Public Act 100-1027
 
HB1010 EnrolledLRB100 01813 MLM 11818 b



    AN ACT concerning elections.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 




 
 
    Section 5. The Election Code is amended  by changing 
Sections 1A-6, 1A-6.1, 1A-7, 2A-1.2, 4-6.2, 4-11, 4-12, 4-22, 
5-14, 5-15, 5-16.2, 5-29, 6-24, 6-44, 6-50.2, 6-60, 6-66, 6-70, 
6A-3, 7-1, 7-2, 7-4, 7-7, 7-8, 7-8.01, 7-8.02, 7-9, 7-9.1, 
7-10, 7-11, 7-12, 7-13, 7-14.1, 7-17, 7-19, 7-25, 7-34, 7-46, 
7-51, 7-53, 7-55, 7-56, 7-58, 7-59, 7-60, 7-60.1, 8-5, 8-6, 
8-7, 9-1.3, 9-1.8, 9-2, 9-8.10, 9-11, 9-15, 9-20, 10-2, 10-6.2, 
10-8, 10-9, 10-10, 11-6, 13-1, 13-1.1, 13-2, 13-3, 13-4, 14-1, 
14-3.1, 14-3.2, 14-5, 17-18.1, 17-22, 17-23, 18-1, 18-14, 21-1, 
22-1, 22-4, 22-8, 22-15, 22-15.1, 24-13, 24A-10, 24A-11, 
24A-15, 24B-10, 24B-11, 24B-15, 24C-13, 24C-15, 25-6, 25-11, 
28-13, 29B-10, 29B-20, 29B-25, and 29B-30 as follows:
 



    (10 ILCS 5/1A-6)  (from Ch. 46, par. 1A-6)



    Sec. 1A-6. 
One member of the State Board of Elections shall 
be elected by
the members of the Board to be chair chairman and 
shall serve as chair chairman of
the Board for a term ending 
June 30, 1979.  On July 1 of 1979 and on July
1 of each 
odd-numbered year thereafter, a chair chairman shall be elected 
by
the members of the Board for a 2 year term ending June 30 of 
the next
odd-numbered year. If July 1 of any odd-numbered year 
does not fall on a
business day, said election shall be held on 
the first business day
thereafter. The chair chairman elected 
for each 2 year term shall not be of
the same political party 
affiliation as the prior chair chairman. Whenever a
vacancy 
occurs in the office of chair chairman, a new chair chairman of 
the same political
party affiliation shall be
elected for the 
remainder of the vacating chair's chairman's term. Whenever a 
chair
chairman is elected, the Board shall elect from among its 
members, a
vice chair chairman who shall not be of the same 
political party affiliation
as the chair chairman.

    Upon the confirmation of all of the members of the State 
Board of Elections
initially appointed under the amendatory Act 
of 1978, the Governor shall
designate one of the members as 
interim chair chairman who shall preside over
the Board until a 
chair chairman is elected pursuant to this Section.

(Source: P.A. 80-1178.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/1A-6.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 1A-6.1)



    Sec. 1A-6.1. 
The chair chairman of the State Board of 
Elections shall preside
at all meetings of the Board, except 
that the vice chair chairman shall preside
at any meeting when 
the chair chairman is absent.  The salary of the chair chairman

shall be $25,000 per year, or as set by the Compensation Review 
Board,
whichever is greater, and the salary of the vice-chair 
vice-chairman shall be $20,000
per year, or as set by the 
Compensation Review Board, whichever is
greater.  The salary of 
the other Board members
shall be $15,000 per year, or as set by 
the Compensation Review Board,
whichever is greater.  Each 
member shall be reimbursed for actual expenses
incurred in the 
performance of his duties.

(Source: P.A. 83-1177.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/1A-7)  (from Ch. 46, par. 1A-7)



    Sec. 1A-7. 
The State Board of Elections shall meet at such 
time or times as the chair
chairman or any 4 members shall 
direct, but at least once per month.
Five members of the Board 
are necessary to constitute a quorum and 5 votes
are necessary 
for any action of the Board
to become effective, including the 
appointment of the executive director, the
employment of 
technical consultants and the employment of other persons.

    If a quorum is present at a meeting of the Board, one of 
the members
present may vote for the absent member pursuant to 
a written proxy
signed by the absent member. A member voting by 
proxy who is not in
attendance may not be counted towards the 
presence of a quorum.

(Source: P.A. 80-1178.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/2A-1.2)  (from Ch. 46, par. 2A-1.2)



    Sec. 2A-1.2. Consolidated Schedule of Elections - Offices 
Designated. 

    (a) At the general election in the appropriate 
even-numbered years, the
following offices shall be filled or 
shall be on the ballot as otherwise
required by this Code:


        (1) Elector of President and Vice President of the 
    United States;


        (2) United States Senator and United States 
    Representative;


        (3) State Executive Branch elected officers;


        (4) State Senator and State Representative;


        (5) County elected officers, including State's 
    Attorney, County Board
member, County Commissioners, and 
    elected President of the County Board or
County Chief 
    Executive;


        (6) Circuit Court Clerk;


        (7) Regional Superintendent of Schools, except in 
    counties or
educational service regions in which that 
    office has been abolished;


        (8) Judges of the Supreme, Appellate and Circuit 
    Courts, on the question
of retention, to fill vacancies and 
    newly created judicial offices;


        (9) (Blank);


        (10) Trustee of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of 
    Chicago, and elected
Trustee of other Sanitary Districts;


        (11) Special District elected officers, not otherwise 
    designated in this
Section, where the statute creating or 
    authorizing the creation of
the district requires an annual 
    election and permits or requires election
of candidates of 
    political parties.

    (b) At the general primary election:


        (1) in each even-numbered year candidates of political 
    parties shall be
nominated for those offices to be filled 
    at the general election in that
year, except where pursuant 
    to law nomination of candidates of political
parties is 
    made by caucus.


        (2) in the appropriate even-numbered years the 
    political party offices of
State central committeeperson 
    committeeman, township committeeperson committeeman, ward 
    committeeperson committeeman, and
precinct committeeperson 
    committeeman shall be filled and delegates and alternate 
    delegates
to the National nominating conventions shall be 
    elected as may be required
pursuant to this Code.  In the 
    even-numbered years in which a Presidential
election is to 
    be held, candidates in the Presidential preference primary

    shall also be on the ballot.


        (3) in each even-numbered year, where the municipality 
    has provided for
annual elections to elect municipal 
    officers pursuant to Section 6(f) or
Section 7 of Article 
    VII of the Constitution, pursuant to the Illinois
Municipal 
    Code or pursuant to the municipal charter, the offices of 
    such
municipal officers shall be filled at an election held 
    on the date of the
general primary election, provided that 
    the municipal election shall be a
nonpartisan election 
    where required by the Illinois Municipal Code.  For
partisan 
    municipal elections in even-numbered years, a primary to 
    nominate
candidates for municipal office to be elected at 
    the general primary
election shall be held on the Tuesday 6 
    weeks preceding that election.


        (4) in each school district which has adopted the 
    provisions of
Article 33 of the School Code, successors to 
    the members of the board
of education whose terms expire in 
    the year in which the general primary is
held shall be 
    elected.

    (c) At the consolidated election in the appropriate 
odd-numbered years,
the following offices shall be filled:


        (1) Municipal officers, provided that in 
    municipalities in which
candidates for alderman or other 
    municipal office are not permitted by law
to be candidates 
    of political parties, the runoff election where required
by 
    law, or the nonpartisan election where required by law, 
    shall be held on
the date of the consolidated election; and 
    provided further, in the case of
municipal officers 
    provided for by an ordinance providing the form of

    government of the municipality pursuant to Section 7 of 
    Article VII of the
Constitution, such offices shall be 
    filled by election or by runoff
election as may be provided 
    by such ordinance;


        (2) Village and incorporated town library directors;


        (3) City boards of stadium commissioners;


        (4) Commissioners of park districts;


        (5) Trustees of public library districts;


        (6) Special District elected officers, not otherwise 
    designated in this
section, where the statute creating or 
    authorizing the creation of the district
permits or 
    requires election of candidates of political parties;


        (7) Township officers, including township park 
    commissioners, township
library directors, and boards of 
    managers of community buildings, and
Multi-Township 
    Assessors;


        (8) Highway commissioners and road district clerks;


        (9) Members of school boards in school districts which 
    adopt Article 33
of the School Code;


        (10) The directors and chair chairman of the Chain O 
    Lakes - Fox River Waterway
Management Agency;


        (11) Forest preserve district commissioners elected 
    under Section 3.5 of
the Downstate Forest Preserve District 
    Act;


        (12) Elected members of school boards, school 
    trustees, directors of
boards of school directors, 
    trustees of county boards of school trustees
(except in 
    counties or educational service regions having a 
    population
of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants) and members of 
    boards of school inspectors,
except school boards in school

    districts that adopt Article 33 of the School Code;


        (13) Members of Community College district boards;


        (14) Trustees of Fire Protection Districts;


        (15) Commissioners of the Springfield Metropolitan 
    Exposition and
Auditorium
Authority;


        (16) Elected Trustees of Tuberculosis Sanitarium 
    Districts;


        (17) Elected Officers of special districts not 
    otherwise designated in
this Section for which the law 
    governing those districts does not permit
candidates of 
    political parties.

    (d) At the consolidated primary election in each 
odd-numbered year,
candidates of political parties shall be 
nominated for those offices to be
filled at the consolidated 
election in that year, except where pursuant to
law nomination 
of candidates of political parties is made by caucus, and

except those offices listed in paragraphs (12) through (17) of 
subsection
(c).

    At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate 
odd-numbered years,
the mayor, clerk, treasurer, and aldermen 
shall be elected in
municipalities in which
candidates for 
mayor, clerk, treasurer, or alderman are not permitted by
law 
to be candidates
of political parties, subject to runoff 
elections to be held at the
consolidated election as may be 
required
by law, and municipal officers shall be nominated in a 
nonpartisan election
in municipalities in which pursuant to law 
candidates for such office are
not permitted to be candidates 
of political parties.

    At the consolidated primary election in the appropriate 
odd-numbered years,
municipal officers shall be nominated or 
elected, or elected subject to
a runoff, as may be provided by 
an ordinance providing a form of government
of the municipality 
pursuant to Section 7 of Article VII of the Constitution.

    (e) (Blank). 

    (f) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, public 
questions may
be submitted to voters pursuant to this Code and 
any special election
otherwise required or authorized by law or 
by court order may be conducted
pursuant to this Code.

    Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of officers 
established
in this Article, whenever a referendum is held for 
the establishment of
a political subdivision whose officers are 
to be elected, the initial officers
shall be elected at the 
election at which such referendum is held if otherwise
so 
provided by law.  In such cases, the election of the initial 
officers
shall be subject to the referendum.

    Notwithstanding the regular dates for election of 
officials established
in this Article, any community college 
district which becomes effective by
operation of law pursuant 
to Section 6-6.1 of the Public Community College
Act, as now or 
hereafter amended, shall elect the initial district board

members at the next regularly scheduled election following the 
effective
date of the new district.

    (g) At any election established in Section 2A-1.1, if in 
any precinct
there are no offices or public questions required 
to be on the ballot under
this Code then no election shall be 
held in the precinct on that date.

    (h) There may be conducted a
referendum in accordance with 
the provisions of Division 6-4 of the
Counties Code.

(Source: P.A. 89-5, eff. 1-1-96; 89-95,
eff. 1-1-96; 89-626, 
eff. 8-9-96; 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/4-6.2)  (from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.2)


    Sec. 4-6.2. (a) The county clerk shall appoint all 
municipal and township
or road district clerks or their duly 
authorized deputies as deputy registrars
who may accept the 
registration of all qualified residents of the State.

    The county clerk shall appoint all precinct 
committeepersons in the county
as deputy registrars who may 
accept the registration of any qualified resident
of the State, 
except during the 27 days preceding an election.


    The county clerk shall appoint each of the following named 
persons as deputy
registrars upon the written request of such 
persons:


        1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person 
    designated by the chief
librarian, of any public library 
    situated within the election jurisdiction,
who may accept 
    the registrations of any qualified resident of the State,

    at such library.


        2. The principal, or a qualified person designated by 
    the principal, of
any high school, elementary school, or 
    vocational school situated
within the election 
    jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any

    qualified resident of the State, at such school. The county 
    clerk shall notify
every principal and vice-principal of 
    each high school, elementary school, and
vocational school 
    situated within the election jurisdiction of their

    eligibility to serve as deputy registrars and offer 
    training courses for
service as deputy registrars at 
    conveniently located facilities at least 4
months prior to 
    every election.



        3. The president, or a qualified person designated by 
    the president, of
any university, college, community 
    college, academy or other institution of
learning situated 
    within the election jurisdiction, who may accept the

    registrations of any resident of the State, at such 
    university, college,
community college, academy or 
    institution.


        4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide 
    labor organization,
or a reasonable number of qualified 
    members designated by such official,
who may accept the 
    registrations of any qualified resident of the State.


        5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bonafide 
    State civic
organization, as defined and determined by rule 
    of the State Board of
Elections, or qualified members 
    designated by such official, who may accept
the 
    registration of any qualified resident of the State.
In 
    determining the number of deputy registrars that shall be 
    appointed,
the county clerk shall consider the population 
    of the jurisdiction, the
size of the organization, the 
    geographic size of the jurisdiction,
convenience for the 
    public, the existing number of deputy registrars in the

    jurisdiction and their location, the registration 
    activities of the
organization and the need to appoint 
    deputy registrars to assist and
facilitate the 
    registration of non-English speaking individuals.  In no

    event shall a county clerk fix an arbitrary number 
    applicable to every
civic organization requesting 
    appointment of its members as deputy
registrars. The State 
    Board of Elections shall by rule provide for
certification 
    of bonafide State civic organizations. Such appointments

    shall be made for a period not to exceed 2 years, 
    terminating on the first
business day of the month 
    following the month of the general election, and
shall be 
    valid for all periods of voter registration as provided by 
    this
Code during the terms of such appointments.


        6.
The Director of Healthcare and Family Services, or a

    reasonable number of employees designated by the Director 
    and located at
public aid offices, who may accept the 
    registration of any qualified
resident of the county at any 
    such public aid office.


        7.
The Director of the Illinois Department of 
    Employment Security, or a
reasonable number of employees 
    designated by the Director and located at
unemployment 
    offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified

    resident of the county at any such unemployment office.


        8. The president of any corporation as defined by the 
    Business
Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable number of 
    employees designated by
such president, who may accept the 
    registrations of any qualified resident
of the State.

    If the request to be appointed as deputy registrar is 
denied, the
county clerk shall, within 10 days after the date 
the request is submitted,
provide the affected individual or 
organization with written notice setting
forth the specific 
reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the request to
be 
appointed as deputy registrar.

    The county clerk may appoint as many additional deputy 
registrars as he
considers necessary. The county clerk shall 
appoint such additional deputy
registrars in such manner that 
the convenience of the public is served,
giving due 
consideration to both population concentration and area.  Some

of the additional deputy registrars shall be selected so that 
there are an
equal number from each of the 2 major political 
parties in the election
jurisdiction.  The county clerk, in 
appointing an additional deputy
registrar, shall make the 
appointment from a list of applicants submitted
by the Chair 
Chairman of the County Central Committee of the applicant's

political party.  A Chair Chairman of a County Central  Committee 
shall submit a
list of applicants to the county clerk by 
November 30 of each year.  The
county clerk may require a Chair 
Chairman of a County Central Committee to
furnish a 
supplemental list of applicants.

    Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time 
other than the 27
day period preceding an election. All persons 
appointed as deputy
registrars shall be  registered voters 
within the county and shall take and
subscribe to the following 
oath or affirmation:

    "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I 
will support
the Constitution of the United States, and the 
Constitution of the State
of Illinois, and that I will 
faithfully discharge the duties of the office
of deputy 
registrar to the best of my ability and that I will register no

person nor cause the registration of any person except upon his 
personal
application before me.

............................


(Signature Deputy Registrar)"


    This oath shall be administered by the county clerk, or by 
one of his
deputies, or by any person qualified to take 
acknowledgement of deeds and
shall immediately thereafter be 
filed with the county clerk.

    Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section, 
except precinct committeepersons
committeemen, shall be for 
2-year terms, commencing on December 1 following
the general 
election of each even-numbered year; except that the terms of

the initial appointments shall be until December 1st following 
the next
general election. Appointments of precinct 
committeepersons committeemen shall be for 2-year
terms 
commencing on the date of the county convention following the 
general
primary at which they were elected.  The county clerk 
shall issue a
certificate of appointment to each deputy 
registrar, and shall maintain in
his office for public 
inspection a list of the names of all appointees.

    (b) The county clerk shall be responsible for training all 
deputy registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), at 
times and locations reasonably
convenient for both the county 
clerk and such appointees.  The county clerk
shall be 
responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy 
registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a).  Deputy 
registrars appointed under
subsection (a) shall be subject to 
removal for cause.

    (c)
Completed registration materials under the control of 
deputy registrars,
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), shall 
be returned to the appointing election
authority by first-class 
mail within 2 business days or personal delivery within 7 days, 
except that completed registration materials
received by the 
deputy registrars during the period between the 35th and
28th 
day preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy

registrars to
the appointing election authority within 48 hours 
after receipt thereof.  The
completed registration materials 
received by the deputy registrars on the
28th day preceding an 
election shall be returned by the deputy
registrars
within 24 
hours after receipt thereof. Unused materials shall be returned

by deputy registrars appointed pursuant to paragraph 4 of 
subsection (a),
not later than the next working day following 
the close of registration.

    (d) The county clerk or board of election commissioners, as 
the case may
be, must provide any additional forms requested by 
any deputy registrar
regardless of the number of unaccounted 
registration forms the deputy registrar
may have in his or her 
possession.

    (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any electioneering 
or the promotion
of any cause during the performance of his or 
her duties.

    (f) The county clerk shall not be criminally or civilly 
liable for the
acts or omissions of any deputy registrar.  Such 
deputy registrars shall
not be deemed to be employees of the 
county clerk.

    (g) Completed registration materials returned by deputy 
registrars for persons residing outside the county shall be 
transmitted by the county clerk within 2 days after receipt to 
the election authority of the person's election jurisdiction of 
residence.

(Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/4-11)  (from Ch. 46, par. 4-11)



    Sec. 4-11. 
At least 2 weeks prior to the general November 
election in
each even numbered year and the consolidated 
election in
each odd-numbered
year the county clerk shall cause 
a list to be made for each precinct of
all names upon the 
registration record cards not marked or erased, in
alphabetical

order, with the address, provided, that such list may be 
arranged
geographically,
by street and number, in numerical 
order, with respect to all precincts
in which all, or 
substantially all residences of voters therein shall be
located 
upon and numbered along streets, avenues, courts, or other 
highways
which are either named or numbered, upon direction 
either of the county
board or of the circuit court.  On the 
list, the county clerk shall indicate,
by italics, asterisk, or 
other means, the names of all persons who have
registered since 
the last regularly scheduled election in the consolidated

schedule of elections established in Section 2A-1.1 of this 
Act. The county
clerk shall cause such precinct lists to be 
printed
or typed in sufficient numbers to meet all reasonable 
demands, and
upon application a copy of the same shall be given 
to any person applying
therefor.  By such time, the county clerk 
shall give the precinct lists
to the chair chairman of a county 
central committee of an established political
party, as such 
party is defined in Section 10-2 of this Act, or to the chair's 
chairman's
duly authorized representative.  Within 30 days of 
the effective date of
this Amendatory Act of 1983, the county 
clerk shall give the precinct lists
compiled prior to the 
general November election of 1982 to the chair chairman
of 
county central committee of an established political party or 
to the chair's
chairman's duly authorized representative.

    Prior to the opening of the polls for other elections, the 
county clerk
shall transmit or deliver to the judges of 
election of each polling place
a corrected list of registered 
voters in the precinct, or the names of persons
added to and 
erased or withdrawn from the list for such precinct.  At other

times such list, currently corrected, shall be kept available 
for public
inspection in the office of the county clerk.

    Within 60 days after each general election the county
clerk 
shall indicate by italics, asterisk, or other means, on the 
list of
registered voters in each precinct, each registrant who 
voted at that general
election, and shall provide a copy of 
such list to the chair chairman of the county
central committee 
of each established political party or to the chair's 
chairman's
duly authorized representative.

    Within 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of 1983, the
county clerk shall indicate by italics, 
asterisk, or other means, on the
list of registered voters in 
each precinct, each registrant who voted at
the general 
election of 1982, and shall provide a copy of such coded list

to the chair chairman
of the county central committee of each 
established political party or to
the chair's chairman's duly 
authorized representative.

    The county clerk may charge a fee to reimburse the actual

cost of duplicating
each copy of a list provided under either 
of the 2 preceding paragraphs.

(Source: P.A. 90-358, eff. 1-1-98.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/4-12)  (from Ch. 46, par. 4-12)



    Sec. 4-12. 
Any voter or voters in the township, city, 
village or
incorporated town containing such precinct, and any 
precinct committeeperson committeeman
in the county, may, 
between the hours of 9:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of Monday and 
Tuesday of the second week prior to the
week in which the 1970 
primary election for the nomination of candidates
for State and 
county offices or any election thereafter is to be held, make

application in writing, to the county clerk, to have any name 
upon the
register of any precinct erased.  Such application 
shall be, in substance,
in the words and figures following:

    "I being a qualified voter, registered from No. .... Street 
in the ....
precinct of the .... ward of the city (village or 
town of) .... (or of the
.... town of ....) do hereby solemnly 
swear (or affirm) that ....
registered from No. .... Street is 
not a qualified voter in the ....
precinct of .... ward of the 
city (village or town) of .... (or of the ....
town of ....) 
and hence I ask that his name be erased from the register of

such precinct for the following reason .....

    Affiant further says that he has personal knowledge of the 
facts set
forth in the above affidavit.

(Signed) .....


    Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).

....


....


....."


 

    Such application shall be signed and sworn to by the 
applicant before
the county clerk or any deputy authorized by 
the county clerk for that
purpose, and filed with said clerk.  
Thereupon notice of such application,
and of the time and place 
of hearing thereon, with a demand to appear
before the county 
clerk and show cause why his name shall not be erased
from said 
register, shall be mailed, in an envelope duly stamped and

directed to such person at the address upon said register, at 
least four
days before the day fixed in said notice to show 
cause. If such person has provided the election authority with 
an e-mail address, then the election authority shall also send 
the same notice by electronic mail at least 4 days before the 
day fixed in said notice to show cause. 

    A like notice shall be mailed to the person or persons 
making the
application to have the name upon such register 
erased to appear and show
cause why said name should be erased, 
the notice to set out the day and
hour of such hearing. If the 
voter making such application fails to appear
before said clerk 
at the time set for the hearing as fixed in the said
notice or 
fails to show cause why the name upon such register shall be

erased, the application to erase may be dismissed by the county 
clerk.

    Any voter making the application is privileged from arrest 
while
presenting it to the county clerk, and while going to and 
from the office
of the county clerk.

(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 10-1-13.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/4-22)  (from Ch. 46, par. 4-22)



    Sec. 4-22. 
Except as otherwise provided in this Section 
upon application
to vote each registered elector shall sign his 
name or make his mark as the
case may be, on a certificate 
substantially as follows:

CERTIFICATE OF REGISTERED VOTER


City of ....... Ward ....... Precinct .......


Election ....... (Date) ....... (Month) ....... (Year)


Registration Record .......


Checked by .......


Voter's number ....


INSTRUCTION TO VOTERS


    Sign this certificate and hand it to the election officer 
in charge.  After
the registration record has been checked, the 
officer will hand it back
to you.  Whereupon you shall present 
it to the officer in charge of the ballots.

    I hereby certify that I am registered from the address 
below and am qualified to vote.

Signature of voter .......


residence address .......


    An individual shall not be required to provide his social

security number when applying for a ballot.  He shall not be 
denied a
ballot, nor shall his ballot be challenged, solely 
because of his refusal
to provide his social security number.

Nothing in this Act prevents an individual from being requested

to provide his social security number when the individual 
applies for a
ballot.
If, however, the certificate contains a 
space for the individual's
social security number, the 
following notice shall appear on the
certificate, immediately 
above such space,
in bold-face capital letters, in type the 
size of which
equals the largest type on the certificate:

    "THE INDIVIDUAL APPLYING FOR A BALLOT WITH THIS DOCUMENT IS 
NOT REQUIRED
TO DISCLOSE HIS OR HER SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.  HE 
OR SHE MAY NOT BE DENIED
A BALLOT, NOR SHALL HIS OR HER BALLOT 
BE CHALLENGED, SOLELY BECAUSE OF HIS
OR HER REFUSAL TO PROVIDE 
HIS OR HER SOCIAL
SECURITY NUMBER."

    The certificates of each State-wide political party at a 
general primary election
shall be separately printed upon paper 
of uniform quality, texture and size,
but the certificates of 
no 2 State-wide political parties shall be of the
same color or 
tint.  However, if the election authority provides computer

generated applications with the precinct, ballot style and 
voter's name
and address preprinted on the application, a 
single application may be used
for State-wide political parties 
if it contains spaces or check-off boxes
to indicate the 
political party.  Such application shall not entitle the
voter 
to vote in the primary of more than one political party at the 
same election.

    At the consolidated primary, such certificates may contain 
spaces or checkoff
boxes permitting the voter to request a 
primary ballot of any other political
party which is 
established only within a political subdivision and for which
a 
primary is conducted on the same election day.  Such application 
shall
not entitle the voter
to vote in both the primary of the 
State-wide political party and the primary
of the local 
political party with respect to the offices of the same 
political
subdivision.  In no event may a voter vote in more 
than one State-wide primary
on the same day.

    The judges in charge of the precinct registration files 
shall compare the
signature upon such certificate with the 
signature on the registration record
card as a means of 
identifying the voter.  Unless satisfied by such comparison
that 
the applicant to vote is the identical person who is registered 
under
the same name, the judges shall ask such applicant the 
questions for identification
which appear on the registration 
card, and if the applicant does not prove
to the satisfaction 
of a majority of the judges of the election precinct
that he is 
the identical person registered under the name in question then

the vote of such applicant shall be challenged by a judge of 
election, and
the same procedure
followed as provided by law 
for challenged voters.

    In case the elector is unable to sign his name, a judge of 
election shall
check the data on the registration card and 
shall check the address given,
with the registered address, in 
order to determine whether he is entitled to vote.

    One of the judges of election shall check the certificate 
of each applicant
for a ballot after the registration record 
has been examined, and shall
sign his initials on the 
certificate in the space provided therefor, and
shall enter 
upon such certificate the number of the voter in the place 
provided
therefor, and make an entry in the voting record space 
on the registration
record, to indicate whether or not the 
applicant voted.  Such judge shall
then hand such certificate 
back to the applicant in case he is permitted
to vote, and such 
applicant shall hand it to the judge of election in charge
of 
the ballots.  The certificates of the voters shall be filed in 
the order
in which they are received and shall constitute an 
official poll record.
The term "poll lists" and "poll books", 
where used in this Article, shall
be construed to apply to such 
official poll record.

    After each general primary election the county clerk shall 
indicate by
color code or other means next to the name of each 
registrant on the list
of registered voters in each precinct 
the primary ballot of a political
party that the registrant 
requested at that general primary election.  The
county clerk, 
within 60 days after the general primary election, shall 
provide
a copy of this coded list to the chair chairman of the 
county central committee
of each established political party or 
to the chair's chairman's duly authorized representative.

    Within 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of 1983,
the county clerk shall provide to the chair 
chairman of the county central committee
of each established 
political party or to the chair's chairman's duly authorized

representative
the list of registered voters in each precinct 
at the time of the general
primary election of 1982 and shall 
indicate on such list by color code or
other means next to the 
name of a registrant the primary ballot of a political
party 
that the registrant requested at the general primary election 
of 1982.

    The county clerk may charge a fee to reimburse the actual

cost of duplicating
each copy of a list provided under either 
of the 2 preceding paragraphs.

    Where an elector makes application to vote by signing and 
presenting the
certificate provided by this Section, and his 
registration record card is
not found in the precinct registry 
of voters, but his name appears as that
of a registered voter 
in such precinct upon the printed precinct register
as 
corrected or revised by the supplemental list, or upon the 
consolidated
list, if any, and whose name has not been erased 
or withdrawn from such
register, the printed precinct register 
as corrected or revised by the supplemental
list, or 
consolidated list, if any, shall be prima facie evidence of the

elector's right to vote upon compliance with the provisions 
hereinafter
set forth in this Section.  In such event one of the 
judges of election
shall require an affidavit by such person 
and one voter residing in the
precinct before the judges of 
election, substantially in the form prescribed
in Section 17-10 
of this Act, and upon the presentation of such affidavits,
a 
certificate shall be issued to such elector, and upon the 
presentation
of such certificate and affidavits, he shall be 
entitled to vote.

    Provided, however, that applications for ballots made by 
registered voters
under the provisions of Article 19 of this 
Act shall be accepted by the
Judges of Election in lieu of the 
"Certificate of Registered Voter" provided
for in this Section.

    When the county clerk delivers to the judges of election 
for use at the
polls a supplemental or consolidated list of the 
printed precinct register,
he shall give a copy of the 
supplemental or consolidated list to the chair chairman
of a 
county central committee of an established political party or 
to the chair's
chairman's duly authorized representative.

    Whenever 2 or more elections occur simultaneously, the 
election authority
charged with the duty of providing 
application certificates may prescribe
the form thereof so that 
a voter is required to execute only one, indicating
in which of 
the elections he desires to vote.

    After the signature has been verified, the judges shall 
determine in which
political subdivisions the voter resides by 
use of the information contained
on the voter registration 
cards or the separate registration lists or other
means 
approved by the State Board of Elections and prepared and 
supplied
by the election authority.  The voter's certificate 
shall be so marked by
the judges as to
show the respective 
ballots which the voter is given.

(Source: P.A. 84-809.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/5-14)  (from Ch. 46, par. 5-14)



    Sec. 5-14. 
Either of the canvassers shall, at the end of 
the canvass,
return the "Verification Lists" to the County 
Clerk and a certificate of
the correctness of such return.  
Immediately after receipt of such Verification
Lists, the 
County Clerk shall cause copies to be printed in plain large

type in sufficient numbers to meet all demands, and upon 
application, a
copy of the same shall be given to any person 
applying therefor.  Thereafter
a list of registered voters in 
each precinct shall be compiled by the County
clerk, prior to 
the General Election to be held in November of each even

numbered year.  On the list, the County Clerk shall indicate, by 
italics,
asterisk, or other means, the names of all persons who 
have registered since
the last regularly scheduled election in 
the consolidated schedule of elections
established in Section 
2A-1.1 of this Act.

    When the list of registered voters in each precinct is 
compiled, the
County Clerk shall give a copy of it to the chair 
chairman of a county central
committee of an established 
political party, as such party is defined in
Section 10-2 of  
this Act, or to the chair's chairman's duly authorized 
representative.
Within 30 days of the effective date of this 
Amendatory Act of 1983, the
County Clerk shall
give the list of 
registered voters in each precinct that was compiled prior
to 
the general November election of 1982 to the chair chairman of 
a county central
committee of an established political party or 
to the chair's chairman's duly
authorized
representative.

    Within 60 days after each general election the county clerk

shall indicate by italics, asterisk, or other means, on the 
list of registered
voters in each precinct, each registrant who 
voted at that general election,
and shall provide a copy of 
such list to the chair chairman of the county central
committee 
of each established political party or to the chair's 
chairman's duly
authorized representative.

    Within 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of 1983, the
county clerk shall indicate by italics, 
asterisk, or other means, on the
list of registered voters in 
each precinct, each registrant who voted at
the general 
election of 1982, and shall provide a copy of such
coded list 
to the chair chairman of the county central committee of each 
established
political party or to the chair's chairman's duly 
authorized representative.

    The county clerk may charge a fee to reimburse the actual

cost of duplicating
each copy of a list provided under either 
of the 2 preceding paragraphs.

(Source: P.A. 83-1263.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/5-15)  (from Ch. 46, par. 5-15)



    Sec. 5-15. 
Any voter or voters in the township, city, 
village, or
incorporated town containing such precinct, and any 
precinct committeeperson committeeman
in the county, may, 
between the hours of nine
o'clock a.m. and six o'clock p.m. of 
the Monday and Tuesday of the third
week immediately preceding 
the week in which such April 10, 1962 Primary
Election is to be 
held, make application in writing, before such County
Clerk, to 
have any name upon such register of any precinct erased.

Thereafter such application shall be made between the hours of 
nine o'clock
a.m. and six o'clock p.m. of Monday and Tuesday of 
the second week prior
to the week in which any county, city, 
village, township, or incorporated
town election is to be held.  
Such application shall be in substance, in the
words and 
figures following:

    "I, being a qualified voter, registered from No. .... 
Street in the ....
precinct of the .... Ward of the city 
(village or town of .... ) of
the .... District .... town of 
.... do hereby solemnly swear (or affirm) that
.... registered 
from No. .... Street is not a qualified voter in the ....

precinct of the .... ward of the city (village or town) of .... 
or of the
.... district town of .... hence I ask that his name 
be erased from the
register of such precinct for the following 
reason ..... Affiant further
says that he has personal 
knowledge of the facts set forth in the above
affidavit.

(Signed) .....


    Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).

....


....


...."


    Such application shall be signed and sworn to by the 
applicant before
the County Clerk or any Deputy authorized by 
the County Clerk for that
purpose, and filed with the Clerk. 
Thereupon notice of such application,
with a demand to appear 
before the County Clerk and show cause why his name
shall not 
be erased from the register, shall be mailed by special

delivery, duly stamped and directed, to such person, to the 
address upon
said register at least 4 days before the day fixed 
in said notice to
show cause. If such person has provided the 
election authority with an e-mail address, then the election 
authority shall also send the same notice by electronic mail at 
least 4 days before the day fixed in said notice to show cause. 

    A like notice shall be mailed to the person or persons 
making the
application to have the name upon such register 
erased to appear and show
cause why the name should be erased, 
the notice to set out the day and
hour of such hearing. If the 
voter making such application fails to appear
before the Clerk 
at the time set for the hearing as fixed in the said
notice or 
fails to show cause why the name upon such register shall be

erased, the application may be dismissed by the County Clerk.

    Any voter making such application or applications shall be 
privileged
from arrest while presenting the same to the County 
Clerk, and whilst going
to and returning from the office of the 
County Clerk.

(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 10-1-13.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/5-16.2)  (from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.2)


    Sec. 5-16.2. (a) The county clerk shall appoint all 
municipal and
township clerks or their duly authorized deputies 
as deputy registrars who
may accept the registration of all 
qualified residents of the State.

    The county clerk shall appoint all precinct 
committeepersons in the county
as deputy registrars who may 
accept the registration of any qualified resident
of the State, 
except during the 27 days preceding an election.


    The county clerk shall appoint each of the following named 
persons as deputy
registrars upon the written request of such 
persons:


        1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person 
    designated by the chief
librarian, of any public library 
    situated within the election jurisdiction,
who may accept 
    the registrations of any qualified resident of the State,

    at such library.


        2. The principal, or a qualified person designated by 
    the principal, of
any high school, elementary school, or 
    vocational school situated
within the election 
    jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any

    resident of the State, at such school. The county clerk 
    shall notify every
principal and vice-principal of each 
    high school, elementary school, and
vocational school 
    situated within the election jurisdiction of their

    eligibility to serve as deputy registrars and offer 
    training courses for
service as deputy registrars at 
    conveniently located facilities at least 4
months prior to 
    every election.



        3. The president, or a qualified person designated by 
    the president, of
any university, college, community 
    college, academy or other institution
of learning situated 
    within the election jurisdiction, who may accept the

    registrations of any resident of the State, at such 
    university, college,
community college, academy or 
    institution.


        4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide 
    labor organization,
or a reasonable number of qualified 
    members designated by such official,
who may accept the 
    registrations of any qualified resident of the State.


