Illlinois Democratic Candidate Fails to Persuade Federal Courts that if a Petition Has Almost Enough Signatures, it Should be Valid Given "Margin of Error" in Validation Process
Posted on Last year, Clinton Krislov was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Illinois Supreme Court Justice. He needed 5,050 signatures and he submitted 9,542, but when his petition was challenged, he was found to be 108 signatures short. He did not bring an action in state court to show that he really had enough valid signatures. Instead, he sued in federal court, alleging that because the petition-checking process is so faulty, that when the number of signatures found to be v...
Source: ballot-access.org