- Early Voting for Illinois' primary election ended Thursday, and officials say the number of voters who went to the polls is down compared to four years ago.
The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners said early data shows early voting ballots cast is down by more than 46,000 compared to 2008, which saw 81,690 ballots cast.
[...] Absentee voting is also down by more than 8,000 compared to 2008. Of the 9,400 absentee applications processed Wednesday for the March primary, only about 4,763 absentee ballots were returned. About 13,000 ballots were mailed in 2008, election officials said.
This low turnout would work in the police/fire's favor by giving us a disparate impact on totals....if everyone had registered to vote and actually voted. Seriously, we need FOP to take a better lead and hammer this point home. Otherwise we end up endorsing people (like Madigan, Alvarez and others) just to endorse them and they do nothing to benefit the members.