Geer v. Kadera

We granted leave to appeal in this case (155 111. 2d R. 315) in order to determine whether the circuit court is the proper forum in which to bring a post-election challenge to a candidate’s nomination papers. We must also decide whether a canvassing board’s declaration of the results of an election precludes a circuit court from later declaring the true winner in an election contest. Alternatively, we are asked to determine whether a mandamus action may lie against a canvassing board which, having discharged its duties, has ceased to exist functus officio.

BACKGROUND

On April 18, 1994, Ronald…