If he got 24 votes and no one else got any why wouldn’t he be declared the winner?
Even so, NOW they check signatures?
Under Illinois law, unopposed write-in candidates must receive the same number of votes as would equal the number of valid petition signatures needed for ballot access. Otherwise, the write-in candidates are not elected.
During the same election, two other write-in candidates were elected and these candidates both received over 1,000 votes.