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| Lack of voting in Ill. system |
| By The Daily Journal |
| Published: 10/31/2008 |
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ILLINOIS - While Illinois law says that registered voters who are in jail awaiting trial may vote via absentee ballot, local officials said requests to vote from jail simply don't happen. That's what Kankakee County Clerk Bruce Clark said. And Grundy County Clerk Lana Phillips, the second-longest-serving county clerk in Illinois, said she has never had a request to vote from a prisoner awaiting trial in her 32 years in office. Mike Downey, chief of corrections for the Kankakee County Sheriff's Department, said no person held at the jail has made a request to vote in the 14 years he has been chief. Thursday was the last day for absentee ballot requests to be accepted by mail. Return ballots must be postmarked before Election Day by midnight Nov. 3, according to Iroquois County Clerk Mark Henrichs. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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