Elections & Campaign Reform Committee

Filed: 3/9/2010

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5157

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5157 on page 1, by
3 inserting immediately below line 3 the following:
 
4     "Section 4. The Election Code is amended by changing
5 Section 17-22 as follows:
 
6     (10 ILCS 5/17-22)  (from Ch. 46, par. 17-22)
7     Sec. 17-22. The judges of election shall make the tally
8 sheet and certificate of results in triplicate. If, however,
9 the number of established political parties, as defined in
10 Section 10-2, exceeds 2, one additional copy shall be made for
11 each established political party in excess of 2. One list of
12 voters, or other proper return with such certificate written
13 thereon, and accompanying tally sheet footed up so as to show
14 the correct number of votes cast for each person voted for,
15 shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up by the judges of
16 election, 2 of whom (one from each of the 2 major political

 

 

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1 parties) shall immediately deliver same to the county clerk, or
2 his deputy, at the office of the county clerk, or to an
3 officially designated receiving station established by the
4 county clerk where a duly authorized representative of the
5 county clerk shall receive said envelopes for immediate
6 transmission to the office of county clerk, who shall safely
7 keep them. The other certificates of results and accompanying
8 tally sheet shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up and duly
9 directed, respectively, to the chairman of the county central
10 committee of each then existing established political party,
11 and by another of the judges of election deposited immediately
12 in the nearest United States letter deposit. However, if any
13 county chairman notifies the county clerk not later than 10
14 days before the election of his desire to receive the envelope
15 addressed to him at the point and at the time same are
16 delivered to the county clerk, his deputy or receiving station
17 designee the envelopes shall be delivered to such county
18 chairman or his designee immediately upon receipt thereof by
19 the county clerk, his deputy or his receiving station designee.
20 The person or persons so designated by a county chairman shall
21 sign an official receipt acknowledging receipt of said
22 envelopes. The poll book and tally list filed with the county
23 clerk shall be kept one year, and certified copies thereof
24 shall be evidence in all courts, proceedings and election
25 contests. Before the returns are sealed up, as aforesaid, the
26 judges shall compare the tally papers, footings and

 

 

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1 certificates and see that they are correct and duplicates of
2 each other, and certify to the correctness of the same.
3     At the nonpartisan and consolidated election elections,
4 the judges of election shall make a tally sheet and certificate
5 of results for each political subdivision for which candidates
6 or public questions are on the ballot at such election, and
7 shall sign, seal in a marked envelope and deliver them to the
8 county clerk with the other certificates of results herein
9 required. Such tally sheets and certificates of results may be
10 duplicates of the tally sheet and certificate of results
11 otherwise required by this Section, showing all votes for all
12 candidates and public questions voted for or upon in the
13 precinct, or may be on separate forms prepared by the election
14 authority and showing only those votes cast for candidates and
15 public questions of each such political subdivision.
16     Within 2 days of delivery of complete returns of the
17 consolidated election and nonpartisan elections, the county
18 clerk shall transmit an original, sealed tally sheet and
19 certificate of results from each precinct in his jurisdiction
20 in which candidates or public questions of a political
21 subdivision were on the ballot to the local election official
22 of such political subdivision. Each local election official,
23 within 24 hours of receipt of all of the tally sheets and
24 certificates of results for all precincts in which candidates
25 or public questions of his political subdivision were on the
26 ballot, shall transmit such sealed tally sheets and

 

 

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1 certificates of results to the canvassing board for that
2 political subdivision.
3     In the case of referenda for the formation of a political
4 subdivision, the tally sheets and certificates of results shall
5 be transmitted by the county clerk to the circuit court that
6 ordered the proposition submitted or to the officials
7 designated by the court to conduct the canvass of votes. In the
8 case of school referenda for which a regional superintendent of
9 schools is responsible for the canvass of votes, the county
10 clerk shall transmit the tally sheets and certificates of
11 results to the regional superintendent of schools.
12     Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are
13 used, the provisions of this section may be modified as
14 required or authorized by Article 24 or Article 24A, whichever
15 is applicable.
16     Only judges appointed under the provisions of subsection
17 (a) of Section 13-4 or subsection (b) of Section 14-1 may make
18 any delivery required by this Section from judges of election
19 to a county clerk, or his or her deputy, at the office of the
20 county clerk or to a county clerk's duly authorized
21 representative at the county clerk's officially designated
22 receiving station.
23 (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)".