SPECIMEN BALLOT REPRESENTATIVE JUDICIAL RETENTION WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS BALLOT FOR JUDICIAL CANDIDATES SEEKING GENERAL ELECTION FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE RETENTION IN OFFICE GENERAL ASSEMBLY NOVEMBER 3, 2020 SEVENTY-FIRST REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT "Vote on the Proposition with respect to all or any of the Judges listed on this ballot. No Judge listed is running against any other Judge. The sole question I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS SPECIMEN BALLOT IS A TRUE AND (Vote for one) is whether each Judge shall be retained in his present office." CORRECT COPY OF THE OFFICES AND CANDIDATES TO BE VOTED DEMOCRATIC IN THE GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN WHITESIDE COUNTY JOAN PADILLA SUPREME COURT JUDGE REPUBLICAN ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2020. TONY M. McCOMBIE SHALL TOM L. KILBRIDE FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE be retained in office as DANA NELSON, COUNTY CLERK GENERAL ASSEMBLY JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT EIGHTY-NINTH REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT WHITESIDE COUNTY, ILLINOIS THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT? CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (Vote for one) DEMOCRATIC "NOTICE No Candidate YES ANDREW S. CHESNEY REPUBLICAN NO THE FAILURE TO VOTE THIS BALLOT MAY BE THE INDEPENDENT EQUIVALENT OF A NEGATIVE VOTE, BECAUSE A JOHN COOK APPELLATE COURT JUDGE CONVENTION SHALL BE CALLED OR THE AMENDMENT SHALL SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE IF APPROVED BY EITHER COUNTY THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE VOTING ON THE QUESTION FOR CIRCUIT CLERK MARY W. McDADE OR A MAJORITY OF THOSE VOTING IN THE ELECTION. be retained in office as (THIS IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS A DIRECTION THAT (Vote for one) JUDGE OF THE APPELLATE COURT DEMOCRATIC YOUR VOTE IS REQUIRED TO BE CAST EITHER IN No Candidate THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT? FAVOR OF OR IN OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSITION REPUBLICAN HEREIN CONTAINED.) SUE R. COSTELLO FOR RECORDER YES WHETHER YOU VOTE THIS BALLOT OR NOT YOU MUST RETURN IT TO THE ELECTION JUDGE WHEN YOU (Vote for one) NO DEMOCRATIC LEAVE THE VOTING BOOTH". No Candidate CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE REPUBLICAN CONSTITUTION BALLOT DAWN M. YOUNG SHALL FOR CORONER LINNEA E. THOMPSON PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE 1970 ILLINOIS be retained in office as CONSTITUTION (Vote for one) JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT DEMOCRATIC Explanation of Amendment JOSEPH P. McDONALD FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT? No Candidate REPUBLICAN The proposed amendment grants the State authority to impose higher income tax rates on higher income levels, FOR STATE'S ATTORNEY YES which is how the federal government and a majority of other (Vote for one) NO states do it. The amendment would remove the portion of the DEMOCRATIC Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution that is sometimes TERRY A. COSTELLO SHALL referred to as the "flat tax," that requires all taxes on income to No Candidate REPUBLICAN TERENCE M. PATTON be at the same rate. The amendment does not itself change be retained in office as tax rates. It gives the State the ability to impose higher tax JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT rates on those with higher income levels and lower income tax FOR COUNTY TREASURER rates on those with middle or lower income levels. You are (For an unexpired 2-year term) FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT? asked to decide whether the proposed amendment should (Vote for one) become a part of the Illinois Constitution. KRISTIN NICOLE WALRATH DEMOCRATIC YES For the proposed amendment of Section 3 of Article IX of the PENNY VANKAMPEN REPUBLICAN NO Illinois Constitution. COUNTY BOARD PROPOSITION YES MORRISON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DISTRICT FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARD PROPOSITION TO LEASE SPACE NO DISTRICT ONE Shall the Morrison Community Hospital District have the FEDERAL (Vote for not more than five) DEMOCRATIC authority to lease office space and common areas outside the JAMES C. DUFFY boundaries of the District, as contemplated by Section 15(1) of FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT WILLIAM McGINN DEMOCRATIC Hospital District Law? OF THE UNITED STATES THOMAS L. AUSMAN DEMOCRATIC YES (Vote for one) DEMOCRATIC (JOSEPH R. BIDEN DEMOCRATIC OWEN HARRELL NO (KAMALA D. HARRIS ERNEST SMITH DEMOCRATIC CITY OF MORRISON REPUBLICAN (DONALD J. TRUMP REPUBLICAN No Candidate PROPOSITION TO LEVY TAX FOR (MICHAEL R. PENCE RESTORATION OF NEGLECTED CEMETERIES FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARD (HOWIE HAWKINS GREEN DISTRICT TWO Shall a tax of not exceeding .025% be levied each year on the (ANGELA WALKER taxable property in the City of Morrison, Illinois for the purpose (Vote for not more than four) of reconditioning and restoring neglected cemeteries, which DEMOCRATIC (GLORIA LA RIVA PARTY FOR KAREN NELSON are owned, managed, and/or controlled by the City, as (LEONARD PELTIER SOCIALISM provided in Section 11-50-1 of the Illinois Municipal Code? AND LIBERATION EUGENE (GENE) JACOBY DEMOCRATIC DEMOCRATIC (BRIAN CARROLL AMERICAN SHAWN DOWD YES (AMAR PATEL SOLIDARITY PARTY BROOKE E PEARSON REPUBLICAN NO REPUBLICAN (JO JORGENSEN LIBERTARIAN LINDA S. PENNELL WHITESIDE COUNTY (JEREMY "SPIKE" COHEN PROPOSITION TO INCREASE FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARD LOCAL SALES TAX Write-in DISTRICT THREE To pay for public safety purposes, shall Whiteside County be (Vote for not more than five) DEMOCRATIC authorized to impose an increase on its share of local sales FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR CYNTHIA MEAD taxes by 0.5%? HOWARD "BUD" THOMPSON REPUBLICAN (Vote for one) (This would mean that a consumer would pay an additional REPUBLICAN RICHARD J. DURBIN DEMOCRATIC CHAD WEAVER $0.50 in sales tax for every $100 of tangible personal property REPUBLICAN bought at retail.) MARK C. CURRAN JR. REPUBLICAN MARK HAMILTON REPUBLICAN WILLIE WILSON LARRY RUSSELL YES WILLIE L. WILSON PARTY REPUBLICAN DAVID F. BLACK GREEN CHARLES BROWN JR NO DANNY MALOUF LIBERTARIAN JUDICIAL POLO COMMUNITY UNIT SCHOOL Write-in DISTRICT NUMBER 222 FOR JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT PROPOSITION TO ELECT BOARD OF FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT EDUCATION MEMBERS AT LARGE (To fill the vacancy of the Hon. Walter D. Braud) CONGRESSIONAL Shall the members of the Board of Education of Polo (Vote for one) Community Unit School District Number 222, Ogle, Lee and FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS PETER W. CHURCH DEMOCRATIC SEVENTEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Whiteside Counties, Illinois, in accordance with Section 10- No Candidate REPUBLICAN 10.5(b) of the School Code of the State of Illinois, be elected (Vote for one) at large and without restriction by area of residence within said CHERI BUSTOS DEMOCRATIC School District rather than in accordance with the provisions of REPUBLICAN Section 10-10.5(a) of the School Code of the State of Illinois, ESTHER JOY KING as amended, which require mandatory board representation according to congressional townships? YES NO