opponent is going to be talking about that and not to mention general election but not to mention the general election in november actually right your honor but before we get to that let me just tell you why i'm here to so issue in my mind is whether in the cook county democratic primary what this court can do about elections that have already happened because it's not clear at all to me other than it's the radical matter there's anything here you're  but i remember my professor telling me in the simplest terms you know you need if we're talking constitutional law pretend you're talking to kindergarten what is equal protection to me and for me equal protection means reading the same people just look back at your brief to be sure that was right you didn't ask for that really even even which that's a big assumption but that aside you haven't asked for that so you do have to address the injunction focused on first the democratic primary and then construing it generally generously the election in november but we can't do anything about the past  so it's not really the same preliminary injunction injunctions are powerful medicine you have to be very specific and did whatever was going on with the underlying merits preliminary injunction seems to have come and gone even a hundred in my reply brief i dress just this because it's ok you can remedy the wrong that's been done here by holding another elect at all uncommon particularly for lower down the ballot races i mean there's one person for the forest preserve there's one person for for other things it doesn't mean other people couldn't get on the ballot and i think in your case some and on that basis this court dismissed her appeal and remained the case through the district court with instructions to dismiss are there any other proceedings going on in the district court directed to the merits of the illinois system you and here that's what i'm trying to get out as well it is possible to bring either a facial challenge or the kind of challenge against a voting system if you will there are such and i'm reluctant for us just say what's going on the district court is moved i can certainly see that the a preliminary injunction directed to something that happened in march or november of this year there's nothing we can do to change anything that happened in that the cases were definitely cited in our briefing the report and we relied on a lot of the arguments that it made there i think that also points out something that's unusual about this case in that i'm representing cook county and the cook county board we are county is following when i say law and as you said previously your honor the percentage is the standard that is in illinois state law has been found to be reasonable  i'm just wondering if i was just looking at a table of citations in your group if you have not already filed something with the court then perhaps both sides can file a letter calling our attention to these related case for just for our convenience certainly   or the presence of frivolous candidates prior to the imposition of a reasonable restrictions to ballot access namely to prevent such harms from occurring in the first place and act reasonable and nondiscriminatory ballot access laws that preserv important regulatory interests of preventing voter confusion and protecting the integrity of elections and that right that here is exactly what the only state law is attempting to do because the state is not required to list anyone who wants to stand for office interest maybe not in this state but actually in another state out west in california during the gubernatorial recall election when gray davis was recall the governor they opened up the recall election to anyone who could meet this for the very low recognizes that as a member of a party this is a person who is going to be a reason a candidate this is not going to be a frivolous candidate just taking up space on the ballot this is someone who has support structural support to run a national campaign and that is why those saying that is why that honor mentioned earlier not every cook county race was a single candidate there were some one that had three candidates previously in two thousand and sixteen i believe there were two there are a number again of contested races so on contested races do not reach the point what the point has been proved repeatedly is that the standard is to count state of illinois has for these types of elections the voter that the signature requirement for these types of like is reasonable and should be upheld and right the numbers are totally not different in my book that's called if i only equal protection because similarly situated people are treated differently the numbers are trotted out but let's talk about numbers and injunction on injun