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Another Victory for Fairness and Equality in Illinois

(But we’re not done yet!)

 

The Illinois State Board of Elections has informed us of the result of the random sample verification of signatures on the antigay marriage petition proposed for the November ballot.

 

After careful examination of the random sample of signatures, the board has concluded that there are not enough valid signatures and the petition is “presumed invalid”! 

 

NOT OVER YET

 

The antigay proponents of the petition will file an appeal to this ruling.  And that is where the hard work of hundreds of volunteers throughout our state comes in.

 

Fair Illinois, the joint project of Equality Illinois and a dozen other organizations in our state, scrutinized for validity more than 60 thousand petitions (345,000 signatures) turned in by the anti-gay organizations.

 

The random sample of the Board of Elections concluded there were not enough valid signatures on the petitions to allow the question on the November ballot.

 

We checked every signature.  We know there are not enough valid signatures. And, we know where every invalid signature is!

THANK YOU

 

When we began this project it seemed almost impossible to verify the validity of 350,000 signatures in the short time that we had before the challenge deadline. 

 

But, we were able to check every signature because of the hard work of so many volunteers and because so many community organizations came together for this common effort.  This task could not have been accomplished without the hard work of countless volunteers around the state. It is inspiring to see so many individuals and organizations stand up together for fairness and equality.

 

We are proud of the work of all our volunteers. And, that work is paying off.

 

Equality Illinois would like to welcome all of the volunteers that helped in this monumental endeavor to come celebrate this victory at our First Friday networking event on Friday, July 7th, in the ‘Glass Bar’ at Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted Street, Chicago.

Again, thank you for this effort that should make us all rightfully proud!