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Peoria Township electors approve advisory question urging equal signature requirements for independent candidates, 20-1
Summary
At the Peoria Township annual meeting electors voted 20–1 to place a nonbinding advisory question on the March ballot urging Illinois to make signature requirements for independent and new-party candidates equal to those for Republican and Democratic candidates.
Peoria Township electors on Tuesday voted 20 to 1 to place a nonbinding advisory question on the March ballot asking the state to require the same petition-signature thresholds for independent and new-party candidates as for major-party candidates.
The advisory question, submitted by petitioners and presented at the township’s annual meeting, asks whether the state of Illinois should “adopt fair and achievable signature requirements for independent and new party candidates, making them equal to requirements of Republican or Democratic party candidates” so as to improve ballot…
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