4 |
| "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Sections 4-8,
5-7,
6-35, 7-8, 7-9, 7-41, 9-1.5, 9-1.7, 9-1.8, | 6 |
| 9-1.9, 9-1.14, 9-9.5, 10-14, 12-5, 17-29, 19-2.2, 21-2, 22-1,
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| 22-3, 22-7, 22-8, and 22-17 and by adding Section 1A-19 as
| 8 |
| follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/1A-19 new)
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| Sec. 1A-19. Effect of extension of canvassing period on | 11 |
| terms of public offices and official acts. | 12 |
| (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if the | 13 |
| proclamation of election results for an elected office has not | 14 |
| been issued by the date of the commencement of the term of that | 15 |
| elected office because of the extension of canvassing periods | 16 |
| under this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, then | 17 |
| the term of the elected office shall commence on a date 14 days | 18 |
| after the proclamation of election results is issued for that | 19 |
| elected office. | 20 |
| (b) If subsection (a) applies to the commencement date of | 21 |
| an elected official's term, and if the elected official is | 22 |
| authorized or required by law to perform an official act by a | 23 |
| date occurring before the commencement of his or her term of | 24 |
| office, including but not limited to holding an organizational |
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| meeting of the public body to which the public official is | 2 |
| elected, then notwithstanding any law to the contrary the date | 3 |
| by which the act shall be performed shall be a date 14 days | 4 |
| after the date otherwise established by law. | 5 |
| (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section or | 6 |
| of this Code to the contrary, the terms of office for Supreme, | 7 |
| Appellate, and Circuit Judges commence on the first Monday in | 8 |
| December following their election or retention. Judicial | 9 |
| election results must be proclaimed before that date.
| 10 |
| (10 ILCS 5/4-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-8)
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| Sec. 4-8. The county clerk shall provide a sufficient | 12 |
| number of blank
forms for the registration of electors, which | 13 |
| shall be known as
registration record cards and which shall | 14 |
| consist of loose leaf sheets
or cards, of suitable size to | 15 |
| contain in plain writing and figures the
data hereinafter | 16 |
| required thereon or shall consist of computer cards of
suitable | 17 |
| nature to contain the data required thereon. The registration | 18 |
| record
cards, which shall include an affidavit of registration | 19 |
| as hereinafter
provided, shall be executed in duplicate.
| 20 |
| The registration record card shall contain the following | 21 |
| and such
other information as the county clerk may think it | 22 |
| proper to require for
the identification of the applicant for | 23 |
| registration:
| 24 |
| Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and first | 25 |
| or
Christian name in full, and the middle name or the initial | 26 |
| for such
middle name, if any.
| 27 |
| Sex.
| 28 |
| Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or | 29 |
| other location of
the dwelling, including the apartment, unit | 30 |
| or room number, if any, and in the
case of a mobile home the lot | 31 |
| number, and such additional clear and definite
description as | 32 |
| may be necessary to determine the exact location of the
| 33 |
| dwelling of the applicant. Where the location cannot be |
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| determined by
street and number, then the section, | 2 |
| congressional township and range
number may be used, or such | 3 |
| other description as may be necessary,
including post-office | 4 |
| mailing address. In the case of a homeless individual,
the | 5 |
| individual's voting residence that is his or her mailing | 6 |
| address shall be
included on his or her registration record | 7 |
| card.
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| Term of residence in the State of Illinois and precinct. | 9 |
| This
information shall be furnished by the applicant stating | 10 |
| the place or
places where he resided and the dates during which | 11 |
| he resided in such
place or places during the year next | 12 |
| preceding the date of the next
ensuing election.
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| Nativity. The state or country in which the applicant was | 14 |
| born.
| 15 |
| Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or | 16 |
| naturalized. If
naturalized, the court, place, and date of | 17 |
| naturalization.
| 18 |
| Date of application for registration, i.e., the day, month | 19 |
| and year
when applicant presented himself for registration.
| 20 |
| Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
| 21 |
| Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time | 22 |
| of
registration, which would require assistance in voting.
| 23 |
| The county and state in which the applicant was last | 24 |
| registered.
| 25 |
| Signature of voter. The applicant, after the registration | 26 |
| and in the
presence of a deputy registrar or other officer of | 27 |
| registration shall be
required to sign his or her name in ink | 28 |
| to the affidavit on both the
original and duplicate | 29 |
| registration record cards.
| 30 |
| Signature of deputy registrar or officer of registration.
| 31 |
| In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may affix | 32 |
| his mark
to the affidavit. In such case the officer empowered | 33 |
| to give the
registration oath shall write a detailed | 34 |
| description of the applicant in
the space provided on the back |
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| or at the bottom of the card or sheet;
and shall ask the | 2 |
| following questions and record the answers thereto:
| 3 |
| Father's first name.
| 4 |
| Mother's first name.
| 5 |
| From what address did the applicant last register?
| 6 |
| Reason for inability to sign name.
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| Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit in
| 8 |
| substantially the following form:
| 9 |
| AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
| 10 |
| STATE OF ILLINOIS
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| COUNTY OF .......
| 12 |
| I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the | 13 |
| United States;
that on the date of the next election I shall | 14 |
| have resided in the State
of Illinois and in the election | 15 |
| precinct in which I reside 30 days and
that I intend that this | 16 |
| location shall be my residence; that
I am fully qualified to | 17 |
| vote, and that the above statements are true.
| 18 |
| ..............................
| 19 |
| (His or her signature or mark)
| 20 |
| Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
| 21 |
| ..................................
| 22 |
| Signature of registration officer.
| 23 |
| (To be signed in presence of registrant.)
| 24 |
| Space shall be provided upon the face of each registration | 25 |
| record
card for the notation of the voting record of the person | 26 |
| registered
thereon.
| 27 |
| Each registration record card shall be numbered according | 28 |
| to
precincts, and may be serially or otherwise marked for | 29 |
| identification in
such manner as the county clerk may | 30 |
| determine.
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| The registration cards shall be deemed public records and | 32 |
| shall be
open to inspection during regular business hours, | 33 |
| except during the 27
days immediately preceding any election. |
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| On written request of any
candidate or objector or any person | 2 |
| intending to object to a petition, the
election authority shall | 3 |
| extend its hours for inspection of registration
cards and other | 4 |
| records of the election authority during the period
beginning | 5 |
| with the filing of petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or
| 6 |
| 28-3 and continuing through the termination of electoral board | 7 |
| hearings on
any objections to petitions containing signatures | 8 |
| of registered voters in
the jurisdiction of the election | 9 |
| authority. The extension shall be for a
period of hours | 10 |
| sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
the | 11 |
| records but the election authority is not required to extend | 12 |
| its hours
beyond the period beginning at its normal opening for | 13 |
| business and ending
at midnight. If the business hours are so | 14 |
| extended, the election authority
shall post a public notice of | 15 |
| such extended hours. Registration record
cards may also be | 16 |
| inspected, upon approval of the officer in charge of the
cards, | 17 |
| during the 27 days immediately preceding any election.
| 18 |
| Registration
record cards shall also be open to inspection by | 19 |
| certified judges and poll
watchers and challengers at the | 20 |
| polling place on election day, but only to
the extent necessary | 21 |
| to determine the question of the right of a person to
vote or | 22 |
| to serve as a judge of election. At no time shall poll watchers | 23 |
| or
challengers be allowed to physically handle the registration | 24 |
| record cards.
| 25 |
| Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or other | 26 |
| electronic data
processing information containing voter | 27 |
| registration information shall
be furnished by the county clerk | 28 |
| within 10 days after December 15 and
May
15 each year and | 29 |
| within 10 days after each registration
period is closed to the | 30 |
| State Board of Elections in a form
prescribed by the
Board. For | 31 |
| the purposes of this Section, a registration period is closed | 32 |
| 27
days before the date of any regular or special election. | 33 |
| Registration
information shall include, but not be limited to, | 34 |
| the
following information: name, sex, residence, telephone |
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| number, if any,
age, party affiliation, if applicable, | 2 |
| precinct, ward, township,
county, and representative, | 3 |
| legislative and
congressional districts. In the event of | 4 |
| noncompliance, the State
Board of Elections is directed to | 5 |
| obtain compliance forthwith with this
nondiscretionary duty of | 6 |
| the election authority by instituting legal
proceedings in the | 7 |
| circuit court of the county in which the election
authority | 8 |
| maintains the registration information. The costs of | 9 |
| furnishing
updated copies of tapes or discs shall be paid at a | 10 |
| rate of $.00034 per
name of registered voters in the election | 11 |
| jurisdiction, but not less than
$50 per tape or disc and shall | 12 |
| be paid from appropriations made to the
State Board of | 13 |
| Elections for reimbursement to the election authority for
such | 14 |
| purpose. The State Board shall furnish copies of such tapes, | 15 |
| discs, other
electronic data or compilations thereof to state | 16 |
| political committees
registered pursuant to the Illinois | 17 |
| Campaign Finance Act or the Federal
Election Campaign Act and | 18 |
| to governmental entities, at their request and at a reasonable | 19 |
| cost. Copies of
the tapes, discs or other electronic data shall | 20 |
| be furnished by the county
clerk to local political committees | 21 |
| at their request and at a
reasonable cost.
To protect the | 22 |
| privacy and confidentiality of voter registration information,
| 23 |
| the disclosure
of electronic voter registration records to any | 24 |
| person or entity other than to a
State or local political
| 25 |
| committee and other than to a governmental entity for a | 26 |
| governmental
purpose is specifically prohibited. Copies of
the | 27 |
| tapes, discs, or other electronic data shall be furnished by | 28 |
| the county
clerk to local political committees and governmental | 29 |
| entities at their request and at a
reasonable cost.
Reasonable | 30 |
| cost of the tapes, discs, et cetera for
this purpose would be | 31 |
| the cost of duplication plus 15% for
administration. The | 32 |
| individual representing a political committee
requesting | 33 |
| copies of such tapes shall make a sworn affidavit that the
| 34 |
| information shall be used only for bona fide political |
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| purposes,
including by or for candidates for office or | 2 |
| incumbent office holders.
Such tapes, discs or other electronic | 3 |
| data shall not be used under any
circumstances by any political | 4 |
| committee or individuals for purposes of
commercial | 5 |
| solicitation or other business purposes. If such tapes
contain | 6 |
| information on county residents related to the operations of
| 7 |
| county government in addition to registration information, | 8 |
| that
information shall not be used under any circumstances for | 9 |
| commercial
solicitation or other business purposes. The | 10 |
| prohibition in this
Section against using the computer tapes or | 11 |
| computer discs or other
electronic data processing information | 12 |
| containing voter registration
information for purposes of | 13 |
| commercial solicitation or other business
purposes shall be | 14 |
| prospective only from the effective date of this
amended Act of | 15 |
| 1979. Any person who violates this provision shall be
guilty of | 16 |
| a Class 4 felony.
| 17 |
| The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October | 18 |
| 1, 1987, such
regulations as may be necessary to ensure | 19 |
| uniformity throughout the State
in electronic data processing | 20 |
| of voter registration information. The
regulations shall | 21 |
| include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
uniform | 22 |
| medium, communications protocol and file structure to be | 23 |
| employed
by the election authorities of this State in the | 24 |
| electronic data processing
of voter registration information. | 25 |
| Each election authority utilizing
electronic data processing | 26 |
| of voter registration information shall comply
with such | 27 |
| regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
| 28 |
| If the applicant for registration was last registered in | 29 |
| another
county within this State, he shall also sign a | 30 |
| certificate authorizing
cancellation of the former | 31 |
| registration. The certificate shall be in
substantially the | 32 |
| following form:
| 33 |
| To the County Clerk of.... County, Illinois. (or)
| 34 |
| To the Election Commission of the City of ...., Illinois.
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| This is to certify that I am registered in your (county) | 2 |
| (city) and
that my residence was ............................
| 3 |
| Having moved out of your (county) (city), I hereby authorize | 4 |
| you to
cancel said registration in your office.
| 5 |
| Dated at ...., Illinois, on (insert date).
| 6 |
| .................................
| 7 |
| (Signature of Voter)
| 8 |
| Attest: ................, County Clerk, .............
| 9 |
| County, Illinois.
| 10 |
| The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately | 11 |
| by the
County Clerk to the County Clerk (or election commission | 12 |
| as the case may
be) where the applicant was formerly | 13 |
| registered. Receipt of such
certificate shall be full authority | 14 |
| for cancellation of any previous
registration.
| 15 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-465, eff. 1-1-02; 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; | 16 |
| 93-574, eff.
8-21-03 .)
| 17 |
| (10 ILCS 5/5-7)
(from Ch. 46, par. 5-7)
| 18 |
| Sec. 5-7. The county clerk shall provide a sufficient | 19 |
| number of
blank forms for the registration of electors which | 20 |
| shall be known as
registration record cards and which shall | 21 |
| consist of loose leaf sheets
or cards, of suitable size to | 22 |
| contain in plain writing and figures the
data hereinafter | 23 |
| required thereon or shall consist of computer cards of
suitable | 24 |
| nature to contain the data required thereon. The registration
| 25 |
| record cards, which shall include an affidavit of registration | 26 |
| as
hereinafter provided, shall be executed in duplicate.
| 27 |
| The registration record card shall contain the following | 28 |
| and such
other information as the county clerk may think it | 29 |
| proper to require for
the identification of the applicant for | 30 |
| registration:
| 31 |
| Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and first | 32 |
| or
Christian name in full, and the middle name or the initial | 33 |
| for such
middle name, if any.
