The chair of the Illinois House Ethics and Elections Committee is defending a hastily approved Election year change to election law preventing candidates from being slated for the November Election.
Democratic State Representative Maurices West said there was nothing untoward about how the measure passed by gutting and replacing a bill about child welfare. He said the rules allow for that. To the substance of the bill, he said it was needed.
Before the measure passed the Senate, Republican State Senator Jason Plummer said it is offensive, absurd and an affront to democracy.
The measure also included three non-binding referenda for the November ballot, effectively blocking any other ballot questions from being proposed, pending any possible objections.
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