(The Center Square) – The state’s law prohibiting candidates who didn’t run in a primary from getting on the general election ballot won’t go into effect this year after the Illinois Supreme Court dismissed the state’s appeal of a lower court ruled it unconstitutional.
Ron Andermann, a Republican running for the statehouse in the Chicago suburbs, said his research indicates the process of slating has been going on for as long as Illinois has been a state.
“It was a matter of giving people choice,” Andermann told The Center Square outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago earlier this week. “So in the middle of the election process, the state legislature in the matter of 48 hours under the guise of a different named bill
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