SPECIMEN BALLOT STATE COUNTY BOARD MOULTRIE COUNTY, ILLINOIS FOR GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR FOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY BOARD GENERAL ELECTION (Vote for one) AT LARGE NOVEMBER 4, 2014 (BRUCE RAUNER (Vote for not more than five) (EVELYN SANGUINETTI REPUBLICAN ARLENE ASCHERMANN REPUBLICAN I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS SPECIMEN BALLOT IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF THE OFFICES AND CANDIDATES TO BE VOTED IN (PAT QUINN TODD MAXEDON REPUBLICAN THE GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD IN MOULTRIE COUNTY ON (PAUL VALLAS DEMOCRATIC DAVID R. McCABE REPUBLICAN TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2014. (CHAD GRIMM BILLY VOYLES REPUBLICAN (ALEXANDER CUMMINGS LIBERTARIAN GARY P. SMITH DEMOCRATIC ( Write-In __________________________________________________________ STUART A. WADE DEMOCRATIC GEORGIA C. ENGLAND, COUNTY CLERK ( MOULTRIE COUNTY, ILLINOIS JUDICIAL FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR JUDGE OF THE APPELLATE COURT CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS "NOTICE (Vote for one) FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT PAUL M. SCHIMPF REPUBLICAN (To fill the vacancy of the Hon. John T. McCullough) THE FAILURE TO VOTE THIS BALLOT MAY BE THE (Vote for one) EQUIVALENT OF A NEGATIVE VOTE, BECAUSE A LISA MADIGAN DEMOCRATIC LISA HOLDER WHITE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION SHALL BE CALLED OR THE AMENDMENT BEN KOYL LIBERTARIAN SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE IF APPROVED BY EITHER No Candidate DEMOCRATIC THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE VOTING ON THE QUESTION OR FOR SECRETARY OF STATE JUDICIAL RETENTION A MAJORITY OF THOSE VOTING IN THE ELECTION. (THIS (Vote for one) IS NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS A DIRECTION THAT YOUR BALLOT FOR JUDICIAL CANDIDATES SEEKING VOTE IS REQUIRED TO BE CAST EITHER IN FAVOR OF OR MICHAEL WEBSTER REPUBLICAN RETENTION IN OFFICE IN OPPOSITION TO THE PROPOSITION HEREIN JESSE WHITE DEMOCRATIC "Vote on the Proposition with respect to all or any of the Judges listed CONTAINED.) on this ballot. No Judge listed is running against any other Judge. The LIBERTARIAN CHRISTOPHER MICHEL sole question is whether each Judge shall be retained in his present WHETHER YOU VOTE THIS BALLOT OR NOT YOU FOR COMPTROLLER office." MUST RETURN IT TO THE ELECTION JUDGE WHEN YOU APPELLATE COURT JUDGE (Vote for one) LEAVE THE VOTING BOOTH". SHALL CONSTITUTION BALLOT JUDY BAAR TOPINKA REPUBLICAN ROBERT J. STEIGMANN PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE 1970 ILLINOIS SHEILA SIMON DEMOCRATIC be retained in office as CONSTITUTION JULIE FOX LIBERTARIAN JUDGE OF THE APPELLATE COURT Explanation of Amendment FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT? The proposed amendment makes changes to Section 8.1 Write-in YES of Article I of the Illinois Constitution, the Crime Victims’ FOR TREASURER Bill of Rights. The proposed amendment would expand NO certain rights already granted to crime victims in Illinois, (Vote for one) and give crime victims the ability to enforce their rights in TOM CROSS REPUBLICAN CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE a court of law. You are asked to decide whether the MICHAEL W. FRERICHS DEMOCRATIC SHALL proposed amendment should become part of the Illinois THOMAS J. DIFANIS MATTHEW SKOPEK LIBERTARIAN Constitution. be retained in office as CONGRESSIONAL JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT For the proposed amendment of Section 8.1 of Article I of FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT? the Illinois Constitution. FIFTEENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT YES YES (Vote for one) NO NO JOHN M. SHIMKUS REPUBLICAN SHALL CONSTITUTION BALLOT ERIC THORSLAND DEMOCRATIC PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE 1970 ILLINOIS HARRY E. CLEM LEGISLATIVE be retained in office as CONSTITUTION FOR STATE SENATOR Explanation of Amendment JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT FIFTY-FIRST LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT The proposed amendment adds a new section to the SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT? (Vote for one) Suffrage and Elections Article of the Illinois Constitution. YES The proposed amendment would prohibit any law that CHAPIN ROSE REPUBLICAN disproportionately affects the rights of eligible Illinois NO No Candidate DEMOCRATIC citizens to register to vote or cast a ballot based on the SHALL REPRESENTATIVE voter’s race, color, ethnicity, status as a member of a ARNOLD F. BLOCKMAN language minority, national origin, religion, sex, sexual FOR REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY be retained in office as orientation, or income. You are asked to decide whether ONE HUNDRED AND SECOND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT the proposed amendment should become part of the (Vote for one) Illinois Constitution. SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT? ADAM BROWN REPUBLICAN YES For the proposed addition of Section 8 to Article III of the MATT FORCUM DEMOCRATIC Illinois Constitution. NO COUNTY YES FOR COUNTY CLERK SHALL NO (Vote for one) A. G. WEBBER be retained in office as No Candidate REPUBLICAN STATEWIDE ADVISORY QUESTIONS JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT "Shall the minimum wage in Illinois for adults over GEORGIA C. ENGLAND DEMOCRATIC SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT? the age of 18 be raised to $10 per hour by January 1, 2015?" FOR COUNTY TREASURER YES YES (Vote for one) NO No Candidate REPUBLICAN NO PROPOSITION MARCIA D. THOMPSON DEMOCRATIC MOULTRIE COUNTY "Shall any health insurance plan in Illinois that FOR SHERIFF PROPOSITION TO IMPOSE A RETAILER'S OCCUPATION TAX provides prescription drug coverage be required to AND SERVICE OCCUPATION TAX include prescription birth control as part of that (Vote for one) coverage?" CHRIS SIMS REPUBLICAN Shall a retailers' occupation tax and a service occupation tax YES No Candidate DEMOCRATIC (commonly referred to as a "sales tax") be imposed in The County of Moultrie, Illinois, at a rate of 1% to be used exclusively for school NO EDUCATIONAL SERVICE REGION facility purposes? FOR REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS "Should the Illinois Constitution be amended to YES require that each school district receive additional (MACON AND PIATT COUNTIES) NO revenue, based on their number of students, from an (Vote for one) additional 3% tax on income greater than one million MATTHEW T. SNYDER REPUBLICAN dollars?" No Candidate DEMOCRATIC YES FOR REGIONAL SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS NO (CLARK, COLES, CUMBERLAND, DOUGLAS, EDGAR, FEDERAL MOULTRIE AND SHELBY COUNTIES) FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR (Vote for one) (Vote for one) BOBBI MATTINGLY REPUBLICAN JAMES D. "JIM" OBERWEIS REPUBLICAN No Candidate DEMOCRATIC RICHARD J. DURBIN DEMOCRATIC SHARON HANSEN LIBERTARIAN.