Illinois elections board: Text messages contain incorrect polling place information
The Illinois' State Board of Elections is warning voters that a group is sending text messages containing incorrect information about where to vote on Election Day.
According to a news release issued by the state board Tuesday afternoon, the board has received numerous complaints in recent days about text messages from a group called Voting Futures.
The messages are unsolicited, the board says, and often contain the wrong information about recipient's polling places.
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The messages "list the recipient’s voting address, state that public records indicate the recipient has not yet voted and then inform the recipient of a voting location that often is incorrect," the release states.
The board is asking voters who receive suspicious election-related text messages or emails or view social media posts that contain suspected election misinformation to forward screenshots and/or links to scamalert@elections.il.gov.
The state board is urging voters to use the Polling Place Locator tool on the State Board of Elections website at elections.il.gov to find their correct polling place.
“We want Illinois voters to know that their election information should come only from trusted sources like the State Board of Elections or their local election authority,” Bernadette Matthews, executive director of the Board of Elections, said in the release.
Voters can also receive election information by following the State Board of Elections on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, the board advised.
The State Board of Elections said it does not communicate with voters using text messages and does not hire third parties to communicate with voters.
This article originally appeared on Rockford Register Star: Illinois elections board: Text messages contain incorrect polling place information
