The state of Illinois will hold its election in 2014. The whole year will be filled with activities related to elections. Among the events are; filing for primary elections, voter registration for primary election, primary elections, local ballot measure elections, school board voting, petition driving for ballot papers measures, voter registration for general elections, general elections and statewide measures. Specific dates for all events in the Illinois elections 2014 were given out in advance.
Signature filing as the first thing entails forwarding official signatures for everyone willing to vote. This exercise helps store correct signatures for all voters, and, therefore, retrieving their names on election dates becomes easier. This exercise carried on up to December 2, 2014.
What followed was registration of voters for primary voting. Voters do not need to be registered members of political parties in this state. Instead, they have to publicly proclaim the party for which they will cast ballots. One requires to have been a resident of Illinois for at least 30 days to the voting day before being allowed to cast a ballot. Voter registration stopped in February.
Primary election was held in March 2014. Pat Quinn sought to represent the Democrats for yet another term, and he narrowly defeated Tio Hardiman to clinch the ticket to participate in the general elections in November. Bruce Rauner defeated other three candidates to take the Republican Party ticket. He garnered 40.1 % of the total votes cast. In the senatorial seat, Richard Dublin, incumbent Democrat, won uncontested. Jim Oberweis beat his rival Doug Truax by close to 13 % of all the votes cast to clinch the Republican nomination. A total of 7,505, 002 voters registered for these elections.
The gubernatorial elections will take place on 4 November, 2014. Incumbent Governor Pat Quinn will face Bruce Rauner of the Republican Party. Quinn will be looking forward to a re-election to a second term as governor of Illinois. He assumed office in 2009 after the impeachment of Rod Blagojevich. He has been approved by very few people throughout his last term in office, and many people see him as being vulnerable.
There were claims that Rauner was planning to put $ 50 million into his campaign. He had surpassed the highest amount ever spent in a campaign for that position in Illinois. He also injected his own $ 6 million in the campaign, and collected $ 14 million before the March 18 vote. Bruce has been ranked above Quinn by most opinion polls.
The deadline for local ballot measure election was on March 18, 2014. An advisory measure that sought to ban hydraulic fracturing in Johnson County was defeated. Had it passed, it could have pressurized the county commissioner to pass an ordinance banning the controversial hydraulic fracturing process for the sake of preventing unhealthy and environmental side effects that result from fracturing. 3, 825 people, which is equal to 45% turn out, voted on this question. Close to three fifths of voters said no to the question.
Unconditional early voting is accepted in Illinois. Normally, this process begins when 14 days are left for the real election to take place. Absentee voters are also allowed to participate. One is required to formally apply for absentee voting early enough by mail or personal visits.
Signature filing as the first thing entails forwarding official signatures for everyone willing to vote. This exercise helps store correct signatures for all voters, and, therefore, retrieving their names on election dates becomes easier. This exercise carried on up to December 2, 2014.
What followed was registration of voters for primary voting. Voters do not need to be registered members of political parties in this state. Instead, they have to publicly proclaim the party for which they will cast ballots. One requires to have been a resident of Illinois for at least 30 days to the voting day before being allowed to cast a ballot. Voter registration stopped in February.
Primary election was held in March 2014. Pat Quinn sought to represent the Democrats for yet another term, and he narrowly defeated Tio Hardiman to clinch the ticket to participate in the general elections in November. Bruce Rauner defeated other three candidates to take the Republican Party ticket. He garnered 40.1 % of the total votes cast. In the senatorial seat, Richard Dublin, incumbent Democrat, won uncontested. Jim Oberweis beat his rival Doug Truax by close to 13 % of all the votes cast to clinch the Republican nomination. A total of 7,505, 002 voters registered for these elections.
The gubernatorial elections will take place on 4 November, 2014. Incumbent Governor Pat Quinn will face Bruce Rauner of the Republican Party. Quinn will be looking forward to a re-election to a second term as governor of Illinois. He assumed office in 2009 after the impeachment of Rod Blagojevich. He has been approved by very few people throughout his last term in office, and many people see him as being vulnerable.
There were claims that Rauner was planning to put $ 50 million into his campaign. He had surpassed the highest amount ever spent in a campaign for that position in Illinois. He also injected his own $ 6 million in the campaign, and collected $ 14 million before the March 18 vote. Bruce has been ranked above Quinn by most opinion polls.
The deadline for local ballot measure election was on March 18, 2014. An advisory measure that sought to ban hydraulic fracturing in Johnson County was defeated. Had it passed, it could have pressurized the county commissioner to pass an ordinance banning the controversial hydraulic fracturing process for the sake of preventing unhealthy and environmental side effects that result from fracturing. 3, 825 people, which is equal to 45% turn out, voted on this question. Close to three fifths of voters said no to the question.
Unconditional early voting is accepted in Illinois. Normally, this process begins when 14 days are left for the real election to take place. Absentee voters are also allowed to participate. One is required to formally apply for absentee voting early enough by mail or personal visits.
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