How to Confirm or Update Your Voter Registration in Illinois

 

If you've moved or haven’t voted in a while, your state can cancel your voter registration. Here's how to update your registration so you can vote.


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How to Check Your Voter Registration Information in Illinois

Now’s the time to check and confirm your voter registration, especially if you:

  • haven’t voted for a while
  • changed your name, or
  • permanently moved your residence since you last voted.

It’s not difficult to check your records. A nonpartisan website was created by state election officials to help eligible voters figure out how and where to go vote. NASS (The National Association of Secretaries of State) has set up a "Can I Vote" website, with access to every state's critical voter registration tools.

To start, go to Can I Vote, click "Voter Registration" and then select Illinois. When you get to the information page for Illinois, look for the link to check your information online, or contact the office by phone and speak to someone to make sure you are registered.

(To make it easier, we've deep linked to some of the state specific links to make the button below, which goes directly to the Illinois Secretary of State's office page for voter confirmation.)

Check your Illinois registration

The Overseas Vote Foundation used to maintain an excellent county-specific database of election information. But their website has recently changed (as of November 2022) and the information now requires you to disclose personal info.

How to Register to Vote

If you know that your registration is out of date—perhaps because you moved—or If you need to register to vote for the first time, you can get started at Vote.gov.

When You Don’t Have to Update Your Voter Registration

If you’ve voted in the past couple of years and your name and address haven’t changed, you probably don't have to update your voter registration. You should remain eligible to vote in all local, state, and federal elections in your area.

But if you have any questions about whether you’re registered; it’s better to be safe than sorry.

Check your voter registration now!

Why Should I Do This? I'm Petty Sure I'm Registered Already.... 

Did you know that if you haven’t voted in a while, your state can cancel your voter registration? A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, Husted v. A. Phillip Randolph Institute, gave states the power to do exactly that.

The new ruling means that if you skip a few elections and fail to respond to a state notice asking you to update your voter registration address, your state may purge your name from the list of registered voters. Ohio—the state that brought the case all the way to the Supreme Court—and many other states are currently poised to purge their voter rolls.

This is a critical issue given the importance of the rapidly approaching 2018 midterm elections. If your state removes your registration and you don’t discover this before you go to the polls, you may be required to complete a provisional ballot. If it turns out that your name was legally purged, your vote won’t count.

Can I Vote? Find out now!

 

 





Jurisdictional relevance: ST

There are versions of this article for each State.