Henry Jakobsze filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections on Tuesday alleging that the Downers Grove Community Advocates and Citizens for Beckman violated the Campaign Financing Act.
Henry Jakobsze filed a complaint with the State Board of Elections on Tuesday alleging that the Downers Grove Community Advocates and Citizens for Beckman violated the Campaign Financing Act.
Editor's Note: This article originally stated that the District 99 race was uncontested after Martin Gorski and Henry Jakobsze announced they had withdrawn. In fact, both candidates appeared on the April 9 ballot due to missing the official deadline to withdraw. We regret the error. A former candidate for the Downers Grove Community High School District 99 school board has filed a formal complaint against two local political groups who he claims endorsed him without his permission. Henry Jakobsze filed a complaint with the Illinois State Board of Elections on Tuesday, the same day as the consolidated election, alleging that Citizens for (Julia) Beckman and the Downers Grove Community Advocates violated the Campaign Financing Act by …
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With all precincts reporting, incumbent Bob Barnett and newcomers David Olsen and Greg Hosé were the top vote-getters Tuesday, unseating longtime Commissioner Marilyn Schnell.
County officials said that the amount of traffic caught them by surprise and hampered the ability of the public to access election results.
Officials for DuPage County are saying that the influx of traffic to their election results website, which crashed the page between 8 and 10 p.m. on Tuesday night, has been a wake-up call to necessary improvements, the Chicago Tribune reports. According to the paper, the problem was caused when the available bandwidth was exceeded; page views peaked at 15,000 within a few minutes, 5,000 more than the peak in the 2012 elections. "If you asked me 72 hours ago if the site would peak out 50 percent higher than a presidential election, I would've laughed," Robert Saar, the election commission's executive director, told the paper. "Everybody here had their eyes opened. We're disappointed that it happened, but I'm extremely confident that going …
2:18 pm on Saturday, April 13, 2013
Not to worry. Everything is wonderful at the Election Commission. http://countyleaks.blogspot.com/2013/02/exposed-dupage-county-board-chairman.html more ›
Barnett was elected to his second term on the Downers Grove Village Council on Tuesday.
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3:45 pm on Saturday, April 20, 2013
Mr Jakobsze is now complaining loudly that he was endorsed by the DG Community Advocates but yet he asked for that endorsement. Why is he complaining? He submitted the paperwork to run for office and got on the ballot and the paperwork with the DGCA to get endorsed. But yet he now complains. Given this irrational behavior I guess it is good he was not elected? more ›