Early voting in mayoral primaries triples from 2019

PEORIA (HOI) -- Polling locations for Tuesday's mayoral primary and city council district elections were slow today across Peoria, even as officials saw a significant increase in early and mail-in ballots.

Executive Director of the Peoria County Election Commission Tom Bride said early voting ballots increased from 1,111 ballots in 2019 to 2,939 ballots this year.

Further, Bride said they've received around 1,800 mail-in ballots so far, already more than double the total amount from 2019.

Officials are expecting around a couple hundred more mail-in ballots to trickle in. Mail-in ballots are valid if postmarked by Election Day.

Bride also confirmed that an issue with incorrect dates being printed on slips used to access ballot machines will not affect the vote counting process.