If the past is any indication, the DuPage County Clerk Election Division will likely struggle to process incoming mail-in ballots for the 2020 presidential election, according to a local township official.
In the 2018 election cycle the number. of absentee ballots was the highest ever at around 47,000.
This year the county expects 100,000 mail-in ballots.
York township trustee John Morrissey said the Election Division struggled to process all mail-in votes in 2018 and waited.until the last day to certify the affected elections.
“Basically of the voters who voted by mail, of those 14,000 almost were not counted,” Morrissey said. “The votes themselves were not received or counted until the a later date. They weren’t received or counted by Nov. 6 (election day). That took 13 days to count those 13,000 votes.”
If the clerk’s office struggled to process a much smaller number of votes in 2018, Morrissey asks how will they handle the projected uptick in the number of mail-in votes this year?
Voting problems in DuPage County have been ongoing for years. In fact, voters took to the polls to disband the Election Commission and combining its duties into the county clerk's office.
The county’s voter machines have also been a known problem for some time.
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