Election commission gets low grade

If I had to grade the DuPage County Election Commission on its handling of polling places in the recent election, I would give it at best a low C. I received a postal card with the location of my polling place in the mail. If memory serves me well, at one time this card told me the political district for each potentially electable office. If a state senator was electable, I would be told the identity of the senatorial district in which I resided. Not so this notification. In this computer age, such oversight is inexcusable.

If I were inclined to accept the recommendations of the Daily Herald identifying candidates by district (or to use any other level of scrutiny in making my choice), I would have no clear path to knowing which of several choices was available to me. Then, at the polling place, I was asked if I wanted to vote either by paper ballot or electronically. I was not asked if I wanted to vote "by paper ballot" (in one of our twelve currently empty booths) or electronically (on the only one currently available electronic machine that has two people standing in line). Some pre-instruction could have simplified this process.

John Elkmann

Winfield