Voter Turnout = "Embarrassing"

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Feb 3, 2010 5:00PM

Langdon Neal, chairman of the Chicago Board of Elections, told the press last night, "We are headed for very low turnout today, we'll be lucky to get 30 percent." He also indicated that it could be below 24 percent, which he said, "would be embarrassing." As of this post, Neal can breathe a small sigh of relief as the Board of Elections is reporting a turnout of around 26 percent. Not that that's really any better. Democrats made up 90.7 percent of the city's vote, Republicans made up 8.8 percent, and Green party voters the final half percent. If these numbers hold, that means 74 percent of city voters don't get to complain about last night's results.