Voters are getting a reminder about Primary day coming up next Tuesday.
Two years ago Illinois, like many states moved up the Primary election.
As news 25's Denise Jackson reports elections officials hope voters don't forget about the change in the political calendar.

Early voting ended thursday but the new "no excuse absentee" voting allows people to still walk in and cast ballots before Tuesday's primary.

"Overall including early voting and absentee voting so far we're a little under two percent of all the registered voters in the city so it's still pretty low. We were hoping for over two-percent, " said Peoria Election Commission Assistant Director Elizabeth Gannon.

In Pekin... Tazewell County election officals say early voting has only brought in about half the amount usually seen for primary elections.
Tazewell County Clerk Christie Webb says some voters still have not yet become used to the early primary here in Illinois.

"It has been talked about but there's just not been a lot of activity and I don't know that they've really paid attention, that it is moved up cause a lot of people still think there's gonna be a March primary and there's not."

Twin Cities political analyst Tari Renner agrees.

"Here in Illinois we had spent over a generation voting in our primaries around St. Patrick's Day and now we've got to get use to voting at the coldest time of the year in early February. So that I think, that's going to depress turnout more in this election than it did in the presidential race, " Renner said.

In Bloomington elections officials have only seen about one percent of the registered voters cast ballots.
Election commissioners Executive Director Paul Shannon says he's thinks a change in primary date won't bring much difference in turnout .

"I think races that will be ran will be more important than when the election actually is. We're anticipating between 15-20 percent"

Typically candidates hope that weather does not drastically change which in some cases can discourage voting. Some local election commission offices are open Saturday for folks who missed early voting.