UPDATE
From the Associated Press:
A judge has ordered Illinois election officials to temporarily stop mailing absentee ballots and create a flyer to hand to voters on Election Day because of "misleading" and "inaccurate" language on the ballot.
Circuit Court Judge Nathaniel R. Howse Junior ruled Wednesday the flyers should explain how the language, which deals with a referendum on a constitutional convention in Illinois, is biased. He ordered lawyers to return Friday to discuss specific ballot changes.
The Chicago Bar Association and Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn filed the lawsuit, which sought to force Illinois to reprint ballots. Some election officials argued that reprinting and distributing millions of ballots across the state would be impossible in time for the election.
The state constitution requires voters to consider the convention question every 20 years. That deadline comes up again November 4th.
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UPDATE
A Cook County judge ruled the ballot language unconstitutional and placed a stay on the county to stop sending out absentee ballots with the phrasing, according to Rich Miller's Capitol Fax Blog.
Rather than print new entirely new ballots, the judge "ordered that voters be given a flier at the polling place which tells them to ignore the ballot question as originally written and instead use the new language on that flier as their guide," Miller writes.
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A Cook County judge is slated to consider a lawsuit that seeks to force Illinois to reprint election ballots statewide.
The Chicago Bar Assn. and Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn are suing Secretary of State Jesse White and the Illinois State Board of Elections over what they say is misleading information on the ballots.
The wording at issue applies to a referendum on whether Illinois should hold a constitutional convention.
The state constitution requires voters to consider the convention question every 20 years. That deadline comes up again November 4th.
Officials with the Chicago Board of Election say it would be impossible to reprint and distribute the ballots by Election Day.
An afternoon hearing on the issue is scheduled before Circuit Court Judge Patrick McGann.