Chicago voters had cast 63,949 ballots through Tuesday, according to the Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners. Voters are returning mail-in ballots in record numbers.
Erik Pearson drops off his mail-in ballot into a secured drop box at the Chicago Board of Elections Loop Super Site on Feb. 15, 2023.
“If we continue to see this brisk pace in turnout, we are definitely due to break the trend of the last few municipal elections and get that over 40%,” he said.The early turnout has been heavily fueled by mail-in ballots. Voters have returned over 13 times as many mail-in ballots as they did in the last election, city data shows,
But voters also are turning out to cast in-person ballots at rates that far surpass the last two elections. Chicagoans have cast 18,581 early in-person ballots, compared with 9,311 at the same point in 2019 and 12,150 in 2015.
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