Full Text of SB2137 93rd General Assembly
SB2137 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 SB2137
Introduced 1/6/2004, by Kirk W. Dillard SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/7-9 |
from Ch. 46, par. 7-9 |
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Amends the Election Code. Changes the date of the county convention from the second Monday after the general primary election to the 28th day after the general primary election.
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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 | 5 |
| Section 7-9 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/7-9)
(from Ch. 46, par. 7-9)
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| Sec. 7-9. County central committee; county and State | 8 |
| conventions.
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| (a) On the 28th day
second Monday next succeeding the | 10 |
| primary at
which
committeemen are elected, the county central | 11 |
| committee of each political
party shall meet at the county seat | 12 |
| of the proper county and proceed to
organize by electing from | 13 |
| its own number a chairman and either from its
own number, or | 14 |
| otherwise, such other officers as such committee may deem
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| necessary or expedient. Such meeting of the county central | 16 |
| committee
shall be known as the county convention.
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| The chairman of each county committee shall within 10 days | 18 |
| after the
organization, forward to the State Board of | 19 |
| Elections, the names and
post office addresses of the officers, | 20 |
| precinct committeemen and
representative committeemen elected | 21 |
| by his political party.
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| The county convention of each political party shall choose | 23 |
| delegates
to the State convention of its party; but in any | 24 |
| county having within
its limits any city having a population of | 25 |
| 200,000, or over the
delegates from such city shall be chosen | 26 |
| by wards, the ward committeemen
from the respective wards | 27 |
| choosing the number of delegates to which such
ward is entitled | 28 |
| on the basis prescribed in paragraph (e) of this
Section such | 29 |
| delegates to be members of the delegation to the State
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| convention from such county. In all counties containing a | 31 |
| population of
2,000,000 or more outside of cities having a | 32 |
| population of 200,000 or
more, the delegates from each of the |
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| townships or parts of townships as
the case may be shall be | 2 |
| chosen by townships or parts of townships as
the case may be, | 3 |
| the township committeemen from the respective townships
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| parts of townships as the case may be choosing the number of
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| delegates to which such townships or parts of townships as the | 6 |
| case may
be are entitled, on the basis prescribed in paragraph | 7 |
| (e) of this
Section such delegates to be members of the | 8 |
| delegation to the State
convention from such county.
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| Each member of the State Central Committee of a political | 10 |
| party which
elects its members by Alternative B under paragraph | 11 |
| (a) of Section 7-8
shall be a delegate to the State Convention, | 12 |
| ex officio.
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| Each member of the State Central Committee of a political | 14 |
| party which
elects its members by Alternative B under paragraph | 15 |
| (a) of Section 7-8 may
appoint 2 delegates to the State | 16 |
| Convention who must be residents of the
member's Congressional | 17 |
| District.
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| (b) State conventions shall be held within 180 days after | 19 |
| the
general primary in the year 2000 and every 4 years | 20 |
| thereafter. In the year 1998, and every 4 years thereafter,
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| chairman of a State central committee may issue a call for a | 22 |
| State
convention within 180 days after the general primary.
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| The State
convention of each political party has power to | 24 |
| make
nominations of candidates of its political party for the | 25 |
| electors of
President and Vice President of the United States, | 26 |
| and to adopt any party
platform, and, to the
extent determined | 27 |
| by the State central committee as provided in Section
7-14, to | 28 |
| choose and select delegates and alternate delegates at large to
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| national nominating conventions. The State Central Committee | 30 |
| may adopt
rules to provide for and govern the procedures of the | 31 |
| State convention.
