America’s representative system relies on voters trusting that their legal ballots will be counted, but the Left’s push for Big Labor unions in every aspect of American society threatens to erode that firm foundation.

How can American voters trust the integrity of the system if the election workers who manage it join a hyper-partisan union that endorses, bankrolls, and helps elect Democrats?

Yet that is exactly what election workers in Chicago are attempting to do.

Employees at the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners sought to unionize and join the Service Employees International Union Local 73 in July 2024. The SEIU local said the union would include between 80 and 90 election workers, including clerks, polling place investigators, equipment specialists, and others.

The board argued that the state’s election code bars employees from engaging in “political activity,” and therefore the employees cannot join the union. The board noted in an August filing that SEIU 73 lobbies legislatively, endorses candidates, and makes political contributions.

“Plainly, these ‘political matters’ are precisely the type of activity in which the Union and its members regularly and effectively engage,” the filing reads, according to the Chicago Tribune. Board workers “strictly cannot, under any circumstances” engage in those activities, the board argued.

An administrative law judge ruled the other way, however, the Tribune........

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