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The Daily Herald has an early voting wrap-up.

Early voting ends today, and judging by the totals so far, itâ€™ll be with more of a whimper than a bang.

Only in suburban Cook County will the number of early voters exceed 10,000. Election officials attribute the tepid interest to the traditional low turnout in primaries and the newness of early voting, which debuted in Illinois Feb. 21.

Still, add up the early voters and absentee ballots cast in the collar counties, and in most locales the number of folks exercising their democratic duties before Election Day doubled from four years ago. […]

The more than 14,200 voters whoâ€™ve already cast ballots in suburban Cook is more than three times the nearly 4,000 who voted absentee in March 2002.

posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 8:06 am

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There is about as much demand for bloggers to comment on this story as there is for early voting.

How ironic.

Comment by Establishment Republican Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 2:24 pm
… or prescient

Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Mar 16, 06 @ 2:30 pm

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