On January 6, filing closed for the Illinois presidential primaries. The only candidate who filed in the Democratic primary was President Obama. In the Republican primary, six candidates filed the 3,000 signatures needed to be listed on the “beauty contest” presidential choice portion of the ballot. However, not all of the Republicans filed complete slates of candidates for delegate, because delegates require additional petitions of 600 signatures from any particular U.S. House district. Illinois has 18 districts. See this story.
The six presidential candidates who will appear in the Republican primary are: Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Buddy Roemer, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum. Notable by his absence is Jon Huntsman. Santorum only filed delegates for 41 of the 54 slots; Perry only filed one delegate candidate; Roemer only filed three. Gingrich, Paul and Romney filed complete slates. Santorum was the last to file; his petitions came in at 4:22 p.m. on the last day. UPDATE: Santorum filed 46 delegate candidates; thanks to the commenter below for this news.
It is conceivable that some petitions could be challenged, but it is very rare, almost unheard of, for presidential primary candidate petitions to be challenged in Illinois or any other challenge state.
Santorum actually filed 46 delegates. Corrections will be updated on state board of elections web site
Can any Illinios citizen challenge those petitions? Maybe those minor parties could have some fun.
Are ANY of the State ballot access laws the same for Prez candidates for ANY party or ANY independent ???
Are armies of lawyers needed in each State to keep track of the machinations ???
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STOP the MADNESS.
Abolish the arbitrary INSANE Electoral College — a last days machination slammed together by the EVIL small States and slave States at the top secret 1787 Fed. Convention.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V.
I’m surprised that Pres petitions in Illinois are not challenged. There are 150+ challenges for other positions. I thought challenges were standard procedure in Illinois. Interesting.