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There’s a Chicagoan running for president – but it’s not who you think it is
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Edited | RBH Oct 15, 2008 04:40pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, October 7, 2008 10:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Voters have spent months learning about the Republican and Democratic nominees, but there will be other names on the ballot than Barack Obama and John McCain. Like John Joseph Polachek. Of Chicago.
There’re also Green, Libertarian, Independent and Constitution party candidates. But Chicago is the only city with two residents running for the nation’s top job: that Obama guy and New Party candidate Polachek.
Who? John Joseph Polachek, the mysterious man who has no campaign Web site and no contact information filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections other than a street address, which could not be verified.
Polachek’s name appears on the ballot because, as required, notarized forms and a petition were submitted to nominate him on behalf of the New Party.
But get this: Even though he went to the trouble to have the forms notarized, the petition has zero signatures. Not even his own.
The required minimum threshold of signatures for a non-established party is 25,000. Petitions are assumed valid unless they are contested. No one contested Polachek, so on the ballot he is. |
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