        5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide 
    State civic
organization, as defined and determined by rule 
    of the State Board of
Elections, or qualified members 
    designated by such official, who may accept
the 
    registration of any qualified resident of the State.
In 
    determining the number of deputy registrars that shall be 
    appointed,
the county clerk shall consider the population 
    of the jurisdiction, the
size of the organization, the 
    geographic size of the jurisdiction,
convenience for the 
    public, the existing number of deputy registrars in the

    jurisdiction and their location, the registration 
    activities of the
organization and the need to appoint 
    deputy registrars to assist and
facilitate the 
    registration of non-English speaking individuals.  In no

    event shall a county clerk fix an arbitrary number 
    applicable to every
civic organization requesting 
    appointment of its members as deputy registrars.
The State 
    Board of Elections shall by rule provide for
certification 
    of bona fide State civic organizations.
Such appointments 
    shall be made for a period not to exceed 2 years,

    terminating on the first business day of the month 
    following the month of
the general election, and shall be 
    valid for all periods of voter
registration as provided by 
    this Code during the terms of such appointments.


        6.
The Director of Healthcare and Family Services, or a

    reasonable number of employees designated by the Director 
    and located at
public aid offices, who may accept the 
    registration of any qualified
resident of the county at any 
    such public aid office.


        7.
The Director of the Illinois Department of 
    Employment Security, or a
reasonable number of employees 
    designated by the Director and located at
unemployment 
    offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified

    resident of the county at any such unemployment office.


        8. The president of any corporation as defined by the 
    Business
Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable number of 
    employees designated by
such president, who may accept the 
    registrations of any qualified resident
of the State.

    If the request to be appointed as deputy registrar is 
denied, the
county clerk shall, within 10 days after the date 
the request is submitted,
provide the affected individual or 
organization with written notice setting
forth the specific 
reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the request to
be 
appointed as deputy registrar.

    The county clerk may appoint as many additional deputy 
registrars as he
considers necessary. The county clerk shall 
appoint such additional deputy
registrars in such manner that 
the convenience  of the public is served,
giving due 
consideration to both population concentration and area.  Some

of the additional deputy registrars shall be selected so that 
there are an
equal number from each of the 2 major political 
parties in the election
jurisdiction.  The county clerk, in 
appointing an additional deputy
registrar, shall make the 
appointment from a list of applicants submitted
by the Chair 
Chairman of the County Central Committee of the applicant's

political party.  A Chair Chairman of a County Central Committee 
shall submit a
list of applicants to the county clerk by 
November 30 of each year.  The
county clerk may require a Chair 
Chairman of a County Central Committee to
furnish a 
supplemental list of applicants.

    Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time 
other than the 27
day period preceding an election. All persons 
appointed as deputy
registrars shall be  registered voters 
within the county and shall take and
subscribe to the following 
oath or affirmation:

    "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I 
will support
the Constitution of the United States, and the 
Constitution of the State
of Illinois, and that I will 
faithfully discharge the duties of the office
of deputy 
registrar to the best of my ability and that I will register
no 
person nor cause the registration of any person except upon his 
personal
application before me.

...............................


(Signature of Deputy Registrar)"


    This oath shall be administered by the county clerk, or by 
one of his
deputies, or by any person qualified to take 
acknowledgement of deeds and
shall immediately thereafter be 
filed with the county clerk.

    Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section, 
except precinct committeepersons
committeemen, shall be for 
2-year terms, commencing on December 1 following
the general 
election of each even-numbered year, except that the terms of

the initial appointments shall be until December 1st following 
the next
general election.  Appointments of precinct 
committeepersons committeemen shall be for
2-year terms 
commencing on the date of the county convention following the

general primary at which they were elected.  The county clerk 
shall issue a
certificate of appointment to each deputy 
registrar, and shall maintain in
his office for public 
inspection a list of the names of all appointees.

    (b) The county clerk shall be responsible for training all 
deputy registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), at 
times and locations reasonably
convenient for both the county 
clerk and such appointees.  The county clerk
shall be 
responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy 
registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a).  Deputy 
registrars appointed under
subsection (a) shall be subject to 
removal for cause.

    (c)
Completed registration materials under the control of 
deputy registrars,
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), shall 
be returned to the appointing election
authority by first-class 
mail within 2 business days or personal delivery within 7 days, 
except that completed registration materials
received by the 
deputy registrars during the period between the 35th and
28th 
day preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy

registrars to
the appointing election authority within 48 hours 
after receipt thereof.  The
completed registration materials 
received by the deputy registrars on the
28th day preceding an 
election shall be returned by the deputy
registrars within 24 
hours after receipt thereof.
Unused materials shall be returned 
by deputy
registrars appointed pursuant to paragraph 4 of 
subsection (a), not later
than the next working day following 
the close of registration.

    (d) The county clerk or board of election commissioners, as 
the case may
be, must provide any additional forms requested by 
any deputy registrar
regardless of the number of unaccounted 
registration forms the deputy registrar
may have in his or her 
possession.

    (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any electioneering 
or the promotion
of any cause during the performance of his or 
her duties.

    (f) The county clerk shall not be criminally or civilly 
liable for the
acts or omissions of any deputy registrar.  Such 
deputy registers shall not
be deemed to be employees of the 
county clerk.

    (g) Completed registration materials returned by deputy 
registrars for persons residing outside the county shall be 
transmitted by the county clerk within 2 days after receipt to 
the election authority of the person's election jurisdiction of 
residence.

(Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/5-29)  (from Ch. 46, par. 5-29)



    Sec. 5-29. 
Upon application to vote, except as hereinafter 
provided
for absent electors, each registered elector shall 
sign his name or make
his mark as the case may be, on a 
certificate substantially as follows:

"Certificate of Registered Voter


Town of................District or Precinct Number..........;

City of................Ward...............Precinct..........;

Village of................................Precinct..........;

Election.....................................................

                 (date)         (month)        (year)

Registration record

Checked by.....................

Voter's number..................

Instruction to voters


    Sign this certificate and hand it to the election officer 
in charge.
After the registration record has been checked, the 
officer will hand it
back to you. Whereupon you shall present 
it to the officer in charge of
the ballots.

    I hereby certify that I am registered from the address 
below and am
qualified to vote.

Signature of voter ...............


Residence address ..............."


    An individual shall not be required to provide his social

security number when applying for a ballot.  He shall not be 
denied a
ballot, nor shall his ballot be challenged, solely 
because of his refusal
to provide his social security number.

Nothing in this Act prevents an individual from being requested

to provide his social security number when the individual 
applies for a
ballot.
If, however, the certificate contains a 
space for the individual's
social security number, the 
following notice shall appear on the
certificate, immediately 
above such space,
in bold-face capital letters, in type the 
size of which
equals the largest type on the certificate:

    "THE INDIVIDUAL APPLYING FOR A BALLOT WITH THIS DOCUMENT IS 
NOT REQUIRED
TO DISCLOSE HIS OR HER SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.  HE 
OR SHE MAY NOT BE DENIED
A BALLOT, NOR SHALL HIS OR HER BALLOT 
BE CHALLENGED, SOLELY BECAUSE OF HIS
OR HER REFUSAL TO PROVIDE 
HIS OR HER SOCIAL
SECURITY NUMBER."

    Certificates as above prescribed shall be furnished by the 
county
clerk for all elections.

    The Judges in charge of the precinct registration files 
shall compare
the signature upon such certificate with the 
signature on the
registration record card as a means of 
identifying the voter. Unless
satisfied by such comparison that 
the applicant to vote is the identical
person who is registered 
under the same name, the Judges shall ask such
applicant the 
questions for identification which appear on the
registration 
card and if the applicant does not prove to the
satisfaction of 
a majority of the judges of the election precinct that
he is 
the identical person registered under the name in question then

the vote for such applicant shall be challenged by a Judge of 
Election,
and the same procedure followed as provided by law 
for challenged voters.

    In case the elector is unable to sign his name, a Judge of 
Election
shall check the data on the registration card and 
shall check the
address given, with the registered address, in 
order to determine
whether he is entitled to vote.

    One of the Judges of election shall check the certificate 
of each
applicant for a ballot after the registration record 
has been examined
and shall sign his initials on the 
certificate in the space provided
therefor, and shall enter 
upon such certificate the number of the voter
in the place 
provided therefor, and make an entry in the voting record
space 
on the registration record, to indicate whether or not the

applicant voted. Such judge shall then hand such certificate 
back to the
applicant in case he is permitted to vote, and such 
applicant shall hand
it to the judge of election in charge of 
the ballots. The certificates
of the voters shall be filed in 
the order in which they are received and
shall constitute an 
official poll record. The term "Poll Lists" and
"Poll Books" 
where used in this article 5 shall be construed to apply to

such official poll records.

    After each general primary election the county clerk shall 
indicate by
color code or other means next to the name of each 
registrant on the list
of registered voters in each precinct 
the primary ballot of a political
party that the registrant 
requested  at that general primary election.  The
county clerk, 
within 60 days after the general primary election, shall

provide a copy of this coded list to the chair chairman of the 
county central
committee of each established political party or 
to the chair's chairman's duly
authorized representative.

    Within 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of 1983,
the county clerk shall provide to the chair 
chairman of the county central
committee of each established 
political party or to the chair's chairman's duly
authorized 
representative the list of registered voters in each precinct 
at
the time of the general primary election of 1982 and shall 
indicate on such
list by color code or other means next to the 
name of a registrant the
primary ballot of a political party 
that the registrant requested at the
general primary election 
of 1982.

    The county clerk may charge a fee to reimburse the actual 
cost of
duplicating each copy of a list provided under either 
of the 2
preceding paragraphs.

    Where an elector makes application to vote by signing and 
presenting
the certificate provided by this Section, and his 
registration record
card is not found in the precinct registry 
of voters, but his name
appears as that of a registered voter 
in such precinct upon the printed
precinct list of voters and 
whose name has not been erased or withdrawn
from such register, 
it shall be the duty of one of the Judges of
Election to 
require an affidavit by such person and two voters residing
in 
the precinct before the judges of election that he is the same 
person
whose name appears upon the precinct register and that 
he resides in the
precinct stating the street number of his 
residence. Forms for such
affidavit shall be supplied by the 
county clerk for all elections. Upon
the making of such 
affidavit and the presentation of his certificate
such elector 
shall be entitled to vote. All affidavits made under this

paragraph shall be preserved and returned to the county clerk 
in an
envelope. It shall be the duty of the county clerk within 
30 days after
such election to take steps provided by Section 
5-27 of this article 5
for the execution of new registration 
affidavits by electors who have
voted under the provisions of 
this paragraph.

    Provided, however, that the applications for ballots made 
by
registered voters and under the provisions of article 19 of 
this act
shall be accepted by the Judges of Election in lieu of 
the "certificate
of registered voter" provided for in this 
section.

    When the county clerk delivers to the judges of election 
for use at the
polls a supplemental or consolidated list of the 
printed precinct register,
he shall give a copy of the 
supplemental or consolidated list to the chair chairman
of a 
county central committee of an established political party or 
to the chair's
chairman's duly authorized representative.

    Whenever two or more elections occur simultaneously, the 
election
authority charged with the duty of providing 
application certificates
may prescribe the form thereof so that 
a voter is required to execute
only one, indicating in which of 
the elections he desires to vote.

    After the signature has been verified, the judges shall 
determine in
which political subdivisions the voter resides by 
use of the information
contained on the voter registration 
cards or the separate registration
lists or other means 
approved by the State Board of Elections and
prepared and 
supplied by the election authority.  The voter's
certificate 
shall be so marked by the judges as to show the respective

ballots which the voter is given.

(Source: P.A. 84-809; 84-832.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/6-24)  (from Ch. 46, par. 6-24)



    Sec. 6-24. 
Within 20 days after such first appointment 
shall be
made, such commissioners shall organize as a board by 
electing one of
their number as chair chairman and one as 
secretary, and they shall perform
the duties incident to such 
offices.  And upon every new appointment of
a commissioner, such 
board shall reorganize in like manner.  Each
commissioner, 
before taking his seat in such board, shall take an oath
of 
office before the court, which in substance shall be in the 
following
form:

    "I, ....  do solemnly swear, (or affirm) that I am a citizen 
of the
United States, and have resided in the State of
Illinois 
for a period of 2 years last past, and that I am a legal
voter 
and resident of the jurisdiction of the .......... Board of 
Election
Commissioners.  That I will support the Constitution of

the United States and of the State of Illinois, and the laws 
passed in
pursuance thereof, to the best of my ability, and 
will faithfully and
honestly discharge the duties of the office 
of election commissioner."

    Where the 2 year residence requirement is waived by the 
appointing court,
the provision pertaining to the 2 year 
residence requirement shall be omitted
from the oath of office.

    Which oath, when subscribed and sworn to before such court 
shall be
filed in the office of the county clerk of said county 
and be there
preserved.  Such commissioner shall also, before 
taking such oath, give
an official bond in the sum of 
$10,000.00 with two securities, to be
approved by said court, 
conditioned for the faithful and honest
performance of his 
duties and the preservation of the property of his
office.  Such 
board of commissioners shall at once secure and open an
office 
sufficient for the purposes of such board, which shall be kept

open during ordinary business hours of each week day and such 
other days
and such other times as the board may direct or as 
otherwise required by
law, legal holidays excepted; provided 
that such office shall be
kept open from the time of opening 
the polls on the day of any election,
primary or general, and 
until all returns of that election have been
received from each 
precinct under the jurisdiction of such Board. Upon
the opening 
of such office the county clerk of the county in which such

city, village or incorporated town is situated shall, upon 
demand, turn
over to such board all registry books, 
registration record cards, poll
books, tally sheets and ballot 
boxes heretofore used and all other
books, forms, blanks and 
stationery of every description in his hands in
any way 
relating to elections or the holding of elections within such

city, village or incorporated town.

(Source: P.A. 80-1437.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/6-44)  (from Ch. 46, par. 6-44)



    Sec. 6-44. 
Any voter or voters in the ward, village or 
incorporated
town containing such precinct, and any precinct 
committeeperson committeeman in the
county, may, between the 
hours of nine o'clock a.m. and six p.m. of
Monday and Tuesday 
of the second week prior to
the week in which such election is 
to be held make application in
writing, before such board of 
election commissioners, to have any name
upon such register of 
any precinct erased.  However, in
municipalities having a 
population of more than 500,000 and having a
board of election 
commissioners (except as otherwise provided for such

municipalities in Section 6-60 of this Article) and in all 
cities,
villages and incorporated towns within the 
jurisdiction of such board,
such application shall be made 
between the hours of nine o'clock a.m.
and six o'clock p.m. of 
Monday and Tuesday of the second week prior to
the week in 
which such election is to be held.  Such application shall
be, 
in substance, in the words and figures following:

    "I being a qualified voter, registered from No. .... street 
in the
.... precinct of the .... ward of the city (village or 
town) of .... do
hereby solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have 
personal knowledge that
.... registered from No. .... street is 
not a qualified voter in the
.... precinct of the .... ward of 
the city (village or town) of .... and
hence I ask that his 
name be erased from the register of such precinct
for the 
following reason ....

    Affiant further says that he has personal knowledge of the 
facts set
forth in the above affidavit.

(Signed)....


    Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).

....


...."


    Such application shall be signed and sworn to by the 
applicant before
any member of the board or the clerk thereof 
and filed with said board.
Thereupon notice of such 
application, with a demand to appear before the
board of 
election commissioners and show cause why his name shall not be

erased from said register, shall be personally served upon such 
person
or left at his place of residence indicated in such 
register, or in the
case of a homeless individual, at his or 
her mailing address, by a
messenger of said board of election 
commissioners, and, as to the manner
and time of serving such 
notice such messenger shall make affidavit;
the messenger shall 
also make affidavit of the fact in case he cannot
find such 
person or his place of residence, and that he went to the place

named on such register as his or her place of residence.  Such 
notice shall
be served at least one day before the time fixed 
for such party to show cause.

    The commissioners shall also cause a like notice or demand 
to be sent
by mail duly stamped and directed, to such person, 
to the address upon the
register at least 2 days before the day 
fixed in the notice to show cause.

    A like notice shall be served on the person or persons 
making the
application to have the name upon such register 
erased to appear and
show cause why said name shall be erased, 
the notice to set out the day
and hour of such hearing. If the 
voter making such application fails to
appear before said board 
at the time set for the hearing as fixed in the
notice or fails 
to show cause why the name upon such register shall
be erased, 
the application may be dismissed by the board.

    Any voter making such application or applications shall be 
privileged
from arrest while presenting the same to the board 
of election commissioners,
and while going to and returning 
from the board of election commissioners.

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/6-50.2)  (from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.2)


    Sec. 6-50.2. (a) The board of election commissioners shall 
appoint all
precinct committeepersons in the election 
jurisdiction as deputy registrars
who may accept the 
registration of any qualified resident of the State, except 
during the 27 days preceding an election.


    The board of election commissioners shall appoint each of 
the following
named persons as deputy registrars upon the 
written request of such persons:


        1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person 
    designated by the chief
librarian, of any public library 
    situated within the election jurisdiction,
who may accept 
    the registrations of any qualified resident of the State, 
    at such library.


        2. The principal, or a qualified person designated by 
    the principal, of
any high school, elementary school, or 
    vocational school situated
within the election 
    jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any

    resident of the State, at such school. The board of 
    election
commissioners shall notify every principal and 
    vice-principal of each high
school, elementary school, and 
    vocational school situated in the election
jurisdiction of 
    their eligibility to serve as deputy registrars and offer

    training courses for service as deputy registrars at 
    conveniently located
facilities at least 4 months prior to 
    every election.



        3. The president, or a qualified person designated by 
    the president, of
any university, college, community 
    college, academy or other institution
of learning situated 
    within the State, who may accept the
registrations of any 
    resident of the election jurisdiction, at such university,

    college, community college, academy or institution.


        4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide 
    labor
organization, or a reasonable number of qualified 
    members designated
by such official, who may accept the 
    registrations of any qualified
resident of the State.


        5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide 
    State civic
organization, as defined and determined by rule 
    of the State Board of
Elections, or qualified members 
    designated by such official, who may accept
the 
    registration of any qualified resident of the State.
In 
    determining the number of deputy registrars that shall be 
    appointed,
the board of election commissioners shall 
    consider the population of the
jurisdiction, the size of 
    the organization, the geographic size of the
jurisdiction, 
    convenience for the public, the existing number of deputy

    registrars in the jurisdiction and their location, the 
    registration
activities of the organization and the need to 
    appoint deputy registrars to
assist and facilitate the 
    registration of non-English speaking individuals.
In no 
    event shall a board of election commissioners fix an 
    arbitrary
number applicable to every civic organization 
    requesting appointment of its
members as deputy 
    registrars. The State Board of Elections shall by rule

    provide for certification of bona fide State civic 
    organizations. Such
appointments shall be made for a period 
    not to exceed 2 years, terminating
on the first business 
    day of the month following the month of the general

    election, and shall be valid for all periods of voter 
    registration as
provided by this Code during the terms of 
    such appointments.


        6.
The Director of Healthcare and Family Services, or a

    reasonable number of employees designated by the Director 
    and located at
public aid offices, who may accept the 
    registration of any qualified
resident of the election 
    jurisdiction at any such public aid office.


        7.
The Director of the Illinois Department of 
    Employment Security, or a
reasonable number of employees 
    designated by the Director and located at
unemployment 
    offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified

    resident of the election jurisdiction at any such 
    unemployment office.
If the request to be appointed as 
    deputy registrar is denied, the board
of election 
    commissioners shall, within 10 days after the date the 
    request
is submitted, provide the affected individual or 
    organization with written
notice setting forth the 
    specific reasons or criteria relied upon to deny
the 
    request to be appointed as deputy registrar.


        8. The president of any corporation, as defined by the 
    Business
Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable number of 
    employees designated by
such president, who may accept the 
    registrations of any qualified resident
of the State.

    The board of election commissioners may appoint as many 
additional deputy
registrars as it considers necessary.  The 
board of election commissioners
shall appoint such additional 
deputy registrars in such manner that the
convenience of the 
public is served, giving due consideration to both
population 
concentration and area.  Some of the additional deputy

registrars shall be selected so that there are an equal number 
from
each of the 2 major political parties in the election 
jurisdiction.  The
board of election commissioners, in 
appointing an additional deputy registrar,
shall make the 
appointment from a list of applicants submitted by the Chair 
Chairman
of the County Central Committee of the applicant's 
political party.  A Chair Chairman
of a County Central Committee 
shall submit a list of applicants to the board
by November 30 
of each year.  The board may require a Chair Chairman of a 
County
Central Committee to furnish a supplemental list of 
applicants.

    Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time 
other than the 27
day period preceding an election. All persons 
appointed as deputy
registrars shall be  registered voters 
within the election jurisdiction and
shall take and subscribe 
to the following oath or affirmation:

    "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I 
will support
the Constitution of the United States, and the 
Constitution of the State
of Illinois, and that I will 
faithfully discharge the duties of the office
of registration 
officer to the best of my ability and that I will register
no 
person nor cause the registration of any person except upon his 
personal
application before me.

....................................


(Signature of Registration Officer)"


    This oath shall be administered and certified to by one of 
the commissioners
or by the executive director or by some 
person designated by the board of
election commissioners, and 
shall immediately thereafter be filed with the
board of 
election commissioners.  The members of the board of election

commissioners and all persons authorized by them under the 
provisions of
this Article to take registrations, after 
themselves taking and subscribing
to the above oath, are 
authorized to take or administer such oaths and
execute such 
affidavits as are required by this Article.

    Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section, 
except precinct committeepersons
committeemen, shall be for 
2-year terms, commencing on December 1 following
the general 
election of each even-numbered year, except that the terms of

the initial appointments shall be until December 1st following 
the next
general election. Appointments of precinct 
committeepersons committeemen shall be for 2-year
terms 
commencing on the date of the county convention following the 
general
primary at which they were elected.  The county clerk 
shall issue a
certificate of appointment to each deputy 
registrar, and shall maintain in
his office for public 
inspection a list of the names of all appointees.

    (b) The board of election commissioners shall be 
responsible for training
all deputy registrars appointed 
pursuant to subsection (a), at times and
locations reasonably 
convenient for both the board of election commissioners
and 
such appointees.  The board of election commissioners shall be 
responsible
for certifying and supervising all deputy 
registrars appointed pursuant
to subsection (a).  Deputy 
registrars appointed under subsection (a) shall
be subject to 
removal for cause.

    (c)
Completed registration materials under the control of 
deputy
registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a) shall be 
returned to the
appointing election authority by first-class 
mail within 2 business days  or personal delivery within 7 days, 
except that completed registration
materials received by the 
deputy registrars during the period between the
35th and 28th 
day preceding an election shall be returned by the
deputy

registrars to the appointing election authority within 48 hours 
after receipt
thereof.  The completed registration materials 
received by the deputy
registrars on the 28th day preceding an 
election shall be returned
by the
deputy registrars within 24 
hours after receipt thereof. Unused materials
shall be returned 
by deputy registrars appointed pursuant to paragraph 4 of

subsection (a), not later than the next working day following 
the close of
registration.

    (d) The county clerk or board of election commissioners, as 
the case may
be, must provide any additional forms requested by 
any deputy registrar
regardless of the number of unaccounted 
registration forms the deputy registrar
may have in his or her 
possession.

    (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any electioneering 
or the promotion
of any cause during the performance of his or 
her duties.

    (f) The board of election commissioners shall not be 
criminally or
civilly liable for the acts or omissions of any 
deputy registrar.  Such
deputy registrars shall not be deemed to 
be employees of the board of
election commissioners.

    (g) Completed registration materials returned by deputy 
registrars for persons residing outside the election 
jurisdiction shall be transmitted by the board of election 
commissioners within 2 days after receipt to the election 
authority of the person's election jurisdiction of residence.

(Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/6-60)  (from Ch. 46, par. 6-60)



    Sec. 6-60. 
Immediately after the last registration day 
before any election,
except as is otherwise provided in Section 
6-43 of this Article, the board
of election commissioners shall 
prepare and print precinct registers in
the manner provided by 
Section 6-43 of this article, and make such copies available to

any person applying therefor.  Provided, however, that in 
cities, villages
and incorporated towns of less than 200,000 
inhabitants such printed lists
shall be prepared only before a 
general election.  On the precinct registers,
the board of 
election commissioners shall indicate, by italics, asterisk,

or other means, the names of all persons who have registered 
since the last
regularly scheduled election in the consolidated 
schedule of elections
established in Section 2A-1.1 of this 
Act.

    Prior to the general election of even-numbered years, all 
boards of election
commissioners shall give the precinct 
registers to the chair chairman of a county
central committee 
of an established political party, as such party is defined
in 
Section 10-2 of this Act, or to the chair's chairman's duly 
authorized representative.
Within 30 days of the effective date 
of this Amendatory Act of 1983, all
boards of election 
commissioners shall give the precinct registers compiled
prior 
to the general November election of 1982 to the chair chairman 
of a county
central committee of an established political party 
or to the chair's chairman's duly
authorized representative.

    For the first registration under this article, such 
precinct register shall
be printed and available to any person 
upon application therefor at least
three days before the first 
day upon which any voter may make application in writing
to 
have any name erased from the register as provided by Section 
6-44 of
this Article.  For subsequent registrations, such 
registers, except as otherwise
provided in this section for 
municipalities of more than 500,000, shall
be printed and shall 
be available to any person upon application at least
five days 
before the first day upon which any voter may make application

in writing to have any name erased from the register.

    Application to have a name upon such register erased may be 
made in the
manner provided by Section 6-44 of this Article, 
and applications to erase
names, complete registration, or to 
register or restore names shall be heard
in the same manner as 
is provided by Section 6-45 of this Article, with
application 
to the circuit court and appeal to the Supreme Court as 
provided
in Sections 6-46 and 6-47.  The rights conferred and 
the times specified
by these sections with respect to the first 
election under this article
shall also apply to succeeding 
registrations and elections.  Provided, however,
that in 
municipalities having a population of more than 500,000, and 
having
a Board of Election Commissioners, as to all elections, 
registrations for
which are made solely with the Board of 
Election Commissioners, and where
no general precinct 
registrations were provided for or held within twenty-eight

days before the election, an application to have a name upon 
such register
erased, as provided for in Section 6-44, shall be 
made within two days after
the publication of the printed 
precinct register, and
the Board of Election Commissioners 
shall announce its decision on such
applications within four 
days after said applications are made, and within
four days 
after its decision on such applications shall cause a 
supplemental
printed precinct register showing such correction 
as may be necessary by
reason of such decision to be printed in 
like manner as hereinabove provided
in Section 6-43 hereof, and 
upon application a copy of the same shall be
given to any 
person applying therefor.  Such list shall have printed on
the 
bottom thereof the facsimile signatures of the members of the 
board
of election commissioners.  Said supplemental printed 
precinct register
shall be prima facie evidence that the 
electors whose names appear thereon
are entitled to vote.  If 
the dates specified in this Article as to applications
to 
complete or erase registrations or as to proceedings before the 
Board
of Election Commissioners or the circuit court in the 
first registration
under this Article shall not be applicable 
to any subsequent primary or
regular or special election, the 
Board of Election Commissioners shall,
with the approval of the 
circuit court, adopt and publish a schedule of
dates which 
shall permit equal intervals of time therefor as are provided

for such first registrations.

    After action by the Board of Election Commissioners and by 
the circuit
court, a supplemental list shall be prepared and 
made available in the manner
provided by Section 6-48 of this 
Article.

    Within 60 days after each general election the board of 
election commissioners
shall indicate by italics,
asterisk, or 
other means, on the list of registered voters in each precinct,

each registrant who voted at that general election, and shall 
provide a
copy of such list to the chair chairman of the county 
central committee of each
established political party or to the 
chair's chairman's duly authorized representative.

    Within 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of 1983, the
board of election commissioners shall indicate 
by italics, asterisk, or
other means, on the list of registered 
voters in each precinct, each registrant
who voted at the 
general election of 1982, and shall provide a copy of such

coded list to the chair chairman
of the county central 
committee of each established political party or to
the chair's 
chairman's duly authorized representative.

    The board of election commissioners may charge a fee to

reimburse the actual cost of duplicating
each copy of a list 
provided under either
of the 2 preceding paragraphs.

(Source: P.A. 83-1263.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/6-66)  (from Ch. 46, par. 6-66)



    Sec. 6-66. 
Upon application to vote each registered elector 
shall
sign his name or make his mark as the case may be, on a 
certificate
substantially as follows:

"CERTIFICATE OF REGISTERED VOTER


    City of ................. Ward .... Precinct .... Election

...............(Date).......(Month)...........(Year) 
Registration Record
....... Checked by ...............
Voter's 
number ....

INSTRUCTION TO VOTERS


    Sign this certificate and hand it to the election officers 
in charge.
After the registration record has been checked, the 
officer will hand it
back to you. Whereupon you shall present 
it to the officer in charge of
the ballots.

    I hereby certify that I am registered from the address 
below and am
qualified to vote.

Signature of voter ................


Residence address ................"


    An individual shall not be required to provide his social

security number when applying for a ballot.  He shall not be 
denied a
ballot, nor shall his ballot be challenged, solely 
because of his refusal
to provide his social security number.

Nothing in this Act prevents an individual from being requested

to provide his social security number when the individual 
applies for a
ballot.
If, however, the certificate contains a 
space for the individual's
social security number, the 
following notice shall appear on the
certificate, immediately 
above such space,
in bold-face capital letters, in type the 
size of which
equals the largest type on the certificate:

    "THE INDIVIDUAL APPLYING FOR A BALLOT WITH THIS DOCUMENT IS 
NOT REQUIRED
TO DISCLOSE HIS OR HER SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.  HE 
OR SHE MAY NOT BE DENIED
A BALLOT, NOR SHALL HIS OR HER BALLOT 
BE CHALLENGED, SOLELY BECAUSE OF HIS
OR HER REFUSAL TO PROVIDE 
HIS OR HER SOCIAL
SECURITY NUMBER."

    The applications of each State-wide political party
at a 
primary election
shall be separately printed
upon paper of 
uniform quality, texture and size, but the applications of
no 2 
State-wide political parties shall be of the same color or 
tint.  If
the election authority provides computer generated 
applications with the
precinct, ballot style, and voter's name 
and address preprinted on the
application, a single application 
may be used for State-wide political
parties if it contains 
spaces or check-off boxes to indicate the political
party. Such 
applications may contain
spaces or check-off boxes
permitting 
the voter to also request a primary ballot of any political

party which is established only within a political subdivision 
and for
which a primary is conducted on the same election day.

Such applications shall not entitle the voter to vote in both 
the
primary of a State-wide political party and the primary of

a local political party with respect to the offices of the same

political subdivision or to vote in the primary of more
than 
one State-wide political party on the same day.

    The judges in charge of the precinct registration files 
shall compare
the signature upon such certificate with the 
signature on the
registration record card as a means of 
identifying the voter. Unless
satisfied by such comparison that 
the applicant to vote is the identical
person who is registered 
under the same name, the judges shall ask such
applicant the 
questions for identification which appear on the
registration 
card, and if the applicant does not prove to the
satisfaction 
of a majority of the judges of the election precinct that
he is 
the identical person registered under the name in question then

the vote of such applicant shall be challenged by a judge of 
election,
and the same procedure followed as provided in this 
Article and Act for
challenged voters.

    In case the elector is unable to sign his name, a judge of 
election
shall check the data on the registration card and 
shall check the
address given, with the registered address, in 
order to determine
whether he is entitled to vote.

    One of the judges of election shall check the certificate 
of such
applicant for a ballot after the registration record 
has been examined,
and shall sign his initials on the 
certificate in the space provided
therefor, and shall enter 
upon such certificate the number of the voter
in the place 
provided therefor, and make an entry in the voting record
space 
on the registration record, to indicate whether or not the

applicant voted. Such judge shall then hand such certificate 
back to the
applicant in case he is permitted to vote, and such 
applicant shall hand
it to the judge of election in charge of 
the ballots. The certificates
of the voters shall be filed in 
the order in which they are received and
shall constitute an 
official poll record. The terms "poll lists" and
"poll books", 
where used in this Article and Act, shall be construed to
apply 
to such official poll record.

    After each general primary election the board of election 
commissioners
shall indicate by color code or other means next 
to the name of each registrant
on the list of registered voters 
in each precinct the primary ballot of
a political party that 
the registrant requested at the general primary
election. The 
board of election commissioners, within 60 days after that

general primary election, shall provide a copy of this coded 
list to the
chairman of the county central committee of each 
established political
party or to the chair's chairman's duly 
authorized representative.

    Within 60 days after the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of 1983,
the board of election commissioners shall provide 
to the chairman of the
county central committee of each 
established political party or to the chair's
chairman's duly 
authorized representative the list of registered voters in
each 
precinct at the time of the general primary election of 1982 
and shall
indicate on such list by color code or
other means 
next to the name of a registrant the primary ballot of a 
political
party that the registrant requested at the general 
primary election of 1982.

    The board of election commissioners may charge a fee to

reimburse the actual cost of duplicating each copy of a list 
provided under
either of the 2 preceding paragraphs.

    Where an elector makes application to vote by signing and 
presenting
the certificate provided by this Section, and his 
registration card is
not found in the precinct registry of 
voters, but his name appears as
that of a registered voter in 
such precinct upon the printed precinct
register as corrected 
or revised by the supplemental list, or upon the
consolidated 
list, if any provided by this Article and whose name has
not 
been erased or withdrawn from such register, the printed 
precinct
register as corrected or revised by the supplemental 
list, or
consolidated list, if any, shall be prima facie 
evidence of the
elector's right to vote upon compliance with 
the provisions hereinafter
set forth in this Section. In such 
event it shall be the duty of one of
the judges of election to 
require an affidavit by such person and 2
voters residing in 
the precinct before the judges of election that he is
the same 
person whose name appears upon the printed precinct register as

corrected or revised by the supplemental list, or consolidated 
list, if
any, and that he resides in the precinct, stating the 
street and number
of his residence, and upon the presentation 
of such affidavits, a
certificate shall be issued to such 
elector, and upon the presentation
of such certificate and 
affidavits, he shall be entitled to vote. Any
elector whose 
name does not appear as a registered voter on the printed

precinct register or supplemental list but who has a 
certificate issued
by the board of election commissioners as 
provided in Section 6-43 of
this Article, shall be entitled to 
vote upon the presentation of such
certificate accompanied by 
the affidavits of 2 voters residing in the
precinct that the 
elector is the same person described in such
certificate and 
that he resides in the precinct, stating the street and
number 
of his residence. Forms for all affidavits required hereunder

shall be supplied by the board of election commissioners. All 
affidavits
made under this paragraph shall be preserved and 
returned to the board
of election commissioners in the manner 
provided by this Article and
Article 18 of this Act. It shall 
be the duty of the board of election
commissioners, within 30 
days after such election, to take the steps
provided by Section 
6-64 of this Article for the execution of new
registration 
affidavits by electors who have voted under the provisions
of 
this paragraph.

    When the board of election commissioners delivers to the 
judges of election
for use at the polls a supplemental or 
consolidated list of the printed
precinct register, it shall 
give a copy of the supplemental or consolidated
list to the 
chair chairman of a county central committee of an established 
political
party or to the chair's chairman's duly authorized 
representative.

    Whenever 2 or more elections occur simultaneously, the 
election
official or officials charged with the duty of 
providing application
certificates may prescribe the form 
thereof so that a voter is required
to execute only one, 
indicating in which of the elections he desires to vote.

    After the signature has been verified, the judges shall 
determine in which
political subdivisions the voter resides by 
use of the information contained
on the voter registration 
cards or the separate registration lists or other
means 
approved by the State Board of Elections and prepared and 
supplied
by the election authority.  The voter's certificate 
shall be so marked by
the judges as to show the respective 
ballots which the voter is given.

