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About 18 percent of registered McHenry County voters made their way to local polling places Tuesday.<\/p>\nAbout 18 percent of registered McHenry County voters made their way to local polling places Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The general primary election turnout was \u201cpoor,\u201d McHenry County Clerk Katherine Schultz said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about what I was expecting,\u201d she added. <\/span><\/p>\n The local turnout during primary elections varies but usually ranges from mid-to-upper 20 percent.<\/p>\n Tuesday\u2019s voter turnout was 17.97 percent with 36,057 ballots cast, including early voting and absentee ballots.<\/p>\n Only late absentee ballots had yet to be counted.<\/p>\n Schultz said the early primary date might have affected the number of residents who voted.<\/p>\n \u201cSo many of your senior citizens are gone for the winter,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cUnless they\u2019re following things back home, there\u2019s probably quite a few of them that don\u2019t realize there\u2019s an election.\u201d<\/p>\n By AMBER KROSEL – akrosel@nwherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n Read the original article from the Northwest Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n About 18 percent of registered McHenry County voters made their way to local polling places Tuesday. The general primary election turnout was \u201cpoor,\u201d McHenry County Clerk Katherine Schultz said. \u201cIt\u2019s about what I was expecting,\u201d she added. The local turnout during primary elections varies but usually ranges from mid-to-upper 20 percent. Tuesday\u2019s voter turnout was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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