Thursday.

And for more on today's election and how the voter turnout is shaping up, we're joined by Joanna Hernandez who's live at the Chicago Board of Elections Super site along State Street.

>> Joe Anne Hart, things running so far.

>> Brandis things seem to be running pretty smoothly here.

We do see a line along State Street.

But like I just said, you can see this line is going in and now that just goes to show the people who are working here in the operation that they have here is running pretty smoothly.

And here to talk about this year's midterm elections is Max Bever.

ex ever.

He's the director of public information at the Board of Elections.

Thank you for joining us.

You are the man was in charge of all the numbers.

No, no pressure.

One of many.

How would you describe this year's early elections?

>> So we were heading into this election like a lion, but we might be exiting like a lamb.

We saw really record breaking early voting and vote by mail ballots being returned before Election Day.

Election Day has been a little bit sleepy or but as you can see, we're seeing a surge in our later hours like we usually see for a primary election.

We're going to be twenty-twenty two's numbers, but we might not be 20 eighteen's going to probably somewhere in between 2018 had 32% citywide turnout 2022 had 22% citywide turnout.

remember, we do have many vote by mail ballots that still need to be counted.

So it didn't surprise her patterns that you're seeing a trend.

Yes, we've seen women lead the way so far today, but it's also election that's been driven by older voters, especially 55 and up.

That's pretty traditional for primary elections.

But we are seeing a surge of voters in our last 2 hours and a lot more younger voters under 30 that are showing up in these last 2.

I mean, that's really interesting.

Also talk to me about the people who work here with trained to poll workers get.

>> Leading up to election day to what you're seeing are people who are early voting officials who are also serving on Election Day.

He's a people at the super site.

They've already been working for 4 weeks.

They're the ones that are always the most camera friendly when it comes to our election judges, they receive at least 4 hours of training.

You know, when you're standing by and we've had by just putting all of our polling places today to make sure that we were fully staffed.

And thankfully we've seen a smooth and safe election and dare I say, just a little bit boring.

But like to see more the board of elections.

But I can imagine they're also working hard.

These are some similar faces that I've seen before.

That's right.

just goes to show we're lucky enough to have early voting.

Officials joined U.S.

year after year.

They love the super site downtown.

>> And that's why they come back to this year after it.

Let's talk about misinformation.

Have you safeguard against munsif misinformation about elections?

That's very tough.

And we know that like a day like Election Day, we're not tracking everything that's out on social media.

So we do our best to put out the right information.

So no matter what you should be checking Chicago elections dot Gov for all Information.

Don't trust that Facebook page that you see or what somebody might be reporting.

You can always come to us.

Give us a call at 312-269-7900, or visit our website.

That's a good point because a lot of people seem to be going to Facebook sometimes, but it's good to double check its natural.

But you should be going to your election authority to confirm all information.

Now, let's talk about mail-in ballots.

We know that more people are avoiding through mount a house Chicago Board of Elections addressing risk to mail-in ballots after the United States Postal Service change.

How post marks are being are being dated.

So part of record breaking numbers we saw for pre-election voting was a lot by mail ballots coming back that showed us that Chicagoans have heeded that warning.

They were mailing their ballots much earlier in the process and that we've seen are secure.

Drop box numbers really go up.

Post March 10th.

So I think Chicago got the message.

So if you're still a vote by mail voter and you have that ballot, you're planning on returning before 07:00PM at that drop boxes.

52 locations across the city now is the question.

Everybody wants to know how fast can people expect results tonight?

So we're going to see the initial results are coming in around 07:15PM.

Now it's important note these are unofficial results.

We still have a two-week counting period after Election Day were vote by mail.

Ballots are properly postmarked or revived a secure drop box that will be counted as probably tens of thousands of those.

So we asked for a little bit of patience some of these races are close to my come down to that to be counting period.

We will see results updated all night at Chicago elections not