Full Text of HB1873 102nd General Assembly
HB1873ham001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Carol Ammons Filed: 3/22/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1873
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1873 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
| 4 | | "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 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 | 8 | | otherwise requires:
| 9 | | 1. "Election" includes the submission of all questions of | 10 | | public
policy, propositions, and all measures submitted to | 11 | | popular vote, and
includes primary elections when so indicated | 12 | | by the context.
| 13 | | 2. "Regular election" means the general, general primary,
| 14 | | consolidated and consolidated primary elections regularly | 15 | | scheduled in Article
2A. The even numbered year municipal | 16 | | primary established in Article 2A is
a regular election only |
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| 1 | | with respect to those municipalities in which a
primary is | 2 | | required to be held on such date.
| 3 | | 3. "Special election" means an election not regularly | 4 | | recurring at fixed
intervals, irrespective of whether it is | 5 | | held at the same time and place and by
the same election | 6 | | officers as a regular election.
| 7 | | 4. "General election" means the biennial election at which | 8 | | members of
the General Assembly are elected. "General primary | 9 | | election", "consolidated election" and "consolidated primary | 10 | | election" mean
the respective elections or the election dates | 11 | | designated and established
in Article 2A of this Code.
| 12 | | 5. "Municipal election" means an election or primary, | 13 | | either regular
or special, in cities, villages, and | 14 | | incorporated towns; and "municipality"
means any such city, | 15 | | village or incorporated town.
| 16 | | 6. "Political or governmental subdivision" means any unit | 17 | | of local
government, or school district in which elections are | 18 | | or may be held.
"Political or governmental subdivision" also | 19 | | includes, for election purposes,
Regional Boards of School | 20 | | Trustees, and Township Boards of School Trustees.
| 21 | | 7. The word "township" and the word "town" shall apply
| 22 | | interchangeably to the type of governmental organization | 23 | | established in
accordance with the provisions of the Township | 24 | | Code. The term
"incorporated town" shall mean a municipality | 25 | | referred to as an
incorporated town in the Illinois Municipal | 26 | | Code, as now or hereafter
amended.
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| 1 | | 8. "Election authority" means a county clerk or a Board of | 2 | | Election
Commissioners.
| 3 | | 9. "Election Jurisdiction" means (a) an entire county, in | 4 | | the case of
a county in which no city board of election | 5 | | commissioners is located or
which is under the jurisdiction of | 6 | | a county board of election commissioners;
(b) the territorial | 7 | | jurisdiction of a city board of election commissioners;
and | 8 | | (c) the territory in a county outside of the jurisdiction of a | 9 | | city
board of election commissioners. In each instance | 10 | | election jurisdiction
shall be determined according to which | 11 | | election authority maintains the
permanent registration | 12 | | records of qualified electors.
| 13 | | 10. "Local election official" means the clerk or secretary | 14 | | of a unit
of local government or school district, as the case | 15 | | may be, the treasurer
of a township board of school trustees, | 16 | | and the regional superintendent
of schools with respect to the | 17 | | various school officer elections and school
referenda for | 18 | | which the regional superintendent is assigned election duties
| 19 | | by The School Code, as now or hereafter amended.
| 20 | | 11. "Judges of election", "primary judges" and similar | 21 | | terms, as
applied to cases where there are 2 sets of judges, | 22 | | when used in
connection with duties at an election during the | 23 | | hours the polls are
open, refer to the team of judges of | 24 | | election on duty during such hours;
and, when used with | 25 | | reference to duties after the closing of the polls,
refer to | 26 | | the team of tally judges designated to count the vote after the
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| 1 | | closing of the polls and the holdover judges designated | 2 | | pursuant to
Section 13-6.2 or 14-5.2. In such case, where, | 3 | | after the closing of the
polls, any act is required to be | 4 | | performed by each of the judges of
election, it shall be | 5 | | performed by each of the tally judges and by each
of the | 6 | | holdover judges.
| 7 | | 12. "Petition" of candidacy as used in Sections 7-10 and | 8 | | 7-10.1
shall consist of a statement of candidacy, candidate's | 9 | | statement
containing oath, and sheets containing signatures of | 10 | | qualified primary
electors bound together.
| 11 | | 13. "Election district" and "precinct", when used with | 12 | | reference to
a 30-day residence requirement, means the | 13 | | smallest constituent territory
in which electors vote as a | 14 | | unit at the same polling place in any
election governed by this | 15 | | Act.
| 16 | | 14. "District" means any area which votes as a unit for the | 17 | | election of
any officer, other than the State or a unit of | 18 | | local government or school
district, and includes, but is not | 19 | | limited to, legislative, congressional
and judicial districts, | 20 | | judicial circuits, county board districts,
municipal and | 21 | | sanitary district wards, school board districts, and | 22 | | precincts.
