GOP Ballot Segregation Effort Fails

GOP Ballot Segregation Effort Fails

The Illinois Republican Party's legal attempt to stop thousands of Lake County ballots from being counted on Election Day essentially ended Monday when a judge didn't schedule a hearing on the matter.

The GOP complaint focused on the ballots of first-time voters who'd registered with the help of Citizen Action/Illinois, a Chicago activist group it accused of delivering "fraudulent, incomplete or illegitimate" voter applications to the Lake County clerk's office.

The lawsuit sought to have any such ballots segregated as provisional and counted two weeks after Election Day. The GOP also wanted the court to order first-time voters in Lake County to produce identification, a move critics said could've kept some people from voting.

The matter bounced from Lake County court to federal court and back again last week. On Monday, the issue wasn't brought up in a courtroom, essentially allowing the targeted would-be voters to cast ballots - and have those ballots counted - unhindered.

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