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| Sex.
| 2 |
| Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or | 3 |
| other
location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit | 4 |
| or room number,
if any, and in the case of a mobile home the lot | 5 |
| number, and such additional
clear and definite description as | 6 |
| may be necessary to determine the exact
location of the | 7 |
| dwelling of the applicant, including post-office mailing
| 8 |
| address. In the case of a homeless individual, the individual's | 9 |
| voting
residence that is his or her mailing address shall be | 10 |
| included on his or her
registration record card.
| 11 |
| Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the | 12 |
| precinct. Which
questions may be answered by the applicant | 13 |
| stating, in excess of 30 days
in the State and in excess of 30 | 14 |
| days in the precinct.
| 15 |
| Nativity. The State or country in which the applicant was | 16 |
| born.
| 17 |
| Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or | 18 |
| naturalized. If
naturalized, the court, place and date of | 19 |
| naturalization.
| 20 |
| Date of application for registration, i.e., the day, month | 21 |
| and year
when applicant presented himself for registration.
| 22 |
| Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
| 23 |
| Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time | 24 |
| of
registration, which would require assistance in voting.
| 25 |
| The county and state in which the applicant was last | 26 |
| registered.
| 27 |
| Signature of voter. The applicant, after the registration | 28 |
| and in the
presence of a deputy registrar or other officer of | 29 |
| registration shall be
required to sign his or her name in ink | 30 |
| to the affidavit on the original
and duplicate registration | 31 |
| record card.
| 32 |
| Signature of Deputy Registrar.
| 33 |
| In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may affix | 34 |
| his mark
to the affidavit. In such case the officer empowered |
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| to give the
registration oath shall write a detailed | 2 |
| description of the applicant in
the space provided at the | 3 |
| bottom of the card or sheet; and shall ask the
following | 4 |
| questions and record the answers thereto:
| 5 |
| Father's first name .......................
| 6 |
| Mother's first name .......................
| 7 |
| From what address did you last register?
| 8 |
| Reason for inability to sign name.
| 9 |
| Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit in
| 10 |
| substantially the following form:
| 11 |
| AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
| 12 |
| State of Illinois)
| 13 |
| )ss
| 14 |
| County of )
| 15 |
| I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the | 16 |
| United States;
that on the date of the next election I shall | 17 |
| have resided in the State
of Illinois and in the election | 18 |
| precinct in which I reside 30 days; that
I am fully qualified | 19 |
| to vote. That I intend that this location shall be
my residence | 20 |
| and that the above statements are true.
| 21 |
| ..............................
| 22 |
| (His or her signature or mark)
| 23 |
| Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
| 24 |
| .........................................
| 25 |
| Signature of Registration Officer.
| 26 |
| (To be signed in presence of Registrant.)
| 27 |
| Space shall be provided upon the face of each registration | 28 |
| record
card for the notation of the voting record of the person | 29 |
| registered
thereon.
| 30 |
| Each registration record card shall be numbered according | 31 |
| to towns
and precincts, wards, cities and villages, as the case | 32 |
| may be, and may
be serially or otherwise marked for | 33 |
| identification in such manner as the
county clerk may |
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| determine.
| 2 |
| The registration cards shall be deemed public records and | 3 |
| shall be
open to inspection during regular business hours, | 4 |
| except during the 27
days immediately preceding any election. | 5 |
| On written request of any
candidate or objector or any person | 6 |
| intending to object to a petition, the
election authority shall | 7 |
| extend its hours for inspection of registration
cards and other | 8 |
| records of the election authority during the period
beginning | 9 |
| with the filing of petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or
| 10 |
| 28-3 and continuing through the termination of electoral board | 11 |
| hearings on
any objections to petitions containing signatures | 12 |
| of registered voters in
the jurisdiction of the election | 13 |
| authority. The extension shall be for a
period of hours | 14 |
| sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
the | 15 |
| records but the election authority is not required to extend | 16 |
| its hours
beyond the period beginning at its normal opening for | 17 |
| business and ending
at midnight. If the business hours are so | 18 |
| extended, the election authority
shall post a public notice of | 19 |
| such extended hours. Registration record cards
may also be | 20 |
| inspected, upon approval of the officer in charge of the cards,
| 21 |
| during the 27 days immediately preceding any election. | 22 |
| Registration
record
cards shall also be open to inspection by | 23 |
| certified judges and poll watchers
and challengers at the | 24 |
| polling place on election day, but only to the extent
necessary | 25 |
| to determine the question of the right of a person to vote or | 26 |
| to
serve as a judge of election. At no time shall poll watchers | 27 |
| or challengers be
allowed to physically handle the registration | 28 |
| record cards.
| 29 |
| Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or other | 30 |
| electronic data
processing information containing voter | 31 |
| registration information shall
be furnished by the county clerk | 32 |
| within 10 days after December 15 and
May
15 each year and | 33 |
| within 10 days after each registration
period is closed to the | 34 |
| State Board of Elections in a form
prescribed by the
Board. For |
|
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| the purposes of this Section, a registration period is closed | 2 |
| 27
days before the date of any regular or special election. | 3 |
| Registration
information
shall include, but not be limited to, | 4 |
| the
following information: name, sex, residence, telephone | 5 |
| number, if any, age,
party affiliation, if applicable, | 6 |
| precinct, ward, township, county, and
representative, | 7 |
| legislative and congressional districts. In the event of
| 8 |
| noncompliance, the State Board of Elections is directed to | 9 |
| obtain compliance
forthwith with this nondiscretionary duty of | 10 |
| the election authority by
instituting legal proceedings in the | 11 |
| circuit court of the county in which the
election authority | 12 |
| maintains the registration information. The costs of
| 13 |
| furnishing updated copies of tapes or discs shall be paid at a | 14 |
| rate of $.00034
per name of registered voters in the election | 15 |
| jurisdiction, but not less than
$50 per tape or disc and shall | 16 |
| be paid from appropriations made to the State
Board of | 17 |
| Elections for reimbursement to the election authority for such
| 18 |
| purpose. The State Board shall furnish copies of such tapes, | 19 |
| discs, other electronic
data or compilations thereof to state | 20 |
| political committees registered pursuant
to the Illinois | 21 |
| Campaign Finance Act or the Federal Election Campaign Act and | 22 |
| to governmental entities, at
their request and at a reasonable | 23 |
| cost.
To protect the privacy and confidentiality of voter | 24 |
| registration information,
the disclosure
of electronic voter | 25 |
| registration records to any person or entity other than to a
| 26 |
| State or local political
committee and other than to a | 27 |
| governmental entity for a governmental
purpose
is specifically | 28 |
| prohibited.
Copies of the tapes, discs or other
electronic data | 29 |
| shall be furnished by the county clerk to local political
| 30 |
| committees and governmental entities at their request and at a | 31 |
| reasonable cost. Reasonable cost of the
tapes, discs, et cetera | 32 |
| for this purpose would be the cost of duplication plus
15% for | 33 |
| administration. The individual representing a political | 34 |
| committee
requesting copies of such tapes shall make a sworn |
|
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| affidavit that the
information shall be used only for bona fide | 2 |
| political purposes,
including by or for candidates for office | 3 |
| or incumbent office holders.
Such tapes, discs or other | 4 |
| electronic data shall not be used under any
circumstances by | 5 |
| any political committee or individuals for purposes of
| 6 |
| commercial solicitation or other business purposes. If such | 7 |
| tapes
contain information on county residents related to the | 8 |
| operations of
county government in addition to registration | 9 |
| information, that
information shall not be used under any | 10 |
| circumstances for commercial
solicitation or other business | 11 |
| purposes. The prohibition in this
Section against using the | 12 |
| computer tapes or computer discs or other
electronic data | 13 |
| processing information containing voter registration
| 14 |
| information for purposes of commercial solicitation or other | 15 |
| business
purposes shall be prospective only from the effective | 16 |
| date of this
amended Act of 1979. Any person who violates this | 17 |
| provision shall be
guilty of a Class 4 felony.
| 18 |
| The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October | 19 |
| 1, 1987, such
regulations as may be necessary to ensure | 20 |
| uniformity throughout the State
in electronic data processing | 21 |
| of voter registration information. The
regulations shall | 22 |
| include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
uniform | 23 |
| medium, communications protocol and file structure to be | 24 |
| employed
by the election authorities of this State in the | 25 |
| electronic data processing
of voter registration information. | 26 |
| Each election authority utilizing
electronic data processing | 27 |
| of voter registration information shall comply
with such | 28 |
| regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
| 29 |
| If the applicant for registration was last registered in | 30 |
| another
county within this State, he shall also sign a | 31 |
| certificate authorizing
cancellation of the former | 32 |
| registration. The certificate shall be in
substantially the | 33 |
| following form:
| 34 |
| To the County Clerk of .... County, Illinois. To the Election
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| Commission of the City of ...., Illinois.
| 2 |
| This is to certify that I am registered in your (county) | 3 |
| (city) and
that my residence was .....
| 4 |
| Having moved out of your (county) (city), I hereby | 5 |
| authorize you to
cancel said registration in your office.
| 6 |
| Dated at .... Illinois, on (insert date).
| 7 |
| ....................
| 8 |
| (Signature of Voter)
| 9 |
| Attest ......, County Clerk, ........ County, Illinois.
| 10 |
| The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately | 11 |
| by the
county clerk to the county clerk (or election commission | 12 |
| as the case may
be) where the applicant was formerly | 13 |
| registered. Receipt of such
certificate shall be full authority | 14 |
| for cancellation of any previous
registration.
| 15 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-465, eff. 1-1-02; 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; | 16 |
| 93-574, eff.
8-21-03.)
| 17 |
| (10 ILCS 5/6-35) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-35)
| 18 |
| Sec. 6-35. The Boards of Election Commissioners shall | 19 |
| provide a
sufficient number of blank forms for the registration | 20 |
| of electors which
shall be known as registration record cards | 21 |
| and which shall consist of
loose leaf sheets or cards, of | 22 |
| suitable size to contain in plain writing
and figures the data | 23 |
| hereinafter required thereon or shall consist of computer
cards | 24 |
| of suitable nature to contain the data required thereon. The | 25 |
| registration
record cards, which shall include an affidavit of | 26 |
| registration as
hereinafter provided, shall be executed in | 27 |
| duplicate. The duplicate of
which may be a carbon copy of the | 28 |
| original or a copy of the original
made by the use of other | 29 |
| method or material used for making simultaneous
true copies or | 30 |
| duplications.
| 31 |
| The registration record card shall contain the following | 32 |
| and such
other information as the Board of Election | 33 |
| Commissioners may think it
proper to require for the |
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| identification of the applicant for
registration:
| 2 |
| Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and first | 3 |
| or
Christian name in full, and the middle name or the initial | 4 |
| for such
middle name, if any.
| 5 |
| Sex.
| 6 |
| Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or | 7 |
| other
location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit | 8 |
| or room number,
if any, and in the case of a mobile home the lot | 9 |
| number, and such additional
clear and definite description as | 10 |
| may be necessary to determine the exact
location of the | 11 |
| dwelling of the applicant, including post-office mailing
| 12 |
| address. In the case of a homeless individual, the individual's | 13 |
| voting
residence that is his or her mailing address shall be | 14 |
| included on his or her
registration record card.
| 15 |
| Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the | 16 |
| precinct.
| 17 |
| Nativity. The state or country in which the applicant was | 18 |
| born.
| 19 |
| Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or | 20 |
| naturalized. If
naturalized, the court, place, and date of | 21 |
| naturalization.
| 22 |
| Date of application for registration, i.e., the day, month | 23 |
| and year
when the applicant presented himself for registration.
| 24 |
| Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
| 25 |
| Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time | 26 |
| of
registration, which would require assistance in voting.
| 27 |
| The county and state in which the applicant was last | 28 |
| registered.
| 29 |
| Signature of voter. The applicant, after registration and | 30 |
| in the
presence of a deputy registrar or other officer of | 31 |
| registration shall be
required to sign his or her name in ink | 32 |
| to the affidavit on both the
original and the duplicate | 33 |
| registration record card.
| 34 |
| Signature of deputy registrar.
