Procedures And Dates For Illinois Elections 2014

By Marci Glover


The state of Illinois will hold its election in 2014. The whole year will be filled with activities related to elections. Among the events are; filing for primary elections, voter registration for primary election, primary elections, local ballot measure elections, school board voting, petition driving for ballot papers measures, voter registration for general elections, general elections and statewide measures. Specific dates for all events in the Illinois elections 2014 were given out in advance.

The first event will be signature filing. This basically entails filing signature to be uses during the election. Individuals must ensure that election officials have their rightful signatures in order for their names to appear on ballot papers. The deadline for filing was December 2, 2013.

The event that followed was registration of voters for nomination of party representatives for various seats. The law in Illinois frees citizens of mandatory registration with political parties, but allows them to declare their allegiance to parties of their choice publicly. To vote in Illinois, individuals need to have resided in that state for over 30 days prior to the voting day. Registration was closed on 18 February 2014.

It was planned that primary elections take place on 18 March. During these elections, the incumbent governor, a Democrat, Pat Quinn battled out with Tio Hardiman, defeating him by a small margin to win the right to face the Republican, Bruce Rauner who defeated three competitors to win in the Republicans elections. In the senatorial race, Richard Dublin was not opposed on the Democrat side. His ultimate rival, Jim Oberweis, on the republican side vanquished Dough Truax. This state had 7,505,002 voters who had registered with the electoral body.

The gubernatorial elections have been scheduled for November 2014. Incumbent Pat Quinn will meet Bruce Rauner in what has been projected as being an easy win for Bruce. Quinn, on the other hand, expects to clinch his second term as governor of the state of Illinois. He came to power in year 2009 after his predecessor was impeached and later thrown out of office. Few people have supported Quinn in the whole of his term in office. Majority of people think he is likely to lose come November.

Rauner, was rumored to be planning to spend $ 50 million on campaign. He has already broken the record set in an Illinois gubernatorial campaign by investing his own $ 6 million into the campaign. He raised a total of $ 14 million before the primary elections. Most polling sources have put Bruce ahead of Quinn in the November elections.

The deadline for local ballot measure election was on March 18, 2014. An advisory measure that sought to ban hydraulic fracturing in Johnson County was defeated. Had it passed, it could have pressurized the county commissioner to pass an ordinance banning the controversial hydraulic fracturing process for the sake of preventing unhealthy and environmental side effects that result from fracturing. 3, 825 people, which is equal to 45% turn out, voted on this question. Close to three fifths of voters said no to the question.

Illinois allows early voting without giving any specific requirements. As usual, early voting begins 14 days before the real election date and ends three days to the election date. This state also allows absentee voting. To do this, one needs to have sent an application between 40 and 5 days before election in case the application is sent through mail. To vote in Illinois, one must be an American citizen who is 18 years and above, and has been residing in the region for at least thirty days before elections. Registration is open throughout the year until 28 days before election. Those who want to register can do so by mail or visit prescribed places.




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