Legal Opinion
Tripp v. Scholz
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 6, 2017No. 16-3469PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
In 2014, Illinois Green Party members Tabitha Tripp (“Tripp”) and Gary Shepherd (“Shepherd”) sought to appear on the Illinois general election ballot as candidates for state representative in the 118th and 115th representative districts, respectively. Because the Illinois Election Code deemed the Green Party a “new” political party in both districts, both Tripp and Shepherd were required to obtain nomination petition signatures equaling 5% of the number of voters in the prior regular election for state representative in their district. The Election Code further required…
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