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| ORR:Staff among few aware elections are forthcoming |
It’s
the first day you can show up at an early voting center and cast ballots for
the Feb. 28 primary elections being held in those municipalities.
THEY
ALL HAVE mayors or aldermanic posts up for grabs, and those are the few
communities that have formal primary elections – even though most of them are
dominated by Democratic Party political structure. Most don’t have Republican
parties, even in theory.
Meaning
that the primary will mean more than the April 5 general election, which will
be just a formality for the primary winners to actually begin governing again
come May 1.
Most
other suburbs have purely nonpartisan political structures, meaning they just
have the one election in the springtime during which everything is up for
grabs. The majority of voters can be completely oblivious to electoral politics, if they so choose. Although I'd argue they maintain such ignorance at their own risk!
Those
of you dedicated enough to cast an early ballot can do so at the voting centers
being maintained by the Cook County clerk’s office from now through Feb. 27 –
with the usual polling places opening the following day; Election Day itself!
NOT
THAT ANY of this means a thing if you’re among the one-third of Chicago-area
residents who actually reside in Chicago. For this is the one electoral cycle
in which city residents get a break.
Nothing
up for grabs, and local government elections not scheduled again until 2019.
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