Arrogance,Waukegan and the Internet

[kellyann1293]

Let's get people voting... In my most recent blog posting, I mentioned that less than 25% of the registered voters in the Waukegan precincts made it to the polls in the April 2005 election. It would be an amazing accomplishment if we could double that number.

You state: "Not only did less than 25% of the registered voters fail to show up, but 225 of the ones that did managed to screw up their ballots. "

I don't think the 225 people with undervotes really "screwed up their ballots." I suspect, in most cases, that the undervote was actually a vote for "None of the above."

If you look at the counts for Mayor of Waukegan from the primary election in February 2005, there were only 16 undervotes:

City of Waukegan Mayor
VOTE FOR 1
(WITH 53 OF 53 PRECINCTS COUNTED)
John L. Balen . . . . . . . . . 191 3.01
Richard H. Hyde . . . . . . . . 2,692 42.38
Samuel D. Cunningham, Jr. . . . . . 1,850 29.12
Robert Sabonjian . . . . . . . . 1,504 23.68
Alex Garcilazo. . . . . . . . . 106 1.67
WRITE-IN. . . . . . . . . . . 9 .14
Total . . . . . . . . . 6,352
Over Votes . . . . . . . . . 2
Under Votes . . . . . . . . . 16


People know how to mark their ballots.

P.S. you might want to edit your statement "less than 25% of the registered voters fail to show up." I think you mean just the opposite.

Lake County election results dating back to March 1996 can be found at:

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