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LaSalle County committee forwards three election resolutions on hours, polling places and tabulation security
Summary
The Taxes, Election & GIS committee voted Feb. 17 to forward three election-related resolutions to the full county board: changing county clerk office hours to election-related services only on primary and general election days, accepting a polling-places list and tightening who may witness central tabulation; members also added a vendor (KnowInk) to the vendor list.
The LaSalle County Taxes, Election and GIS Committee on Feb. 17 voted to forward three election-focused resolutions to the full county board, approving temporary changes to office hours on election days, a formal list of polling places for the 2026 cycle and rules restricting who may witness central tabulation of ballots.
Chair Doug Trager presented the first resolution, which would require the county clerk’s office to provide only election-related services and be closed to other public business on the primary (March 17, 2026) and general election (Nov. 3, 2026) days. "The county clerk's office shall not perform any other duty than those pertaining to the general primary election on March 17 and the general election on November 3," Trager read during the meeting. The committee voted to forward the resolution to the county board for final approval.
Committee members also approved a resolution accepting the clerk’s list of polling places for the 2026 cycle and granted the county clerk discretion to fill any polling-place vacancies that occur before elections. The county clerk said voter cards have been mailed and that signs will be posted at changed sites on election day to direct voters where to go.
A third resolution would restrict access to the county clerk’s central tabulation room and four regional tabulation sites during vote counting to specified personnel — deputy clerks, sheriff’s deputies, judges of election, vendor staff (Liberty Systems and the newly added KnowInk), county IT staff and designated building managers — and to named county leaders and two partisan county judge witnesses for the central accumulation room. Committee members moved to amend the resolution to add "KnowInk" (spelled in the transcript as "no ink") to the vendor list and approved the amended resolution before forwarding it to the board.
The committee approved the motions by voice vote; the chair announced the motions carried. The measures now go to the full LaSalle County Board for consideration.
What happens next: the resolutions will be placed on the county board agenda for final action; the clerk’s office will implement signage for the updated polling places once the board acts.
