101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB3210

 

Introduced 2/11/2020, by Sen. Bill Cunningham

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
65 ILCS 5/3.1-20-45

    Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that when a person who intends to be a write-in candidate for an uncontested nonpartisan office has not timely filed nomination papers but has filed a written statement or notice of his or her intent, no primary ballot shall be printed (rather than requiring a primary ballot to be prepared and a primary election held if the write-in candidate is the fifth candidate filed). Provides that where no primary is held, a person intending to become a write-in candidate shall re-file a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate for the general election with the appropriate election authority or authorities. Removes language: concerning requirements for the written statement or notice; and providing that an election authority has no duty to conduct a primary and prepare a ballot for a uncontested office, unless the written statement or notice is filed in a timely manner.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning local government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
5changing Section 3.1-20-45 as follows:
 
6    (65 ILCS 5/3.1-20-45)
7    Sec. 3.1-20-45. Nonpartisan primary elections; uncontested
8office. A city incorporated under this Code that elects
9municipal officers at nonpartisan primary and general
10elections shall conduct the elections as provided in the
11Election Code, except that no office for which nomination is
12uncontested shall be included on the primary ballot and no
13primary shall be held for that office. For the purposes of this
14Section, an office is uncontested when not more than 4 persons
15to be nominated for each office have timely filed valid
16nominating papers seeking nomination for the election to that
17office.
18    Notwithstanding any other provision of law the preceding
19paragraph, when a person (i) who has not timely filed valid
20nomination papers and (ii) who intends to become a write-in
21candidate for nomination for any office for which nomination is
22uncontested files a written statement or notice of that intent
23with the proper election official with whom the nomination

 

 

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1papers for that office are filed, no primary ballot shall be
2printed. Where no primary is held, a person intending to become
3a write-in candidate at the general primary election shall
4re-file a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate for
5the general election with the appropriate election authority or
6authorities if the write-in candidate becomes the fifth
7candidate filed, a primary ballot must be prepared and a
8primary must be held for the office. The statement or notice
9must be filed on or before the 61st day before the consolidated
10primary election. The statement must contain (i) the name and
11address of the person intending to become a write-in candidate,
12(ii) a statement that the person intends to become a write-in
13candidate, and (iii) the office the person is seeking as a
14write-in candidate. An election authority has no duty to
15conduct a primary election or prepare a primary ballot unless a
16statement meeting the requirements of this paragraph is filed
17in a timely manner.
18    If there is a primary election, then candidates shall be
19placed on the ballot for the next succeeding general municipal
20election in the following manner:
21        (1) If one officer is to be elected, then the 2
22    candidates who receive the highest number of votes shall be
23    placed on the ballot for the next succeeding general
24    municipal election.
25        (2) If 2 aldermen are to be elected at large, then the
26    4 candidates who receive the highest number of votes shall

 

 

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1    be placed on the ballot for the next succeeding general
2    municipal election.
3        (3) If 3 aldermen are to be elected at large, then the
4    6 candidates who receive the highest number of votes shall
5    be placed on the ballot for the next succeeding general
6    municipal election.
7    The name of a write-in candidate may not be placed on the
8ballot for the next succeeding general municipal election
9unless he or she receives a number of votes in the primary
10election that equals or exceeds the number of signatures
11required on a petition for nomination for that office or that
12exceeds the number of votes received by at least one of the
13candidates whose names were printed on the primary ballot for
14nomination for or election to the same office.
15(Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)