Election judges are essential to ensuring that our elections are fair, and in doing so, maintain the traditions of our past and our hope for the future.

In an effort to continue providing voters with unprecedented levels of transparency, County Clerk Pete Duncan is providing Macoupin County voters, for the first time, a weekly update on how many judges still need to confirm that they will be able to work on Election Day. The goal would be to see each column with '0' as all positions would be filled by that point.

The first letters asking judges to confirm that they would be able to serve went out September 8th.

This dataset shows the total turnout as well as the vote counts for the two major parties in Macoupin County from 1938 to 2018. The statewide winner is listed first in the Election field.

In 2006, Illinois started early voting before Election Day. Since then, more and more voters are voting early. This dataset includes stats of how many voters cast their ballot early, how many voted by mail, how many military voters voted, etc.

This dataset shows by day how many votes were cast early in person in each General Election from 2008 to 2024. The numbers show the running total for each election. To see how many voters voted on an individual day, subtract the previous days total to that day.

In late 2022, Macoupin County was selected as one of ten nationwide Centers for Election Excellence by the US Alliance for Election Excellence. As part of that distinction, we did receive a grant of $500,000. This was a set amount based off the number of registered voters in our county. The County can spend that money on the following items
1) Key Physical Components: Equipment and materials, facilities, and records, including voting locations, technical facilities, storage facilities, processing facilities, administrative facilities, and voting hardware;
2) Key Technological Components: Hardware and software components critical to supporting the election security mission, including computers, servers, databases, and other lT systems and assets used in election administration activities;
3) Key Human Components: Personnel with specialized training, certification, knowledge, skills, authorities, or roles whose absence could cause undesirable consequences or hamper the election security mission, including strategic, operational, and temporary/seasonal support positions.
What will Macoupin County spend this money on specifically?
My priority is to spend this money on larger, one-time expenses that would not normally be able to be handled by the County’s budget. Examples include additional space for election events such as early voting or judges training, improved secure storage areas for the county’s voting machines, upgrading our voter registration and election management software for the first time since 1999. We will not use any of the grant money on personnel costs for county employees. There is the possibility of paying vendors for their time such as our local IT vendor for their work on running a new internet connection or paying an individual for scanning of records as examples.

This dataset shows by day how many votes were cast early in person in each General Election from 2008 to 2022. The numbers by show what the running total for each election. To see how many voters voted on an idividual day, subtract the previous days total to that day.