The decision comes down in a case first filed by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in 2015 on behalf of Wisconsin plaintiffs suing state election officials over the state assembly district plan that Republicans drew in 2011, a map drawn specifically to disenfranchise Democratic voters.
Read MoreLeading the local team for Election Protection, the nation’s largest nonpartisan voter protection coalition, CLC trained more than 300 legal volunteers who answered over 1000 calls to the Chicago call center of the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline and monitored hundreds of polling places throughout Chicago and suburban counties.
Read MoreMore than 300 legal volunteers have been trained to monitor polling places in Chicago and the surrounding counties, and to staff the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline.
Read MoreWarning against the possible disenfranchisement of thousands of Illinois voters, five voting rights organizations today asked a federal court to preserve Election Day registration (EDR) in local polling places in advance of the November presidential election.
Read MoreA groundbreaking bill that will increase voter access to registration and polling passed in the Illinois legislature last week.
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