Grace Period Registration Under Fire

Your LakeCountyEye doesn't know what Grace Period Registration is, but it must be something. That's because a lot of effort went into suppressing it in Lake County. And then unsuppressing it. According to the News-Sun ...

A decision by Lake County Clerk Willard Helander to move grace period voter registration for the Nov. 6 presidential election from Waukegan to Libertyville was apparently modified Wednesday after a call from the Lake County News-Sun. The NAACP Lake County Branch and local Democratic leaders accused Helander, a Republican, of attempting to suppress the vote by forcing later registrants who live along the county's shoreline to travel to the Lake County Central Permit Facility, 500 W. Winchester Road, in Libertyville.
Clerk changes vote registration travel edict

Given that no one knows where or even what it is, the Lake County Central Permit Facility would seem to be the perfect boneyard for squelching the vote. (Your LakeCountyEye speaks from experience, after a number of unsuccessful expeditions to the vehicle impound there.)

As the case may be, the showdown at the Lake County Central Permit Facility was perhaps a bridge too far. Willard Helander blinked, and Grace Period Registration will continue at the County Clerk's office -- where between now and the election, the County Clerk is bound by statute to register any and all qualified citizens who may happen to wander in from off the street:

Lake County Building
18 N County St
Waukegan
Monday -- Friday
8:30am -- 5:00pm

But every story deserves a happy ending. Your LakeCountyEye has compiled ten much better locations for offloading the County Clerk's Grace Period Registration duties:

Ten Acceptable Places in Lake County for Conducting Grace Period Registrations

At Racine Wisconsin Polling Locations On the Route 53 Extension Tollway Oasis Blarney Island At the Fort Sheridan 19th Hole Bar & Grill In Port Barrington: Come for the Grace Period Registration Stay for the Video Gambling! On the DiMucci Property In the Cuneo Mansion: The Official Residence of the Lake County Clerk At the Land & Lakes Landfill Graceland Cemetery: Where Grace Period Registration is Done Chicago Style In the Lake County Jail

Look for your LakeCountyEye gracing you with your LakeCountyEye's presence.