Zapolsky v. Cook County Officers Electoral Board

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• “Nominating petitions should be free from a ‘basis for confusion’ as to the office *** [because a] potential signatory to a nominating petition has the right to know the specific vacancy sought”
• “Nominating petitions should be free from a ‘basis for 7 No. 1-07-0851 confusion’ as to the office *** [because a] potential signatory to a nominating petition has the right to know the specific vacancy sought”
• “[t]he issue is whether the Electoral Board erred in determining that petitioner failed to comply with section 7 — 10 of the Election Code”; “[T]he issue is a question of law”
• although there were two types of commissioner offices to be filled, lasting either two years or six years, the nominating petitions failed to specify which type and were found to be invalid
• although there were two types of commissioner offices to be filled, lasting either two years or six years, the nominating petitions failed to specify which type and were found to be invalid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).