Opinion ID: 2087167
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Heading: Voters' Right of Suffrage

Text: Williams next argues that the voters' right of suffrage will be denied if he does not continue to serve as a judge because the voters cast their ballots for him at the 1990 general election. Williams notes that the Illinois Constitution guarantees the right to vote and provides that all elections shall be free and equal. Ill. Const.1970, art. Ill, §§ 1, 3. No right of suffrage will be denied if Williams does not continue to serve as a judge. Williams did not win the 1990 primary election and thus had no right to run in the 1990 general election to fill Kiley's vacancy. At issue here is the right to vote to fill the judicial vacancy created by Judge Kiley's resignation. That right was exercised by the voters on November 3, 1992, when they elected McDunn to fill Kiley's position.