Chicago Republicans

Hi Folks! 
The first hearing on the challenge to the Barack Obama Nomination Papers for the Illinois Primary will be a 11 am tomorrow, January 24,  at the James R. Thompson Building in the Chicago Loop.  It should be interesting, but administrative in nature.

Far more importantly, the Illinois State Board of Elections has already scheduled the "Registration Check" in this case, whereby the entries of the Obama petitions will be compared, line by line, with ISBE records on voter registration and voter signatures.  it will start on Wednesday, january 25 at 9 am in the Thompson Center, and go on until completed.  They hope to complete the task in one day, but it may run over to Thursday morning. 
The Board will have personnel at eight separate computer terminals conducting review of different parts of the petitions at the same time.  The Board employee is the Examiner.  Our task is to have a representative of the Objectors at each terminal, monitoring the exam, advocating for the Objectors on a particular line or signature as needed, objecting to the ruling of the Examiner as needed, and recording the results on sheets we will provide, aling with a list of our objecitons, the sheets and line numbers, etc. 

Anyone who has Wednesdayand would like to join in the effort, please feel free to contact me at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  Thanks!!!

Steve Boulton