What will drive Woodstock’s voter turnout in this fall’s mid-term election? Maybe it will be a typical election in the middle of a Democratic president’s term and voters will lean Republican. And McHenry County has traditionally been a Republican county, though this is a Democratic state. Are inflation, high gasoline prices, and concerns about immigration […]
For being a non-presidential election, next week’s vote is a pretty big deal. Surely you’ve heard about it. You can’t watch television these days with being bombarded by political messages – nearly all negative. But the positives are you might have a chance in helping to determine political control of the U.S. House and Senate, […]
Election Day here now in early voting, vote by mail Early voting and voting by mail for the Nov. 8 general election is underway in McHenry County. The first early voting site is the office of county clerk at the Administration Building, 667 Ware Road, Woodstock. Anyone registered to vote in the county may vote […]
Chances are, you will have a new polling place for the June 28 primary election. And if you live in Greenwood or Seneca townships, you might be in a brand new precinct that reflects changes reported in the 2020 census and new state law. Changes have been made to Election Day voting sites for most […]
As the guy who oversees the voting process in McHenry County, Clerk Joe Tirio will tell you he has never voted by mail. “I get a patriotic shot in the arm when I go [to vote] on Election Day,” he said last week. Just days earlier, his office had sent out 155,000 vote-my-mail applications to […]
Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news.
Janet Dovidio has been a freelance correspondent for The Independent for eight years.
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