Orland Park Election 2018 Polling Places, Same-Day Registration

ORLAND PARK, IL -- Orland voters head to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 6. The polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. You can check your voter registration card to see what precinct you are in.

Report polling problems and other shenanigans to the Cook County Clerk Election Day legal hotline at (312) 603-0236 or the Cook County State’s Attorney at (312) 603-7960. Then let Patch know.

Same-Day Registration

Eligible voters can register to vote in-person on Election Day. Same-day registration is only possible at a voter's assigned local polling place. The voter must present two forms of identification to participate in same-day registration, one of which must show a current address.

Find My Polling Place/Sample Ballot

Suburban Cook County residents can find their assigned polling location by entering their home address in a search bar on the Cook County Clerk's website as well as a sample ballot. Chicago residents can find their assigned polling place and a sample ballot on the Chicago Board of Elections website.

Casting a vote for a write-in candidate

There are 16 write-in candidates running for congressional, state and county offices. Only eligible candidates who filed declarations of intent with each local election authority will be counted. The county clerk's office will provide a list of eligible write-in candidates to each precinct on Election Day.

NOTE: Write-in votes for Bart Simpson, Mickey Mouse, Wonder Woman, etc. will NOT be counted.

On a paper ballot:

• Write the name of the write-in candidate on the line provided in a particular race.
• Mark the corresponding arrow

On a touch screen:

• Press the "write-in" box at the bottom of the list of candidates. A keyboard will appear.
• Type a name using the letters on the keyboard and space key to separate the first and last name.
• When finished, press "OK."

In single-vote races, no other votes can be cast in a race where a write-in vote was cast. In multiple-vote races, a voter may cast one or more votes for write-in candidates, but is limited to the number of votes allowed in a given race.

Validity of write-in votes

Per the Cook County Clerk's Office: "Complete accuracy of a write-in candidate's name is not necessary as long as the election judges can determine a voter's intent to select a specific write-in candidate. There should be some relationship between the appearance or sound of the name written or printed on the ballot and that of the write-in candidate's actual name.

"If there is a dispute, a majority of the election judges must agree as to the intent of the voter. If a majority agreement among the election judges cannot be reached, the write-in vote will not be counted."

Cook County Judges

Fifty-nine judges are up for retention, including ten candidates are seeking seats on benches for the first time in contested races. Cook County voters will decide on Nov. 6 whether to retain all 59 circuit court judges

• VoteForJudges.org offers non-partisan information on all the judicial candidates. The Chicago Appleseed Fund, the creator of the website, does not recommend or not recommend judges, but provides research-based evaluations from over a dozen bar associations.
• VoteForJudges will publish the judicial evaluation results from the bar associations as they become available, and the endorsements from the Chicago Tribune.
• The Chicago Bar Association provides a voter's smart guide of its judicial recommendations and non-recommendations, as well as a phone app to bring into the voting booth.

• Illinois Bar Association provides summaries and full judicial evaluations. This information is also shared on VoteForJudges.
• Chicago Council on Lawyers is a non-partisan, public interest bar group. The CCL's evaluations are available now on the Council's website and through VoteforJudges.org.
• IllinoisJudges.Net is maintained by the Illinois Civil Justice League.The ICJL is a coalition of interests in Illinois, including taxpayers, consumers, small businesses, lawyers, doctors, local governments, big businesses, not-for-profit organizations and individual citizens. The coalition fights what it believes to be abuses to the civil justice system. ICJL includes its own ratings, as well as drawing evaluations from bar associations and newspaper endorsements.
• Injustice Watch, a nonpartisan, nonprofit multimedia journalism organization that exposes institutional failures that obstruct justice in Cook County, has also compiled a 2018 judicial voting guide.

Voters are permitted to bring newspaper endorsements, printouts, sample ballots and smart phones to view judicial evaluations into the voting booth.