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. I keep asking myself, am I still alive or

this couldn't possibly all be true, could it? Marybeth Witzel-Bail. 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 100 hours a week right now.

Yeah.

How do you even work 100 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 request 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, 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 Fridays ago, our backlog was 16,000 emails to process for absentee requests.

So Marybeth had her husband help out at the office.

She got her teenage daughter involved.

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