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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 official notice of the objection on Monday. A Call for a Hearing by the Village of South Jacksonville’s ...

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 as a Republican, Mast argued that the independent filing would be invalid under state law. According...

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 Lawn's mayoral race have been rejected because the candidate did not have enough valid signatures. Long-time Oak Lawn resident Tom Karones, 91, squeaked in under the wire on Dec. 21 when he filed his candidate papers with the Oak Lawn village clerk to get ...

Subscribe "It's another example of how screwed up our system is," said Karones, a retired electrical engineer. "That's a written law, any elected official is indebted to give that [ballot] information to citizens. We're electing the wrong people in office that don't 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 regular election. In 2017, 9,289 votes were cast in the Oak Lawn mayoral election, 5 percent of wh...