For the last 10 years, Scott Dossett, a retired University of Illinois employee, has been showing up at 5 a.m. on Election Day to take his post as an election judge; this year, his designated polling place location was Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Hall in Urbana.

Dossett said he remembers going to the Illini Union back in 2008, where he used sets of alphabetized books to validate 1,350 voters by hand, but now a new computerized system makes the process much easier.

“This system allows us to type in the first couple of letters of the first and last name, and bang, they are up there on the screen,” he said.