(10 ILCS 5/21-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-1)
Sec. 21-1.
Choosing and election of electors of President and
Vice-President of the United States shall be in the following manner:
(a) In each year in which a President and Vice-President of the United
States are chosen, each political party or group in this State shall choose
by its State Convention or State central committee electors of President and Vice-President of the
United States and such State Convention or State central committee of such party or group shall also
choose electors at large, if any are to be appointed for this State and
such State Convention or State central committee of such party or group shall by its chair and
secretary certify the total list of such electors together with electors at
large so chosen to the State Board of Elections.
The filing of such certificate with the Board, of such choosing of
electors shall be deemed and taken to be the choosing and selection of the
electors of this State, if such party or group is successful at the polls
as herein provided in choosing their candidates for President and
Vice-President of the United States.
(b) The names of the candidates of the several political parties or
groups for electors of President and Vice-President shall not be printed on
the official ballot to be voted in the election to be held on the day in
this Act above named. In lieu of the names of the candidates for such
electors of President and Vice-President, immediately under the appellation
of party name of a party or group in the column of its candidates on the
official ballot, to be voted at said election first above named in
subsection (1) of Section 2A-1.2 and Section 2A-2, there shall be printed
within a bracket the name of the candidate for
President and the name of the candidate for Vice-President of such party or
group with a square to the left of such bracket. Each voter in this State
from the several lists or sets of electors so chosen and selected by the
said respective political parties or groups, may choose and elect one of
such lists or sets of electors by placing a cross in the square to the left
of the bracket aforesaid of one of such parties or groups. Placing a cross
within the square before the bracket enclosing the names of President and
Vice-President shall not be deemed and taken as a direct vote for such
candidates for President and Vice-President, or either of them, but shall
only be deemed and taken to be a vote for the entire list or set of
electors chosen by that political party or group so certified to the State
Board of Elections as herein provided. Voting by means of placing a cross
in the appropriate place preceding the appellation or title of the
particular political party or group, shall not be deemed or taken as a
direct vote for the candidates for President and Vice-President, or either
of them, but instead to the Presidential vote, as a vote for the entire
list or set of electors chosen by that political party or group so
certified to the State Board of Elections as herein provided.
(c) Such certification by the respective political parties or groups in
this State of electors of President and Vice-President shall be made to the
State Board of Elections within 2 days after such State convention or meeting of the State central committee in which the electors were chosen.
(d) Should more than one certificate of choice and selection of electors
of the same political party or group be filed by contesting conventions or
contesting groups, it shall be the duty of the State Board of Elections
within 10 days after the adjournment of the last of such conventions to
meet and determine which set of nominees for electors of such party or
group was chosen and selected by the authorized convention of such party or
group. The Board, after notice to the chair and secretaries or managers
of the conventions or groups and after a hearing shall determine which set
of electors was so chosen by the authorized convention and shall so
announce and publish the fact, and such decision shall be final and the set
of electors so determined upon by the electoral board to be so chosen shall
be the list or set of electors to be deemed elected if that party shall be
successful at the polls, as herein provided.
(e) Should a vacancy occur in the choice of an elector in a
congressional district, such vacancy may be filled by the executive
committee of the party or group for such congressional district, to be
certified by such committee to the State Board of Elections. Should a
vacancy occur in the office of elector at large, such vacancy shall be
filled by the State committee of such political party or group, and
certified by it to the State Board of Elections.
(Source: P.A. 99-522, eff. 6-30-16; 100-1027, eff. 1-1-19.)
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