The Illinois Green Party calls for a true government of, by and for the people.
May 12, 2026 | Member Post
The Illinois Green Party calls for a true government of, by, and for the people. This is only possible through easy access to voting by citizens.
We support provisions of the Voting Rights Act. We oppose voter “caging” and other dirty tricks used to disenfranchise legally qualified voters. The Department of Justice must strengthen its vote enforcement division to swiftly investigate and prosecute those who interfere with voting rights. We support greater empowerment of the people through direct democracy.
We support a rational, independent redistricting process in Illinois, based on contiguous, common-sense geographic and established governmental boundaries, without favoritism to incumbents or any parties, and without discriminating against any ethnic or identity group. Such a process should include provisions for meaningful public review and input, and judicial oversight.
We support the principle that the public airwaves belong to the people. We call for the reinstatement and enforcement of the Equal Time Provision of the Federal Communication Act, requiring broadcasters to carry debates including all ballot-qualified candidates and provide free time for all such candidates as a license requirement to use our public airwaves.
We support reform of our prohibitive ballot access requirements in Illinois, to allow far easier access to candidates of smaller or newer political parties. We demand low-threshold, uniform and equal petition signature requirements for all candidates seeking political office, regardless of political party.
We call for eliminating the “challenge” process for determining the validity of candidate petitions, which is expensive, time-consuming, and encourages frivolous challenges. The State Board of Elections can instead simply perform randomized checks on samples of petitions submitted by candidates to make an initial determination of validity, subject to more thorough checking as needed.
We support the creation of independent and non-partisan election administration bodies. Electoral commissions at all levels of government should be free of control by any political party.
