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Polling place judges didn’t understand what primary elections were.
When voters entered the polling places on primary election day, the judges asked (often in a nasty manner), “What’s your party?”
That was one of the reasons many people didn’t vote in primaries. They didn’t think they should have to “declare” their party.
Well, a primary is merely an electi...
At the request of the Jewish Council for Good Government (JCGG) in 1982, State Representative Ellis Levin introduced, and won passage of, a bill to change the date of Spring municipal elections when Election Day fell during the eight days of Passover, a major Jewish holiday.
JCGG argued that there would be chaos in Jewish precincts if the election was held during Passov...
In 1972, Mayor Richard J. Daley needed to install a Black Congressman on Chicago’s west side to prevent a potential Black rebellion against the Machine, a possibility triggered by the recent killing of two Black Panther leaders in a raid led by Cook County State’s Attorney Ed Hanrahan.
A key part of the “keep Blacks happy” scheme involved the west side Congressional sea...