Three Republican candidates filed to be on the Illinois Republican presidential primary, but one of them, John Schiess, has been challenged off the ballot. He only submitted ten signatures, and 3,000 were required, so it was easy to challenge his petition. Therefore, the only names on the ballot will be President Donald Trump and Rocky De La Fuente.
The SBOE website does not show the Schiess petitions as being challenged.
There is a challenge of the Bloomberg petition that is listed as active. I don’t know the circumstances.
The State Board itself removed Schiess, because of the rule that the Board automatically disqualifies petitions that have less than 10% of the legal requirement.
Now I’m really wondering what Weld’s game plan is
Me thinks his gameplan was flawed from the start, Brandon.
…deeply flawed.
@BL,
Weld has not been very good at collecting signatures. He must have left his Libertarian supporters feeling burned.
@RW,
Now I see where the SBOE has conducted its draw. In Illinois, candidates who are in line at 8 AM on the first day or 5 PM on the last day draw ballot order by lottery. Other candidates are placed in order of the filing.
Schiess (pronounced like sheesh) won the drawing against Trump. But the press release goes on to note that “sheesh” only presented 10 signatures and “faces a review of compliance with apparent conformity when the State Board of Elections issues its amended ballot certification on Friday, Jan. 17” (sheesh).
“Weld has not been very good at collecting signatures. He must have left his Libertarian supporters feeling burned.”- Jim Riley
Ya think?