(Source: P.A. 84-809.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/6-70)  (from Ch. 46, par. 6-70)



    Sec. 6-70. 
Such election commissioners and the executive 
director of the
Board of Election Commissioners shall be paid 
by the county.  In
counties having a population of 500,000 or 
more, the city first adopting
the provisions of this Act shall 
pay the salary of the assistant executive
director.  In all 
other counties such salary shall be paid by the county.
In 
cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population 
less than
25,000 as determined by the last federal census, the 
election commissioners
shall receive a salary of not less than 
$1,800 per annum. If the population is
25,000 or more but less 
than 40,000 the election commissioners shall receive a
salary 
of not less than $2,400 per annum, to be determined by the 
county board.
 If the population is 40,000 or more but less than 
70,000 the election
commissioners shall receive a salary of not 
less than $2,100 per annum, to be
determined by the county 
board.  If the population is 70,000 or more but less
than 
100,000 the election commissioners shall receive a salary of 
not less than
$2,700 per annum, to be determined by the county 
board.  If the population is
100,000 or more but less than 
2,000,000 the election commissioners shall
receive a salary of 
not less than $3,200 per annum, to be determined by the
county 
board.  The chair chairman of a board of election commissioners, 
in counties
with a population of less than 2,000,000, shall be 
paid by the county an
additional amount equal to 10% of his 
salary as an election commissioner.  If
the population is less 
than 25,000 the executive director shall receive a
salary of 
not less than $4,500 per annum.  If the population is 25,000 or 
more
but less than 40,000 the executive director shall receive 
a salary of not less
than $8,000 per annum, and in such cities, 
villages and incorporated towns
there may be employed one 
assistant executive director who shall receive a
salary of not 
less than $6,000 per annum.  If the population is 40,000 or more

but less than 70,000 the executive director shall receive a 
salary of not less
than $9,500 per annum, and in such cities, 
villages and incorporated towns
there may be employed one 
assistant executive director who shall receive a
salary of not 
less than $7,500 per annum.  If the population is 70,000 or more

but less than 100,000 the executive director shall receive a 
salary of not less
than $11,000 per annum, and in such cities, 
villages and incorporated towns
there may be employed one 
assistant executive director who shall receive a
salary of not 
less than $8,000 per annum.  If the population is 100,000 or 
more
but less than 2,000,000 the executive director shall 
receive a salary of not
less than $12,000 per annum, and in 
such cities, villages and incorporated
towns there may be 
employed one assistant executive director who shall receive
a 
salary of not less than $8,000 per annum.  It shall be the duty 
of the Board
of Election Commissioners in such cities, villages 
and incorporated towns to
fix the salary of the executive 
director and assistant executive
director at the time of 
appointment of the clerk.  In cities, villages and
incorporated 
towns with a population greater than 2,000,000 the election

commissioners shall receive a salary of not less than $21,000, 
provided,
however, that the chair chairman of the Board of 
Election Commissioners shall receive
a salary, as set by and 
from time to time changed by the Board of County
Commissioners, 
of not less than $35,000 per annum and shall hold no other

office.  In cities, villages and incorporated towns with a 
population greater
than 2,000,000, such other election 
commissioners shall hold no other office.
In cities, villages 
and incorporated towns with a population greater than
2,000,000 
the executive director and employees of the Board of Election

Commissioners shall serve on a full-time basis and shall hold 
no other office.
In cities, villages and incorporated towns 
with a population of greater than
2,000,000, no election 
commissioner, executive director nor employee shall

participate in any manner, in any activity or interests of any 
political party
or of any candidate for public office or for 
nomination thereof, nor
participate in any political campaign 
for the nomination or election of
candidates for public office.  
Violation of any provision hereof
shall be cause for removal 
from office or dismissal, as the case may be;
provided, that 
nothing contained herein shall be deemed to interfere
with the 
right of any person to vote for any candidate or upon any issue

as his reason and conscience may dictate nor interfere with the 
duties
of his office.  All expenses incurred by such Board of 
Election
Commissioners shall be paid by such city.

    The salaries and expenditures are to be audited by the 
chief circuit
judge, who may designate an independent external 
auditor to perform the
task, and the salaries and expenditures 
shall be paid by the county or city
treasurer, as the case may 
be, upon the warrant of the chief circuit judge of
any money in 
the county or city treasury, as the case may be, not otherwise

appropriated.  It shall also be the duty of the governing 
authority of those
counties and cities, respectively, to make 
provisions for the prompt payment of
the salaries and 
expenditures.

(Source: P.A. 86-874; 87-1052.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/6A-3)  (from Ch. 46, par. 6A-3)



    Sec. 6A-3. Commissioners; filling vacancies. 
    (a) If the county board adopts an ordinance providing for 
the
establishment of a county board of election commissioners, 
or if a
majority of the votes cast on a proposition submitted 
in accordance with
Section 6A-2(a) are in favor of a county 
board of election commissioners, a
county board of election 
commissioners shall be appointed in the same
manner as is 
provided in Article 6 for boards of election commissioners
in 
cities, villages and incorporated towns, except that the county 
board of
election commissioners shall be appointed by the chair 
chairman of the county board
rather than the circuit court.  
However, before any
appointments are made, the appointing 
authority shall ascertain whether
the county clerk desires to 
be a member of the county board of election
commissioners. If 
the county clerk so
desires, he shall be one of the
members of 
the county board of election commissioners, and the
appointing 
authority shall appoint only 2 other members.

    (b)   For any county board of election commissioners  
established under subsection (b) of Section 6A-1, within 30 
days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 
98th General Assembly, the chief judge of the circuit court of 
the county shall appoint 5 commissioners.  At least 4 of those 
commissioners shall be selected from the 2 major established 
political parties of the State, with at least 2 from each of 
those parties. Such appointment shall be entered of record in 
the office of the County Clerk and the State Board of 
Elections. Those first appointed shall hold their offices for 
the period of one, 2, and 3 years respectively, and the judge 
appointing them shall designate the term for which each 
commissioner shall hold his or her office, whether for one, 2 
or 3 years except that no more than one commissioner from each 
major established political party may be designated the same 
term. After the initial term, each commissioner or his or her 
successor shall be appointed to a 3 year term.  No elected 
official or former elected official who has been out of elected 
office for less than 2 years may be appointed to the board. 
Vacancies shall be filled by the chief judge of the circuit 
court within 30 days of the vacancy in a manner that maintains 
the foregoing political party representation.
    (c)   For any county board of election commissioners 
established under subsection (c) of Section 6A-1, within 30 
days after the conclusion of the election at which the 
proposition to establish a county board of election 
commissioners is approved by the voters, the municipal board 
shall apply to the circuit court of the county for the chief 
judge of the circuit court to appoint 2 additional 
commissioners, one of whom shall be from each major established 
political party and neither of whom shall reside within the 
limits of the municipal board, so that 3 commissioners shall 
reside within the limits of the municipal board and 2 shall 
reside within the county but not within the municipality, as it 
may exist from time to time.  Not more than 3 of the 
commissioners shall be members of the same major established 
political party.  Vacancies shall be filled by the chief judge 
of the circuit court upon application of the remaining 
commissioners in a manner that maintains the foregoing 
geographical and political party representation. 
(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-1)



    Sec. 7-1. Application of Article. 

    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, the 
nomination of all
candidates for all elective State, 
congressional, judicial, and county
officers, State's 
Attorneys (whether elected from a single county or from more

than one county), city, village, and incorporated town and 
municipal officers,
trustees of sanitary districts, township 
officers in townships of over 5,000
population coextensive with 
or included wholly within cities or villages not
under the 
commission form of government, precinct, township, ward, and

State central committeepersons committeemen, and delegates and 
alternate delegates to
national nominating conventions by all 
political parties, as defined in
Section 7-2 of this Article 7, 
shall be made in the manner provided in
this Article 7 and not 
otherwise.  The nomination of candidates for
electors of 
President and Vice President of the United States shall be made

only in the manner provided for in Section 7-9 of this Article.

    (b) This Article 7 shall not
apply to (i) the nomination of 
candidates for school elections and township
elections, except 
in those townships specifically mentioned
in subsection (a) and 
except in those cases in which a township central
committee 
determines under Section 6A-2 of the Township Law of 1874 or 
Section
45-55 of the Township Code that its candidates for 
township offices shall be
nominated by primary in accordance 
with this Article, (ii) the nomination of
park commissioners in 
park districts organized under the Park District Code,
(iii) 
the nomination of officers of cities and villages organized 
under
special charters, or (iv) the nomination of municipal 
officers for cities,
villages, and incorporated towns with a 
population of 5,000 or less,
except where a city, village, or 
incorporated town with a population of
5,000 or less has by 
ordinance determined that political parties shall nominate

candidates for municipal office in the city, village, or

incorporated town by primary in accordance with this Article. 
In that event,
the municipal clerk shall certify the ordinance 
to the proper election
officials no later than November 15 in 
the year preceding the consolidated
primary election. 

    (c) The words "township officers" or "township offices" 
shall be
construed, when used in this Article, to include 
supervisors.

    (d) As provided in Sections 3.1-25-20 through 3.1-25-60 of 
the Illinois
Municipal Code, a village may adopt a system of 
nonpartisan primary and general
elections for the election of 
village officers.

(Source: P.A. 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-5, eff. 1-1-96.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-2)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-2)



    Sec. 7-2. 
A political party, which at the general election 
for State and
county officers then next preceding a primary, 
polled more than 5 per cent
of the entire vote cast in the 
State, is hereby declared to be a political
party within the 
State, and shall nominate all candidates provided for in
this 
Article 7 under the provisions hereof, and shall elect 
precinct,
township, ward and State central committeepersons 
committeemen as herein provided.

    A political party, which at the general election for State 
and county
officers then next preceding a primary, cast more 
than 5 per cent of the
entire vote cast within any 
congressional district, is hereby declared to
be a political 
party within the meaning of this Article, within such

congressional district, and shall nominate its candidate for 
Representative
in Congress, under the provisions hereof. A 
political party, which at the
general election for State and 
county officers then next preceding a
primary, cast more than 5 
per cent of the entire vote cast in any county,
is hereby 
declared to be a political party within the meaning of this

Article, within said county, and shall nominate all county 
officers in said
county under the provisions hereof, and shall 
elect precinct, township, and
ward committeepersons 
committeemen, as herein provided;

    A political party, which at the municipal election for 
city, village or
incorporated town officers then next preceding 
a primary, cast more than 5
per cent of the entire vote cast in 
any city or village, or incorporated
town is hereby declared to 
be a political party within the meaning of this
Article, within 
said city, village or incorporated town, and shall nominate
all 
city, village or incorporated town officers in said city or 
village or
incorporated town under the provisions hereof to the 
extent and in the
cases provided in Section 7-1.

    A political party, which at the municipal election for town 
officers
then next preceding a primary, cast more than 5 per 
cent of the entire vote
cast in said town, is hereby declared 
to be a political party within the
meaning of this Article, 
within said town, and shall nominate all town
officers in said 
town under the provisions hereof to the extent and in the
cases 
provided in Section 7-1.

    A political party, which at the municipal election in any 
other
municipality or political subdivision, (except townships 
and school
districts), for municipal or other officers therein 
then next preceding a
primary, cast more than 5 per cent of the 
entire vote cast in such
municipality or political subdivision, 
is hereby declared to be a political
party within the meaning 
of this Article, within said municipality or
political 
subdivision, and shall nominate all municipal or other officers

therein under the provisions hereof to the extent and in the 
cases provided
in Section 7-1.

    Provided, that no political organization or group shall be 
qualified as
a political party hereunder, or given a place on a 
ballot, which
organization or group is associated, directly or 
indirectly, with
Communist, Fascist, Nazi or other un-American 
principles and engages in
activities or propaganda designed to 
teach subservience to the political
principles and ideals of 
foreign nations or the overthrow by violence of
the established 
constitutional form of government of the United States and
the 
State of Illinois.

(Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-4)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-4)



    Sec. 7-4. 
The following words and phrases in this Article 7 
shall,
unless the same be inconsistent with the context, be 
construed as
follows:

    1.  The word "primary" the primary elections provided for in 
this
Article, which are the general primary, the consolidated 
primary, and for
those municipalities which have annual 
partisan elections for any officer,
the municipal primary held 
6 weeks prior to the general primary election
date in even 
numbered years.

    2.  The definition of terms in Section 1-3 of this Act shall 
apply to
this Article.

    3.  The word "precinct" a voting district heretofore or 
hereafter
established by law within which all qualified 
electors vote at one
polling place.

    4. The words "state office" or "state officer", an office 
to be
filled, or an officer to be voted for, by qualified 
electors of the
entire state, including United States Senator 
and Congressman at large.

    5. The words "congressional office" or "congressional 
officer",
representatives in Congress.

    6. The words "county office" or "county officer," include 
an office
to be filled or an officer to be voted for, by the 
qualified electors of
the entire county. "County office" or 
"county officer" also include the
assessor and board of appeals 
and county commissioners and president of
county board of Cook 
County, and county board members and the chair chairman
of the 
county board in counties subject to "An Act relating to the

composition and election of county boards in certain counties", 
enacted
by the 76th General Assembly.

    7. The words "city office" and "village office," and 
"incorporated
town office" or "city officer" and "village 
officer", and "incorporated
town officer" an office to be 
filled or an officer to be voted for by
the qualified electors 
of the entire municipality, including aldermen.

    8. The words "town office" or "town officer", an office to 
be filled
or an officer to be voted for by the qualified 
electors of an entire
town.

    9. The words "town" and "incorporated town" shall 
respectively be
defined as in Section 1-3 of this Act.

    10. The words "delegates and alternate delegates to 
National
nominating conventions" include all delegates and 
alternate delegates to
National nominating conventions whether 
they be elected from the state
at large or from congressional 
districts or selected by State convention
unless contrary and 
non-inclusive language specifically limits the term
to one 
class.

    11. "Judicial office" means a post held by a judge of the 
Supreme,
Appellate or Circuit Court.

(Source: P.A. 80-1469.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-7)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-7)



    Sec. 7-7. For the purpose of making nominations in certain 
instances as
provided in this Article and this Act, the 
following committees are authorized
and shall constitute the 
central or managing committees of each political
party, viz: A 
State central committee, whose responsibilities include, but 
are not limited to, filling by appointment vacancies in 
nomination for statewide offices, including but not limited to 
the office of United States Senator, a congressional committee 
for each
congressional district, a county central committee for 
each county, a
municipal central committee for each city, 
incorporated town or village, a
ward committeeperson 
committeeman for each ward in cities containing a population of

500,000 or more; a township committeeperson committeeman for 
each township or part of a
township that lies outside of cities 
having a population of 200,000 or
more, in counties having a 
population of 2,000,000 or more; a precinct committeeperson

committeeman for each precinct in counties having a population 
of less than
2,000,000; a county board district committee for 
each county board district
created under Division 2-3 of the 
Counties Code; a State's Attorney committee
for each group of 2 
or more counties which jointly elect a State's Attorney; a

Superintendent of Multi-County Educational Service Region 
committee for each
group of 2 or more counties which jointly 
elect a Superintendent of a
Multi-County Educational Service 
Region; a judicial subcircuit
committee in
a judicial circuit 
divided into subcircuits for each judicial subcircuit in
that 
circuit; and
a board of review election district committee
for 
each Cook County Board of Review election district.

(Source: P.A. 93-541, eff. 8-18-03; 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 
94-645, eff. 8-22-05.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-8)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-8)


    Sec. 7-8. The State central committee shall be composed of 
one or two
members from each congressional district in the 
State and shall be elected as
follows:

State Central Committee


    (a) Within 30 days after January 1, 1984 (the effective 
date of Public Act 83-33), the State central committee of each 
political party shall certify to
the State Board of Elections 
which of the following alternatives it wishes
to apply to the 
State central committee of that party.

    Alternative A. At the primary in
 1970 and at the general 
primary election held every 4 years thereafter, each primary

elector may vote for one candidate of his party for member of 
the State
central committee for the congressional district in 
which he resides.
The candidate receiving the highest number of 
votes shall be declared
elected State central committeeperson 
committeeman from the district. A political party
may, in lieu 
of the foregoing, by a majority vote of delegates at any State

convention of such party, determine to thereafter elect the 
State central committeepersons
committeemen in the manner 
following:

    At the county convention held by such political party, 
State central committeepersons
committeemen shall be elected 
in the same manner as provided in this
Article for the election 
of officers of the county central committee, and
such election 
shall follow the election of officers of the county central

committee.  Each elected ward, township or precinct 
committeeperson committeeman shall cast
as his vote one vote 
for each ballot voted in his ward, township, part of a
township 
or precinct in the last preceding primary election of his

political party. In the case of a county lying partially within 
one
congressional district and partially within another 
congressional district,
each ward, township or precinct 
committeeperson committeeman shall vote only with respect
to 
the congressional district in which his ward, township, part of 
a
township or precinct is located.  In the case of a 
congressional district
which encompasses more than one county, 
each ward, township or precinct committeeperson
committeeman 
residing within the congressional district shall cast as his

vote one vote for each ballot voted in his ward, township, part 
of a
township or precinct in the last preceding primary 
election of his
political party for one candidate of his party 
for member of the State
central committee for the congressional 
district in which he resides and
the Chair Chairman  of the 
county central committee shall report the results of
the 
election to the State Board of Elections. The State Board of 
Elections
shall certify the candidate receiving the highest 
number of votes elected
State central committeeperson 
committeeman for that congressional district.

    The State central committee shall adopt rules to provide 
for and govern
the procedures to be followed in the election of 
members of the State central
committee.

    After August 6, 1999 (the
effective date of Public Act 
91-426), whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of Chair 
Chairman of a State
central committee, or at the end of the 
term of office of Chair Chairman, the State
central committee 
of each political party that has selected Alternative A shall

elect a Chair Chairman who shall not be required to be a member 
of the State Central
Committee.  The Chair Chairman shall be a

registered voter in this State and of the same political party 
as the State
central committee.

    Alternative B. Each congressional committee shall, within 
30 days after
the adoption of this alternative, appoint a 
person of the sex opposite that
of the incumbent member for 
that congressional district to serve as an
additional member of 
the State central committee until his or her successor
is 
elected at the general primary election in 1986.  Each 
congressional
committee shall make this appointment by voting 
on the basis set forth in
paragraph (e) of this Section. In 
each congressional district at the
general primary election 
held in 1986 and every 4 years thereafter, the
male candidate 
receiving the highest number of votes of the party's male

candidates for State central committeeman, and the female 
candidate
receiving the highest number of votes of the party's 
female candidates for
State central committeewoman, shall be 
declared elected State central
committeeman and State central 
committeewoman from the district.  At the
general primary 
election held in 1986 and every 4 years thereafter, if all a

party's candidates for State central committeemen or State 
central
committeewomen from a congressional district are of the 
same sex, the candidate
receiving the highest number of votes 
shall be declared elected a State central
committeeman or State 
central committeewoman from the district, and, because of
a 
failure to elect one male and one female to the committee, a 
vacancy shall be
declared to exist in the office of the second 
member of the State central
committee from the district.  This 
vacancy shall be filled by appointment by
the congressional 
committee of the political party, and the person appointed to

fill the vacancy shall be a resident of the congressional 
district and of the
sex opposite that of the committeeman or 
committeewoman elected at the general
primary election.  Each 
congressional committee shall make this appointment by
voting 
on the basis set forth in paragraph (e) of this Section.

    The Chair Chairman of a State central committee composed as 
provided in this
Alternative B must be selected from the 
committee's members.

    Except as provided for in Alternative A with respect to the 
selection of
the Chair Chairman of the State central committee, 
under both of the foregoing
alternatives, the
State
central

committee of each political party shall be composed of members 
elected
or appointed from the several congressional districts 
of the State,
and of no other person or persons whomsoever.  The 
members of the State
central committee shall, within 41 days 
after each quadrennial election of
the full committee, meet in 
the city of Springfield and organize
by electing a Chair 
chairman, and may at such time
elect such officers from among 
their own number (or otherwise), as they
may deem necessary or 
expedient. The outgoing chair chairman of the State
central 
committee of the party shall, 10 days before the meeting, 
notify
each member of the State central committee elected at 
the primary of the
time and place of such meeting. In the 
organization and proceedings of
the State central committee, 
each State central committeeman and State
central 
committeewoman shall have one vote for each ballot voted in his 
or her
congressional district by the primary electors of his or 
her party at the
primary election immediately preceding the 
meeting of the State central
committee. Whenever a vacancy 
occurs in the State central committee of any
political party, 
the vacancy shall be filled by appointment of
the chairmen of 
the county central committees of the
political party
of the 
counties located within the congressional district in which the 
vacancy
occurs and,
if applicable, the ward and township 
committeepersons committeemen of the
political
party in 
counties of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants located within the

congressional
district.  If the congressional district in which 
the vacancy occurs lies
wholly within a
county of 2,000,000 or 
more inhabitants, the ward and township committeepersons 
committeemen
of the political party in that congressional 
district shall vote to fill the
vacancy.  In voting to fill the 
vacancy, each chair chairman of a county central
committee and

each ward and township committeeperson committeeman in 
counties of 2,000,000
or
more inhabitants shall have one vote 
for each ballot voted in each precinct of
the congressional 
district in which the vacancy exists of
his or her
county, 
township, or ward cast by the primary electors of his or her 
party
at the
primary election immediately preceding the meeting 
to fill the vacancy in the
State
central committee.  The person 
appointed to fill the vacancy shall be a
resident of the

congressional district in which the vacancy occurs, shall be a 
qualified voter,
and, in a committee composed as provided in 
Alternative B, shall be of the
same
sex as his or her

predecessor. A political party may, by a majority vote of the

delegates of any State convention of such party, determine to 
return
to the election of State central committeeman and State 
central
committeewoman by the vote of primary electors.
Any 
action taken by a political party at a State convention in 
accordance
with this Section shall be reported to the State 
Board of Elections by the chair
chairman and secretary of such 
convention within 10 days after such action.

Ward, Township and Precinct  Committeepersons   Committeemen


    (b) At the primary in 1972 and
at the general primary 
election every 4 years thereafter, each primary elector in 
cities having a
population of 200,000 or over may vote for one 
candidate of his party in
his ward for ward committeeperson 
committeeman. Each candidate for ward committeeperson 
committeeman
must be a resident of and in the ward where he 
seeks to be elected ward committeeperson
committeeman. The one 
having the highest number of votes shall be such
ward 
committeeperson committeeman of such party for such ward. At 
the primary election
 in 1970 and at the general primary 
election every 4 years thereafter,
each primary elector in 
counties containing a population of 2,000,000 or
more, outside 
of cities containing a population of 200,000 or more, may
vote 
for one candidate of his party for township committeeperson 
committeeman. Each
candidate for township committeeperson 
committeeman must be a resident of and in the
township or part 
of a township (which lies outside of a city having a
population 
of 200,000 or more, in counties containing a population of

2,000,000 or more), and in which township or part of a township 
he seeks
to be elected township committeeperson committeeman. 
The one having the highest number
of votes shall be such 
township committeeperson committeeman of such party for such

township or part of a township. At the primary
in 1970 and at 
the general primary election every 2 years thereafter, each 
primary elector,
except in counties having a population of 
2,000,000 or over, may vote
for one candidate of his party in 
his precinct for precinct committeeperson
committeeman. Each 
candidate for precinct committeeperson committeeman must be a 
bona
fide resident of the precinct where he seeks to be elected 
precinct committeeperson
committeeman. The one having the 
highest number of votes shall be such
precinct committeeperson 
committeeman of such party for such precinct. The official

returns of the primary shall show the name of the 
committeeperson committeeman of each
political party.

    Terms of Committeepersons Committeemen. All precinct 
committeepersons committeemen elected under the
provisions of 
this Article shall continue as such committeepersons 
committeemen until the
date of the primary to be held in the 
second year after their election.
Except as otherwise provided 
in this Section for certain State central committeepersons

committeemen who have 2 year terms, all State central 
committeepersons committeemen, township committeepersons

committeemen and ward committeepersons committeemen shall 
continue as such committeepersons committeemen
until the date 
of primary to be held in the fourth year after their
election. 
However, a vacancy exists in the office of precinct 
committeeperson committeeman
when a precinct committeeperson 
committeeman ceases to reside in the precinct in which he
was 
elected and such precinct committeeperson committeeman shall 
thereafter neither have
nor exercise any rights, powers or 
duties as committeeperson committeeman in that precinct,
even 
if a successor has not been elected or appointed.

    (c) The Multi-Township Central Committee shall consist of 
the precinct committeepersons
committeemen of such party, in 
the multi-township assessing district formed
pursuant to 
Section 2-10 of the Property Tax Code and shall be organized 
for the purposes set forth in Section
45-25 of the Township 
Code. In the organization and proceedings of the
Multi-Township 
Central Committee each precinct committeeperson committeeman 
shall have one vote
for each ballot voted in his precinct by 
the primary electors of his party at
the primary at which he 
was elected.

County Central Committee


    (d) The county central committee of each political party in 
each
county shall consist of the various township 
committeepersons committeemen, precinct committeepersons

committeemen and ward committeepersons committeemen, if any, 
of such party in the county.
In the organization and 
proceedings of the county central committee,
each precinct 
committeeperson committeeman shall have one vote for each 
ballot voted in
his precinct by the primary electors of his 
party at the primary at
which he was elected; each township 
committeeperson committeeman shall have one vote for
each 
ballot voted in his township or part of a township as the case 
may
be by the primary electors of his party at the primary 
election
for the nomination of candidates for election to the 
General Assembly
immediately preceding the meeting of the 
county central committee; and
in the organization and 
proceedings of the county central committee,
each ward 
committeeperson committeeman shall have one vote for each 
ballot voted in his
ward by the primary electors of his party 
at the primary election
for the nomination of candidates for 
election to the General Assembly
immediately preceding the 
meeting of the county central committee.

Cook County Board of Review Election District Committee


    (d-1) Each board of review election district committee of 
each political
party in Cook County shall consist of the

various township committeepersons committeemen and ward 
committeepersons committeemen, if any, of that party in
the 
portions of the county composing the board of review election 
district.  In
the organization and proceedings of each of the 3 
election
district committees, each township committeeperson 
committeeman shall have one vote for each
ballot voted in his 
or her township or part of a township, as the case may be,
by

the primary electors of his or her party at the primary 
election immediately
preceding the meeting of the board of 
review election district committee; and
in the organization and 
proceedings of each of the 3 election district
committees, each 
ward committeeperson committeeman shall have one vote for each

ballot voted in
his or her ward or part of that ward, as the 
case may be, by the primary
electors of his or her party at the 
primary election immediately preceding the
meeting of the board 
of review election district committee.

Congressional Committee


    (e) The congressional committee of each party in each 
congressional
district shall be composed of the chairmen of the 
county central
committees of the counties composing the 
congressional district, except
that in congressional districts 
wholly within the territorial limits of
one county, the 
precinct committeepersons
committeemen, township 
committeepersons committeemen and ward committeepersons 
committeemen, if any, of
the party representing the precincts 
within the limits of the
congressional district, shall compose 
the congressional committee. A
State central committeeperson 
committeeman in each district shall be a member and the chair

chairman or, when a district has 2 State central 
committeepersons committeemen, a co-chairperson co-chairman
of 
the congressional committee, but shall not have the right to

vote except in case of a tie.

    In the organization and proceedings of congressional 
committees
composed of precinct committeepersons committeemen 
or township committeepersons committeemen or ward 
committeepersons
committeemen, or any combination thereof, 
each precinct committeeperson committeeman
shall have one vote 
for each ballot voted in his precinct by the primary
electors 
of his party at the primary at which he was elected, each

township committeeperson committeeman shall have one vote for 
each ballot voted in his
township or part of a township as the 
case may be by the primary
electors of his party at the primary 
election immediately preceding the
meeting of the 
congressional committee, and each ward committeeperson 
committeeman shall
have one vote for each ballot voted in each 
precinct of his ward located
in such congressional district by 
the primary electors of his party at
the primary election 
immediately preceding the meeting of the
congressional 
committee; and in the organization and proceedings of

congressional committees composed of the chairmen of the county 
central
committees of the counties within such district, each 
chair chairman of such
county central committee shall have one 
vote for each ballot voted in
his county by the primary 
electors of his party at the primary election
immediately 
preceding the meeting of the congressional committee.

Judicial District Committee


    (f) The judicial district committee of each political party 
in each
judicial district shall be composed of the chair 
chairman of the county
central committees of the counties 
composing the judicial district.

    In the organization and proceedings of judicial district 
committees
composed of the chairmen of the county central 
committees of the
counties within such district, each chair 
chairman of such county central
committee shall have one vote 
for each ballot voted in his county by the
primary electors of 
his party at the primary election immediately
preceding the 
meeting of the judicial district committee.

Circuit Court Committee


    (g) The circuit court committee of each political party in 
each
judicial circuit outside Cook County shall be composed of 
the chairmen
of the county central committees of the counties 
composing the judicial
circuit.

    In the organization and proceedings of circuit court 
committees, each chair
chairman of a county central committee 
shall have one vote for each
ballot voted in his county by the 
primary electors of his party at the
primary election 
immediately preceding the meeting of the circuit court

committee.

Judicial Subcircuit Committee


    (g-1) The judicial subcircuit committee of each political 
party in
each judicial subcircuit in a judicial circuit divided 
into subcircuits
shall be composed of (i) the ward and township 
committeepersons committeemen
of the townships and wards 
composing the judicial subcircuit in Cook County and
(ii) the 
precinct committeepersons committeemen of the precincts

composing the judicial subcircuit in any county other than Cook 
County.

    In the organization and proceedings of each judicial 
subcircuit committee,
each township committeeperson 
committeeman shall have one vote for each ballot voted in his

township or part of a township, as the case may be, in the 
judicial
subcircuit by the primary electors of his party at the 
primary election
immediately preceding the meeting of the 
judicial subcircuit committee;
each precinct committeeperson 
committeeman shall have one vote for each ballot voted in his

precinct or part of a precinct, as the case may be, in the 
judicial subcircuit
by the primary electors of his party at the 
primary election immediately
preceding the meeting of the 
judicial subcircuit committee;
and
each ward committeeperson 
committeeman shall have one vote for each ballot voted in his

ward or part of a ward, as the case may be, in the judicial 
subcircuit by
the primary electors of his party at the primary 
election immediately
preceding the meeting of the judicial 
subcircuit committee.

Municipal Central Committee


    (h) The municipal central committee of each political party 
shall be
composed of the precinct, township or ward 
committeepersons committeemen, as the case may
be, of such 
party representing the precincts or wards, embraced in such

city, incorporated town or village. The voting strength of each

precinct, township or ward committeeperson committeeman on the 
municipal central
committee shall be the same as his voting 
strength on the county central
committee.

    For political parties, other than a statewide political 
party,
established only within a municipality or
township, the 
municipal or township managing committee shall be composed
of 
the party officers of the local established party.  The party 
officers
of a local established party shall be as follows: the 
chair chairman and
secretary of the caucus for those 
municipalities and townships authorized
by statute to nominate 
candidates by caucus shall serve as party officers
for the 
purpose of filling vacancies in nomination under Section
7-61; 
for municipalities and townships authorized by statute or 
ordinance
to nominate candidates by petition and primary 
election, the party officers
shall be the party's candidates 
who are nominated at the primary.  If no party
primary was held 
because of the provisions of Section 7-5, vacancies in

nomination shall be filled by the party's remaining candidates 
who shall
serve as the party's officers.

Powers


    (i) Each committee and its officers shall have the powers 
usually
exercised by such committees and by the officers 
thereof, not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Article. 
The several committees
herein provided for shall not have power 
to delegate any of their
powers, or functions to any other 
person, officer or committee, but this
shall not be construed 
to prevent a committee from appointing from its
own membership 
proper and necessary subcommittees.

    (j) The State central committee of a political party which 
elects its
members by Alternative B under paragraph (a) of this 
Section shall adopt a
plan to give effect to the delegate 
selection rules of the national political
party and file a copy 
of such plan with the State Board of Elections when
approved by 
a national political party.

    (k) For the purpose of the designation of a proxy by a 
Congressional
Committee to vote in place of an
absent State 
central committeeman or committeewoman at meetings of the
State 
central committee of a political party which elects its members 
by
Alternative B under paragraph (a) of this Section, the proxy 
shall be
appointed by the vote of the ward and township 
committeepersons committeemen, if any, of the
wards and 
townships which lie entirely or partially within the

Congressional District from which the absent State central 
committeeman or
committeewoman was elected and the vote of the 
chairmen of the county
central committees of those counties 
which lie entirely or partially within
that Congressional 
District and in which there are no ward or township 
committeepersons
committeemen. When voting for such proxy, the 
county chair chairman, ward committeeperson
committeeman or 
township committeeperson committeeman, as the case may be, 
shall have one
vote for each ballot voted in his county, ward 
or township, or portion
thereof within the Congressional 
District, by the primary electors of his
party at the primary 
at which he was elected. However, the absent State
central 
committeeman or committeewoman may designate a proxy when 
permitted
by the rules of a political party which elects its 
members by Alternative B
under paragraph (a) of this Section.

    Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a person is 
ineligible to hold the position of committeeperson in any 
committee established pursuant to this Section if he or she is 
statutorily ineligible to vote in a general election because of 
conviction of a felony. When a committeeperson is convicted of 
a felony, the position occupied by that committeeperson shall 
automatically become vacant.

(Source: P.A. 100-201, eff. 8-18-17.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-8.01)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-8.01)



    Sec. 7-8.01. 
The county board district committee of each 
political party in each
county board district created pursuant 
to "An Act relating to the
composition and election of county 
boards in certain counties", enacted by
the 76th General 
Assembly, shall consist of the precinct committeepersons 
committeemen of
the precincts included in the county board 
district.

(Source: P.A. 76-1651.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-8.02)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-8.02)



    Sec. 7-8.02. 
The State's Attorney committee for each group 
of counties
which jointly elect a State's Attorney and the 
Superintendent of Multi-County
Educational Service Region 
committee for each group of counties
which jointly elect a 
Superintendent of a Multi-County Educational
Service Region 
shall consist of the chairmen of the county
central committees 
of the counties composing such group of counties. In the

organization and proceedings of a State's Attorney or 
Superintendent of
Multi-County Educational Service Region 
committee, each chair chairman
of a county central committee 
shall have one vote for each ballot voted in
his or her county 
by the primary electors of his or her party at
the last primary 
of an even-numbered year.

(Source: P.A. 84-861.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-9)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-9)


    Sec. 7-9. County central committee; county and State 
conventions. 

    (a) On the 29th day next succeeding the primary at which 
committeepersons
committeemen are elected, the county central 
committee of each political
party shall meet within the county 
and proceed to
organize by electing from its own number a chair 
chairman and either from its
own number, or otherwise, such 
other officers as such committee may deem
necessary or 
expedient. Such meeting of the county central committee
shall 
be known as the county convention.

    The chair chairman of each county committee shall within 10 
days after the
organization, forward to the State Board of 
Elections, the names and
post office addresses of the officers, 
precinct committeepersons committeemen and
representative 
committeepersons committeemen elected by his political party.

    The county convention of each political party shall choose 
delegates
to the State convention of its party, if the party 
chooses to hold a State convention; but in any county having 
within
its limits any city having a population of 200,000, or 
over the
delegates from such city shall be chosen by wards, the 
ward committeepersons committeemen
from the respective wards 
choosing the number of delegates to which such
ward is entitled 
on the basis prescribed in paragraph (e) of this
Section such 
delegates to be members of the delegation to the State

convention from such county. In all counties containing a 
population of
2,000,000 or more outside of cities having a 
population of 200,000 or
more, the delegates from each of the 
townships or parts of townships as
the case may be shall be 
chosen by townships or parts of townships as
the case may be, 
the township committeepersons committeemen from the respective 
townships
or parts of townships as the case may be choosing the 
number of
delegates to which such townships or parts of 
townships as the case may
be are entitled, on the basis 
prescribed in paragraph (e) of this
Section such delegates to 
be members of the delegation to the State
convention from such 
county.

    Each member of the State Central Committee of a political 
party which
elects its members by Alternative B under paragraph 
(a) of Section 7-8
shall be a delegate to the State Convention, 
if the party chooses to hold a State convention, ex officio.

    Each member of the State Central Committee of a political 
party which
elects its members by Alternative B under paragraph 
(a) of Section 7-8 may
appoint 2 delegates to the State 
Convention, if the party chooses to hold a State convention, 
who must be residents of the
member's Congressional District.

    (b) State conventions may be held within 180 days after the

general primary in the year 2000 and every 4 years thereafter.  
In the year 1998, and every 4 years thereafter,
the chair 
chairman of a State central committee may issue a call for a 
State
convention within 180 days after the general primary.

