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Kendall County seeing steady turnout on Election Day · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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Kendall County seeing steady turnout on election day. Written by Eric Shelkov.
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This article is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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by Everlet. Despite on and off rain on Tuesday, Kendall County residents
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are coming out to vote. Turnout has been steady for today. Kendall
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County Clerk and Recorder Debbie Gillette. Polling places opened at 6 a.m.
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And will close at 7 p.m. She was glad to see the
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number of young people helping out at polling places. We have had
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several students helping today. Hopefully they will find it rewarding and serve
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again in the future, Gillette said. A fair number of residents also
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voted early. The clerk's office sent out 11,172 vote-by-mail ballots. As
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of Tuesday, seven thousand nine hundred and eighteen voters had completed and
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returned their ballots. She said, Gillette said, more people are choosing to
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vote by
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mail these days. We're seeing more permanent vote by mail ballots being
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requested, she said. That number keeps going up every year, it seems.
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In the March primary election, there were 3,240 vote-by-mail ballots cast, compared
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to 3,118 vote-by-mail ballots in the April 2025 consolidated election.
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Gillette said that the convenience of voting by mail may be the
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reason for the increase.