On June 20, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich signed HB 426 into law. It moves the primary (for all office) from March to February. It also moves the deadline for a qualified party to notify the state of its presidential and vice-presidential candidates from late August to September 5. This is to accomodate the Republican Party’s unprecedently late national convention. The party won’t choose its ticket formally until September 3 or September 4, 2008.
Illinois will be the first state in U.S. history in which major parties will nominate their candidates for Congress in February of an election year. No state has ever before held a congressional primary (for regularly-scheduled elections) earlier than March.
I’m SO happy that those in charge bend the rules to accommodate the Republicratic Duopoly while doing everything they can to harm “third party” & Independent candidates whom they call “spoilers”.
Can you feel the sarcasm?
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