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Organizing the Data: Countywide O'Brien vacancy
Candidates are listed in the order that they appear on the ballot in the Democratic primary; no Republican filed for this vacancy. This post may be updated before the primary as new information becomes...
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This is the interactive, voter-friendly part of FWIW. What follows is a list of every Cook County judicial vacancy on the June primary ballot. Click on any race. The post you'll land on will show all...
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Organizing the Data: 13th Subcircuit - Groebner vacancy - Republican candidates
This is the only judicial vacancy in Cook County in which both Republican and Democratic candidates filed. In this post, we'll look at the Republican candidates in the order that they appear on the...
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Organizing the Data: 13th Subcircuit - Groebner vacancy - Democratic candidates
This is the only judicial vacancy in Cook County in which both Republican and Democratic candidates filed. In this post, we'll look at the Democratic candidates in the order that they appear on the...
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Organizing the Data: 9th Subcircuit - Jacobius vacancy
Candidates are listed in the order that they appear on the ballot in the Democratic primary; no Republican filed for this vacancy. This post may be updated before the primary as new information becomes...
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Timothy W. Wright, III: In his own words
Timothy W. Wright, III is a candidate for the Shelley vacancy in the 5th Subcircuit. His punch number is 193. I am Timothy W. Wright III, and I am running for judge of the 5th judicial subcircuit...
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Araceli De La Cruz: In her own words
Araceli De La Cruz is a candidate for the countywide O'Brien vacancy. Her punch number is 182. Hello readers, thank you for your engagement and interest in my candidacy.After a unanimous recommendation...
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Cook County judicial endorsements from Scott Waguespack
Thirty-second Ward Ald. and Committeeperson Scott Waguespack has released an email detailing his endorsements (including his endorsements in Cook County judicial races) for next Tuesday's Mel Brooks...
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AMVOTE PAC offers endorsements in 2022 Cook County judicial races
The American Middle East Voters Alliance Political Action Committee (AMVOTE PAC) has issued endorsements in several Cook County judicial races.As is often the case with groups announcing primary...
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Time to start looking for palm cards. I'll start.
The last weekend of early voting is almost here and "In-Person Voting Day" (as I've seen it called elsewhere on the Intertubes) is Tuesday, June 28, on Mel Brooks' 96th birthday.So it's time to find...
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Another batch of Alliance grids -- there are still some blanks
This batch came out last evening.I'll be updating the individual Organizing the Data posts with this new information. But there are still blanks to be filled in.As always, click on any image to enlarge...
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Diana López: In her own words
Diana López is a candidate for the countywide Gordon Cannon vacancy. Her punch number is 167. I am Judge Diana López and I am one of the ten Democratic slated candidates for Circuit Court Judge...
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Serious questions raised in memo published by Injustice Watch about Cook...
About Judge Gudino, certainly. But about much more than Judge Gudino as well.Let us assume -- indeed, let us stipulate -- that the facts as reported yesterday in the Injustice Watch story by Carlos...
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All over but the shouting now
As they used to say in the 60s, if you don't vote, you can't complain. I bought my ticket.And I'm sure you did as well.A great many of our friends and neighbors did not. As of 3:00 p.m., according to...
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Judges Debra B. Walker and Raymond W. Mitchell seem comfortably ahead in surprisingly complete returns reported by City and County election officials thus far.Mitchell has 74,509 votes with 94% of...
View ArticleDonnelly, De La Cruz, and Gudino all leading in their countywide races
In both City and suburban returns.Michael Weaver is also leading in his three-way race.So... preliminarily... party slating accounts seems to have carried eight of ten slated candidates to...
View ArticleBarrett apparent winner in 15th, Martinez in the 14th
Bernadette Barrett has coasted to victory in her bid for a 15th Subcircuit vacancy. I hope I've learned my lesson about VBM so I won't try to 'call' races unless it looks really clear. This one looks...
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Most sitting judges doing well in subcircuit races, but not all
Associate Judge Kerrie Maloney Laytin leads by a wide margin in the race for the Vega vacancy in the 6th Subcircuit. Judge Sanjay Tailor is likewise comfortably ahead in both City and suburban returns...
View ArticleKantas, Raines-Welch ahead in 4th Subcircuit races
It turns out that the endorsement of the Mayor of Riverside was not decisive in the race for the Rogers vacancy. Shawnte Raines-Welch, the wife of the Speaker of the Illinois House, did not have that...
View ArticleMarcia O'Brien Conway looks like a winner in 7th Subcircuit race
The margin is over 3,000 votes in the suburban returns. But there are more City than suburban precincts in the 7th and her margin is only about 400 votes in the City returns. But 87.17 of the City...
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