CHICAGO – The option for Cook County voters to express their views about setting up an open primary system for countywide candidates was squelched Wednesday when the Cook County Board pushed in three advisory referendum for the November 6th ballot.
Filling those three slots on the ballot denied any opportunity for Cook County GOP Chairman Sean Morrison to gather enough petition signatures to get his non-partisan election referendum before this year's General Election voters.
Despite an announcement on the Cook County GOP website still indicating Friday morning a petition signature gathering event planned for August 6th, Morrison's staff indicated Friday morning the petition drive was "effectively cancelled."
The overwhelming majority of Democrats that make up the Cook County Board were more inclined to ask voters' opinions about whether their municipalities should
- raise the minimum wage to $13 per hour
- require employers to pay for sick time off
- place more restrictions on the county's gun shop owners
Over 100 of the County's municipalities' councils have rejected the county's minimum wage and paid sick leave resolutions set into motion earlier this year.
The advisories are described HERE :
The state's most-populated county will deal with those advisories on the November 6th election ballot.
