Decatur Vote

11/08/2024

Sorry I haven't been around to help with local election coverage this year. Doing my personal research as a voter reminded me how necessary the work is that I was trying to do. I wasn't healthy enough to return to DV for this election, but I'm hoping I can do something for the Municipal elections in 2025. We'll see.

- Reed Sutman

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03/17/2024

Primary Elections this Tuesday, March 19th.

(Decatur Vote is still closed)

02/15/2024

Local candidates for the March 19th Primary are listed with contact information, but platform information is not available. State and Federal candidates are not listed.

I, Reed Sutman, am temporarily closing Decatur Vote due to mental health issues. I hope to re-open and cover the November 2024 election, but that depends on my health.

I'm sorry for this news & I wish you well in voting this March 19th.

Read the blog post for more information.

I will not be responding to most messages/emails, but I will still make corrections and redactions upon request.

Decatur Vote is temporarily closed, and will not be covering the March 19th, 2024 Primaries.

01/26/2024

Updated home page to be election-focused.

Local candidates are listed. No state/federal candidates listed yet, due to ongoing personal health issues (working on it though!)

An additional hiccup has been: Understanding how delegates for the national party conventions work. I'm working on a description of those elections, and I've found the reading materials to be rather confusing. Should make progress on this next week. I may just post the candidates with no description of the office in the mean time.

- Reed Sutman

01/18/2024

All local offices & candidates are listed, except for precinct committeepersons.

State & Federal candidates will be listed tomorrow or next week.

Then I'll start requesting candidate photos & platform information.

Precinct Committeepersons may be added next week. There's a lot, and it isn't really competitive, so this part is not a priority.

And I'll get photos for the coroner, recorder, and state's attorney offices ... sometime. I already had photos for County Board, Circuit Clerk, and County Auditor from past outings.

https://www.decaturvote.com/2024/election/

01/18/2024

The race for the Macon County Board has no competition this year, unless either party chooses to slate candidates to vacancies after the March 19th Primaries.

There are five County Board Districts, and each voter will vote for one candidate within their district, as there is only one vacancy for each County Board District this year.

District 1 has one Democrat candidate. Districts 2-5 each have one Republican candidate.

Platform information is not currently available for candidates, but you can see who is running, and most have contact information available.

Prior to redistricting in 2021, there were 7 County Board Districts. The redistricting was contentious, and the Republican-proposed maps were approved by the majority-Republican Macon County Board, with opposition from Democrat Board Members.

The race for the Macon County Board has no competition this year, unless either party chooses to slate candidates to vacancies after the March 19th Primaries.

01/17/2024

Progress! Three offices are listed.

Other local offices should be done this week.

Precinct Committeepersons and state + federal offices will likely be up next week.

The home page should be updated next week to feature the 2024 election, and a printed flyer of the 2024 Primaries should be available shortly thereafter.

Candidate platforms & photos will be an ongoing effort once this initial data-entry stage is complete, and it will take a bit of time.

https://www.decaturvote.com/2024/election/

01/17/2024

01/17/2024

Work on 2024 election pages has started! Right now, there's not much info, but it's coming along finally.

Macon County, Illinois residents will vote in the Primaries on March 19th, 2024 and in the General Election on November 5th, 2024.

01/16/2024

I have a better solution in mind, but I'm not sure when or if it will be completed. Sorry to anyone who was looking forward to more recaps.

Read the blog post for more information.
- Reed Sutman

I tried my first weekly news recap on January 20th, 2023, publishing 7 in total through March 3rd, 2023.

01/16/2024

I will create nice elections & candidate pages this week, as I've done for the past two elections.

I'll also be working on outreach to candidates to get candidate photos, bios, and platform information. This will be ongoing & may take a bit longer.

- Reed Sutman

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Today, I received the list of candidates that will be on the Macon County Ballot for the March 19th Primaries. There are lists for candidates for Macon County offices, candidates for State offices, and candidates for Federal offices.

The lists were received from Macon County Clerk Josh Tanner as part of a January 16th FOIA Request - a followup to an informal inquiry I sent on Friday January 12th, to which I did not receive a response.

I sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request to Macon County Clerk Josh Tanner for the lists of candidates who will be on ballots in Macon County Illin...