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In 2021, Governor J. B. Pritzker signed a law designed to make voting more accessible in various ways. The bill made the November election day a state holiday. It also made permanent number of changes that had been implemented for the preceding 2020 elections amid the COVID-19 pandemic, including "curbside voting" and universal access to postal ...
The Illinois State Board of Elections ruled on Tuesday to keep the Democratic and Republican presidential frontrunners on the primary ballot. In a joint meeting held in Chicago and Springfield ...
A comprehensive election bill that gained final approval by the Democratic-led Illinois legislature on Thursday would give Democrats a significant advantage toward keeping their legislative ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday quietly signed a controversial condominium bill into law that unit owners are already threatening to sue over if lawmakers don’t fix certain provisions next ...
In late 2022, some Republican leaders of the Legislature, signaled that they might change the law so governor Ron DeSantis could run in the 2024 United States presidential election. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] On April 28, 2023, the Republican-led legislature passed a change to the law that provided an exception to the resign-to-run law for any Florida ...
The state has voted for the Democratic candidate in every presidential election beginning in 1992 (doing so by at least 10% each time), including voting for Senator Barack Obama from Illinois in 2008 and 2012 and Chicago-born Hillary Clinton in 2016. This was the first election since 1868 in which Illinois did not have 20 or more electoral votes.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Six months after a record-breaking 11.1 million Floridians voted in a well-run, widely praised election, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation Thursday that will make it ...
board meeting, circa 1981. The State Board of Elections administers the election laws of the State of Illinois. In this capacity, it oversees the local election commissions, accepts nominating petitions and certificates of nomination, certifies the names of valid candidates for election, accepts and cross-checks the vote totals reported after Election Day, and accepts financial disclosures ...