Campaign chair shows up at state board of elections without required duplicates of forms to contest candidates’ nominating papers for 15 March primaryDonald Trump’s campaign tried to obtain his rival Republicans kicked off the ballot in Illinois – but the attempt failed when his state chair failed to bring duplicate copies of the required forms.
The Guardian has learned that on Wednesday,the final day for candidates to object to signatures submitted by rival campaigns to obtain on the ballot, chair Kent Gray showed up at the Illinois board of elections a few minutes before it closed. Illinois has some of the toughest ballot access laws in the country, and qualifying for the ballot requires gathering a different number of signatures in each of the state’s 18 congressional districts. Candidates often stumble trying to fulfill the state’s requirements; conservative challenger Rick Santorum faced major obstacles in 2012.
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Source: theguardian.com