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Voting and Civic Engagement

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Make your voice count by registering and casting your vote on Election Day. For a list of candidates running for open positions in the upcoming election visit Ballot Ready.

In addition, you can visit guides.vote to learn insightful and well-sourced nonpartisan information on candidate positions. These carefully researched guides allow readers to make confident voting decisions based on a clear understanding about where the candidates stand on various issues.

Register and Vote

If you are a U.S. citizen and will be 18 years old by Election Day, you may be eligible to vote. To learn more visit:

Not sure about whether or not you are registered to vote? Check your status, what offices you can vote for, where to vote, and who your elected officials are. Please select the county you reside in for the appropriate information.

Be an Election Judge

Students as young as 16 years old have the opportunity to serve as an election judge, a paid position. To learn more, visit the Cook County Clerk (or your local election authority):

Fall 2024 Voting Programs, Events, and Resources at Harper College

Central to our students’ personal and academic growth is engaging with individuals with different ideas and viewpoints, as long as you feel safe doing so. As a higher education institution, Harper both values and has a responsibility to protect the fundamental constitutional right to free speech and freedom of expression. These protections cannot be forfeited, even when you disagree with the speech.

To better prepare you to engage in vigorous debate while maintaining a climate of mutual respect, we encourage you to take advantage of our voting and civic engagement resources and events. Building a community that reflects the highest ideals of democracy is a responsibility that falls to each of us.

Managing Election Stress and Anxiety:

Additional Resources for Harper Students

Additional Resources for Harper Employees

Harper College Library Resources

  • CQ Voting and Elections: The CQ Press Voting & Elections Collection provides in-depth insight into the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships. With key elections data, historical information and objective analysis, this dynamic research and reference tool puts the power directly into the hands of students, scholars, researchers and interested citizens.
  • CQ Supreme Court Collection: The CQ Press Supreme Court Collection blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court Justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution. Featuring summaries and analyses of more than 10,000 major decisions, it offers unique contextual framework and insight into the Court and its decisions.
  • CQ Magazine: The CQ news team covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else. This weekly news magazine features in-depth reporting on public policy, politics, congressional legislation, and elections extending back to 1983, including a complete wrap-up of news on Congress, the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates, and all roll-call votes.
  • Research Guide on Voting
Last Updated: 11/1/24