BGHS Student Seeking Arlington Heights Park District Seat Faces Challenges to Nominating Petitions
Three people come forward to file a challenge Jona Augustyn’s petitions citing numerous errors in the paperwork. A hearing before the Cook County Electoral Board is scheduled for today (Jan. 15).
An 18-year-old Buffalo Grove High School student running for a seat on the Arlington Heights Park District faces numerous challenges to his nominating petition, including his failure to fasten the paperwork into a book, at a hearing before the Cook County Electoral Board. Jona Augustyn of Arlington Heights filed his petition to run for Arlington Heights Park Commissioner on Dec. 26, but several people have challenged the legality of his nomination petitions citing irregularities with signatures and addresses, the format of the petition and when the paperwork was notarized. The irregularities, such as voters printing their names rather than signing their names or signatures of people who are not registered voters, disqualifies them and …
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Joan J
10:25 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
I would expect someone running for a Park Board seat to be able to read, understand and follow instructions. That is what I look for, at the very least, in a candidate more ›