An Illinois Circuit Court in Chicago will hear Schmidt v State Board of Elections on Wednesday, November 23. This is the case over whether the Green Party is automatically still a qualified party in the four U.S. House districts, and the four State house districts, in which it polled over 5% in November 2010.

Illinois law lets parties that are not ballot-qualified statewide be ballot-qualified in jurisdictions in which the party polled at least 5% of the vote in the last general election. However, some Illinois election officials say when a district changes boundaries, even to a miniscule extend, that qualified status disappears.