    The State
convention of each political party, if the party 
chooses to hold a State convention, has power to make

nominations of candidates of its political party for the 
electors of
President and Vice President of the United States, 
and to adopt any party
platform, and, to the
extent determined 
by the State central committee as provided in Section
7-14, to 
choose and select delegates and alternate delegates at large to

national nominating conventions.  The State Central Committee 
may adopt
rules to provide for and govern the procedures of the 
State convention.

    (c) The chair chairman and secretary of each State 
convention, if the party chooses to hold a State convention, 
shall,
within 2 days thereafter, transmit to the State Board of 
Elections of
this State a certificate setting forth the names 
and addresses of all
persons nominated by such State convention 
for electors of President and
Vice President of the United 
States, and of any persons selected by the State
convention for

delegates and alternate delegates at large to national 
nominating
conventions; and the names of such candidates so 
chosen by such State
convention for electors of President and 
Vice President of the United
States, shall be caused by
the 
State Board of Elections to be printed upon the official ballot 
at
the general election, in the manner required by law, and 
shall be
certified to the various county clerks of the proper 
counties in the
manner as provided in Section 7-60 of this 
Article 7 for the certifying
of the names of persons nominated 
by any party for State offices. If and
as long as this Act 
prescribes that the names of such electors be not
printed on 
the ballot, then the names of such electors shall be
certified 
in such manner as may be prescribed by the parts of this Act

applicable thereto.

    (d) Each convention, if the party chooses to hold a State 
convention, may perform all other functions inherent to such

political organization and not inconsistent with this Article.

    (e) At least 33 days before the date of a State convention, 
if the party chooses to hold a State convention, the chair 
chairman of the State central committee of each political
party 
shall file in the principal office of the State Board of

Elections a call for the State convention. Such call shall 
state, among
other things, the time and place (designating the 
building or hall) for
holding the State convention. Such call 
shall be signed by the chair chairman
and attested by the 
secretary of the committee. In such convention each
county 
shall be entitled to one delegate for each 500 ballots voted by

the primary electors of the party in such county at the primary 
to be
held next after the issuance of such call; and if in such 
county, less
than 500 ballots are so voted or if the number of 
ballots so voted is
not exactly a multiple of 500, there shall 
be one delegate for such
group which is less than 500, or for 
such group representing the number
of votes over the multiple 
of 500, which delegate shall have 1/500 of
one vote for each 
primary vote so represented by him. The call for such

convention shall set forth this paragraph (e) of Section 7-9 in 
full and
shall direct that the number of delegates to be chosen 
be calculated in
compliance herewith and that such number of 
delegates be chosen.

    (f) All precinct, township and ward committeepersons 
committeemen when elected as
provided in this Section shall 
serve as though elected at large
irrespective of any changes 
that may be made in precinct, township or
ward boundaries and 
the voting strength of each committeeperson committeeman shall

remain as provided in this Section for the entire time for 
which he is
elected.

    (g) The officers elected at any convention provided for in 
this
Section shall serve until their successors are elected as 
provided in
this Act.

    (h) A special meeting of any central committee may be 
called by the chair
chairman, or by not less than 25% of the 
members of such committee, by
giving 5 days notice to members 
of such committee in writing designating
the time and place at 
which such special meeting is to be held and the
business which 
it is proposed to present at such special meeting.

    (i) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, whenever a 
vacancy
exists in the office of precinct committeeperson 
committeeman because no one was elected
to that office or 
because the precinct committeeperson committeeman ceases to 
reside in
the precinct or for any other reason, the chair 
chairman of the county
central committee of the appropriate 
political party may fill the
vacancy in such office by 
appointment of a qualified resident of the
county and the 
appointed precinct committeeperson committeeman shall serve as 
though
elected; however, no such appointment may be made 
between the general
primary election and the 30th day after the 
general primary election.

    (j) If the number of Congressional Districts in the State 
of Illinois
is reduced as a result of reapportionment of 
Congressional Districts
following a federal decennial census, 
the State Central Committeemen and
Committeewomen of a 
political
party which elects its State Central
Committee by 
either Alternative A or by Alternative B under paragraph (a)
of 
Section 7-8 who were
previously elected shall continue to serve 
as if no reapportionment had
occurred until the expiration of 
their terms.

(Source: P.A. 99-522, eff. 6-30-16.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-9.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-9.1)



    Sec. 7-9.1. 
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 
whenever
a vacancy exists in
the office of delegate to a State 
or national nominating convention by
reason of death or for any 
other reason, then the alternate receiving the
highest vote 
shall succeed to the vacated office and exercise all the
rights 
and prerogatives and discharge all the duties of the office. 
The
vacated office of alternate shall be filled by the 
congressional committee
of the district.

    (b) Vacancies, whether temporary or permanent, in the 
office of delegate
to the national nominating convention of a 
political party whose State Central
Committee uses Alternative 
B of Section 7-14.1 shall be filled by alternate
delegates in 
the following order:

    1.  Alternates from the same District with same Presidential 
preference;

    2. Alternates from other Districts with same Presidential 
preference;

    3. Alternate at-large delegates with same Presidential 
preference;

    4. Alternates from the same District with different 
Presidential preference;

    5. Alternates from other Districts with different 
Presidential preference;

    6. Alternate at-large delegates with different 
Presidential preference.

    Unpledged delegates shall be replaced by unpledged 
alternates.

    Each delegate shall certify in writing the order of his 
succession of alternates
to the chair chairman of the State's 
delegation.

    The delegation shall, as soon as practicable, fill a 
vacancy in the position
of alternate delegate by choosing, in 
accord with its rules, a person of
the same Presidential 
preference and from the same political subdivision.

    The alternate succeeding to the vacated office shall 
exercise all the rights
and prerogatives of the office and 
discharge all the duties of the office.

(Source: P.A. 83-32.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-10)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-10)



    Sec. 7-10. Form of petition for nomination. The name of no 
candidate for
nomination, or State central committeeperson 


 

committeeman, or township committeeperson committeeman, or

precinct committeeperson committeeman, or ward committeeperson 
committeeman or candidate for delegate or
alternate delegate to 
national nominating conventions, shall be printed
upon the 
primary ballot unless a petition for nomination has been filed 
in
his behalf as provided in this Article in substantially the 
following form:

    We, the undersigned, members of and affiliated with the 
.... party
and qualified primary electors of the .... party, in 
the .... of ....,
in the county of .... and State of Illinois, 
do hereby petition that
the following named person or persons 
shall be a candidate or candidates
of the .... party for the 
nomination for (or in case of committeepersons committeemen for

election to) the office or offices hereinafter specified, to be 
voted
for at the primary election to be held on (insert date).

























    NameOfficeAddress
John JonesGovernorBelvidere, Ill.
Jane James Lieutenant Governor Peoria, Ill. 
Thomas SmithAttorney GeneralOakland, Ill.
Name..................         Address.......................

 
State of Illinois)

                 ) ss.

County of........)

    I, ...., do hereby certify
that I reside at No. .... 
street, in the .... of ...., county of ....,
and State of 
....., that I am 18 years of age or older, that
I am a citizen 
of the United States, and that the signatures on this sheet

were signed
in my presence, and are genuine, and that to the 
best of my knowledge
and belief the persons so signing were at 
the time of signing the
petitions qualified voters of the .... 
party, and that their respective
residences are correctly 
stated, as above set forth.

.........................


    Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).

.........................


 

    Each sheet of the petition other than the statement of 
candidacy and
candidate's statement shall be of uniform size 
and shall contain above
the space for signatures an appropriate 
heading giving the information
as to name of candidate or 
candidates, in whose behalf such petition is
signed; the 
office, the political party represented and place of
residence; 
and the heading of each sheet shall be the same.

    Such petition shall be signed by qualified primary electors 
residing
in the political division for which the nomination is 
sought in their
own proper persons only and opposite the 
signature of each signer, his
residence address shall be 
written or printed.  The residence address
required to be 
written or printed opposite each qualified primary elector's

name shall include the street address or rural route number of 
the signer,
as the case may be, as well as the signer's county, 
and city, village or
town, and state.
However the county or 
city, village or town, and state of residence of
the electors 
may be printed on the petition forms where all of the
electors 
signing the petition reside in the same county or city, village

or town, and state. Standard abbreviations may be used in 
writing the
residence address, including street number, if any.  
At the bottom of
each sheet of such petition shall be added a 
circulator statement signed by
a person 18 years of age or 
older who is a citizen of the United States,
stating the street 
address or rural route number, as the case may be, as well
as 
the county, city, village or town, and state;
and certifying 
that the signatures on that sheet of the petition were signed 
in
his or her presence and certifying that the signatures are 
genuine; and
either (1) indicating the dates on which that 
sheet was circulated, or (2)
indicating the first and last 
dates on which the sheet was circulated, or (3)
certifying that 
none of the signatures on the sheet were signed more than 90

days preceding the last day for the filing of the petition and 
certifying that
to the best of his or her knowledge  and belief 
the persons so signing were at
the time of signing the 
petitions qualified voters of the political party for
which a 
nomination is sought. Such statement shall be sworn to before 
some
officer authorized to administer oaths in this State.

    No petition sheet shall be circulated more than 90 days 
preceding the
last day provided in Section 7-12 for the filing 
of such petition.

    The person circulating the petition, or the candidate on 
whose behalf the
petition is circulated, may strike any 
signature from the petition,
provided that:


        (1) the person striking the signature shall initial the 
    petition at
the place where the signature is struck; and


        (2) the person striking the signature shall sign a 
    certification
listing the page number and line number of 
    each signature struck from
the petition.  Such 
    certification shall be filed as a part of the petition.

    Such sheets before being filed shall be neatly fastened 
together in
book form, by placing the sheets in a pile and 
fastening them together
at one edge in a secure and suitable 
manner, and the sheets shall then
be numbered consecutively.  
The sheets shall not be fastened by pasting
them together end 
to end, so as to form a continuous strip or roll.  All
petition 
sheets which are filed with the proper local election 
officials,
election authorities or the State Board of Elections 
shall be the original
sheets which have been signed by the 
voters and by the circulator thereof,
and not photocopies or 
duplicates of such sheets.  Each petition must include
as a part 
thereof, a statement of candidacy for each of the candidates 
filing,
or in whose behalf the petition is filed. This 
statement shall set out the
address of such candidate, the 
office for which he is a candidate, shall state
that the 
candidate is a qualified primary voter of the party to which 


 

the
petition relates and is qualified for the office specified 
(in the case of a
candidate for State's Attorney it shall state 
that the candidate is at the time
of filing such statement a 
licensed attorney-at-law of this State), shall state
that he 
has filed (or will file before the close of the petition filing 
period)
a statement of economic interests as required by the 
Illinois Governmental
Ethics Act, shall request that the 
candidate's name be placed upon the official
ballot, and shall 
be subscribed and sworn to by such candidate before some

officer authorized to take acknowledgment of deeds in the State 
and shall be in
substantially the following form:

Statement of Candidacy









































NameAddressOfficeDistrictParty
John Jones102 Main St.GovernorStatewideRepublican
Belvidere,
Illinois
State of Illinois)

                 ) ss.

County of .......)

    I, ...., being first duly sworn, say that I reside at .... 
Street in the city
(or village) of ...., in the county of ...., 
State of Illinois; that I
am a qualified voter therein and am a 
qualified primary voter of the ....
party; that I am a 
candidate for nomination (for election in the case of 
committeeperson
committeeman and delegates and alternate 
delegates) to the office of ....
to be voted upon at the 
primary election to be held on (insert date); that I am
legally 
qualified (including
being the holder of any license that may 
be an eligibility requirement
for the office I seek the 
nomination for) to hold such office and that I
have filed (or I 
will file before the close of the petition filing period)
a 
statement of economic interests as required by the Illinois

Governmental Ethics Act and I hereby  request that my name be 
printed
upon the official primary ballot for nomination for (or 
election to in
the case of committeepersons committeemen and 
delegates and alternate delegates) such
office.

Signed ......................


    Subscribed and sworn to (or affirmed) before me by ...., 
who is to me
personally known, on (insert date).

Signed ....................


(Official Character)


(Seal, if officer has one.)

 

    The petitions, when filed, shall not be withdrawn or added 
to, and no
signatures shall be revoked except by revocation 
filed in writing with
the State Board of Elections, election 
authority or local election
official with whom the petition is 
required to be filed, and before the
filing of such petition.  
Whoever forges the name of a signer upon any
petition required 
by this Article is deemed guilty of a forgery and on
conviction 
thereof shall be punished accordingly.

    A candidate for the offices listed in this Section must 
obtain the number
of signatures specified in this Section on 
his or her petition for nomination.

    (a) Statewide office or delegate to a national nominating 
convention. If a
candidate seeks to run for statewide office or 
as a delegate or alternate
delegate to a national nominating 
convention elected from the State at-large,
then the 
candidate's petition for nomination must contain at least 5,000 
but
not more than 10,000 signatures.

    (b) Congressional office or congressional delegate to a 
national nominating
convention. If a candidate seeks to run for 
United States Congress or as a
congressional delegate or 
alternate congressional delegate to a national
nominating 
convention elected from a congressional district, then the

candidate's petition for nomination must contain at least the 
number of
signatures equal to 0.5% of the qualified primary 
electors of his or her party
in his or her congressional 
district. In the first primary election following a

redistricting of congressional districts, a candidate's 
petition for nomination
must contain at least 600 signatures of 
qualified primary electors of the
candidate's political party 
in his or her congressional district.

    (c) County office. If a candidate seeks to run for any 
countywide office,
including but not limited to county board 
chairperson or county board
member, elected on an at-large 
basis, in a county other than Cook County,
then the candidate's 
petition for nomination must contain at least the number
of 
signatures equal to 0.5% of the qualified electors of his or 
her party who
cast votes at the last preceding general election 
in his or her county. If a
candidate
seeks to run for county 
board member elected from a county board district, then
the 
candidate's petition for nomination must contain at least the 
number of
signatures equal to 0.5% of the qualified primary 
electors of his or her party
in the
county board district. In 
the first primary election following a redistricting
of county 
board districts or the initial establishment of county board

districts, a candidate's petition for nomination must contain 
at least the
number of signatures equal to 0.5% of the 
qualified electors of his or her
party
in the entire county who 
cast votes at the last preceding general election
divided by 
the
total number of county board districts comprising the 
county board; provided
that
in no event shall the number of 
signatures be less than 25.

    (d) County office; Cook County only.


        (1) If a candidate seeks to run for countywide office 
    in Cook County,
then the candidate's petition for 
    nomination must contain at least the number
of signatures 
    equal to 0.5% of the qualified electors of his or her party 
    who
cast votes at the last preceding general election in 
    Cook County.


        (2) If a candidate seeks to run for Cook County Board 
    Commissioner,
then the candidate's petition for nomination 
    must contain at least the number
of signatures equal to 
    0.5% of
the qualified primary electors of his or her party 
    in his or her county board
district. In the first primary 
    election following a redistricting of Cook
County Board of 
    Commissioners districts, a candidate's petition for

    nomination must contain at least the number of signatures 
    equal to 0.5% of
the qualified electors of his or her party 
    in the entire county who cast votes
at the last
preceding 
    general election divided by the total number of county 
    board
districts comprising the county board; provided that 
    in no event shall the
number of signatures be less than 25.


        (3) If a candidate seeks to run for Cook County Board 
    of Review
Commissioner, which is elected from a district 
    pursuant to subsection (c)
of Section 5-5 of the Property 
    Tax Code, then the candidate's petition for
nomination must 
    contain at least the number of signatures equal to 0.5% of

    the total number of registered voters in his or her board 
    of
review district in the last general election at which a 
    commissioner was
regularly scheduled to be elected from 
    that board of review district. In no
event shall the number 
    of signatures required be greater than the requisite
number 
    for a candidate who seeks countywide office in Cook County

    under subsection (d)(1) of this Section. In the first 
    primary election
following a redistricting of Cook County 
    Board of Review districts, a
candidate's petition for 
    nomination must contain at least 4,000 signatures
or at 
    least the number of signatures required for a countywide 
    candidate in
Cook County, whichever is less,
of the 
    qualified electors of his or her party in the district.

    (e) Municipal or township office. If a candidate seeks to 
run for municipal
or township office, then the candidate's 
petition for nomination must contain
at least the number of 
signatures equal to 0.5% of the qualified primary
electors of 
his or her party in the municipality or township. If a 
candidate
seeks to run for alderman of a municipality, then the 
candidate's petition for
nomination must contain at least the 
number of signatures equal to 0.5% of the
qualified primary 
electors of his or her party of the ward. In the first
primary 
election following redistricting of aldermanic wards or 
trustee
districts of a municipality or the initial 
establishment of wards or districts,
a candidate's petition for 
nomination must contain the number of signatures
equal to at 
least 0.5% of the total number of votes cast for the candidate 
of
that political party who received the highest number of 
votes in the entire
municipality at the last regular election 
at which an officer was regularly
scheduled to be elected from

the entire municipality, divided by the number of wards or 
districts. In no
event shall the number of signatures be less 
than 25.

    (f) State central committeeperson. If a candidate seeks to 
run for State
central committeeperson, then the candidate's 
petition for nomination must
contain at least 100 signatures of 
the primary electors of his or her party of
his or
her 
congressional district.

    (g) Sanitary district trustee. If a candidate seeks to run 
for trustee of a
sanitary district in which trustees are not 
elected from wards, then the
candidate's petition for 
nomination must contain at least the number of
signatures equal 
to 0.5% of the primary electors of his or her party from the

sanitary district. If a candidate seeks to run for trustee
of a 
sanitary district in which trustees are elected from wards, 
then the
candidate's petition for
nomination must contain at 
least the number of signatures equal to 0.5% of the
primary 
electors of his or her party in the ward of that sanitary 
district. In
the
first primary election following 
redistricting of sanitary districts elected
from wards, a 
candidate's petition for nomination must contain at least the

signatures of 150 qualified primary electors of his or her ward 
of that
sanitary district.

    (h) Judicial office. If a candidate seeks to run for 
judicial office in a district, then the candidate's petition 
for nomination must contain the number of signatures equal to 
0.4% of the number of votes cast in that district for the 
candidate for his or her political party for the office of 
Governor at the last general election at which a Governor was 
elected, but in no event less than 500 signatures. If a 
candidate seeks to run for judicial office in a
circuit or 
subcircuit, then the candidate's petition for nomination
must 
contain the number of signatures equal to 0.25% of the number 
of votes
cast for the judicial candidate of his or her 
political party who received the
highest number of votes
at the 
last general election at which a judicial
officer from the same  
circuit or subcircuit was regularly scheduled
to be elected, 
but in no event less than 1,000 signatures in circuits and 
subcircuits located in the First Judicial District or 500 
signatures in every other Judicial District.

    (i) Precinct, ward, and township committeeperson. If a 
candidate seeks to
run for precinct committeeperson, then the 
candidate's petition for nomination
must contain at least 10 
signatures of the primary electors of his or her
party for the 
precinct. If a candidate seeks to run for ward committeeperson,

then the candidate's petition for nomination must contain no 
less than the
number of signatures equal to 10% of the primary 
electors of his or her party
of the ward, but no more than 16% 
of those same electors; provided that the
maximum number of 
signatures may be 50 more than the minimum number, whichever
is 
greater. If a candidate seeks to run for township 
committeeperson, then the
candidate's petition for nomination 
must contain no less than the number of
signatures equal to 5% 
of the primary electors of his or her party of the
township, 
but no more than 8% of those same electors;
provided that the 
maximum number of signatures may be 50 more than the
minimum 
number, whichever is greater.

    (j) State's attorney or regional superintendent of schools 
for multiple
counties. If
a candidate seeks to run for State's 
attorney or regional Superintendent of
Schools who serves more 
than one county, then the candidate's petition for
nomination 
must contain at least the number of signatures equal to 0.5% of 
the
primary electors of his or her party in the territory 
comprising the counties.

    (k) Any other office. If a candidate seeks any other 
office, then the
candidate's petition for nomination must 
contain at least the number of
signatures equal to 0.5% of the 
registered voters of the political subdivision,
district, or 
division for which the nomination is made or 25 signatures,

whichever is greater.

    For purposes of this Section the number of primary electors 
shall be
determined by taking the total vote cast, in the 
applicable district, for the
candidate for that political party 
who received the highest number of votes,
statewide, at the 
last general election in the State at which electors for

President of the United States were elected. For political 
subdivisions, the
number of primary electors shall be 
determined by taking the total vote
cast for the candidate for 
that political party who received the highest number
of votes 
in the political subdivision at the last regular election at 
which an
officer was regularly scheduled to be elected from 
that subdivision. For wards
or districts of political 
subdivisions, the number of primary electors shall be

determined by taking the total vote cast for the candidate for 
that political
party who received the highest number of votes 
in the ward or district at the
last regular election at which 
an officer was regularly scheduled to be elected
from that ward 
or district.

    A "qualified primary elector" of a party may not
sign 
petitions for or be a candidate in the primary of more than
one 
party.

    The changes made to this Section of this amendatory Act of 
the 93rd General
Assembly are declarative of existing law, 
except for item (3) of subsection
(d).

    Petitions of candidates for nomination for offices herein 
specified,
to be filed with the same officer, may contain the 
names of 2 or more
candidates of the same political party for 
the same or different
offices. In the case of the offices of 
Governor and Lieutenant Governor, a joint petition including 
one candidate for each of those offices must be filed. 

(Source: P.A. 96-1018, eff. 1-1-11; 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-11)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-11)



    Sec. 7-11. 
Any candidate for President of the United States 
may have his name
printed upon the primary ballot of his 
political party by filing in the
office of the State Board of 
Elections not more than 113 and not less
than 106 days prior to 
the date of the general primary, in any year in which a

Presidential election is to be held, a petition signed by not 
less than
3000 or more than 5000 primary electors, members of 
and affiliated with the
party of which he is a candidate, and 
no candidate for President of the
United States, who fails to 
comply with the provisions of this Article
shall have his name 
printed upon any primary ballot: Provided, however,
that if the 
rules or policies of a national political
party conflict with 
such requirements for filing petitions for President of
the 
United States in a presidential preference primary, the Chair 
Chairman of the
State central committee of such national 
political party shall notify the
State Board of Elections in 
writing, citing by reference the rules or
policies of the 
national political party in conflict, and in such case the

Board shall direct such petitions to be filed in accordance 
with the delegate selection plan adopted by the state central 
committee of such national political party.  Provided, further, 
unless rules
or policies of a national political party 
otherwise provide, the
vote for President of the United States, 
as herein provided for, shall be
for the sole purpose of 
securing an expression of the sentiment and will of
the party 
voters with respect to candidates for nomination for said 
office,
and the vote of the state at large shall be taken and 
considered as
advisory to the delegates and alternates at large 
to the national
conventions of respective political parties; 
and the vote of the respective
congressional districts shall be 
taken and considered as advisory to the
delegates and 
alternates of said congressional districts to the national

conventions of the respective political parties.

(Source: P.A. 96-1008, eff. 7-6-10; 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-12)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-12)



    Sec. 7-12. All petitions for nomination shall be filed by 
mail or
in person as follows:
        (1) Where the nomination is to be made for a State, 
    congressional, or
judicial office, or for any office a 
    nomination for which is made for a
territorial division or 
    district which comprises more than one county or
is partly 
    in one county and partly in another county or counties, 
    then,
except as otherwise provided in this Section, such 
    petition for nomination
shall be filed in the principal 
    office of the State Board of Elections not
more than 113 
    and not less than 106 days prior to the date of the 
    primary,
but, in the case of petitions for nomination to 
    fill a vacancy by special
election in the office of 
    representative in Congress from this State, such
petition 
    for nomination shall be filed in the principal office of 
    the State
Board of Elections not more than 85 days and not 
    less than 82 days prior to
the date of the primary.

        Where a vacancy occurs in the office of Supreme, 
    Appellate or Circuit
Court Judge within the 3-week period 
    preceding the 106th day before a
general primary election, 
    petitions for nomination for the office in which
the 
    vacancy has occurred shall be filed in the principal office 
    of the
State Board of Elections not more than 92 nor less 
    than 85 days prior to
the date of the general primary 
    election.

        Where the nomination is to be made for delegates or 
    alternate
delegates to a national nominating convention, 
    then such petition for
nomination shall be filed in the 
    principal office of the State Board of
Elections not more 
    than 113 and not less than 106 days prior to the date of

    the primary; provided, however, that if the rules or 
    policies of a national
political party conflict with such 
    requirements for filing petitions for
nomination for 
    delegates or alternate delegates to a national nominating

    convention, the chair chairman of the State central 
    committee of such national
political party shall notify the 
    Board in writing, citing by reference the
rules or policies 
    of the national political party in conflict, and in such

    case the Board shall direct such petitions to be filed in 
    accordance with the delegate selection plan adopted by the 
    state central committee of such national political party.

        (2) Where the nomination is to be made for a county 
    office or trustee
of a sanitary district then such petition 
    shall be filed in the office
of the county clerk not more 
    than 113 nor less than 106 days prior to the
date of the 
    primary.

        (3) Where the nomination is to be made for a municipal 
    or township
office, such petitions for nomination shall be 
    filed in the office of
the local election official, not 
    more than 99 nor less than 92 days
prior to the date of the 
    primary; provided, where a municipality's or
township's 
    boundaries are coextensive with or are entirely within the

    jurisdiction of a municipal board of election 
    commissioners, the petitions
shall be filed in the office 
    of such board; and provided, that petitions
for the office 
    of multi-township assessor shall be filed with the election

    authority.

        (4) The petitions of candidates for State central 
    committeeperson committeeman shall
be filed in the 
    principal office of the State Board of Elections not
more 
    than 113 nor less than 106 days prior to the date of the 
    primary.

        (5) Petitions of candidates for precinct, township or 
    ward committeepersons
committeemen shall be filed in the 
    office of the county clerk not more
than 113 nor less than 
    106 days prior to the date of the primary.

        (6) The State Board of Elections and the various 
    election authorities
and local election officials with 
    whom such petitions for nominations
are filed shall specify 
    the place where filings shall be made and upon
receipt 
    shall endorse thereon the day and hour on which each 
    petition
was filed.  All petitions filed by persons waiting 
    in line as of 8:00
a.m. on the first day for filing, or as 
    of the normal opening hour of
the office involved on such 
    day, shall be deemed filed as of 8:00 a.m.
or the normal 
    opening hour, as the case may be.  Petitions filed by mail

    and received after midnight of the first day for filing and 
    in the first
mail delivery or pickup of that day shall be 
    deemed as filed as of 8:00
a.m.  of that day or as of the 
    normal opening hour of such day, as the
case may be. All 
    petitions received thereafter shall be deemed as filed
in 
    the order of actual receipt.  However, 2 or more petitions 
    filed within the last hour of the filing deadline shall be 
    deemed filed simultaneously. Where 2 or more petitions are 
    received
simultaneously, the State Board of Elections or 
    the various election
authorities or local election 
    officials with whom such petitions are
filed shall break 
    ties and determine the order of filing, by means of a

    lottery or other fair and impartial method of random 
    selection approved
by the State Board of Elections.  Such 
    lottery shall be conducted within
9 days following the last 
    day for petition filing and shall be open to the
public. 
    Seven days written notice of the time and place of 
    conducting such
random selection shall be given by the 
    State Board of Elections to the chair
chairman of the State 
    central committee of each established political
party, and 
    by each election authority or local election official, to 
    the
County Chair Chairman of each established political 
    party, and to each
organization of citizens within the 
    election jurisdiction which was
entitled, under this 
    Article, at the next preceding election, to have

    pollwatchers present on the day of election.  The State 
    Board of Elections,
election authority or local election 
    official shall post in a conspicuous,
open and public 
    place, at the entrance of the office, notice of the time

    and place of such lottery. The State Board of Elections 
    shall adopt rules
and regulations governing the procedures 
    for the conduct of such lottery.
All candidates shall be 
    certified in the order in which their petitions
have been 
    filed.  Where candidates have filed simultaneously, they 
    shall be
certified in the order determined by lot and prior 
    to candidates who filed
for the same office at a later 
    time.

        (7) The State Board of Elections or the appropriate 
    election
authority or local election official with whom 
    such a petition for
nomination is filed shall notify the 
    person for whom a petition for
nomination has been filed of 
    the obligation to file statements of
organization, reports 
    of campaign contributions, and annual reports of
campaign 
    contributions and expenditures under Article 9 of this Act.

    Such notice shall be given in the manner prescribed by 
    paragraph (7) of
Section 9-16 of this Code.

        (8) Nomination papers filed under this Section are not 
    valid if the
candidate named therein fails to file a 
    statement of economic interests
as required by the Illinois 
    Governmental Ethics Act in relation to his
candidacy with 
    the appropriate officer by the end of the period for the

    filing of nomination papers unless he has filed a statement 
    of economic
interests in relation to the same governmental 
    unit with that officer
within a year preceding the date on 
    which such nomination papers were
filed.  If the nomination 
    papers of any candidate and the statement of
economic 
    interest of that candidate are not required to be filed 
    with
the same officer, the candidate must file with the 
    officer with whom the
nomination papers are filed a receipt 
    from the officer with whom the
statement of economic 
    interests is filed showing the date on which such
statement 
    was filed.  Such receipt shall be so filed not later than 
    the
last day on which nomination papers may be filed.

        (9) Any person for whom a petition for nomination, or 
    for committeeperson committeeman or
for delegate or 
    alternate delegate to a national nominating convention has

    been filed may cause his name to be withdrawn by request in 
    writing, signed
by him and duly acknowledged before an 
    officer qualified to take
acknowledgments of deeds, and 
    filed in the principal or permanent branch
office of the 
    State Board of Elections or with the appropriate election

    authority or local election official, not later than the 
    date of
certification of candidates for the consolidated 
    primary or general primary
ballot. No names so withdrawn 
    shall be certified or printed on the
primary ballot.  If 
    petitions for nomination have been filed for the
same 
    person with respect to more than one political party, his 
    name
shall not be certified nor printed on the primary 
    ballot of any party.
If petitions for nomination have been 
    filed for the same person for 2 or
more offices which are 
    incompatible so that the same person could not
serve in 
    more than one of such offices if elected, that person must

    withdraw as a candidate for all but one of such offices 
    within the
5 business days following the last day for 
    petition filing.  A candidate in a judicial election may 
    file petitions for nomination for only one vacancy in a 
    subcircuit and only one vacancy in a circuit in any one 
    filing period, and if petitions for nomination have been 
    filed for the same person for 2 or more vacancies in the 
    same circuit or subcircuit in the same filing period, his 
    or her name shall be certified only for the first vacancy 
    for which the petitions for nomination were filed. If he 
    fails to
withdraw as a candidate for all but one of such 
    offices within such time
his name shall not be certified, 
    nor printed on the primary ballot, for any
office.  For the 
    purpose of the foregoing provisions, an office in a

    political party is not incompatible with any other office.


        (10)(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other 
    statute, no primary
shall be held for an established 
    political party in any township,
municipality, or ward 
    thereof, where the nomination of such
party for every 
    office to be voted upon by the electors of such
township, 
    municipality, or ward thereof, is uncontested.  Whenever a

    political party's nomination of candidates is uncontested 
    as to one or
more, but not all, of the offices to be voted 
    upon by the electors of a
township, municipality, or ward 
    thereof, then a primary shall
be held for that party in 
    such township, municipality, or ward thereof;
provided 
    that the primary ballot shall not include those offices

    within such township, municipality, or ward thereof, for 
    which the
nomination is uncontested.  For purposes of this 
    Article, the nomination
of an established political party 
    of a candidate for election to an office
shall be deemed to 
    be uncontested where not more than the number of persons
to 
    be nominated have timely filed valid nomination papers 
    seeking the
nomination of such party for election to such 
    office.


        (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other 
    statute, no primary
election shall be held for an 
    established political party for any special
primary 
    election called for the purpose of filling a vacancy in the 
    office
of representative in the United States Congress 
    where the nomination of
such political party for said 
    office is uncontested.  For the purposes of
this Article, 
    the nomination of an established political party of a

    candidate for election to said office shall be deemed to be 
    uncontested
where not more than the number of persons to be 
    nominated have timely filed
valid nomination papers 
    seeking the nomination of such established party
for 
    election to said office. This subsection (b) shall not 
    apply if such
primary election is conducted on a regularly 
    scheduled election day.


        (c) Notwithstanding the provisions in subparagraph (a) 
    and (b) of this
paragraph (10), whenever a person who has 
    not timely filed valid nomination
papers and who intends to 
    become a write-in candidate for a political
party's 
    nomination for any office for which the nomination is 
    uncontested
files a written statement or notice of that 
    intent with the State Board of
Elections or the local 
    election official with whom nomination papers for
such 
    office are filed, a primary ballot shall be prepared and a 
    primary
shall be held for that office.  Such statement or 
    notice shall be filed on
or before the date established in 
    this Article for certifying candidates
for the primary 
    ballot.  Such statement or notice shall contain (i) the
name 
    and address of the person intending to become a write-in 
    candidate,
(ii) a statement that the person is a qualified 
    primary elector of the
political party from whom the 
    nomination is sought, (iii) a statement that
the person 
    intends to become a write-in candidate for the party's

    nomination, and (iv) the office the person is seeking as a 
    write-in
candidate.  An election authority shall have no 
    duty to conduct a primary
and prepare a primary ballot for 
    any office for which the nomination is
uncontested unless a 
    statement or notice meeting the requirements of this

    Section is filed in a timely manner.

        (11) If multiple sets of nomination papers are filed 
    for a candidate to
the same office, the State Board of 
    Elections, appropriate election
authority or local 
    election official where the petitions are filed shall

    within 2 business days notify the candidate of his or her 
    multiple petition
filings and that the candidate has 3 
    business days after receipt of the
notice to notify the 
    State Board of Elections, appropriate election
authority 
    or local election official that he or she may cancel prior 
    sets
of petitions.  If the candidate notifies the State 
    Board of Elections,
appropriate election authority or 
    local election official, the last set of
petitions filed 
    shall be the only petitions to be considered valid by the

    State Board of Elections, election authority or local 
    election official.  If
the candidate fails to notify the 
    State Board of Elections, election authority
or local

    election official then only the first set of petitions 
    filed shall be valid
and all subsequent petitions shall be 
    void.

        (12) All nominating petitions shall be available for 
    public inspection
and shall be preserved for a period of 
    not less than 6 months.

(Source: P.A. 99-221, eff. 7-31-15.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-13)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-13)



    Sec. 7-13. 
The board of election commissioners in cities of 
500,000 or more
population having such board, shall constitute 
an electoral board for the
hearing and passing upon objections 
to nomination petitions for ward committeepersons

committeemen.

    Such objections shall be filed in the office of the county 
clerk within 5 business days after the last day for filing 
nomination papers. The objection shall state the name
and 
address of the objector, who may be any qualified elector in 
the ward,
the specific grounds of objection and the relief 
requested of the electoral
board. Upon the receipt of the 
objection, the county clerk shall forthwith
transmit such 
objection and the petition of the candidate to the board of

election commissioners. The board of election commissioners 
shall forthwith
notify the objector and candidate objected to 
of the time and place for
hearing hereon. After a hearing upon 
the validity of such objections, the
board shall
certify to the 
county clerk its decision stating whether or not the name
of 
the candidate shall be printed on the ballot and the county 
clerk in his
or her certificate to the board of election 
commissioners shall leave off
of the certificate the name of 
the candidate for ward committeeperson committeeman that the

election commissioners order not to be printed on the ballot. 
However, the
decision of the board of election commissioners is 
subject to judicial
review as provided in Section 10-10.1.

