Pope Leo XIV has voted pretty often usually elections during the last twenty years, and has chosen to take part in each Republican and Democratic major elections over time, state and native information in Illinois present.
The brand new pontiff, a Chicago native, has voted in not less than 10 normal elections since 2000, the information present, most just lately in November when he solid an absentee poll within the presidential election. In major elections in Illinois, voters might select any celebration’s poll on the polls, and Pope Leo has diverse in his choice, choosing Democratic ballots years in the past and Republican ones extra just lately.
Will County, in suburban Chicago, launched information on Thursday exhibiting that the pope had voted in a number of elections there since 2012, together with three Republican primaries between 2012 and 2016.
Information considered on Friday on the Illinois State Board of Elections workplace in Springfield confirmed that Pope Leo, who was born Robert Francis Prevost, voted with regularity in Cook dinner County between 2000 and 2010. Throughout that point, he voted in two primaries, choosing Democratic ballots in 2008 and 2010.
In Illinois, the place Democrats dominate in statewide elections, voters don’t register as members of a political celebration. Americans dwelling exterior the nation stay eligible to vote.
Pope Leo was born in Chicago and grew up in close by Dolton, Sick., in a household that was deeply concerned in its native parish. Although his profession has included lengthy stints in Peru and Rome, he has returned to Illinois a number of instances as an grownup, together with for graduate faculty and for postings with the Midwest Augustinians.
Susan C. Beachy and Jonah Smith contributed reporting.
