Dozens of Evanston voters, including Northwestern students, have been filed under incorrect wards and precincts, which could lead them to the wrong polling places on Election Day.

At least 33 registered voters across 13 precincts in Evanston are listed in voter rolls under the wrong voting ward or precinct, said Jessica Feldman, an elections volunteer and Evanston resident who has been working with the Evanston city clerk’s office to identify precinct mistakes on voter rolls. Evanston City Clerk Mary Morris confirmed that errors were found across city precincts.

Several voters, including Associated Student Government President Jane Lee, already have received voter identification cards that misidentify the wards and precincts in which they live.

“I’m downright angered,” Lee said. “And I’d like this to be resolved in the quickest manner possible … My concern is that people vote in the ward and precinct where they reside.”

Morris said the errors were due to confusion over newly drawn Evanston wards and precincts, which were remapped last year and took effect Aug. 1.

“(Errors) seemed to be, by and large, at the edges where the new ward boundaries were set,” Morris said. “These mistakes occur when you redistrict.”

Similar errors occurred in election seasons after Evanston last redrew its ward boundaries in 1993, Morris said.

“There were some,” she said. “But not this many.”

Morris said she did not know why so many precinct identification errors occurred this time around or how many voters had been sent identification cards listing wrong precinct information.

Scott Burnham, spokesman for the Suburban Cook County Board of Elections, said separate cards identifying polling places will be sent to registered voters the weeks before Nov. 2. Other officials at the Suburban Cook County Board of Elections could not be reached for comment.

“The awful part (of the errors) is confusion,” Morris said. “Everybody is running around. People get angry. People get suspicious. It just fosters all these terrible responses because people expect things to be done properly and for everything to work.”

Both Morris and Feldman said they have been working with officials at Cook County to correct precinct errors and are pressing the Cook County Clerk’s office to re-issue identification cards to voters who received cards with mistakes.

Lee, who campaigned against city council members in redistricting NU’s voting wards, lives on University Place — in the sixth precinct of the First Ward. But her voter identification card dated Sept. 7 lists her as a resident of the tenth precinct of the Seventh Ward.

In a bill Lee proposed Wednesday at an ASG senate meeting titled “Did you think we wouldn’t notice?” senators voted that errors prohibiting students from voting in their proper precinct must be corrected. The bill, which passed unanimously, also asked ASG members to submit letters to the city and county clerk’s offices explaining student concerns.

“It’s very important that students vote in the precincts in which they live,” said Jon Marino, ASG’s external relations chairman, at Wednesday’s meeting. “Because in future elections, when voting for aldermen in the spring, for example, a few votes in any precinct that are counted incorrectly can be vital to the outcome of a local election.”

The errors result from a citywide voter roll that has some voters filed under incorrect precincts, Feldman said.

The mistakes seem to occur in clusters, usually around precincts that fall near redrawn wards. For example, all registered voters living on University Place received incorrect voter identification cards, Feldman said.

“You’re always going to have one or two that slip through,” she said. “But when you have whole blocks, whole streets, whole ranges of streets, something’s got to happen.”

Although Feldman said she has found only a few dozen errors since she started checking rolls a few weeks ago, a more serious problem arises with what she calls “random errors” — cases where voters are have been filed under the wrong precinct but do not fall anywhere near redistricted wards.

These errors are much more difficult to pinpoint, she said, because there are no obvious marks that a mistake has been made.

Though Illinois voters must vote in their own precinct, poll workers in Suburban Cook County will be equipped with an address finder on Election Day that will redirect voters to their proper precinct, elections officials said last week.

But Feldman worries that problems may arise during the waning hours of Election Day if herds of voters are redirected to different precincts as polls near closing time and lines snake out the door.

“With Florida hanging over our head,” she said, “we don’t want that.”.

Reach Dan Strumpf at [email protected]. The Daily’s Helena Oh contributed to this report.