See Election Shenanigans In Cook County? Tell Evanston Patch

Evanston IL

02 November, 2020

11:00 AM

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EVANSTON, IL — The last day of voting in the high-stakes 2020 presidential and general election is Tuesday. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, record numbers of early and mail-in votes have been cast, with about 100 million people having already voted heading into Election Day. Because of the surge in absentee balloting in Cook County and elsewhere, the nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica has launched its Electionland tip lines early this year. Patch has joined the coalition of newsrooms participating in the Electionland project to discover problems that prevent eligible voters from accessing or casting their ballots during or ahead of the Nov. 3 general election. Patch participated in the Electionland project in the 2016 election, working with ProPublica to bring you information on broken scanners and long lines at the polls in Brooklyn, the extension of voting hours in Durham County, North Carolina, due to technical issues, voting improprieties in Texas, an election day shooting in Azusa, California, and much more. According to the Cook County Clerk's Office, the following 25 polling places will be open in Evanston on Election Day, Nov. 3: Hilton Garden Inn, 1818 Maple Ave. — Ward 1, precincts 1, 4, 6Jane R. Perlman Apartments, 1900 Sherman Ave. — Ward 1, precinct 2Noyes Cultural Arts Apartments, 927 Noyes St. — Ward 1, precinct 3; Ward 7, precinct 3McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St. — Ward 2, precinct 1,Beth Emet The Free Synagogue, 1224 Dempster St. — Ward 2, precinct 2; Ward 4, precinct 4Evanston/Skokie School District 65, 1500 McDaniel Ave. — Ward 2, precinct 3Washington School, 914 Ashland Ave. — Ward 2, precinct 4; Ward 4, precinct 5Crown Recreation Center, 1801 Main St. — Ward 2, precinct 5; Ward 9, precinct 4Nichols School, 800 Greenleaf St. — Ward 3, precincts 1,2; Ward 4, precincts 2,6Lincoln School, 910 Forest Ave. — Ward 3, precincts 3,6,7Lake Street Church, 607 Lake St. — Ward 3, precinct 4; Ward 4, precinct 3Reba Place Church, 620 Madison St. — Ward 3, precinct 5; Ward 9, precinct 1Bethany Baptist Church, 1225 Elmwood Ave. — Ward 4, precinct 1Fleetwood Jourdain Community Center, 1655 Foster St. — Ward 5, precinct 1, 3, 4Ebenezer-Primm Tower, 1001 Emerson St. — Ward 5, precinct 2Northminster Presbyterian Church, 2515 Central Park Ave. — Ward 6, precinct 1Willard School, 2700 Hurd Ave. — Ward 6, precinct 2Lincolnwood School, 2600 Colfax St. — Ward 6, precincts 4, 6, 7Haven Middle School, 2417 Prairie Ave. — Ward 6, precinct 6; Ward 7 precincts 1, 2Evanston Ecology Center, 2024 McCormick Blvd. — Ward 7, precinct 4Chandler-Newberger Community Center, 1028 Central St. — Ward 7, precinct 5Dawes School, 440 Dodge Ave. — Ward 8, precincts 1, 5Oakton School, 436 Ridge Ave. — Ward 8, precincts 2, 3, 4Grace Lutheran Church, 1430 South Blvd. — Ward 9, precincts 2, 5 Chute Middle School, 1400 Oakton St. — Ward 9, precincts 3, 6 RELATED: Hotel To Replace Rejected Northwestern University Polling Place ProPublica wants to hear about any problems that may prevent people from voting — for example, mail ballot delivery problems, voting location changes, long lines, registration problems, purged voter rolls, broken machines and voter intimidation. Our journalists and those at other newsrooms taking part in the Electionland project will do what we can to document and verify what readers tell us about voting and Election Day experiences. One of the most important parts of the Electionland project is to hear directly from voters. There are several ways to do that: SMS: Text the word VOTE, VOTA (for Spanish) or 投票 (for Chinese) to 81380 (standard text message rates apply). WhatsApp: Send the word VOTE, VOTA (for Spanish) or 投票 (for Chinese) to 850-909-8683. Facebook Messenger: Go to m.me/electionland. Submit the form below. Patch staff contributed.