Move comes as a cost-saving measure amid concerns about not enough election judges and more voters casting ballots early.
“We are very critical and concerned about any effort to reduce in-person polling place access, which is one of the effects of the closures that we saw in June, the closures and reduced number … that’s expected for the November elections and further, more drastic closures that could occur in the future, not just in Chicago, but in Illinois more broadly,” Gandhi said.
“If they don’t stay on top of this before they do it to let people know that might be changing, it will be a mess,” said Eileen Black, who hadn’t heard of the changes to the map. The precinct reductions were included in legislation that passed last year through the Illinois General Assembly and was signed into law in November by Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker. The precinct provisions raised the limit of voters per precinct from 800 to 1,800 in Cook County and to 1,200 for every other county in the state. Many of the other counties in Illinois already have implemented the changes.
Citywide, the reduction will mean an average of 1,165 voters will be located within each precinct, compared with the 500 to 800 voters per precinct ChicagoAld. Matt O’Shea, 19th, said he met with board officials three times to revise the new precinct map. According to documents obtained by the Tribune through a public records request, the board initially proposed 28precincts for the Southwest Side ward, a 50% reduction from the 57 the ward has had for a decade.
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