Illinois Supreme Court rejects clerk’s request in tight state legislative race – Chicago Tribune*

The Illinois Supreme Court, in an unsigned order Monday, rejected a request by the DuPage County clerk to lift a local judge’s ruling directing the clerk on how she should verify the authenticity of late-arriving mailed-in ballots. Last week DuPage County Circuit Judge James Orel sided with state Rep. Deanne Mazzochi and ordered DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek to certify the validity of mail-in ballots using the voter registration signature on file - not the signatures of vote-by-mail applications -  to verify mailed-in ballot signatures.