[EL] Verification of Signatures on Candidate Nominating Petitions

[Adam Bonin]

So we're clear: the way it works in PA is that Objectors file a Petition to
Set Aside within seven days, listing by page and line the objections they
have to various lines. (Voter not registered in the district, not
registered in the party, line information omitted, line signed by someone
other than the voter, illegible, etc.)  You can't add objections to new
lines after the seven-day window, but you can under certain circumstances
amend your objections to specific lines (e.g., a line once thought
illegible, once read clearly, is now open to challenges on a voter's
registration status.)

A hearing is promptly set in court, during which objectors (with the
assistance of local election officials hooked into the online voter
registration database, plus other live witnesses), have to prove their
objections, line by line --though the parties are also required to resolve
as many line disputes in advance as possible, again with use of the state's
online voter registration records. Objectors also need to supply the court
reporter and, though Kevin didn't last week, they *can* pay for a courtroom
sketch artist.  (Really: just once in my career?)  Appeals are fast-tracked
as well.

Is Illinois like that?

--Adam

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 3:16 PM, John Fogarty <fogartyjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Illinois, we enjoy an adversarial system of determining whether
> petition signatures are valid.  In essence, any petition is presumed valid
> unless an objection is filed within 5 days of the last day for filing that
> petition.  That objection, if properly drafted, sets off a legal procedure
> by which signatures are validated, and ultimately litigated.  The process
> kicks off at 10 ILCS 5/10-8.  It is generally a highly adversarial process.
>
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