By all accounts, Election Day turned out to be a quiet one for the county’s complaint hotline and Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon.
The phone line, which handles resident concerns about voting or polling place issues, received a total of 16 calls Nov. 8. That represents one-third of the calls fielded when voters went to the polls for the last presidential election in 2012, according to McMahon.
“It really was a pretty slow day for us in terms of complaints,” McMahon said during his monthly press briefing Tuesday. “It’s an example of a well-run, orderly election.”
The few complaints included questions about media exit polling at one voting location, candidate signs, requests for identification and, in one instance, the positioning of voting booths. Assistant state’s attorneys fanned out to visit all 228 voting precincts throughout the county, but it turned out to be “a very uneventful day” despite all the “trepidation” and “nervousness” felt leading into the big day, McMahon said.
Dan Campana is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News