DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- DuPage County is seeing a record-number of voters turn out for the upcoming election.
Around 12,000 people voted on the first day of early voting last Monday, which shattered the record for early voting in 2016.
The county has seen 24,176 mail voters and 100,232 early voters, which means over one-third of DuPage County’s voters have cast ballots. That's a total of 224,408, surpassing 34% percent turnout.
“Nationwide, high voter turnout has been predicted for months. It appears that so far the numbers in DuPage may be fulfilling that prediction, despite the ongoing pandemic,” DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek said in a statement. “In terms of ballots cast, we’re well past the halfway point of 2016 record final turnout – 434,050 – eight days from Election Day.”
DuPage County is entering the 2020 General Election with 645,935 registered voters. Over 45,000 voters have registered within the past year.
Jean Kaczmarek expects there to be more voting in the days leading up to election day and said the busiest early voting site is the DuPage County fairgrounds but it's also the largest, so the lines are the shortest.