    The county electoral board composed as provided in Section 
10-9 shall
constitute an electoral board for the hearing and 
passing upon objections
to nomination petitions for precinct 
and township committeepersons committeemen. Such
objections 
shall be filed in the office of the county clerk within 5 
business days after the last day for filing nomination papers. 
The objection shall state the name and
address of the objector 
who may be any qualified elector in the precinct or
in the 
township or part of a township that lies outside of a city 
having a
population of 500,000 or more, the specific grounds of 
objection and the
relief requested of the electoral board. Upon 
the receipt of the objection
the county clerk shall forthwith 
transmit such objection and the petition
of the candidate to 
the chair chairman of the county electoral board. The chair

chairman of the county electoral board shall forthwith notify 
the objector,
the candidate whose petition is objected to and 
the other members of the
electoral board of the time and place 
for hearing thereon. After hearing
upon the validity of such 
objections the board shall certify its decision to the county 
clerk
stating whether or not the name of the candidate shall be 
printed on the
ballot, and the county clerk, in his or her 
certificate to the board of
election commissioners, shall leave 
off of the certificate the name of the
candidate ordered by the 
board not to be printed on the ballot, and the
county clerk 
shall also refrain from printing on the official primary

ballot, the name of any candidate whose name has been ordered 
by the
electoral board not to be printed on the ballot. 
However, the decision of
the board is subject to judicial 
review as provided in Section 10-10.1.

    In such proceedings the electoral boards have the same 
powers as other
electoral boards under the provisions of 
Section 10-10 of this Act and
their decisions are subject to 
judicial review under Section 10-10.1.

(Source: P.A. 96-1008, eff. 7-6-10.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-14.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-14.1)



    Sec. 7-14.1. 
Delegates and alternate delegates to national 
nominating
conventions shall be chosen according to one of the 
following alternative
methods of allocating delegates for 
election.  The State central committee
of each political party 
established pursuant to this Article 7 shall certify
to the 
State Board of Elections, not less than 30 days prior to the 
first
date for filing of petitions for election as delegate or 
alternate delegate
to a national nominating convention, which 
of the following alternatives
it wishes to be utilized in 
allocating the delegates and alternate delegates
to which 
Illinois will be entitled at its national nominating 
convention.
The State Board of Elections shall meet promptly 
and, not less than 20 days
prior to the first date for filing 
of such petitions, shall publish and
certify to the county 
clerk in each county the number of delegates or alternate

delegates to be elected from each congressional district or 
from the State
at large or State convention of a political 
party, as the case may be,
according to the method chosen by 
each State central committee.  If
a State central committee 
fails to certify to the State Board of
Elections its choice of 
one of the following methods prior to the
aforementioned 
meeting of the State Board of Elections, the State Board
of 
Elections shall certify delegates for that political party 
pursuant
to whichever of the alternatives below was used by 
that political party
pursuant to whichever of the alternatives 
below was used by that
political party in the most recent year 
in which delegates were
selected, subject to any subsequent 
amendments.

    Prior to the aforementioned meeting of the State  Board of 
Elections at
which the Board shall publish and certify to the 
county clerk the number
of delegates or alternate delegates to 
be elected from each congressional
district or the State at 
large or State convention, the Secretary of State
shall 
ascertain from the call of the national convention of each 
political
party the number of delegates and alternate delegates 
to which Illinois
will be entitled at the respective national 
nominating conventions.  The
Secretary of State shall report the 
number
of delegates and alternate delegates to which Illinois 
will be entitled
at the respective national nominating 
conventions to the State  Board of
Elections convened as 
aforesaid to be utilized by the State  Board of
Elections in 
calculating the number of delegates and alternates to be

elected from each congressional district in the State at large 
or State
convention, as the case may be.

    Alternative A: The State Board of Elections shall allocate 
the number of
delegates and alternate delegates to which the 
State is entitled among the
congressional districts in the 
State.

    1. Of the number of delegates to which the State is 
entitled, 10, plus
those remaining unallocated under paragraph 
2, shall be delegates at large.
The State central committee of 
the appropriate political party shall determine
whether the 
delegates at large shall be (a) elected in the primary from
the 
State at large, (b) selected by the State convention, or (c) 
chosen
by a combination of these 2 methods. If the State 
central committee determines
that all or a specified number of 
the delegates at large shall be elected
in the primary, the 
committee shall file with the Board a report of such

determination at the same time it certifies the alternative it 
wishes to
use in allocating its delegates.

    2. All delegates other than the delegates at large shall be 
elected from
the congressional districts. Two delegates shall 
be allocated from this
number to each district. After reserving 
10 delegates to be delegates at
large and allocating 2 
delegates to each district, the Board shall allocate
the 
remaining delegates to the congressional districts pursuant to 
the
following formula:


        (a) For each district, the number of remaining 
    delegates shall be multiplied
by a fraction, the numerator 
    of which is the vote cast in the congressional
district for 
    the party's nominee in the last Presidential election, and

    the denominator of which is the vote cast in the State for 
    the party's nominee
in the last Presidential election.


        (b) The Board shall first allocate to each district a 
    number of delegates
equal to the whole number in the 
    product resulting from the multiplication
procedure in 
    subparagraph (a).


        (c) The Board shall then allocate any remaining 
    delegates, one to each
district, in the order of the 
    largest fractional remainder in the product
resulting from 
    the multiplication procedure in subparagraph (a), omitting

    those districts for which that product is less than 1.875.


        (d) The Board shall then allocate any remaining 
    delegates, one to each
district, in the order of the 
    largest fractional remainder in the product
resulting from 
    the multiplication procedure in subparagraph (a), among 
    those
districts for which that product is at least one but 
    less than 1.875.


        (e) Any delegates remaining unallocated shall be 
    delegates at large and
shall be selected as determined by 
    the State central committee under paragraph
 1 of this 
    Alternative A.

    3. The alternate delegates at large shall be allocated in 
the same manner
as the delegates at large.  The alternate 
delegates other than the alternate
delegates at large shall be 
allocated in the same manner as the delegates
other than the 
delegates at large.

    Alternative B: the chair chairman of the State central 
committee shall file
with the State Board of Elections a 
statement of the number of delegates
and alternate delegates to 
which the State is entitled and the number of
such delegates 
and alternate delegates to be elected from congressional

districts.  The State Board of Elections shall allocate such 
number of
delegates and alternate delegates, as the case may 
be, among the
congressional districts in the State for election 
from the congressional districts.

    The Board shall utilize the sum of 1/3 of each of the 
following formulae
to determine the number of delegates and 
alternate delegates, as the case
may be, to be elected from 
each congressional district:

    (1) Formula 1 shall be determined by multiplying paragraphs 
(a), (b), and (c)
 together as follows:


        (a) The fraction derived by dividing the population of 
    the district by
the population of the State and adding to 
    that fraction the following: 1/2
of the fraction calculated 
    by dividing the total district vote for the party's

    candidate in the most recent presidential election by the 
    total statewide
vote for that candidate in that election, 
    plus 1/2 of the fraction calculated
by dividing the total 
    district vote for the party's candidate in the second
most 
    recent Presidential election by the total statewide vote 
    for that
candidate in that election;


        (b) 1/2;


        (c) The number of delegates or alternate delegates, as 
    the case may be,
to which the State is entitled at the 
    party's national nominating convention.

    (2) Formula 2 shall be determined by multiplying paragraphs 
(a), (b), and (c)
 together as follows:


        (a) The fraction calculated by dividing the total 
    numbers of votes in
the district for the party's candidate 
    in the most recent Gubernatorial
election by the total 
    statewide vote for that candidate in that election,
plus, 
    the fraction calculated by dividing the total district vote 
    for the
party's candidate in the most recent presidential 
    election by the total
statewide vote for that candidate in 
    that election;


        (b) 1/2;


        (c) The number of delegates or alternate delegates, as 
    the case may be,
to which the State is entitled at the 
    party's national nominating convention.

    (3) Formula 3 shall be determined by multiplying paragraphs 
(a), (b), and (c)
 together as follows:


        (a) 1/2 of the fraction calculated by dividing the 
    total district vote
for the party's candidate in the most 
    recent presidential election by the
total statewide vote 
    for that candidate in that election, plus 1/2 of the

    fraction calculated by dividing the total district vote for 
    the party's
candidate in the second most recent 
    presidential election by the total
statewide vote for that 
    candidate in that election.  This sum shall be
added to the 
    fraction calculated by dividing the total voter 
    registration
of the party in the district by the total 
    voter registration of the party
in the State as of January 
    1 of the year prior to the year in which the
national 
    nominating convention is held;


        (b) 1/2;


        (c) The number of delegates or alternate delegates, as 
    the case may be,
to which the State is entitled at the 
    party's national nominating convention.

    Fractional numbers of delegates and alternate delegates 
shall be rounded
upward in rank order to the next whole number, 
largest fraction first, until
the total number of delegates and 
alternate delegates, respectively, to
be so chosen have been 
allocated.

    The remainder of the delegates and alternate delegates 
shall be selected
as determined by the State central committee 
of the party and shall be
certified to the State Board of 
Elections by the chair chairman of the State central
committee.

    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, 
with
respect to all aspects of the selection of delegates and 
alternate delegates
to a national nominating convention under 
Alternative B, this Code shall be superseded
 by the delegate 
selection rules and policies of the
national political party 
including, but not limited to, the development of
an 
affirmative action plan.

(Source: P.A. 96-1000, eff. 7-2-10.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/7-17)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-17)




    Sec. 7-17. Candidate ballot name procedures. 

    (a) Each election authority in each county shall cause to 
be
printed upon the general primary ballot of each party for 
each precinct
in his jurisdiction the name of each candidate 
whose petition for
nomination or for committeeperson 
committeeman has been filed in the office of the
county clerk, 
as herein provided; and also the name of each candidate
whose 
name has been certified to his office by the State Board of

Elections, and in the order so certified, except as hereinafter

provided.

    It shall be the duty of the election authority to cause to 
be printed
upon the consolidated primary ballot of each 
political party for each
precinct in his jurisdiction the name 
of each candidate whose name has
been certified to him, as 
herein provided and which is to be voted for
in such precinct.

    (b) In the designation of the name of a candidate on the 
primary ballot
the candidate's given name or names, initial or 
initials, a nickname by
which the candidate is commonly known, 
or a combination thereof, may be
used in addition to the 
candidate's surname. If a candidate has changed his or her 
name, whether by a statutory or common law procedure in 
Illinois or any other jurisdiction, within 3 years before the 
last day for filing the petition for nomination, nomination 
papers, or certificate of nomination for that office, whichever 
is applicable, then (i) the candidate's name on the primary 
ballot must be followed by "formerly known as (list all prior 
names during the 3-year period) until name changed on (list 
date of each such name change)" and (ii) the petition, papers, 
or certificate must be accompanied by the candidate's affidavit 
stating the candidate's previous names during the period 
specified in (i) and the date or dates each of those names was 
changed; failure to meet these requirements shall be grounds 
for denying certification of the candidate's name for the 
ballot or removing the candidate's name from the ballot, as 
appropriate, but these requirements do not apply to name 
changes resulting from adoption to assume an adoptive parent's 
or parents' surname, marriage to assume a spouse's surname, or 
dissolution of marriage or declaration of invalidity of 
marriage to assume a former surname. No other designation such

as a political slogan, title, or degree, or nickname suggesting 
or
implying possession of
a title, degree or professional 
status, or similar information may be
used in connection
with 
the candidate's surname.
For purposes of this Section, a 
"political slogan" is defined as any
word
or words expressing 
or connoting a position, opinion, or belief that the
candidate 
may espouse, including but not limited to, any word or words

conveying any meaning other than that of the personal identity 
of the
candidate. A
candidate may not use a political slogan as 
part of his or her name on the
ballot, notwithstanding that the 
political slogan may be part of the
candidate's name.

    (c) The State Board of Elections, a local election 
official, or an election
authority shall remove any candidate's 
name designation from a ballot that is
inconsistent with 
subsection (b) of this Section. In addition, the State Board
of 
Elections, a local election official, or an election authority 
shall not
certify to any election authority any candidate name 
designation that is
inconsistent with subsection (b) of this 
Section.

    (d) If the State Board of Elections, a local election 
official, or an
election authority removes a candidate's name 
designation from a ballot
under subsection (c) of this Section, 
then the aggrieved candidate may
seek appropriate relief in 
circuit court.

(Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 94-1090, eff. 6-1-07.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-19)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-19)



    Sec. 7-19. The primary ballot of each political party for 
each precinct shall be
arranged and printed substantially in 
the manner following:

    1.  Designating words. At the top of the ballot shall be 
printed in
large capital letters, words designating the ballot, 
if a Republican
ballot, the designating words shall be: 
"REPUBLICAN PRIMARY BALLOT"; if
a Democratic ballot the 
designating words shall be: "DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
BALLOT"; and in 
like manner for each political party.

    2.  Order of Names, Directions to Voters, etc. Beginning not 
less
than one inch below designating words, the name of each 
office to be
filled shall be printed in capital letters. Such 
names may be printed on
the ballot either in a single column or 
in 2 or more columns and in the
following order, to-wit:

    President of the United States, State offices, 
congressional offices,
delegates and alternate delegates to be 
elected from the State at large
to National nominating 
conventions, delegates and alternate delegates to
be elected 
from congressional districts to National nominating

conventions, member or members of the State central committee, 
trustees of sanitary
districts, county offices, judicial 
officers, city, village and
incorporated town offices, town 
offices, or of such of the said offices
as candidates are to be 
nominated for at such primary, and precinct,
township or ward 
committeepersons committeemen. If two or more columns are used, 
the
foregoing offices to and including member of the State 
central committee
shall be listed in the left-hand column and 
Senatorial offices, as
defined in Section 8-3, shall be the

first offices listed in the second column.

    Below the name of each office shall be printed in small 
letters the
directions to voters: "Vote for one"; "Vote for not 
more than two"; "Vote for not more than three". If no candidate 
or candidates  file for an office and if no person or persons  
file a declaration as a write-in candidate for that office, 
then below the title of that office the election authority 
instead shall print "No Candidate". 

    Next to the name of each candidate for delegate or 
alternate delegate
to a national nominating convention shall 
appear either (a)
the name of the
candidate's preference for 
President of the United States or the word
"uncommitted" or (b) 
no official designation, depending upon the action
taken by the 
State central committee pursuant to Section 7-10.3 of this Act.

    Below the name of each office shall be printed in capital 
letters the
names of all candidates, arranged in the order in 
which their petitions
for nominations were filed, except as 
otherwise provided in Sections
7-14 and 7-17 of this Article. 
Opposite and in front of the name of each
candidate shall be 
printed a square and all squares upon the primary
ballot shall 
be of uniform size. The names of each team of candidates for 
Governor and Lieutenant Governor, however, shall be printed 
within a bracket, and a single square shall be printed in front 
of the bracket. Spaces between the names of candidates
under 
each office shall be uniform and sufficient spaces shall 
separate
the names of candidates for one office from the names 
of candidates for
another office, to avoid confusion and to 
permit the writing in of the
names of other candidates.

    Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are 
used, the
provisions of this Section may be modified as 
required or authorized by
Article 24 or Article 24A, whichever 
is applicable.

(Source: P.A. 95-862, eff. 8-19-08; 96-1018, eff. 1-1-11.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-25)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-25)



    Sec. 7-25. 
The tally sheets for each political party 
participating in the
primary election shall be substantially in 
the following form:

    "Tally sheet for ....(name of political party) for the .... 
precinct, in
the county of .... for a primary held on the .... 
day of .... A.D. ....."

    The names of candidates for nomination and for State 
central committeepersons
committeemen, township, and precinct 
and ward committeepersons committeemen, and delegates
and 
alternate delegates to National nominating conventions, shall 
be placed
on the tally sheets of each political party by the 
primary judges, in the
order in which they appear on the 
ballot.

(Source: Laws 1957, p. 1450.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/7-34)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-34)



    Sec. 7-34. Pollwatchers in a primary election shall be 
authorized in
the following manner:

    (1) Each established political party shall be entitled to 
appoint
one pollwatcher per precinct.  Such pollwatchers must be 
affiliated with
the political party for which they are 
pollwatching and must be a registered
voter in Illinois.

    (2) Each candidate shall be entitled to appoint two 
pollwatchers per
precinct.  For Federal, State, county, 
township, and municipal primary elections, the
pollwatchers 
must be registered to vote in Illinois.

    (3) Each organization of citizens within the county or 
political
subdivision, which has among its purposes or 
interests the investigation
or prosecution of election frauds, 
and which shall have registered its
name and address and the 
names and addresses of its principal officers
with the proper 
election authority at least 40 days before the primary

election, shall be entitled to appoint one pollwatcher per 
precinct.
For all primary elections, the pollwatcher must be 
registered to vote in
Illinois.

    (3.5) Each State nonpartisan civic organization within the 
county or political subdivision shall be entitled to appoint 
one pollwatcher per precinct, provided that no more than 2 
pollwatchers appointed by State nonpartisan civic 
organizations shall be present in a precinct polling place at 
the same time.  Each organization shall have registered the 
names and addresses of its principal officers with the proper 
election authority at least 40 days before the primary 
election.  The pollwatchers must be registered to vote in 
Illinois.  For the purpose of this paragraph, a "State 
nonpartisan civic organization" means any corporation, 
unincorporated association, or organization that:
        (i) as part of its written articles of incorporation, 
    bylaws, or charter or by separate written declaration, has 
    among its stated purposes the provision of voter 
    information and education, the protection of individual 
    voters' rights, and the promotion of free and equal 
    elections;
        (ii) is organized or primarily conducts its activities 
    within the State of Illinois; and
        (iii) continuously maintains an office or business 
    location within the State of Illinois, together with a 
    current listed telephone number (a post office box number 
    without a current listed telephone number is not 
    sufficient).

    (4) Each organized group of proponents or opponents of a 
ballot
proposition, which shall have registered the name and 
address of its
organization or committee and the name and 
address of its chair chairman with
the proper election 
authority at least 40 days before the primary
election, shall 
be entitled to appoint one pollwatcher per precinct.  The

pollwatcher must be registered to vote in Illinois.

    (5) In any primary election held to nominate candidates for 
the offices
of a municipality of less than 3,000,000 population 
that is situated in
2 or more counties, a pollwatcher who is a 
resident of a county in which
any part of the municipality is

situated shall be eligible to serve as a pollwatcher in any 
polling place
located within such municipality, provided that 
such pollwatcher otherwise
complies with the respective 
requirements of subsections (1) through (4)
of this Section and 
is a registered voter whose residence is within
Illinois.

    All pollwatchers shall be required to have proper 
credentials.  Such
credentials shall be printed in sufficient 
quantities, shall be issued
by and under the facsimile 
signature(s) of the election authority and
shall be available 
for distribution at least 2 weeks prior to the
election.  Such 
credentials shall be authorized by the real or facsimile

signature of the State or local party official or the candidate 
or the
presiding officer of the civic organization or the chair 
chairman of the
proponent or opponent group, as the case may 
be.

    Pollwatcher credentials shall be in substantially the 
following form:

 

POLLWATCHER CREDENTIALS


TO THE JUDGES OF ELECTION:

    In accordance  with the provisions of the Election Code,
the 
undersigned hereby appoints ........... (name of pollwatcher)

at .......... (address) in the county of ...........,

.......... (township or municipality) of ........... (name), 
State of Illinois
and who is duly registered to vote from this 
address,
to act as a pollwatcher in the ........... precinct of 
the
.......... ward (if applicable) of the ...........

(township or municipality) of ........... at the
........... 
election to be held on (insert date).

........................  (Signature of Appointing Authority)

........................  TITLE  (party official,  candidate,

                                civic organization president,

                        proponent or opponent group 
chair chairman)

    Under penalties provided by law pursuant to Section 29-10 
of the
Election Code, the undersigned pollwatcher certifies 
that he or she resides
at .............. (address) in the 
county of ........., ......... (township
or municipality) of 
.......... (name), State of Illinois, and is duly
registered to 
vote in Illinois.

...........................        ..........................

(Precinct and/or Ward in           (Signature of Pollwatcher)

Which Pollwatcher Resides)

 

    Pollwatchers must present their credentials to the Judges 
of Election
upon entering the polling place.  Pollwatcher 
credentials properly
executed and signed shall be proof of the 
qualifications of the
pollwatcher authorized thereby.  Such 
credentials are retained by the
Judges and returned to the 
Election Authority at the end of the day of election
with the 
other election materials.  Once a pollwatcher has surrendered a

valid credential, he may leave and reenter the polling place 
provided
that such continuing action does not disrupt the 
conduct of the election.
Pollwatchers may be substituted during 
the course of the day, but established
political parties, 
candidates, qualified civic organizations and proponents
and 
opponents of a ballot proposition can have only as many 
pollwatchers
at any given time as are authorized in this 
Article.  A substitute must
present his signed credential to the 
judges of election upon entering the
polling place.  Election 
authorities must provide a sufficient number of
credentials to 
allow for substitution of pollwatchers.
After the polls have 
closed, pollwatchers shall be allowed to
remain until the 
canvass of votes is completed; but may leave and
reenter only 
in cases of necessity, provided that such action is not so

continuous as to disrupt the canvass of votes.

    Candidates seeking office in a district or municipality 
encompassing 2
or more counties shall be admitted to any and 
all polling places throughout
such district or municipality 
without regard to the counties in which such
candidates are 
registered to vote.  Actions of such candidates shall be

governed in each polling place by the same privileges and 
limitations that
apply to pollwatchers as provided in this 
Section.  Any such candidate who
engages in an activity in a 
polling place which could reasonably be
construed by a majority 
of the judges of election as campaign activity
shall be removed 
forthwith from such polling place.

    Candidates seeking office in a district or municipality 
encompassing 2 or
more counties who desire to be admitted to 
polling places on election day
in such district or municipality 
shall be required to have proper
credentials.  Such credentials 
shall be printed in sufficient quantities,
shall be issued by 
and under the facsimile signature of the
election authority of 
the election jurisdiction where the polling place in
which the 
candidate seeks admittance is located, and shall be available 
for
distribution at least 2 weeks prior to the election.  Such 
credentials shall
be signed by the candidate.

    Candidate credentials shall be in substantially the 
following form:

 

CANDIDATE CREDENTIALS


    TO THE JUDGES OF ELECTION:

    In accordance with the provisions of the Election Code, I 
...... (name of
candidate) hereby certify that I am a candidate 
for ....... (name of
office) and seek admittance to ....... 
precinct of the ....... ward (if
applicable) of the ....... 
(township or municipality) of ....... at the
....... election 
to be held on (insert date).

.........................             .......................

(Signature of Candidate)              OFFICE FOR WHICH

                                      CANDIDATE SEEKS

                                      NOMINATION OR

                                      ELECTION

 

    Pollwatchers shall be permitted to observe all proceedings 
and view all reasonably requested records relating
to the 
conduct of the election, provided the secrecy of the ballot is 
not impinged, and to station themselves in a position
in the 
voting room as will enable them to observe the judges making 
the
signature comparison between the voter application and the 
voter
registration record card; provided, however, that such 
pollwatchers
shall not be permitted to station themselves in 
such close proximity to
the judges of election so as to 
interfere with the orderly conduct of
the election and shall 
not, in any event, be permitted to handle
election materials. 
Pollwatchers may challenge for cause the voting
qualifications 
of a person offering to vote and may call to the
attention of 
the judges of election any incorrect procedure or apparent

violations of this Code.

    If a majority of the judges of election determine that the 
polling
place has become too overcrowded with pollwatchers so 
as to interfere
with the orderly conduct of the election, the 
judges shall, by lot,
limit such pollwatchers to a reasonable 
number, except that each
candidate and each established or new 
political party shall be permitted
to have at least one 
pollwatcher present.

    Representatives of an election authority, with regard to an 
election
under its jurisdiction, the State Board of Elections, 
and law
enforcement agencies, including but not limited to a 
United States
Attorney, a State's attorney, the Attorney 
General, and a State, county,
or local police department, in 
the performance of their official
election duties, shall be 
permitted at all times to enter and remain in
the polling 
place.  Upon entering the polling place, such
representatives 
shall display their official credentials or other

identification to the judges of election.

    Uniformed police officers assigned to polling place duty 
shall follow
all lawful instructions of the judges of election.

    The provisions of this Section shall also apply to 
supervised casting of vote by mail
 ballots as provided in 
Section 19-12.2 of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-46)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-46)



    Sec. 7-46. 
On receiving from the primary judges a primary 
ballot of his
party, the primary elector shall forthwith and 
without leaving the polling
place, retire alone to one of the 
voting booths and prepare such primary
ballot by marking a 
cross (X) in the square in front of and opposite the
name of 
each candidate of his choice for each office to be filled, and 
for
delegates and alternate delegates to national nominating 
conventions, and
for committeepersons committeemen, if 
committeepersons committeemen are being elected at such 
primary. A cross (X) in the square in front of the bracket 
enclosing the names of a team of candidates for Governor and 
Lieutenant Governor counts as one vote for each of those 
candidates. 

    Any primary elector may, instead of voting for any 
candidate for
nomination or for committeeperson committeeman 
or for delegate or alternate delegate to
national nominating 
conventions, whose name is printed on the primary
ballot, write 
in the name of any other person affiliated with such party as
a 
candidate for the nomination for any office, or for 
committeeperson committeeman, or for
delegates or alternate 
delegates to national nominating conventions, and
indicate his 
choice of such candidate or committeeperson committeeman or 
delegate or
alternate delegate, by placing to the left of and 
opposite the name thus
written a square and placing in the 
square a cross (X). A primary elector, however, may not by this 
method vote separately for Governor and Lieutenant Governor but 
must write in the names of candidates of his or her choice for 
both offices and indicate his or her choice of those names by 
placing a single square to the left of those names and placing 
in that square a cross (X). 

    Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are 
used, the
provisions of this section may be modified as 
required or authorized by
Article 24 or Article 24A, whichever 
is applicable.

(Source: P.A. 96-1018, eff. 1-1-11.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-51)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-51)



    Sec. 7-51. 
If the primary elector marks more names upon the 
primary
ballot than there are persons to be nominated as 
candidates for an
office, or for State central committeepersons 
committeemen, or precinct committeepersons committeemen, or

township committeepersons committeemen, or ward 
committeepersons committeemen, or delegates or alternate

delegates to National nominating conventions, or if for any 
reason it is
impossible to determine the primary elector's 
choice of a candidate for
the nomination for an office, or 
committeeperson committeeman, or delegate, his primary
ballot 
shall not be counted for the nomination for such office or 
committeeperson
committeeman.

    No primary ballot, without the endorsement of the judge's 
initials
thereon, shall be counted.

    No judge shall omit to endorse his initials on a primary 
ballot, as
required by this Article, nor shall any person not 
authorized so to do
initial a primary ballot knowing that he is 
not so authorized.

    Primary ballots not counted shall be marked "defective" on 
the back
thereof; and primary ballots to which objections have 
been made by
either of the primary judges or challengers shall 
be marked "objected
to" on the back thereof; and a memorandum, 
signed by the primary judges,
stating how it was counted, shall 
be written on the back of each primary
ballot so marked; and 
all primary ballots marked "defective" or
"objected to" shall 
be enclosed in an envelope and securely sealed, and
so marked 
and endorsed as to clearly disclose its contents. The envelope

to be used for enclosing ballots marked "defective" or 
"objected to"
shall bear upon its face, in not less than 1 1/2 
inch type, the legend:
"This envelope is for use after 6:00 
P.M. only." The envelope to be used
for enclosing ballots 
spoiled by voters while attempting to vote shall
bear upon its 
face, in not less than 1 1/2 inch type, the legend: "This

envelope is for use before 6:00 P.M. only."

    All primary ballots not voted, and all that have been 
spoiled by
voters while attempting to vote, shall be returned 
to the proper election authority
by the primary judges, and a 
receipt taken therefor, and shall be
preserved 2 months. Such 
official shall keep a record of the number of
primary ballots 
delivered for each polling place, and he or they shall
also 
enter upon such record the number and character of primary 
ballots
returned, with the time when and the persons by whom 
they are returned.

(Source: P.A. 80-1469.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-53)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-53)



    Sec. 7-53. 
As soon as the ballots of a political party 
shall have
been read and the votes of the political party 
counted, as provided in
the last above section, the 3 judges in 
charge of the tally sheets shall
foot up the tally sheets so as 
to show the total number of votes cast
for each candidate of 
the political party and for each candidate for
State Central 
committeeperson committeeman and precinct committeeperson 
committeeman, township committeeperson
committeeman or ward 
committeeperson committeeman, and delegate and alternate 
delegate
to National nominating conventions, and certify the 
same to be correct.
Thereupon, the primary judges shall set 
down in a certificate of results
on the tally sheet, under the 
name of the political party, the name of
each candidate voted 
for upon the primary ballot, written at full
length, the name 
of the office for which he is a candidate for
nomination or for 
committeeperson committeeman, or delegate or alternate 
delegate to
National nominating conventions, the total number 
of votes which the
candidate received, and they shall also set 
down the total number of
ballots voted by the primary electors 
of the political party in the
precinct.  The certificate of 
results shall be made substantially in the
following form:

................ Party


    At the primary election held in the .... precinct of the 
(1) *township of
...., or (2) *City of ...., or (3) *.... ward 
in the city of .... on (insert
date), the primary electors of 
the ....
party voted .... ballots, and the respective 
candidates whose names were
written or printed on the primary 
ballot of the .... party, received
respectively the following 
votes:


































Name ofNo. of
Candidate,Title of Office,Votes
John JonesGovernor100
Jane James Lieutenant Governor 100 
Sam SmithGovernor70
Samantha Smythe Lieutenant Governor 70 
Frank MartinAttorney General150














William PrestonRep. in Congress200
Frederick JohnCircuit Judge50
    *Fill in either (1), (2) or (3).

    And so on for each candidate.

    We hereby certify the above and foregoing to be true and 
correct.

    Dated (insert date).

...................................


Name                       
                       
Address


...................................


Name                       
                       
Address


...................................


Name                       
                       
Address


...................................


Name                       
                       
Address


...................................


Name                       
                       
Address


       
Judges of Primary
          

 

    Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are 
used, the
provisions of this Section may be modified as 
required or authorized by
Article 24 and Article 24A, whichever 
is applicable.

(Source: P.A. 96-1018, eff. 1-1-11.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-55)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-55)



    Sec. 7-55. 
The primary poll books or the official poll 
record, and the
tally sheets with the certificates of the 
primary judges written thereon,
together with the envelopes 
containing the ballots, including the envelope
containing the 
ballots marked "defective" or "objected to", shall be
carefully 
enveloped and sealed up together, properly endorsed, and the

primary judges shall elect 2 judges (one from each of the major 
political
parties), who shall immediately deliver the same to 
the clerk from whom the
primary ballots were obtained, which 
clerk shall safely keep the same for 2
months, and thereafter 
shall safely keep the poll books until the next
primary.  Each 
election authority shall keep the office of the election

authority, or any receiving stations designated by such 
authority, open
for at least 12 consecutive hours after the 
polls close,
or until the judges of each precinct under the 
jurisdiction of the election
authority have delivered to the 
election authority all the above materials
sealed up together 
and properly endorsed as provided herein.  Materials
delivered 
to the election authority which are not in the condition 
required
by this Section shall not be accepted by the election 
authority until the
judges delivering the same make and sign 
the necessary corrections.  Upon
acceptance of the materials by 
the election authority, the judges delivering
the same shall 
take a receipt signed by the election authority and stamped

with the time and date of
such delivery.  The election judges 
whose duty it is to deliver any materials
as above provided 
shall, in the event such materials cannot be found when
needed, 
on proper request, produce the receipt which they are to take 
as
above provided.

    The county clerk or board of election commissioners shall 
deliver a copy
of each tally sheet to the county chairmen of 
the two largest political
parties.

    Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are 
used, the
provisions of this section may be modified as 
required or authorized by
Article 24 and Article 24A, whichever 
is applicable.

(Source: P.A. 83-764.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-56)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-56)



    Sec. 7-56. As soon as complete returns are delivered to the 
proper election
authority, the returns shall be canvassed for 
all primary elections as follows. The election authority acting 
as the canvassing board
pursuant to Section 1-8 of this Code 
shall also open
and canvass the returns of a primary. Upon the

completion of the canvass of the returns by the election 
authority,
the election authority shall make a tabulated 
statement of the returns
for each political party separately, 
stating in appropriate columns and
under proper headings, the 
total number of votes cast in said county for
each candidate 
for nomination or election by said party, including candidates 
for
President of the United States and for State central 
committeepersons committeemen, and
for delegates and alternate 
delegates to National nominating
conventions, and for precinct 
committeepersons committeemen, township committeepersons 
committeemen, and
for ward committeepersons committeemen. 
Within 2 days after the completion of said
canvass by the 
election authority, the county clerk shall mail to the
State 
Board of Elections a certified copy of such tabulated statement 
of
returns. The
election authority shall also determine and set 
down as to each precinct the
number of ballots voted by the 
primary electors of each party at the primary.

    In the case of the nomination or election of candidates for 
offices,
including President of the United States and the State 
central committeepersons
committeemen, and delegates and 
alternate delegates to National
nominating conventions, 
certified tabulated statement of returns for
which are filed 
with the State Board of Elections, said returns shall be

canvassed by the election authority. And, provided, further, 
that within 5 days after
said returns shall be canvassed by the 
said Board, the Board shall cause
to be published in one daily 
newspaper of general circulation at the
seat of the State 
government in Springfield a certified statement of the
returns 
filed in its office, showing the total vote cast in the State

for each candidate of each political party for President of the 
United
States, and showing the total vote for each candidate of 
each political
party for President of the United States, cast 
in each of the several
congressional districts in the State.

    Within 48 hours of conducting a canvass, as required
by 
this  Code, of the consolidated
primary, the election authority 
shall deliver
an original certificate of results to each local 
election official, with
respect to whose political 
subdivisions nominations were made at such primary,
for each 
precinct in his jurisdiction in which such nominations were on

the ballot. Such original certificate of results need not 
include any offices
or nominations for any other political 
subdivisions.

(Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 94-647, eff. 1-1-06; 
95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-58)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-58)



    Sec. 7-58. Each county  clerk  or  board  of election

commissioners shall, upon completion of the
canvassing of the 
returns, make and transmit to the State Board of
Elections and 
to each election authority whose duty it is to print the

official ballot for the election for which the nomination is 
made a
proclamation of the results of the primary.  The 
proclamation shall state
the name of each candidate of each 
political party so
nominated or elected, as shown by the 
returns, together with the name of
the office for which he or 
she was nominated or elected, including precinct,
township and 
ward committeepersons committeemen, and including in the case 
of the State
Board of Elections, candidates for State central 
committeepersons committeemen, and
delegates and alternate 
delegates to National nominating conventions.  If
a notice of 
contest is filed, the election authority shall, within one

business day after receiving a certified copy of the court's 
judgment or
order, amend its proclamation accordingly and 
proceed to file an amended
proclamation with the appropriate 
election authorities and with the State
Board of Elections.

    The State Board of Elections shall issue a certificate of

election to each of the persons shown by the returns and the

proclamation thereof to be elected State central 
committeepersons committeemen, and
delegates and alternate 
delegates to National nomination conventions;
and the county 
clerk shall issue a certificate of election to each
person 
shown by the returns to be elected precinct, township or ward 
committeeperson
committeeman. The certificate issued to such 
precinct committeeperson committeeman shall
state the number 
of ballots voted in his or her precinct by the primary
electors 
of his or her party at the primary at which he or she was 
elected. The
certificate issued to such township 
committeeperson committeeman shall state the number
of ballots 
voted in his or her township or part of a township, as the case 
may
be, by the primary electors of his or her party at the 
primary at which he or she was
elected. The certificate issued 
to such ward committeeperson committeeman shall state
the 
number of ballots voted in his or her ward by the primary 
electors of his or her
party at the primary at which he or she 
was elected.

(Source: P.A. 94-647, eff. 1-1-06.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-59)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-59)



    Sec. 7-59. (a) The person receiving the highest number of 
votes at a
primary as a candidate of a party for the nomination 
for an office shall
be the candidate of that party for such 
office, and his name as such
candidate shall be placed on the 
official ballot at the election then
next ensuing; provided, 
that where there are two or more persons to be
nominated for 
the same office or board, the requisite number of persons

receiving the highest number of votes shall be nominated and 
their names
shall be placed on the official ballot at the 
following election.

    Except as otherwise provided by Section 7-8 of this Act, 
the
person receiving the highest number of votes of his party 
for
State central committeeperson committeeman of his 
congressional district shall be
declared elected State central 
committeeperson committeeman from said congressional
district.

