Johnson v. State Board of Elections

In this action the circuit court of Sangamon County held that the State Board of Elections had erroneously construed the Constitution and the applicable statutes in ruling that candidates for judicial vacancies must run on a “head-on-head” rather than a “field” basis in the March 1974 primary election for the office of resident circuit judge in Madison County. The quoted terms are used to describe two different methods employed when more than one vacancy in an office is to be filled at a single election. In a head-on-head election there is a separate contest for each position to be filled. In…