Progressive Party v. Flynn

In the judicial election held November 4, 1947, in Cook County, a political organization using the name of The Progressive Party, cast 313,847 votes, equalling forty-four per cent of all votes cast in the election, for Homer F. Carey, one of its candidates, for superior court judge. The election was a regular election, as defined by section 3 of article 1 of the Election Code, (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1947, chap. 46, par. 1-3,) for the purpose of electing twenty-one superior court judges in Cook County. Cook County is one judicial circuit. The said Progressive Party and its members are desirous of…