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McHenry County clerk releases new, corrected election results McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio fills a secure bin with recounted paper ballots Thursday inside the voting tabulation room at the McHenry County Administrative Building in Woodstock. Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media
Updated 4/9/2021 9:29 PM The McHenry County clerk s office has released corrected results for Tuesday s local consolidated election. After a technical error with the office s ballot tabulation devices led to a full recount of votes Thursday, the new results were posted to the county s election results webpage just before 12:50 p.m. Friday.
These results are still unofficial and will not be certified until two weeks after Tuesday s election, according to state law. Late-arriving mail-in ballots and provisionally cast ballots could still be counted. ....
Alicia Smith wanted to help her biracial children connect with their cultural heritage. Smith, of Aurora, is Black. The father of her two sons is Mexican.
It s why Smith enrolled the boys in a bilingual program at Johnson Elementary School in Aurora. Her 7-year-old, Alphonse Mendoza, started in the dual-language program in kindergarten and now is excelling academically in second grade, while her 6-year-old, Alano Mendoza, is doing well in first grade. I love the program. It is amazing, Smith said. It gives kids, like, a hunger to want to come to school and know something different. They love their teachers. ....