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| | HB5207 Engrossed | | LRB097 18246 PJG 63472 b |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning elections.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section |
| 5 | | 28-12 as follows:
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| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/28-12) (from Ch. 46, par. 28-12)
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| 7 | | Sec. 28-12.
Upon receipt of the certificates of the |
| 8 | | election authorities
showing the results of the sample |
| 9 | | signature verification, the Board shall:
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| 10 | | 1. Based on the sample, calculate the ratio of invalid |
| 11 | | or valid signatures
in each election jurisdiction.
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| 12 | | 2. Apply the ratio of invalid to valid signatures in an |
| 13 | | election
jurisdiction sample to the total number of |
| 14 | | petition signatures submitted
from that election |
| 15 | | jurisdiction.
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| 16 | | 3. Compute the degree of multiple signature |
| 17 | | contamination in each election
jurisdiction sample.
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| 18 | | 4. Adjust for multiple signature contamination and the |
| 19 | | invalid signatures,
project the total number of valid |
| 20 | | petition signatures submitted from each
election |
| 21 | | jurisdiction.
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| 22 | | 5. Aggregate the total number of projected valid |
| 23 | | signatures from each
election jurisdiction and project the |
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| 1 | | total number of valid signatures on
the petition statewide.
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| 2 | | If such statewide projection establishes a total number of |
| 3 | | valid petition
signatures not greater than 95.0% of the minimum |
| 4 | | number of signatures required
to qualify the proposed statewide |
| 5 | | advisory
public question for the ballot, the petition shall be |
| 6 | | presumed invalid;
provided that, prior to the last day for |
| 7 | | ballot certification for the general
election, the Board shall |
| 8 | | conduct a hearing for the purpose of allowing
the proponents to |
| 9 | | present competent evidence or an additional sample to
rebut the |
| 10 | | presumption of
invalidity. At the conclusion of such hearing, |
| 11 | | and after the resolution of any specific objection filed |
| 12 | | pursuant to Section 10-8 of this Code, the Board shall issue a
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| 13 | | final order declaring the petition to be valid or invalid and |
| 14 | | shall, in
accordance with its order, certify or not certify the |
| 15 | | proposition for the ballot.
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| 16 | | If such statewide projection establishes a total number of |
| 17 | | valid petition
signatures greater than 95.0% of the minimum |
| 18 | | number of signatures required
to qualify the proposed |
| 19 | | Constitutional amendment or statewide advisory
public question |
| 20 | | for the ballot, the results of the sample shall be considered
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| 21 | | inconclusive and, if no specific objections to the petition are |
| 22 | | filed pursuant
to Section 10-8 of this Code, the Board shall |
| 23 | | issue a final order declaring
the petition to be valid and |
| 24 | | shall certify the proposition for the ballot.
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| 25 | | In either event, the Board shall append to its final order |
| 26 | | the detailed
results of the sample from each election |