Legal Opinion
Totten v. State Board of Elections
Illinois Supreme Court
Decided March 21, 1980No. 52888PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Ward
Donald L. Totten and other plaintiffs brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County against the State Board of Elections (the Board) and the Illinois Republican State Central Committee. In it they sought to enjoin the Board from refusing to certify the presidential preferences of candidates for delegate and alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention and to order the Board to permit such preferences to appear next to the names of candidates on ballots to be used in the March 18, 1980, primary election.
The circuit court held for the defendants, and we took plaintiffs’…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Marchioro v. ChaneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
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