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Dec. 2, 2008 - Jill Kahn woke up at 5:30 a.m. on Election Day to cast her ballot. Among the first to arrive at her precinct in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, Kahn, 31, waited 30 minutes to vote, only to find her name missing from the official registration list.
Two years ago, she got married and changed her name; Kahn, who is an interior decorator, was still listed under her maiden name despite re-registering at the Illinois Department of Motor Vehicles last year. She said she also received a voter card in the mail at her new address, suggesting her registration was in order.
Used to the frustrations associated with changing her name, Kahn was not surprised to find her name missing from the list.
"They made me sign a piece of paper saying who I was and where I live, then they gave me a ballot. So I wasn't worried," she said.
But that doesn't mean her vote counted. Kahn is one of 21,826 Chicagoans who cast provisional ballots in November, and hers was likely one of the 13,287 -- about 61 percent -- that didn't get counted.
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