicago elections website was not there to help.

"We are investigating the possibility that our website problems this morning were caused by a malicious attack," said Langdon Neal, spokesman for the Chicago board of elections. "We were overwhelmed by hits, and we know that a significant portion of them did not come from individual voters asking to find their polling place."

He said many of the requests appeared to be coming from computer servers.

"We can tell by the way the requests are coming in and the volume," said James Allen, spokesman for board of elections. "It's behaving like a computer program and not like people with legitimate questions."

Permalink Reply by MK on November 6, 2012 at 3:06pm

voted this morning at around 8, only one person ahead of me. about 10 or so when I left. 25th ward. easy.

Permalink Reply by Barry Niel Stuart on November 6, 2012 at 5:38pm

Our Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel just weaseled out of making endorsements.  BTW, I biked to the polls and voted.  We have a very lively US Senate race here in Wisconsin. 

Lisa Curcio said:

Also, here are the endorsements/recommendations from the Chicago Tribune:

http://elections.chicagotribune.com/editorial/

Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on November 6, 2012 at 6:54pm

Wisconsin will be pretty important all the way around!

Barry Niel Stuart said:

Our Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel just weaseled out of making endorsements.  BTW, I biked to the polls and voted.  We have a very lively US Senate race here in Wisconsin. 

Lisa Curcio said:

Also, here are the endorsements/recommendations from the Chicago Tribune:

http://elections.chicagotribune.com/editorial/

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