opened at 6 this morning and will remain open until 7 tonight are.

Joanna Hernandez joins us live from the Board of Elections.

Super site in the loop for the latest on voter turnout.

Joanna.

>> Brandis, I have to tell you, it has been really busy so far.

We've been out here for a couple hours outside the super site in the loop along lake in the line has wrapped around the corner.

Same thing we've seen all week for early voting.

But you know what?

The people that we chatted with say there's something exciting about voting on election night, especially even though it's a rainy day.

They said there's like some type of special vibe.

Now we have here, Max.

Better from the Chicago Board of Elections.

Joining us to break down in sharing all the details about our voting turnout.

Now, Max, I know it's been a busy day for you.

He said you're running up 2 hours of Tell us about what the energy has been like today.

Well, I'm not alone.

We've got our hard-working poll workers behind us.

They've been awake even longer than I have.

And this is what we like to see.

We like to see a high turnout on Election Day are last few election days have been pretty sleepy.

>> There's good news and there's bad news when it comes to that.

The good news is high turnout.

People are fired up.

Bad news is that we are seeing some lines.

But I do want to remind boaters if you're in line by 07:00PM, you still will vote.

As of last night.

We were excited to see that we had over 330,000 people cast their early vote ballot.

And as of right now, it looks like we're just over 890,000 ballots cast so far for the November 5th election.

And, you know, talking about early voting was the voting a strong showing here in Chicago as expected it is presidential elections are generally our most consistent turnout.

This is where we see 70% of the city's registered voters turned out that usually over 1 million voters looks like we're on track early voting with similar to previous presidential cycles, especially the quote, unquote, regular years like 2016, 2020 is a little bit of a special case because it was the middle of the pandemic.

Early voting was expanded.

Voting by mail was expanded.

We're seeing people turn out like they have in previous presidential cycles.

So thank you for everyone's patients for all of these lines.

We know it's as exciting as a roller coaster at the end of these 2 out, especially to that it's raining outside and it's raining out.

We're glad that that hasn't dampened spirits.

But these last 2 hours between 5 and 7 o'clock, that's usually where we see the big final push.

So we're expecting to see a lot of people still turn out to the polls and past 7 o'clock, those votes of some keep coming And have you seen as supporting any patterns in the voting precincts when it comes to the turnout?

Yes, you know, we are seeing pretty high turnout citywide.

Obviously we've got some more popular early voting sites and others along our lakefront of our north side where there's public transit accessible.

So we're glad that people who might have missed their chance to early vote over this weekend by seeing those lines were turned up today because we have both centers like the super site that are open and it's a vote anywhere program, too.

Otherwise we've seen all of our voters to go to their assigned precinct polling places seen lines nice and busy.

That's the way we like to see it.

And let's talk about the issues we know sometimes that happens.

Has there been any issues at the polling places?

We know there has.

There was some technical issues with people.

Tell us about that.

There was there was a couple of glitches, unfortunately, in a few of our precincts this morning for same day registers, those people are changing their address or updating their name or getting registered for the first time poll works went immediately so we moved them to paper.

Thankfully was fixed within the hour at those handful of sites that we saw.

We've also seen some issues just, you know, when we have 2 ballots, we've got to make sure all of our election judges are handing out the correct ones.

Multiple reminders were sent to judges today.

We've got to put precincts and a lot of other locations.

But beyond that, we've seen just the regular type issues and equipment issues that pop up rather than the type threats or issues that other countries are.

I'm sorry.

Other places in the countries are facing.

That's a dozen working pretty So it's good.

Yes, I also think that it's up to Chicago.

Chicagoans turn out and vote their patient.

They're kind with each other.

And that's what we're seeing today.

And last question, Max, one word to describe a busy and that's what we like to see.

So compared to municipal the midterm elections last primary that only had a 25% citywide turnout.

We're looking good.

We're going to get over that 70%, especially when we have that to be counting period from those vote by mail.

Ballots are coming back today as well as over the next 2 weeks properly postmarked.

Well, thank you for joining us.

Thank you.

Let you get back to right now.

Want to give a quick shout out to all the poll workers back there.

Hi, ladies.

They have been working really hard and really lifting up the spirit we've already seen about like 8 first-time voters and they have been cheering them now, just a reminder, the polling places will close at 07:00PM.

But as long as you're here by 7, you'll be able to cast your ballot.

You can also drop off their completed mail-in ballot.

>> At any of your local polling places and if you're still unsure where to vote, you can head over to our website and we have all that information.

They're now reporting live from the loop.