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Kendall County sees uptick in voters in primary election · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Kendall County ze's uptick in voters in primary election there waited.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett Yorkville School District.
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  Speaker 1: On fifteen to two hundred and seventy five dollars bond
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  Speaker 1: referendum might have contributed to a significant uptick in the
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  Speaker 1: number of Kendall County residents voting in the March seventeenth
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  Speaker 1: general primary election Compared to the last primary election in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. All county level races on the Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County ballot were uncontested. Some congressional and statewide offices were contested.
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  Speaker 1: According to unofficial results from the election, twenty percent in
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety two people of ninety five six
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  Speaker 1: hundred and five registered voters in Kendall County voted in
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  Speaker 1: the election, resulting in a voter turnout of twenty one
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  Speaker 1: point three to three percent of that number. Thirteen thousand,
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty people cast their ballots on election day.
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  Speaker 1: In comparison, in the March twenty twenty four general primary election,
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  Speaker 1: twelve thousand, three hundred and two people of eighty seven thousand,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred ninety seven registered voters in Kendall County cast
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  Speaker 1: their ballot. The voter turnout in that election was fourteen
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  Speaker 1: point zero three percent. Following the twenty twenty four primary election,
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County Clerk and Recorder Debbie Gillette had said the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump had both secured enough delegates to win their
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  Speaker 1: respective party nominations prior to the primary probably contributed to
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  Speaker 1: the low voter turnout. Biden dropped out of the race
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  Speaker 1: prior to the twenty twenty four general election. During the
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  Speaker 1: presidential primary election in twenty twenty which also featured Biden
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  Speaker 1: and Trump, voter turnout in Kendall County was thirty percent.
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  Speaker 1: Almost seventy five hundred people voted on the York School
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  Speaker 1: District referedum. The measure was defeated on both the Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County and Kinge County ballots. According to unofficial results, twenty
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  Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty three people on the Kendall County
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  Speaker 1: ballot voted to approve the referendum, while five thousand and
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  Speaker 1: sixty people voted against the referendum.