State Rep. Dan Brady: Still too much paperwork and delays at Secretary of State office

Posted on September 1, 2022
State Re. Dan Brady is running for Secretary of State. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – A candidate for Illinois secretary of state says there’s still far too much paperwork and delay in that office.

State Rep. Dan Brady (R-Bloomington), told a news conference in Springfield Thursday his lien-and-title modernization would be similar to something he passed in the legislature.

“We created the electronic filing of death records in the state of Illinois,” said Brady, a funeral director by trade. “Roughly 10,000 records a month that had been going by paper and now is going electronically. That helps every person that is involved: from families to the medical community, funeral homes to filing those with county health departments.”

Brady says even if Democrat Alexi Giannoulias says he’ll do the same thing, his experience makes him the better candidate.

The secretary of state is the only statewide office on the ballot which does not feature an incumbent.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected].

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