The Cook County Jail is one of several lockups where voting rights advocates have worked with local election and jail officials to offer voting for those held.
Criminal justice and election officials, along with voting rights advocates, are working across the United States to expand voting among jail detainees, an acknowledgement that tens of thousands of people being held pretrial haven t lost that fundamental right to vote
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The voting precinct could have been any one of hundreds throughout Chicago, except that these voters in the first round of the mayoral election were all wearing the same beige smocks. And the security at this polling place wasn t intended to keep disrupters and campaigners out, but the voters in.