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* What are you seeing out there? How’s the turnout? How’s the weather? Are poll watchers behaving, or are they even around? Any problems at the polls?

…Adding… Most of you are doing so, but make sure to tell us where you’re voting, please. Thanks!

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:08 am

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Voted in Bloomington 43at 6:05. Had to wait 15 minutes in line and was the 50th dem ballot. This is a republican pct and my first primary here so not sure what it all means. Never waiting 15 minutes in my 19 years voting in Springfield.

Comment by Splitf Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:13 am
In the 96th here in Springpatch, for the first time that I can recall I had to stand in line to vote. The place was packed at 7:30 AM. The precincts that vote in my location (four) all had lines to vote. Lots of state employees in those four.

Not sure what ballot he was pulling but the guy in front of me said, “just this once” when judge asked him which party he was declaring for.

Comment by Give Me A Break Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:13 am
Saw a great sign : vote Bernie Sanders and Mike Madigan!! Even the Speaker is feeling the BERN

Comment by NotRMiller Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:14 am
7am 10 GOP & 4 DEM at my precinct. Pretty quiet considering we have the Presidential race & Shimkus/McCarter race.

Interesting robocall from Frank Watson endorsing Shimkus over Kyle.

Comment by Highland, Il Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:14 am
#67 at 8:45. I would call that high traffic thus far. The poll watchers at the firehouse were beginning to worry they didn’t have enough democratic ballots (the ratio is usually 9:1 in favor of republican).

Comment by Ducky LaMoore Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:15 am
37 voters by 8am in Oak Park 1

Comment by Matt Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:16 am
Voted at 6:50 this morning, 42nd ward 41st precinct, was the 10th submitted ballot with two people at the booths when I was leaving. Genita Robinson was outside at the 100ft mark greeting voters.

Voting before the sun comes up, all the cool kids are doing it now.

Comment by CD Sorensen Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:17 am
Wife and I voted on Saturday, long line just to check in and then wait to vote too with 10 voting machines. 8 DEM 2 GOP at the polls. Have always just walked in and straight check-in and vote no wait before. This one will set records I think.

Comment by Allen D Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:19 am
Quick in and out. But heard it had been steady since 6. Chose the ticket that went against my grain, but hear the comment more than 2x that several are voting “against” not for. Several complaints about declaring, of course.

Comment by cardsmama Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:20 am
Voted in Springfield on the way to work. Usually tumbleweeds blow through my polling place on primary day but today it was a beehive of activity.

Comment by Nick Name Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:20 am
All of Matteson, Country Club Hills and Richton Park on “Hastings” overdrive… Signs everywhere, poll watchers everywhere, not a challenger in sight

Comment by SuburbanDem Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:22 am
Anyone seen any issues with same-day registration? I thought it would be a non-factor, but I did witness a couple of folks registering while I was at my polling place this morning.

– MrJM

Comment by @MisterJayEm Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:23 am
65 voters by 8 am. No line.

Comment by Edwardsville 13 Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:23 am
Slow but steady stream 7:00 am Winfield #23.

Comment by train111 Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:25 am
As of 9 am over 220 voters with more Dems taking ballots than in the past. Had 2 first-time voters. One is a new citizen from Africa. The other was a high school senior who voted before 7 am with his parents–both were former students of mine. Now that made me feel old!

Comment by Nearly Normal Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:25 am
Low turn out in Collinsville

Comment by IBEW Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:27 am
Voted at 7:30 in northern suburbs. Waited longer than I’ve ever previously had to wait.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:28 am
Here in Small Town, Forgottonia, turnout at 6:45 AM was normal - light for a primary. Mine was one of few Democratic ballots pulled, but we’re heavily Republican out here.

Comment by Aldyth Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:31 am
Im in Buffalo Grove, line was out the door at 8am, no school today for Seniors in High School like myself. Probably half the line was under 30. Lots of same day registrations. Glad to see young people voting. Even talked to 5-10 17 year olds!

Comment by Student Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:31 am
Drove past polling place this morning and lot was full of vehicles. I didn’t vote because I do not want to declare a party. My career in the public sector isn’t worth jeopardizing over pulling the wrong ticket and it coming back to haunt me 10 or 20 years from now. Luckily I found someone in my family who wasn’t planning to vote today and convinced them to “Feel the Bern” for me via proxy.

