Two Candidates Thrown Off The Ballot In Emanuel Replacement Race

Two Candidates Thrown Off The Ballot In Emanuel Replacement Race

Two candidates hung on to their spots on the 5th Congressional District primary ballot on Thursday, but one was bumped off when Cook County election officials issued rulings on several ballot petition challenges in the race to fill Rahm Emanuel's vacant seat.

A county election board found that Democrat Roger Thompson III has only 494 valid petition signatures--far short of the 927 he needed to run in the March 3 primary.

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