    Unless a national political party specifies that delegates 
and
alternate delegates to a National nominating convention be 
allocated by
proportional selection representation according 
to the results of a
Presidential preference primary, the 
requisite number of persons
receiving the highest number of 
votes of their party for delegates and
alternate delegates to 
National nominating conventions from the State at
large, and 
the requisite number of persons receiving the highest number of

votes of their party for delegates and alternate delegates to 
National
nominating conventions in their respective 
congressional districts shall be
declared elected delegates 
and alternate delegates to the National
nominating conventions 
of their party.

    A political party which elects the members to its State 
Central Committee
by Alternative B under paragraph (a) of 
Section 7-8 shall select its
congressional district delegates 
and alternate delegates to its national
nominating convention 
by proportional selection representation according to
the 
results of a Presidential preference primary in each 
congressional
district in the manner provided by the rules of 
the national political
party and the State Central Committee, 
when the rules and policies of the
national political party so 
require.

    A political party which elects the members to its State 
Central Committee
by Alternative B under paragraph (a) of 
Section 7-8 shall select its
at large delegates and alternate 
delegates to its national
nominating convention by 
proportional selection representation according to
the results 
of a Presidential preference primary in the whole State in the

manner provided by the rules of the national political party 
and the State
Central Committee, when the rules and policies of 
the national political
party so require.

    The person receiving the highest number of votes of his 
party for
precinct committeeperson committeeman of his 
precinct shall be declared elected precinct committeeperson

committeeman from said precinct.

    The person receiving the highest number of votes of his 
party for
township committeeperson committeeman of his 
township or part of a township as the case
may be, shall be 
declared elected township committeeperson committeeman from 
said
township or part of a township as the case may be. In 
cities where ward committeepersons
committeemen are elected, 
the person receiving the highest number of
votes of his party 
for ward committeeperson committeeman of his ward shall be 
declared
elected ward committeeperson committeeman from said 
ward.

    When two or more persons receive an equal and the highest 
number of
votes for the nomination for the same office or for 
committeeperson committeeman of the
same political party, or 
where more than one person of the same
political party is to be 
nominated as a candidate for office or committeeperson

committeeman, if it appears that more than the number of 
persons to be
nominated for an office or elected 
committeeperson committeeman have the highest and an
equal 
number of votes for the nomination for the same office or for

election as committeeperson committeeman, the election 
authority by which the returns of the primary
are canvassed 
shall decide by lot which of said persons shall be
nominated or 
elected, as the case may be. In such case the election 
authority shall issue notice in writing to such persons of such 
tie vote
stating therein the place, the day (which shall not be 
more than 5 days thereafter) and the hour when such nomination 
or election shall
be so determined.

    (b) Write-in votes shall be counted only for persons who 
have filed
notarized declarations of intent to be write-in 
candidates with the proper
election authority or authorities 
not later than 61 days prior to
 the primary. However, whenever 
an objection to a candidate's nominating papers or petitions 
for any office is sustained under Section 10-10 after the 61st 
day before the election, then write-in votes shall be counted 
for that candidate if he or she has filed a notarized 
declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate for that 
office with the proper election authority or authorities not 
later than 7 days prior to the election.


    Forms for the declaration of intent to be a write-in 
candidate shall be
supplied by the election authorities.  Such 
declaration shall specify the
office for which the person seeks 
nomination or election as a write-in
candidate.

    The election authority or authorities shall deliver a list 
of all persons
who have filed such declarations to the election 
judges in the appropriate
precincts prior to the primary.

    (c) (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this 
Section, where
the number of candidates whose names have been 
printed on a party's
ballot for nomination for or election to 
an office at a primary is less
than the number of persons the 
party is entitled to nominate for or elect
to the office at the 
primary, a person whose name was not printed on the
party's 
primary ballot as a candidate for nomination for or election to 
the
office, is not nominated for or elected to that office as a 
result of a
write-in vote at the primary unless the number of 
votes he received equals
or exceeds the number of signatures 
required on a petition for nomination
for that office; or 
unless the number of votes he receives exceeds the
number of 
votes received by at least one of the candidates whose names 
were
printed on the primary ballot for nomination for or 
election to the same
office.

    (2) Paragraph (1) of this subsection does not apply where 
the number
of candidates whose names have been printed on the 
party's  ballot for
nomination for or election to the office at 
the primary equals or exceeds
the number of persons the party 
is entitled to nominate for or elect to the
office at the 
primary.

(Source: P.A. 94-647, eff. 1-1-06; 95-699, eff. 11-9-07.)

 




    (10 ILCS 5/7-60)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-60)



    Sec. 7-60. Not less than 74 days before the date of the 
general
election, the State Board of Elections shall certify to 
the county clerks
the names of each of the candidates who have 
been nominated as shown by the
proclamation of the State Board 
of Elections as a canvassing board or who
have been nominated 
to fill a vacancy in nomination and direct the election

authority to place upon the official ballot for the general 
election the
names of such candidates in the same manner and in 
the same order as shown
upon the certification, except as 
otherwise provided in this Section.

    Not less than 68 days before the date of the general 
election, each
county clerk shall certify the names of each of 
the candidates for county
offices who have been nominated as 
shown by the proclamation of the county
election authority or 
who have been nominated to fill a vacancy in nomination
and 
declare that the names of such candidates for the respective 
offices
shall be placed upon the official ballot for the 
general election in the
same manner and in the same order as 
shown upon the certification, except
as otherwise provided by 
this Section.  Each county clerk shall place a
copy of the 
certification on file in his or her office and at the same
time 
issue to the State Board of Elections a copy of such 
certification.
In addition, each county clerk in whose county 
there is a board of election
commissioners shall, not less than 
68 days before the date of the general
election, issue to such 
board a copy of the certification that has been
filed in the 
county clerk's office, together with a copy of the

certification that has been issued to the clerk by the State 
Board of
Elections, with directions to the board of election 
commissioners to place
upon the official ballot for the general 
election in that election
jurisdiction the names of all 
candidates that are listed on such
certifications, in the same 
manner and in the same order as shown upon such
certifications, 
except as otherwise provided in this Section.

    Whenever there are two or more persons nominated by the 
same political
party for multiple offices for any board, the 
name of the candidate of such
party receiving the highest 
number of votes in the primary election as a
candidate for such 
office, as shown by the official election returns of the

primary, shall be certified first under the name of such 
offices, and the
names of the remaining candidates of such 
party for such offices shall
follow in the order of the number 
of votes received by them respectively at
the primary election 
as shown by the official election results.

    No person who is shown by the final

proclamation to have

been nominated or elected at the primary as a write-in 
candidate shall have his or her
name certified unless such 
person shall have filed with the certifying
office or board 
within 10 days after the election authority's proclamation
a 
statement of candidacy pursuant to Section 7-10, a statement 
pursuant
to Section 7-10.1, and a receipt for the filing of a 
statement of economic interests in relation to the unit of 
government to which he or she has been elected or nominated.


    Each county clerk and board of election commissioners shall 
determine
by a fair and impartial method of random selection 
the order of placement
of established political party 
candidates for the general election ballot.
Such determination 
shall be made within 30 days following the canvass and 
proclamation
of the results of the general primary
in the 
office of the county clerk or board of election commissioners 
and
shall be open to the public.  Seven days written notice of 
the time and place
of conducting such random selection shall be 
given, by each such election
authority, to the County Chair 
Chairman of each established political party, and
to each 
organization of citizens within the election jurisdiction 
which
was entitled, under this Article, at the next preceding 
election, to have
pollwatchers present on the day of election.  
Each election authority shall
post in a conspicuous, open and 
public place, at the entrance of the election
authority office, 
notice of the time and place of such lottery.  However,
a board 
of election commissioners may elect to place established 
political
party candidates on the general election ballot in 
the same order determined
by the county clerk of the county in 
which the city under the jurisdiction
of such board is located.

    Each certification shall indicate, where applicable, the 
following:

        (1) The political party affiliation of the candidates 
    for the respective offices;

        (2) If there is to be more than one candidate elected 
    to an office from
the State, political subdivision or 
    district;

        (3) If the voter has the right to vote for more than 
    one candidate for an office;

        (4) The term of office, if a vacancy is to be filled 
    for less than a
full term or if the offices to be filled in 
    a political subdivision are for
different terms.

    The State Board of Elections or the county clerk, as the 
case may be,
shall issue an amended certification whenever it 
is discovered that the
original certification is in error.

(Source: P.A. 96-1008, eff. 7-6-10.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/7-60.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 7-60.1)



    Sec. 7-60.1. Certification of Candidates - Consolidated 
Election. 
Each local election official of a political 
subdivision in which candidates
for the respective local 
offices are nominated at the consolidated primary
shall, no 
later than 5 days following the canvass and proclamation of the

results of the consolidated primary, certify to each election 
authority
whose duty it is to prepare the official ballot for 
the consolidated
election in that political subdivision the 
names of each of the candidates
who have been nominated as 
shown by the proclamation of the appropriate election authority 
or who have been nominated to fill a vacancy in nomination
and 
direct the election authority to place upon the official ballot 
for the
consolidated election the names of such candidates in 
the same manner and
in the same order as shown upon the 
certification, except as otherwise
provided by this Section.

    Whenever there are two or more persons nominated by the 
same political
party for multiple offices for any board, the 
name of the candidate of such
party receiving the highest 
number of votes in the consolidated primary
election as a 
candidate for such consolidated primary, shall be certified

first under the name of such office, and the names of the 
remaining
candidates of such party for such offices shall 
follow in the order of the
number of votes received by them 
respectively at the consolidated primary
election as shown by 
the official election results.

    No person who is shown by the election authority's 
proclamation to have
been nominated at the consolidated primary 
as a write-in candidate shall
have his or her name certified 
unless such person shall have filed with the
certifying office 
or board within 5 days after the election authority's


proclamation a statement of candidacy pursuant to Section 7-10 
and a
statement pursuant to Section 7-10.1.

    Each board of election commissioners of the cities in which 
established
political party candidates for city offices are 
nominated at the
consolidated primary shall determine by a fair 
and impartial method of
random selection the order of placement 
of the established political party
candidates for the 
consolidated ballot.  Such determination shall be made
within 5 
days following the canvass and proclamation of the results of 
the
consolidated primary and shall be open to the public.  Three 
days written
notice of the time and place of conducting such 
random selection shall be
given, by each such election 
authority, to the County Chair Chairman of each
established 
political party, and to each organization of citizens within

the election jurisdiction which was entitled, under this 
Article, at the
next preceding election, to have pollwatchers 
present on the day of
election.  Each election authority shall 
post in a conspicuous, open and
public place, at the entrance 
of the election authority office, notice of
the time and place 
of such lottery.

    Each local election official of a political subdivision in 
which
established political party candidates for the 
respective local offices are
nominated by primary shall 
determine by a fair and impartial method of
random selection 
the order of placement of the established political party

candidates for the consolidated election ballot and, in the 
case of certain
municipalities having annual elections, on the 
general primary ballot for
election.  Such determination shall 
be made prior to the canvass and
proclamation of results of the 
consolidated primary or special municipal
primary, as the case 
may be, in the office of the local election official and
shall 
be open to the public.  Three days written notice of the time 
and
place of conducting such random selection shall be given, 
by each such
local election official, to the County Chair 
Chairman of each established
political party, and to each 
organization of citizens within the election
jurisdiction 
which was entitled, under this Article, at the next preceding

election, to have pollwatchers present on the day of election.  
Each local
election official shall post in a conspicuous, open 
and public place notice of
such lottery.  Immediately 
thereafter, the local election official shall
certify the 
ballot placement order so determined to the proper election

authorities charged with the preparation of the consolidated 
election, or
general primary,
ballot for that political 
subdivision.

    Not less than 68 days before the date of the consolidated 
election, each
local election official of a political 
subdivision in which established
political party candidates 
for the respective local offices have been
nominated by caucus 
or have been nominated because no primary was required
to be 
held shall certify to each election authority whose duty it is 
to
prepare the official ballot for the consolidated election in 
that political
subdivision the names of each of the candidates 
whose certificates of
nomination or nomination papers have been 
filed in his or her office and
direct the election authority to 
place upon the official ballot for the
consolidated election 
the names of such candidates in the same manner and
in the same 
order as shown upon the certification.  Such local election

official shall, prior to certification, determine by a fair and 
impartial
method of random selection the order of placement of 
the established
political party candidates for the 
consolidated election ballot.  Such
determination shall be made 
in the office of the local election official
and shall be open 
to the public.  Three days written notice of the time and
place 
of conducting such random selection shall be given by each such 
local
election official to the county chair chairman of each 
established political
party, and to each organization of 
citizens within the election
jurisdiction which was entitled, 
under this Article, at the next preceding
election, to have 
pollwatchers present on the day of election.  Each local

election official shall post in a conspicuous, open and public 
place, at the
entrance of the office, notice of the time and 
place of such lottery.  The
local election official shall 
certify the ballot placement order so
determined as part of his 
official certification of candidates to the
election 
authorities whose duty it is to prepare the official ballot for

the consolidated election in that political subdivision.

    The certification shall indicate, where applicable, the 
following:

        (1) The political party affiliation of the candidates 
    for the respective offices;

        (2) If there is to be more than one candidate elected 
    or nominated to an
office from the State, political 
    subdivision or district;

        (3) If the voter has the right to vote for more than 
    one candidate for an office;

        (4) The term of office, if a vacancy is to be filled 
    for less than a
full term or if the offices to be filled in 
    a political subdivision or
district are for different 
    terms.

    The local election official shall issue an amended 
certification whenever
it is discovered that the original 
certification is in error.

(Source: P.A. 96-1008, eff. 7-6-10.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/8-5)  (from Ch. 46, par. 8-5)



    Sec. 8-5. 
There shall be constituted one legislative 
committee for each
political party in each legislative district 
and one representative committee
for each political party in 
each representative district. Legislative and
representative 
committees shall be composed as follows:

    In legislative or representative districts within or 
including a portion
of any county containing 2,000,000 or more 
inhabitants, the legislative
or representative committee of a

political party shall consist of the committeepersons 
committeemen of such party
representing each township or ward 
of such county any portion of which
township or ward is 
included within such legislative or representative
district 
and the chair
chairman of each county central committee of such 
party of any county
containing less than 2,000,000 inhabitants 
any portion of which county
is included within such legislative 
or representative district.

    In the remainder of the State, the legislative or 
representative committee
of a political
party shall consist of 
the chair chairman of each county central committee of
such 
party, any portion of which county is included within such

legislative or representative district; but if a legislative or 
representative
district comprises only one
county, or part of a 
county, its legislative or representative committee
shall 
consist of
the chair chairman of the county central committee 
and 2 members of the county
central committee who reside in the 
legislative or representative district,
as the case may be, 
elected by the county central committee.

    Within 180 days after the primary of the even-numbered year 
immediately
following the decennial redistricting required by 
Section 3 of Article IV
of the Illinois Constitution of 1970, 
the ward committeepersons committeemen, township 
committeepersons
committeemen or chairmen of county central 
committees within each of the
redistricted legislative and 
representative districts shall meet and
proceed to organize by 
electing from among their own number a chair chairman and,

either from among their own number or otherwise, such other 
officers as
they may deem necessary or expedient.  The ward 
committeepersons committeemen, township committeepersons

committeemen or chairmen of county central committees shall 
determine the
time and place (which shall be in the limits of 
such district) of such
meeting.  Immediately upon completion of 
organization, the chair chairman shall
forward to the State 
Board of Elections the names and addresses of the chair

chairman and secretary of the committee.  A vacancy shall occur 
when a
member dies, resigns or ceases to reside in the county, 
township or ward
which he represented.

    Within 180 days after the primary of each other 
even-numbered year, each
legislative committee and 
representative committee shall meet and proceed
to organize by 
electing from among its own number a chair chairman, and either

from its own number or otherwise, such other officers as each 
committee
may deem necessary or expedient. Immediately upon 
completion of
organization, the chair chairman shall forward to 
the State Board of
Elections, the names and addresses of the 
chair chairman and secretary of the
committee. The outgoing 
chair chairman of such committee shall notify the
members of 
the time and place (which shall be in the limits of such

district) of such meeting. A vacancy shall occur when a member 
dies,
resigns, or ceases to reside in the county, township or 
ward, which he
represented.

    If any change is made in the boundaries of any precinct, 
township or
ward, the committeeperson committeeman previously 
elected therefrom shall continue to
serve, as if no boundary 
change had occurred, for the purpose of acting
as a member of a 
legislative or representative committee until his successor
is 
elected or appointed.

(Source: P.A. 84-352.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/8-6)  (from Ch. 46, par. 8-6)



    Sec. 8-6. 
In legislative or representative districts 
wholly contained
within counties having 2,000,000
or more 
inhabitants each member of each legislative or representative

committee shall in its
organization and proceedings be entitled 
to
one vote for each ballot voted in that portion of his 
township or ward in
the legislative or representative district 
by the primary electors of
his party at the last
primary at 
which members of the General Assembly were nominated. If a 
portion
of the legislative or representative district is within 
a county containing
2,000,000 or more inhabitants then each 
legislative or representative
committee member shall be 
entitled to vote as follows:  (a) in the portion
of the district 
lying within a county of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants,
each 
committeeperson committeeman shall be entitled to one vote for 
each ballot voted in
that portion of his township or ward in 
the legislative or representative
district by primary electors 
of his party at the last primary at which
township or ward 
committeepersons committeemen were elected; (b)  in the portion 
of the
district lying outside a county of 2,000,000 or more 
inhabitants, each chair
chairman of a county central committee 
shall be entitled to one vote for
each ballot voted in that 
portion of his county in the legislative or
representative 
district by the primary electors of his party at the last

primary at which members of the General Assembly were 
nominated. In the
remainder of the State, each member shall be 
entitled to cast one vote for
each ballot voted in that portion 
of his county in the legislative or
representative district by 
the primary electors of his party at the last
primary at which 
members of the General Assembly were nominated. However,
in 
counties under 2,000,000 population, if the legislative or

representative district comprises only one county, or part of a 
county,
each legislative or representative committee member 
shall be entitled to cast one vote.

(Source: P.A. 84-1308.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/8-7)  (from Ch. 46, par. 8-7)



    Sec. 8-7. 
The various political party committees now in 
existence are
hereby recognized and shall exercise the powers 
and perform the duties
herein prescribed until 
committeepersons committeemen are chosen, in accordance with 
the
provisions of this article.

(Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/9-1.3)  (from Ch. 46, par. 9-1.3)



    Sec. 9-1.3. 
"Candidate" means any person who seeks 
nomination for election,
election to or retention in public 
office, or any person who seeks election
as ward or township 
committeeperson committeeman in counties of 3,000,000 or more 
population,
whether or not such person is elected. A person 
seeks nomination for election,
election or retention if he (1) 
takes the action necessary under the laws of
this State to 
attempt to qualify for nomination for election, election to or

retention in public office or election as ward or township 
committeeperson committeeman in
counties of 3,000,000 or more 
population, or (2) receives contributions or
makes 
expenditures, or gives consent for any other person to receive

contributions or make expenditures with a view to bringing 
about his
nomination for election or election to or retention 
in public
office, or his or her election as ward or township 
committeeperson committeeman in counties
of 3,000,000 or more 
population.

(Source: P.A. 89-405, eff. 11-8-95.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/9-1.8)
  (from Ch. 46, par. 9-1.8)




    Sec. 9-1.8. Political committees. 
    (a)                        "Political committee" includes a candidate political 
committee, a political party committee, a political action 
committee, a ballot initiative committee, and an independent 
expenditure committee.
    (b)                        "Candidate political committee" means the candidate 
himself or herself  or any natural person, trust, partnership, 
corporation, or other organization or group of persons 
designated by the candidate that accepts contributions or makes 
expenditures during any 12-month period in an aggregate amount 
exceeding $5,000 on behalf of the candidate.
    (c)                        "Political party committee" means the State central 
committee of a political party, a county central committee of a 
political party, a legislative caucus committee, or a committee 
formed by a ward or township committeeperson committeeman of a 
political party. For purposes of this Article, a "legislative 
caucus  committee" means a committee established for the purpose 
of electing candidates to the General Assembly by the person 
elected President of the Senate, Minority Leader of the Senate, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Minority Leader of the 
House of Representatives, or a committee established by 5 or 
more members of the same caucus of the Senate or 10 or more 
members of the same caucus of the House of Representatives.
    (d)                        "Political action committee" means any natural person, 
trust, partnership, committee, association, corporation, or 
other organization or group of persons, other than a candidate, 
political party, candidate political committee, or political 
party committee, that accepts contributions or makes 
expenditures during any 12-month period in an aggregate amount 
exceeding $5,000 on behalf of or in opposition to a candidate 
or candidates for public office.  "Political action committee" 
includes any natural person, trust, partnership, committee, 
association, corporation, or other organization or group of 
persons, other than a candidate, political party, candidate 
political committee, or political party committee, that makes 
electioneering communications during any 12-month period in an 
aggregate amount exceeding $5,000 related to any candidate or 
candidates for public office.
    (e)                        "Ballot initiative committee" means any natural 
person, trust, partnership, committee, association, 
corporation, or other organization or group of persons  that 
accepts contributions or makes expenditures during any 
12-month period in an aggregate amount exceeding $5,000 in 
support of or in opposition to any question of public policy to 
be submitted to the electors. "Ballot initiative committee" 
includes any natural person, trust, partnership, committee, 
association, corporation, or other organization or group of 
persons that makes electioneering communications during any 
12-month period in an aggregate amount exceeding $5,000 related 
to any question of public policy to be submitted to the voters. 
The $5,000 threshold applies to any contributions or 
expenditures received or made with the purpose of securing a 
place on the ballot for, advocating the defeat or passage of, 
or engaging in electioneering communication regarding the 
question of public policy, regardless of the method of 
initiation of the question of public policy and regardless of 
whether petitions have been circulated or filed with the 
appropriate office or whether the question has been adopted and 
certified by the governing body. 
    (f) "Independent expenditure committee" means any trust, 
partnership, committee, association, corporation, or other 
organization or group of persons  formed for the exclusive

purpose of making independent expenditures during any 12-month 
period in an aggregate amount exceeding $5,000 in support of or 
in opposition to (i) the nomination for election, election, 
retention, or defeat of any public official or candidate or 
(ii) any question of public policy to be submitted to the 
electors. "Independent expenditure committee" also includes 
any trust, partnership, committee, association, corporation, 
or other organization or group of persons that makes 
electioneering communications that are not made in connection, 
consultation, or concert with or at the request or suggestion 
of a public official or candidate, a public official's or 
candidate's designated political committee or campaign, or an 
agent or agents of the public official, candidate, or political 
committee or campaign during any 12-month period in an 
aggregate amount exceeding $5,000 related to (i) the nomination 
for election, election, retention, or defeat of any public 
official or candidate or (ii) any question of public policy to 
be submitted to the voters. 





(Source: P.A. 97-766, eff. 7-6-12; 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/9-2)  (from Ch. 46, par. 9-2)





    Sec. 9-2. Political committee designations. 
    (a) Every political committee shall be designated as a (i)  
candidate political committee, (ii) political party committee, 
(iii) political action committee, (iv) ballot initiative 
committee, or (v) independent expenditure committee.
    (b)  Beginning January 1, 2011, no public official or 
candidate for public office may maintain or establish more than 
one candidate political committee for each office that public 
official or candidate holds or is seeking. The name of each 
candidate political committee shall identify the name of the 
public official or candidate supported by the candidate 
political committee. If a candidate establishes separate 
candidate political  committees for each public office, the name 
of each candidate political committee shall also include the 
public office to which the candidate seeks nomination for 
election, election, or retention. If a candidate establishes 
one candidate political committee for multiple offices elected 
at different elections, then the candidate shall designate an 
election cycle, as defined in Section 9-1.9, for purposes of 
contribution limitations and reporting requirements set forth 
in this Article.
No political committee, other than a candidate 
political committee, may include the name of a candidate in its 
name.
    (c)  Beginning January 1, 2011, no State central committee 
of a political party, county central committee of a political 
party, committee formed by a ward or township committeeperson 
committeeman, or committee established for the purpose of 
electing candidates to the General Assembly may maintain or 
establish more than one political party committee. The name of 
the committee must include the name of the political party.
    (d) Beginning January 1, 2011, no natural person, trust, 
partnership, committee, association, corporation, or other 
organization or group of persons forming a political action 
committee shall maintain or establish more than one political 
action committee. The name of a political action committee must 
include the name of the entity forming the committee. This 
subsection does not apply to independent expenditure 
committees.
    (e) Beginning January 1, 2011, the name of a ballot 
initiative committee must include words describing the 
question of public policy and whether the group supports or 
opposes the question. 
    (f) Every political committee shall designate a chair 
chairman
and a treasurer.  The same person may serve as both 
chair chairman and
treasurer of any political committee.
A 
candidate who administers his own campaign contributions and

expenditures shall be deemed a political committee for purposes 
of this
Article and shall designate himself as chair chairman, 
treasurer, or both chair
chairman and treasurer of such 
political committee. The treasurer of a
political committee 
shall be responsible for keeping the records and
filing the 
statements and reports required by this Article.

    (g) No contribution and no expenditure shall be accepted or 
made by or on
behalf of a political committee at a time when 
there is a vacancy in the
office of chair chairman or treasurer 
thereof. No expenditure shall be made
for or on behalf of a 
political committee without the authorization of
its chair 
chairman or treasurer, or their designated agents.

    (h) For purposes of implementing the changes made by this 
amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, every political 
committee in existence on the effective date of this amendatory 
Act of the 96th General Assembly shall make the designation 
required by this Section by December 31, 2010. 
(Source: P.A. 96-832, eff. 7-1-10; 97-766, eff. 7-6-12.)

 
    (10 ILCS 5/9-8.10)

    Sec. 9-8.10. Use of political committee and other reporting 
organization
funds.


    (a) A political committee shall
not
make
expenditures:


        (1) In violation of any law of the United States or of 
    this State.


        (2) Clearly in excess of the fair market value of the 
    services,
materials, facilities,
or other things of value 
    received in exchange.


        (3) For satisfaction or repayment of any debts other 
    than loans made to
the
committee or to the public official 
    or candidate on behalf of the committee or
repayment of 
    goods
and services purchased by the committee under a 
    credit
agreement.  Nothing in this Section authorizes the 
    use of campaign funds to
repay personal loans.  The 
    repayments shall be made by check written to the
person who 
    made the loan or credit agreement.  The terms and conditions 
    of any
loan or credit agreement to a
committee shall be set 
    forth in a written agreement, including but not limited
to 
    the
method and
amount of repayment, that shall be executed 
    by the chair chairman or treasurer of the
committee at the 
    time of the loan or credit agreement.  The loan or agreement

    shall also
set forth the rate of interest for the loan, if 
    any, which may not
substantially exceed the
prevailing 
    market interest rate at the time the agreement is executed.


        (4) For the satisfaction or repayment of any debts or 
    for the payment of
any expenses relating to a personal 
    residence.
Campaign funds may not be used as collateral for 
    home mortgages.


        (5) For clothing or personal laundry expenses, except 
    clothing items
rented by
the public official or candidate

    for his or her own use exclusively for a specific 
    campaign-related event,
provided that
committees may 
    purchase costumes, novelty items, or other accessories 
    worn
primarily to
advertise the candidacy.


        (6) For the travel expenses of
any person unless the 
    travel is necessary for fulfillment of political,

    governmental, or public policy duties, activities, or 
    purposes.


        (7) For membership or club dues charged by 
    organizations, clubs, or
facilities that
are primarily 
    engaged in providing health, exercise, or recreational 
    services;
provided,
however, that funds received under 
    this Article may be used to rent the clubs
or facilities

    for a specific campaign-related event.


        (8) In payment for anything of value or for 
    reimbursement of any
expenditure for
which any person has 
    been reimbursed by the State or any person.
For purposes of 
    this item (8), a per diem allowance is not a reimbursement.


        (9) For the purchase of or installment payment for a 
    motor vehicle unless
the political committee can 
    demonstrate that purchase of a motor vehicle is
more 
    cost-effective than leasing a motor vehicle as permitted 
    under this item
(9).  A political committee may lease or 
    purchase and insure, maintain, and
repair a motor vehicle 
    if the vehicle will be used primarily for campaign
purposes 
    or
for the performance of governmental duties.  A committee

    shall not make expenditures for use of the vehicle for 
    non-campaign or
non-governmental purposes.  Persons using 
    vehicles not purchased or leased by a
political committee 
    may be reimbursed for actual mileage for the use of the

    vehicle for campaign purposes or for the performance of 
    governmental duties.
The mileage reimbursements shall be 
    made at a rate not to exceed the standard
mileage rate 
    method for computation of business expenses under the 
    Internal
Revenue Code.


        (10) Directly for an individual's tuition or other 
    educational expenses,
except for governmental or political 
    purposes directly related to a candidate's
or public 
    official's duties and responsibilities.


        (11) For payments to a public official or candidate or 
    his or her
family member unless
for compensation for 
    services actually rendered by that person.
The provisions 
    of this item (11) do not apply to expenditures by a

    political committee in an aggregate
amount not exceeding 
    the amount of funds reported to and certified by the State

    Board or county clerk as available as of June 30, 1998, in 
    the semi-annual
report of
contributions and expenditures 
    filed by the
political committee for the period concluding 
    June 30, 1998.


    (b) The Board shall have the authority to investigate, upon

receipt of a verified complaint, violations of the provisions 
of this Section.
The Board may levy a fine
on any person who 
knowingly makes expenditures in violation of this Section and

on any person who knowingly makes a malicious and false 
accusation of a
violation of this Section.
The Board may act 
under this subsection only upon the affirmative vote of at

least 5 of its members.  The fine shall not
exceed $500 for each 
expenditure of $500 or less and shall not exceed the
amount of 
the
expenditure plus $500 for each expenditure greater than 
$500.  The Board shall
also
have the authority
to render rulings 
and issue opinions relating to compliance with this
Section.


    (c) Nothing in this Section prohibits the expenditure of 
funds of a
political
committee controlled by an officeholder or 
by a candidate to defray the customary and reasonable expenses 
of an
officeholder in
connection with the performance of 
governmental and public service functions.


    (d) Nothing in this Section prohibits the funds of a 
political committee which is controlled by a person convicted 
of a violation of any of the offenses listed in subsection (a) 
of Section 10 of the Public Corruption Profit Forfeiture Act 
from being forfeited to the State under Section 15 of the 
Public Corruption Profit Forfeiture Act. 
(Source: P.A. 96-1019, eff. 1-1-11.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/9-11)  (from Ch. 46, par. 9-11)



    Sec. 9-11. Financial reports. 
    (a) Each quarterly report of campaign contributions, 
expenditures, and independent expenditures under Section 9-10 
shall disclose the following:
        (1) the name and address of the political committee;
        (2) the name and address of the person submitting the 
    report on behalf of the committee, if other than the chair 
    chairman or treasurer;
        (3) the amount of funds on hand at the beginning of the 
    reporting period;
        (4) the full name and mailing address of each person 
    who has made one or more contributions to or for the 
    committee within the reporting period in an aggregate 
    amount or value in excess of $150, together with the 
    amounts and dates of those contributions, and, if the 
    contributor is an individual who contributed more than 
    $500, the occupation and employer of the contributor or, if 
    the occupation and employer of the contributor are unknown, 
    a statement that the committee has made a good faith effort 
    to ascertain this information;
        (5) the total sum of individual contributions made to 
    or for the committee during the reporting period and not 
    reported under item (4);
        (6) the name and address of each political committee 
    from which the reporting committee received, or to which 
    that committee made, any transfer of funds in the aggregate 
    amount or value in excess of $150, together with the 
    amounts and dates of all transfers;
        (7) the total sum of transfers made to or from the 
    committee during the reporting period and not reported 
    under item (6);
        (8) each loan to or from any person, political 
    committee, or financial institution within the reporting 
    period by or to the committee in an aggregate amount or 
    value in excess of $150, together with the full names and 
    mailing addresses of the lender and endorsers, if any; the 
    dates and amounts of the loans; and, if a lender or 
    endorser is an individual who loaned or endorsed a loan of 
    more than $500, the occupation and employer of that 
    individual or, if the occupation and employer of the 
    individual are unknown, a statement that the committee has 
    made a good faith effort to ascertain this information;
        (9) the total amount of proceeds received by the 
    committee from (i) the sale of tickets for each dinner, 
    luncheon, cocktail party, rally, and other fund-raising 
    events; (ii) mass collections made at those events; and 
    (iii) sales of items such as political campaign pins, 
    buttons, badges, flags, emblems, hats, banners, 
    literature, and similar materials;
        (10) each contribution, rebate, refund, income from 
    investments, or other receipt in excess of $150 received by 
    the committee not otherwise listed under items (4) through 
    (9) and, if the contributor is an individual who 
    contributed more than $500, the occupation and employer of 
    the contributor or, if the occupation and employer of the 
    contributor are unknown, a statement that the committee has 
    made a good faith effort to ascertain this information;
        (11) the total sum of all receipts by or for the 
    committee or candidate during the reporting period;
        (12) the full name and mailing address of each person 
    to whom expenditures have been made by the committee or 
    candidate within the reporting period in an aggregate 
    amount or value in excess of $150; the amount, date, and 
    purpose of each of those expenditures; and the question of 
    public policy or the name and address of, and the office 
    sought by, each candidate on whose behalf that expenditure 
    was made;
        (13) the full name and mailing address of each person 
    to whom an expenditure for personal services, salaries, and 
    reimbursed expenses in excess of $150 has been made and 
    that is not otherwise reported, including the amount, date, 
    and purpose of the expenditure;
        (14) the value of each asset held as an investment, as 
    of the final day of the reporting period; 
        (15) the total sum of expenditures made by the 
    committee during the reporting period; and
        (16) the full name and mailing address of each person 
    to whom the committee owes debts or obligations in excess 
    of $150 and the amount of those debts or obligations. 
    For purposes of reporting campaign receipts and expenses, 
income from investments shall be included as receipts during 
the reporting period they are actually received. The gross 
purchase price of each investment shall be reported as an 
expenditure at time of purchase. Net proceeds from the sale of 
an investment shall be reported as a receipt.  During the period 
investments are held they shall be identified by name and 
quantity of security or instrument on each semi-annual report 
during the period. 
    (b) Each report of a campaign contribution of $1,000 or 
more required under subsection (c) of Section 9-10
shall 
disclose the following:

        (1) the name and address of the political committee;

        (2) the name and address of the person submitting  the 
    report on behalf of the committee, if other than the chair 
    chairman or treasurer; and 


        (3) the full name and mailing address of each person 
    who has made a contribution of $1,000 or more.








    (c) Each quarterly report shall include the following 
information regarding any independent expenditures made during 
the reporting period: (1) the full name and mailing address of 
each person to whom an expenditure in excess of $150 has been 
made in connection with an independent expenditure; (2) the 
amount, date, and purpose of such expenditure; (3) a statement 
whether the independent expenditure was in support of or in 
opposition to a particular candidate; (4) the name of the 
candidate;

(5) the office and, when applicable, district, 
sought by the candidate; and (6) a certification, under penalty 
of perjury, that such expenditure was not made in cooperation, 
consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion 
of, any candidate or any authorized committee or agent of such 
committee. The report shall also include (I) the total of all 
independent expenditures of $150 or less made during the 
reporting period and (II) the total amount of all independent 
expenditures made during the reporting period. 
    (d) The Board shall by rule define a "good faith effort".

    The reports of campaign contributions filed under this 
Article shall be
cumulative during the reporting period to 
which they relate.

    (e) Each report shall be verified, dated, and signed by 
either the treasurer of the political committee or the 
candidate on whose behalf the report is filed and shall contain 
the following verification:
    "I declare that this report (including any accompanying 
schedules and statements) has been examined by me and, to the 
best of my knowledge and belief, is a true, correct, and 
complete report as required by Article 9 of the Election Code. 
I understand that willfully filing a false or incomplete 
statement is subject to a civil penalty of up to $5,000.". 
    (f) A political committee may amend a report filed under 
subsection (a) or (b). The Board may reduce or waive a fine if 
the amendment is due to a technical or inadvertent error and 
the political committee files the amended report, except that a 
report filed under subsection (b) must be amended within 5 
business days.  The State Board shall ensure that a description 
of the amended information is available to the public. The 
Board may promulgate rules to enforce this subsection. 
(Source: P.A. 96-832, eff. 1-1-11.)