Comment by Republocrat Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:31 am
Sunny day. Voted at 9 am. Poll watchers said it was typical day in terms of volume and D vs. R ballots.

This made me smile……
Saw a McCarter sign near the polling station. Two Shimkus signs had been placed on either side of it (within an inch or so) to completely obscure the McCarter one.

Comment by Downstate Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:31 am
Sorry to post twice.

Comment by Nearly Normal Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:32 am
Weather is too nice to be worrying about politics.

Comment by Free Roddy B Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:32 am
Voted at 6am in mount prospect precinct 22, only 6 people at the time, I’m sure it will pick up by 3pm as people get off work.

Comment by bloval27 Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:33 am
NW suburbs blew away early voting records. Election Day steady but moderate to slow. Weather is ok.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:33 am
Voter 244 in Chatham at 8:30am. I was 111 in my precinct. I was probably like the third democratic vote.

Comment by UISer Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:34 am
Saw a random Willie Wilson yard sign in River North at my polling place. Made me giggle.

Comment by Not it Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:34 am
6:55 AM in Bolingbrook - I was #23. New electronic check-in system where the pollster finds you on an iPad-like device and prints out a sticker to attach to the card you sign. Seemed like it could slow the process when it gets more crowded.

Comment by BigDoggie Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:35 am
I was #36 at Carterville 2 at about 7:40 this morning. One person in front of me. Poll workers said they’d been busy.

Weather is fabulous, supposed to be close to 80F in the deep south today…should be a big turnout.

Comment by Deep South Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:37 am
=== I didn’t vote because I do not want to declare a party.===

Then don’t be “that guy” that complains for the next 8 months about your “choices”. Geez, Louise, knowing you drove today… yikes.

===My career in the public sector isn’t worth jeopardizing over pulling the wrong ticket and it coming back to haunt me 10 or 20 years from now.===

How forward thinking of you.

So, according to you… this choice, 10-20 years from… now… could… could… haunt you.

That’s the saddest piece of logic in 2016 I’ve heard in a while.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:38 am
===My career in the public sector isn’t worth jeopardizing over pulling the wrong ticket and it coming back to haunt me 10 or 20 years from now.===

(future mailer): “Republocrat is asking for your vote today, but he didn’t even cast a vote in the last X primary elections”

Comment by Robert the Bruce Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:41 am
Was the 75th voter by 7:45 with a steady stream of voters coming in after me in my corner of DuPage. That is about double the usual primary total for that time of the morning. This is a heavily GOP district.

Comment by Dance Band on the Titanic Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:42 am
Voted in Chicago 49th Ward (Rogers Park). No one in line when I got there but four people in line when I left. There were lots of signs for Jacob Meister, Kim Foxx and judge signs. I saw one Hillary sign, but no Sanders signs but there was a Sanders passers — and I saw a Sanders yard signs on my way to the polls. In other words there seemed to be more organization around our local races than around the presidential races.

Comment by Lakefront Liberal Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:43 am
Voted at the LeRoy consolidated polling place at 9:30 am. Weather is good, not a single yard sign on the tree row, no line. I took the 26th R ballot for my precinct (If you want to have a say at the county level in McLean County, you have to take the R ballot). Medium amount of people voting. No privacy cover sheet offered or provided and some of my law clients were standing around the ballot box chatting, so that was unsettling.

Comment by Rayne of Terror Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:45 am
@Student

Glad to hear voters using new laws to access the ballot via Suffrage at 17 law and same-day registration.

Comment by JM1996 Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:47 am
“just this once” will probably be heard a lot in the 50th today. AFL-CIO and AFSCME people stopped at my house to tell me to pick up a Republican ballot in order to vote against Rauner’s guy Benton. There will not be Democrat challenger so this is the determining race. I gotta think about this for awhile so I’ll vote later.

Comment by Joe from Joliet Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:49 am
42nd ward, 26th precinct (Streeterville/Christian Mitchell district). Voter # 86 at 9 AM. Short line, but there usually is no line at that hour in a primary. Person behind me couldn’t decide which ballot to take. No one in the voter registration line.

