If you haven't voted already today is the March 20th, 2018 Primary. Voting locations and sample ballots can be found at the County Clerk website here. If you still need to register, information on Grace Period Registration offered at all voting locations is here. Candidate information on the Cheat Sheet has been organized in this post. Check out the Champaign County Voters Alliance Candidate Guide for more information.
CU-MTD and some candidates (jump below) are offering free rides to the polls. From the News-Gazette:
Full article here.MTD offering free rides to the polls for Tuesday's primary
The Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District is offering free rides Tuesday for all voting-related activity.
The MTD announced the free rides as a way of encouraging civic participation.
"We're doing this to encourage good citizenship," said MTD Managing Director Karl Gnadt, who noted that riders would be on the honor system in terms of claiming that they're on the way to vote.
All bus rides throughout the district will be free from the start of service Tuesday until 8 p.m.
Turnout has been high and lopsided in early voting thus far. How much of that will be in addition to election day voting or merely instead of it remains to be seen. Also from the NG today:
Primary Decisions: Early voting heavy in Champaign CountyFull article here (link will be updated).
Two weeks ago Champaign County Clerk Gordy Hulten predicted that as many as 5,000 primary election votes would be cast in the county. Monday morning he revised that number to “close to or over 10,000.”
But by Monday night the number was 10,065 votes already tablulated -- more than three times the total of 3,178 pre-Election Day votes in 2014, the last non-presidential primary in Champaign County. Still, he said he’s not ready to say that the overall primary election turnout will be as great as the 23,299 votes cast in 2014.
“That’s the big question because does early voting and voting by mail, if it’s really heavy, mean that Election Day will also be heavy? Or are we merely shifting Election Day turnout to voting early and voting by mail?” he asked.
There is no doubt, though, that Democratic early voting is up substantially.
About two-thirds of the people who had voted through Monday in Champaign County had chosen Democratic ballots, a remarkable reversal of historic trends.
Generally, Republican voters outnumber Democrats in non-presidential primary years by about 2-to-1. In 2014, for example, 63 percent of primary voters took Republican ballots. In 2010, it was 65 percent Republican.
Candidates offering rides:
This is not an exhaustive list, just what I've seen thus far. I'll add as I see more.
Jon Ebel on his facebook page:
Betsy Dirksen Londrigan on her facebook page:
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