People Ex Rel. Sanitary District v. Schlaeger

In 1933, the legislature passed an amendment to section 2 of the Australian Ballot Act. (Laws of 1933, p. 578.) Section 2 of that act, as so amended, is now section 16-2 of the Election Code. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1943, chap. 46, par. 16-2.) By that section, as amended, it is provided that in counties having a population of 500,000 inhabitants or more, when an election is held for State and county officers, and the names of candidates for offices of municipalities, townships, park districts, school districts or sanitary districts whose territorial limits are less than such counties, appear upon…