On February 23, the Illinois House Elections & Campaign Finance Reform Committee passed HB 4964, to move the primary from February to March. Also, on February 24, the Illinois Senate passed SB 3155, an identical bill. It is somewhat likely that the House bill will receive a vote in the House on February 25.
The February 2010 Illinois primary was the earliest primary ever held in any state, for Congress, in a mid-term year. The February date was very unpopular with the public, and with election administrators. Turnout was poor.
There are other bills pending in the legislature to move the primary to June, but those bills will now almost certainly be forgotten.
What century before the party hacks in the gerrymander Congress have uniform national primary dates (and even runoff primary dates) for federal offices ???
The weather in IL in March is perhaps even worse than in Feb.
P.R. and A.V. — NO primaries are needed.