Mashni Corp. v. Board of Election Commissioners

Defendant Board of Election Commissioners of the City of Chicago (Board) and Interveners Barbara Stanley and Paul Uhl 2 appeal from an order of the circuit court invalidating a local option election held on February 25, 2003, in the 32nd Precinct of the 48th Ward that prohibited the sale of alcoholic beverages at retail in that precinct. On appeal, defendants contend that the trial court erred in holding that the transposition of the ward and precinct numbers in a Chinese translation on the local option ballot failed to substantially comply with the requirements of section 9 — 6 of the…