Mierswa v. Kusper

PRESIDING JUSTICE MEJDA

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiff, Therese M. Mierswa, appeals from an order of the trial court which denied her petition for a writ of mandamus against defendant, Stanley T. Kusper, Jr., in his official capacities as Cook County clerk and chairman of the county officers electoral board of Cook County. The petition sought to require defendant to convene the electoral board to hear an objection filed by plaintiff to the nominating papers of defendant-intervenor Raymond F. Coyne, a candidate for the office of commissioner of the Cook County Board of Appeals in…