Schoenburg: With long-time home in Springfield, why does candidate’s father vote, get elected delegate from Taylorville?

Martin Davis, father of U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, has had a home on Springfield’s west side since 1994, voted from there for decades and takes a homestead exemption on the property.But that home is in the 18th Congressional District — not his son’s 13th Congressional District.Well, Illinois law is not super-strict concerning what you call your voting residence, and since the 2016 primary, Martin Davis has been voting in the 13th. And in this […]