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Reply(1) DuPage Township Clerk Resigns Amid Election-Process Breach DuPage Township Clerk Kulsum Ali resigned her office following the ballot-placement lottery for the April 6 DuPage Township election. The ballot-position selection was held January 27, but only in the presence of the Republican candidates representatives. Illinois statute requires that the position on the ballot of certified party candidates be determined by a random selection method, typically done by lottery. Subscribe The R...

Ward 3 Ald. Doris Turner has officially submitted her letter of resignation to Springfield Mayor Jim Langfelder. Her official date is Feb. 23.

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By Jeremy Coumbes on January 11, 2021 at 8:20pm Tomorrow’s meeting of the Village of South Jacksonville’s Electoral Board was canceled today, following a call from one of the candidates for a new board chair. The Village Electoral Board was set to hear arguments over Village Mayoral Candidate Richard Samples’ objection to the petition for candidacy by Tyson Manker, however after a flurry of activity by both sides, the hearing has been rescheduled to next Wednesday, Januar...

Hearing on South Jacksonville candidate petitions being set Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree, Journal-Courier FacebookTwitterEmail South Jacksonville candidate Richard “Dick” Samples has filed a petition objection against opponent Tyson Manker.Journal-Courier A contested village presidential race for South Jacksonville will be examined Thursday after candidate Richard “Dick” Samples filed a petition objection against opponent Tyson Manker. Samples, a village trustee, filed an objection to Ma...

By Jeremy Coumbes on January 6, 2021 at 1:07pm Current Village Trustee and candidate for Mayor of South Jacksonville, Dick Samples filed an “objection to the nomination petition” of the candidacy of his opponent Tyson Manker with the South Jacksonville electoral board. According to a press release from Manker’s campaign, Samples objection states the “Petition is not stapled or fastened at the top of the petition as instructed”. Manker told WLDS News he received offici...

QUINCY — Alderman John Mast, R-5, once again is challenging a nominating petition from Steve Homan, who filed to run for City Council as an independent candidate after his petition to run as a Republican was thrown out by the Quincy Electoral Board. “The basis of my objection is that I have the desire to see that only qualified candidates run for office and be placed on the ballot,” Mast wrote in his objection. Having already filed to run in the consolidated election this spring ...

UpdatedMon, Feb 22, 2021 at 9:32 pm CT Replies(15) Tom Karones says he will run as a write-in candidate in the April 2021 consolidated election after his nominating petitions were rejected because they did not have enough signatures. (Provided) OAK LAWN, IL — The nominating petitions filed by a candidate on the last day of filing for Oak Lawns mayoral race have been rejected because the candidate did not have enough valid signatures. Long-time Oak Lawn resident Tom Karones, 91, squeaked in u...

Subscribe "Its another example of how screwed up our system is," said Karones, a retired electrical engineer. "Thats a written law, any elected official is indebted to give that [ballot] information to citizens. Were electing the wrong people in office that dont know a damn thing." According to the Illinois Election Code, the required number of signatures on a nominating petition must be equal to 5 percent and no more than 8 percent of the total number of persons who cast ballots in the last re...