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| In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may affix | 2 |
| his mark
to the affidavit. In such case the registration | 3 |
| officer shall write a
detailed description of the applicant in | 4 |
| the space provided at the
bottom of the card or sheet; and | 5 |
| shall ask the following questions and
record the answers | 6 |
| thereto:
| 7 |
| Father's first name .........................
| 8 |
| Mother's first name .........................
| 9 |
| From what address did you last register? ....
| 10 |
| Reason for inability to sign name ...........
| 11 |
| Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit in
| 12 |
| substantially the following form:
| 13 |
| AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
| 14 |
| State of Illinois )
| 15 |
| )ss
| 16 |
| County of ....... )
| 17 |
| I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the | 18 |
| United States,
that on the day of the next election I shall | 19 |
| have resided in the State
of Illinois and in the election | 20 |
| precinct 30 days and that I intend that
this location is my | 21 |
| residence; that I am fully qualified to
vote, and that the | 22 |
| above statements are true.
| 23 |
| ..............................
| 24 |
| (His or her signature or mark)
| 25 |
| Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
| 26 |
| ......................................
| 27 |
| Signature of registration officer
| 28 |
| (to be signed in presence of registrant).
| 29 |
| Space shall be provided upon the face of each registration | 30 |
| record
card for the notation of the voting record of the person | 31 |
| registered
thereon.
| 32 |
| Each registration record card shall be numbered according | 33 |
| to wards or
precincts, as the case may be, and may be serially | 34 |
| or otherwise marked
for identification in such manner as the |
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| Board of Election Commissioners
may determine.
| 2 |
| The registration cards shall be deemed public records and | 3 |
| shall be
open to inspection during regular business hours, | 4 |
| except during the 27
days immediately preceding any election. | 5 |
| On written request of any
candidate or objector or any person | 6 |
| intending to object to a petition, the
election authority shall | 7 |
| extend its hours for inspection of registration
cards and other | 8 |
| records of the election authority during the period
beginning | 9 |
| with the filing of petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or
| 10 |
| 28-3 and continuing through the termination of electoral board | 11 |
| hearings on
any objections to petitions containing signatures | 12 |
| of registered voters in
the jurisdiction of the election | 13 |
| authority. The extension shall be for a
period of hours | 14 |
| sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
the | 15 |
| records but the election authority is not required to extend | 16 |
| its hours
beyond the period beginning at its normal opening for | 17 |
| business and ending
at midnight. If the business hours are so | 18 |
| extended, the election authority
shall post a public notice of | 19 |
| such extended hours. Registration record cards
may also be | 20 |
| inspected, upon approval of the officer in charge of the cards,
| 21 |
| during the 27 days immediately preceding any election. | 22 |
| Registration
record
cards shall also be open to inspection by | 23 |
| certified judges and poll watchers
and challengers at the | 24 |
| polling place on election day, but only to the extent
necessary | 25 |
| to determine the question of the right of a person to vote or | 26 |
| to
serve as a judge of election. At no time shall poll watchers | 27 |
| or challengers be
allowed to physically handle the registration | 28 |
| record cards.
| 29 |
| Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or other | 30 |
| electronic data
processing information containing voter | 31 |
| registration information shall
be furnished by the Board of | 32 |
| Election Commissioners within 10 days after
December 15 and May | 33 |
| 15 each year and within 10
days after each registration period | 34 |
| is closed to the State Board
of Elections in a
form prescribed |
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| by the State Board. For the purposes of this Section, a
| 2 |
| registration period is closed 27 days before the date of any | 3 |
| regular
or special
election. Registration information shall
| 4 |
| include, but not be limited to, the following information: | 5 |
| name, sex,
residence, telephone number, if any, age, party | 6 |
| affiliation, if
applicable, precinct, ward, township, county, | 7 |
| and representative,
legislative and congressional districts. | 8 |
| In the event of noncompliance,
the State Board of Elections is | 9 |
| directed to obtain compliance forthwith
with this | 10 |
| nondiscretionary duty of the election authority by instituting
| 11 |
| legal proceedings in the circuit court of the county in which | 12 |
| the election
authority maintains the registration information. | 13 |
| The costs of furnishing
updated copies of tapes or discs shall | 14 |
| be paid at a rate of $.00034
per name of registered voters in | 15 |
| the election jurisdiction, but not less
than $50 per tape or | 16 |
| disc and shall be paid from appropriations made to the
State | 17 |
| Board of Elections for reimbursement to the election authority | 18 |
| for
such purpose. The State Board shall furnish copies of such | 19 |
| tapes, discs,
other electronic data or compilations thereof to | 20 |
| state political committees
registered pursuant to the Illinois | 21 |
| Campaign Finance Act or the Federal
Election Campaign Act and | 22 |
| to governmental entities, at their request and at a reasonable | 23 |
| cost.
To protect the privacy and confidentiality of voter | 24 |
| registration information,
the disclosure
of electronic voter | 25 |
| registration records to any person or entity other than to a
| 26 |
| State or local political
committee and other than to a | 27 |
| governmental entity for a governmental
purpose is specifically | 28 |
| prohibited.
Copies of the
tapes, discs or other electronic data | 29 |
| shall be furnished by the Board of
Election Commissioners to | 30 |
| local political committees and governmental entities at their | 31 |
| request and at a
reasonable cost. Reasonable cost of the tapes, | 32 |
| discs, et cetera for
this purpose would be the cost of | 33 |
| duplication plus 15% for
administration. The individual | 34 |
| representing a political committee
requesting copies of such |
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| tapes shall make a sworn affidavit that the
information shall | 2 |
| be used only for bona fide political purposes,
including by or | 3 |
| for candidates for office or incumbent office holders.
Such | 4 |
| tapes, discs or other electronic data shall not be used under | 5 |
| any
circumstances by any political committee or individuals for | 6 |
| purposes of
commercial solicitation or other business | 7 |
| purposes. If such tapes
contain information on county residents | 8 |
| related to the operations of
county government in addition to | 9 |
| registration information, that
information shall not be used | 10 |
| under any circumstances for commercial
solicitation or other | 11 |
| business purposes. The prohibition in this
Section against | 12 |
| using the computer tapes or computer discs or other
electronic | 13 |
| data processing information containing voter registration
| 14 |
| information for purposes of commercial solicitation or other | 15 |
| business
purposes shall be prospective only from the effective | 16 |
| date of this
amended Act of 1979. Any person who violates this | 17 |
| provision shall be
guilty of a Class 4 felony.
| 18 |
| The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October | 19 |
| 1, 1987, such
regulations as may be necessary to ensure | 20 |
| uniformity throughout the State
in electronic data processing | 21 |
| of voter registration information. The
regulations shall | 22 |
| include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
uniform | 23 |
| medium, communications protocol and file structure to be | 24 |
| employed
by the election authorities of this State in the | 25 |
| electronic data processing
of voter registration information. | 26 |
| Each election authority utilizing
electronic data processing | 27 |
| of voter registration information shall comply
with such | 28 |
| regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
| 29 |
| If the applicant for registration was last registered in | 30 |
| another
county within this State, he shall also sign a | 31 |
| certificate authorizing
cancellation of the former | 32 |
| registration. The certificate shall be in
substantially the | 33 |
| following form:
| 34 |
| To the County Clerk of .... County, Illinois.
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| To the Election Commission of the City of ...., Illinois.
| 2 |
| This is to certify that I am registered in your (county) | 3 |
| (city) and
that my residence was ..... Having moved out of your | 4 |
| (county), (city), I
hereby authorize you to cancel that | 5 |
| registration in your office.
| 6 |
| Dated at ...., Illinois, on (insert date).
| 7 |
| ....................
| 8 |
| (Signature of Voter)
| 9 |
| Attest ...., Clerk, Election Commission of the City of....,
| 10 |
| Illinois.
| 11 |
| The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately | 12 |
| by the clerk
of the Election Commission to the county clerk, | 13 |
| (or Election Commission
as the case may be) where the applicant | 14 |
| was formerly registered. Receipt
of such certificate shall be | 15 |
| full authority for cancellation of any
previous registration.
| 16 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-465, eff. 1-1-02; 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; | 17 |
| 93-574, eff.
8-21-03 .)
| 18 |
| (10 ILCS 5/7-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-8)
| 19 |
| Sec. 7-8. The State central committee shall be composed of | 20 |
| one or two
members from each congressional district in the | 21 |
| State and shall be elected as
follows:
| 22 |
| State Central Committee
| 23 |
| (a) Within 30 days after the effective date of this | 24 |
| amendatory Act of
1983 the State central committee of each | 25 |
| political party shall certify to
the State Board of Elections | 26 |
| which of the following alternatives it wishes
to apply to the | 27 |
| State central committee of that party.
| 28 |
| Alternative A. At the primary held on the third Tuesday in
| 29 |
| March 1970, and at the primary held every 4 years thereafter, | 30 |
| each primary
elector may vote for one candidate of his party | 31 |
| for member of the State
central committee for the congressional | 32 |
| district in which he resides.
The candidate receiving the | 33 |
| highest number of votes shall be declared
elected State central |
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| committeeman from the district. A political party
may, in lieu | 2 |
| of the foregoing, by a majority vote of delegates at any State
| 3 |
| convention of such party, determine to thereafter elect the | 4 |
| State central
committeemen in the manner following:
| 5 |
| At the county convention held by such political party State | 6 |
| central
committeemen shall be elected in the same manner as | 7 |
| provided in this
Article for the election of officers of the | 8 |
| county central committee, and
such election shall follow the | 9 |
| election of officers of the county central
committee. Each | 10 |
| elected ward, township or precinct committeeman shall cast
as | 11 |
| his vote one vote for each ballot voted in his ward, township, | 12 |
| part of a
township or precinct in the last preceding primary | 13 |
| election of his
political party. In the case of a county lying | 14 |
| partially within one
congressional district and partially | 15 |
| within another congressional district,
each ward, township or | 16 |
| precinct committeeman shall vote only with respect
to the | 17 |
| congressional district in which his ward, township, part of a
| 18 |
| township or precinct is located. In the case of a congressional | 19 |
| district
which encompasses more than one county, each ward, | 20 |
| township or precinct
committeeman residing within the | 21 |
| congressional district shall cast as his
vote one vote for each | 22 |
| ballot voted in his ward, township, part of a
township or | 23 |
| precinct in the last preceding primary election of his
| 24 |
| political party for one candidate of his party for member of | 25 |
| the State
central committee for the congressional district in | 26 |
| which he resides and
the Chairman of the county central | 27 |
| committee shall report the results of
the election to the State | 28 |
| Board of Elections. The State Board of Elections
shall certify | 29 |
| the candidate receiving the highest number of votes elected
| 30 |
| State central committeeman for that congressional district.
| 31 |
| The State central committee shall adopt rules to provide | 32 |
| for and govern
the procedures to be followed in the election of | 33 |
| members of the State central
committee.
| 34 |
| After the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st |
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| General
Assembly, whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of | 2 |
| Chairman of a State
central committee, or at the end of the | 3 |
| term of office of Chairman, the State
central committee of each | 4 |
| political party that has selected Alternative A shall
elect a | 5 |
| Chairman who shall not be required to be a member of the State | 6 |
| Central
Committee. The Chairman shall be a
registered voter in | 7 |
| this State and of the same political party as the State
central | 8 |
| committee.
| 9 |
| Alternative B. Each congressional committee shall, within | 10 |
| 30 days after
the adoption of this alternative, appoint a | 11 |
| person of the sex opposite that
of the incumbent member for | 12 |
| that congressional district to serve as an
additional member of | 13 |
| the State central committee until his or her successor
is | 14 |
| elected at the general primary election in 1986. Each | 15 |
| congressional
committee shall make this appointment by voting | 16 |
| on the basis set forth in
paragraph (e) of this Section. In | 17 |
| each congressional district at the
general primary election | 18 |
| held in 1986 and every 4 years thereafter, the
male candidate | 19 |
| receiving the highest number of votes of the party's male
| 20 |
| candidates for State central committeeman, and the female | 21 |
| candidate
receiving the highest number of votes of the party's | 22 |
| female candidates for
State central committeewoman, shall be | 23 |
| declared elected State central
committeeman and State central | 24 |
| committeewoman from the district. At the
general primary | 25 |
| election held in 1986 and every 4 years thereafter, if all a
| 26 |
| party's candidates for State central committeemen or State | 27 |
| central
committeewomen from a congressional district are of the | 28 |
| same sex, the candidate
receiving the highest number of votes | 29 |
| shall be declared elected a State central
committeeman or State | 30 |
| central committeewoman from the district, and, because of
a | 31 |
| failure to elect one male and one female to the committee, a | 32 |
| vacancy shall be
declared to exist in the office of the second | 33 |
| member of the State central
committee from the district. This | 34 |
| vacancy shall be filled by appointment by
the congressional |
|
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| committee of the political party, and the person appointed to
| 2 |
| fill the vacancy shall be a resident of the congressional | 3 |
| district and of the
sex opposite that of the committeeman or | 4 |
| committeewoman elected at the general
primary election. Each | 5 |
| congressional committee shall make this appointment by
voting | 6 |
| on the basis set forth in paragraph (e) of this Section.
| 7 |
| The Chairman of a State central committee composed as | 8 |
| provided in this
Alternative B must be selected from the | 9 |
| committee's members.
