July 11 is the Illinois deadline for petitions to place independent candidates, and the nominees of unqualified parties, on the ballot. The only group that has petitioned this year in Illinois for statewide office is the Libertarian Party, which expects to submit approximately 36,700 signatures. The legal requirement is 25,000.
IL- one more RED commie CONTROL gerrymander regime — mostly Chitown area
1 of the 18 state regimes with voter pets for state const amdts
In Cook county, there are actually a number of 2 way elections where Libertarians are the only opposition to the Democrats.
At what pct do even *major* parties stop running candidates for [lower] partisan offices ???
Under 45, 40, 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10, 5 ???
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The petition with the 37,500 signatures which the LP of IL submitted today is only for 5 statewide candidates. Candidates for district offices or county or city/town offices have to be on separate petition pages than the statewide candidates. Did LP of IL submit petitions for district or county or city/town offices.
The Libertarian Party was already ballot-qualified in Cook County, and nominated candidates inside that county by primary, so didn’t need general election petitions in all races in the state.
So the Cook County Libertarian Party ran a county wide candidate in 2020 who got at least 5% of the vote to get them party status for the 2022 election, right?
If the LP of IL turned in 36,700 signatures, this means they will need a minimum validity rate of 68.1% valid in order to survive a challenge. If their validity is good, they could survive it. I wonder if they will get challenged.
Andy – there are seven counties that have ballot-qualified status. Cook County was the only one that slated a bunch of candidates in their own primary, which was held on June 28.
McHenry County, I believe, ran one countywide candidate and has a few county board candidates.
McLean County, which has been established since 2016, is running a single countywide candidate to maintain its ballot access and extend to 2026.
Tazewell and Kankakee counties are the only other county that has anyone running for any county-level office, but it is only for the county board.
Peoria County only ran a slate of precinct committeepersons, and DeWitt County ran nobody.
Those seven counties can file nominations in vacancy via their county central committee chair until July 25.
Andy – RE: Cook County ballot access.
The nearly 7% that Brian Dennehy brought in for the Cook County State’s Attorney race in 2020 ensured four years of ballot access in Cook County until 2024. If one candidate even gets 5% in a countywide race, even if it’s through a statewide candidate, their status will extend to 2026.
When it comes to any Congressional or General Assembly districts exclusively within the county (no overlaps with other counties), they will also be able to slate primary candidates in those races beginning in 2024. The reason why nothing was done about that this year is because LPIL v. Yarborough took too long to decide, as it was supposed to be a secondary suit to file to run candidates for said offices in 2022.
Isn’t there a requirement in Illinois for ballot qualified parties to petition to place all candidates onto a primary ballot?
Andy – Sorry for the delay in response. I had to dig through my email archives related to LPIL v. Scarbrough and everything about the Cook County primary.
The primary aspect does not apply to statewide races at this time. Hence the petitioning for the general election.
However, it applies for countywide and county board/commission races, as well as Congressional and General Assembly districts exclusively within its borders.
During redistricting years, recognized parties had their threshold requirement slashed by one-third. That meant for Democrats, they had to collect 5,885 (instead of 8,827) signatures, Republicans had to collect 2,871 (instead of 4,306) signatures, and Libertarians had to collect 493 signatures (instead of 739) to be on the primary ballot. This threshold also applied to the three district seats on the county Board of Review.
Libertarians only had to collect 29 signatures (instead of 43) to be on the ballot for any of the 17 county commissioner districts.
Libertarians were not ballot-qualified for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District commissioners, as that also would entail requiring recognized party status in nearby Will County. The Green Party remains a recognized party and ballot-qualified in this particular race, in which they had to turn in 1,132 signatures.
Going forward until 2032, should Cook County continue to attain 5% of the vote countywide — whether a countywide candidate or a statewide candidate — their ballot access will continue to extend by two years. That would only require collecting 0.5% of the highest vote total for the Libertarian Party in the county.
Also, for any political races — this includes township committeepersons and Chicago ward committeepersons — they all require the circulation of petitions. The only difference with these two races from the others is that they’re elected at the primary. Libertarians could turn in a maximum of 51 signatures to become a township committeeperson and be able to vote at the county conventions after the primary. (Chicago ward committeepersons won’t be elected again until 2024.)
once you’ve become a recognized party, you only have to collect 0.5% of the highest vote receiver at the countywide level. They had to manually calculate the county board of commissioners. They do have to petition for the primary, but at a much lower threshold than what they had to do in 2020. I think in Cook County, they had to collect
Hmmm – character limits in the comments. That’s interesting…I probably won’t be able to remember what else I had written.
Funny how that happens…