A Sangamon County judge is considering an appeal by Republican attorneys to remove a Libertarian candidate for Illinois governor from the November ballot.
The State Board of Elections decided last month to allow Libertarian governor candidate Chad Grimm to appear on the ballot alongside Rauner and Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn.
John Fogarty, an attorney for the Illinois Republican party, says the attorneys questioned signatures gathered by several petition circulators. They argued that a number of signatures were invalid because they were illegible, not genuine, and because petition circulators didn’t reside at their stated addresses.
Attorneys representing the Libertarians had asked a judge to dismiss the case because the Sangamon County court did not have proper jurisdiction in the case.