Nearly 2.8M votes already cast in Illinois as total registered breaks record

Published October 30, 2020 8:30pm ET



Nearly 2.8 million Illinoisans have already voted in the general election set for Tuesday Nov. 3. It’s about evenly split between in-person early votes and mail-in ballots that have been returned. There’s also more registered voters than the state has ever seen.

The Illinois State Board of Elections Thursday updated their tally that showed 1.36 million early votes have been cast. While more than 2.35 million vote-by-mail ballots have been sent, nearly 1.4 million have been returned to the voters’ local elections authority.

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