“This case is about more than one campaign,” said Byron Sigcho Lopez. “It’s about whether the people of the 4th District get a real choice in this election or whether political insiders get to decide elections before a single vote is cast. In the 4th Congressional District, that meant collecting 10,816 valid signatures, while the Democratic candidate needed only 697 and the Republican candidate needed 371. Sigcho Lopez submitted the maximum number of signatures allowed – more than 17,000 – that he collected in the 90-day window allowed. However, the Illinois State Officers Electoral Board ruled that only 9,594 were valid.