Appellate Court Upholds Dismissal of Candidate's Challenge to Removal From Ballot
In Williams v. Municipal Officers Electoral Board for the Village of Hazel Crest, an Illinois Appellate Court considered an appeal of a circuit court's dismissal of an appeal of an electoral board's removal of a candidate for the office of village trustee from the ballot. The circuit court had dismissed the case because the candidate failed to comply with the Election Code's requirement that each individual member of the electoral board be served when a lawsuit is filed to challenge an electoral board's decision. Here, the candidate had served the electoral board (as an entity) but did not individually serve each of the members of that board. The Appellate Court interpreted the Election Code's use of the term "each" to mean that each individual member of the board must be served, and that collective service on the board was not sufficient to meet the statutory requirement. As a result of the candidate's failure to meet the statutory service requirements, the circuit court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case and the dismissal was proper.
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