Voting by mail promises to deliver McHenry County ballots for the April 4 consolidated election in a way early voting isn’t. County Clerk Joe Tirio reported more than 27,000 registered voters had asked for vote-by-mail ballots as of last week, while only 112 people had cast an early ballot at the county Administration Building by […]
With the addition of more than 8,000 vote-by-mail and provisional ballots, the McHenry County turnout for the Nov. 8 election exceeded 50 percent. When final, unofficial results were reported on election night, the 108,979 ballots counted represented 48 percent of the county’s registered voters. But when county Clerk Joe Tirio’s office last Wednesday posted final […]
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