Posted on 11/18/2010 8:27:05 AM PST by PBRCat
[The] coming legal challenges to Rahm's candidacy. These include the fact — confirmed by all sides now — that while he lived in Washington, Emanuel was twice purged from the Chicago voter rolls yet was allowed to vote absentee even though he wasn't living at his old North Side address.
How this was done may be explained any day now, as election law expert Burt Odelson is expected to challenge Rahm's candidacy before the city elections board.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Why twice? Was he listed twice?
Emanuel sought to be reinstated. After every canvass, his name was removed. The Board of Elections uses the US Post Office to conduct its canvasses by checking on mail that is returned as not deliverable on the account of a person having moved out.
Thanks.
So, does this mean he voted in BOTH places simultaneously?
Won’t happen. Evidently there is an old law on the books that if you are called or asked to serve in Washington you are still a citizen of Chicago, WLS was talking about it yesterday, If there is even s whiff of a law like that he is a shoe-in to be allowed, which means he will win it all and replace Daley I think.
The statute reference in your past message cites from the Election Code with respect to eligibility to vote. There is an entirely different statute concerning eligibility to run for elected office contained in the Municipal Code.
A person could be theoretically eligible to vote (based upon a thirty day residency requirement) while being ineligible to run for office for not maintaining a residence for a full year.
These are meaningful legal distinctions with a difference.
Not with someone like Rahm(D) and his Chicago machine behind him. We elected a fracking President with more problems than Rahm has, he will manage it just watch.
Doesn’t matter. Demos don’t have to abide by the laws. They make the laws, then modify and twist them to fit whatever their current agenda happens to be.
The election board limits the number of times a person can be listed on the voter rolls in Chi-town to 10.
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