Comment by 60611 Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:51 am
== I didn’t vote because I do not want to declare a party ==

I hate that. It’s a primary — an innerparty election . A generation ago the parties didn’t even give rank-and-file members a chance to vote. All the candidates were picked in a smoke filled room by the party bosses.

Comment by Ticked Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:52 am
Voted at about 8:20 a.m. in East Lakeview, Chicago. No line, but they had me fill out a form by hand with my name, address, birthday, which ballot I wanted, and my signature, and then they compared the signature to the the one they had on their computer, so I don’t know what was up with that.

Saw a sign for Jacob Meister, and one for a Green Party candidate (can’t recall which). Not sure if it’s an accurate count (do they feed any practice ballots into it as a test; do they reset it to zero?), but the machine I fed my ballot into said I was #93, which seemed high, to me. Nobody to give me a voting “receipt,” either (so more disorganized than usual, which is saying something).

Comment by Jabes Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:53 am
@Oswego Willy

Please dismount your high horse. Pontificating from your very short stump as a red named commenter on this site gets annoying. So does your amateurish and surely discarded advice to campaign workers. Keep your comments focused on the issues, not on other people’s careers, professions, or decisions.

Comment by Never Drumpf Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:54 am
Labor, all of Labor, has “one job” today and it’s in the 50th.

Turnout needs to be, at least, minimum, a 5% full swing of Dems crossing over and then that 5% voting… “Accordingly”.

The noon numbers and early voting ballot counts will give a “blind gauge” but will Trump factor into GOP ballot requests and have zero impact on the 50th State Senate race? Will Bernie-Hillary be too enticing to those in Labor in that district?

The GOP ballot requests will be fascinating.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:55 am
Voted at about 8:20 a.m. in East Lakeview, Chicago. No line, but they had me fill out a form by hand with my name, address, birthday, which ballot I wanted, and my signature, and then they compared the signature to the the one they had on their computer, so I don’t know what was up with that.

Saw a sign for Jacob Meister, and one for a Green Party candidate (can’t recall which). Not sure if it’s an accurate count (do they feed any practice ballots into it as a test; do they reset it to zero?), but the machine I fed my ballot into said I was #93, which seemed high, to me. Nobody to give me a voting “receipt,” either (so more disorganized than usual, which is saying something). Edited to add, after seeing Rayne’s comment, that I was offered to privacy shield, either, although I think they were on the table.

Comment by Jabes Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:56 am
- Never Drumpf -

I’ll stay off your blog and your lawn…

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:57 am
18 voters at Ward 2, Precinct 20 at 7 AM this morning. Slow trickle.

Comment by Grass Bowl Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:58 am
Voted at 7:30 am in 32nd Ward, Newport and Damen. Went right in but just beat line of 20 that formed immediately. They no longer have the big books to look up your name but you have to fill in a form with name address and year of birth and which ballot you want and then they look it up in the computer.

My son who turns 18 in October voted for the first time. He loved it.

Comment by 32nd Ward Roscoe Village Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 8:58 am
@Oswego Willy please do. I prefer both fresh and healthy fertilized with thoughtful ideas and insightful comments, not the arrogant drivel that oozes from your posts.

Comment by Never Drumpf Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:03 am
I voted at the 95th precinct which is Rochester Grace Bible Church. No line at all when I went in at 7:30. I was the 3rd Dem ballot pulled.

Comment by Wow Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:04 am
Oak Park 18. About 120 voting by 9:30 a.m. No wait. Judge said it was a little higher than average, but not much. Mostly dems.

Comment by Soccermom Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:05 am
- Never Drumpf -

Then don’t read it, skip it.

It’s not your blog.

I fed you, there, happy? Now I’m done.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:06 am
Republocrat is correct. The first and only time I voted in the primary was for Reagan. Wasn’t employed by the State then. Became a State employee and when the Blagoites came on board, one of them told me they had that info and I was not to expect any good treatment. More than 20 years! Oh well, retired now and can now vote freely in the primary, for which I am grateful.

Comment by Gone, but not forgotten Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:06 am
Voting at my station in n. IL (which has a few precincts) was “steady” according to the poll workers. My son is feeling the Bern, me not so much.

Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:06 am
I voted at the Madison County Courthouse last week but on my way in to work this morning that little church parking lot was FULL at 8.

