Aram Han Sifuentes
Picture
Photo by JAHHM/UIC
​The Official Unofficial Voting Station: Voting for All Who Legally Can't 

There are 91 million people in the United States and its territories who cannot legally vote. This includes: youth under 18, non-citizens, incarcerated, ex-felons, residents of US territories, and people without state IDs. This means that 1 in every 3 people cannot legally vote. 1 in 10 people 18 years old and over cannot legally vote. 

There are Official Unofficial Voting Stations taking place all over the US and in Mexico. All are welcome to vote, but we especially invite those who are discontented and the disenfranchised. 

Each station is different. They range from taking ballots into prisons to museum installations to performative events. 
​

Collaborators: Sadie Woods (Chicago: Hull House and MCA), Roberto Sifuentes (Chicago: MCA), Lise Haller Baggesen (Chicago: Hull-House), Verónica Casado Hernández (Baltimore/DC), Lilah Thompson (Philadelphia), Mara Baldwin (Ithaca), Brandon Bullard (Detroit), Marianne Sadowski (Los Angeles), Maritea Daehlin (Chiapas, Mexico), Cecilia Aguilar Castillo and Erick Fernández Saldaña (Mexico City). 

This project was commissioned by the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago, IL, which serves as the hub of all the stations. All the ballots will be counted and exhibited here. 
Exhibition: September 8, 2016 - April 2017


JAHHM's page for:
​Official Unofficial Voting Station
​US Citizenship Test Sampler 
​
If you'd like to vote at the Official Unofficial Voting Station and there isn't a station in your city, download this ballot (I Count! or I Voted!), vote and mail it to:​

​Jane Addams Hull-House Museum 

800 S. Halsted Street (M/C 051)
Chicago IL, 60607-7017

Official Unofficial Voting Results:
Clinton 1246
Trump 148
Stein 92
Johnson 73
Saunder (write-in) 195
Other Write-ins 354
​No Vote 74 


The Official Unofficial Voting Stations: 2016 US Presidential Elections

Chicago, IL. Hull-House Museum. September 2016 - April 2017.
Mexico City. September 14
Detroit, MI. MOCAD and Heidelberg. October 2016 - January 2017.
Tijuana, Mexico. October 13.
Chiapas, Mexico. La Cosecha Librería. October 21.
Seattle and Mt Vernon, WA. October 25 and 30.
Acapulco, Mexico. October 25.
Los Angeles, CA. Plaza de La Raza. November 1.
Ithaca, NY. Handwerker Gallery. November 3
Philadelphia, PA. Temple University. November 8.
DC and Baltimore. November 7, 8.
Chicago, IL. MCA November 8.
Imaging Borders with Piñata Walls. November 5 and 8.
Ballot Counting and Shouting Events. Chicago, IL.
STATIONS (more info and photos to come):

September 20 - October 4: CHICAGO, IL
Roberto Sifuentes' students in his Performance course: Border Crossers at SAIC take on the task of creating various voting stations all over Chicago. 

Haitian American Museum in Chicago

Dowd Gallery, State University of New York
copyright aram han sifuentes 2018