Illinois voting

Early voting begins at Chicago’s Loop Super Site Wednesday, with less than one month until the March 17 primary. Chicago voters will be able to vote in-person at the early voting and registration site set up at 191 N. Clark St., according to the Chicago Board of Elections. Early voting will expand to all 50 wards in the city beginning…

A mistake in Illinois’ automatic voter registration system could mean deportation, criminal charges or both for a handful of immigrants who cast ballots. Hundreds of people who acknowledged that they weren’t U.S. citizens were mistakenly registered. Sixteen of them voted. The fiasco has triggered a partisan battle, infuriated voter advocacy groups and forced immigrant rights activists to do damage...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Monday that there are no plans to suspend Illinois’ automatic voter registration program as election officials work to contain the fallout from more than 500 people being mistakenly registered.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker called for a full investigation Wednesday after an automatic voter registration error let hundreds of non-citizens register to vote when they got a driver’s license.

At least three of 16 Illinois residents who cast ballots after being mistakenly registered to vote are U.S. citizens after all, election officials said Wednesday in assessing the damage caused by an error in the state’s automatic voter registration system.

A programming error allowed non-U.S. citizens to register to vote in Illinois after they applied for an identification card, the Secretary of State’s office wrote in a letter to the State Board of Elections. In their letter, the Secretary of State’s office said applicants for non-Real ID cards who selected “no” to a question regarding citizenship from July 2,...

A programming error allowed non-U.S. citizens to register to vote in Illinois after they applied for an identification card, the Secretary of State’s office wrote in a letter to the State Board of Elections. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern has the latest.