** UPDATED x1 - Problem found, fixed *** As many as 24,000 votes may be missing in McHenry County
Thursday, Nov 8, 2018
* NW Herald…
More than 116,000 McHenry County residents voted in Tuesday’s midterm election – but unofficial election results showed about 21 percent of them did not pick candidates in statewide races. […]
Issues with the county’s election reporting software may be the culprit, according to McHenry County Clerk Mary McClellan.
“We are looking at election reporting software,” McClellan told the Northwest Herald. “It is not showing all the numbers for some reason.” […]
That’s 20 points lower than the 99 percent of Will County ballots that included a gubernatorial vote. In Kane County, it was 98.6 percent. In Lake County, 98.6 percent. Cook County? 98.3 percent.
In a phone interview Thursday morning, McClellan said the gap isn’t that unusual.
“People just didn’t want to vote for governor,” she said.
Oh, please, that is just not true. The county clerk needs to look at her own vote totals.
That undervote was in way more than just the governor’s race. It’s literally everywhere in McHenry County.
* For instance, go to the clerk’s elections page and you’ll see that only 92,559 out of a total of 116,703 voted in the secretary of state’s race, so that’s about the same undervote as the governor’s race. Same goes for the 92,287 who voted in the attorney general’s race and the 92,427 who voted in the county’s two congressional races.
You can’t tell me that as many as 24,000 voters cast totally blank ballots. Those votes are either missing or the total vote count is way off. I called the clerk and she hasn’t gotten back to me.
It’s even worse down-ballot, by the way. Only 81,533 voted in the sheriff’s race and just 80,503 voted in the county auditor’s race. I can see that drop-off happening between statewide and local, but I cannot possibly see 24,000 completely blank ballots. No way.
[Hat tip: Cal Skinner.]
*** UPDATE *** The county clerk has now fixed the problem. Turns out, the early votes were counted but not tabulated online. As a result, the Democrats have apparently picked up another seat on the county board and Democratic US Rep.-elect Lauren Underwood has narrowly won the county, boosting her final count in the race.
- Posted by Rich Miller 
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