Clerk’s Office Closed Today… Illegally

County Board Did Not Approve Hours Changes

Election day closure of the Clerk’s Office has been happening because Mary McClellan decided so after the troubles during the 2016 primary elections.

The closures have never been approved by the county board.

Jack Franks and Mary McClellan confer at the McHenry’s 2015 Fiesta Days Parade.

“(b) In counties of less than 500,000 population from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. of each working day except Saturdays and legal holidays, but in such counties the office shall remain open until noon the Saturday before general, primary or special election days.

Provided, that the days on which such office shall be open and the hours of opening and closing of the office of the county clerk may be changed and otherwise fixed and determined by the county board of any county. Any such action taken by the county board shall be by an appropriate resolution passed at a regular meeting. “

http://ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=005500050HDiv%2E+3%2D2&ActID=750&ChapterID=12&SeqStart=14400000&SeqEnd=16300000


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Clerk’s Office Closed Today… Illegally — 17 Comments

  1. What are we waiting to impeach Jack D. Franks (Jack Franks is a Democrat)? Tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock…

  2. The lady (?) is a law(less) unto herself. Seems that no one else will have her. Just pray that after this election and the music stops, she will be the idiot standing there with the dumb(er) look on her face with no place to sit!

  3. What if people have business at the clerks office? They’re supposed to make other arrangements and be inconvenienced to come back because this Clerk can’t walk and chew gum?

  4. Why is everybody so down on Poor Mary?

    She’s like an Amazonian savage … and here’s what a skilled Brazilian jungle guide said about her:

    “Mary see tasty prize. Mary steal tasty prize. Mary no morality. Mary take what she like. Mary grow up in broken home. Mary don’t know right from wrong. Mary do as she pleases. If she no like you, she poison you with venomous toad. Mary is what politics in IL has sunk to. Worse coming. Mary not decrease probity of McHenry Bench very much. Mary funny.
    She put on judge’s robes and prance about. She screech she rule all. Bow down before her. Or she bite!”

  5. Is this why I can’t find any county election results?

  6. Proft is ready to come to McHenry County. Ives campaign is demanding our county’s results!

  7. Consequences supposed to be $500-$5000?(see last sentence)

    Provided, that the days on which such office shall be open and the hours of opening and closing of the office of the county clerk may be changed and otherwise fixed and determined by the county board of any county. Any such action taken by the county board shall be by an appropriate resolution passed at a regular meeting.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, when any election is held and the results of such election are required by law to be returned to the county clerk, the office of the county clerk shall remain open for the purpose of receiving such results from the time of opening of the polls until the returns from each precinct have been received.
    Any county clerk who fails to keep his office open for the purpose of receiving election returns as required by this Section commits a business offense, and shall be fined not less than $500 nor more than $5,000.
    (Source: P.A. 86-962.)

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