Never say your vote doesn’t matter
Tuesday, Apr 16, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Springfield area…
Whew.
* Chicago…
It won’t be official until Thursday, but the latest results in the two closest aldermanic races make it a near certainty Ald. James Cappleman (46th) will be proclaimed the winner over Marianne Lalonde, while challenger Rossana Rodriguez Sanchez will be declared the victor over Ald. Deb Mell (33rd).
Although both races remain extremely close, there aren’t enough votes that remain uncounted to reverse the outcome — unless a large batch of ballots mysteriously arrive in Tuesday’s mail two full weeks after the election, which would set off quite the federal investigation.
After Monday’s count, Cappleman stretched his lead over Lalonde to 30 votes — 7,079 to 7,049 — while Rodriguez Sanchez saw her lead over Mell shrink to 13 votes — 5,753 to 5,740.
* This article is from January because it’s the most recent one I could find on the topic…
A new Champaign County judge has been assigned to sort out the details of a request for a recount in the one-vote Macon County sheriff’s race.
Newly installed Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Karle Koritz has assigned Associate Judge Anna Benjamin to hear the case after the attorney for Democratic Sheriff Tony “Chubby” Brown asked that a judge other than Tom Difanis be assigned to the case.
Litigants are entitled to one judge substitution without cause as a matter of right, assuming that no substantive rulings have been made by the assigned judge.
Republican Jim Root had initially filed suit Dec. 19 in Macon County Circuit Court asking for a judge to review the election results in hopes that he might be declared the winner over Brown.
…Adding… Metro East…
Chris Rothweiler is the apparent winner in the race for Ward 6 alderman in Belleville as he garnered 14 votes by mail. Andrew Gaa received only four votes by mail, according to counts by the St. Clair County Clerk’s office.
That brings Rothweiler’s vote total to 313. Gaa now has 310 votes, according to unofficial totals. After election night, Gaa had a seven-vote lead.