| 10 |
| Except as provided for in Alternative A with respect to the | 11 |
| selection of
the Chairman of the State central committee, under | 12 |
| both of the foregoing
alternatives, the
State
central
committee | 13 |
| of each political party shall be composed of members elected
or | 14 |
| appointed from the several congressional districts of the | 15 |
| State,
and of no other person or persons whomsoever. The | 16 |
| members of the State
central committee shall, within 30 days | 17 |
| after each quadrennial election of
the full committee, meet in | 18 |
| the city of Springfield and organize
by electing a chairman, | 19 |
| and may at such time
elect such officers from among their own | 20 |
| number (or otherwise), as they
may deem necessary or expedient. | 21 |
| The outgoing chairman of the State
central committee of the | 22 |
| party shall, 10 days before the meeting, notify
each member of | 23 |
| the State central committee elected at the primary of the
time | 24 |
| and place of such meeting. In the organization and proceedings | 25 |
| of
the State central committee, each State central committeeman | 26 |
| and State
central committeewoman shall have one vote for each | 27 |
| ballot voted in his or her
congressional district by the | 28 |
| primary electors of his or her party at the
primary election | 29 |
| immediately preceding the meeting of the State central
| 30 |
| committee. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the State central | 31 |
| committee of any
political party, the vacancy shall be filled | 32 |
| by appointment of
the chairmen of the county central committees | 33 |
| of the
political party
of the counties located within the | 34 |
| congressional district in which the vacancy
occurs and,
if |
|
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| applicable, the ward and township committeemen of the
political
| 2 |
| party in counties of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants located | 3 |
| within the
congressional
district. If the congressional | 4 |
| district in which the vacancy occurs lies
wholly within a
| 5 |
| county of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, the ward and township | 6 |
| committeemen
of the political party in that congressional | 7 |
| district shall vote to fill the
vacancy. In voting to fill the | 8 |
| vacancy, each chairman of a county central
committee and
each | 9 |
| ward and township committeeman in counties of 2,000,000
or
more | 10 |
| inhabitants shall have one vote for each ballot voted in each | 11 |
| precinct of
the congressional district in which the vacancy | 12 |
| exists of
his or her
county, township, or ward cast by the | 13 |
| primary electors of his or her party
at the
primary election | 14 |
| immediately preceding the meeting to fill the vacancy in the
| 15 |
| State
central committee. The person appointed to fill the | 16 |
| vacancy shall be a
resident of the
congressional district in | 17 |
| which the vacancy occurs, shall be a qualified voter,
and, in a | 18 |
| committee composed as provided in Alternative B, shall be of | 19 |
| the
same
sex as his or her
predecessor. A political party may, | 20 |
| by a majority vote of the
delegates of any State convention of | 21 |
| such party, determine to return
to the election of State | 22 |
| central committeeman and State central
committeewoman by the | 23 |
| vote of primary electors.
Any action taken by a political party | 24 |
| at a State convention in accordance
with this Section shall be | 25 |
| reported to the State Board of Elections by the
chairman and | 26 |
| secretary of such convention within 10 days after such action.
| 27 |
| Ward, Township and Precinct Committeemen
| 28 |
| (b) At the primary held on the third Tuesday in March, | 29 |
| 1972, and
every 4 years thereafter, each primary elector in | 30 |
| cities having a
population of 200,000 or over may vote for one | 31 |
| candidate of his party in
his ward for ward committeeman. Each | 32 |
| candidate for ward committeeman
must be a resident of and in | 33 |
| the ward where he seeks to be elected ward
committeeman. The | 34 |
| one having the highest number of votes shall be such
ward |
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| committeeman of such party for such ward. At the primary | 2 |
| election
held on the third Tuesday in March, 1970, and every 4 | 3 |
| years thereafter,
each primary elector in counties containing a | 4 |
| population of 2,000,000 or
more, outside of cities containing a | 5 |
| population of 200,000 or more, may
vote for one candidate of | 6 |
| his party for township committeeman. Each
candidate for | 7 |
| township committeeman must be a resident of and in the
township | 8 |
| or part of a township (which lies outside of a city having a
| 9 |
| population of 200,000 or more, in counties containing a | 10 |
| population of
2,000,000 or more), and in which township or part | 11 |
| of a township he seeks
to be elected township committeeman. The | 12 |
| one having the highest number
of votes shall be such township | 13 |
| committeeman of such party for such
township or part of a | 14 |
| township. At the primary held on the third Tuesday
in March, | 15 |
| 1970 and every 2 years thereafter, each primary elector,
except | 16 |
| in counties having a population of 2,000,000 or over, may vote
| 17 |
| for one candidate of his party in his precinct for precinct
| 18 |
| committeeman. Each candidate for precinct committeeman must be | 19 |
| a bona
fide resident of the precinct where he seeks to be | 20 |
| elected precinct
committeeman. The one having the highest | 21 |
| number of votes shall be such
precinct committeeman of such | 22 |
| party for such precinct. The official
returns of the primary | 23 |
| shall show the name of the committeeman of each
political | 24 |
| party.
| 25 |
| Terms of Committeemen. All precinct committeemen elected | 26 |
| under the
provisions of this Article shall continue as such | 27 |
| committeemen until the
date of the primary to be held in the | 28 |
| second year after their election.
Except as otherwise provided | 29 |
| in this Section for certain State central
committeemen who have | 30 |
| 2 year terms, all State central committeemen, township
| 31 |
| committeemen and ward committeemen shall continue as such | 32 |
| committeemen
until the date of primary to be held in the fourth | 33 |
| year after their
election. However, a vacancy exists in the | 34 |
| office of precinct committeeman
when a precinct committeeman |
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| ceases to reside in the precinct in which he
was elected and | 2 |
| such precinct committeeman shall thereafter neither have
nor | 3 |
| exercise any rights, powers or duties as committeeman in that | 4 |
| precinct,
even if a successor has not been elected or | 5 |
| appointed.
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| (c) The Multi-Township Central Committee shall consist of | 7 |
| the precinct
committeemen of such party, in the multi-township | 8 |
| assessing district formed
pursuant to Section 2-10 of the | 9 |
| Property Tax Code and shall be organized for the purposes set | 10 |
| forth in Section
45-25 of the Township Code. In the | 11 |
| organization and proceedings of the
Multi-Township Central | 12 |
| Committee each precinct committeeman shall have one vote
for | 13 |
| each ballot voted in his precinct by the primary electors of | 14 |
| his party at
the primary at which he was elected.
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| County Central Committee
| 16 |
| (d) The county central committee of each political party in | 17 |
| each
county shall consist of the various township committeemen, | 18 |
| precinct
committeemen and ward committeemen, if any, of such | 19 |
| party in the county.
In the organization and proceedings of the | 20 |
| county central committee,
each precinct committeeman shall | 21 |
| have one vote for each ballot voted in
his precinct by the | 22 |
| primary electors of his party at the primary at
which he was | 23 |
| elected; each township committeeman shall have one vote for
| 24 |
| each ballot voted in his township or part of a township as the | 25 |
| case may
be by the primary electors of his party at the primary | 26 |
| election
for the nomination of candidates for election to the | 27 |
| General Assembly
immediately preceding the meeting of the | 28 |
| county central committee; and
in the organization and | 29 |
| proceedings of the county central committee,
each ward | 30 |
| committeeman shall have one vote for each ballot voted in his
| 31 |
| ward by the primary electors of his party at the primary | 32 |
| election
for the nomination of candidates for election to the | 33 |
| General Assembly
immediately preceding the meeting of the | 34 |
| county central committee.
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| Cook County Board of Review Election District Committee
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| (d-1) Each board of review election district committee of | 3 |
| each political
party in Cook County shall consist of the
| 4 |
| various township committeemen and ward committeemen, if any, of | 5 |
| that party in
the portions of the county composing the board of | 6 |
| review election district. In
the organization and proceedings | 7 |
| of each of the 3 election
district committees, each township | 8 |
| committeeman shall have one vote for each
ballot voted in his | 9 |
| or her township or part of a township, as the case may be,
by
| 10 |
| the primary electors of his or her party at the primary | 11 |
| election immediately
preceding the meeting of the board of | 12 |
| review election district committee; and
in the organization and | 13 |
| proceedings of each of the 3 election district
committees, each | 14 |
| ward committeeman shall have one vote for each
ballot voted in
| 15 |
| his or her ward or part of that ward, as the case may be, by the | 16 |
| primary
electors of his or her party at the primary election | 17 |
| immediately preceding the
meeting of the board of review | 18 |
| election district committee.
| 19 |
| Congressional Committee
| 20 |
| (e) The congressional committee of each party in each | 21 |
| congressional
district shall be composed of the chairmen of the | 22 |
| county central
committees of the counties composing the | 23 |
| congressional district, except
that in congressional districts | 24 |
| wholly within the territorial limits of
one county, or partly | 25 |
| within 2 or more counties, but not coterminous
with the county | 26 |
| lines of all of such counties, the precinct
committeemen, | 27 |
| township committeemen and ward committeemen, if any, of
the | 28 |
| party representing the precincts within the limits of the
| 29 |
| congressional district, shall compose the congressional | 30 |
| committee. A
State central committeeman in each district shall | 31 |
| be a member and the
chairman or, when a district has 2 State | 32 |
| central committeemen, a co-chairman
of the congressional | 33 |
| committee, but shall not have the right to
vote except in case | 34 |
| of a tie.
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| In the organization and proceedings of congressional | 2 |
| committees
composed of precinct committeemen or township | 3 |
| committeemen or ward
committeemen, or any combination thereof, | 4 |
| each precinct committeeman
shall have one vote for each ballot | 5 |
| voted in his precinct by the primary
electors of his party at | 6 |
| the primary at which he was elected, each
township committeeman | 7 |
| shall have one vote for each ballot voted in his
township or | 8 |
| part of a township as the case may be by the primary
electors | 9 |
| of his party at the primary election immediately preceding the
| 10 |
| meeting of the congressional committee, and each ward | 11 |
| committeeman shall
have one vote for each ballot voted in each | 12 |
| precinct of his ward located
in such congressional district by | 13 |
| the primary electors of his party at
the primary election | 14 |
| immediately preceding the meeting of the
congressional | 15 |
| committee; and in the organization and proceedings of
| 16 |
| congressional committees composed of the chairmen of the county | 17 |
| central
committees of the counties within such district, each | 18 |
| chairman of such
county central committee shall have one vote | 19 |
| for each ballot voted in
his county by the primary electors of | 20 |
| his party at the primary election
immediately preceding the | 21 |
| meeting of the congressional committee.
| 22 |
| Judicial District Committee
| 23 |
| (f) The judicial district committee of each political party | 24 |
| in each
judicial district shall be composed of the chairman of | 25 |
| the county
central committees of the counties composing the | 26 |
| judicial district.
| 27 |
| In the organization and proceedings of judicial district | 28 |
| committees
composed of the chairmen of the county central | 29 |
| committees of the
counties within such district, each chairman | 30 |
| of such county central
committee shall have one vote for each | 31 |
| ballot voted in his county by the
primary electors of his party | 32 |
| at the primary election immediately
preceding the meeting of | 33 |
| the judicial district committee.
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| Circuit Court Committee
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| (g) The circuit court committee of each political party in | 2 |
| each
judicial circuit outside Cook County shall be composed of | 3 |
| the chairmen
of the county central committees of the counties | 4 |
| composing the judicial
circuit.
| 5 |
| In the organization and proceedings of circuit court | 6 |
| committees, each
chairman of a county central committee shall | 7 |
| have one vote for each
ballot voted in his county by the | 8 |
| primary electors of his party at the
primary election | 9 |
| immediately preceding the meeting of the circuit court
| 10 |
| committee.
| 11 |
| Judicial Subcircuit Committee
| 12 |
| (g-1) The judicial subcircuit committee of each political | 13 |
| party in
each judicial subcircuit in a judicial circuit divided | 14 |
| into subcircuits
shall be composed of (i) the ward and township | 15 |
| committeemen
of the townships and wards composing the judicial | 16 |
| subcircuit in Cook County and
(ii) the precinct committeemen of | 17 |
| the precincts
composing the judicial subcircuit in any county | 18 |
| other than Cook County.
| 19 |
| In the organization and proceedings of each judicial | 20 |
| subcircuit committee,
each township committeeman shall have | 21 |
| one vote for each ballot voted in his
township or part of a | 22 |
| township, as the case may be, in the judicial
subcircuit by the | 23 |
| primary electors of his party at the primary election
| 24 |
| immediately preceding the meeting of the judicial subcircuit | 25 |
| committee;
each precinct committeeman shall have one vote for | 26 |
| each ballot voted in his
precinct or part of a precinct, as the | 27 |
| case may be, in the judicial subcircuit
by the primary electors | 28 |
| of his party at the primary election immediately
preceding the | 29 |
| meeting of the judicial subcircuit committee;
and
each ward | 30 |
| committeeman shall have one vote for each ballot voted in his
| 31 |
| ward or part of a ward, as the case may be, in the judicial | 32 |
| subcircuit by
the primary electors of his party at the primary | 33 |
| election immediately
preceding the meeting of the judicial | 34 |
| subcircuit committee.
