GLENDALE HEIGHTS - Consolidated Election voters in Glendale Heights are not happy with how their choice for village president was handled last week. They are so upset, in fact, that they're planning to protest in front of the DuPage County Clerk's office Tuesday, April 13th at 10 am.
They say their votes, and their voices, were ignored or are purposely being suppressed.
On Friday, April 2nd, the Illinois Supreme Court came down with a decision overturning three lower courts - objecting to the number of petition signatures five-term incumbent Glendale Heights Village President Linda Jackson and another candidate, Ed Pope, submitted for the April 6th election. The Supreme Court's decision tossed Jackson and Pope off the April 6th ballot four days before the election.
The result was confusion at the polls, upset voters and a major loss for President Jackson.
Glendale Heights resident Cheryl Swanson believes the people were cheated out of their right to choose their local officials.
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