Excluding suburban Cook County, the rest of the state is reporting a 44% return rate on its mail ballots. That compares to just 11% for suburban Cook County. The clerk’s office has a backlog of more than 42,000 mail ballots that have been returned but still need to be processed.
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.