[EL] Verification of Signatures on Candidate Nominating Petitions

Tue Apr 5 13:06:31 PDT 2016

No, Illinois is not like that.  Courts don't sit there any sweat whether a particular signature is valid.  Employees of the Board of Elections do that, in the presence of advocates for both sides.
 Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147

      From: Adam Bonin <adam at boninlaw.com>
 To: John Fogarty <fogartyjr at gmail.com> 
Cc: Election Law <law-election at department-lists.uci.edu>
 Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 12:47 PM
 Subject: [EL] Verification of Signatures on Candidate Nominating Petitions

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. 
On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 2:00 PM, <law-election-request at department-lists.uci.edu> wrote:

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From: Greenberg, Kevin
Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 9:16 AM
To: 'Richard Winger' ; mailto:law-election at uci.edu
Subject: Re: [EL] Verification of Signatures on Candidate Nominating Petitions

Thanks.  You don?t happen to know if Judge Stengel?s 2015 opinion is being published, do you?

Kevin Greenberg
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