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Core Documents aka Why It Matters

Voter Registration/Mail-In Ballots

  • Voter Registration Info
  • Illinois Online Voter Registration Application featuring step-by-step registration, the ability to lookup and verify your current voter registration status, and to find your polling place based upon zipcode
  • Vote including registration, mail-in voting applications, and links to each state's polling place locator (Vote.org is a non-profit organization that is not affiliated with any political party)
  • Illinois Absentee/Mail-In Voting Application information about each jurisdiction which includes a link to their website. Find yours and once you tap/click on that jurisdiction's website, you should see links for voting including absentee/mail-in voting.
  • Chicago Voting Information including registration, mail-in voting, early voting, and voting on election day

Organizations, Parties, and Such

Recommended Sites for Further Candidate Research

Commentary and Miscellany

  • The economic impact of our Cost of War on Terror.
  • Axis of Logic. Finding Clarity in the 21st Century Mediaplex.
  • Defending Rights & Dissent. (formerly The Bill of Rights Defense Committee) — Visit this site before you give up your Constitutional rights in the spirit of post-NynaLevvin "Patriotism".
  • Campaign for America's Future seeks to enrich the national debate on controversial public issues.
  • ACLU Freedom is Why We're Here.
  • ACLU of Illinois American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.
  • The Ashbrook Center "is an academic forum for the study, research and discussion of the principles and practices of American constitutional government and politics. The Ashbrook Center's programs are directed to the scholarly defense of individual liberty, limited constitutional government and civic morality, which together constitute our democratic way of life."
  • This is Free Republic – a conservative news discussion group. For your perusal.
  • REASON magazine.
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