McHenry County clerk s office figures out why results were misreported McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio reaches into a secure blue box for a handful of ballots Thursday inside the voting tabulation room at the McHenry County Administrative Building in Woodstock. Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media
Updated 4/8/2021 6:39 PM
The McHenry County clerk s office has determined that the underreporting of votes in certain races across the county Tuesday night was because of changes made to the language on some ballots, which altered the spacing of the document just enough to interfere with machines ability to read votes correctly.
While officials now are certain this was the cause of the issue, County Clerk Joe Tirio said his office decided to conduct a full, countywide recount of votes anyway out of an abundance of caution.
The McHenry County clerk releases new, corrected election results McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio fills a secure blue bin with recounted paper ballots inside the voting tabulation room at the McHenry County Administrative Building on Thursday in Woodstock. Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media
Updated 4/9/2021 4:42 PM
The McHenry County clerk s office has released new, 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 finalized and certified until two weeks after Tuesday s election, according to Illinois state statute. Late-arriving vote-by-mail ballots and provisionally cast ballots could still be counted.