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1 Ballot Petition Signature Requirements in Illinois during a Pandemic 1 (2021)

handle is hein.congcourts/fjcbpet0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CASE STUDIES IN EMERGENCY ELECTION LITIGATION Ballot Petition Signature Requirements in Illinois During a Pandemic Libertarian Party of Illinois v. Pritzker (1:20-cv-2112) and Morgan v. White (1:20-cv-2189) (Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, N.D. Ill.) and Bambenek v. White (Sue E. Myerscough, C.D. Ill. 3:20-cv-3107) Lawsuits filed in two of Illinois's districts sought modifications to ballot petition signature requirements in light of social distancing made necessary by the global COVID-19 infectious pandemic. An agreed order modified the requirements for candidates. The district judge gave election officials part of the adjustments from the agreed order that they requested, and the court of appeals declined to stay the district judge's decision. District judges in both districts denied relief from the signature requirements for ballot measures. Subject: Getting on the ballot. Topics: Getting on the ballot; ballot measure; COVID-19; case assignment; interlocutory appeal; laches; intervention. Election officials in Illinois agreed to an injunction modifying the ballot peti- tion signature requirements for candidates in the November 3, 2020, general election in light of social distancing made necessary by the global COVID-19 infectious pandemic. District judges in two of Illinois's districts declined to modify the requirements for ballot measures. Ballot Petition Signatures for Candidates Minor parties, prospective independent candidates, and others affiliated with them filed a federal complaint in the Northern District of Illinois on April 2, 2020, against the governor and state election officials seeking modifications to in-person and witnessing ballot petition signature requirements for the November 3 general election in light of social distancing made necessary by COVID-19.1 On the next day, the plaintiffs filed a motion for a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction.2 The court assigned the case to Charles R. Norgle, Sr., but on April 10, Judge Robert M. Dow, Jr., acted as emergency judge and set the case for a telephonic hearing at 9:30 a.m. on April 17.' The court had accommodated the pandemic by assigning a few judges rotating duty days for emergency proceedings.4 The emergency judge as- 1. Complaint, Libertarian Party of Ill. v. Pritzker, No. 1:20-cv-2112 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 2, 2020), D.E. 1; Libertarian Party of Ill. v. Pritzker, 455 F. Supp. 3d 738, 740 (N.D. Ill. 2020); see Amended Complaint, Libertarian Party of Ill., No. 1:20-cv-2112 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 16, 2020), D.E. 17. 2. Motion, Libertarian Party of Ill., No. 1:20-cv-2112 (N.D. Ill. Apr. 3, 2020), D.E. 2. 3. Minutes, id. (Apr. 10, 2020), D.E. 5. 4. Interview with Hon. Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, Oct. 7, 2020. Federal Judicial Center 2/11/2021 I

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