Specimen General Election Ballot Chicago, Illinois
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Instructions
Ballot Style: 51 1st Congressional-17th Senate-33rd Representative3rd BOR-1st Subcircuit For use in: WARD 08-Precincts: 01, 02, 03(A), 06, 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 21, 29, 30, 31, 33, 35, 37(A), 38, 40, 41, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 58, 61, 64
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Precinct
Appellate Court
U.S. Representative, 1st District Judge’s initials
Judge of the Appellate Court
Vote for One
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Ward
(13) Bobby L. Rush
Democratic
(14) Antoine Members
Republican
(Vacancy of Burke) Vote for One
Proposed Call for a Constitutional Convention
(45) Sharon Johnson Coleman
Democratic
State Senator, 17th District Judge of the Appellate Court Vote for One (17) Donne E. Trotter
(Vacancy of Campbell) Democratic
Explanation of Proposed Call This proposal deals with a call for a state Constitutional Convention. The last such convention was held in 1969-70, and a new Constitution was adopted in 1970. The 1970 Illinois Constitution requires that the question of calling a convention be placed before the voters every 20 years. If you support the calling of a Constitutional Convention, vote "YES." If you oppose the calling of a Constitutional Convention, vote "NO."
Vote for One
State Representative, 33rd District
(46) John O. Steele
Vote for One
Circuit Court
(20) Marlow H. Colvin
Democratic
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioners
Democratic
Judge of the Circuit Court (Vacancy of Disko) Vote for One (47) Dennis J. Burke
Democratic
Vote for not more than Three
Judge of the Circuit Court
For the calling of a Constitutional Convention
Yes No
Candidates President and Vice President of the United States Vote for One
Barack Obama (1) Joe Biden (2)
John McCain Sarah Palin
(3)
Cynthia McKinney Rosa Clemente
Bob Barr (4) Wayne A. Root (5)
John Joseph Polachek No Candidate
(6)
Charles O. Baldwin Darrell L. Castle
Ralph Nader (7) Matt Gonzalez
Democratic Republican
(23) Frank Avila
Democratic
(24) Kathleen Therese Meany
Democratic
(25) Cynthia M. Santos
Democratic
(26) David Clearwater
Republican
Judge of the Circuit Court
(27) Paul Chialdikas
Republican
(Vacancy of Healy)
(28) Daniel Flores
Republican
Vote for One
(29) Nadine Bopp
Green
(30) John "Jack" Ailey
Green
Judge of the Circuit Court
(31) Rita Bogolub
Green
(Vacancy of Keehan)
(Vacancy of Glowacki) Vote for One (48) Jesse G. Reyes
(49) Maureen Ward Kirby
Vote for One
Libertarian
Vote for One (32) Anita Alvarez
Democratic
(33) Tony Peraica
Republican
(Vacancy of Lott)
NEW
(34) Thomas O'Brien Constitution Party of Illinois Independent
United States Senator
Green
Vote for One (51) Thomas J. Byrne
Clerk of the Circuit Court
Judge of the Circuit Court
Vote for One
(Vacancy of Montelione)
(35) Dorothy A. Brown
Democratic
(36) Diane Shapiro
Republican
(37) Paloma Andrade
Vote for One
Green
Democratic
Recorder of Deeds
(9) Steve Sauerberg
Republican
Vote for One
Green
(38) Eugene "Gene" Moore
Democratic
Vote for One (52) Debra B. Walker
(39) Gregory Goldstein
Republican
Libertarian Constitution Party of Illinois
Vote for One
(40) Terrence A. Gilhooly
Green
Judge of the Circuit Court (Vacancy of Nowicki)
(54) Michael B. Hyman
Vote for One Democratic
(42) Lionel Garcia
Republican Green
Supreme Court
(Vacancy of Thomas) Vote for One (55) Joan Powell
Democratic
Judge, 1st Subcircuit
Judge of the Supreme Court (Vacancy of McMorrow)
(Vacancy of Turkington) Vote for One
Vote for One (44) Anne M. Burke
Democratic
Judge of the Circuit Court
(41) Larry R. Rogers, Jr.
(43) Antonne "Tony" Cox
Chi-0051-1-S
Democratic
Vote for One
Board of Review, 3rd District
Ballot Style: 51
Democratic
Judge of the Circuit Court
(53) Kristyna Colleen Ryan (10) Kathy Cummings
Democratic
(Vacancy of Murphy)
(8) Richard J. Durbin
(12) Chad N. Koppie
Democratic
Judge of the Circuit Court
write-in
(11) Larry A. Stafford
Democratic
State's Attorney (50) Marilyn F. Johnson
Green
Democratic
(56) Donna L. Cooper Democratic
Vote Both Sides
Democratic
Specimen General Election Ballot – Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Board of Election Commissioners for the City of Chicago
Langdon D. Neal, Chairman Richard A. Cowen, Secretary/Commissioner Marisel A. Hernandez, Commissioner
Ballot for Judicial candidates seeking retention in office.
