Five Illinois Voters Challenge Kanye West’s Independent Presidential Petition

On July 24, five Illinois voters filed a challenge to the Kanye West independent presidential petition.


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Five Illinois Voters Challenge Kanye West’s Independent Presidential Petition — 4 Comments

  1. What is the cost of filing such a challenge, and what is the repercussion to the challenger if it is unsuccessful?

  2. Also, why five challengers? Wouldn’t one be sufficient? Is there a payout for a winning challenge?

  3. No payout to a winning challenger as far as I know. I don’t know, but they may have been acting separately. There’s no big cost if any to filing the challenge, but if the challenged party fights it, it’s a race by both sides to prove which signatures are good and which are not, and that can be costly in terms of time and potentially money. But it may not be a big deal if it’s not close. And it probably isn’t, since the best available information is that it was probably 3178 signatures, not 4120, which would require a 79% validity rate to prevail, and that’s unlikely. Even 60% is hardly challenge proof depending on collections places and methods.

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