The AECOI Voter Education Committee has implemented the following signage to improve voter's awareness of procedures necessary to correct overvoting:

1. A sign is posted inside each voting booth which explains that casting votes for more than the number of candidates to be elected for a given office will constitute an overvote and will cause none of the votes cast for that office to be counted and explaining that if a voter mistakenly casts votes for more than the number of candidates to be elected for a given office, or otherwise spoils his ballot, that he or she has a right to and should take his ballot to a precinct election judge and ask to receive a replacement ballot so that the voter can correctly vote this replacement ballot.

2. This is a notice to voters by the East St. Louis Election Commissioner which explains that casting votes for more than the number of candidates to be elected for a given office will constitute an overvote and will cause none of the votes cast for that office to be counted and if a voter mistakenly casts votes for more than the number of candidates to be elected for a given office, or otherwise spoils his ballot, that he or she has a right to and should take his / her ballot to a precinct election judge and ask to receive a replacement ballot so the voter can correctly vote this replacement ballot.

NOTE: Any other suggestions concerning voter education methods which occur to other members of AECOI on the subject of informing the voter about what constitutes an overvote and the right of a voter to request a replacement ballot if he or she mistakenly overvotes or otherwise spoils his ballot are welcomed by this Committee, so feel free to pass on such suggestions as you think of them.

Email your suggestions to: eslbec@eslbec.org

Thank you,

James Lewis, Committee Member