Comment by Honeybear Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:07 am
To the Post,

A “Kendall County” precinct, a tad higher uptick, a few more Dem voters than last POTUS primary, according to judges.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:07 am
“My career in the public sector isn’t worth jeopardizing over pulling the wrong ticket and it coming back to haunt me 10 or 20 years from now.”

I feel that.

I know someone who’s job opportunities with the state were negatively affected by how she voted in Illinois primaries.

While she had other options and has since done quite well for herself, the possible threat to a primary voter’s livelihood is genuine.

– MrJM

Comment by @MisterJayEm Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:08 am
And to your point, Willy — I remember in 2004 I went to pull a primary ballot and told I had been cleansed from the rolls because I had gone so many years without voting. My response: “I beg your pardon?” Turns out they had me registered twice…

Comment by Soccermom Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:09 am
Chicago 48 w, 43 p: I voted early but Husband went to vote at 6:00 am. Place was not even set up by 6:30. voters waiting and many (like my H) left. Try again this evening.

Comment by schmakmama Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:12 am
I was at the Carol Stream Public Library in Bloomingdale Township at 6:20 this morning, the voting booths had lines already.

Comment by Lunchbox Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:17 am
Illiopolis - 7am. No wait, but at least 10 people came up to the door as I was leaving - most I’ve seen in that building during an election…

Comment by Grimm Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:18 am
Voted with my 17 y.o. in Central Dupage at a little before 7 and he was very pleased with himself when he was done! More poll workers than voters. Pretty light for this area. Maybe the after work crowd will be higher. Weather was nice, lots of signs. A bit concerned about the weather later today and what effect it might have.

Comment by burbanite Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:19 am
Voted early. Pulled my “just this once” ballot and “voted accordingly”. Every public sector worker I know has agreed to do the same.

Comment by Harvest76 Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:19 am
- Soccermom -, one of those crazy things you find when you just go and vote.

To the “10-20 years from now”…

Bruce Rauner voted in a Democratic Primary for Forrest Claypool in 2006.

In 10 years, Rauner became a “Republican” Governor.

Predicting how something may/may not effect your chances is still “iffy”. Deciding not to vote, then don’t complain the rest of us got it “wrong”

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:20 am
You guys! Kirk Dillard has to read these “just this once” comments. Can we all agree that guy has enough to be upset about?

Comment by Dirty Red Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:33 am
@Oswego Willy

So much for being “done”.

Comment by Never Drumpf Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:34 am
19th Ward Chicago, I was the 69th voter at 9:30 which election judges said was a good turn out. And after at least 39 + years, we were in a new polling place.

Comment by Because I said so... Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:36 am
Voted in Chicago Ridge, surprised by the number of people requesting republican ballots

Comment by Jimmy0 Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:37 am
Belleville 22 & 32 forgot to say earlier…

Comment by Allen D Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:37 am
- Dirty Red -

With great respect,

In Sangamon, (micro) Dillard carried Sangamon at a 61% clip in a four-way race. Those in Sangamon County were impactful.

The macro? Well…

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:38 am
I’ll go this afternoon on my lunch break, but a coworker this morning said that the same-day registration forms weren’t available yet at his precinct this morning when he went at 8:00 a.m. (western suburbs, but I don’t know if it was far west Cook or eastern DuPage), so he’ll have to go back after work.

Comment by Katiedid Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:39 am
Never Drumpf - wait until he says you called him a racist when you create an “anti-OW” character and he refuses to take the meaning no matter how many times you explain it to him.

I remember looking myself up on Nexis once and seeing it knew I pulled a Dem primary ballot and this was decades before “Big Data” was a thing. Frightening stuff. I’m ambivalent about campaign donation disclosures too - people shouldn’t have to worry that their clients might go to some website and see what candidate they voted for.

Comment by lake county democrat Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:40 am
Amen Willy!

I don’t always agree with you, but you are informed and in the game.

For those who can’t be bothered to even vote, no matter the self-serving reason, I feel entirely justified in not caring one bit about you opinions.

And a government employee who doesn’t vote?? Not just pathetic, but self-defeating!

Comment by Adam Smith Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:41 am
Far west side of Aurora, Kane. I voted later than usual this time so I don’t know if the ghost town I saw was typical for 9:45. No “I VOTED” flag stickers, so I couldn’t wear one upside down like I usually do. Weather is holding.

