Mell challenger sues over 33rd Ward election
Via The Chicago Tribune
The runner-up to Ald. Deb Mell in the Feb. 24 election filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging widespread problems with voting in the Northwest Side 33rd Ward aldermanic race as he tries to force her into a head-to-head runoff five weeks from now.
Candidate Tim Meegan is trying to get Mell below the 50-percent-plus-one-vote total she needs to maintain to avoid facing him in an April 7 runoff. His election contest petition, filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court, claimed voters from outside the ward cast ballots in the race, that people who weren’t registered voted and that ballots were cast from addresses of businesses rather than residences.
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