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Where do you vote in the Illinois primary? How to find your 2024 polling place
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CHICAGO (CBS) — The 2024 primary elections in Illinois take place on Tuesday, March 19, and if you need to know where to vote, here’s how to find the location of your polling place.
CBS News Chicago also has you covered if you need to know how to register to vote, how to vote, what’s on the ballot, what to bring to vote and more. Races include the Democratic and Republican primaries for president, Congress, Cook County State’s Attorney, Illinois House seats, Illinois Senate seats, and more
How to find your Illinois voting location
The Illinois Sate Board of Elections has a tool to find your polling place on its website. You’ll need to enter your five-digit zip code, street number, and street name.
The tool will show you where to go to vote on Election Day, and links to find early voting locations in your area if you want to vote early.
Can you drop off mail-in ballots at any Illinois polling place?
If you’re voting by mail and haven’t mailed in your ballot yet, as long as you make sure it’s postmarked by Election Day (Tuesday, March 19) it will be counted. If you’d rather drop it off in person, you can do that too, but you need to make sure you take it to the right place.
Elections in Illinois are overseen by 108 local election authorities; including county clerks in 100 counties, two county election commissions, and six municipal election commissions. So, for example, if you live in Cook County, where you can drop off a ballot depends on if you live in the city or suburbs. Suburban voters must drop off their mail ballots at drop boxes set up by the Cook County Clerk’s office. Chicago voters must drop off mail ballots at drop boxes set up by the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.
Wherever you live in Illinois, you can find a vote by mail drop box using the Illinois State Board of Elections website. Just pick which election your ballot is for, and which of the 108 jurisdictions you live in from a drop-down menu, and it will show you every available drop box for your vote by mail ballot.
Does your Illinois polling place change automatically if you move?
If you moved recently, you’ll need to make sure you’re registered at your current address in order to vote. The good news is, if you’ve already changed your address on your driver’s license or state ID, your voting address will be changed automatically.
If you’re not sure if you have updated your voter registration after you moved, you can check with your local election authority. The Illinois State Board of Elections lists contact information for all 108 election authorities on its website.
Otherwise, if you moved within 27 days of the election, but still live in the same voting precinct, you can still cast a full ballot at your polling place by filling out an affidavit.
If you moved more than 30 days before the election, and still live in the same voting jurisdiction, but outside your old voting precinct, you can update your registration on Election Day at your new polling place through grace period registration, and then cast a ballot. Alternatively, you can vote in any federal elections (President or Congress) only after completing an address correction form.
If you moved within 30 days before the election outside of your old voting precinct and old voting jurisdiction, but still live in Illinois, and haven’t yet updated your voter registration, you can update your registration to your new address through Election Day through grace period registration, and then cast a ballot; or you can vote a full ballot at your old polling place by competing an affidavit.
If you moved more than 30 days before the election outside of your old county or municipal voting jurisdiction, and haven’t updated your registration yet, you can only vote by re-registering from your new address through grace period voting at your new polling place.
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Vice President Harris calls family of woman shot to death in Illinois
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Sonya Massey, shot by Illinois sheriff’s deputy, died of gunshot wound to the head, autopsy finds
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CHICAGO (CBS) — Authorities in central Illinois on Friday released an autopsy report that confirmed 36-year-old Sonya Massey died of a gunshot wound to the head, after she was shot by a sheriff’s deputy in Springfield earlier this month.
According to the autopsy report from the Sangamon County Coroner’s office, Massey was shot just beneath her left eye, and the bullet exited the back of her upper neck. The bullet caused a skull fracture, perforated her carotid artery, and caused bleeding in her brain.
Massey also suffered minor blunt force injuries to her right leg.
Sangamon County Sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson has been charged with first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm and official misconduct in Massey’s death. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and is being held in the Sangamon County Jail while he awaits trial. He was fired by the sheriff’s office after the shooting.
After learning of the autopsy results on Friday, Massey’s family said they are still struggling mentally and emotionally nearly three weeks after her death.
“I haven’t been able to sleep for real. The only time I really feel comfortable sleeping is when I’m just on the floor. I can’t even sleep in my bed,” said her son, Malachi Hill-Massey. “I really don’t have words. Like I’ve been said, I don’t have words for real.”
Massey’s uncle, Raymond, said her daughter has been “having nightmares to the point where we have to check the room.”
“It just makes me so angry to see my family hurt as they do,” Raymond said.
Bodycam video shows sheriff’s deputy shooting Massey inside her home
Authorities said Massey, a Black mother of two, called 911 in the early morning hours on Saturday, July 6, to report a suspected prowler outside her house near Springfield, Illinois.
The bodycam video shows Grayson and his partner, who are both White, arriving at Massey’s home, and searching outside the house and talking to Massey at the front door. They are later seen inside her home, and Deputy Grayson instructs Massey to check on a pot overheating on the stove, saying they don’t need a fire in the house.
Massey went to turn off the flame and picked up the pot. She asked where the deputies were going, to which Grayson replied, “Away from your hot, steaming water.”
Massey replied, “Away from my hot, steaming water?” and then twice said, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus.”
“You’d better f***ing not. I swear to God, I’ll f***ing shoot you right in your f***ing face,” Grayson said. He then raised his gun and yelled at Massey to “drop the f***ing pot!”
Massey is seen apologizing and ducking for cover. Grayson opens fire—three shots are heard.
Massey’s family and friends claim authorities tried to cover up the fatal shooting
The family said if it weren’t for the bodycam video of the shooting that was released on Monday, no one would know the truth.
Massey’s friends and family have said police first suggested it was a neighbor who had a previous dispute with Massey who shot her, and then later suggested the shooting was self-inflicted.
Massey’s oldest son, Malachi, said no one from law enforcement ever told the family who actually shot Massey. He said he didn’t learn until he saw it on the news the next day.
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Sonya Massey shooting: Illinois State Police release bodycam
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National outrage continues after Illinois State Police released new bodycam video of a sheriff’s deputy fatally shooting a Black woman in her home. Two officers were at Sonya Massey’s home to investigate reports of a prowler in the neighborhood. Please be warned that the video may be disturbing for some.
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