By Nick Gale, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) It looks like voting by mail is off to a good start in Cook County.
With a week left to apply for vote by mail ballots, nearly 100,000 suburban Cook County voters have applied for mail ballots and almost 23,000 have already returned their mail ballots to the Cook County Clerk’s office.
In the 2012 Presidential Election, 36,754 mail ballots were cast. The mail ballot high mark for all elections in suburban Cook County was set in the 2014 Gubernatorial Election, when 51,237 mail ballots were cast.
Any registered suburban Cook County voter may request a mail ballot using the online application FOUND HERE. Applying online can take less than a minute.
The deadline to apply for a mail ballot is November 3 – although the Clerk’s office urges voters to request their mail ballot before October 31 to ensure against any postal delays. Ballots must be postmarked no later than Election Day, November 8, and received at the Cook County Clerk’s office within 14 days of Election Day.
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