 
    (10 ILCS 5/9-15)  (from Ch. 46, par. 9-15)
    Sec. 9-15. It shall be the duty of the Board-
        (1) to develop prescribed forms for filing statements 
    of organization and required reports;
        (2) to prepare, publish, and furnish to the appropriate 
    persons a manual of instructions setting forth recommended

    uniform methods of bookkeeping and reporting under this 
    Article;
        (3) to prescribe suitable rules and regulations to 
    carry out the
provisions of this Article. Such rules and 
    regulations shall be published
and made available to the 
    public;
        (4) to send by first class mail, after the general 
    primary election in
even numbered years, to the chair 
    chairman of each regularly constituted
State central 
    committee, county central committee and, in counties with a

    population of more than 3,000,000, to the committeepersons 
    committeemen of each township and
ward organization of each 
    political party notice of their obligations under
this 
    Article, along with a form for filing the statement of 
    organization;
        (5) to promptly make all reports and statements filed 
    under this Article available for public inspection and 
    copying no later than 2 business days after their receipt 
    and to permit copying of any such report or statement at 
    the expense of the person requesting the copy;
        (6) to develop a filing, coding, and cross-indexing 
    system consistent with the purposes of this Article;
        (7) to compile and maintain a list of all statements or 
    parts of statements pertaining to each candidate;
        (8) to prepare and publish such reports as the Board 
    may deem appropriate;
        (9) to annually notify each political committee that 
    has filed a statement of organization with the Board of the 
    filing dates for each quarterly report, provided that such 
    notification shall be made by first-class mail unless the 
    political committee opts to receive notification 
    electronically via email; and
        (10) to promptly send, by first class mail directed 
    only to the officers of a political committee, and by 
    certified mail to the address of the political committee, 
    written notice of any fine or penalty assessed or imposed 
    against the political committee under this Article. 
(Source: P.A. 96-1263, eff. 1-1-11; 97-766, eff. 7-6-12.)
 



    (10 ILCS 5/9-20)  (from Ch. 46, par. 9-20)



    Sec. 9-20. 
Any person who believes a violation of this 
Article has occurred may
file a verified complaint with the 
Board. Such verified complaint shall be
directed to a candidate 
or the chair chairman or treasurer of a political
committee, 
and shall be subject to the following requirements:

    (1) The complaint shall be in writing.

    (2) The complaint shall state the name of the candidate or 
chair chairman or
treasurer of a political committee against 
whom the complaint is directed.

    (3) The complaint shall state the statutory provisions 
which are alleged
to have been violated.

    (4) The complaint shall state the time, place, and nature 
of the alleged
offense.

    The complaint shall be verified, dated, and signed by the 
person filing
the complaint in substantially the following 
manner:
VERIFICATION:

    "I declare that this complaint (including any accompanying 
schedules and
statements) has been examined by me and to the 
best of my knowledge and
belief is a true and correct complaint 
as required by Article 9 of The
Election Code. I understand 
that the penalty for willfully filing a false
complaint shall 
be a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment in a penal

institution other than the penitentiary not to exceed 6 months, 
or both
fine and imprisonment."

.............................................................

(date of filing)

(signature of person filing the complaint)


(Source: P.A. 78-1183.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/10-2)  (from Ch. 46, par. 10-2)



    Sec. 10-2. 
The term "political party", as hereinafter used 
in this
Article 10, shall mean any "established political 
party", as hereinafter
defined and shall also mean any 
political group which shall hereafter
undertake to form an 
established political party in the manner provided
for in this 
Article 10: Provided, that no political organization or
group 
shall be qualified as a political party hereunder, or given a

place on a ballot, which organization or group is associated, 
directly
or indirectly, with Communist, Fascist, Nazi or other 
un-American
principles and engages in activities or propaganda 
designed to teach
subservience to the political principles and 
ideals of foreign nations
or the overthrow by violence of the 
established constitutional form of
government of the United 
States and the State of Illinois.

    A political party which, at the last general election for 
State and
county officers, polled for its candidate for 
Governor more than 5% of
the entire vote cast for Governor, is 
hereby declared to be an
"established political party" as to 
the State and as to any district or
political subdivision 
thereof.

    A political party which, at the last election in any 
congressional
district, legislative district, county, 
township, municipality or other
political subdivision or 
district in the State, polled more than 5% of
the entire vote 
cast within such territorial area or political
subdivision, as 
the case may be, has voted as a unit for the election of

officers to serve the respective territorial area of such 
district or
political subdivision, is hereby declared to be an 
"established
political party" within the meaning of this 
Article as to such district
or political subdivision.

    Any group of persons hereafter desiring to form a new 
political party
throughout the State, or in any congressional, 
legislative or judicial
district, or in any other district or 
in any political subdivision
(other than a municipality) not 
entirely within a single county, shall
file with the State 
Board of Elections a petition, as hereinafter
provided; and any 
such group of persons hereafter desiring to form a new

political party within any county shall file such petition with 
the
county clerk; and any such group of persons hereafter 
desiring to form a
new political party within any municipality 
or township or within any
district of a unit of local 
government other than a county shall file
such petition with 
the local election official or Board of Election
Commissioners 
of such municipality, township or other unit of local

government, as the case may be. Any such petition for the 
formation of a
new political party throughout the State, or in 
any such district or
political subdivision, as the case may be, 
shall declare as concisely as
may be the intention of the 
signers thereof to form such new political
party in the State, 
or in such district or political subdivision; shall
state in 
not more than 5 words the name of such new political party;

shall at the time of filing  contain a complete list of 
candidates of
such party for all offices to be filled in the 
State, or such district
or political subdivision as the case 
may be, at the next ensuing
election then to be held; and, if 
such new political party shall be
formed for the entire State, 
shall be signed by 1% of the number of voters
who voted at the 
next preceding Statewide general election or 25,000
qualified 
voters, whichever is less. If such new political party shall be

formed for any district
or political subdivision less than the 
entire State, such petition shall
be signed by qualified voters 
equaling in number not less than 5% of the
number of voters who 
voted at the next preceding regular election in
such district 
or political subdivision in which such district or
political 
subdivision voted as a unit for the election of officers to

serve its respective territorial area.  However, whenever the 
minimum signature
requirement for a district or political 
subdivision new political
party petition shall exceed the 
minimum number of signatures for State-wide
new political party 
petitions at the next preceding State-wide general
election, 
such State-wide petition signature requirement shall be the

minimum for such district or political subdivision new 
political party petition.

    For the first election following a redistricting of 
congressional districts,
a petition to form a new political 
party in a congressional district shall
be signed by at least 
5,000 qualified voters of the congressional district.
For the 
first election following a redistricting of legislative 
districts,
a petition to form a new political party in a 
legislative district shall
be signed by at least 3,000 
qualified voters of the legislative district.
For the first 
election following a redistricting of representative

districts, a petition to form a new political party in a 
representative
district shall be signed by at least 1,500 
qualified voters of the
representative district.

    For the first election following redistricting of county 
board districts,
or of municipal wards or districts, or for the 
first election following
the initial establishment of such 
districts or wards in a county or
municipality, a petition to 
form a new political party in a county board
district or in a 
municipal ward or district shall be signed by qualified
voters 
of the district or ward equal to not less than 5% of the total

number of votes cast at the preceding general or municipal 
election, as the
case may be, for the county or municipal 
office voted on throughout the
county or municipality for which 
the greatest total number of votes were
cast for all 
candidates, divided by the number of districts or wards, but
in 
any event not less than 25 qualified voters of the district or 
ward.

    In the case of a petition to form a new political party 
within a political
subdivision in which officers are to be 
elected from
districts and at-large, such petition shall 
consist
of separate components for each district from which an 
officer
is to be elected.  Each component shall be circulated 
only within a
district of the political subdivision and signed 
only by qualified electors
who are residents of such district.  
Each sheet of such petition must
contain a complete list of the 
names of the candidates of the party for all
offices to be 
filled in the political subdivision at large, but the sheets

comprising each component shall also contain the names of those 
candidates
to be elected from the particular district.  Each 
component of the petition
for each district from which an 
officer is to be elected must be signed by
qualified voters of 
the district equalling in number not less than 5% of
the number 
of voters who voted at the next preceding regular election in

such district at which an officer was elected to serve the 
district. The
entire petition, including all components, must 
be signed by a total of
qualified voters of the entire 
political subdivision equalling in number
not less than 5% of 
the number of voters who voted at the next preceding
regular 
election in such political subdivision at which an officer was

elected to serve the political subdivision at large.

    The filing of such petition shall constitute the political 
group a
new political party, for the purpose only of placing 
upon the ballot at
such next ensuing election such list or an 
adjusted list in accordance
with Section 10-11, of party 
candidates for offices to be voted for
throughout the State, or 
for offices to be voted for in such district or
political 
subdivision less than the State, as the case may be, under the

name of and as the candidates of such new political party.

    If, at such ensuing election, the new political party's 
candidate for
Governor shall receive more than 5% of the entire 
votes cast for
Governor, then such new political party shall 
become an "established
political party" as to the State and as 
to every district or political
subdivision thereof. If, at such 
ensuing election, the other candidates
of the new political 
party, or any other candidate or candidates of the
new 
political party shall receive more than 5% of all the votes 
cast for
the office or offices for which they were candidates 
at such election,
in the State, or in any district or political 
subdivision, as the case
may be, then and in that event, such 
new political party shall become an
"established political 
party" within the State or within such district
or political 
subdivision less than the State, as the case may be, in
which 
such candidate or candidates received more than 5% of the votes

cast for the office or offices for which they were candidates. 
It shall
thereafter nominate its candidates for public offices 
to be filled in
the State, or such district or political 
subdivision, as the case may
be, under the provisions of the 
laws regulating the nomination of
candidates of established 
political parties at primary elections and
political party 
conventions, as now or hereafter in force.

    A political party which continues to receive for its 
candidate for
Governor more than 5% of the entire vote cast for 
Governor, shall remain
an "established political party" as to 
the State and as to every
district or political subdivision 
thereof. But if the political party's
candidate for Governor 
fails to receive more than 5% of the entire vote
cast for 
Governor, or if the political party does not nominate a

candidate for Governor, the political party shall remain an 
"established
political party" within the State or within such 
district or political
subdivision less than the State, as the 
case may be, only so long as,
and only in those districts or 
political subdivisions in which, the
candidates of that 
political party, or any candidate or candidates of
that 
political party, continue to receive more than 5% of all the 
votes
cast for the office or offices for which they were 
candidates at
succeeding general or consolidated elections 
within the State or within
any district or political 
subdivision, as the case may be.

    Any such petition shall be filed at the same time and shall 
be
subject to the same requirements and to the same provisions 
in respect
to objections thereto and to any hearing or hearings 
upon such
objections that are hereinafter in this Article 10 
contained in regard
to the nomination of any other candidate or 
candidates by petition. If
any such new political party shall 
become an "established political
party" in the manner herein 
provided, the candidate or candidates of
such new political 
party nominated by the petition hereinabove referred
to for 
such initial election, shall have power to select any such 
party committeeperson
committeeman or committeepersons 
committeemen as shall be necessary for the creation of a

provisional party organization and provisional managing 
committee or
committees for such party within the State, or in 
any district or
political subdivision in which the new 
political party has become
established; and the party 
committeeperson committeeman or committeepersons committeemen 
so selected
shall constitute a provisional party organization 
for the new political
party and shall have and exercise the 
powers conferred by law upon any
party committeeperson 
committeeman or committeepersons committeemen to manage and 
control the affairs of
such new political party until the next 
ensuing primary election at
which the new political party shall 
be entitled to nominate and elect
any party committeeperson 
committeeman or committeepersons committeemen in the State, or 
in such district
or political subdivision under any parts of 
this Act relating to the
organization of political parties.

    A candidate for whom a nomination paper has been filed as a 
partisan
candidate at a primary election, and who is defeated 
for his or her
nomination at the primary election, is 
ineligible for nomination as a
candidate of a new political 
party for election in that general election.

(Source: P.A. 86-875.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/10-6.2)  (from Ch. 46, par. 10-6.2)



    Sec. 10-6.2. 
The State Board of Elections, the election 
authority or
the local election official with whom petitions 
for nomination are filed
pursuant to this Article 10 shall 
specify the place where filings shall
be made and upon receipt 
shall endorse thereon the day and the hour at
which each 
petition was filed.  Except as provided by Article 9 of The

School Code, all petitions filed by persons waiting
in line as 
of 8:00 a.m. on the first day for filing, or as of the normal

opening hour of the office involved on such day, shall be 
deemed filed
as of 8:00 a.m. or the normal opening hour, as the 
case may be.
Petitions filed by mail and received after 
midnight of the first day for
filing and in the first mail 
delivery or pickup of that day shall be
deemed filed as of 8:00 
a.m. of that day or as of the normal opening
hour of such day, 
as the case may be.  All petitions received thereafter
shall be 
deemed filed in the order of actual receipt.  However, 2 or more 
petitions filed within the last hour of the filing deadline 
shall be deemed filed simultaneously. Where 2 or more
petitions 
are received simultaneously, the State Board of Elections, the

election authority or the local election official with whom 
such
petitions are filed shall break ties and determine the 
order of filing
by means of a lottery or other fair and 
impartial method of random
selection approved by the State 
Board of Elections.  Such lottery shall
be conducted within 9 
days following the last day for petition filing and shall
be 
open to the public. Seven days written notice of the time and 
place of
conducting such random selection shall be given, by 
the State Board of
Elections, the election authority, or local 
election official, to the Chair Chairman
of each political 
party, and to each organization of citizens within the
election 
jurisdiction which was entitled, under this Code, at the next

preceding election, to have pollwatchers present on the day of 
election. The
State Board of Elections, the election authority 
or local election official
shall post in a conspicuous, open 
and public place, at the entrance of the
office, notice of the 
time and place of such lottery. The State Board of
Elections 
shall adopt rules and regulations governing the procedures for

the conduct of such lottery. All candidates shall be
certified 
in the order in which their petitions have been filed and in 
the
manner prescribed by Section 10-14 and 10-15 of this 
Article.  Where
candidates have filed simultaneously, they 
shall be certified in the order
determined by lot and prior to 
candidates who filed for the same office or
offices at a later 
time.  Certificates of nomination filed within the
period 
prescribed in Section 10-6(2) for candidates nominated by 
caucus for
township or municipal offices shall be subject to 
the ballot placement
lottery for established political parties 
prescribed in Section 7-60 of
this Code.

    If multiple sets of nomination papers are filed for a 
candidate to
the same office, the State Board of Elections, 
appropriate election
authority or local election official 
where the petitions are filed shall
within 2 business days 
notify the candidate of his or her multiple petition
filings 
and that the candidate has 3 business days after receipt of the 
notice
to notify the State Board of Elections, appropriate 
election authority or local
election official that he or she 
may cancel prior sets of petitions. If the
candidate notifies 
the State Board of Elections, appropriate election authority
or 
local election official, the last set of petitions filed shall 
be the only
petitions to be considered valid by the State Board 
of Elections, election
authority or local election official.  If 
the candidate fails to notify the
State Board of Elections, 
appropriate election authority or local election
official then 
only the first set of petitions filed shall be valid and all

subsequent petitions shall be void.

(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/10-8)  (from Ch. 46, par. 10-8)



    Sec. 10-8. 
Certificates of nomination and nomination 
papers, and
petitions to submit public questions to a 
referendum, being filed as
required by this Code, and being in 
apparent conformity with the
provisions of this Act, shall be 
deemed to be valid unless objection
thereto is duly made in 
writing within 5 business days after the last day for
filing 
the certificate of nomination or nomination papers or petition

for a public question, with the following exceptions:

        A.  In the case of petitions to amend Article IV of the

    Constitution of the State of Illinois, there shall be a 
    period of 35
business days after the last day for the 
    filing of such
petitions in which objections can be filed.

        B.  In the case of petitions for advisory questions of 
    public policy to be
submitted to the voters of the entire 
    State, there shall be a period of
35 business days after 
    the last day for the filing of such
petitions in which 
    objections can be filed.

    Any legal voter of the political subdivision or district in 
which the
candidate or public question is to be voted on, or 
any legal voter in
the State in the case of a proposed 
amendment to Article IV of the
Constitution or an advisory 
public question to be submitted to the
voters of the entire 
State,  having objections to any certificate of nomination
or 
nomination papers or petitions filed, shall file an objector's 
petition
together with 2 copies thereof in the principal office 
or the permanent branch
office of the State Board of Elections, 
or in the office of the election
authority or local election 
official with whom the certificate of
nomination, nomination 
papers or petitions are on file. Objection petitions that do 
not include 2 copies thereof, shall not be accepted.
In the 
case of nomination papers or certificates of nomination,
the 
State Board of Elections, election authority or local election 
official
shall note the day and hour upon which such objector's

petition is filed, and shall, not later than 12:00
noon on the 
second business day after receipt of the
petition, transmit by 
registered mail or receipted
personal delivery the certificate 
of nomination or nomination papers and
the original objector's 
petition to the chair chairman of the proper electoral
board 
designated in Section 10-9 hereof, or his authorized agent, and

shall transmit a copy by registered mail or receipted personal 
delivery
of the objector's petition, to the candidate whose 
certificate of nomination
or nomination papers are objected to, 
addressed to the place of residence
designated in said 
certificate of nomination or nomination papers.  In the
case of 
objections to a petition for a proposed amendment to Article IV 
of
the Constitution or for an advisory public question to be 
submitted to the
voters of the entire State, the State Board of 
Elections shall note the day
and hour upon which such 
objector's petition is filed and shall transmit a
copy of the 
objector's petition by registered mail or receipted personal

delivery to the person designated on a certificate attached to 
the petition
as the principal proponent of such proposed 
amendment or public question,
or as the proponents' attorney, 
for the purpose of receiving notice of
objections.  In the case 
of objections to a petition for a public question,
to be 
submitted to the voters of a political subdivision, or district

thereof, the election authority or local election official with 
whom such
petition is filed shall note the day and hour upon 
which such
objector's petition was filed, and shall, not later 
than 12:00 noon on the
second business day after receipt of the 
petition,
transmit by registered mail or receipted personal 
delivery
the petition for the public question and the original 
objector's petition
to the chair chairman of the proper 
electoral board designated in Section 10-9
hereof, or his 
authorized agent, and shall transmit a copy by
registered mail 
or receipted personal delivery, of the objector's petition
to 
the person designated on a certificate attached to the petition 
as the
principal proponent of the public question, or as the 
proponent's attorney,
for the purposes of receiving notice of 
objections.

    The objector's petition shall give the objector's name and 
residence
address, and shall state fully the nature of the 
objections to the
certificate of nomination or nomination 
papers or petitions in question,
and shall state the interest 
of the objector and shall state what relief
is requested of the 
electoral board.

    The provisions of this Section and of Sections 10-9, 10-10 
and
10-10.1 shall also apply to and govern objections to 
petitions for
nomination filed under Article 7 or Article 8, 
except as otherwise
provided in Section 7-13 for cases to which 
it is applicable, and also
apply to and govern petitions for 
the submission of public questions under
Article 28.

(Source: P.A. 98-691, eff. 7-1-14.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/10-9)  (from Ch. 46, par. 10-9)



    Sec. 10-9. The following electoral boards are designated 
for the
purpose of hearing and passing upon the objector's 
petition described in
Section 10-8.

        1. The State Board of Elections will hear and pass upon 
    objections
to the nominations of candidates for State 
    offices,
nominations of candidates for congressional or 
    legislative offices that are in more than one county or are 
    wholly located within a single county with a population of 
    less than 3,000,000 and judicial
offices of districts, 
    subcircuits, or circuits situated in more than one county, 
    nominations
of candidates for the offices of State's 
    attorney or regional superintendent
of schools to be 
    elected from more than one county, and petitions for

    proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of 
    Illinois as
provided for in Section 3 of Article XIV of the 
    Constitution.

        2. The county officers electoral board of a county with 
    a population of less than 3,000,000 to hear and pass upon

    objections to the nominations of candidates for county 
    offices and judicial offices of a district, subcircuit, or

    circuit coterminous with or less than a county, for any 
    school district offices, for the office of multi-township 
    assessor where candidates for
such office are nominated in 
    accordance with this Code, and for all special
district 
    offices, shall be composed of the county clerk, or an 
    assistant
designated by the county clerk, the State's 
    attorney of the county or
an Assistant State's Attorney 
    designated by the State's Attorney, and the
clerk of the 
    circuit court, or an assistant designated by the clerk of

    the circuit court, of the county, of whom the county clerk 
    or his designee
shall be the chair chairman, except that in 
    any county which has established a
county board of election 
    commissioners that board
shall constitute the county 
    officers electoral board ex-officio. If a school district 
    is located in 2 or more counties, the county officers 
    electoral board of the county in which the principal office 
    of the school district is located shall hear and pass upon 
    objections to nominations of candidates for school 
    district office in that school district. 

        2.5.   The county officers electoral board of a county 
    with a population of 3,000,000 or more to hear and
    pass 
    upon objections to the nominations of candidates for county 
    offices, candidates for congressional and legislative 
    offices if the district is wholly within a county with a 
    population of 3,000,000 or more, unless the district is 
    wholly or partially within the jurisdiction of a municipal 
    board of election commissioners, and judicial offices of a 
    district, subcircuit, or circuit coterminous with or less 
    than a county, for any school district offices, for the 
    office of multi-township assessor where candidates for 
    such office are nominated in accordance with this Code, and 
    for all special district offices, shall be composed of the 
    county clerk, or an assistant designated by the county 
    clerk, the State's Attorney of the county or an Assistant 
    State's Attorney designated by the State's Attorney, and 
    the clerk of the circuit court, or an assistant designated 
    by the clerk of the circuit court, of the county, of whom 
    the county clerk or his designee shall be the chair 
    chairman, except that, in any county which has established 
    a county board of election commissioners, that board shall 
    constitute the county officers electoral board ex-officio. 
    If a school district is located in 2 or more counties, the 
    county officers electoral board of the county in which the 
    principal office of the school district is located shall 
    hear and pass upon objections to nominations of candidates 
    for school district office in that school district. 
        3. The municipal officers electoral board to hear and 
    pass upon
objections to the nominations of candidates for 
    officers of
municipalities shall be composed of the mayor 
    or president of the board
of trustees of the city, village 
    or incorporated town, and the city,
village or incorporated 
    town clerk, and one member of the city council
or board of 
    trustees, that member being designated who is eligible to

    serve on the electoral board and has served the
greatest 
    number of years as a member of the city council or board of

    trustees, of whom the mayor or president of the board of 
    trustees shall
be the chair chairman.

        4. The township officers electoral board to pass upon 
    objections to
the nominations of township officers shall be 
    composed of the township
supervisor, the town clerk, and 
    that eligible town trustee elected in the
township who has 
    had the longest term of continuous service as town
trustee, 
    of whom the township supervisor shall be the chair 
    chairman.

        5. The education officers electoral board to hear and 
    pass upon
objections to the nominations of candidates for 
    offices in
community college districts shall be composed of 
    the presiding officer of
the community college district 
    board, who shall be the chair chairman,
the secretary of 
    the community college district board and the
eligible 
    elected community college board member who has the
longest 
    term of continuous service as a board member.

        6. In all cases, however, where the Congressional, 
    Legislative, or Representative
district is wholly or 
    partially within the jurisdiction of a single municipal 
    board of election
commissioners in Cook County and in all 
    cases where the school district or special
district is 
    wholly within the jurisdiction of a municipal board of

    election commissioners and in all cases where the 
    municipality or
township is wholly or partially within the 
    jurisdiction of a municipal
board of election 
    commissioners, the board of election commissioners
shall 
    ex-officio constitute the electoral board.

    For special districts situated in more than one county, the 
county officers
electoral board of the county in which the 
principal office of the district
is located has jurisdiction to 
hear and pass upon objections.  For purposes
of this Section, 
"special districts" means all political subdivisions other

than counties, municipalities, townships and school and 
community college
districts.

    In the event that any member of the appropriate board is a 
candidate
for the office with relation to which the objector's 
petition is filed,
he shall not be eligible to serve on that 
board and shall not act as
a member of the board and his place 
shall be filled as follows:

        a. In the county officers electoral board by the county

    treasurer, and if he or she is ineligible to serve, by the 
    sheriff of the
county.

        b. In the municipal officers electoral board by the 
    eligible
elected city council or board of trustees member 
    who has served the second
greatest number of years as a 
    city council or board of trustees member.

        c. In the township officers electoral board by the 
    eligible
elected town trustee who has had the second 
    longest term of continuous service
as a town trustee.

        d. In the education officers electoral board by the 
    eligible
elected community college district board member 
    who has had the
second longest term of continuous service 
    as a board member.

    In the event that the chair chairman of the electoral board 
is ineligible
to act because of the fact that he or she is a 
candidate for the office with
relation to which the objector's 
petition is filed, then the substitute
chosen under the 
provisions of this Section shall be the chair chairman; In
this 
case, the officer or board with whom the objector's petition is

filed, shall transmit the certificate of nomination or 
nomination papers
as the case may be, and the objector's 
petition to the substitute chair
chairman of the electoral 
board.

    When 2 or more eligible individuals, by reason of their 
terms of service
on a city council or board of trustees, 
township board of
trustees, or community college district 
board, qualify to serve
on an electoral board, the one to serve 
shall be chosen by lot. 

    Any vacancies on an electoral board not otherwise filled 
pursuant to this
Section shall be filled by public members 
appointed by the Chief Judge of
the Circuit Court for the 
county wherein the electoral board hearing is
being held upon 
notification to the Chief Judge of such
vacancies. The Chief 
Judge shall be so notified by a member of the electoral
board 
or the officer or board with whom the objector's petition was 
filed.
In the event that none of the individuals designated by 
this Section to
serve on the electoral board are eligible, the 
chair chairman of an electoral
board shall be designated by the 
Chief Judge.

(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13; 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/10-10)  (from Ch. 46, par. 10-10)



    Sec. 10-10. Within 24 hours after the receipt of the 
certificate of
nomination or nomination papers or proposed 
question of public
policy, as the case may be, and the 
objector's petition, the chair chairman
of the electoral board 
other than the State Board of Elections shall
send a call by 
registered or certified mail to each of the members of the

electoral board, and to the objector who filed the objector's 
petition, and
either to the candidate whose certificate of 
nomination or nomination
papers are objected to or to the 
principal proponent or attorney for
proponents of a question of 
public policy, as the case may be, whose
petitions are objected 
to, and shall also cause the sheriff of the county
or counties 
in which such officers and persons reside to serve a copy of

such call upon each of such officers and persons, which call 
shall set out
the fact that the electoral board is required to 
meet to hear and pass upon
the objections to nominations made 
for the office, designating it, and
shall state the day, hour 
and place at which the electoral board shall meet
for the 
purpose, which place shall be in the
county court house in the 
county in the case of the County Officers
Electoral Board, the 
Municipal Officers Electoral Board, the Township
Officers 
Electoral Board or the Education Officers Electoral Board, 
except that the Municipal Officers Electoral Board, the 
Township Officers Electoral Board, and the Education Officers 
Electoral Board may meet at the location where the governing 
body of the municipality, township, or community college 
district, respectively, holds its regularly scheduled 
meetings, if that location is available; provided that voter 
records may be removed from the offices of an election 
authority only at the discretion and under the supervision of 
the election authority.

In
those cases where the State Board of 
Elections is the electoral board
designated under Section 10-9, 
the chair chairman of the State Board of Elections
shall, 
within 24 hours after the receipt of the certificate of 
nomination
or nomination papers or petitions for a proposed 
amendment to Article IV of
the Constitution or proposed 
statewide question of public policy, send a
call by registered 
or certified mail to the objector who files the
objector's 
petition, and either to the candidate whose certificate of

nomination or nomination papers are objected to or to the 
principal
proponent or attorney for proponents of the proposed 
Constitutional
amendment or statewide question of public 
policy and shall state the day,
hour, and place at which the 
electoral board shall meet for the purpose,
which place may be 
in the Capitol Building or in the principal or permanent
branch 
office of the State Board. The day of the meeting shall not be 
less
than 3 nor more than 5 days after the receipt of the 
certificate of
nomination or nomination papers and the 
objector's petition by the chair chairman
of the electoral 
board.

    The electoral board shall have the power to administer 
oaths and to
subpoena and examine witnesses and, at the request 
of either party and only upon a vote by a majority of its 
members, may authorize the chair
chairman to issue subpoenas 
requiring the attendance of witnesses and
subpoenas duces tecum 
requiring the production of such books, papers,
records and 
documents as may be evidence of any matter under inquiry
before 
the electoral board, in the same manner as witnesses are

subpoenaed in the Circuit Court.

    Service of such subpoenas shall be made by any sheriff or 
other
person in the same manner as in cases in such court and 
the fees of such
sheriff shall be the same as is provided by 
law, and shall be paid by
the objector or candidate who causes 
the issuance of the subpoena. In
case any person so served 
shall knowingly neglect or refuse to obey any
such subpoena, or 
to testify, the electoral board shall at once file a
petition 
in the circuit court of the county in which such hearing is to

be heard, or has been attempted to be heard, setting forth the 
facts, of
such knowing refusal or neglect, and accompanying the 
petition with a
copy of the citation and the answer, if one has 
been filed, together
with a copy of the subpoena and the return 
of service thereon, and shall
apply for an order of court 
requiring such person to attend and testify,
and forthwith 
produce books and papers, before the electoral board. Any

circuit court of the state, excluding the judge who is sitting 
on the electoral
board, upon such showing shall order such 
person to appear and testify,
and to forthwith produce such 
books and papers, before the electoral board
at a place to be 
fixed by the court. If such person shall knowingly fail
or 
refuse to obey such order of the court without lawful excuse, 
the court
shall punish him or her by fine and imprisonment, as 
the nature of the case
may require and may be lawful in cases 
of contempt of court.

    The electoral board on the first day of its meeting shall 
adopt rules
of procedure for the introduction of evidence and 
the presentation of
arguments and may, in its discretion, 
provide for the filing of briefs
by the parties to the 
objection or by other interested persons.

    In the event of a State Electoral Board hearing on 
objections to a
petition for an amendment to Article IV of the 
Constitution
pursuant to Section 3 of Article XIV of the 
Constitution, or to a
petition for a question of public policy 
to be submitted to the
voters of the entire State, the 
certificates of the county clerks and boards
of election 
commissioners showing the results of the random sample of

signatures on the petition shall be prima facie valid and 
accurate, and
shall be presumed to establish the number of 
valid and invalid
signatures on the petition sheets reviewed in 
the random sample, as prescribed
in Section 28-11 and 28-12 of 
this Code.  Either party, however, may introduce
evidence at 
such hearing to dispute the findings as  to particular 
signatures.
In addition to the foregoing, in the absence of 
competent evidence presented
at such hearing by a party 
substantially challenging the results of a random
sample, or 
showing a different result obtained by an additional sample,

this certificate of a county clerk or board of election 
commissioners shall
be presumed to establish the ratio of valid 
to invalid signatures within
the particular election 
jurisdiction.

    The electoral board shall take up the question as to 
whether or not
the certificate of nomination or nomination 
papers or petitions are in
proper form, and whether or not they 
were filed within the time and
under the conditions required by 
law, and whether or not they are the
genuine certificate of 
nomination or nomination papers or petitions
which they purport 
to be, and whether or not in the case of the
certificate of 
nomination in question it represents accurately the
decision of 
the caucus or convention issuing it, and in general shall

decide whether or not the certificate of nomination or 
nominating papers
or petitions on file are valid or whether the 
objections thereto should
be sustained and the decision of a 
majority of the electoral board shall
be final subject to 
judicial review as provided in Section 10-10.1.  The
electoral 
board must state  its findings in writing and must state in

writing which objections, if any, it has sustained. A copy of 
the decision shall be served upon the parties to the 
proceedings in open proceedings before the electoral board.  If 
a party does not appear for receipt of the decision, the 
decision shall be deemed to have been served on the absent 
party on the date when a copy of the decision is personally 
delivered or on the date when a copy of the decision is 
deposited in the United States mail, in a sealed envelope or 
package, with postage prepaid, addressed to each party affected 
by the decision or to such party's attorney of record, if any, 
at the address on record for such person in the files of the 
electoral board. 

    Upon the expiration of the period within which a proceeding 
for
judicial review must be commenced under Section 10-10.1, 
the electoral
board shall, unless a proceeding for judicial 
review has been commenced
within such period, transmit, by 
registered or certified mail, a
certified copy of its ruling, 
together with the original certificate of
nomination or 
nomination papers or petitions and the original objector's

petition, to the officer or board with whom the certificate of

nomination or nomination papers or petitions, as objected to, 
were on
file, and such officer or board shall abide by and 
comply with the
ruling so made to all intents and purposes.

(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13; 98-691, eff. 7-1-14; 99-78, 
eff. 7-20-15; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/11-6)  (from Ch. 46, par. 11-6)



    Sec. 11-6. 
Within 60 days after July 1, 2014 (the effective 
date of Public Act 98-691), each election authority shall 
transmit to the principal office of the State Board of

Elections and publish on any website maintained by the election 
authority maps in electronic portable document format (PDF) 
showing the current boundaries of all the precincts within its 
jurisdiction. Whenever election precincts in an election 
jurisdiction have been redivided or readjusted, the county 
board or board of election commissioners shall prepare maps in 
electronic portable document format (PDF) showing such 
election precinct boundaries no later than 90 days before the 
next scheduled election. The maps shall show the boundaries of 
all political subdivisions and districts. The county board or 
board of election commissioners shall immediately forward 
copies thereof to the chair chairman of each county central 
committee in the county, to each township, ward, or precinct 
committeeperson committeeman, and each local election official 
whose political subdivision is wholly or partly in the county 
and, upon request, shall furnish copies thereof to each 
candidate for political or public office in the county and 
shall transmit copies thereof to the principal office of the 
State Board of Elections and publish copies thereof on any 
website maintained by the election authority. 

(Source: P.A. 98-691, eff. 7-1-14; 99-642, eff. 7-28-16.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/13-1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 13-1)




    Sec. 13-1. In counties not under township organization, the 
county
board of commissioners shall at its meeting in July

in 
each
even-numbered year appoint in each election precinct 5 
capable and
discreet persons meeting the qualifications of 
Section 13-4 to
be judges of election. Where neither voting 
machines nor electronic,
mechanical or electric voting systems 
are used, the county board may,
for any precinct with respect 
to which the board considers such action
necessary or desirable 
in view of the number of voters, and shall for
general 
elections for any precinct containing more than 600 registered

voters, appoint in addition to the 5 judges of election a team 
of 5
tally judges. In such precincts the judges of election 
shall preside
over the election during the hours the polls are 
open, and the tally
judges, with the assistance of the holdover 
judges designated pursuant
to Section 13-6.2, shall count the 
vote after the closing of the polls.
However, the County Board 
of Commissioners may appoint 3 judges of election
to serve in 
lieu of the 5 judges of election otherwise required by this

Section (1) to serve in any emergency referendum, or in any 
odd-year regular
election or in any special primary or special 
election called
for the purpose of filling a vacancy in the 
office of representative in
the United States Congress or to 
nominate candidates for such purpose or (2) if the county board 
passes an ordinance to reduce the number of judges of election 
to 3 for primary elections.
The tally judges shall possess the 
same qualifications and shall be
appointed in the same manner 
and with the same division between
political parties as is 
provided for judges of election.

    In addition to such precinct judges, the county board of

commissioners shall appoint special panels of 3 judges each, 
who shall
possess the same qualifications and shall be 
appointed in the same
manner and with the same division between 
political parties as is
provided for other judges of election. 
The number of such panels of
judges required shall be 
determined by regulations of the State Board of
Elections which 
shall base the required numbers of special panels on the
number 
of registered voters in the jurisdiction or the number of vote 
by mail
 ballots voted at recent elections, or any combination 
of such factors.

