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The potentially suppressed turnout of election-day voting as a result of virus concerns was partially offset by high in-person early voting and mail-in ballot numbers. [6] 339,000 people cast early votes, a record number, with Chicago seeing 172,000, and the rest of Cook County seeing 167,000 early votes, a record for each jurisdiction. [6]
Prior to the 2020 election, all news organizations predicted Illinois was a state that Biden would win, or otherwise considered a safe blue state. Biden carried Illinois, winning 57.54% of the vote to Trump's 40.55%, [3] winning by roughly the same 17-point margin by which Hillary Clinton carried the state in 2016.
On June 16, 2020, Governor J. B. Pritzker signed a bill aimed at making it safer to vote in the November election. To encourage voting by mail, citizens who voted in the primary election, the 2019 local elections, or the 2018 general election were to be sent applications for mail-in ballots by August 1, 2020. The bill also made November 3 a ...
Early voting expanded citywide on Monday, with polling places opening in all 50 wards. But voter turnout remains low - something the Board of Elections hopes improves in the next two weeks.
Former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama voted early in the midterm elections in Chicago on Monday, October 17.Video taken by Ian Power shows the couple leaving the ...
The 2020 Illinois Democratic presidential primary took place on March 17, 2020, the third primary Tuesday of the month, as one of three states voting on the same day in the Democratic Party primaries for the 2020 presidential election, while the contest in Ohio had been postponed for roughly a month.
The general election is only four months away! ... Chicago, Illinois prepare for record-busting Vote By Mail turnout for November 2020 election. ... July 4, 2020 at 10:41 AM. The general election ...
The bipartisan initiative “Vote Early Day 2020” recruited companies to motivate people to vote by absentee ballots or in person early in response to the coronavirus pandemic. [ 9 ] Election officials and organizations across the country, including Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger , inaugurated Vote Early Day to promote ...