Illinois primary is too early
October 27th, 2009 at 08:42am Wally Haas
That’s the opinion of the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette. HERE’S an editorial about it.
One fact mentioned, that I hadn’t calculated yet, is that absentee voting will start right after Christmas. That seems insane. With the holiday season about to begin, I can’t imagine too many people will be excited about the primary.
I thought the March primary was pretty good. It was far enough away from the holidays so they weren’t a distraction. Also, not much goes on in February and March so folks can concentrate more on elections.
Locally, lots of people filed to run. Read the story HERE.
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1. Curtis Newport | October 27th, 2009 at 10:53 am
The article correctly points out who is responsible for our ridiculous primary schedule. Heaven knows what it will take to change it back.
The extra-long election cycle seems most insane for those elected to 2-year terms (Congress, State Reps and various unexpired terms). These people running for re-election needed to begin the petition signature process only eight months after being sworn in for their current term.
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