100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
HB4678

 

Introduced , by Rep. Brad Halbrook

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
10 ILCS 5/7-43  from Ch. 46, par. 7-43

    Amends the Election Code. Provides that no person is entitled to vote at a primary election if that person has participated in the town political party caucus next preceding the primary of another political party by signing an affidavit of voters attending the caucus. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning elections.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section
57-43 as follows:
 
6    (10 ILCS 5/7-43)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-43)
7    Sec. 7-43. Every person having resided in this State 6
8months and in the precinct 30 days next preceding any primary
9therein who shall be a citizen of the United States of the age
10of 18 or more years shall be entitled to vote at such primary.
11    The following regulations shall be applicable to
12primaries:
13        No person shall be entitled to vote at a primary:
14            (a) Unless he declares his party affiliations as
15        required by this Article.
16            (b) (Blank).
17            (c) (Blank).
18            (c-5) (c.5) If that person has participated in the
19        town political party caucus next preceding the
20        primary, under Section 45-50 of the Township Code, of
21        another political party by signing an affidavit of
22        voters attending the caucus within 45 days before the
23        first day of the calendar month in which the primary is

 

 

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1        held.
2            (d) (Blank).
3        In cities, villages and incorporated towns having a
4    board of election commissioners only voters registered as
5    provided by Article 6 of this Act shall be entitled to vote
6    at such primary.
7        No person shall be entitled to vote at a primary unless
8    he is registered under the provisions of Articles 4, 5 or 6
9    of this Act, when his registration is required by any of
10    said Articles to entitle him to vote at the election with
11    reference to which the primary is held.
12    A person (i) who filed a statement of candidacy for a
13partisan office as a qualified primary voter of an established
14political party or (ii) who voted the ballot of an established
15political party at a general primary election may not file a
16statement of candidacy as a candidate of a different
17established political party or as an independent candidate for
18a partisan office to be filled at the general election
19immediately following the general primary for which the person
20filed the statement or voted the ballot. A person may file a
21statement of candidacy for a partisan office as a qualified
22primary voter of an established political party regardless of
23any prior filing of candidacy for a partisan office or voting
24the ballot of an established political party at any prior
25election.
26(Source: P.A. 97-681, eff. 3-30-12; 98-463, eff. 8-16-13.)
 

 

 

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1    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
2becoming law.