Comment by Ken_in_Aurora Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:42 am
Voted at 8am. Definitely an increased turnout. Had judges tell me there is an increase of younger people and people pulling “just this one time” .

My polling place is listed as a no signs area, but that didn’t stop Benton from putting his signs all along the lot entrances. Just like the signs in right of way, it seems his campaign just doesn’t have respect for rules or decent campaign etiquette.

Comment by Blue Dog Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:43 am
It will be interesting to see whether the “stop Trump” crossover helps Kim Foxx. I’m guessing that most Dems who pull the GOP ballot “just this once” would be Alvarez voters.

Comment by Soccermom Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:44 am
Voted 8 AM, West Lakeview, Chicago. The polling door was locked when I arrived, so was the accessible entrance. I was the only one waiting, after about four minutes there were about five of us. A minute longer and I would have called the number to report a problem. Turns out they had duct-taped the door lock open and that brilliant bit of engineering failed. I got to vote after a brief delay.

“Voted at about 8:20 a.m. in East Lakeview, Chicago. No line, but they had me fill out a form by hand with my name, address, birthday, which ballot I wanted, and my signature, and then they compared the signature to the the one they had on their computer, so I don’t know what was up with that.”

My place did that too. Someone asked and a poll worker said it was because they “didn’t have the book” anymore. Unfortunately I don’t know what that means either.

I was voter 77 I believe. First time voting at that location, no idea what that means for turnout.

Comment by Voltaire Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:46 am
Near NW Chicago. Slightly above average turnout. Many voters feeling the Bern!

On another note, got a nasty negative robocall last night on a judicial race! And by nasty I mean borderline libelous.

Comment by Original Rambler Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:48 am
Lockport 09, 10:20 am, in an adult living community (I am 34, my wife 31, and we were half the age of the other folks there). About 200 ballots had been cast - not sure if that’s total or for the party I pulled. It was full but it always is at that time due to the habits of the seniors in question.

Two interesting things. First, a Muslim woman in hijab guarded the ballot counting machine, which seems good for the country. Second and much more importantly, tablets and label printers have replaced the standard thick books of voter registration info. Very welcome sight, though it slowed things down a touch because the poll workers weren’t fully comfortable. They will get there!

Judge 1 also questioned my signature. Judge 2 okayed it but I almost said “you try writing your name while also holding a squirming 13-month-old”, as I was. Gotta teach the kids early!

Comment by Concerned Observer Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:54 am
McDonough County at 9:30 - first time I ever had to wait in line. Normally a republican voting county. Everyone behaving well

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 9:57 am
19th Precinct, 3rd Ward: at 7 am 25 voters. One annoying Jay Travis supporter right at the door, pushing flyers and “urging votes for Travis.” I was then asked for my ID. Sigh.

Comment by Hamilton Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:00 am
In my community of Hudson (just north of Bloomington-Normal) 172 voted as of 8:30am. I was the 25th person to pull a Democrat ballot. In 2012, the 2 precincts had 574 voters (39 Democrat).

Comment by Disgruntled Downstate Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:02 am
I got the same call is Original Rambler yesterday in the early evening and was absolutely shocked at the content. Astonishing thing to have dropped the night before the primary so no response was possible.

Comment by Archiesmom Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:03 am
That a split precinct polling place in the 3rd ward. about 75 voters in each precinct as of 11am. Steady flow.

A ton of ppl outside doing visibility. About 4-to-1 Stratton vs Dunkin. About an hour ago a white van pulled up outside the polling place. Several men jumped out, slashes the Stratton signs in half and then drove away.

Comment by Charlie R Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:05 am
I hit send a little quickly on my previous post. I’m in the Flossmoor/ Olympia Fields area and at 7:15 this morning it’d been a very slow start in my precinct.

Comment by Archiesmom Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:05 am
Polling place on 63rd and St. Louis. The machine had an error code for unfilled votes. The first judge told the voter that he must fill in all votes. Another election judge quickly corrected him that we have the right to NOT vote.

