On March 16th, early voting started for the special congressional election in Illinois’ fifth district. Election day is on April 7th. There is a heavily favored Democrat, a Republican, and a Green candidate in the race. The Green candidate, Matt Reichel, beat four other Greens in a primary on March 3rd. Turnout for the primary was a bit above 17 percent. Early voting turnout was extremely low in the primary, with only 4,400 voters showing up to vote in any party’s primary.