Ballot lottery will be Wednesday

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Dec. 5, 2011

Clerk Orr to conduct ballot position lottery on Wednesday

What: Ballot position lottery

When: Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 10 a.m.

Where: Cook County Clerk David Orr's office, 69 W. Washington, Fifth Floor

More: Clerk Orr will conduct a lottery to determine the candidate ballot positions in the March 20, 2012 Presidential Primary Election.

Candidates competing for the same office who filed simultaneously Nov. 28 at 9 a.m., the onset of candidate filing, will be included in the lottery. The lottery will include 19 candidates in eight races.

All other candidates who filed to run for office after 9 a.m. on Nov. 28 through today's 5 p.m. deadline will appear on the ballot according to the order in which they filed.

The list of candidates in the lottery is as follows:

Democratic Party

Commissioner, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District

Stella B. Black

Debra Shore (Slate)

Kari K. Steele (Slate)

Patrick Daley Thompson (Slate)

Patricia Young

Commissioner, Board of Review, 3^rd District

Larry Rogers, Jr.

Robert Shaw

Chicago Ward Committeeman, 1^st Ward