The chair of the Illinois House Ethics and Elections Committee is defending a hastily approved election year change to election law preventing candidates from being slated for the November election.
The new law effectively ends the slating of candidates for the November election by Democrats or Republicans in races where no candidates for that party ran in the primary.
Before the measure passed, Pritzker said it's more of an ethics bill than an election bill.
State Rep. Maurice West, D-Rockford, is the chair of the House Ethics and Elections Committee.
"They're trying to prevent people from getting on the ballot in the middle of the election. Not for next election. Not for two elections from now. This election." Juvandy Rivera, who is looking to be slated as a Republican to take on Democratic state Rep. Eva-Dina Delgado in the 3rd House District, said he still intends to file petitions.
The Illinois State Board of Elections said last week it intends to take petitions and let the objection process play out.
Candidates looking to be slated for the November ballot who didn't run in the primary have until June 3 to file with the Illinois State Board of Elections.
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