Chicago council to consider election-related ordinance six days before primary
(The Center Square) – The Chicago City Council has a special meeting scheduled on Wednesday afternoon to consider a proposal Mayor Brandon Johnson said was provoked by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The mayor said the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr. Fair Access to Democracy Ordinance would protect poll workers, voters and election-related activities.
“The provocation really is just looking at what’s coming from the federal government, where the president has made it very clear that he wants to suppress the vote of working people,” Johnson said at a youth jobs event on Tuesday.
The mayor was asked why he called the meeting to consider the ordinance six days before a primary election.
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