Rep. Carol Ammons

Filed: 3/22/2021

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1873

2    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1873 by replacing
3everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4    "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5Section 1-3 and by adding Section 11-8 as follows:
 
6    (10 ILCS 5/1-3)  (from Ch. 46, par. 1-3)
7    Sec. 1-3. As used in this Act, unless the context
8otherwise requires:
9    1. "Election" includes the submission of all questions of
10public policy, propositions, and all measures submitted to
11popular vote, and includes primary elections when so indicated
12by the context.
13    2. "Regular election" means the general, general primary,
14consolidated and consolidated primary elections regularly
15scheduled in Article 2A. The even numbered year municipal
16primary established in Article 2A is a regular election only

 

 

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1with respect to those municipalities in which a primary is
2required to be held on such date.
3    3. "Special election" means an election not regularly
4recurring at fixed intervals, irrespective of whether it is
5held at the same time and place and by the same election
6officers as a regular election.
7    4. "General election" means the biennial election at which
8members of the General Assembly are elected. "General primary
9election", "consolidated election" and "consolidated primary
10election" mean the respective elections or the election dates
11designated and established in Article 2A of this Code.
12    5. "Municipal election" means an election or primary,
13either regular or special, in cities, villages, and
14incorporated towns; and "municipality" means any such city,
15village or incorporated town.
16    6. "Political or governmental subdivision" means any unit
17of local government, or school district in which elections are
18or may be held. "Political or governmental subdivision" also
19includes, for election purposes, Regional Boards of School
20Trustees, and Township Boards of School Trustees.
21    7. The word "township" and the word "town" shall apply
22interchangeably to the type of governmental organization
23established in accordance with the provisions of the Township
24Code. The term "incorporated town" shall mean a municipality
25referred to as an incorporated town in the Illinois Municipal
26Code, as now or hereafter amended.

 

 

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1    8. "Election authority" means a county clerk or a Board of
2Election Commissioners.
3    9. "Election Jurisdiction" means (a) an entire county, in
4the case of a county in which no city board of election
5commissioners is located or which is under the jurisdiction of
6a county board of election commissioners; (b) the territorial
7jurisdiction of a city board of election commissioners; and
8(c) the territory in a county outside of the jurisdiction of a
9city board of election commissioners. In each instance
10election jurisdiction shall be determined according to which
11election authority maintains the permanent registration
12records of qualified electors.
13    10. "Local election official" means the clerk or secretary
14of a unit of local government or school district, as the case
15may be, the treasurer of a township board of school trustees,
16and the regional superintendent of schools with respect to the
17various school officer elections and school referenda for
18which the regional superintendent is assigned election duties
19by The School Code, as now or hereafter amended.
20    11. "Judges of election", "primary judges" and similar
21terms, as applied to cases where there are 2 sets of judges,
22when used in connection with duties at an election during the
23hours the polls are open, refer to the team of judges of
24election on duty during such hours; and, when used with
25reference to duties after the closing of the polls, refer to
26the team of tally judges designated to count the vote after the

 

 

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1closing of the polls and the holdover judges designated
2pursuant to Section 13-6.2 or 14-5.2. In such case, where,
3after the closing of the polls, any act is required to be
4performed by each of the judges of election, it shall be
5performed by each of the tally judges and by each of the
6holdover judges.
7    12. "Petition" of candidacy as used in Sections 7-10 and
87-10.1 shall consist of a statement of candidacy, candidate's
9statement containing oath, and sheets containing signatures of
10qualified primary electors bound together.
11    13. "Election district" and "precinct", when used with
12reference to a 30-day residence requirement, means the
13smallest constituent territory in which electors vote as a
14unit at the same polling place in any election governed by this
15Act.
16    14. "District" means any area which votes as a unit for the
17election of any officer, other than the State or a unit of
18local government or school district, and includes, but is not
19limited to, legislative, congressional and judicial districts,
20judicial circuits, county board districts, municipal and
21sanitary district wards, school board districts, and
22precincts.
23    15. "Question of public policy" or "public question" means
24any question, proposition or measure submitted to the voters
25at an election dealing with subject matter other than the
26nomination or election of candidates and shall include, but is

