(10 ILCS 5/21-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-4)
Sec. 21-4.
Presidential electors; meeting; allowance.
The electors, elected under this Article, shall meet at
the office of the
Secretary of State in a room to be designated by the Secretary in
the Capitol at
Springfield in this State, at the time appointed by the laws of the United
States at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day, and
give
their votes for President and for Vice-President of the United States, in
the manner provided in this Article, and perform such duties as
are or may be
required by law. Each elector shall receive
an allowance for food and lodging equal to the amount per day permitted to
be deducted for such expenses under the Internal Revenue Code, plus a mileage
allowance at the rate in effect under regulations promulgated pursuant to 5
U.S.C.
5707(b)(2) for the number of highway miles necessarily and conveniently
traveled, for going to the seat of
government to
give his or her vote and returning to
his or her residence and otherwise performing the official duties of an
elector, to be
paid on the warrant of the State Comptroller, out of
any
money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, and any person appointed by the
electors assembled to fill a vacancy shall also receive the allowances
provided for electors
appointed.
(Source: P.A. 92-359, eff. 1-1-02.)
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