Election board members have ties to Sen. Pres. Harmon’s donors
The Chicago Tribune reported that two Democratic members of the Illinois State Board of Elections have ties to organizations that made above-limit contributions to Illinois Senate President Don Harmon.
“These members had clear conflicts and should never have been involved in this case,” said RFI Executive Director Alisa Kaplan.
“The board urgently needs a meaningful conflicts-of-interest policy and structural reforms to make it less susceptible to partisan bias and deadlock. As it is now, the board looks — at best — unable to fully enforce our ethics rules, and at worst, more interested in shielding the powerful from them.”
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