An overwhelming majority of the Illinois State Senate voted Wednesday to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of automatic voter registration. If the House also passes the veto override bill, the state will add approximately two million more voters to the rolls in the state starting in 2018. Comment: If the House also votes to override the veto, Illinois’ coffin will be nailed shut.

Rauner’s administration said Wednesday it will start executing elements of his proposed contract for state employees, processing $1,000 bonuses for state workers and imposing new rules on overtime pay “as soon as operationally feasible.”

Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan suggested Tuesday that legislators should approve another short-term spending plan without giving in to any of Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s demands, indicating the ideological divide behind the state’s epic budget stand persisted through the bruising election season.

“We found that two-thirds of all school districts across the state at some point — in the ’80s or ’90s and sometimes later — began offering this as a benefit for teachers.”

They include an estimate that the state will be $7 billion in the red by June 30, and that the backlog of unpaid bills will top $13 billion by then.

Over at the Journal of Applied Philosophy, we’re told that condemning racism is — wait for it — racist.

Comment: We are going to miss Comptroller Leslie Munger’s transparency on financial data.

The October foreclosure report by ATTOM Data Solutions shows the nation experienced a 27 percent increase in foreclosures, the largest jump since August of 2007, when the housing market began its slide. Illinois had one of the highest percentages in the nation with one out of every 704 homes in foreclosure.

Comment: Rauner is reported to have already been talking to Trump about constructive solutions.

Like him or not, very important respecting Illinois influence in DC.

Up 17% from last year.

More than 6,000 Illinois manufacturing jobs disappeared in 2015, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. And all signs point to things getting worse. The most recent data from September show Illinois has lost 8,500 manufacturing jobs so far this year. In October, four Illinois manufacturers announced plans to shut down and move operations to another state.

The board that oversees the pensions of Illinois state workers voted Tuesday to pull $2.4 billion from managers that try to handpick winners and place that money with lower-cost funds that track market indexes.

An Illinois labor board declared Tuesday that Gov. Bruce Rauner and the state’s largest employee union are at an impasse in negotiations, clearing the way for the Republican governor to attempt to impose his terms on a new contract.

Pensions in states like Illinois, New York and Rhode Island are slashing their allocations to hedge funds.