Voting Tuesday validates the hard work of those who make it easy to do so

Robo telephone calls. Volunteers interrupting your dinner. Pleas for money showing up in your emails. Quinn vs. Rauner. Enyart vs. Bost. Bryant vs. Kilquist. Kellerman vs. Bareis. Taylor vs. Craft. Single sheet campaign flyers falling from your mailbox. Endless yard signs.

Make it go away!

It will, starting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday--when the polls close. It will be a long day for election judges, who will begin unlocking polling place doors at 5:15 a.m. It will be a long day for County Clerk Josh Gross and elections director Tory Woods. Keep all of them in your prayers and support what they do by voting. Voters are beaten up and it gets worse every election, but through it all you have the right to vote and you need to vote.

All of the elections Tuesday are important to us in our state. All of the elections next April are important to us as a community.

Hundreds of people in public service devote thousands of hours to guarantee that your right to vote is protected, so that you aren't disenfranchised from the freedom we are given.

If you don't vote, don't complain.