McHenry County clerk's office figures out why results were misreported McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio reaches into a secure blue box for a handful of ballots Thursday inside the voting tabulation room at the McHenry County Administrative Building in Woodstock. Matthew Apgar/Shaw Media
Updated 4/8/2021 6:39 PM The McHenry County clerk's office has determined that the underreporting of votes in certain races across the county Tuesday night was because of changes made to the language on some ballots, which altered the spacing of the document just enough to interfere with machines' ability to read votes correctly. While officials now are certain this was the cause of the issue, County Clerk Joe Tirio said his office decided to conduct a full, countywide recount of votes anyway out of an abundance of caution.