Despite my reservations for using East St.

Louis Board of Elections registration data, it is all that I have at

this time. They claim that we have 22,459 registered voters and this means that 14.4% of all registered
voters used the absentee ballot. Looking closer, we see that 42.4% of all voters participating (7,649), or
turnout, cast an absentee ballot.

Out of the rest of the county’s 165,035 registered voters, only 3,636, or 2.2%, cast absentee ballots--
nearly seven times lower than East St. Louis. County voter turnout was 26,439 and only 13.75% cast an
absentee ballot compared to 42.4% for here—a 3 to 1 ratio.

Why is the absentee ballot so popular in East St. Louis? When combined with an election authority that
is known for not removing dead people from the registration, it becomes rather clear that the dead are
still voting in East St. Louis elections. The re-election of our current Mayor alone indicates that there is
very little relationship between election results and voter sentiment.

The Alliance has requested the assistance of Lisa Madigan’s office in enforcing compliance to current
election code statutes by local election authorities like the East St. Louis Board of Elections. Please help
us by contacting the Illinois State’s Attorney General’s Office in Springfield
(www.illinoisattorneygeneral.gov) to voice your support for accurate voter registration lists. For more
information on this issue, please go to www.alliance1820.com.

In advance, thank you for your support for the pursuit of freedom and democracy in East St. Louis,
Egypt, and Libya.

Matt Hawkins, President

East St. Louis Alliance for Change