Vote-by-mail frustration

After receiving a notice to request to vote by mail, I promptly mailed it in to Karen Yarbrough's office. Less than a month later, I received a letter from Jesse White's office stating that I had not yet requested to vote by mail but there was still time. All I had to do was call the number at the top of the page. As I am writing this, I have been on hold listening to the silence for 42 minutes. I'm not an idiot, I have not been sitting here staring at the phone, but I am contemplative. How is it possible to screw up something so simple so badly? It doesn't matter to me who anyone votes for other than me. It is frustrating to know that this has happened at taxpayer expense, and I'm concerned that I may not be allowed to vote at all.

I asked around to people I know and the first four I asked said the same thing happened to them. There is no comfort in knowing that I am part of the crowd. Forty-nine minutes and hanging up on Yarbrough's "office."

Brian DeValk

Palatine