If having an election on a Saturday isn’t confusing enough, thousands of voters in the 14th Congressional district will be casting a ballot in an unfamiliar location.
Polls open in the Special Election this weekend at 6 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. and involve voters in several counties including Kane, portions of Dupage, Dekalb and Kendall. Voters will be choosing between two candidates to fill the remaining of retired House Speaker Dennis Hastert term - Democrat Bill Foster and Republican Jim Oberweiss.
But along with confusion caused by the first ever weekend election; officials have been forced to change dozens of polling places. Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham says letters were sent out to around 25,000 voters in his county who will have to vote in a different location because churches were unavailable.
He says while they continue to put out the word, he suspects his office will be inundated with phone calls from confused voters.
As for voter turnout, he says its hard to predict because there’s never been an election on a Saturday before in Illinois.
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