 

 

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1not limited to, any bond or tax referendum, and questions
2relating to the Constitution.
3    16. "Ordinance providing the form of government of a
4municipality or county pursuant to Article VII of the
5Constitution" includes ordinances, resolutions and petitions
6adopted by referendum which provide for the form of
7government, the officers or the manner of selection or terms
8of office of officers of such municipality or county, pursuant
9to the provisions of Sections 4, 6 or 7 of Article VII of the
10Constitution.
11    17. "List" as used in Sections 4-11, 4-22, 5-14, 5-29,
126-60, and 6-66 shall include a computer tape or computer disc
13or other electronic data processing information containing
14voter information.
15    18. "Accessible" means accessible to persons with
16disabilities and elderly individuals for the purpose of voting
17or registration, as determined by rule of the State Board of
18Elections.
19    19. "Elderly" means 65 years of age or older.
20    20. "Person with a disability" means a person having a
21temporary or permanent physical disability.
22    21. "Leading political party" means one of the two
23political parties whose candidates for governor at the most
24recent three gubernatorial elections received either the
25highest or second highest average number of votes. The
26political party whose candidates for governor received the

 

 

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1highest average number of votes shall be known as the first
2leading political party and the political party whose
3candidates for governor received the second highest average
4number of votes shall be known as the second leading political
5party.
6    22. "Business day" means any day in which the office of an
7election authority, local election official or the State Board
8of Elections is open to the public for a minimum of 7 hours.
9    23. "Homeless individual" means any person who has a
10nontraditional residence, including, but not limited to, a
11shelter, day shelter, park bench, street corner, or space
12under a bridge.
13    24. "Signature" means a name signed in ink or in digitized
14form. This definition does not apply to a nominating or
15candidate petition or a referendum petition.
16    25. "Intelligent mail barcode tracking system" means a
17printed trackable barcode attached to the return business
18reply envelope for mail-in ballots under Article 19 or Article
1920 that allows an election authority to determine the date the
20envelope was mailed in absence of a postmark.
21    26. "Vote center" means a polling place at which any
22registered elector in the political subdivision holding the
23election may vote, regardless of the precinct in which the
24elector resides.
25(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-522, eff. 6-30-16.)
 

 

 

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1    (10 ILCS 5/11-8 new)
2    Sec. 11-8. Combining precincts and polling places; vote
3centers.
4    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
5an election authority may establish one or more vote centers
6for any election. An election authority who establishes a vote
7center shall publish the location of polling places pursuant
8to Article 12.
9    (b) If vote centers are used in an election in a political
10subdivision, precinct polling places shall not also be used in
11the election in that political subdivision, unless each
12precinct polling place has a secure electronic connection to
13provide voting information to and receive voting information
14from the online voter registration system maintained by the
15election authority.
16    (c) If vote centers are used in a general election in a
17county with a population of 25,000 or more active registered
18electors, there shall be at least one vote center for every
1910,000 active registered electors; except that the State Board
20of Elections may waive this requirement for a county before
21the election at the request of the election authority.
22    (d) Each vote center used in a county shall have a secure
23electronic connection to the online voter registration system
24maintained by the election authority permitting all voting
25information processed by any computer at a vote center to be
26immediately accessible to all other computers at all vote

 

 

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1centers in the county. A county may not use vote centers in an
2election unless the State Board of Elections has certified
3that the secure electronic connection is sufficient to prevent
4any elector from voting more than once and to prevent
5unauthorized access to the online voter registration system.
6    (e) The number, location, and manner of operation and
7location of vote centers, including providing for poll
8watching activities, shall be determined by the election
9authority in consultation with the chairpersons of the county
10central committees of the major political parties and a
11representative of the county organization of any minor
12political party.
13    (f) Each vote center shall meet all the requirements of
14federal and State law applicable to polling places, except as
15such requirements of State law are modified by this Section.".