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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Illinois data analysis finds voters registered up to 4 times

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A recent analysis by Local Government Information Services, which owns this publication, found almost 50,000 duplicate voter registration records, representing Illinois residents who are registered multiple times.

The data, which was pulled from the the Illinois State Board of Elections voter registration file, shows that there were 49,772 records which showed voters with the same first name, middle name, last name and birth date, and registrations at two different addresses or multiple registrations at the same address, with two unique state-issued voter identification numbers.

The total represents 24,843 unique voters: one person registered four times, 84 people registered three times and 24,758 registered twice.

Rock Island County had a total of 177 duplicate records, including 52 from the city of Rock Island and 49 from Moline.

Voters with multiple registrations could vote multiple times.

You can find the number of duplicate records in Rock Island County, broken down by city, in the table below:

CityDuplicated Registration Records
Rock Island52 
Moline 49 
East Moline 25 
Silvis12 
Port Byron 10 
Milan 
Cordova 
Andalusia 
Carbon Cliff 
Taylor Ridge 
Hampton 
Reynolds 
Hillsdale 
Total (Rock Island County) 177

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