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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigwyn the Unruly" data-source="post: 4041779" data-attributes="member: 20345">I am in Illinois, which has a primary.When I walked into my polling place, there was a table set up where you would tell the election workers your name. I did not need to show any idea, but I did have to sign a card on which was a facsimile of my signature (presumably from when I registered to vote). I assume that if my signatures did not match, the election workers could challenge my identity in some way, probably by asking to see an ID card.Next, another worker asked me to check a box on a small card next to the ballot I wanted: Republican, Democratic, Green, or one other that I forget. (Illinois is an 'open' primary state, which means that you do not have to be a registered member of the party to vote in that party's primary.) The worker then gave me the ballot corresponding to the box I checked. I live in a precinct that is very strongly aligned with one of the major parties, but I had asked for the ballot from the other party, and I did get a somewhat snarky, "Have fun voting," from the election worker.I then took the ballot to one of the small privacy booths set up for voting. I used the provided pen to fill in the bubbles next to my choices. I then put the ballot into a kind of privacy folder made of corrugated cardboard, which is provided so that you can take your ballot to the electronic reader in privacy. I took my ballot to the reader, which sucks it in mechanically. I was not offered any kind of receipt or verification that the ballot had been read correctly, but at least there is a physical ballot in case a recount is needed.</blockquote>

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