Early voting suspended in Champaign County on Friday

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URBANA – The Champaign County Clerk said it is suspending early voting on Friday, October 1.

According to an email sent to IPM on Friday morning from Angie Patton, Chief of Staff of the Champaign County Elections office, the suspension is due to a technical issue involving early voting that was discovered on Thursday evening.

The email said that voting will resume as normal on Monday, October 5.

No other details were made available.

The only site affected is the Bennett Administrative Center in Urbana, where early voting started on September 24.  Early voting will expand to 11 sites on October 19. 

The general election is November 3.

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Reginald Hardwick

Reginald Hardwick is the News & Public Affairs Director at Illinois Public Media. He oversees daily newscasts and online stories. He also manages The 21st Show, a live, weekday talk show that airs on six NPR stations throughout Illinois. He is the executive producer of IPM's annual environmental TV special "State of Change." And he is the co-creator of Illinois Soul, IPM's Black-focused audio service that launched in February 2024. Before arriving at IPM in 2019, he served as News Director at WKAR in East Lansing and spent 17 years as a TV news producer and manager at KXAS, the NBC-owned station in Dallas/Fort Worth. Reginald is the recipient of three Edward R. Murrow regional awards, seven regional Emmy awards, and multiple honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. Born in Vietnam, Reginald grew up in Colorado and is a graduate of the University of Northern Colorado. Email: rh14@illinois.edu Twitter: @RNewsIPM