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| Municipal Central Committee
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| (h) The municipal central committee of each political party | 3 |
| shall be
composed of the precinct, township or ward | 4 |
| committeemen, as the case may
be, of such party representing | 5 |
| the precincts or wards, embraced in such
city, incorporated | 6 |
| town or village. The voting strength of each
precinct, township | 7 |
| or ward committeeman on the municipal central
committee shall | 8 |
| be the same as his voting strength on the county central
| 9 |
| committee.
| 10 |
| For political parties, other than a statewide political | 11 |
| party,
established only within a municipality or
township, the | 12 |
| municipal or township managing committee shall be composed
of | 13 |
| the party officers of the local established party. The party | 14 |
| officers
of a local established party shall be as follows: the | 15 |
| chairman and
secretary of the caucus for those municipalities | 16 |
| and townships authorized
by statute to nominate candidates by | 17 |
| caucus shall serve as party officers
for the purpose of filling | 18 |
| vacancies in nomination under Section
7-61; for municipalities | 19 |
| and townships authorized by statute or ordinance
to nominate | 20 |
| candidates by petition and primary election, the party officers
| 21 |
| shall be the party's candidates who are nominated at the | 22 |
| primary. If no party
primary was held because of the provisions | 23 |
| of Section 7-5, vacancies in
nomination shall be filled by the | 24 |
| party's remaining candidates who shall
serve as the party's | 25 |
| officers.
| 26 |
| Powers
| 27 |
| (i) Each committee and its officers shall have the powers | 28 |
| usually
exercised by such committees and by the officers | 29 |
| thereof, not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Article. | 30 |
| The several committees
herein provided for shall not have power | 31 |
| to delegate any of their
powers, or functions to any other | 32 |
| person, officer or committee, but this
shall not be construed | 33 |
| to prevent a committee from appointing from its
own membership | 34 |
| proper and necessary subcommittees.
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| (j) The State central committee of a political party which | 2 |
| elects it
members by Alternative B under paragraph (a) of this | 3 |
| Section shall adopt a
plan to give effect to the delegate | 4 |
| selection rules of the national political
party and file a copy | 5 |
| of such plan with the State Board of Elections when
approved by | 6 |
| a national political party.
| 7 |
| (k) For the purpose of the designation of a proxy by a | 8 |
| Congressional
Committee to vote in place of an
absent State | 9 |
| central committeeman or committeewoman at meetings of the
State | 10 |
| central committee of a political party which elects its members | 11 |
| by
Alternative B under paragraph (a) of this Section, the proxy | 12 |
| shall be
appointed by the vote of the ward and township | 13 |
| committeemen, if any, of the
wards and townships which lie | 14 |
| entirely or partially within the
Congressional District from | 15 |
| which the absent State central committeeman or
committeewoman | 16 |
| was elected and the vote of the chairmen of the county
central | 17 |
| committees of those counties which lie entirely or partially | 18 |
| within
that Congressional District and in which there are no | 19 |
| ward or township
committeemen. When voting for such proxy the | 20 |
| county chairman, ward
committeeman or township committeeman, | 21 |
| as the case may be shall have one
vote for each ballot voted in | 22 |
| his county, ward or township, or portion
thereof within the | 23 |
| Congressional District, by the primary electors of his
party at | 24 |
| the primary at which he was elected. However, the absent State
| 25 |
| central committeeman or committeewoman may designate a proxy | 26 |
| when permitted
by the rules of a political party which elects | 27 |
| its members by Alternative B
under paragraph (a) of this | 28 |
| Section.
| 29 |
| Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a person is | 30 |
| ineligible to hold the position of committeeperson in any | 31 |
| committee established pursuant to this Section if he or she is | 32 |
| statutorily ineligible to vote in a general election because of | 33 |
| conviction of a felony. When a committeeperson is convicted of | 34 |
| a felony, the position occupied by that committeeperson shall |
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| automatically become vacant.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-541, eff. 8-18-03; 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; | 3 |
| revised
9-22-03.)
| 4 |
| (10 ILCS 5/7-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-9)
| 5 |
| Sec. 7-9. County central committee; county and State | 6 |
| conventions.
| 7 |
| (a) On the 29th day
second Monday next succeeding the | 8 |
| primary at which
committeemen are elected, the county central | 9 |
| committee of each political
party shall meet within
at the | 10 |
| county seat of the proper county and proceed to
organize by | 11 |
| electing from its own number a chairman and either from its
own | 12 |
| number, or otherwise, such other officers as such committee may | 13 |
| deem
necessary or expedient. Such meeting of the county central | 14 |
| committee
shall be known as the county convention.
| 15 |
| The chairman of each county committee shall within 10 days | 16 |
| after the
organization, forward to the State Board of | 17 |
| Elections, the names and
post office addresses of the officers, | 18 |
| precinct committeemen and
representative committeemen elected | 19 |
| by his political party.
| 20 |
| The county convention of each political party shall choose | 21 |
| delegates
to the State convention of its party; but in any | 22 |
| county having within
its limits any city having a population of | 23 |
| 200,000, or over the
delegates from such city shall be chosen | 24 |
| by wards, the ward committeemen
from the respective wards | 25 |
| choosing the number of delegates to which such
ward is entitled | 26 |
| on the basis prescribed in paragraph (e) of this
Section such | 27 |
| delegates to be members of the delegation to the State
| 28 |
| convention from such county. In all counties containing a | 29 |
| population of
2,000,000 or more outside of cities having a | 30 |
| population of 200,000 or
more, the delegates from each of the | 31 |
| townships or parts of townships as
the case may be shall be | 32 |
| chosen by townships or parts of townships as
the case may be, | 33 |
| the township committeemen from the respective townships
or |
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| parts of townships as the case may be choosing the number of
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| delegates to which such townships or parts of townships as the | 3 |
| case may
be are entitled, on the basis prescribed in paragraph | 4 |
| (e) of this
Section such delegates to be members of the | 5 |
| delegation to the State
convention from such county.
| 6 |
| Each member of the State Central Committee of a political | 7 |
| party which
elects its members by Alternative B under paragraph | 8 |
| (a) of Section 7-8
shall be a delegate to the State Convention, | 9 |
| ex officio.
| 10 |
| Each member of the State Central Committee of a political | 11 |
| party which
elects its members by Alternative B under paragraph | 12 |
| (a) of Section 7-8 may
appoint 2 delegates to the State | 13 |
| Convention who must be residents of the
member's Congressional | 14 |
| District.
| 15 |
| (b) State conventions shall be held within 180 days after | 16 |
| the
general primary in the year 2000 and every 4 years | 17 |
| thereafter. In the year 1998, and every 4 years thereafter,
the | 18 |
| chairman of a State central committee may issue a call for a | 19 |
| State
convention within 180 days after the general primary.
| 20 |
| The State
convention of each political party has power to | 21 |
| make
nominations of candidates of its political party for the | 22 |
| electors of
President and Vice President of the United States, | 23 |
| and to adopt any party
platform, and, to the
extent determined | 24 |
| by the State central committee as provided in Section
7-14, to | 25 |
| choose and select delegates and alternate delegates at large to
| 26 |
| national nominating conventions. The State Central Committee | 27 |
| may adopt
rules to provide for and govern the procedures of the | 28 |
| State convention.
| 29 |
| (c) The chairman and secretary of each State convention | 30 |
| shall,
within 2 days thereafter, transmit to the State Board of | 31 |
| Elections of
this State a certificate setting forth the names | 32 |
| and addresses of all
persons nominated by such State convention | 33 |
| for electors of President and
Vice President of the United | 34 |
| States, and of any persons selected by the State
convention for
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| delegates and alternate delegates at large to national | 2 |
| nominating
conventions; and the names of such candidates so | 3 |
| chosen by such State
convention for electors of President and | 4 |
| Vice President of the United
States, shall be caused by
the | 5 |
| State Board of Elections to be printed upon the official ballot | 6 |
| at
the general election, in the manner required by law, and | 7 |
| shall be
certified to the various county clerks of the proper | 8 |
| counties in the
manner as provided in Section 7-60 of this | 9 |
| Article 7 for the certifying
of the names of persons nominated | 10 |
| by any party for State offices. If and
as long as this Act | 11 |
| prescribes that the names of such electors be not
printed on | 12 |
| the ballot, then the names of such electors shall be
certified | 13 |
| in such manner as may be prescribed by the parts of this Act
| 14 |
| applicable thereto.
| 15 |
| (d) Each convention may perform all other functions | 16 |
| inherent to such
political organization and not inconsistent | 17 |
| with this Article.
| 18 |
| (e) At least 33 days before the date of a State convention, | 19 |
| the chairman of the State central committee of each political
| 20 |
| party shall file in the principal office of the State Board of
| 21 |
| Elections a call for the State convention. Such call shall | 22 |
| state, among
other things, the time and place (designating the | 23 |
| building or hall) for
holding the State convention. Such call | 24 |
| shall be signed by the chairman
and attested by the secretary | 25 |
| of the committee. In such convention each
county shall be | 26 |
| entitled to one delegate for each 500 ballots voted by
the | 27 |
| primary electors of the party in such county at the primary to | 28 |
| be
held next after the issuance of such call; and if in such | 29 |
| county, less
than 500 ballots are so voted or if the number of | 30 |
| ballots so voted is
not exactly a multiple of 500, there shall | 31 |
| be one delegate for such
group which is less than 500, or for | 32 |
| such group representing the number
of votes over the multiple | 33 |
| of 500, which delegate shall have 1/500 of
one vote for each | 34 |
| primary vote so represented by him. The call for such
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| convention shall set forth this paragraph (e) of Section 7-9 in | 2 |
| full and
shall direct that the number of delegates to be chosen | 3 |
| be calculated in
compliance herewith and that such number of | 4 |
| delegates be chosen.
| 5 |
| (f) All precinct, township and ward committeemen when | 6 |
| elected as
provided in this Section shall serve as though | 7 |
| elected at large
irrespective of any changes that may be made | 8 |
| in precinct, township or
ward boundaries and the voting | 9 |
| strength of each committeeman shall
remain as provided in this | 10 |
| Section for the entire time for which he is
elected.
| 11 |
| (g) The officers elected at any convention provided for in | 12 |
| this
Section shall serve until their successors are elected as | 13 |
| provided in
this Act.
| 14 |
| (h) A special meeting of any central committee may be | 15 |
| called by the
chairman, or by not less than 25% of the members | 16 |
| of such committee, by
giving 5 days notice to members of such | 17 |
| committee in writing designating
the time and place at which | 18 |
| such special meeting is to be held and the
business which it is | 19 |
| proposed to present at such special meeting.
| 20 |
| (i) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, whenever a | 21 |
| vacancy
exists in the office of precinct committeeman because | 22 |
| no one was elected
to that office or because the precinct | 23 |
| committeeman ceases to reside in
the precinct or for any other | 24 |
| reason, the chairman of the county
central committee of the | 25 |
| appropriate political party may fill the
vacancy in such office | 26 |
| by appointment of a qualified resident of the
county and the | 27 |
| appointed precinct committeeman shall serve as though
elected; | 28 |
| however, no such appointment may be made between the general
| 29 |
| primary election and the 30th
14th day after the general | 30 |
| primary election.
| 31 |
| (j) If the number of Congressional Districts in the State | 32 |
| of Illinois
is reduced as a result of reapportionment of | 33 |
| Congressional Districts
following a federal decennial census, | 34 |
| the State Central Committeemen and
Committeewomen of a |
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| political
party which elects its State Central
Committee by | 2 |
| either Alternative A or by Alternative B under paragraph (a)
of | 3 |
| Section 7-8 who were
previously elected shall continue to serve | 4 |
| as if no reapportionment had
occurred until the expiration of | 5 |
| their terms.
| 6 |
| (Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96; 90-627, eff. 7-10-98.)
| 7 |
| (10 ILCS 5/7-41) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-41)
| 8 |
| Sec. 7-41. (a) All officers upon whom is imposed by law the | 9 |
| duty of
designating and providing polling places for general | 10 |
| elections, shall provide
in each such polling place so | 11 |
| designated and provided, a sufficient number of
booths for such | 12 |
| primary election, which booths shall be provided with
shelves, | 13 |
| such supplies and pencils as will enable the voter to prepare | 14 |
| his
ballot for voting and in which voters may prepare their | 15 |
| ballots screened
from all observation as to the manner in which | 16 |
| they do so. Such booths shall be
within plain view of the | 17 |
| election officers and both they and the ballot boxes
shall be | 18 |
| within plain view of those within the proximity of the voting | 19 |
| booths.
