Full Text of HB0195 95th General Assembly
HB0195 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB0195
Introduced 1/19/2007, by Rep. Dan Brady SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/8-8 |
from Ch. 46, par. 8-8 |
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall not accept for filing any petition for nomination for State Senator or Representative if the petition contains less than 10% of the number of signatures required by the Code. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 8-8 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/8-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 8-8)
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| Sec. 8-8. Form of petition for nomination. The name of no | 8 |
| candidate for nomination shall be printed
upon the primary | 9 |
| ballot unless a petition for nomination shall have been
filed | 10 |
| in his behalf as provided for in this Section. Each such | 11 |
| petition
shall include as a part thereof the oath required by | 12 |
| Section 7-10.1 of
this Act and a statement of candidacy by the | 13 |
| candidate filing or in
whose behalf the petition is filed. This | 14 |
| statement shall set out the
address of such candidate, the | 15 |
| office for which he is a candidate, shall
state that the | 16 |
| candidate is a qualified primary voter of the party to
which | 17 |
| the petition relates, is qualified for the office specified and
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| has filed a statement of economic interests as required by the | 19 |
| Illinois
Governmental Ethics Act, shall request that the | 20 |
| candidate's name be
placed upon the official ballot and shall | 21 |
| be subscribed and sworn by
such candidate before some officer | 22 |
| authorized to take acknowledgment of
deeds in this State and | 23 |
| may be in substantially the following form:
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| State of Illinois)
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| County ..........)
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| I, ...., being first duly sworn, say that I reside at .... | 5 |
| street in
the city (or village of) .... in the county of .... | 6 |
| State of Illinois;
that I am a qualified voter therein and am a | 7 |
| qualified primary voter of
.... party; that I am a candidate | 8 |
| for nomination to the office of ....
to be voted upon at the | 9 |
| primary election to be held on (insert date);
that I am legally | 10 |
| qualified to hold such office and
that I have filed a statement | 11 |
| of economic interests as required by the
Illinois Governmental | 12 |
| Ethics Act and I hereby request that my name be
printed upon | 13 |
| the official primary ballot for nomination for such office.
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| Signed ....................
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| Subscribed and sworn to (or affirmed) before me by ...., | 16 |
| who is to me
personally known, on (insert date).
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| Signed .... (Official Character)
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| (Seal if officer has one.)
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| The receipt issued by the Secretary of State indicating | 20 |
| that the candidate has filed the statement of economic | 21 |
| interests required by the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act must | 22 |
| be filed with the petitions for nomination as provided in | 23 |
| subsection (8) of Section 7-12 of this Code.
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| All petitions for nomination for the office of State | 25 |
| Senator shall be signed
by 1% or 1,000
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| of the qualified primary electors of
the candidate's party in |
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| his legislative district, except that for the first
primary | 2 |
| following a redistricting of legislative districts, such | 3 |
| petitions
shall be signed by at least 1,000
qualified primary | 4 |
| electors of the candidate's
party in his legislative district.
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| All petitions for nomination for the office of | 6 |
| Representative in the General
Assembly shall be signed by at | 7 |
| least 1% or 500
, whichever is greater, of
the qualified | 8 |
| primary electors of the candidate's party in his or her
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| representative district, except that for the first primary | 10 |
| following
a redistricting of representative districts such | 11 |
| petitions shall be signed
by at least 500
qualified primary | 12 |
| electors of the candidate's party in
his or her representative | 13 |
| district.
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| The State Board of Elections shall not accept for filing | 15 |
| any petition for nomination for the office of State Senator or | 16 |
| Representative in the General Assembly if the petition contains | 17 |
| less than 10% of the number of signatures required by this | 18 |
| Section.
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| Opposite the signature of each qualified primary elector | 20 |
| who signs a
petition for nomination for the office of State | 21 |
| Representative or State
Senator such elector's residence | 22 |
| address shall be written or printed. The
residence address | 23 |
| required to be written or printed opposite each qualified
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| primary elector's name shall include the street address or | 25 |
| rural route
number of the signer, as the case may be, as well | 26 |
| as the signer's county
and city, village or town.
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| For the purposes of this Section, the number of primary | 2 |
| electors shall
be determined by taking the total vote cast, in | 3 |
| the applicable district,
for the candidate for such political | 4 |
| party who received the highest number
of votes, state-wide, at | 5 |
| the last general election in the State at which
electors for | 6 |
| President of the United States were elected.
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| A "qualified primary elector" of a party may not sign | 8 |
| petitions for or be a
candidate in the primary of more than one | 9 |
| party.
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| In the affidavit at the bottom of each sheet, the petition | 11 |
| circulator,
who shall be a person 18 years of age or older who | 12 |
| is a citizen of the United
States, shall state his or her | 13 |
| street address or rural route
number, as the
case may be, as | 14 |
| well as his or her county, city, village or
town, and state; | 15 |
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shall certify that the signatures on that sheet of the | 16 |
| petition were signed in
his or her presence; and shall certify | 17 |
| that the signatures are genuine; and
shall certify
that to the | 18 |
| best of his or her knowledge and belief the persons so signing | 19 |
| were
at the time of signing the petition qualified primary | 20 |
| voters for which the
nomination is sought.
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| In the affidavit at the bottom of each petition sheet, the | 22 |
| petition
circulator shall either (1) indicate the dates on | 23 |
| which he or she
circulated that sheet, or (2) indicate the | 24 |
| first and last dates on which
the sheet was circulated, or (3) | 25 |
| certify that none of the signatures on the
sheet were signed | 26 |
| more than 90 days preceding the last day for the filing
of the |
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| petition. No petition sheet shall be circulated more than 90 | 2 |
| days
preceding the last day provided in Section 8-9 for the | 3 |
| filing of such petition.
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| All petition sheets which are filed with the State Board of | 5 |
| Elections shall
be the original sheets which have been signed | 6 |
| by the voters and by the
circulator, and not photocopies or | 7 |
| duplicates of such sheets.
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| The person circulating the petition, or the candidate on | 9 |
| whose behalf
the petition is circulated, may strike any | 10 |
| signature from the petition,
provided that:
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| (1) the person striking the signature shall initial the | 12 |
| petition at
the place where the signature is struck; and
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| (2) the person striking the signature shall sign a | 14 |
| certification
listing the page number and line number of | 15 |
| each signature struck from
the petition. Such | 16 |
| certification shall be filed as a part of the petition.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 19 |
| becoming law.
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