Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — ILLINOIS HAS BIGGEST VOTE. [ARTICLE]

ILLINOIS HAS BIGGEST VOTE.

Women Swell Total to 1,765,000, Ex- . ceeding New York’s. CHICAGO, ILL. Women, voting for the first time for president in Illinois, swelled the total vote cast in the state to approximately 1,765,000, according to estimates based on the precincts already counted. m 1912. New York, which cast the largest presidential vote hitherto recorded, rolled up a total of 1,439,969 votes. Estimates by Chicago election officials, based on incomplete returns from New York state received here, indicate New York’s total vote in Tuesday’s election w-ould be approximately 1,675 000, considerably less than the Illinois total.