Election Day Facts
On Election Day in Illinois, polls are open between these hours.
What are 6:00 AM and 7:00 PM?
Voters with disabilities, or those unable to read or write, may receive voting assistance from this person.
Who is a person of their choice (except their employer or union representative)?
This is the date of the 2024 U.S. General Election.
What is November 5, 2024?
In Illinois, ballots cast early or by mail are counted at this time.
What is after polls close on Election Day?
In 2010, Comcast launched this campaign to drive participation in the U.S. census.
What is Make a Difference – Be Counted?
Illinois voters can register and cast their ballot on the same day, even on this day.
What is Election Day?
Voters confined in jail awaiting trial or conviction are not disqualified from voting and may apply for this type of ballot.
What is a vote-by-mail ballot?
This is the main office you can visit to find your polling place in Illinois.
What is your local election office?
This system is used in Illinois to track the status of your mail-in ballot.
What is the Ballot Tracking System?
Comcast first launched “Candidates on Demand” in 2004 for this U.S. Senate race.
What is the U.S. Senate race in Colorado?
This is the ID requirement for most voters when voting on Election Day in Illinois.
What is no ID required (except for some first-time voters)?
Election jurisdictions must take steps to make these two processes accessible to the elderly and individuals with disabilities.
What are registration and voting?
You can track your mail-in ballot in this many states as of the 2024 General Election.
What is all 50 states (or adjust for changes in the system by Election Day)?
To ensure your mail-in ballot is counted, Illinois requires voters to do this before sending it.
What is sign the return envelope?
In 2008, Comcast partnered with this organization to encourage young Americans to register and vote.
What is Rock the Vote?
This type of ballot can be used in Illinois if your voter eligibility is challenged at the polling place.
What is a provisional ballot?
Under federal law, voters cannot be intimidated or coerced into registering, voting, or voting a certain way, according to this legal requirement.
What is the U.S. Constitution or the Illinois Constitution?
This is one of the key federal races happening in Illinois in the 2024 General Election.
What is the U.S. President or U.S. House of Representatives?
In Illinois, election officials can verify the identity of mail-in voters by comparing this on the ballot envelope.
What is the signature?
This 2007 campaign was a $5 million investment by Comcast and the cable industry to promote non-partisan voter education and registration.
What is Our Time To Vote?
If you are in line at the polling station when the polls close in Illinois, this is what happens.
What is you are still allowed to vote?
Voters whose registration status has been challenged by an election judge or pollwatcher and sustained by the election judges may still vote using this method.
What is a provisional ballot?
This is the primary reason why some states don’t require voters to present an ID on Election Day.
What is to make voting more accessible?
If there is an issue with your mail-in ballot, Illinois law allows you to correct it using this process.
What is ballot curing?
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this NBC News tool helped Americans navigate voting rules in the 2020 election.
What is Plan Your Vote?