Tomorrow's Verdict Reading on Bonnie's Ballot

Carol,

 

I will be unable to attend the hearing tomorrow.  I would like this statement read as my final statement before the closing of the hearing.  Please email me the final documents later tomorrow.

 

Statement:

 

1.  65 ILCS 5/3 1-10 states "A person is not eligible for an elected municipal office unless that person is a qualified elector of the municipality and has resided in the municipality at least one year next preceding the election or appointment." 

 

2.  Election law defines residence as "that place where a person maintains a fixed and permanent principle resident and to which he, wherever temporarily located, always intends to return."

 

3.  According to case law Pope vs. Board of Elections 370III. 196,201,18N E 2d 214, 216 (1938), "Where a person leaves his residence and goes to another place, even if it be another state, with an intention to return to his former abode, or with only the conditional intention of acquiring a new residence, he does not lose his former residence as long as his intention remains conditional".

 

In accordance to the three laws stated above, I have been a proud resident for 32 of my 35 years.  I gave evidence that showed I:

1.  Never relinquished my residency status.

2.  Resided in the community for one year prior to the election.

3.  Maintained a fixed and permanent residency throughout the year.

4.  Returned when I had temporarily left.

 

It is apparent to me and other residents that the law was not abided here today.  Instead, the electoral board used this hearing as a mockery of the law and to strip me of my Constitutional Rights to run for an elected office. Therefore, the decision to remove me from the ballot was made from financial greed, personal and political party selfishness, extreme board bias, and fear.    However, removing me from the ballot will not stop me from fighting for the residents and informing them of the community issues, like your fiscal irresponsibility and lack of transparency.

 

Furthermore, the law also states that only residence have to pay property taxes.  I will be expecting a full refund for my last 8 years of taxes, since your official court ruling will declare me a non-resident.  I was 100% owner of my abode, therefore qualifying for a tax refund for paying property taxes to a village that my home was not counted as a residential home of Bolingbrook.

 

Thank you,

Bonnie Alicea