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"It's another example of how screwed up our system is," said Karones, a retired electrical engineer. "That's a written law, any elected official is indebted to give that [ballot] information to citizens. We're electing the wrong people in office that don't know a damn thing."
According to the Illinois Election Code, the required number of signatures on a nominating petition must be equal to 5 percent and no more than 8 percent of the total number of persons who cast ballots in the last regular election.
In 2017, 9,289 votes were cast in the Oak Lawn mayoral election, 5 percent of which amount to approximately 465 signatures needed to get on the 2021 ballot.