Chicago Mayoral Ballots to Be Printed Without Emanuel's Name

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

CHICAGO -- Chicago election officials gave the go-ahead Monday to print millions of ballots for the city's mayoral election without Rahm Emanuel's name, after an appellate court ruled earlier in the day to kick the former White House chief of staff off the ballot.

Emanuel's lawyers quickly sought help from the Illinois Supreme Court to keep his name on the ballot.

Officials with the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners said they had waited to start printing ballots for the Feb. 22 election until the Illinois appellate court ruling, which found Emanuel's name can't be on the ballot because he didn't live in Chicago for a year before the election.

With time running out, Emanuel's lawyers filed an emergency motion with the high court to stop the appellate court ruling and asked the court to tell Chicago election officials to keep his name on ballots. They also asked the Supreme Court justices to expedite an appeal, which they said would be filed no later than Tuesday.

"So the court may hear and decide this case as soon as possible," according to Emanuel's filing.

The election board's chairman, Langdon Neal, said there wasn't much time to print ballots, particularly because absentee ballots needed to be sent out in the coming days.

"We can't wait and stop what we're doing to adjust to every possibility that may occur," said Neal. "The possible situations that could occur are numerous."

Neal said absentee ballots would be printed first starting Tuesday but that an order for 2 million ballots without Emanuel's name had been placed.
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