First Day Of Early Voting Breaks Records (Cook County - Chicago)

CHICAGO (CBS) ― It appears that records will be broken for the first day of early voting in Cook County. Close to 20,000 ballots were cast in the general election in just the first five hours Monday.

Election officials said a record 11,748 Chicagoans voted, with some people still in line Monday evening, and another record 7,689 early ballots were cast in suburban Cook County. Nearly four times as many voters -- 2,532 of them -- turned out in northern Illinois' Lake County as had on the first day of early voting for the 2008 primary.

Other parts of the state saw an uptick too.

In Peoria County, the clerk's office estimated there were at least 450 to 500 early voters Monday compared to just a handful who showed up the first day to cast early primary ballots, said county spokeswoman Jennifer Zinkel.

In Macon County, Clerk Stephen Bean is expecting an onslaught of voters Tuesday when early voting starts in that central Illinois county.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/early.voting.illinois.2.838837.html


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