Illinois Democrats' law changing the choosing of legislative candidates faces GOP opposition
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Democrats have changed the way candidates for the General Assembly get on the ballot. Republicans are complaining that they changed the rules mid-game.
The Legislature’s majority party speedily made the change last week by introducing the proposal, shepherding it through votes of approval by the House and Senate and securing the governor’s signature within 30 hours.
The law, which Gov. J.B. Pritzker hailed as an ethics update, eliminates the drafting of legislative candidates by local political parties without putting them through primary elections.
Previously, someone who wasn’t on the primary ballot — this year, March 19 — could still run in November after getting the nod from party leaders and collecting the requisite number of valid petition signatures by the June 3 deadline set by the Illinois State Board of Elections.
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