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Political Candidates In Illinois Can Start Collecting Signatures For 2016 Ballot

cookcountyil.gov

Candidates with political ambitions both high and low in Illinois have one thing in common today: They can start collecting signatures to get on the 2016 ballot.

Collecting signatures is the kind of thing that can end a candidacy if they aren’t valid.

Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin hopes to win the Democratic nomination to run against Republican U.S. Senator Mark Kirk. He says a candidate collecting thousands of signatures has to do three things:

“You have a team in place that gets good signatures, verify those signatures and you gotta make sure you have good, wise counsel,” Boykin said.

Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth, State Senator Napoleon Harris, and former Urban League CEO Andrea Zopp are also expected to seek the Democratic nomination.

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