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Recent News About Illinois State Board of Elections
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Laura Kent Donahue nominated to Illinois State Board of Elections
Laura Kent Donahue was nominated in the Senate to be member of the Illinois State Board of Elections on Friday, May 31, according to the official Illinois General Assembly website.
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From Prairie State Wire
Madigan pours $21.1 million into House races
Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) contributed $21.1 million to 30 state House races this election cycle, including $3,445,351 to 22 fellow Democrats in the week leading up to Tuesday’s general election.
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From Will County Gazette
State Records: Congressional candidate Underwood, living in DC, voted illegally in Illinois' 2016 primary
She was living and working in Washington, D.C., but congressional candidate Lauren Underwood voted in the 2016 Illinois Democrat primary using her parents' Naperville address, according to a review of Will County Clerk's and Illinois State Board of Elections' records.
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From DuPage Policy Journal
Illinois Planned Parenthood spends $600K to oust taxpayer-funded abortion opponents from state legislature
The political arm of Illinois’ largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, has already spent nearly $600,000 this year across 24 competitive state House and Senate races, according to filings with the Illinois State Board of Elections (ISBE).
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From Prairie State Wire
Election board deadlocks on what to do about Mautino
Despite an ongoing federal investigation, the Illinois State Board of Elections is having a difficult time deciding whether or not the state’s auditor general is guilty of corruption.
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From Prairie State Wire
Rauner attempts conservative 'purge' of Illinois GOP leadership
Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner is publicly preaching party unity on the campaign trail. But behind the scenes, Rauner is quietly leading an effort to purge conservatives from the Illinois Republican State Central Committee, which governs the party and has elections this month.
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From Prairie State Wire
Voter rolls: Where do Republicans rely on women most in Illinois?
Republicans depend most on women to show up at the polls in Edwards, Scott and Adams counties in Illinois, according to Illinois State Board of Elections data.
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From Prairie State Wire
Voter rolls: Which counties see the most men vote in Illinois?
Illinois State Board of Elections data shows Schuyler, Pope and Cass counties see the highest rate of men voting in Illinois.
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From Prairie State Wire
Voter rolls: Which counties see the most women vote in Illinois?
Illinois State Board of Elections data shows Massac, Vermillion and Cook counties see the highest rate of women voting in Illinois.
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Elections board will be 'toast' without new computers by 2018 elections, official says
Illinois’ ongoing budget problem has left the State Board of Elections in a financial hole so deep that agency officials claim they can’t afford the new computers they need to handle the number of candidates filing petitions to run in next year’s elections.
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Illinois voter data analysis finds voters registered two, three, even four times
A recent analysis by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which owns this publication, found almost 50,000 duplicate voter registration records, representing Illinois residents who are registered multiple times.