| 23 | | 15. "Question of public policy" or "public question"
means | 24 | | any question, proposition or measure submitted to the voters | 25 | | at an
election dealing with subject matter other than the | 26 | | nomination or election
of candidates and shall include, but is |
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| 1 | | not limited to, any bond or tax
referendum, and questions | 2 | | relating to the Constitution.
| 3 | | 16. "Ordinance providing the form of government of a | 4 | | municipality
or county pursuant to Article VII of the | 5 | | Constitution" includes ordinances,
resolutions and petitions | 6 | | adopted by referendum which provide for the form
of | 7 | | government, the officers or the manner of selection or terms | 8 | | of office
of officers of such municipality or county, pursuant | 9 | | to the provisions of
Sections 4, 6 or 7 of Article VII of the | 10 | | Constitution.
| 11 | | 17. "List" as used in Sections 4-11, 4-22, 5-14, 5-29, | 12 | | 6-60, and 6-66
shall include a computer tape or computer disc | 13 | | or other electronic data
processing information containing | 14 | | voter information.
| 15 | | 18. "Accessible" means accessible to persons with | 16 | | disabilities and elderly
individuals for the purpose of voting | 17 | | or registration, as determined by
rule of the State Board of | 18 | | Elections.
| 19 | | 19. "Elderly" means 65 years of age or older.
| 20 | | 20. "Person with a disability" means a person having a | 21 | | temporary or permanent physical disability.
| 22 | | 21. "Leading political party" means one of the two | 23 | | political parties
whose candidates for governor at the most | 24 | | recent three gubernatorial
elections received either the | 25 | | highest or second highest average number of
votes. The | 26 | | political party whose candidates for governor received the
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| 1 | | highest average number of votes shall be known as the first | 2 | | leading
political party and the political party whose | 3 | | candidates for governor
received the second highest average | 4 | | number of votes shall be known as the
second leading political | 5 | | party.
| 6 | | 22. "Business day" means any day in which the office of an | 7 | | election
authority, local election official or the State Board | 8 | | of Elections is open
to the public for a minimum of 7 hours.
| 9 | | 23. "Homeless individual" means any person who has a | 10 | | nontraditional
residence, including, but not limited to, a | 11 | | shelter, day shelter, park
bench, street corner, or space | 12 | | under a bridge.
| 13 | | 24. "Signature" means a name signed in ink or in digitized | 14 | | form. This definition does not apply to a nominating or | 15 | | candidate petition or a referendum petition. | 16 | | 25. "Intelligent mail barcode tracking system" means a | 17 | | printed trackable barcode attached to the return business | 18 | | reply envelope for mail-in ballots under Article 19 or Article | 19 | | 20 that allows an election authority to determine the date the | 20 | | envelope was mailed in absence of a postmark. | 21 | | 26. "Vote center" means a polling place at which any | 22 | | registered elector in the political subdivision holding the | 23 | | election may vote, regardless of the precinct in which the | 24 | | elector 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 | 3 | | centers. | 4 | | (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, | 5 | | an election authority may establish one or more vote centers | 6 | | for any election. An election authority who establishes a vote | 7 | | center shall publish the location of polling places pursuant | 8 | | to Article 12. | 9 | | (b) If vote centers are used in an election in a political | 10 | | subdivision, precinct polling places shall not also be used in | 11 | | the election in that political subdivision, unless each | 12 | | precinct polling place has a secure electronic connection to | 13 | | provide voting information to and receive voting information | 14 | | from the online voter registration system maintained by the | 15 | | election authority. | 16 | | (c) If vote centers are used in a general election in a | 17 | | county with a population of 25,000 or more active registered | 18 | | electors, there shall be at least one vote center for every | 19 | | 10,000 active registered electors; except that the State Board | 20 | | of Elections may waive this requirement for a county before | 21 | | the election at the request of the election authority. | 22 | | (d) Each vote center used in a county shall have a secure | 23 | | electronic connection to the online voter registration system | 24 | | maintained by the election authority permitting all voting | 25 | | information processed by any computer at a vote center to be | 26 | | immediately accessible to all other computers at all vote |
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| 1 | | centers in the county. A county may not use vote centers in an | 2 | | election unless the State Board of Elections has certified | 3 | | that the secure electronic connection is sufficient to prevent | 4 | | any elector from voting more than once and to prevent | 5 | | unauthorized access to the online voter registration system. | 6 | | (e) The number, location, and manner of operation and | 7 | | location of vote centers, including providing for poll | 8 | | watching activities, shall be determined by the election | 9 | | authority in consultation with the chairpersons of the county | 10 | | central committees of the major political parties and a | 11 | | representative of the county organization of any minor | 12 | | political party. | 13 | | (f) Each vote center shall meet all the requirements of | 14 | | federal and State law applicable to polling places, except as | 15 | | such requirements of State law are modified by this Section. ".
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