A Friend of McHenry County Blog is tracking Illinois State Board of Elections figures and has come up with some questions.
His statewide findings and his questions follow.
Two days ago I downloaded from the State the file containing Pre-election ballot numbers by County. It states the numbers are changed daily. No change until almost an hour ago and whoa!How can the number of mail-in ballots drop?
In total, the number of mail-in ballots dropped by 32,128 for the state.
McHenry County went from 67,826 on Wed. to 66,533 today.Clinton and Saline County had reported the number of mail-in ballots and returned on Wed. but now the numbers are zero. To enable comparison to past elections, I have added the City Election Authority numbers to the County in which they reside. It works 100% except for Rockford which is mostly in Winnebago County has a few voters in Ogle Couny – all of Rockford is added to the Winnebago number.
Based on voter registration numbers published by the State and election results reported by the State for 2016 and Pre-election ballot info provided by the State at 10:31 this morning here are the voter turnout numbers by County:
Name | TURNOUT TO DATE | 2016 Turnout |
STATEWIDE COUNTS | 22.01% | 70.56% |
Adams County | 26.33% | 69.18% |
Alexander County | 8.36% | 49.09% |
Bond County | 20.15% | 60.91% |
Boone County | 22.47% | 70.36% |
Brown County | 18.95% | 64.02% |
Bureau County | 15.70% | 69.63% |
Calhoun County | 22.64% | 73.78% |
Carroll County | 23.59% | 68.73% |
Cass County | 17.08% | 65.70% |
Champaign County | 27.80% | 69.10% |
Christian County | 17.01% | 69.12% |
Clark County | 20.74% | 66.58% |
Clay County | 16.07% | 66.59% |
Clinton County | Problem | 69.25% |
Coles County | 21.86% | 71.93% |
Cook County | 21.25% | 71.54% |
Crawford County | 19.46% | 67.97% |
Cumberland County | 15.02% | 71.00% |
DeKalb County | 27.53% | 70.80% |
DeWitt County | 15.69% | 61.65% |
Douglas County | 16.82% | 68.81% |
DuPage County | 27.52% | 70.78% |
Edgar County | 19.31% | 60.33% |
Edwards County | 17.65% | 78.75% |
Effingham County | 18.52% | 74.88% |
Fayette County | 16.78% | 72.94% |
Ford County | 10.87% | 67.60% |
Franklin County | 13.36% | 68.39% |
Fulton County | 13.25% | 61.61% |
Gallatin County | 19.13% | 71.91% |
Greene County | 14.79% | 65.33% |
Grundy County | 26.59% | 71.95% |
Hamilton County | 25.09% | 73.58% |
Hancock County | 13.13% | 74.56% |
Hardin County | 18.54% | 74.97% |
Henderson County | 19.60% | 73.87% |
Henry County | 18.96% | 68.54% |
Iroquois County | 12.38% | 72.34% |
Jackson County | 21.61% | 59.46% |
Jasper County | 18.79% | 75.68% |
Jefferson County | 16.66% | 71.13% |
Jersey County | 20.57% | 68.97% |
JoDaviess County | 26.55% | 70.93% |
Johnson County | 24.94% | 72.21% |
Kane County | 32.19% | 68.06% |
Kankakee County | 19.03% | 73.71% |
Kendall County | 29.17% | 71.94% |
Knox County | 23.84% | 67.11% |
Lake County | 13.58% | 71.28% |
LaSalle County | 13.43% | 71.14% |
Lawrence County | 15.13% | 65.75% |
Lee County | 27.53% | 68.53% |
Livingston County | 18.39% | 69.05% |
Logan County | 19.19% | 65.32% |
Macon County | 22.94% | 63.66% |
Macoupin County | 17.11% | 71.55% |
Madison County | 21.09% | 72.14% |
Marion County | 13.09% | 69.36% |
Marshall County | 20.16% | 73.57% |
Mason County | 16.31% | 65.94% |
Massac County | 13.54% | 57.39% |
McDonough County | 25.82% | 70.91% |
McHenry County | 23.62% | 66.58% |
McLean County | 19.79% | 73.13% |
Menard County | 20.38% | 71.37% |
Mercer County | 4.09% | 71.39% |
Monroe County | 22.53% | 78.41% |
Montgomery County | 25.20% | 73.41% |
Morgan County | 19.54% | 65.28% |
Moultrie County | 18.48% | 73.57% |
Ogle County | 22.81% | 72.74% |
Peoria County | 29.49% | 68.60% |
Perry County | 17.17% | 70.03% |
Piatt County | 23.80% | 78.06% |
Pike County | 16.19% | 63.88% |
Pope County | 25.68% | 72.88% |
Pulaski County | 8.67% | 63.10% |
Putnam County | 21.18% | 74.72% |
Randolph County | 14.44% | 67.58% |
Richland County | 19.94% | 68.66% |
Rock Island County | 34.51% | 64.57% |
Saline County | Problem | 69.69% |
Sangamon County | 25.54% | 73.18% |
Schuyler County | 23.28% | 71.02% |
Scott County | 13.90% | 69.66% |
Shelby County | 14.50% | 73.53% |
Stark County | 14.09% | 66.84% |
St. Clair County | 20.34% | 66.48% |
Stephenson County | 21.58% | 60.44% |
Tazewell County | 17.67% | 72.17% |
Union County | 18.01% | 68.92% |
Vermilion County | 17.39% | 64.99% |
Wabash County | 16.21% | 64.06% |
Warren County | 20.30% | 69.60% |
Washington County | 16.68% | 77.30% |
Wayne County | 12.70% | 68.92% |
White County | 21.28% | 69.15% |
Whiteside County | 20.91% | 68.53% |
Will County | 24.90% | 74.42% |
Williamson County | 22.10% | 70.09% |
Winnebago County | 22.86% | 69.06% |
Woodford County | 16.31% | 75.25% |
Well done who put the data together, and merged the city election authority numbers within the appropriate county, noting city of Rockford variance.
Good thing the Aurora Election Commission is no more, given it covered 3 counties (DuPage portion of Aurora was never part of AEC).
Just another way to ‘fix’ the elections to get the ‘right’ results.
Dobie, you are so right!