Rickey Jones
(152) Yes
Thomas J. Lipscomb
(153) No “Vote on the Proposition with respect to all or any of the judges listed on this ballot. No judge listed is running against any other judge. The sole question is whether each judge shall be retained in his or her present office.” Vote “Yes” or “No”.
Kathleen G. Kennedy
(154) Yes
(223) No Sheila McGinnis
(155) No William G. Lacy
(156) Yes
(158) Yes
Dennis Michael McGuire
(160) Yes
Barbara M Meyer
Veronica B. Mathein
(162) Yes
William Timothy O'Brien
Carol Pearce McCarthy
Lawrence O'Gara
(100) Yes Mary A. Mulhern
(168) Yes
(103) No Edward N. Pietrucha
(170) Yes (171) No
Judicial Retention Circuit Court Edmund Ponce de Leon
(172) Yes
(234) Yes (235) No
Sandra Tristano
(236) Yes (237) No
Valarie E. Turner
(169) No
(102) Yes
"Shall each of the persons listed be retained in office as Judge of the Circuit Court, Cook County Judicial Circuit?"
Laura Marie Sullivan
(167) No
(101) No Margaret Stanton McBride
(166) Yes
(232) Yes (233) No
(165) No Barbara A. McDonald
Michael J. Gallagher
(164) Yes
(230) Yes (231) No
(163) No "Shall each of the persons listed be retained in office as Judge of the Appellate Court, First Judicial District?"
(228) Yes (229) No
(161) No
Judicial Retention Appellate Court
(226) Yesí (227) No
(159) No Patricia Manila Martin
(224) Yes (225) No
(157) No Marjorie C. Laws
(222) Yes
(238) Yes (239) No
Raúl Vega
(240) Yes (241) No
Public Questions
(173) No James L. Rhodes
(174) Yes
To the Voters of Cook County:
(175) No Thomas E. Flanagan
(104) Yes
Barbara Ann Riley
(177) No
(105) No Michael P. Toomin
(106) Yes
James G. Riley
(108) Yes
Cheryl A. (Hilliard) Starks
(109) No Themis N. Karnezis
(110) Yes
David P. Sterba
(112) Yes
Jane Louise Stuart
(114) Yes
Donald Joseph Suriano
(116) Yes
Kenneth J. Wadas
(118) Yes
Frank G. Zelezinski
(120) Yes
Gregory Joseph Wojkowski
(122) Yes
Sandra Otaka
(124) Yes
Mary Anne Mason
(126) Yes
Robert E. Gordon
(128) Yes
Lewis Nixon
(130) Yes
Eileen Mary Brewer
(132) Yes
Noreen Valeria Love
(134) Yes
Margaret Ann Brennan
(136) Yes
Janet Adams Brosnahan
(140) Yes
James R. Brown
(142) Yes
Anthony Lynn Burrell
(144) Yes
John Thomas Doody, Jr.
(146) Yes
Peter A. Felice
(148) Yes
Kerry M. Kennedy
(150) Yes
Casandra Lewis
Chi-0051-2-S
(212) Yes
(214) Yes
(216) Yes
(218) Yes
(220) Yes (221) No
(151) No
Ballot Style: 51
(210) Yes
(219) No
(149) No Vanessa A. Hopkins
(208) Yes
(217) No
(147) No Shelli Williams Hayes
(206) Yes
(215) No
(145) No James J. Gavin
(204) Yes
(213) No
(143) No Rodolfo (Rudy) Garcia
(202) Yes
(211) No
(141) No John J. Fleming
(200) Yes
(209) No
(137) No Candace Jean Fabri
(198) Yes
(207) No
(135) No Clayton J. Crane
(196) Yes
(205) No
(133) No Sharon Johnson Coleman
(194) Yes
(203) No
(131) No Evelyn B. Clay
(192) Yes
(201) No
(129) No Diane Gordon Cannon
(190) Yes
(199) No
(127) No Andrew Berman
(188) Yes
(197) No
(125) No Gerald C. Bender
(186) Yes
(195) No
(123) No Lynn Marie Egan
(184) Yes
(193) No
(121) No Shelley Lynn Sutker-Dermer
(182) Yes
(191) No
(119) No Kathleen Marie McGury
No
(189) No
(117) No Michelle Francene Lowrance
Yes
(181) No
(187) No
(115) No Sebastian Thomas Patti
(180) Yes
(185) No
(113) No Mary Ellen Coghlan
(178) Yes
(183) No
(111) No James Patrick Flannery
“Shall the Illinois Constitution be amended to establish a recall process for the office of Governor and other statewide elected officials?”
(179) No
(107) No Richard J. Elrod
(176) Yes
Vote Both Sides