Tag: Election

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Illinois electors cast official votes for Harris, Walz

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By Peter HancockCapitol News Illinoisphancock@capitolnewsillinois.com Illinois officially awarded its 19 electoral votes Tuesday to vice president Kamala Harris and Minnesota governor Tim Walz, the unsuccessful Democratic candidates to be the next president and vice president of the United States. During a ceremony at the Statehouse that lasted only about half...

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Reader’s Voice: Thank you president Joe Biden

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November 25, 2024Dear editor; If you want to win almost any argument or election, listen more than you speak. Find out what the people want and then work together with your fellow legislators (they’re just people too) to make it happen. Listening to people helps you hear how they are...

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Democratic National Committee failed the people

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Kamala Harris did not lose the election of 2024. The Democratic National Committee lost it by not supporting her in manner conducive to a winning candidate. The so-called “party of the people” has been inching rightward since the Harry S Truman Administration. The Democratic presidential candidates were all moderates and...

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Reader’s Commentary: Opinion: Republican voter hindering could backfire

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By Charles Coddington The Chas here. As I have observed in a previous essay, in those so-called “red states,” i.e. where Republicans control the executive and legislative branches of government, the Big Boys have been busy changing the rules of voting in order to put Donald Trump back into the...

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Spooky time of year: Halloween and elections

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Boo! A glorious Happy Halloween to all you, The Voice readers. By the time the next issue of The Voice lands in your mailbox or wherever your issue normally lands, thousands of area children will be coming down from their trick-or-treat sugar high, the Great Pumpkin will have been nibbled...

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Reader’s Voice: Indict candidates trying to buy votes

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October 14, 2024Dear editor; Vice president Kamala Harris, or any candidate seeking elected office, should be charged with violating election laws if they promise directly, or indirectly, in their advertisements that they will forgive loans or enact programs by using our hard-earned tax dollars if elected. Our justice system should...

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Buttons, Banners and Ballots at Aurora Historical Society

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In a nod to election season, “Buttons, Banners and Ballots” is an exhibit featured at the Aurora Historical Society’s Pierce Art and History Center. The public is invited to the show at the center, 20 E. Downer Place in Aurora. Admission and parking are free. The exhibit runs to Nov....

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League of Women Voters host to October 9th Candidate Forum

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The Leagues of Women Voters of the Aurora Area, Elgin Area, and Central Kane County will be co-host to a hybrid candidate forum Wednesday, Oct. 9. The event covers races for US Congress 11, IL State Rep 49, IL State Senate 25, and Judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit 4th...

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Sensitive voter data exposed in several Illinois counties

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By Andrew AdamsCapitol News Illinoisaadams@capitolnewsillinois.com Approximately 4.6 million records associated with Illinoisans in more than a dozen counties, including voting records, registrations and death certificates, were temporarily available on the open internet, according to a security researcher who identified the vulnerability in July. The documents were available through an unsecured...

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Reader’s Voice: Democratic Party up to the challenge

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August 9, 2024Dear editor; This letter is a response to Mighty Joe Way to Go in the July 25 issue of The Voice. In early July, Judy Siedlecki opined in The Voice that certain Democratic Party leaders were wrong in suggesting that Joe Biden withdraw from his 2024 re-election campaign...

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Her call: Put American hero on the ticket

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Following what might be the most selfless act in the history of American politics, there is a space on the Democratic Party ticket in the upcoming election. I have a suggestion for filling it. Saturday we were having lunch with my son, Alex, in Peoria. He asked whether I thought...

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Rules, procedures, apply for political party nominees

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The League of Women Voters of the United States, as a member organization of the National Task Force on Election Crises, released the following statement on the Democratic Party’s replacing its presumptive presidential nominee: “While a major party’s presumptive nominee withdrawing his presidential candidacy is an extraordinary occurrence, rules and...

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State Board to dismiss election complaint

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By Hannah Meisel State elections officials Tuesday, June 18 indicated they were unlikely to step in to clarify what constitutes illegal campaign coordination after voting to dismiss a complaint alleging such coordination in the 2022 campaign for governor. At their monthly meeting in Chicago, Illinois State Board of Elections members...

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Reader’s Voice: Kane seeks election integrity

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September 5, 2023Dear editor; Many question whether election totals reported by Illinois election authorities are always accurate. Errors can occur, and sometimes election contests are decided by only a handful of votes. However, in Illinois, independent audits of computerized election reports prepared by county clerks and election boards are not...

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State Board of Elections certifies November election results

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By Jerry Nowicki The Illinois State Board of Elections certified its election results Monday, Dec. 5 and put the final stamp on another Democratic Party sweep of statewide offices. The Board reported that 4,142,642 out of 8,115,751 registered voters cast ballots in the election, a turnout of roughly 51%. That’s...

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State, Kane, voters: Thank you for voting for truth

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Thank you for voting for the truth! Thank you to the voters of Kane County and all of Illinois for voting for the truth November 8. We all received a barrage of fake newspapers, evil looking mailers, and negative texts that foretold doom and gloom if the Democrats stayed in...

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Bailey concedes to Pritzker

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By Peter Hancock By the time speakers came out to pray, say the Pledge of Allegiance, and play the national anthem at Republican challenger Darren Bailey’s election night watch party in Springfield Tuesday, Nov. 8, the Associated Press had called the Illinois governor’s race for incumbent, Democrat JB Pritzker. Although...

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State pitches final

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By Peter Hancock Democratic Party governor JB Pritzker was crisscrossing the State Monday, Nov. 7 and his Republican Party challenger, State senator Darren Bailey, focused on the Chicago suburbs. They both made their final pitches to voters ahead of the Tuesday, Nov. 8 general election. Pritzker, along with other Democrats...

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