You may remember that our kitten chewed up my original absentee ballot.
So, I asked for another one and ir was mailed.
After two weeks, I started to get worried.
I called McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio and he told me that a batch of absentee ballots sent ouit the day mine was had been returned as “undeliverable.”
Two didn’t come back and one was mine.
The choice was whether to have third ballot sent or hope that the Postal System might deliver the second one.
About a week before the election, I got increasingly concerned that the second regularlly mailed ballot would not end up in my mailbox.
(Guess I was right, because it’s election day and I haven’t gotten it.)
I called Tirio again, telling him i had voted in every election since I turned 21 and didn’t want to break that streak. (That was the 1964 ballot called the “bedsheet ballot” because it was so large–large because it contained the names of 268 candidate seeking 177 State Representative seats, caused by a failure to enact a reapportion map.)
I asked if he would send it Express Mail, if I paid the cost.
He said he would.
I mailed a $33.25 check to his office.
Last Friday my third ballot arrived in the big envelope above.
Saturday, I filled in the ovals of my choices and took it to the local Post Office.
An extremely helpful clerk told me what I had to fill out, so I did, and paid my $33.25 to Express Mail my ballot back to Woodstock.
I was told it would arrive today or tomorrow.
Because Illinois law (being challenged by Congressman Mjke Bost) allows ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted, I figure I’m alright.
