County's doing the best it can to prepare for record turnout
By Julie Wurth
Sunday November 2, 2008
Darrell Hoemann
Al Klein, vice chairman of the Champaign County Democratic Party, works with deputy county clerk Jill Broeker during a test Wednesday of the ballot tabulation machines in Urbana.
More ballots, more polling booths and more election judges are lined up for Election Day 2008 as county officials prepare for what could be a record turnout.
Champaign County Clerk Mark Shelden expects 85,000, and possibly 90,000, people to vote this year – the most ever – which would push turnout to 73 percent. More than 84,000 county residents voted in the 2004 presidential race, a turnout of 69 percent.
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