Comment by Southside.Voter Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:07 am
Thanks for the scolding OW and if you go to my post you will see that I did in fact vote via proxy. We can split hairs on that topic but I will sleep good tonight knowing I still had a proxy vote. Sorry but I’ve had numerous co-workers say that declaring this party or that party has affected them when new administrations come and go. If we had a system where we didn’t have to declare a party I’d be first in line to vote…sadly we don’t. But you can always count on me in the general election

Comment by Republocrat Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:12 am
- Republocrat -

I think I’d just change your handle to “Non-Committal”… ?

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:16 am
Franklin Park 16th Pct - 47th voter. We have a home rule referendum on the ballot which has been pretty ugly. A lot of people did early voting in this area.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:17 am
Voted at a Marriott in Burr Ridge. Four precincts vote in the same location. At 7:10am, I was the fifth voter in my precinct. There may have been half dozen other people voting at the other three precincts at the same time.

Comment by GA Watcher Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:22 am
Voted in Urbana Free Library about 8:30. No line. Pollwatcher described the vote as “steady”. Except for President and Senator, the only contested Democratic office was on the County Board.

Comment by The Old Professor Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:26 am
Give Me A Break, sounds like a lot of state employees wasting their time pulling GOP ballots then. Can’t vote for McCann in the 96th.

Comment by Jack Kemp Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:28 am
Question to Rich, I don’t have TV in the home. Where is the best online resource to find the election results in Illinois? That would be super helpful.

Comment by Honeybear Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:33 am
@Oswego Willy

You’re unbelievable. You ridicule state workers for not wanting to jeopardize their careers and make snide remarks to campaign workers and candidates who are actually in the arena, while you cower behind an anonymous pseudonym on a blog. Must be nice to have zero accountability and never have to face the music for anything you say. You’re an American hero.

Comment by Never Drumpf Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:35 am
Spoke to 2 #NeverTrump Republicans this morning. One voted Kasich (in Cook Suburbs), the other Rubio (in McHenry). And a D friend in Evanston crossed over to vote for Cruz because he thought Cruz was more likely to beat Trump. Trump is definitely being helped by the number of his opponents.

Comment by 60611 Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:37 am
Jack Kemp: I should have been clearer, I meant the 96th precinct in Springfield, not the 96th Leg. District.

Comment by Give Me A Break Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:38 am
===while you cower behind an anonymous pseudonym on a blog.===

… says the person berating me, you guessed it, behind an anonymous pseudonym on a blog.

Sorry, that was too delicious to let go, lol

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:39 am
Miss being able to vote at the local elementary school a block away and being sent instead to a church two miles distant with an unknown number
of precincts. The suburbs have few public spaces
and wonder how these changes drive early voting
or decrease turnout.

Comment by Illinoisvoter Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:40 am
voted at 715AM at the town hall in Elkhart. First time I can remember having to stand in line for a few minutes. 3-4 ahead of me. Never happens. If I coulda voted for McCann I would have!

Comment by BigKahuna Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:42 am
Voted in Rock Island County. High turnout so far. Had to call the county clerk as the Republican Judges would not let any vote without a drivers license. Turned several voters away

Comment by Cubs105 Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:44 am
I voted in Chicago’s Ward 48 Percent 6 at the Pines of Edgewater Apartments polling place around 7AM. There were some difficulties with a man trying to register, but polling place staff were kindly helping. There was a steady trickle of one-to-two folks entering and existing at any given time while I was voting and as I was entering and exiting the polling place. This is the first time I’ve voted before work, but after 5PM this polling place gets a lot busier even during non-presidential years.

Comment by Chicago_Downstater Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:44 am
- Never Drumpf- OW for sure dosent me to speak for him. However might I point out that you are hiding behind a anonymous pseudonym also. Maybe your pseudonym should be ‘not to smart’ As they say its better to remain silent then to remove all doubt…

Comment by Snoopy Do Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:45 am
“they compared the signature to the one they had on their computer, so I don’t know what was up with that…”

@Jabes: Illinois has been using signatures as basis of voter identification since the 19th century. The handwriting specimens, taken from your voter registration form are now stored on a computer as opposed to a booklet or the actual precinct binders containing the registration cards as in elections past.

Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:46 am
Thanks everybody!

I’m gonna shut this post down and start a fresh thread: https://capitolfax.com/2016/03/15/late-morning-early-afternoon-local-precinct-report/

Comment by Rich Miller Tuesday, Mar 15, 16 @ 10:46 am