FREE & EQUAL READY TO DEFEND SIGNATURES IN CORRUPT CHICAGO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Christina Tobin
Phone: (312) 320-4101
Email: Christina@freeandequalinc.com

November 9, 2009 – The corrupt machine of Illinois politics is in full swing this week at the Chicago Board of Elections.

An army of petition checkers has descended upon boards of elections across the state, seeking to limit voter choice in the 2010 elections by invalidating signatures collected by candidates.

Operating under a veil of secrecy, the petition checkers at the Chicago Board of Elections were quite standoffish when quizzed recently by an ABC7 Chicago reporter. Few were willing to give their names or the names of their employers.

The original ABC7 report can be found at http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/politics&id=7105170.

After he was pressed by the reporter, one man did in fact identify his employer as Circuit Clerk Dorothy Brown.

The man was searching to invalidate signatures collected by Cook County Board President Todd Stroger. Dorothy Brown is challenging Stronger in the 2010 Democratic Primary. The man in question claimed to be working to invalidate the petitions on his day off.

Also according to ABC7 Chicago, a veritable army of workers alleged to be employed by State Democratic Party Chairman Michael Madigan were on hand to scour over petitions looking for the most minute mistakes possible when the reporter from ABC7 Chicago was present at the Board of Elections. Those who were interviewed refused to give their names or employers.

This raises significant questions about the use of government employees in campaign capacities.

Such activity is blatantly illegal.

Free & Equal, Inc. prides itself in taking up the cause of candidates who have had their signature petitions challenged. We have successfully defended signatures in many states, including Illinois.

Free & Equal, Inc. looks forward with great anticipation to defending ANY candidate’s petitions that are challenged by those who would eliminate the Illinois voter’s choice.

Free & Equal, Inc. especially looks forward to taking to task ANY government worker or employer who uses taxpayer money to fund campaign activities that undermine our democracy.

The voters of Illinois deserve the chance to vote for whomever they please. It is essential to the health of our democracy that the selection of elected representatives take place at the ballot box, and not in the dimly-lit halls of a Board of Elections riddled with corruption.

Free & Equal, Inc. is a petitioning firm specializing in ballot access for independent and third party candidates. Headed by ballot access crusader Christina Tobin, Free & Equal, Inc. is a non-partisan firm that works with candidates from across the political spectrum. Free & Equal, Inc. does not endorse any candidates for office.

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