Illinois Senator Ram Villivalam (D-Chicago) has introduced SB 1830. It sets out a procedure for a party that nominates by primary to replace any nominee, if that nominee is found to be associated with any Communist, Fascist or Nazi Group, or if the nominee has engaged in “hate speech”. A petition can be circulated to trigger the procedure. It needs the same number of signatures that were required for the candidate to have qualified for the primary ballot. Only people who voted in that primary may sign.
If the signatures are collected, then the appropriate political party committee may then vote on whether to replace the nominee.
The Illinois election code still contains another provision, banning any Communist, Nazi or Fascist Party from the ballot. This was was held unconstitutional in federal court in 1942. It was the first ballot access law ever invalidated by a federal court. The state did not appeal, but the law has never been replaced. The same law was also held unconstitutional in 1972. Apparently the plaintiffs, the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party, did not know when they filed their 1972 lawsuit that the law had already been declared unconstitutional in 1942.
Communist = Donkeys ???
Nazi or Fascist = Elephants ???
Gerrymander OLIGARCHS at work — rigging elections some more.
Looks like another attempt by the Democrat Establishment to attack the left-wing of their party. One of many reasons why I joined the Green Party seven years ago.
How about replacing candidates who are members of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Bilderberg Group, The Trilateral Commission, The Order of Skull and Bones, and The Bohemian Club, as well?
@Joshua H.: This bill appears to be directly inspired by the candidacy of Art Jones, a neo-Nazi who has run for Congress several times. In 2018, Jones was the only Republican who filed to run for the House from the Illinois 3rd Congressional District and thus was nominated due to lack of any opponents. Presumably, if this bill had been law at the time, the local Republican committee would have been able to replace him on the general election ballot.