96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB2997

 

Introduced 2/24/2009, by Rep. Tom Cross

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
10 ILCS 5/21-3   from Ch. 46, par. 21-3

    Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the publication of the results of an election to choose presidential and vice-presidential electors.


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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,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section
5 21-3 as follows:
 
6     (10 ILCS 5/21-3)  (from Ch. 46, par. 21-3)
7     Sec. 21-3. Within five days after the the votes shall have
8 been canvassed and the results declared or the result declared
9 by lot as provided for in Section 21-2 above, the Governor
10 shall cause the result of said election to be published, and
11 shall proclaim the persons electors of President and
12 Vice-President so chosen composing the list so elected, by
13 transmitting by mail to the several persons so chosen and
14 composing the list or set elected, electors of President and
15 Vice-President certificates in triplicate, under the Seal of
16 State of their appointment, and shall also transmit under the
17 Seal of State to the Secretary of State of the United States
18 the certificate of the election of said electors as required by
19 the laws of Congress.
20 (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)