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| filled for a term at the next general or judicial
election. A |
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| person appointed to fill a vacancy less than 60 days prior
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| the next primary election to nominate Judges shall serve until |
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| the
vacancy is filled at the second general or judicial |
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| election following
such appointment.
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| (d) Not less than six months before the general election |
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| preceding
the expiration of his term of office, a Supreme, |
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| Appellate or Circuit
Judge who has been elected to that office |
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| may file in the office of the
Secretary of State a declaration |
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| of candidacy to succeed himself. The
Secretary of State, not |
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| less than 63 days before the election, shall
certify the |
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| Judge's candidacy to the proper election officials. The
names |
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| of Judges seeking retention shall be submitted to the electors,
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| separately and without party designation, on the sole question |
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| whether
each Judge shall be retained in office for another |
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| term. The retention
elections shall be conducted at general |
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| elections in the appropriate
Judicial District, for Supreme and |
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| Appellate Judges, and in the circuit
for Circuit Judges. The |
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| affirmative vote of three-fifths of the electors
voting on the |
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| question shall elect the Judge to the office for a term
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| commencing on the first Monday in December following his |
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| election.
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| (d-5) A Supreme, Appellate, or Circuit Judge who fails to |
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| timely file a declaration of candidacy to succeed himself or |
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| herself in office may not file petitions of candidacy for the |
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| vacancy in that office created by that failure.
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| (e) A law reducing the number of Appellate or Circuit |
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| Judges shall
be without prejudice to the right of the Judges |
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| affected to seek
retention in office. A reduction shall become |
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| effective when a vacancy
occurs in the affected unit.
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| (Source: Illinois Constitution.)
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| SCHEDULE
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| This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being |
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| declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois |
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| Constitutional Amendment Act.
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