Voters choosing to mail in their ballots are driving record early returns in the city’s Feb. 28 municipal election.
The leap in vote-by-mail ballots could push overall turnout past 40%, which the city hasn’t seen in a municipal election in over a decade.The leap in vote-by-mail ballots could push overall turnout past 40%, which the city hasn’t seen in a municipal election in over a decade.
"We’re having a lot more of these [mail-in] ballots returned swifter than we’ve had in previous municipal elections," spokesman Max Bever said. "What we can say for sure right now is that there’s a good number of Chicagoans who have made up their mind for this race." A total of 41,845 ballots have been cast in this year’s election, compared with 2,452 ballots over the same period in 2019, and 2,117 ballots in 2015, Bever said.All early voting sites will remain open through the end of election day. They are open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturdays 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sundays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and election day 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.Two downtown voting locations have been open since Jan. 26: the Loop Supersite, 191 N. Clark St.
With nearly 300 candidates up for election, this municipal race has the most candidates on the ballot ever, Bever said. Many of those candidates are running in the new Police District Councils, one for each of the city’s 22 police districts. The top three vote-getters in each district will be elected for a four-year term.
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