The Leagues of Women Voters of the Aurora Area, Elgin Area and Central Kane County will be co-hosting a hybrid candidate forum on Wednesday for a variety of races in the Nov. 5 election.
The event covers races for U.S. Congress in District 11, state representative in the 49th District, state senator in the 25th district and judge of the 16th Judicial Circuit 4th Subcircuit.
Following the candidate forum, there will be a short presentation by the Kane County Forest Preserve District staff to explain the Land Acquisition and Preserve Improvement Referendum appearing on the Nov. 5 ballot.
The forum will begin at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Batavia City Hall, 100 N. Island Ave. in Batavia. Residents may participate by joining the live in-person audience, watching the live-stream on BATV or viewing the recording on the BATV YouTube channel, according to a press release for the event.
The candidate forum will be moderated by a member of the League of Women Voters. Candidates will be given an opportunity to provide one-minute opening statements, after which the candidates will be presented with a series of questions, according to the release. Candidates will be given one minute to respond to each question they receive.
Following questions, each candidate will be given one minute for a closing statement, event organizers said.
Members of the public who want to submit questions for the candidates may do so in writing during the live in-person event, according to the release. Consistent with normal League of Women Voters practice, questions will be reviewed by League members for appropriateness before they are presented to the candidates, officials said.
A recording of the program will be posted on the websites of the hosting Leagues of Women Voters and will be available for viewing on the IL Voter Guide website (https://illinoisvoterguide.org/), which is hosted by the League of Women Voters of Illinois Education Fund.
Nonpartisan information about voting in Illinois can be found at https://illinoisvoterguide.org/, according to the release. For more information on Wednesday’s candidate forum, email info@lwvckc.org.