Kane reports more than 106K ballots issued

The Kane County Clerk’s Office reported that it issued 106,673 ballots and received 98,493 ballots as of Nov. 10, according to statistics just released.But that doesn’t mean there are till 8,180 votes waiting to be counted, Director of Elections Raymond Esquivel said.“We say ‘outstanding,’” Esquivel said. That’s because some voters request ballots and then don’t mail them in, or don’t mail them on time.In order to be counted by Nov. 17, mail-in ballots would have to be postmarked on Election Day Nov. 3.Of the vote-by-mail ballots, 37,855 were returned of the 45,758 sent out; of the 99 sent to nursing homes, 49 were returned; and of the 447 sent overseas, 220 were returned.