Only two states, Nebraska and Maine, split their electoral votes proportionally by congressional district with two statewide electors going to the popular vote. Every other state is like Illinois, a winner-take-all state. Illinois has a total of 19 Electoral College votes.

CTU has spent more than $24.3 million on politics since 2010, when a radical slate of union leaders took over and ushered in years of political wrangling. In fact, nearly half of current lawmakers in the Illinois General Assembly have received money from CTU. That creates a quid pro quo between the union and politicians in Illinois. In the most recent legislative session, the Illinois General Assembly did CTU’s bidding on 60 percent of the bills on which CTU took a stance.

The American Alliance for Equal Rights, founded by lawyer Edward Blum, has sued Gov. JB Pritzker and Kevin Huber, chairman of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, over the 32-year-old Minority Teachers of Illinois Scholarship Program,which awards as much as $7,500 to qualified minority applicants.

A mistake in Cook County resulted in a Libertarian candidate’s bubble, which is to be printed next to the candidate’s name, not being printed on vote-by-mail ballots. And in McLean County, a third party company hired to mail out and track vote-by-mail ballots sent about 180 vote-by-mail ballots with an envelope that had a Monroe County Clerk Office’s return address printed on it.

According to Illinois law, in all counties containing less than 3 million and over 70,000 inhabitants there is created the office of county auditor. There are only 17 counties that fit into the population limitations, via referendum the Peoria county auditor was ousted by voters in 2022. If Champaign and McLean referendums pass, that leaves about 14 auditors statewide.

In Illinois, the state’s Invest in Kids Tax Credit Scholarship program saved state and local taxpayers between $156 million and $362 million during the first five years of the program. The savings were calculated by considering the cost of educating those students in their public schools versus the cost of the school choice program itself, with the study finding it is saves states money when kids utilize a choice program rather educating all of those students in public schools.

The federal government has stepped into the legal fight over a new Illinois law that could change how banks and credit unions handle transaction fees. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit aimed at blocking the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act.

According to nonprofit organization Fair Vote, 50 jurisdictions, including two states and 45 cities, have adopted RCV. Alaska and Maine are the only states in the country that use the system statewide.