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| (c) The chairman and secretary of each State convention | 33 |
| shall,
within 2 days thereafter, transmit to the State Board of | 34 |
| Elections of
this State a certificate setting forth the names | 35 |
| and addresses of all
persons nominated by such State convention | 36 |
| for electors of President and
Vice President of the United |
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| States, and of any persons selected by the State
convention for
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| delegates and alternate delegates at large to national | 3 |
| nominating
conventions; and the names of such candidates so | 4 |
| chosen by such State
convention for electors of President and | 5 |
| Vice President of the United
States, shall be caused by
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| State Board of Elections to be printed upon the official ballot | 7 |
| at
the general election, in the manner required by law, and | 8 |
| shall be
certified to the various county clerks of the proper | 9 |
| counties in the
manner as provided in Section 7-60 of this | 10 |
| Article 7 for the certifying
of the names of persons nominated | 11 |
| by any party for State offices. If and
as long as this Act | 12 |
| prescribes that the names of such electors be not
printed on | 13 |
| the ballot, then the names of such electors shall be
certified | 14 |
| in such manner as may be prescribed by the parts of this Act
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| applicable thereto.
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| (d) Each convention may perform all other functions | 17 |
| inherent to such
political organization and not inconsistent | 18 |
| with this Article.
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| (e) At least 33 days before the date of a State convention, | 20 |
| the chairman of the State central committee of each political
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| party shall file in the principal office of the State Board of
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| Elections a call for the State convention. Such call shall | 23 |
| state, among
other things, the time and place (designating the | 24 |
| building or hall) for
holding the State convention. Such call | 25 |
| shall be signed by the chairman
and attested by the secretary | 26 |
| of the committee. In such convention each
county shall be | 27 |
| entitled to one delegate for each 500 ballots voted by
the | 28 |
| primary electors of the party in such county at the primary to | 29 |
| be
held next after the issuance of such call; and if in such | 30 |
| county, less
than 500 ballots are so voted or if the number of | 31 |
| ballots so voted is
not exactly a multiple of 500, there shall | 32 |
| be one delegate for such
group which is less than 500, or for | 33 |
| such group representing the number
of votes over the multiple | 34 |
| of 500, which delegate shall have 1/500 of
one vote for each | 35 |
| primary vote so represented by him. The call for such
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| convention shall set forth this paragraph (e) of Section 7-9 in |
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| full and
shall direct that the number of delegates to be chosen | 2 |
| be calculated in
compliance herewith and that such number of | 3 |
| delegates be chosen.
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| (f) All precinct, township and ward committeemen when | 5 |
| elected as
provided in this Section shall serve as though | 6 |
| elected at large
irrespective of any changes that may be made | 7 |
| in precinct, township or
ward boundaries and the voting | 8 |
| strength of each committeeman shall
remain as provided in this | 9 |
| Section for the entire time for which he is
elected.
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| (g) The officers elected at any convention provided for in | 11 |
| this
Section shall serve until their successors are elected as | 12 |
| provided in
this Act.
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| (h) A special meeting of any central committee may be | 14 |
| called by the
chairman, or by not less than 25% of the members | 15 |
| of such committee, by
giving 5 days notice to members of such | 16 |
| committee in writing designating
the time and place at which | 17 |
| such special meeting is to be held and the
business which it is | 18 |
| proposed to present at such special meeting.
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| (i) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, whenever a | 20 |
| vacancy
exists in the office of precinct committeeman because | 21 |
| no one was elected
to that office or because the precinct | 22 |
| committeeman ceases to reside in
the precinct or for any other | 23 |
| reason, the chairman of the county
central committee of the | 24 |
| appropriate political party may fill the
vacancy in such office | 25 |
| by appointment of a qualified resident of the
county and the | 26 |
| appointed precinct committeeman shall serve as though
elected; | 27 |
| however, no such appointment may be made between the general
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| primary election and the 14th day after the general primary | 29 |
| election.
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| (j) If the number of Congressional Districts in the State | 31 |
| of Illinois
is reduced as a result of reapportionment of | 32 |
| Congressional Districts
following a federal decennial census, | 33 |
| the State Central Committeemen and
Committeewomen of a | 34 |
| political
party which elects its State Central
Committee by | 35 |
| either Alternative A or by Alternative B under paragraph (a)
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| Section 7-8 who were
previously elected shall continue to serve |
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| as if no reapportionment had
occurred until the expiration of | 2 |
| their terms.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96; 90-627, eff. 7-10-98.)
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