WOODSTOCK, Ill. – The following is a statement from County Clerk and Recorder Joe Tirio on Presidential Executive Order 14399, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections”:

“I, along with my colleagues in the Illinois Association of County Clerks and Recorders, the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, the Illinois State Board of Elections, and the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office, have been closely monitoring the ongoing litigation over President Trump’s executive order requiring the US Postal Service to develop guidelines on the delivery of vote-by-mail ballots.

As the situation currently stands, the County Clerk’s Office is preparing to send out vote-by-mail ballots on Thursday, Sept. 24 as scheduled. However, we have been working with our vendor to position ourselves to comply with the executive order, should that be necessary.”