See Election Shenanigans In Lake County? Tell Highland Park Patch

HIGHLAND PARK-HIGHWOOD, IL — The last day of voting in the high-stakes 2020 presidential and general election is Tuesday. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, record numbers of early and mail-in votes have been cast.

Nationwide, about 100 million people have already voted heading into Election Day, and officials with the Lake County Clerk's Office anticipate 45 percent of all registered voters will have cast their ballot before Tuesday.

Because of the surge in absentee balloting in Lake County and elsewhere, the nonprofit investigative news organization ProPublica has launched its Electionland tip lines early this year. Patch has joined the coalition of newsrooms participating in the Electionland project to discover problems that prevent eligible voters from accessing or casting their ballots during or ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.

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Patch participated in the Electionland project in the 2016 election, working with ProPublica to bring you information on broken scanners and long lines at the polls in Brooklyn, the extension of voting hours in Durham County, North Carolina, due to technical issues, voting improprieties in Texas, an election day shooting in Azusa, California, and much more.

According to the Lake County Clerk's Office, there will be 6 polling places open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. in Highland Park and Highwood on Election Day, Nov. 3:

• Ravinia Festival — Bennett-Gordon Hall, 201 St. Johns Ave., Highland Park
• Edgewood Middle School, 929 Edgewood Road, Highland Park
• Red Oak School, 530 Red Oak Lane, Highland Park
• Highland Park Community House, 1991 Sheridan Road, Highland Park
• Trinity Grace Church, 1506 Hall Day Road, Highland Park
• Highwood Recreation Center, 432 Green Bay Road, Highwood

ProPublica wants to hear about any problems that may prevent people from voting — for example, mail ballot delivery problems, voting location changes, long lines, registration problems, purged voter rolls, broken machines and voter intimidation.

Our journalists and those at other newsrooms taking part in the Electionland project will do what we can to document and verify what readers tell us about voting and Election Day experiences. One of the most important parts of the Electionland project is to hear directly from voters. There are several ways to do that:

• SMS: Text the word VOTE, VOTA (for Spanish) or 投票 (for Chinese) to 81380 (standard text message rates apply).
• WhatsApp: Send the word VOTE, VOTA (for Spanish) or 投票 (for Chinese) to 850-909-8683.
• Facebook Messenger: Go to m.me/electionland.
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