(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — It’s one of the repercussions of Chicago’s ward remap: Elections officials say many Chicagoans will not only find themselves in new wards, but new election precincts, too.
The bottom line is, if you’re a Chicago voter, check your ward, your voting precinct and your local polling place before the Nov. 8 election. The odds are likely that one or more of them may have changed.
Max Bever, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections, said the redrawing of the city’s 50 wards resulted in the re-drawing of voting precincts. There will be 1,290 of them, nearly 780 fewer than before.
The number of polling places isn’t shrinking that much, Bever said, because many precincts were doubled and tripled up in polling places before.
There’s a benefit to fewer precincts, he says. Fewer election judges will be needed. There’s been a shortage of judges in recent elections.
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