No person other than election officers and the | 20 |
| challengers allowed by law and
those admitted for the purpose | 21 |
| of voting, as hereinafter provided, shall be
permitted within | 22 |
| the proximity of the voting booths, except
by authority of the | 23 |
| primary officers to keep order and enforce the law.
| 24 |
| (b) The number of such voting booths shall not be less than | 25 |
| one to every
seventy-five voters or fraction thereof, who voted | 26 |
| at the last preceding
election in the precinct or election | 27 |
| district.
| 28 |
| (c) No person shall do any electioneering or soliciting of | 29 |
| votes on
primary day within any polling place or within one | 30 |
| hundred feet of any polling
place , or, at the option of a | 31 |
| church or private school, on any of the property of that church | 32 |
| or private school that is a polling place . Election officers | 33 |
| shall place 2 or more cones, small United States
national |
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| flags, or some other marker a distance of 100 horizontal feet | 2 |
| from
each entrance to the room used by voters to engage in | 3 |
| voting, which shall be
known as the polling room. If
the | 4 |
| polling room is located within a building that is a private | 5 |
| business, a public or private
school , or a church or other | 6 |
| organization founded for the purpose of religious
worship and | 7 |
| the
distance of 100 horizontal feet ends within the interior of | 8 |
| the
building, then the markers shall be placed outside of the
| 9 |
| building at each entrance used by voters to enter that
building | 10 |
| on the grounds adjacent to the thoroughfare or walkway. If the | 11 |
| polling
room is located within a public or private building | 12 |
| with 2 or more floors and
the polling room is located on the | 13 |
| ground floor, then the markers shall be
placed 100 horizontal | 14 |
| feet from each entrance to the polling room used by
voters to | 15 |
| engage in voting. If the polling room is located in a public or
| 16 |
| private building with 2 or more floors and the polling room is | 17 |
| located on a
floor above or below the ground floor,
then the | 18 |
| markers shall be placed a distance of 100 feet from the nearest
| 19 |
| elevator or staircase used by voters on the ground floor to | 20 |
| access the floor
where the polling room is located. The area | 21 |
| within where the markers are placed
shall be known as a | 22 |
| campaign free zone, and electioneering is prohibited
pursuant | 23 |
| to this subsection. Notwithstanding any other provision of this | 24 |
| Section, a church or private school may choose to apply the | 25 |
| campaign free zone to its entire property, and, if so, the | 26 |
| markers shall be placed near the boundaries on the grounds | 27 |
| adjacent to the thoroughfares or walkways leading to the | 28 |
| entrances used by the voters.
| 29 |
| The area on polling place property beyond the campaign free | 30 |
| zone, whether
publicly or privately owned, is a public forum | 31 |
| for the time that the polls are
open on an election day. At the | 32 |
| request of election officers any publicly owned
building must | 33 |
| be made available for use as a polling place. A person shall | 34 |
| have
the right to congregate and engage in electioneering on |
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| any polling place
property while the polls are open beyond the | 2 |
| campaign free zone, including but
not limited to, the placement | 3 |
| of temporary signs.
This subsection shall be construed | 4 |
| liberally in favor of persons engaging in
electioneering
on all | 5 |
| polling place property beyond the campaign free zone for the | 6 |
| time that
the polls are
open on an election day.
| 7 |
| (d) The regulation of electioneering on polling place | 8 |
| property on an
election
day, including but not limited to the | 9 |
| placement of temporary signs, is an
exclusive power and | 10 |
| function of the State. A home rule unit may not regulate
| 11 |
| electioneering and any ordinance or local law contrary to | 12 |
| subsection (c) is
declared void. This is a denial and | 13 |
| limitation of home rule powers and
functions under subsection | 14 |
| (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois
Constitution.
| 15 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
| 16 |
| (10 ILCS 5/9-1.5) (from Ch. 46, par. 9-1.5) | 17 |
| Sec. 9-1.5. Expenditure defined. | 18 |
| "Expenditure" means-
| 19 |
| (1) a payment, distribution, purchase, loan, advance, | 20 |
| deposit, or
gift of money or anything of value, in | 21 |
| connection with the nomination
for election, or election, | 22 |
| of any person to public office, in connection with
the | 23 |
| election of any person as ward or township committeeman in | 24 |
| counties of
3,000,000 or more population, or in
connection | 25 |
| with any question of public policy.
"Expenditure" also | 26 |
| includes a payment, distribution, purchase, loan,
advance, | 27 |
| deposit, or gift of
money or anything of value that | 28 |
| constitutes an electioneering communication
regardless of | 29 |
| whether the communication is made in concert or cooperation | 30 |
| with
or at the request, suggestion, or knowledge of a
the | 31 |
| candidate, a
the candidate's
authorized
local political | 32 |
| committee, a State political committee, a political | 33 |
| committee in support of or opposition to a question of |
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| public policy, or any of their
agents.
However, expenditure | 2 |
| does not
include -
| 3 |
| (a) the use of real or personal property and the cost | 4 |
| of invitations,
food,
and beverages, voluntarily provided | 5 |
| by an individual in rendering voluntary
personal services | 6 |
| on the individual's
residential premises for | 7 |
| candidate-related activities; provided the value
of the | 8 |
| service provided does not exceed an aggregate of $150 in a | 9 |
| reporting
period;
| 10 |
| (b) the sale of any food or beverage by a vendor for | 11 |
| use in a candidate's
campaign at a charge less than the | 12 |
| normal comparable charge, if such charge
for use in a | 13 |
| candidate's
campaign is at least equal to the cost of such | 14 |
| food or beverage to the vendor.
| 15 |
| (2) a transfer of funds between political committees.
| 16 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 93-615, eff. 11-19-03.)
| 17 |
| (10 ILCS 5/9-1.7)
(from Ch. 46, par. 9-1.7)
| 18 |
| Sec. 9-1.7. "Local political committee" means the | 19 |
| candidate himself or any
individual, trust, partnership, | 20 |
| committee, association, corporation, or
other organization or | 21 |
| group of persons which:
| 22 |
| (a) accepts contributions or grants or makes | 23 |
| expenditures during any
12-month period in an aggregate | 24 |
| amount exceeding $3,000 on behalf of or in
opposition to a | 25 |
| candidate or candidates for public office who are required
| 26 |
| by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act to file statements | 27 |
| of economic
interests with the county clerk,
or on behalf | 28 |
| of or in opposition to a candidate or candidates for | 29 |
| election to
the office of ward or township committeeman in | 30 |
| counties of 3,000,000 or more
population;
| 31 |
| (b) accepts contributions or makes expenditures during | 32 |
| any 12-month
period in an aggregate amount exceeding $3,000 | 33 |
| in support of or in
opposition to any question of public |
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| policy to be submitted to the electors
of an area | 2 |
| encompassing no more than one county; or
| 3 |
| (c) accepts contributions or makes expenditures during | 4 |
| any 12-month
period in an aggregate amount exceeding $3,000 | 5 |
| and has as its primary
purpose the furtherance of | 6 |
| governmental, political or social values, is
organized on a | 7 |
| not-for-profit basis, and which publicly endorses or
| 8 |
| publicly opposes a candidate or candidates for public | 9 |
| office who are
required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics | 10 |
| Act to file statements of
economic interest with the County | 11 |
| Clerk or a candidate or candidates for the
office of ward | 12 |
| or township committeeman in counties of 3,000,000 or more
| 13 |
| population ; or .
| 14 |
| (d) accepts contributions or makes expenditures during | 15 |
| any 12-month period in an aggregate amount
exceeding $3,000 | 16 |
| for electioneering communications relating to any | 17 |
| candidate or
candidates described in paragraph (a) or any | 18 |
| question of public policy
described in paragraph (b).
| 19 |
| (Source: P.A. 90-737, eff. 1-1-99; 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
| 20 |
| (10 ILCS 5/9-1.8)
(from Ch. 46, par. 9-1.8)
| 21 |
| Sec. 9-1.8. "State political committee" means the | 22 |
| candidate himself or any
individual, trust, partnership, | 23 |
| committee, association, corporation, or
any other organization | 24 |
| or group of persons which--
| 25 |
| (a) accepts contributions or grants or makes expenditures | 26 |
| during any
12-month period in an aggregate amount exceeding | 27 |
| $3,000 on behalf of or
in opposition to a candidate or | 28 |
| candidates for public office who are
required by the Illinois | 29 |
| Governmental Ethics Act to file statements of
economic | 30 |
| interests with the Secretary of State,
| 31 |
| (b) accepts contributions or makes expenditures during any | 32 |
| 12-month
period in an aggregate amount exceeding $3,000 in | 33 |
| support of or in
opposition to any question of public policy to |
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| be submitted to the
electors of an area encompassing more than | 2 |
| one county, or
| 3 |
| (c) accepts contributions or makes expenditures during any | 4 |
| 12-month
period in an aggregate amount exceeding $3,000 and has | 5 |
| as its primary purpose
the
furtherance of governmental, | 6 |
| political or social values, is organized on
a not-for-profit | 7 |
| basis, and which publicly endorses or publicly opposes
a | 8 |
| candidate or candidates for public office who are required by | 9 |
| the
Illinois Governmental Ethics Act to file statements of | 10 |
| economic interest
with the Secretary of State ; or .
| 11 |
| (d) accepts contributions or makes expenditures during any | 12 |
| 12-month period in an aggregate amount
exceeding $3,000 for | 13 |
| electioneering communications relating to any candidate or
| 14 |
| candidates described in paragraph (a) or any question of public | 15 |
| policy
described in paragraph (b).
| 16 |
| (Source: P.A. 90-737, eff. 1-1-99.)
| 17 |
| (10 ILCS 5/9-1.9)
(from Ch. 46, par. 9-1.9)
| 18 |
| Sec. 9-1.9. "Political committee" includes State central | 19 |
| and county central committees
of any political party, and also | 20 |
| includes local political committees and state
political | 21 |
| committees, but does not include any candidate who does not
| 22 |
| accept contributions or make expenditures during any 12-month | 23 |
| period in
an aggregate amount exceeding $3,000, nor does it | 24 |
| include, with
the exception
of State central and county central | 25 |
| committees of any political party, any
individual, trust, | 26 |
| partnership, committee, association, corporation, or
any other | 27 |
| organization or group of persons which does not (i) accept
| 28 |
| contributions or make expenditures during any 12-month period | 29 |
| in an
aggregate amount exceeding $3,000 on behalf of or in | 30 |
| opposition
to a
candidate or candidates or to any question of | 31 |
| public policy or (ii)
accept contributions or make expenditures | 32 |
| during any
12-month period in an aggregate amount exceeding | 33 |
| $3,000 for electioneering
communications relating to any |
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| candidate or candidates described in paragraph
(a) of Section | 2 |
| 9-1.7 or 9-1.8 or any question of public policy described in
| 3 |
| paragraph (b) of Section 9-1.7 or 9-1.8 , and such candidates | 4 |
| and persons
shall not
be
required to comply with any filing | 5 |
| provisions in this Article.
| 6 |
| (Source: P.A. 90-737, eff. 1-1-99.)
| 7 |
| (10 ILCS 5/9-1.14)
| 8 |
| Sec. 9-1.14. Electioneering communication defined.
| 9 |
| (a) "Electioneering communication" means, for the purposes | 10 |
| of this Article,
any form of communication, in whatever medium, | 11 |
| including but not limited to a , newspaper, radio, television, | 12 |
| or Internet communication
and newspaper communications , that | 13 |
| (1) refers to a
clearly
identified candidate or , candidates who | 14 |
| will appear on the ballot , refers to a clearly identified
or | 15 |
| political party , or refers to a clearly identified question of | 16 |
| public policy that will appear on the ballot and (2) is made | 17 |
| within (i) 60
days before a general election
or consolidated | 18 |
| election
for the office sought by the candidate or (ii) 30 days | 19 |
| before a general primary
election for the office sought by the | 20 |
| candidate .
| 21 |
| (b) "Electioneering communication" does not include:
| 22 |
| (1) A communication, other than an advertisement | 23 |
| advertisements , appearing in a news
story,
commentary, or | 24 |
| editorial
distributed through the facilities of any | 25 |
| legitimate news organization, unless
the
facilities are | 26 |
| owned or controlled by any political party, political | 27 |
| committee,
or candidate.
| 28 |
| (2) A communication made solely to promote a candidate | 29 |
| debate or forum
that is made by or on behalf of the person | 30 |
| sponsoring the debate or forum.
| 31 |
| (3) A communication made as part of a non-partisan | 32 |
| activity designed to
encourage individuals to vote or to | 33 |
| register to vote.
|
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| (4) A communication by an organization operating and | 2 |
| remaining in good
standing under Section 501(c)(3) of the | 3 |
| Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
| 4 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 93-615, eff. 11-19-03; | 5 |
| revised 1-5-04.)
| 6 |
| (10 ILCS 5/9-9.5)
| 7 |
| Sec. 9-9.5. Disclosures in political communications.
Any | 8 |
| political committee, organized under the Election Code, that
| 9 |
| makes an expenditure for a pamphlet, circular, handbill, | 10 |
| Internet communication, radio, television,
or print | 11 |
| advertisement,
or other communication directed at voters and
| 12 |
| mentioning the name of a candidate in the next upcoming | 13 |
| election shall ensure
that the name of the political committee | 14 |
| paying for any part of the
communication, including, but not | 15 |
| limited to, its preparation and distribution,
is
identified | 16 |
| clearly within the communication as the payor. This Section | 17 |
| does
not apply to items that are too small to contain the | 18 |
| required disclosure.
