Bill gives county control over elections
Proposed legislation to implement the Illinois Elections Consolidations Law shifts voter registration and election cost control to the county level. Municipal clerks fear loss of local authority, higher costs, and centralized records, while debates focus on cost sharing, arbitration, and district boundary implications.
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Rima Schultz
Cook County
General Assembly
Cook County Clerk's Office
Municipal Clerks Association
Bartley J. Burns
Stanley Kasper Jr
Cook County Board
Uniform elections set in Illinois consolidation plan
Illinois moves toward a uniform election code to standardize laws, consolidate schedules, and streamline registration. The plan, signed by Gov. James Thompson in 1977, reduces seven regional election dates to five every two years, with specific primary and general elections in even years and consolidated and nonpartisan elections in odd years. Oak Park will see trustees elected in April odd years starting 1981, with school and park boards chosen in November nonpartisan ballots. emergency referenda procedures are also outlined.
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Oak Park
Illinois
Rima Schultz
James Thompson
Illinois General Assembly
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