An Illinois appellate court today upheld a recent Cook County Circuit Court ruling that, despite problems with the constitutional convention question, the Illinois ballot will go out to voters as is.
Late last week, Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn and the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) had petitioned the state court with a request to stay millions of ballots and to expedite a review of Cook County Judge Nathaniel Howse Jr.'s earlier ruling on the matter. While Howse agreed that the Con-Con ballot language is both "misleading and inaccurate," he decided it was too late to make any radical changes. His solution was to disseminate polling place fliers warning voters to disregard the language on the ballot.
The CBA and Quinn had also petitioned the Illinois Supreme Court to take up the case. They'd hoped the justices would consider their proposal to distribute a separate Con-Con ballot on Nov. 4. The high court, however, remanded the case to the appellate court on Tuesday.
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