Former Republican Party Chairman Calls for Voting by Mail

From Diane Evertsen, retired Chairman of the McHenry County Republican Party:

A Great GUIDE to clarify much about this important election. Don’t get it wrong. Please read and note just what you needed to know to make your vote count. Share it.

From the Desk of Diane

There’s been a lot of misinformation and concern about the upcoming November, 2020, election.

Some have been heard complaining about the County Clerk making the decision to have vote-by-mail ballots sent to McHenry County voters. Be advised, this was not the decision of the County Clerk. 

This vote-by-mail initiative was brought to us by the Democrat majority in Springfield and is, oddly, for this election only. (Go ahead; ask why.)

I’ve included the information from our McHenry County Clerk’s website so you can read as much as you care to about the new process. (See below)

I’ve also attached the General Election calendar, which is a product of the Clerk’s Office, so you can see the timeline for this election. 

Please note specifically that the Clerk’s Office in McHenry County will begin to mail ballots to voters on SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I would assume Kane County will be running a relatively close schedule.

Before you dig in your heels and set your hair on fire, let me explain why I believe you absolutely should apply for and accept delivery of a vote-by-mail ballot. 

Many of us believe that Election Day is Election Day; we enjoy showing up at our precinct on election day and casting our ballot in person, receiving the “I Voted” sticker from an election judge.

We’re proud to support our candidates and do our civic duty.

For this election day, under cover of Corona Virus, the State Legislature has made a decision that every voter in the State who voted in elections in 2017, 2018, 2019 and the 2020 Primary should be mailed an Application for a Vote-by-Mail ballot (curiously, this does not include the 2016 Presidential election during which Trump supporters came out in large numbers). 

Please note that our McHenry County Clerk has opted to mail application forms to all registered voters.

The process requires that you fill out the Application Form and then mail it, email it, or hand carry it back to the Clerk’s Office

No Vote-by-Mail Ballot will be sent without receipt of a completed Application Form. 

Anyone who has not received an Application Form can go to the County Clerk’s website and get one online.  Website is here:

https://www.mchenrycountyil.gov/county-government/departments-a-i/county-clerk

On September 24th, the Clerk’s Office will begin mailing out Official Ballots to those who have returned completed Application Forms. 

Stay with me on this now! 

I can see the smoke coming from your ears and I know exactly how you feel.

So, for those who say “#*%* it!, I’ll throw the lousy ballot in the garbage!” 

I ask you to have just a little patience – – I’m on your side and I want you to vote NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS!

Please let me explain. 

You fill out the Application Form and return it to the Clerk’s Office. 

The Clerk mails to you an Official Ballot.

You use one of your many magnets and post that Ballot on your refrigerator. 

If all goes well and you’re able to vote in-person at your regular polling place, you take your magneted ballot off your refrigerator, take it with you to the polling place and relinquish it to one of the election judges

Tell them you want to vote in person and they will take your ‘Vote-by-Mail’ ballot from you and you go into the voting booth and cast your ballot as you usually do. 

If for some reason (Covid Death Numbers are UP!!) the Polling places are closed, you still have the option of using that Official Ballot that’s magneted to your refrigerator. 

Fill it out and then mail it in – or put it in the drop box at the Clerk’s Office. 

The point is, if you have the vote-by-mail ballot you’ll be able to use it if you need to.

If you have additional questions, please feel free to let me know.


Comments

Former Republican Party Chairman Calls for Voting by Mail — 30 Comments

  1. Disregard Evertsen’s fear mongering,
    the polling places will not be closed.

    Can you imagine the hellraising uproar if it were even tried ?

    Vote early if you prefer, but vote in person.

    Don’t give the DEMOCRATS the slightest opportunity to steal your vote.

  2. I would agree with Abe, the polls had better be open no matter what.

    If there is any sort of problem with the polls it will taint the whole election and closing them should not be an option that is considered period.

    If grocery stores can be open so can polling places.

    That being said if you want to vote early go ahead.

    Bringing it in person is your best bet. Your vote is too important to trust to USPS anyway, no matter how much money they throw at it.

    If you want to have a say you can make it to the the clerks office some time during the next two months or vote in person on election day.

    That isn’t asking too much is it?

  3. Also, what are our local Republicans doing to ensure we have enough election judges for November?

    We should be trying to recruit more than usual so that we can make sure there are enough to have no issues.

  4. Tirio is no longer a conservative.

    He bought into the Democrats’ cheat by mail program.

    How bright is that?

  5. Who the hell is Evertsen to tell anybody what to do or think?

  6. Diane just gave us a good idea on how to get our ballots incase we would not be able to get to the polling place.

    We have no idea what the virus situation might be in November .

    some of us are old and at a higher risk so it’s a good idea to plan ahead.

    People have been voting absentee by mail for years I actually voted from overseas back in the 1960’s when I was in the military.

  7. That’s why you are not there any more Diane, I got a notice in the mail a few weeks ago stating that if I filled out this form and mailed it back they would send me a vote by mail ballot.

    I put that card in the drawer and never filled it out.

    Guess what I just got in the mail, “thank you for applying for your mail-in vote ballot” and this is my official mail-in ballot here is that ballot I never requested.

    You all are crooks and this election is trying to be harvested and rigged for the Democrats, the (R) in McHenry County are dumb lazy people who are drinking the kool-aid, again.

