It's Tuesday, April 7th, 2020.

And if you live in Wisconsin, at least at the time we recorded this, today it's election

day.

Despite the global pandemic, that's keeping most of us at home.

Right, it's been like trying to do the impossible.

It's been like living a nightmare and keep asking myself, am I still alive?

Or this could possibly all be true, could it?

Mary Beth Whittesle-Bale, she's one of the people trying to carry out this election.

She's the city clerk in Madison.

I know that you told someone that you're working like a hundred hours a week right now.

Yeah.

How do you even work a hundred hours a week?

You become very, very grumpy.

Mary Beth has been pulling these hours because of what started happening as the election

got closer and people in our town realized they were going to have to find a way to vote.

It's because we were receiving so many absentee requests that it was beyond any of our capacity to process right away.

By law, we're supposed to have the absentee in the mail within 48 hours of receiving the request.

So it's like a race.

Like you get a request and you've got two days to get that sucker in the mail.

Yes, we do.

But a couple of Fridays ago, our backlog was 16,000 emails to process for absentee requests.

So Mary Beth had her husband help out at the office.

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