Commentary: The ballot access laws of Illinois are something that you would expect from authoritarian regimes, not a state deliberative body in a nation that holds itself up as a beacon of democracy to the world.
Nominating petitions for candidates in a county election are dropped off at the Cook County Administration Building in Chicago in March 2022.
Illinois has some of the most restrictive ballot access laws in the nation. Consider the 2022 general election results. While it is true that the Libertarian Party was able to place a slate of statewide candidates on the ballot, there were 118 Illinois House and 59 Illinois Senate district elections, none of which had a third-party or independent candidate on the ballot.While there was one third-party and one independent candidate on the ballot among the 17 U.S.
On average, it will take about 12,000 valid signatures to be gathered within 90 days in highly gerrymandered congressional districts to place a third-party U.S. House candidate on the 2024 ballot. The average number of valid signatures to get on the ballot for an Illinois Senate seat in the 2024 general election will be about 2,900, and about 1,600 for the Illinois House. All signatures have to be from registered voters in the applicable district. Out-of-district voters don’t count.
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