1.2 Million 2016 McHenry County Ballots Cost $364,000

From a resolution authorizing payment for Primary and General Election ballots:

“the Director of Purchasing to enter into a contract with Governmental Business
Systems for the printing of 1,255,000 ballots for the 2016 primary and general elections at an estimated cost of $364,000…”

Election Judges in Algonquin Township Precinct 7 sort ballots.  Only one electronic vote was cast there and in Algonquin 19, which shares the Crystal Lake Main Beach polling place.

Election Judges in Algonquin Township Precinct 7 sort ballots. Only one electronic vote was cast there and in Algonquin 19, which shares the Crystal Lake Main Beach polling place.


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1.2 Million 2016 McHenry County Ballots Cost $364,000 — 12 Comments

  1. Why so many ballots?

    Primaries, ya, twice as many as normal.

    That number is almost four times needed isn’t it?

  2. Where are we getting our printing from?

    A family retired member (that was in printing their whole adult life) said it should cost anywhere from twenty to seventy-five thousand at the very most!

    Delivered!

  3. How many registered voters are there in the 300,000 population?

    How many use automated rather than paper ballots?

  4. susan – do not like automated.

    Too many problems with them messing up.

  5. But I’m asking how many ballots necessary for the small number of registered voters in a County of population 300,000?

  6. Roughly 210,000 voters.

    Katherine used to know roughly how many Rs, Ds and Is to print.

    Based on other observations of the performance of this Clerk, I seriously doubt she knows what she is doing.

    OR maybe it is her husband?

    Out of the current list of voters, roughly one third has never voted and never will.

    Insofar as the touch screen voting on election day, many people refuse to use it even though there is a paper trail.

    Early in person voting, I am told, you have no choice.

  7. The Clerk must consider that in Illinois anyone can pull either a Republican ballot or a Democrat ballot.

    As a result we taxpayers pay for a lot of shredded blank ballots which do not get used.

  8. And the article states that the primary and general election ballots are included in that cost

  9. The Feds require that Cook and Kane Counties both make Spanish language ballots available because of the percentage of their residents who can read Spanish but not English.

    I wonder if McHenry County has to do this now?

    That would raise the total number of ballots required by quite a bit, because I don’t think that the county has any idea how many Spanish ballots would be requested .

    Cook County also has to make ballots available in Chinese and some other more obscure languages depending upon the precinct.

    I don’t like this at all.

    I know that the courts have ruled otherwise, but I don’t think that a rudimentary knowledge of English is an unreasonable requirement for voting.

  10. Billy Bob: McHenry escaped the requirement by just a tiny amount.

    Almost guaranteed next census will result in bilingual ballots of us also unless we elect some people to D.C. with half a brain to stop this stupidity!!

    Go here: https://proenglish.org/ to keep up to date on a common sense campaign.

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