St Clair shire Board member Steve R...

St Clair shire Board member Steve Reeb regularly lobbied to eliminate the election board in the city where he thrown away the race for County Board chairman.

in succession Friday he said promised reforms to the East St Louis Board of Elections have him ready to support a funding increase.

"This is not a flip flop This is a different way of trying to accomplish a task. This isn't the [i]finale[/i] of it," said Reeb, adding, "It's a gradation in the right direction."

Reeb a Republican from Shiloh, narrowly dissipated the County Board chairman's race to Democrat Mark Kern in November 2004 The election was marred according to a federal prosecutor's allegations that East St Louis Democrats bought ballots Four city Democratic politicians were convicted June 29 of ballot fraud and await sentencing.

Reeb and other Republicans have advocated killing the East St Louis Board of Elections and letting