See Election Shenanigans In Cook County? Tell Skokie Patch

Jonah Meadows
·2 min read

SKOKIE, 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, there will be 20 polling places open in Skokie on Election Day, Nov. 3:

  • John Middleton Elementary School, 8300 St. Louis Ave.

  • Walker School, 3601 Church St.

  • Lincoln Junior High School, 7839 Lincoln Ave.

  • Niles West High School, 5701 W. Oakton St.

  • Central Methodist Church, 8237 Kenton Ave.

  • Highland School, 9700 Crawford Ave.

  • Skokie Public Works Building, 9050 Gross Point Road

  • Devonshire School, 9040 Kostner Ave.

  • Oakton Community Center, 4701 Oakton St.

  • Emily Oaks Nature Center, 4650 Brummel St.

  • Armond King Apartments, 9238 Gross Point Road

  • Oliver McCracken Middle School, 8000 E. Prairie Road

  • Oakton Ray Harstein Campus, 7701 Lincoln Ave.

  • Jane Stenson School, 8201 Lockwood Ave.

  • Niles Township Offices, 5225 Lincoln Ave.

  • East Prairie School District 73, 7616 East Prairie Road

  • Devonshire Cultural Center, 4400 Greenwood St.

  • Holiday Inn Chicago North Shore Skokie Hotel, 5300 Touhy Ave.

  • North Shore Center Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd.

  • Dr. Bessie Rhodes Magnet School, 3705 Davis St.

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.


This article originally appeared on the Skokie Patch