The Elections in Oak Park

Everyone in Oak Park votes for Senators and the President, but we also vote for our own community. We have Village Presidents, Village Trustees, District School Board, and more! Learn more about the process of voting in Oak Park:

Here is the first station:

Next, here is where you sign in to vote.

This is the list where the voting judges check to make sure you are eligible to vote.

If you are not on the list, you have to sign this Provisional Ballot. This means that you can still vote, but the judges send the provisional ballot to Chicago so that the officials there can look in their records to see if you really are eligible to vote. If you are, then your vote is counted in the election.

Here is the actual ballot that is used to vote.

Here is the booth that you vote in.

Here is the machine that you put your ballot in once you are finished voting. It then counts your vote.

This is what the old ballot counter looks like- it's the ballot counter on the right. Doesn't it look different from the one we use today?

Created by Ariel L. 4/5/05