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Max Bever, spokesman for the Chicago Board of Elections, holds aloft the paper showing the order of mayoral candidates’ names on the ballot for next year’s municipal election. The names were determined by a lottery drawing conducted at the Board of Elections in the Loop Tuesday morning.
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Ja’Mal Green will occupy the top spot on the mayoral ballot in February’s municipal election.
After that, it will be Ald. Sophia King, state Rep. Kam Buckner, businessman Willie Wilson. Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas, former CEO of Chicago Public Schools.
The ballot order was determined Tuesday in a lottery held by the Chicago Board of Elections. To get into the lottery, candidates needed to submit nominating petitions on the first day they were being accepted — something the incumbent, Mayor Lori Lightfoot, chose not to do.
Board of Elections spokesman Max Bever conducted the lottery in public view, spinning the red container and drawing the winners, a process familiar to any bingo player.
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