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10 ILCS 5/22-17

(10 ILCS 5/22-17)

(from Ch. 46, par. 22-17)

Sec. 22-17.

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b),
the canvass of votes cast at the consolidated election
shall be conducted by the election authority within 21 days
after the close of such elections.

(b) The board of election commissioners as provided in Section 22-8 shall canvass
the votes cast at the consolidated election for offices
of any political subdivision entirely within the jurisdiction of a
municipal board of election commissioners.

(c) The canvass of votes cast upon any public questions submitted to
the voters of any political subdivision, or any precinct or combination of
precincts within a political subdivision, at any regular election or at
any emergency referendum election, including votes cast by voters
outside of the political subdivision where the question is for
annexation thereto, shall be canvassed by the same election
authority as for the canvass of votes of the officers of such political
subdivision. However, referenda conducted throughout a county and
referenda of sanitary districts whose officers are elected at general
elections shall be canvassed by the county clerk.  The votes
cast on a public question for the formation of a political subdivision
shall be canvassed by the relevant election authority and filed with the circuit court that ordered the question
submitted.

(c-5) No person who is shown by the election authority's proclamation  to have been elected at the consolidated election or general election as a write-in candidate shall take office unless that person has first filed with the certifying office or board a statement of candidacy pursuant to Section 7-10 or Section 10-5, a statement pursuant to Section 7-10.1, and a receipt for filing a statement of economic interests in relation to the unit of government to which he or she has been elected.  For officers elected at the consolidated election, the certifying officer shall notify the election authority of the receipt of those documents, and the county clerk shall issue the certification of election  under the provisions of Section 22-18.

(d) The canvass of votes for offices of political subdivisions cast
at special elections to fill vacancies held on the day of any regular
election shall be conducted by the election
authority which is responsible
for canvassing the votes at the regularly scheduled election for such office.

(e) Abstracts of votes prepared pursuant to canvasses under this Section shall report returns by precinct or ward.
(Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 94-647, eff. 1-1-06; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)