Illinois exceeds 1.1 million mail-in ballot requests for November election, state may break previous

[RandySF]

More than 1.1 million Illinois voters have requested a mail-in ballot for the Nov. 3 general election following a new state law aimed at enhancing vote-by-mail efforts in response to concerns about COVID-19, state election officials said Friday.

The number of applications indicates the state will break its record for voting by mail set two years ago, when 430,000 votes or 9.3% of the total ballots were cast by mail, State Board of Elections officials said. In 2016, 370,000 votes or 6.5% of all ballots were through the mail.

The 1.1 million figure cited by state elections officials includes 291,874 applications from Chicago, 188,941 from suburban Cook County, 116,031 from DuPage County, 72,489 from Kane County, 26,656 from Lake County, 37,526 from McHenry County and 82,238 from Will County.




https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-illinois-mail-in-balloting-november-20200828-2kvddzklzvc6vmjvq47wlrkdle-story.html

[mucifer]

1. Early voting starts at the end of September. That's my plan. My mail in Chicago is horrifically bad

[RandySF]

2. It's typically fast in SF.

[lagomorph777]

3. Sept 18th in VA. Will hand in my mail-in ballot in person.

They won't be mailed until the 18th, so whenever it arrives, I'm bringing it in that day.

[jorgevlorgan]

4. Does anybody doubt that if Biden wins and we win back all of congress,

we will likely switch to a universal vote by mail system at the same time that we revive the post office? I would imagine that would be on top of our priorities given what we've gone through.