McHenry County Clerk Kathie Schultz reports there are 9,497 more voters registered this year than two years ago.
That’s an increase of 5.1%.
Lots of Democrats are hoping and lots of Republicans are fearing that most of these new registrants will be voting Democrat.
I can attest that one who was working on home repairs this past week registered for the first time in his life specifically to vote for John McCain.