Illinois State Board of Elections

There are thousands of...

Thousands upon thousands of filings, both within the State Board of Elections as well as the FEC.

And I think one of the things that's unique about this report that we haven't seen other folks do in the city yet is... get a clear understanding of who are the biggest donors, which we define as who are the folks that are spending more than $50,000 on a given candidate? Who are the biggest donors into the mayoral race so far? And Of those folks, what are the other things that they contribute a material amount to? And we define that as if you spend $25,000 to another body, then that's a material amount.

So we'll get into this a little bit as we go down this, but what we were really trying to uncover is who has the big money? And separate from who has the big money, where else does that big money go? So we can start understanding, you know, we as IPG are not saying that because they fund these other things, they will push these things with the mayoral administration.

A federal judge blocked that rule, and the Supreme Court upheld that decision.

Uh, the State Board of Elections also recently said not to believe any claims of widespread voter fraud or that election systems can be easily hacked or tampered with.

Uh, there have also been fears that ICE or other federal immigration agents might show up at polling places to, uh, perhaps intimidate or even detain voters.

Uh, Chicago Board of Elections Chair Maricel Hernandez says officials are prepared to respond if that happens, and that there are laws to prevent anyone from intimidating voters or interfering with their right to cast a ballot.

Mm-hmm.

Matt Dietrich, spokesperson for the Illinois State Board of Elections, which has an office in Springfield because this is the state capitol.

Mm-hmm.

And the moderator was University of Illinois Springfield political science professor emeritus Kent Redfield.

We're going to switch to the other like similar standing issue the court dealt with this term.

Seven months earlier, the same court decided boost the Illinois State Board of Elections.

Here, Illinois counts mail ballots that are postmarked by Election Day or that arrive up to two weeks later.

Congressman Mike Bosch, who had represented southern Illinois since 2015, sued, arguing that federal law said in Election Day forbids counting ballots that arrived afterwards.

And with early in-person and mail-in voting now underway in Illinois, state and local election officials insist the state's voting system is being run fairly and accurately.

Sangamon County Clerk Don Gray, Illinois State Board of Elections spokesman Matt Dietrich, told the Citizens Club of Springfield on Friday not to buy into false reports that the system is vulnerable to widespread fraud or that voter rolls could somehow be hacked or manipulated.

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I'm looking forward to implementing that when I become sheriff.

With early in-person and mail-in voting now underway in Illinois, state and local election officials insisted Friday the state's voting system is being run fairly and accurately.

Sangamon County Clerk Don Gray and Illinois State Board of Elections Spokesman Matt Dietrich told the Citizens Club of Illinois not to buy into false reports that the system is vulnerable to widespread fraud or that voter rolls can be hacked or manipulated.

A Springfield teenager has been convicted of first-degree murder for a fatal shooting in 2024.

And the two wings are the same bird.

When you're running as an independent, the Democrats put the law in place on the Illinois Board of Elections that says that I have to have 25,000 signatures.

25,000.

If I want to, in a democracy, equality, why are they telling us we should give equal rights to non-citizens? The citizens don't even have equal rights for ballot access when our ancestors died for the vote.

But

how do they verify this? They

control the Illinois Board of Elections.

That's ran by Democrats and Republicans.

one.

So then you're arguing that the State Board of Elections would have to be complicit with the printer, I think it's Taylor Printing out of Minnesota, that they would have to be complicit in both knowing that they had agreed to print additional ballots more than were needed.

I can't believe that this was a big mistake.

Yeah, well, look, the primary, the half a million or whatever, was 500,000 replacement ballots.

you'll be asked to vote on referendum, wouldn't it be a good law to prohibit referendums from being put before the voters without their full text and context? You would think, right? No, no, actually.

In Virginia, you're allowed to write the ballot language as you see fit and supervised by some elected officials or the majority party and the majority in the State Board of Elections.

So they wrote up a fairy tale about abortion, about gay marriage, wrote some fiction and got it approved by the three-person Board of Elections, two Democrats and a Republican.

It is actually a Republican this