Voter Guide

Serving the following communities:

Palatine, Hoffman Estates, Inverness, Rolling Meadows & Schaumburg

COOK COUNTY VOTER INFORMATION -Your one-stop online resource for gathering the latest election information and answering your questions from the COOK COUNTY ELECTION DEPT. This web site allows you to view at your ballot that you will vote on before you go the polls. In addition, it also links you to information regarding the candidates.

PROJECT VOTE SMART - Thousands of candidates and elected officials. Who works for you? Who is seeking your vote? Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense system to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information. As a national library of factual information, Project Vote Smart covers your candidates and elected officials in five basic categories: biographical information, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and interest group ratings. What would you like to know? Access our library of information through link above.

VOTE411

Launched by the League of Women Voters Education Fund (LWVEF) in October of 2006, VOTE411.org is a "one-stop-shop" for election related information. It provides nonpartisan information to the public with both general and state-specific information on the following aspects of the election process:

	Absentee ballot information
	Ballot measure information (where applicable)
	Early voting options (where applicable)
	Election dates
	Factual data on candidates in various federal, state and local races
	General information on such topics as how to watch debates with a critical eye
	ID requirements
	Polling place locations
	Registration deadlines
	Voter qualifications
	Voter registration forms
	Voting machines

An important component of VOTE411.org is the polling place locator, which enables users to type in their address and retrieve the poll location for the voting precinct in which that address is located. The League has found that this is among the most sought after information in the immediate days leading up to, and on, Election Day.

EMOCRACY NET or DNET is a project of the League of Women Voters Education Fund. It is an interactive platform designed to improve the quality of voter information and create a more educated and engaged electorate. DNET encourages candidates to address a wider range of issues, and to address them in greater depth, than they might in other media. Candidate issue statements are provided by the candidates themselves, without any outside editing.

The Clerk is an officer in the United States House of Representatives, and KIDS IN THE HOUSE is the Office of the Clerk's official website for parents, teachers and kids to learn about Congress. On this site you will explore the role the Office of the Clerk plays in the U.S. House of Representatives, learn about the legislative process in the U.S. Government and its effect on you. Visit Kids in the House and learn more about Congress.