Consolidated Elections 2023: League education in action

4/14/23

Once again, the LWV of Illinois' Illinois Voter Guide knocked it out of the park for Consolidated Elections. Voters could access nonpartisan candidate information for every school board race, as well as the municipal races for all communities with populations greater than 10,000.

The Illinois Voter Guide covered a total of 6,686 candidates, including those in 134 city mayoral or village president elections. Voters found information in the Illinois Voter Guide on 3,784 school board candidates and 2,768 city council or village board candidates.

Local Leagues stepped up to give voters a chance to see candidates in action, holding live or zoom candidate forums in 114 contested elections, covering 560 candidates. This included the Chicago mayoral debate, conducted with ABC7 and Univision. Recordings were made available on the LWV of Illinois website and in the Illinois Voter Guide.

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“The right to vote—the right to vote and have your vote counted, is the threshold of democracy and liberty. With it, anything is possible. Without it—without that right, nothing is possible.”

President Joe Biden, March 5, 2023, Edmund Pettus Bridge