May 30, 2017
The Illinois state election authority on Tuesday took its appeal of a federal judge's ruling curtailing same-day voter registration to the Seventh Circuit, arguing that the political candidate who brought the suit hasn't shown how the law expanding registration unfairly impacted rural voters.
October 05, 2016
A Seventh Circuit panel Tuesday put a hold on a district judge's elimination of much of Illinois' Election Day voter registration, with supporters of the state's same-day registration law considering it an indication of how the circuit will ultimately rule.
September 27, 2016
An Illinois federal judge dramatically reduced same-day voter registration in the state ahead of the November presidential election, saying Tuesday that it was unfair to rural voters whose precincts are not required to offer the option.
August 04, 2016
A conservative political group alleged in a lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court Thursday that the state's powerful Democratic Party is attempting to hijack the election process through a piece of legislation that gives urban voters a better chance of Election Day registration than their counterparts in rural, and often Republican, counties.