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BEFORE THE DULY CONSTITUTED ELECTORAL BOARD FOR THE HEARING AND PASSING UPON OF OBJECTIONS TO NOMINATION PAPERS OF CANDIDATES FOR ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF PLAINFIELD VILLAGE TRUSTEE, VILLAGE OP PLAINFIELD, WILL AND KENDALL COUNTIES, STATE OF ILLINOIS BRIAN WOJOWSKI, Dp ATA Ir PeE'38 to Hy 9 Km Petitioner-Objector PETER ADAMSON Respondent-Candidate ‘VERIFLED OBJECTOR'S PETITION INTRODUCTION: Brian Wojowski, hereinafter sometimes referred to as the Objector states as follows: 1. The Objector esies at 12732 Meadow Lane, inthe Village of Plainfield, County ‘of Will, State of lino, and is a duly qualified, legal and registered voter at that adress having been a resident of the Village of Plainfield for more than one year prior to the April 02,2019, Consolidated Election, 2, The objector’s interest in fling this Petition is that of a voter desirous thatthe laws governing the fling of Nomination Papers for candidates forthe Office of Plainfield Village Trustee forthe Village of Phingield Ulinos are properly complied with, and that ‘ny qualified cantidates appear onthe ballot for sid office; OBJECTIONS: 3. The Objector makes the following objections to the purported Nomination Papers (C'Nomination Papers”) of Peter Adamson far the office of Plainfield Village Trustee for ‘the Village of Plainfield, Ilinois, to be voted at the Consolidated Blection on April 02, 2019, (“Election”). The Objector states that the Nomination Papers are insufficient in fact and law for the following reasons: 4 Pursuant to State law, Nomination Papers for candidates for the Office of Plainfield Village Trustee, for the Village of Plainfield to be voted for at the lection to be held on April 02, 2019, must contain the signatures of not fewer than 210 duly qualified, registered and legal voters of the Village of Plainfield collected in the manner prescribed by law. In addition, the Nomination Papers must truthfully allege the qualifications of the candidate, be gathered and presented in the manner provided for in the Illinois Election Code and be otherwise executed in the form provided by law, The Nomination Papers purport to contain the signatures of 216 of such voters, and further purport to have been gathered, presented and executed in the manner provided by the Hlinois Election Code. b. The Nomination Papers contain the names of persons who are not registered voters in the Village of Plainfield or are not registered voters at the ‘addresses shown opposite their respective names on the Nomination Papers, as sot forth in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein, under the heading “Not Registered” and “Not Registered at Address,” respectively, and as summarized in Exhibit B, Appendix Recepitulation, attached hereto and incorporated herein, in violation of the Ilinois lection Code © The Nomination Papers contain Petition sheets with the “Signatures” of persons which are not signed but rather printed, and said “Signatures” are not gemuine signatures, and, rather, may be the names of persons who did not sign sid popers in their own proper persons, as set forth specifically in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein, under the heading “Signature Not Genuine," as summarized in Exhibit B, Appendix Recaptulations, attached hereto and incorporated herein, in violation of the linis Eletion Code, 4. The Nomination Papers contain the names of persons who do no reside in ‘or who are not registered voters at an address that lies within the Village of Plainfield, asset forth specifically in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein, under the heading “Out of Distt," and as summarized in Exhibit B, ‘Appendix Recepitulatons, attache! hereto and incorporated herein, in violation of | the Illinois Election Code 4, Indl to the above listed objections to individual “signatures”, your Objector ‘males the following specific objection: with respect to the signature on Sheet 11, Line 7, that signer also signed the Nomination Papers on Sheet 14, shall not be counted. As such, one of those signatures should be stricken from the ine 4. Duplicate signatures "Nomination Papers, 5. Imaddltion to the above listed objections to individual “signatures”, your Objector makes the following specific objection: with respect to the signature on Sheet 11, Line 8, that signer also signed the Nomination Papers on Sheet 14, Line 5. Duplicate signatures shall not be counted. As such, one of those signatures should be stricken fom the Nomination Papers. 6 TheIlinois Blecion Code (10 LCS 5/103) provides in relevant part as fll “Nominations of independent candidates for public office within any district or political subdivision less than the State, may be made by nomination papers signed in the aggregate for each candidate by qualified voters of such district, or political subdivision, equalling not less than 5% nor more than 8% (or SO more than the ‘minimum, whichever is greater) of the number of persons, who voted at the nest preceding regular election in such disirict or political subdivision in which such district or political subdivision voted as a unit forthe election of officers to serve lis respective ferrtorial area, 7. “Voters” are defined by the Illinois Election Code (10 ILCS $/3-1.2), in relevant part, as follows: “Eligibility to sign Petition. For the purpose of determining eligibility 10 sign a ‘nomination petition of a petition proposing a public question, the terms “voter”, “registered voter”, qualified vorer”, “legal voter”, and “qualified primary elector”

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