GOP furious November 8 ballot spots filling up

How does the DuPage County Republican Party resemble the old Communist Party? Simple. They don't like to see other party candidates on the ballot. Take their bizarre, three prong thrust to remove Christopher English from the ballot as Democratic candidate for DuPage County Clerk of the Circuit Court. English collected 1,773 signatures to get on the ballot as a post primary candidate, more than doubling the 844 needed by 929 votes . GOP folks did the math and voila, decided 941 of English's signatures were invalid, making him 12 votes short of the 844 target. As one deeply involved in the five week petitioning process for English, my outrage over this shabby attempt to subvert the will of 1,773 DuPage voters seeking choice November 8 is incalculable.

The other two arguments come straight out of The Twilight Zone. Dennis Reboletti, a former state lawmaker, no less, wants us to believe a teensy quibble over how the county clerk title was worded on the nominating petitions amounts to a gross miscarriage of election law. Not finished with Fantasyland, Reboletti contends that DuPage Democrats cannot form a nominating committee to designate post primary candidates; insisting they must marshal all 300 plus precinct committeemen to do that task. That is truly a strange way to simplify governing which is supposedly one of the GOP's favorite planks.

Maybe Reboletti and his anti voter minions are simply re-making The Exorcist, seeking to make DuPage voters heads spin around their necks trying to figure out their twisted version of democracy.