Return power of the vote where it belongs: With voters
Via Crain’s
Nearly 80 percent of Chicago’s voters supported a citywide advisory referendum on the Feb. 24 ballot that would reduce the influence of special-interest money in city–and state–elections by financing campaigns using small contributions from individuals and a limited amount of public money.
It’s been widely reported that the issue and two others, none of them controversial, were put to the voters only to block a politically charged, 50-ward referendum on whether members of the Chicago Board of Education should be elected rather than appointed as they are now. State law limits the number of ballot propositions that can be posed across the city to three.
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