Nothing in this Section shall require | 19 |
| disclosure on any telephone communication using random | 20 |
| sampling or other scientific survey methods to gauge public | 21 |
| opinion for or against any candidate or question of public | 22 |
| policy.
| 23 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-615, eff. 11-19-03.)
| 24 |
| (10 ILCS 5/10-14) (from Ch. 46, par. 10-14)
| 25 |
| Sec. 10-14. Not less than 67
61 days before the date of the | 26 |
| general election
the State Board of Elections shall certify to | 27 |
| the county clerk of each
county the name of each candidate | 28 |
| whose nomination papers,
certificate of nomination or | 29 |
| resolution to fill a vacancy in nomination
has been filed with
| 30 |
| the State Board of Elections and direct the county clerk to | 31 |
| place upon
the official ballot for the general election the | 32 |
| names of such candidates
in the same manner and in the same |
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| order as shown upon the certification. The name of no
candidate | 2 |
| for an office to
be filled by the electors of the entire state | 3 |
| shall be placed upon the
official ballot unless his name is | 4 |
| duly certified to the county clerk
upon a certificate signed by | 5 |
| the members of the State Board of
Elections. The names of group | 6 |
| candidates on petitions shall be certified
to the several | 7 |
| county clerks in the order
in which such names appear on such | 8 |
| petitions filed with
the State Board of Elections.
| 9 |
| Not less than 61
55 days before the date of the general | 10 |
| election, each
county clerk shall certify the names of each of | 11 |
| the candidates for county
offices whose nomination papers, | 12 |
| certificates of nomination or resolutions
to fill a vacancy in | 13 |
| nomination have been filed with such clerk and declare
that the | 14 |
| names of such candidates for the respective offices shall be
| 15 |
| placed upon the official ballot for the general election in the | 16 |
| same manner
and in the same order as shown upon the | 17 |
| certification. Each county clerk
shall place a copy of the | 18 |
| certification on file in his or her office and at
the same time | 19 |
| issue to the State Board of Elections a copy of such
| 20 |
| certification. In addition, each county clerk in whose county | 21 |
| there is a
board of election commissioners
shall, not
less than | 22 |
| 55 days before the election, certify to the board of election
| 23 |
| commissioners the name of the person or persons nominated for | 24 |
| such
office as shown by the certificate of the State Board of | 25 |
| Elections,
together with the names of all other candidates as | 26 |
| shown
by the certification of county officers on file in the | 27 |
| clerk's office, and
in the order so certified. The county clerk | 28 |
| or board of election commissioners
shall print
the names of the | 29 |
| nominees on the ballot for each office in the order in
which | 30 |
| they are certified to or filed with the county clerk; provided,
| 31 |
| that in printing the name of nominees for any office, if any of | 32 |
| such
nominees have also been nominated by one or more political | 33 |
| parties
pursuant to this Act, the location of the name of such | 34 |
| candidate on the
ballot for nominations made under this Article |
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| shall be precisely in the
same order in which it appears on the | 2 |
| certification of the State Board
of Elections to the county | 3 |
| clerk.
| 4 |
| For the general election,
the candidates of new political | 5 |
| parties shall be placed on the ballot for
said election after | 6 |
| the established political party candidates
and in the order of | 7 |
| new political party petition filings.
| 8 |
| Each certification shall indicate, where applicable, the | 9 |
| following:
| 10 |
| (1) The political party affiliation if any, of the | 11 |
| candidates for the
respective offices;
| 12 |
| (2) If there is to be more than one candidate elected to an | 13 |
| office from
the State, political subdivision or district;
| 14 |
| (3) If the voter has the right to vote for more than one | 15 |
| candidate for an office;
| 16 |
| (4) The term of office, if a vacancy is to be filled for | 17 |
| less than a
full term or if the offices to be filled in a | 18 |
| political subdivision are for
different terms.
| 19 |
| The State Board of Elections or the county clerk, as the | 20 |
| case may be,
shall issue an amended certification whenever it | 21 |
| is discovered that the
original certification is in error.
| 22 |
| (Source: P.A. 86-867.)
| 23 |
| (10 ILCS 5/12-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 12-5)
| 24 |
| Sec. 12-5. Notice for public questions. For all elections | 25 |
| held after July
1, 1999, notice of public
questions shall be | 26 |
| required only as set forth in this
Section or as set forth in | 27 |
| Section 17-3 or 19-3 of the School Code. Not
more than
30 days | 28 |
| nor less than 10 days before the date of a
regular election at | 29 |
| which a public question is to be submitted to the voters of
a | 30 |
| political or governmental subdivision, and at least 20 days | 31 |
| before an
emergency referendum, the election authority shall | 32 |
| publish notice of the
referendum. The notice shall be published | 33 |
| once in a local, community newspaper
having general circulation |
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| in the political or governmental subdivision. The
notice shall | 2 |
| also be given at least 10 days before the date of the election | 3 |
| by
posting a copy of the notice at the principal office of the | 4 |
| election
authority. The local election official shall also post | 5 |
| a copy of the notice at
the principal office of the political | 6 |
| or governmental
subdivision, or if there is no principal office | 7 |
| at the building in which the
governing body of the political or | 8 |
| governmental subdivision held its first
meeting of the calendar | 9 |
| year in which the referendum is being held. The
election | 10 |
| authority and the political or governmental subdivision may, | 11 |
| but are
not required to, post the notice electronically on | 12 |
| their World Wide Web pages.
The notice, which shall appear over | 13 |
| the name or title of the election
authority, shall be | 14 |
| substantially in the following form:
| 15 |
| NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the election to be held | 16 |
| on
(insert day of the week),
(insert date of election), the | 17 |
| following proposition will be
submitted to the voters of | 18 |
| (name of political or governmental subdivision):
| 19 |
| (insert the public question as it will appear on the | 20 |
| ballot)
| 21 |
| The polls at the election will be open at 6:00 o'clock | 22 |
| A.M. and will
continue to be open until 7:00 o'clock P.M. | 23 |
| of that day.
| 24 |
| Dated (date of notice)
| 25 |
| (Name or title of the election authority)
| 26 |
| The notice shall also include any additional information | 27 |
| required by the
statute authorizing the public question. The | 28 |
| notice may include an explanation in plain language of the | 29 |
| question and its purposes. The notice shall set forth the
| 30 |
| precincts and polling places at which the referendum will be | 31 |
| conducted only in
the case of emergency referenda.
| 32 |
| (Source: P.A. 91-57, eff. 6-30-99; 92-6, eff. 6-7-01 .)
| 33 |
| (10 ILCS 5/17-29) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-29)
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| Sec. 17-29. (a) No judge of election, pollwatcher, or other | 2 |
| person shall,
at any primary or election, do any electioneering | 3 |
| or soliciting of votes
or engage in any political discussion | 4 |
| within any polling place ,
or within
100 feet of any polling | 5 |
| place , or, at the option of a church or private school, on any | 6 |
| of the property of that church or private school that is a | 7 |
| polling place ; no person shall interrupt, hinder or
oppose any | 8 |
| voter while approaching within those areas
100 feet of any | 9 |
| polling place
for the purpose of voting. Judges of election | 10 |
| shall enforce the
provisions of this Section.
| 11 |
| (b) Election officers shall place 2 or more cones, small | 12 |
| United States
national flags, or some other marker a distance | 13 |
| of 100 horizontal feet from
each entrance to the room used by | 14 |
| voters to engage in voting, which shall be
known as the polling | 15 |
| room. If
the polling room is located within a building
that is | 16 |
| a private business, a public or private school , or a church or | 17 |
| other organization founded
for the purpose of religious worship | 18 |
| and the
distance of 100 horizontal feet ends within the | 19 |
| interior of the
building, then the markers shall be placed | 20 |
| outside of the
building at each entrance used by voters to | 21 |
| enter that
building on the grounds adjacent to the thoroughfare | 22 |
| or walkway. If the polling
room is located within a public or | 23 |
| private building with 2 or more floors and
the polling room is | 24 |
| located on the ground floor, then the markers shall be
placed | 25 |
| 100 horizontal feet from each entrance to the polling room used | 26 |
| by
voters to engage in voting. If the polling room is located | 27 |
| in a public or
private building with 2 or more floors and the | 28 |
| polling room is located on a
floor above or below the ground | 29 |
| floor,
then the markers shall be placed a distance of 100 feet | 30 |
| from the nearest
elevator or staircase used by voters on the | 31 |
| ground floor to access the floor
where the polling room is | 32 |
| located. The area within where the markers are placed
shall be | 33 |
| known as a campaign free zone, and electioneering is prohibited
| 34 |
| pursuant to this subsection. Notwithstanding any other |
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| provision of this Section, a church or private school may | 2 |
| choose to apply the campaign free zone to its entire property, | 3 |
| and, if so, the markers shall be placed near the boundaries on | 4 |
| the grounds adjacent to the thoroughfares or walkways leading | 5 |
| to the entrances used by the voters.
| 6 |
| The area on polling place property beyond the campaign free | 7 |
| zone, whether
publicly or privately owned, is a public forum | 8 |
| for the time that the polls are
open on an election day. At the | 9 |
| request of election officers any publicly owned
building must | 10 |
| be made available for use as a polling place. A person shall | 11 |
| have
the right to congregate and engage in electioneering on | 12 |
| any polling place
property while the polls are open beyond the | 13 |
| campaign free zone, including but
not limited to, the placement | 14 |
| of temporary signs.
This subsection shall be construed | 15 |
| liberally in favor of persons engaging in
electioneering
on all | 16 |
| polling place property beyond the campaign free zone for the | 17 |
| time that
the polls are
open on an election day.
| 18 |
| (c) The regulation of electioneering on polling place | 19 |
| property on an
election
day, including but not limited to the | 20 |
| placement of temporary signs, is an
exclusive power and | 21 |
| function of the State. A home rule unit may not regulate
| 22 |
| electioneering and any ordinance or local law contrary to | 23 |
| subsection (c) is
declared void. This is a denial and | 24 |
| limitation of home rule powers and
functions under subsection | 25 |
| (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois
Constitution.
| 26 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
| 27 |
| (10 ILCS 5/19-2.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 19-2.2)
| 28 |
| Sec. 19-2.2. (a) During the period beginning on the 40th | 29 |
| day preceding
an election and continuing through the day | 30 |
| preceding such election, no
advertising pertaining to any | 31 |
| candidate or proposition to be voted upon
shall be displayed in | 32 |
| or within 100 feet of any room used by voters
pursuant to this | 33 |
| Article , or, at the option of a church or private school, on |
|
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| any of the property of that church or private school that is a | 2 |
| polling place ; nor shall any person engage in electioneering
in | 3 |
| or within 100 feet of any such room , or, at the option of a | 4 |
| church or private school, on any of the property of that church | 5 |
| or private school that is a polling place . Any person who | 6 |
| violates this
Section may be punished as for contempt of court.
| 7 |
| (b) Election officers shall place 2 or more cones, small | 8 |
| United States
national flags, or some other marker a distance | 9 |
| of 100 horizontal feet from
each entrance to the room used by | 10 |
| voters to engage in voting , or, at the option of a church or | 11 |
| private school, on any of the property of that church or | 12 |
| private school that is a polling place , which shall be
known as | 13 |
| the polling room. If
the polling room is located within a | 14 |
| building that is a private business, a public or private
| 15 |
| school , or a church or other organization founded for the | 16 |
| purpose of religious
worship and the
distance of 100 horizontal | 17 |
| feet ends within the interior of the
building, then the markers | 18 |
| shall be placed outside of the
building at each entrance used | 19 |
| by voters to enter that
building on the grounds adjacent to the | 20 |
| thoroughfare or walkway. If the polling
room is located within | 21 |
| a public or private building with 2 or more floors and
the | 22 |
| polling room is located on the ground floor, then the markers | 23 |
| shall be
placed 100 horizontal feet from each entrance to the | 24 |
| polling room used by
voters to engage in voting. If the polling | 25 |
| room is located in a public or
private building with 2 or more | 26 |
| floors and the polling room is located on a
floor above or | 27 |
| below the ground floor,
then the markers shall be placed a | 28 |
| distance of 100 feet from the nearest
elevator or staircase | 29 |
| used by voters on the ground floor to access the floor
where | 30 |
| the polling room is located. The area within where the markers | 31 |
| are placed
shall be known as a campaign free zone, and | 32 |
| electioneering is prohibited
pursuant to this subsection. | 33 |
| Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, a church | 34 |
| or private school may choose to apply the campaign free zone to |
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| its entire property, and, if so, the markers shall be placed | 2 |
| near the boundaries on the grounds adjacent to the | 3 |
| thoroughfares or walkways leading to the entrances used by the | 4 |
| voters.
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| The area on polling place property beyond the campaign free | 6 |
| zone,
whether
publicly or privately owned, is a public forum | 7 |
| for the time that the polls are
open on an election day. At the | 8 |
| request of election officers any publicly owned
building must | 9 |
| be made available for use as a polling place. A person shall | 10 |
| have
the right to congregate and engage in electioneering on | 11 |
| any polling place
property while the polls are open beyond the | 12 |
| campaign free zone, including but
not limited to, the placement | 13 |
| of temporary signs.
This subsection shall be construed | 14 |
| liberally in favor of persons engaging in
electioneering
on all | 15 |
| polling place property beyond the campaign free zone for the | 16 |
| time that
the polls are
open on an election day.
