Illinois Election Board Votes to Keep Biden on Ballot

The Illinois State Board of Elections voted unanimously to certify President Joe Biden as a candidate for the the primary ballot in response to two separate challenges to his candidacy. In the first challenge, local voters Beth Findley-Smith and Timothy Conrad claimed President Biden had his candidacy papers notarized in Washington and not locally. General counsel Marni Malowitz noted that the board overruled a similar case for candidate Kanye West previously, and recommended the board do the same. In the second challenge, three local voters, two of whom were not present, claimed President Biden was ineligible for candidacy under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment....