Daily Newspaper for Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Says 5% Petition Requirement is Unfair

On August 9, the daily newspaper for Champaign and Urbana, Illinois, the News-Gazette, editorialized that the Illinois law requiring independent candidates for U.S. House to submit a petition of 5% of the last vote cast is not fair. See the editorial here. The only states that require more than 10,000 signatures for an independent candidate for U.S. House are Illinois, Georgia, and North Carolina.


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