St. Clair County Republican Central Committee Chairman Bill Zychelwicz accused St. Clair County Clerk Bob Delaney of "blatant and brazen" electioneering.
A state law requiring voters present photo identification before voting is long overdue, said State Rep. Ron Stephens as he called on a Democratically-controlled state legislature to act on a bill that has been "bottled up" for three years.
Republican Jim Oberweis hammered away at his primary rivals, aiming his strongest attacks at Judy Baar Topinka. Oberweis' downstate campaign was well-organized and vigorous. In Madison and St. Clair counties, he received 63 percent more votes than Topinka. Family dysfunction in the GOP and an unwelcome snow storm on the first day of spring contributed to an abysmally low voter turn-out in the primary election March 21.