Legal Opinion
Illinois State Board of Elections v. Socialist Workers Party
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 22, 1979No. 77-1248PublishedCited by 829 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Marshall
Under the Illinois Election Code, new political parties and independent candidates must obtain the signatures of 25,000 qualified voters in order to appear on the ballot in statewide elections.1 However, a different standard applies in elections *176for offices of political subdivisions of the State. The minimum number of signatures required for those elections is 5% of the number of persons who voted at the previous election for offices of the particular subdivision.2 In the city of Chicago, application of this standard has produced the in*177congruous result that a new party or an independent…
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