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| (c) The regulation of electioneering on polling place | 18 |
| property on an
election
day, including but not limited to the | 19 |
| placement of temporary signs, is an
exclusive power and | 20 |
| function of the State. A home rule unit may not regulate
| 21 |
| electioneering and any ordinance or local law contrary to | 22 |
| subsection (b) is
declared void. This is a denial and | 23 |
| limitation of home rule powers and
functions under subsection | 24 |
| (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois
Constitution.
| 25 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
| 26 |
| (10 ILCS 5/21-2) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-2)
| 27 |
| Sec. 21-2. The county clerks of the several counties shall, | 28 |
| within 21
8 days
next after holding the election named in | 29 |
| subsection (1) of Section 2A-1.2 and
Section 2A-2 make 2 copies | 30 |
| of the abstract of the votes cast for electors by
each | 31 |
| political party or group, as indicated by the voter, as | 32 |
| aforesaid, by a
cross in the square to the left of the bracket | 33 |
| aforesaid, or as indicated
by a cross in the appropriate place |
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| preceding the appellation or title of
the particular political | 2 |
| party or group, and transmit by mail one of the
copies to the | 3 |
| office of the State Board of Elections and retain the other
in | 4 |
| his office, to be sent for by the electoral board in case the | 5 |
| other
should be mislaid. Within 31
20 days after the holding of | 6 |
| such election, and
sooner if all the returns are received by | 7 |
| the State Board of Elections, the
State Board of Election, | 8 |
| shall proceed to open and canvass said election
returns and to | 9 |
| declare which set of candidates for President and
| 10 |
| Vice-President received, as aforesaid, the highest number of | 11 |
| votes cast at
such election as aforesaid; and the electors of | 12 |
| that party whose candidates
for President and Vice-President | 13 |
| received the highest number of votes so
cast shall be taken and | 14 |
| deemed to be elected as electors of President and
| 15 |
| Vice-President, but should 2 or more sets of candidates for | 16 |
| President and
Vice-President be returned with an equal and the | 17 |
| highest vote, the State
Board of Elections shall cause a notice | 18 |
| of the same to be published, which
notice shall name some day | 19 |
| and place, not less than 5 days from the time of
such | 20 |
| publication of such notice, upon which the State Board of | 21 |
| Elections
will decide by lot which of the sets of candidates | 22 |
| for President and
Vice-President so equal and highest shall be | 23 |
| declared to be highest. And
upon the day and at the place so | 24 |
| appointed in the notice, the board shall
so decide by lot and | 25 |
| declare which is deemed highest of the sets of
candidates for | 26 |
| President and Vice-President so equal and highest, thereby
| 27 |
| determining only that the electors chosen as aforesaid by such | 28 |
| candidates'
party or group are thereby elected by general | 29 |
| ticket to be such electors.
| 30 |
| (Source: P.A. 84-861.)
| 31 |
| (10 ILCS 5/22-1)
(from Ch. 46, par. 22-1)
| 32 |
| Sec. 22-1. Abstracts of votes. Within 21
7 days after the
| 33 |
| close of the
election at which candidates for offices |
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| hereinafter named in this Section are
voted upon, the county | 2 |
| clerks of the respective counties, with the assistance
of the | 3 |
| chairmen of the county central committees of the Republican and
| 4 |
| Democratic parties of the county, shall open the returns and | 5 |
| make abstracts of
the votes on a separate sheet for each of the | 6 |
| following:
| 7 |
| A. For Governor and Lieutenant Governor;
| 8 |
| B. For State officers;
| 9 |
| C. For presidential electors;
| 10 |
| D. For United States Senators and Representatives to | 11 |
| Congress;
| 12 |
| E. For judges of the Supreme Court;
| 13 |
| F. For judges of the Appellate Court;
| 14 |
| G. For judges of the circuit court;
| 15 |
| H. For Senators and Representatives to the General | 16 |
| Assembly;
| 17 |
| I. For State's Attorneys elected from 2 or more counties;
| 18 |
| J. For amendments to the Constitution, and for other | 19 |
| propositions
submitted to the electors of the entire State;
| 20 |
| K. For county officers and for propositions submitted to | 21 |
| the
electors of the county only;
| 22 |
| L. For Regional Superintendent of Schools;
| 23 |
| M. For trustees of Sanitary Districts; and
| 24 |
| N. For Trustee of a Regional Board of School Trustees.
| 25 |
| Multiple originals of each of the sheets shall be prepared | 26 |
| and one of
each shall be turned over to the chairman of the | 27 |
| county central
committee of each of the then existing | 28 |
| established political parties, as
defined in Section 10-2, or | 29 |
| his duly authorized representative
immediately after the | 30 |
| completion of the entries on the sheets and before
the totals | 31 |
| have been compiled.
| 32 |
| The foregoing abstracts shall be preserved by the county | 33 |
| clerk in his office.
| 34 |
| Whenever any county chairman is also county clerk or |
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| whenever any
county chairman is unable to serve as a member of | 2 |
| such canvassing board
the vice-chairman or secretary of his | 3 |
| county central committee, in that
order, shall serve in his | 4 |
| place as member of such canvassing board;
provided, that if | 5 |
| none of these persons is able to serve, the county
chairman may | 6 |
| appoint a member of his county central committee to serve
as a | 7 |
| member of such canvassing board.
| 8 |
| The powers and duties of the county canvassing board are | 9 |
| limited to
those specified in this Section. In no event shall | 10 |
| such canvassing board
open any package in which the ballots | 11 |
| have been wrapped or any envelope
containing "defective" or | 12 |
| "objected to" ballots, or in any manner
undertake to examine | 13 |
| the ballots used in the election, except as
provided in Section | 14 |
| 22-9.1 or when directed by a court in an election
contest. Nor | 15 |
| shall such canvassing board call in the precinct judges of
| 16 |
| election or any other persons to open or recount the ballots.
| 17 |
| (Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96.)
| 18 |
| (10 ILCS 5/22-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 22-3)
| 19 |
| Sec. 22-3. When two (2) or more persons receive an equal | 20 |
| and the highest
number of votes for an office to be filled by | 21 |
| the county alone, the county
clerk shall issue a notice to such | 22 |
| persons of such tie vote, and require
them to appear at his | 23 |
| office, on a day named in the notice, no later than 21 days | 24 |
| following an election
within ten (10)
days from the day of | 25 |
| election , and determine by lot which of them is to be
declared | 26 |
| elected.
| 27 |
| (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)
| 28 |
| (10 ILCS 5/22-7)
(from Ch. 46, par. 22-7)
| 29 |
| Sec. 22-7. Canvass of votes; declaration and proclamation | 30 |
| of result. The State Board of Elections, shall proceed within | 31 |
| 31
20 days
after the election,
and sooner if all the returns | 32 |
| are received, to canvass the votes given
for United States |
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| Senators and Representatives to Congress, State
executive | 2 |
| officers, judges of the Supreme Court, judges of the Appellate
| 3 |
| Court, judges of the Circuit Court, Senators, Representatives | 4 |
| to the
General Assembly, State's Attorneys and Regional | 5 |
| Superintendents of Schools
elected from 2 or more counties, | 6 |
| respectively, and the persons
having the highest number of | 7 |
| votes for the respective offices shall be
declared duly | 8 |
| elected, but if it appears that more than the number of
persons | 9 |
| to be elected have the highest and an equal number of votes for
| 10 |
| the same office, the electoral board shall decide by lot which | 11 |
| of such
persons shall be elected; and to each person duly | 12 |
| elected, the Governor
shall give a certificate of election or | 13 |
| commission, as the case may
require, and shall cause | 14 |
| proclamation to be made of the result of the
canvass, and they | 15 |
| shall at the same time and in the same manner, canvass
the vote | 16 |
| cast upon amendments to the Constitution, and upon other
| 17 |
| propositions submitted to the electors of the entire State; and | 18 |
| the
Governor shall cause to be made such proclamation of the | 19 |
| result of the
canvass as the statutes elsewhere provide. The | 20 |
| State Board of Elections
shall transmit to the State | 21 |
| Comptroller a list of the persons elected to
the various | 22 |
| offices. The State Board of Elections shall also transmit to
| 23 |
| the Supreme Court the names of persons elected to judgeships in
| 24 |
| adversary elections and the names of judges who fail to win | 25 |
| retention in
office.
| 26 |
| (Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96.)
| 27 |
| (10 ILCS 5/22-8)
(from Ch. 46, par. 22-8)
| 28 |
| Sec. 22-8. In municipalities operating under Article 6 of | 29 |
| this Act,
within 21
7 days after the close of such election, a | 30 |
| judge of
the circuit
court, with the assistance of the city | 31 |
| attorney and the board of election
commissioners, who are | 32 |
| hereby declared a canvassing board for such city,
shall open | 33 |
| all returns left respectively, with the election |
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| commissioners,
the county clerk, and city comptroller, and | 2 |
| shall make abstracts or
statements of the votes in the | 3 |
| following manner, as the case may require,
viz: All votes for | 4 |
| Governor and Lieutenant Governor on one sheet; all votes
for | 5 |
| other State officers on another sheet; all votes for | 6 |
| presidential
electors on another sheet; all votes for United | 7 |
| States Senators and
Representatives to Congress on another | 8 |
| sheet; all votes for judges of the
Supreme Court on another | 9 |
| sheet; all votes for judges of the Appellate Court
on another | 10 |
| sheet; all votes for Judges of the Circuit Court on another
| 11 |
| sheet; all votes for Senators and Representatives to the | 12 |
| General Assembly
on another sheet; all votes for State's | 13 |
| Attorneys where elected from 2 or
more counties on another | 14 |
| sheet; all votes for County Officers on another
sheet; all | 15 |
| votes for City Officers on another sheet; all votes for Town
| 16 |
| Officers on another sheet; and all votes for any other office | 17 |
| on a separate
and appropriate sheet; all votes for any | 18 |
| proposition, which may be
submitted to a vote of the people, on | 19 |
| another sheet, and all votes against
any proposition, submitted | 20 |
| to a vote of the people, on another sheet.
| 21 |
| Multiple originals of each of the sheets shall be prepared | 22 |
| and one of
each shall be turned over to the chairman of the | 23 |
| county central committee
of each of the then existing | 24 |
| established political parties, as defined in
Section 10-2, or | 25 |
| his duly authorized representative immediately after the
| 26 |
| completion of the entries on the sheets and before the totals | 27 |
| have been
compiled.
| 28 |
| (Source: P.A. 77-2626.)
| 29 |
| (10 ILCS 5/22-17)
(from Ch. 46, par. 22-17)
| 30 |
| Sec. 22-17. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b),
the | 31 |
| canvass of votes cast at the nonpartisan and consolidated | 32 |
| elections
shall be conducted by the following canvassing boards | 33 |
| within 21
7 days
after the close of such elections:
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| 1. For city offices, by the mayor, the city attorney | 2 |
| and the city
clerk.
| 3 |
| 2. For village and incorporated town offices, by the | 4 |
| president of
the board of trustees, one member of the board | 5 |
| of trustees, and the
village or incorporated town clerk.
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| 3. For township offices, by the township supervisor, | 7 |
| the eligible town
trustee elected in the township who has | 8 |
| the longest term of continuous
service as town trustee, and | 9 |
| the township clerk.
| 10 |
| 4. For road district offices, by the highway | 11 |
| commissioner and the
road district clerk.
| 12 |
| 5. For school district or community college district | 13 |
| offices, by the
school or community college district board.
| 14 |
| 6. For special district elected offices, by the board | 15 |
| of the special
district.
| 16 |
| 7. For multi-county educational service region | 17 |
| offices, by the
regional board of school trustees.
| 18 |
| 8. For township trustee of schools or land | 19 |
| commissioner, by the
township trustees of schools or land | 20 |
| commissioners.
| 21 |
| 9. For park district offices, by the president of the | 22 |
| park board, one
member of the board of park commissioners | 23 |
| and the secretary of the park
district.
| 24 |
| 10. For multi-township assessment districts, by the | 25 |
| chairman,
clerk, and assessor of the multi-township | 26 |
| assessment district.
| 27 |
| (b) The city canvassing board provided in Section 22-8 | 28 |
| shall canvass
the votes cast at the nonpartisan and | 29 |
| consolidated elections for offices
of any political | 30 |
| subdivision entirely within the jurisdiction of a
municipal | 31 |
| board of election commissioners.
| 32 |
| (c) The canvass of votes cast upon any public questions | 33 |
| submitted to
the voters of any political subdivision, or any | 34 |
| precinct or combination of
precincts within a political |
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| subdivision, at any regular election or at
any emergency | 2 |
| referendum election, including votes cast by voters
outside of | 3 |
| the political subdivision where the question is for
annexation | 4 |
| thereto, shall be canvassed by the same board provided for in
| 5 |
| this Section for the canvass of votes of the officers of such | 6 |
| political
subdivision. However, referenda conducted throughout | 7 |
| a county and
referenda of sanitary districts whose officers are | 8 |
| elected at general
elections shall be canvassed by the county | 9 |
| canvassing board. The votes
cast on a public question for the | 10 |
| formation of a political subdivision
shall be canvassed by the | 11 |
| circuit court that ordered the question
submitted, or by such | 12 |
| officers of the court as may be appointed for such
purpose, | 13 |
| except where in the formation or reorganization of a school
| 14 |
| district or districts the regional superintendent of schools is
| 15 |
| designated by law as the canvassing official.
| 16 |
| (d) The canvass of votes for offices of political | 17 |
| subdivisions cast
at special elections to fill vacancies held | 18 |
| on the day of any regular
election shall be conducted by the | 19 |
| canvassing board which is responsible
for canvassing the votes | 20 |
| at the regularly scheduled election for such office.
| 21 |
| (Source: P.A. 87-738; 87-1052.)
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