Mail-in ballots trickling in are inching the city’s primary turnout to nearly 35 percent. That’s down sharply from the 53.52 percent city turnout in the 2016 presidential primary and the 52.70 percent in 2008, but above or comparable to the city’s showing in the remaining three presidential primaries this century.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.