On September 22, 2017, the Seventh Circuit struck down the Illinois law requiring newly-qualifying parties to run a full slate of candidates. However, no Illinois legislator has introduced a bill to repeal that law, and the deadline for introducing bills this year has now passed. The State Board of Elections did not ask the legislature to introduce such a bill.
Thus Illinois joins the ranks of other states in which certain election laws have been struck down, but the legislature does not amend the statutes to take the decision into account. Other states with this characteristic at this time are Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, and especially Pennsylvania. When a state behaves this way, innocent would-be candidates and others read the election code to understand the law, but the election code misleads such individuals because it isn’t in sync with actual policy.
ANY regimes still having laws about being Brit colonies or having slavery ???
— keep suing — to bankrupt the morons with their contempt for constitutional rights.
Also — another State with a MORON bill deadline.
Also — in some regimes the law compilers actually note if a State Const or law part has been ruled UN-constitutional.
Various civic groups also take notice.
Richard,
I would be interested in which instances this has happened in Pennsylvania, when certain election laws have been struck down, but the legislature does not amend the statutes to take the decision into account.