Mark Weyermuller with a ballot box outside Wrigley Field | X
Mark Weyermuller with a ballot box outside Wrigley Field | X
Citizen journalist Mark Weyermuller has published a photograph of a City of Chicago Board of Election Commissioners "drop box" at Wrigley Field, showing it being watched by two teenagers staring at their phones.
Weyermuller posted the photograph, taken on Tues. March 19, or Election Day, on X.
"Last Tuesday on Election Day I spotted this “secure” ballot drop box guarded by two teenagers at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Anybody can drop off ballots here. Is this SECURE?," Weyermuller said.
In April 2021, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a law that permits election officials to install “drop boxes” into which “voters can submit mail-in ballots without postage,” according to a press release.
“Election officials must collect and process all ballots at the close of each business day, and voters can return vote by mail ballots at any collection site through the close of polls on Election Day,” Pritzker wrote.
The law mandated that “all collection sites must be secured by locks and only opened by election authority personnel.”
On March 4, City of Chicago Board of Election Commissioners set up drop boxes in all 50 wards, as well as multiple downtown, for 2024 Primary Election voters.
They included three Chicago stadiums, including Wrigley, the United Center and Wintrust Arena.
The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners reported Monday that 14,714 ballots were submitted via drop boxes across the city.
Weyermuller is a retired real estate agent and self-described "conservative activist" who writes for Illinois Review.
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