From a reader:

My Dad has been laid up in the hospital/rehab with a broken leg since January 2, thanks to an encounter with black ice. Unfortunately, he won’t be able to bust out and cast a vote(s) in the primary . . . being good Ill-annoyins, can one of your DuPage County gentle readers cast a ballot for whoever’s running against Kirk (Khan, Dr Soran, the Gorn, whoever) and the Polish kid on one of their spares?

I suspect television announcers everywhere would be relieved if Adam Andrzejewski officially changed his name to “the Polish kid.”

Because if life has taught us anything, it’s that you’re just not going to rise very far in politics if you’re a young, skinny Illinois politician with an unusual name.

Meanwhile, from a Chicago reader:

I agree with your earlier correspondent that corruption is a bipartisan sport in Illinois. That’s why I voted today for total outsiders Adam Andrzejewski for governor and Patrick Hughes for senator. (I’ll vote for Kirk in the general, if necessary, versus Alexi Giannoulias, but Kirk’s votes for cap-‘n-trade and against the surge in Iraq made him too big a pill for me to swallow.)
Turnout seems very low. I was voter #60 at 11 am at my polling place – which is actually located in the condo high rise in which I live – so no blaming the weather (which is not that bad, anyway).