URBANA – The Republican candidate for the 103rd District seat faces another challenge.

Chicago attorney Michael J. Kasper has filed a request for judicial review of the papers for University of Illinois student Frank Calabrese, who is running against incumbent state Rep. Naomi Jakobsson, D-Urbana.

Jakobsson has said she has nothing to do with the challenges.

In May, a Champaign County Electoral Board ruled that Calabrese had complied substantially with election law. Calabrese was not in the February primary, but filed papers in April for the November general election.

Kasper said Tuesday that election laws require a candidate's committee to "immediately" forward the names and addresses of its officers to the Illinois State Board of Elections.

He said Calabrese's committee organized and sent Calabrese's name to the state on April 7, just meeting the deadline.

But he contends the committee didn't file the names and addresses of the committee's officers, and he filed an objection April 14, 2008, the last date permitted by law.

On April 18, the committee filed its officers' names, but not their addresses, on a certificate, Kasper said. Attached to the certificate was a page listing a number of precinct committeemen's names and addresses, including the committee's officers.

The county's electoral board, composed of Champaign County Clerk Mark Shelden, Steve Ziegler from the Champaign County state's attorney's office and Fred Wilkinson from the Champaign County circuit clerk's office, disagreed with Kasper.

"The committee's paperwork was not entirely in compliance, but it was substantially in compliance," the board wrote.

Kasper's new complaint argues that an objector would be in an impossible situation because the deadline for objecting came before the papers were filed.

"The point is the election code directs them to file this with the state board of elections in a set amount of time," he said. "If you wait until after the challenge deadline, it defeats the purpose of having a challenge deadline."

For his part, Calabrese said he would like to move on to the election.

"I'm just disappointed in the amount of time they've put into thwarting the electoral process," he said. "The county (electoral) board understands that removing a candidate is an extraordinary remedy."

Kasper is a big gun in Democratic politics; he has served as counsel to the state Democratic Party and at one time to former President Clinton. The filer of the objection, Pat Devaney, is the legislative representative for the Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois.

Calabrese, 21, is a UI Senate member who has been active in the pro-Chief movement.

No court date has yet been set.