  8. Diane Evertsen is someone who cares about voting and health. 😊👍

  9. Evertsen has it wrong, as 2017 voter participation does not trigger an application, but as Evertsen also pointed out, Tirio sent applications to all registered voters in McHenry County so the error is moot.

    I don’t like the possible gaming of leaving your ballot attached to the fridge with a magnet.

    Polling places will not be closed.

    If Governor Pritzker couldn’t cancel/postpone the March primary, sure as heck won’t close polling places for the General.

    I’m going to do in-person early voting as I always do.

  10. As pointed out, this WAS at the behest of the Illinois legislature.

    And Tirio DID make sure the 2016’ers WERE included. That’s the only edge that could be blunted off that sucker.

    Agreed that if you can go to the store….

    If you can go out and protest and loot….

    On the other hand, I don’t think that Pritzker, no matter how large, could have stepped out of the station and onto the tracks In front of the juggernaut Primary Express.

    It was moving too fast and too close to to halt.

    On the other, other,…… they DO have more than enough time to screw this up in advance this time.

    I vote in person, day of.

    However, my application IS up on my fridge.

    An insurance policy maybe?

    ✌️😁

  11. What an idiot.

    Politicians wonder why they are despised.

    What a joke.

  12. ** Guess what I just got in the mail, “thank you for applying for your mail-in vote ballot” and this is my official mail-in ballot here is that ballot I never requested.**

    No you didn’t.

    No mail ballots have been sent yet.

  13. Dianne Evertsen was unable to find a backbone and publicly identify the real problems affecting Illinois.

    Therefore, she was part of the problem.

    Why is Cal giving her space?

  14. Diane’s idea is a good one.

    Always keep your options open and be darn sure that you can vote whatever games Mr. P may decide to play to get his own way.

    Well said Diane, and thank you.

  15. Evertsen is a loon and a lunatic.

    Every study shows that vote by mail is fraught with fraud. Yeah, like I trust the unionized USPO to honestly handle mail.

    Republicans are always hurt by these schemes to let everybody vote early, vote by mail, vote if you’re 16, vote without IDs, vote if your illegal alien, vote if you’ve already voted, vote ‘by proxy’ if your an adjudicated Alzheimer’s patient and your black care giver votes for you”

    I’m sick of idiots like Evertson advocating my dispossession.

    I thought Tirio was one of the good ones.

    Idiots, dupes and weak minded pawns!
    Underwood wants reparations now!

    Geeesh!

    remove
    link
    REPARATIONS = when virtue signlaing tax fattened parasites steal money from working Americans, to give it to hoodrats who have NEVER worked a day in their lives, because their great great grand pappy was a slave.

    NO. No, I don’t think so

    Lock and load!

  16. I’ll defend Tirio, at least for sending the applications.

    He was REQUIRED to do so by the GA.

    I’m actually glad that he extended it to all registered voters.

    The GA had excluded voters who haven’t voted since the 2016 election, the most recent presidential election.

    Tirio sent these people applications too, it was probably the fairest thing he could have done in this situation.

  17. This is the lunacy of the people that don’t know what really goes on.

    Mellow has no clue of why Tirio sent the mail in ballots!

    Hey Neal why don’t you call the GOP and find out how you can help get election judges!

    Do you know how many the GOP has put forward or are you just spouting off because of how you feel and don’t have any facts!

    And if election judges don’t show up to work Tirio won’t know until 6am when the first voter shows up.

    All you Republicans that don’t trust Democrats, why would you trust that they would be at polling places?

    If 10% or more of the polling places are closed down it will create a lot of problems.

    Will the avg voter try and find their polling place or just say screw it I’m going home?

    There are many voters that don’t pay attention to the political white noise and they will not be as motivated to make sure they vote!

  18. The NW Herald has ads saying Tirio is looking for election judges.

    It’s not a secret.

  19. Yeah and then someone steals it from your MB and uses it and you go in person to Vote and they look at you like some kind of a criminal cause you already voted and then they tell you to LEAVE like a thief you are not … sure no potential fraud here…. i call BS!

  20. Shame on Pritzker, Tirio & Evertsen.

    Where is Tirio “REQUIRED” to mail these applications willy billy?

    How much did that cost?

  21. It was mandated by a state law passed by Democrats, except for those who voted in 2016, which Tirio did on his own initiative.

  22. How and when are voting rolls updated? How soon, if ever, are rolls updated after a person dies?

    When people move to another city or state, how soon are rolls updated?

    Who is responsible for updating rolls and how do they know that someone died or someone moved out of the area?

    The safest method to vote in the US is to appear in person at the polling place, provide your picture ID and registration card, sign a register in front of a judge, receive a ballot, mark up the ballot on premise, then put the ballot in a sealed and secure ballot box.

    There are so many possibilities of fraud and incompetence when voting is done by mail. The system is not good.

  23. Just for the record, I mailed an application in to be an election judge.

    I don’t expect others to do things I won’t do myself.

    If there is anything I can do to help recruit others someone let me know.

    I don’t have money to give but do have time available.

  24. So Tirio expanded the mailing list, Cal, when he didn’t have to.

    What a dunce.

    Just another Judas Goat.

  25. But if you never receive the ballot, then you are stuck showing up on election day and casting a provisional vote.

    I’m going to early vote.

  26. After the ballot is placed in a safe, secure locked box, what happens next? 🤔

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