Students train to be election judges at Oak Forest High School

Oak Forest High School students will be election judges after training from the the Cook County clerk’s office and the ...

Cook County clerk’s office teams up with Chicago Bears to launch inaugural student election judge program

At 17 years old, Melissa Loch has never cast a ballot. It’s something the politically minded Arlington Heights student is ...
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Cook County students get a crash course in elections before running the polls at their own schools

Some 150 students from two dozen high schools across Cook County aren’t just learning about elections in their civics classes ...
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High schoolers train to be election judges in March primary

The Cook County Clerk’s Office and Chicago Bears this week launched Defenders of DA’Mocracy, a program to train 150 high ...
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Daily Herald opinion: ‘Democracy in action’: Training teens as election judges — and encouraging them to vote — is a vital mission

Historically, the youngest of those eligible to vote in the U.S. — those in their late teens and early 20s — are far less ...