    Such appointment shall be confirmed by the court as 
provided in
Section 13-3 of this Article. No more than 3 
persons of the same
political party shall be appointed judges 
of the same election precinct
or election judge panel. The 
appointment shall be made in the following
manner: The county 
board of commissioners shall select and approve 3
persons as 
judges of election in each election precinct from a certified

list, furnished by the chair chairman of the County Central 
Committee of the
first leading political party in such 
precinct; and the county board of
commissioners shall also 
select and approve 2 persons as judges of
election in each 
election precinct from a certified list, furnished by
the chair 
chairman of the County Central Committee of the second leading

political party. However, if only 3 judges of election serve in 
each
election precinct, no more than 2 persons of the same 
political party shall
be judges of election in the same 
election precinct; and which political
party is entitled to 2 
judges of election and which political party is
entitled to one 
judge of election shall be determined in the same manner as
set 
forth in the next two preceding sentences with regard to 5 
election
judges in each precinct.  Such certified list shall be 
filed with the county
clerk not less than 10 days before the 
annual meeting of the county
board of commissioners. Such list 
shall be arranged according to
precincts. The chair chairman of 
each county central committee shall, insofar
as possible, list 
persons who reside within the precinct in which they
are to 
serve as judges. However, he may, in his sole discretion, 
submit
the names of persons who reside outside the precinct but 
within the
county embracing the precinct in which they are to 
serve. He must,
however, submit the names of at least 2 
residents of the precinct for
each precinct in which his party 
is to have 3 judges and must submit the
name of at least one 
resident of the precinct for each precinct in which
his party 
is to have 2 judges. The county board of commissioners shall

acknowledge in writing to each county chair chairman the names 
of all persons
submitted on such certified list and the total 
number of persons listed
thereon. If no such list is filed or 
such list is incomplete (that is,
no names or an insufficient 
number of names are furnished for certain
election precincts), 
the county board of commissioners shall make or
complete such 
list from the names contained in the supplemental list
provided 
for in Section 13-1.1. The election judges shall hold their

office for 2 years from their appointment, and until their 
successors
are duly appointed in the manner provided in this 
Act. The county board
of commissioners shall fill all vacancies 
in the office of judge of
election at any time in the manner 
provided in this Act.

(Source: P.A. 100-337, eff. 8-25-17.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/13-1.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 13-1.1)




    Sec. 13-1.1. 
In addition to the list provided for in 
Section 13-1 or 13-2, the chair
chairman of the county central 
committee, or each township committeeperson in a county with a 
population of more than 3,000,000, of each of the two leading

political parties shall submit to the county board a 
supplemental list,
arranged according to precincts in which 
they are to serve, of persons
available as judges of election, 
the names and number of all persons listed
thereon to be 
acknowledged in writing to the county chair chairman or 
township committeeperson, as the case may be, submitting
such 
list by the county board. Vacancies among the judges of 
election shall
be filled by selection from this supplemental 
list of persons qualified
under Section 13-4. If the list 
provided for in Section 13-1 or 13-2 for
any precinct is 
exhausted, then selection shall be made from the
supplemental 
list submitted by the chair chairman of the county central 
committee, or each township committeeperson in a county with a 
population of more than 3,000,000,
of the party. If such 
supplemental list is exhausted for any precinct, then
selection 
shall be made from any of the persons on the supplemental list

without regard to the precincts in which they are listed to 
serve. No
selection or appointment from the supplemental list 
shall be made more than
21 days prior to the date of precinct 
registration for those judges needed
as precinct registrars, 
and more than 60 days prior to the date of
an
election for 
those additional persons needed as election judges. In any
case 
where selection cannot be made from the supplemental list 
without
violating Section 13-4, selection shall be made from 
outside the
supplemental list of some person qualified under 
Section 13-4.

(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/13-2)  (from Ch. 46, par. 13-2)




    Sec. 13-2. In counties under the township organization the 
county
board shall at its meeting in July in each even-numbered 
year
except in counties containing a population of 3,000,000 
inhabitants or
over and except when such judges are appointed 
by election
commissioners, select in each election precinct in 
the county, 5 capable
and discreet persons to be judges of 
election who shall
possess the
qualifications required by this 
Act for such judges. Where neither
voting machines nor 
electronic, mechanical or electric voting systems
are used, the 
county board may, for any precinct with respect to which
the 
board considers such action necessary or desirable in view of 
the
number of voters, and shall for general elections for any 
precinct
containing more than 600 registered voters, appoint in 
addition to the 5
judges of election a team of 5 tally judges. 
In such precincts the
judges of election shall preside over the 
election during the hours the
polls are open, and the tally 
judges, with the assistance of the
holdover judges designated 
pursuant to Section 13-6.2, shall count the
vote after the 
closing of the polls. The tally judges shall possess the
same 
qualifications and shall be appointed in the same manner and 
with
the same division between political parties as is provided 
for judges of
election.

    However, the county board may appoint 3 judges of election 
to serve in
lieu of the 5 judges of election otherwise required 
by this Section (1) to serve
in any emergency referendum, or in 
any odd-year regular election
or in any special primary or 
special election called for the purpose of
filling a vacancy in 
the office of representative in the United States Congress
or 
to nominate candidates for such purpose or (2) if the county 
board passes an ordinance to reduce the number of judges of 
election to 3 for primary elections.

    In addition to such precinct judges, the county board shall 
appoint
special panels of 3 judges each, who shall possess the 
same
qualifications and shall be appointed in the same manner 
and with the
same division between political parties as is 
provided for other judges
of election. The number of such 
panels of judges required shall be
determined by regulations of 
the State Board of Elections, which shall
base the required 
number of special panels on the number of registered
voters in 
the jurisdiction or the number of absentee ballots voted at

recent elections or any combination of such factors.

    No more than 3 persons of the same political party shall be 
appointed
judges in the same election district or undivided 
precinct. The election
of the judges of election in the various 
election precincts shall be
made in the following manner: The 
county board shall
select and approve 3 of the election judges 
in each precinct from a
certified list furnished by the chair 
chairman of the County Central Committee
of the first leading 
political party in such election precinct and shall also
select 
and approve 2 judges of election in each election precinct from 
a
certified list furnished by the chair chairman of the County 
Central Committee
of the second leading political party in such 
election precinct. However,
if only 3 judges of election serve 
in each election precinct, no more than 2
persons of the same 
political party shall be judges of election in the same

election precinct; and which political party is entitled to 2 
judges of
election and which political party is entitled to one 
judge of election shall
be determined in the same manner as set 
forth in the next two preceding
sentences with regard to 5 
election judges in each precinct.  The respective
County Central 
Committee chair chairman shall notify the county board by June 
1 of
each odd-numbered year immediately preceding the annual 
meeting of the county
board whether or not such certified list 
will be filed by such chair chairman. Such
list shall be 
arranged according to precincts. The chair chairman of each 
county
central committee shall, insofar as possible, list 
persons who reside within
the precinct in which they are to 
serve as judges. However, he may, in his sole
discretion, 
submit the names of persons who reside outside the precinct but

within the county embracing the precinct in which they are to 
serve. He must,
however, submit the names of at least 2 
residents of the precinct for each
precinct in which his party 
is to have 3 judges and must submit the name of at
least one 
resident of the precinct for each precinct in which his party 
is to
have 2 judges. Such certified list, if filed, shall be 
filed with the county
clerk not less than 20 days before the 
annual meeting of the county board. The
county board shall 
acknowledge in writing to each county chair chairman the names 
of
all persons submitted on such certified list and the total 
number of persons
listed thereon. If no such list is filed or 
the list is incomplete (that is, no
names or an insufficient 
number of names are furnished for certain election
precincts), 
the county board shall make or complete such list from the 
names
contained in the supplemental list provided for in 
Section 13-1.1. Provided,
further, that in any case where a 
township has been or shall be redistricted,
in whole or in 
part, subsequent to one general election for Governor, and 
prior
to the next, the judges of election to be selected for 
all new or altered
precincts shall be selected in that one of 
the methods above detailed, which
shall be applicable according 
to the facts and circumstances of the particular
case, but the 
majority of such judges for each such precinct shall be 
selected
from the first leading political party, and the 
minority judges from the second
leading political party. 
Provided, further, that in counties having a
population of 
3,000,000 inhabitants or over the selection of judges of 
election
shall be made in the same manner in all respects as in 
other counties, except
that the provisions relating to tally 
judges are inapplicable to such counties
and except that the 
county board shall meet during the month of January for the

purpose of making such selection, each township 
committeeperson shall assume the responsibilities given to the 
chair chairman of the county central committee in this Section 
for the precincts within his or her township, and the township 
committeeperson shall notify the county board by the preceding 
October 1 whether or
not the certified list will be filed. Such 
judges of election shall hold their
office for 2 years from 
their appointment and until their successors are duly
appointed 
in the manner provided in this Act. The county board shall fill 
all
vacancies in the office of judges of elections at any time 
in the manner herein
provided.

    Such selections under this Section shall be confirmed by 
the circuit
court as provided in Section 13-3 of this Article.

(Source: P.A. 100-337, eff. 8-25-17.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/13-3)  (from Ch. 46, par. 13-3)



    Sec. 13-3. 
After the judges of election have been selected 
and approved as
hereinbefore provided, a report of such 
selections shall be made by the
county board and filed in the 
circuit court, and application shall then be
made by the county 
board to the court for their confirmation and
appointment, 
whereupon the court shall enter an order that cause be shown,

if any exists, against the confirmation and appointment of such 
persons so
named on or before the opening of the court on a day 
to be fixed by the
court. The county board shall immediately 
give notice of such order and the
names of all such judges so 
reported to such court for confirmation and
their residence and 
the precinct for which they were selected by causing
a notice 
to be published in one or more newspapers in the
county and if 
no
newspaper be published therein then by posting such notice 
in 5 of the most
public places in the county.  The notice shall 
state that a list of judges of
election is available for public 
inspection in the office of the election
authority. If no cause 
to the contrary is shown prior
to the day fixed, and if, in 
each precinct, at least one judge representing
each of the two 
major political parties has been certified by the county
clerk 
as having satisfactorily completed within the preceding 6 
months the
training course and examination for judges of 
election, as provided in
Section 13-2.1 and 13-2.2 of this Act, 
such appointment shall be confirmed
by order entered by that 
court.

    If in any precinct the requisite 2 judges have not been so 
certified by
the county clerk as having satisfactorily 
completed such course and
examination, the county clerk shall 
immediately notify all judges in that
precinct, to whose 
appointment there is no other objection, that all such
judges 
shall attend the next such course. The county clerk shall then

certify to the court that all such judges have been so notified 
(and such
certification need contain no detail other than a 
mere recital). The
appointment of such judges shall then be 
confirmed by order entered by the
court. If any judge so 
notified and so confirmed fails to attend the next
such course, 
such failure shall subject such judge to possible removal from

office at the option of the election authority.

    If objections to the appointment of any judge be filed 
prior to the day
fixed by the court for confirmation of judges, 
the court shall hear such
objections and the evidence 
introduced in support thereof, and shall
confirm or refuse to 
confirm such nominations as the interests of the
public may 
require. No reasons may be given for the refusal to confirm. If

any vacancy exists at any time the county board shall, subject 
to the
provisions of Section 13-1.1, further report and 
nominate persons to fill
such vacancies so existing in the 
manner aforesaid, and a court in the same
way shall consider 
such nominations and shall confirm or refuse to confirm
the 
same in the manner aforesaid. Upon the confirmation of such 
judges, at
any time, a commission shall issue to each of such 
judges, under the seal
of such court, and appropriate forms 
shall be prepared by the county clerk
of each county for such 
purpose and furnished to the county board, and
after 
confirmation and acceptance of such commission, such judges 
shall
thereupon become officers of such court. If a vacancy 
occurs so late that
nomination by the county board and 
application to and confirmation by the
court cannot be had 
before the election, then the court shall, subject to
the 
provisions of Section 13-1.1, make an appointment and issue a

commission to such officer or officers, and when thus appointed 
such
officer shall be considered an officer of the court and 
subject to the same
rules as if nominated by the county board 
and confirmed by the court, and
any judge, however appointed, 
and at whatever time, shall be considered an
officer of court 
and be subject to the same control and punishment in case
of 
misbehavior. Not more than 10 business days after the day of 
election,
the county clerk shall compile a list
containing the 
name, address and party affiliation of each judge of
election 
who served on the day of election, and
shall preserve such list 
and make it available for public inspection
and copying for a 
period of not more than one year from the date of receipt
of 
such list.  Copies of such list shall be available for purchase 
at a
cost not to exceed the cost of duplication.
The board has 
the right, at any time, in case of
misbehavior or neglect of 
duty, to remove any judge of election and cause
such vacancy to 
be filled in accordance with this Act. Except for judges

appointed under subsection (b) of Section 13-4, the board shall 
have
the right, at any time, to remove any judge of election 
for failing to vote
the primary ballot of the political party 
he represents, at a primary
election at which he served as such 
judge, and shall cause such vacancy to
be filled in accordance 
with this Act.
The board shall remove any judge of election 
who, twice during the same
term of office, fails to provide for 
the opening of the polling place at
the time prescribed in 
Section 17-1 or Section 18-2, whichever is
applicable, unless 
such delay can be demonstrated
by the judge of election to be 
beyond his or her control.
In the event that any judge of

election is removed for cause, the board shall specify such 
cause in
writing and make such writing a matter of public 
record, with a copy to be
sent to the appropriate county chair 
chairman who made the initial recommendation
of the election 
judge. If any vacancies occur or exist more than 15 days
before 
election the judges appointed to such places must be confirmed 
by
such court. The county board shall not voluntarily remove 
any judge within
15 days of such election except for flagrant 
misbehavior, incapacity or
dishonesty, and the reason therefor 
must afterward be reported in writing
to such court and made a 
matter of public record, with a copy to be sent to
the 
appropriate county chair chairman who made the initial 
recommendation of the
election judge. Provided further that 
where a vacancy in the office of
judge of election exists 20 
days or less prior to any election in counties
having a 
population of 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, or where such 
vacancy
exists 10 days or less prior to any election in 
counties having less than
3,000,000 inhabitants, the county 
clerk shall, subject to the provisions of
Section 13-1.1, 
appoint a person of the same major political party to fill
such 
vacancy and issue a commission thereto. The name of the officer 
so
appointed shall be reported to the court as a matter of 
record and after
acceptance of such commission such person 
shall be liable in the same
manner as officers regularly 
appointed by the county board and confirmed by
the court. The 
county clerk shall have the power on election day to remove

without cause any judge of election appointed by the other 
judges of
election pursuant to Section 13-7 and to appoint 
another judge of election
to serve for that election. Such 
substitute judge of election must be
selected, where possible, 
pursuant to the provisions of Section 13-1.1 and
must be 
qualified in accordance with Section 13-4.

    If any precinct has increased in voter registration beyond 
the maximum
of 800 provided in Section 11-2, the county clerk 
may appoint one
additional judge of election from each 
political party for each 200 voters
in excess of 800.

(Source: P.A. 90-672, eff. 7-31-98; 91-352, eff. 1-1-00.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/13-4)  (from Ch. 46, par. 13-4)


    Sec. 13-4. Qualifications.

    (a) All persons elected or chosen judge of election must: 
(1) be
citizens of the United States and entitled to vote at 
the next election,
except as provided in subsection (b) or (c);

(2) be of good repute and character and not subject to the 
registration requirement of the Sex Offender Registration Act; 
(3) be able to speak, read and write
the English language; (4) 
be skilled in the four fundamental rules of
arithmetic; (5) be 
of good understanding and capable; (6) not be candidates
for 
any office at the election and not be elected committeepersons 
committeemen; and (7)
reside in the precinct in which they are 
selected to act, except that in
each precinct, not more than 
one judge of each party may be appointed from
outside such 
precinct. Any judge selected to serve in any precinct in which

he is not entitled to vote must reside within and be entitled 
to vote
elsewhere within the county which encompasses the 
precinct in which such
judge is appointed, except as provided 
in subsection (b) or (c). Such judge
must meet the other 
qualifications of this
Section.


    (b) An election authority may establish a program to permit 
a person who
is not entitled to vote to be appointed as an 
election judge if, as of the date
of the election at which the 
person serves as a judge, he or she:


        (1) is a U.S. citizen;


        (2) is a junior or senior in good standing enrolled in 
    a public or private secondary
school;


        (3) has a cumulative grade point average equivalent to 
    at least 3.0 on a
4.0 scale;


        (4) has the written approval of the principal of the 
    secondary school he
or she attends at the time of 
    appointment;


        (5) has the written approval of his or her parent or 
    legal guardian;


        (6) has satisfactorily completed the training course 
    for judges of
election
described in Sections 13-2.1 and 
    13-2.2; and


        (7) meets all other qualifications for appointment and 
    service as an
election judge.


    No more than one election judge qualifying under this 
subsection may serve
per political party per precinct.
Prior to 
appointment, a judge qualifying under this subsection must 
certify
in writing to the election authority the political 
party the judge chooses to
affiliate with.


    Students appointed as election judges under this 
subsection
shall not be counted as absent from school on the 
day they serve as judges.


    (c) An election authority may establish a program to permit 
a person who
is not entitled to vote in that precinct or county 
to be appointed as an
election judge if, as of the date of the 
election at which the person serves as
a judge, he or she:

        (1) is a U.S. citizen;

        (2) is currently enrolled in a community college, as 
    defined in the Public Community College Act, or a public or 
    private Illinois university or
college;

        (3) has a cumulative grade point average equivalent to 
    at least 3.0 on a
4.0 scale;

        (4) has satisfactorily completed the training course 
    for judges of
election described in Sections 13-2.1 and 
    13-2.2; and

        (5) meets all other qualifications for appointment and 
    service as an
election judge.

    No more than one election judge qualifying under this 
subsection may serve
per political party per precinct.
Prior to 
appointment, a judge qualifying under this subsection must 
certify
in writing to the election authority the political 
party the judge chooses to
affiliate with.

    Students appointed as election judges under this 
subsection
shall not be counted as absent from school on the 
day they serve as judges.


(Source: P.A. 95-699, eff. 11-9-07; 95-818, eff. 1-1-09; 
96-328, eff. 8-11-09.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/14-1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 14-1)


    Sec. 14-1. (a) The board of election commissioners 
established
or existing under Article 6 shall, at the time and 
in the
manner provided in Section 14-3.1, select and choose 5 
persons,
men or women, as judges of election for each precinct 
in such
city, village or incorporated town.


    Where neither voting machines nor electronic, mechanical 
or
electric voting systems are used, the board of election

commissioners may, for any precinct with respect to which the

board considers such action necessary or desirable in view of

the number of voters, and shall for general elections for any

precinct containing more than 600 registered voters, appoint
in 
addition to the 5 judges of election a team of 5 tally judges.

In such precincts the judges of election shall preside over the

election during the hours the polls are open, and the tally

judges, with the assistance of the holdover judges designated

pursuant to Section
14-5.2, shall count the vote after the 
closing of the polls.
The tally judges shall possess the same 
qualifications and
shall be appointed in the same manner and 
with the same division
between political parties as is provided 
for judges of election.
The foregoing provisions relating to 
the appointment of tally
judges are inapplicable in counties 
with a population of
1,000,000 or more.


    (b) To qualify as judges the persons must:


        (1) be citizens of the United States;


        (2) be of good repute and character and not subject to 
    the registration requirement of the Sex Offender 
    Registration Act;


        (3) be able to speak, read and write the English 
    language;


        (4) be skilled in the 4 fundamental rules of 
    arithmetic;


        (5) be of good understanding and capable;


        (6) not be candidates for any office at the election 
    and not
be elected committeepersons committeemen;


        (7) reside and be entitled to vote in the precinct in 
    which
they are selected to serve, except that in each 
    precinct not
more than one judge of each party may be 
    appointed from outside
such precinct.  Any judge so 
    appointed to serve in any precinct
in which he is not 
    entitled to vote must be entitled to vote
elsewhere within 
    the county which encompasses the precinct in
which such 
    judge is appointed and such judge must otherwise
meet the 
    qualifications of this Section, except as provided in 
    subsection (c)
or (c-5).


    (c) An election authority may establish a program to permit 
a person who
is not entitled to vote
to be appointed as an 
election judge if, as of the date of the election at
which the 
person serves as a judge, he or she:


        (1) is a U.S. citizen;


        (2) is a junior or senior in good standing enrolled in 
    a public or private secondary
school;


        (3) has a cumulative grade point average equivalent to 
    at least 3.0 on a
4.0 scale;


        (4) has the written approval of the principal of the 
    secondary school he
or she attends at the time of 
    appointment;


        (5) has the written approval of his or her parent or 
    legal guardian;


        (6) has satisfactorily completed the training course 
    for judges of
election
described in Sections 13-2.1, 
    13-2.2, and 14-4.1; and


        (7) meets all other qualifications for appointment and 
    service as an
election judge.


    No more than one election judge qualifying under this 
subsection may serve
per political party per precinct.
Prior to 
appointment, a judge qualifying under this subsection must 
certify
in writing to the election authority the political 
party the judge chooses to
affiliate with.


    Students appointed as election judges under this 
subsection
shall not be counted as absent from school on the 
day they serve as judges.


    (c-5) An election authority may establish a program to 
permit a person who
is not entitled to vote in that precinct or 
county to be appointed as an
election judge if, as of the date 
of the election at which the person serves as
a judge, he or 
she:

        (1) is a U.S. citizen;

        (2) is currently enrolled in a community college, as 
    defined in the Public Community College Act, or a public or 
    private Illinois university or
college;

        (3) has a cumulative grade point average equivalent to 
    at least 3.0 on a
4.0 scale;

        (4) has satisfactorily completed the training course 
    for judges of
election
described in Sections 13-2.1, 
    13-2.2, and 14-4.1; and

        (5) meets all other qualifications for appointment and 
    service as an
election judge.

    No more than one election judge qualifying under this 
subsection may serve
per political party per precinct.
Prior to 
appointment, a judge qualifying under this subsection must 
certify
in writing to the election authority the political 
party the judge chooses to
affiliate with.

    Students appointed as election judges under this 
subsection
shall not be counted as absent from school on the 
day they serve as judges.


    (d) The board of election commissioners may select 2 
additional
judges of election, one from each of the major 
political parties,
for each 200 voters in excess of 600 in any 
precinct having more
than 600 voters as authorized
by Section 
11-3.  These additional judges must meet the
qualifications 
prescribed in this Section.


(Source: P.A. 95-699, eff. 11-9-07; 95-818, eff. 1-1-09; 
96-328, eff. 8-11-09.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/14-3.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 14-3.1)




    Sec. 14-3.1. The board of election commissioners shall, 
during the
month of July of each even-numbered year,
select
for 
each election precinct within the jurisdiction of the board 5

persons to be judges of election who shall possess the 
qualifications
required by this Act for such judges. The 
selection shall be made by a
county board of election 
commissioners in the following manner:  the county
board of 
election commissioners shall select and approve 3 persons as 
judges of
election in each election precinct from a certified 
list
furnished by the chair chairman of the county central 
committee of the first leading
political party in that 
precinct; the county board of election commissioners
also shall 
select and approve 2 persons as judges of election in each 
election
precinct from a certified list furnished by the chair 
chairman of the county central
committee of the second leading 
political party in that precinct.  The
selection by a municipal 
board of election commissioners shall be made in the
following 
manner: for each precinct, 3 judges shall be selected from one 
of
the 2 leading political parties and the other 2 judges shall 
be selected from
the other leading political party;  the parties 
entitled to 3 and 2
judges, respectively, in the several 
precincts shall be determined as provided
in Section 14-4.  
However, a Board of Election Commissioners may
appoint
three 
judges of election to serve in lieu of the 5 judges of election 
otherwise
required by this Section to serve in any emergency 
referendum, or in any
odd-year regular election or in any 
special primary or special election called
for the purpose of 
filling a vacancy in the office of representative in the
United 
States Congress or to nominate candidates for such purpose.

    If only 3 judges of election serve in each election 
precinct, no more than
2 persons of the same political party 
shall be judges of election in the
same election precinct, and 
which political party is entitled to 2 judges
of election and 
which political party is entitled to one judge of election

shall be determined as set forth in this Section for a county 
board of
election commissioners' selection of 5 election judges 
in each precinct or in
Section 14-4 for a municipal board of 
election commissioners' selection of
election judges in each 
precinct, whichever is appropriate. In addition to
such 
precinct judges, the board of election commissioners shall 
appoint special
panels of 3 judges each, who shall possess the 
same qualifications and shall be
appointed in the same manner 
and with the
same division between political parties as is 
provided for other judges of
election. The number of such 
panels of judges required shall be determined by
regulation of 
the State Board of Elections, which shall base the required

number of special panels on the number of registered voters in 
the jurisdiction
or the number of absentee ballots voted at 
recent elections or any combination
of such factors.  A 
municipal board of election
commissioners shall make the

selections of persons qualified under Section 14-1 from 
certified lists
furnished by the chair chairman of the 
respective county central committees, or each ward 
committeeperson in a municipality of 500,000 or more 
inhabitants, of the 2
leading political parties.  Lists 
furnished by chairmen of county central
committees or ward 
committeepersons, as the case may be, under this Section shall 
be arranged
according to precincts. The chair chairman of each 
county central committee or ward committeepersons, as the case 
may be, shall,
insofar as possible, list persons who reside 
within the precinct in which they
are to serve as judges.

However, he may, in his sole discretion, submit the names of 
persons who
reside outside the precinct but within the county 
embracing the precinct
in which they are to serve. He must, 
however, submit the names of at
least 2 residents of the 
precinct for each precinct in which his party
is to have 3 
judges and must submit the name of at least one resident of
the 
precinct for each precinct in which his party is to have 2 
judges.
The board of election commissioners shall no later than 
March 1 of each
even-numbered year notify the chairmen
of the 
respective county central committees or ward committeepersons, 
as the case may be, of their responsibility to
furnish such 
lists, and each such chair chairman shall furnish the board of

election commissioners with the list for his party on or before 
May 1 of each
even-numbered year. The
board of election 
commissioners shall acknowledge in writing to each
county chair 
chairman or ward committeepersons, as the case may be, the 
names of all persons submitted on such certified
list and the 
total number of persons listed thereon. If no such list is

furnished or if no names or an insufficient number of names are

furnished for certain precincts, the board of election 
commissioners
shall make or complete such list from the names 
contained in the
supplemental list provided for in Section 
14-3.2. Judges of election
shall hold their office for 2 years 
from their appointment and until
their successors are duly 
appointed in the manner herein provided. The
board of election 
commissioners shall, subject to the provisions of
Section 
14-3.2, fill all vacancies in the office of judges of election

at any time in the manner herein provided.

    Such selections under this Section shall be confirmed by 
the court as
provided in Section 14-5.

(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/14-3.2)  (from Ch. 46, par. 14-3.2)




    Sec. 14-3.2. 
In addition to the list provided for in 
Section 14-3.1, the chair chairman of
the county central 
committee, or each ward committeeperson in a municipality of 
500,000 or more inhabitants, of each of the 2 leading political 
parties
shall furnish to the board of election commissioners a 
supplemental list,
arranged according to precinct in which they 
are to serve, of persons
available as judges of election, the 
names and number of all persons listed
thereon to be 
acknowledged in writing to the county chair chairman or ward 
committeepersons, as the case may be, submitting
such list by 
the board of election commissioners. The board of election

commissioners shall select from this supplemental list persons 
qualified
under Section 14-1, to fill vacancies among the 
judges of election. If the
list provided for in Section 14-3.1 
for any precinct is exhausted, then
selection shall be made 
from the supplemental list furnished by the chair
chairman of 
the county central committee or ward committeepersons, as the 
case may be, of the party. If such supplemental
list is 
exhausted for any precinct, then selection shall be made from 
any
of the persons on the supplemental list without regard to 
the precincts in
which they are listed to serve. No selection 
or appointment from the
supplemental list shall be made more 
than 21 days prior to the date of
precinct registration for 
those judges needed as precinct registrars, and
more than 60 
days prior to the date of an election for those
additional

persons needed as election judges. In any case where selection 
cannot be
made from the supplemental list without violating 
Section 14-1, selection
shall be made from outside the 
supplemental list of some person qualified
under Section 14-1.

(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/14-5)  (from Ch. 46, par. 14-5)



    Sec. 14-5. 
After the judges are selected and have agreed to 
serve as
provided in Sections 14-1 to 14-4, inclusive, then a 
report of such
selections shall be made and filed in the court, 
and application shall then
be made by the board to the circuit 
court for their confirmation and
appointment, whereupon the 
court shall enter an order that cause be shown,
if any exists, 
against the confirmation and appointment of such persons so

named, on or before the opening of the court on a day to be 
fixed by the
court. And the board of commissioners shall 
immediately give notice of such
order and the names of all such 
judges so reported to such court for
confirmation, and their 
residence and the precinct for which they were
selected, by 
causing a notice to be published in one or more
newspapers in

such city, village or incorporated town, and if no newspaper be 
published
in such city, village or incorporated town, then by 
posting such notice in
3 of the most public places in such 
city, village or town.  The notice shall
state that a list of 
judges of election is available for public inspection in
the 
office of the election authority. If no cause
to the contrary 
is shown prior to the day fixed, and if, in each precinct,
at 
least one judge representing each of the two major political 
parties has
been certified by the board of commissioners as 
having satisfactorily
completed within the preceding 6 months 
the training course and examination
for judges of election, as 
provided in Section 14-4.1 of this Act such
appointments shall 
be confirmed by order entered by that court.

    If in any precinct the requisite 2 judges have not been so 
certified by
the board of commissioners as having 
satisfactorily completed such course
and examination, the 
board of commissioners shall immediately notify all
judges in 
that precinct, to whose appointment there is no other 
objection,
that all such judges shall attend the next such 
course. The board of
commissioners shall then certify to the 
court that all such judges have
been so notified (and such 
certification need contain no detail other than
a mere 
recital). The appointment of such judges shall then be 
confirmed by
order entered by the court. If any judge so 
notified and so confirmed fails
to attend the next such course, 
such failure shall subject such judge to
possible removal from 
office at the option of the election authority.

    If objections to the appointment of any such judge is filed 
prior to the
day fixed by the court for confirmation of judges, 
the court shall hear
such objections and the evidence 
introduced in support thereof, and shall
confirm or refuse to 
confirm such nominations, as the interests of the
public may 
require. No reasons may be given for the refusal to confirm. If

any vacancies exist by reason of the action of such board or 
otherwise, at
any time, the board of commissioners shall, 
subject to the provisions of
Section 14-3.2, further report and 
nominate persons to fill such vacancies
so existing in the 
manner aforesaid, and a court in the same way shall
consider 
such nominations and shall confirm or refuse to confirm the 
same
in the manner aforesaid. Upon the confirmation of such 
judges, at any time,
a commission shall issue to each of such 
judges, under the seal of such
court, and appropriate forms 
shall be prepared by the board of
commissioners for such 
purpose. After such confirmation and acceptance of
such 
commission, such judges shall thereupon become officers of such 
court.
If a vacancy occurs so late that application to and 
confirmation by the
court cannot be had before the election, 
then the board of commissioners
shall, subject to the 
provisions of Section 14-3.2, make an appointment and
issue a 
commission to such officer or officers, and when thus appointed

such officer shall be considered an officer of the court and 
subject to the
same rules and punishment, in case of 
misbehavior, as if confirmed by the
court, and any judge, 
however appointed, and at whatever time, shall be
considered an 
officer of court, and be subject to the same control and

punishment in case of misbehavior. Not more than 10 business 
days after the
day of election, the board of election 
commissioners shall compile a list
containing the name, address 
and party affiliation of each judge of
election who served on 
the day of election, and shall preserve such list
and make it 
available for public inspection and copying for a period of not

more than one year from the date of receipt of such list.  
Copies of such
list shall be available for purchase at a cost 
not to exceed the cost of
duplication. The board of 
commissioners has the right
at any time, in case of misbehavior 
or neglect of duty, to remove any judge
of election, and shall 
cause such vacancy to be filled in accordance with
this Act. 
Except for judges appointed under subsection (c) of Section 
14-1,
the board has the right, at any time, to remove any judge 
of
election for failing to vote the primary ballot of the 
political party he
represents at a primary election at which he 
served as such judge, and
shall cause such vacancy to be filled 
in accordance with this Act.
The board shall remove any judge 
of election who, twice during the same
term of office, fails to 
provide for the opening of the polling place at
the time 
prescribed in Section 17-1 or Section 18-2, whichever is

applicable, unless such delay can be demonstrated
by the judge 
of election to be beyond his or her control. In the
event that 
any judge of election is removed for cause, the board shall

specify such cause in writing and make such writing a matter of 
public
record, with a copy to be sent to the appropriate county 
chair chairman who made
the initial recommendation of the 
election judges. The judges of election
must be appointed and 
confirmed at least 35 days prior to the next
election.

    If any vacancy shall occur or exist, more than 5 days 
before election
the judges appointed to such places must be 
confirmed by such court. Such
commissioners shall not 
voluntarily remove any judge within 5 days of such
election, 
except for flagrant misbehavior, incapacity or dishonesty, and

the reasons therefor must afterwards be reported in writing to 
such court
and made a matter of public record, with a copy to 
be sent to the
appropriate county chair chairman who made the 
initial recommendation of the
election judge. If such removal 
be wilful and without cause, the
commissioners shall be 
punished for contempt of court and subject to
removal. The 
board of election commissioners shall have the power on

election day to remove without cause any judge of election 
appointed by the
other judges of election pursuant to Section 
14-6 and to appoint another
judge of election to serve for that 
election. Such substitute judge of
election must be selected, 
where possible, pursuant to the provisions of
Section 14-3.2 
and must be qualified in accordance with Section 14-1.

(Source: P.A. 90-672, eff. 7-31-98; 91-352, eff. 1-1-00.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/17-18.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 17-18.1)




    Sec. 17-18.1. 
Wherever the judicial retention ballot to be 
used in
any general election contains the names of more than 15 
judges on a
separate paper ballot, the County Clerk or Board of 
Election
Commissioners as the case may be, shall designate 
special judges of
election for the purpose of tallying and 
canvassing the votes cast for
and against the propositions for 
the retention of judges in office in
such places and at such 
times as the County Clerk or Board of Election
Commissioners 
determine. Special judges of election shall be designated
from 
certified lists submitted by the respective chairmen of the 
county
central committees of the two leading political parties. 
In the event
that the County Clerk or Board of Election 
Commissioners as the case may
be, decides that the counting of 
the retention ballots shall be
performed in the precinct where 
such ballots are cast, 2 special judges
of election shall be 
designated to tally and canvass the vote of each
precinct with 
one being named from each of the 2 leading political
parties.

    In the event that the County Clerk or Board of Election 
Commissioners
decides that the judicial retention ballots from 
several precincts shall
be tallied and canvassed in a central 
or common location, then each
major political party shall be 
entitled to an equal number of special
election judges in each 
such central or common location. The County
Clerk or Board of 
Election Commissioners, as the case may be, shall
inform, no 
later than 75 days prior to such election, the respective

chairmen of the county central committees of the location or 
locations
where the counting of retention ballots will be done, 
the number of names
to be included on the certified lists, and 
the number of special
election judges to be selected from those 
lists. If the certified list
for either party is not submitted 
within thirty days after the chairmen
have been so informed, 
the County Clerk or Board of Election
Commissioners shall 
designate special judges of election for that party
in whatever 
manner it determines.

    The County Clerk or Board of Election Commissioners shall 
apply to
the Circuit Court for the confirmation of the special 
judges of election
designated under this Section. The court 
shall confirm or refuse to
confirm such designations as the 
interest of the public may require.
Those confirmed shall be 
officers of the court and subject to its
disciplinary powers.

    The County Clerk or Board of Election Commissioners shall, 
in the
exercise of sound discretion, prescribe the forms, 
materials and
supplies together with the procedures for 
completion and return thereof
for use in such election by 
special judges of election. The special
judges of election 
designated under this Section shall have full
responsibility 
and authority for tallying and canvassing the votes
pertaining 
to the retention of judges and the return of ballots and

supplies.

    If the County Clerk or Board of Election Commissioners 
decides that
the counting of the retention ballots shall be 
performed in the precinct
where such ballots were cast, at 
least 2 ballot boxes shall be provided
for paper retention 
ballots, one of which shall be used from the opening
of the 
polls until 9:00 a.m. and from 12:00 noon until 3:00 p.m. and 
the
second of which shall be used from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 
noon and from
3:00 p.m. until the closing of the polls; 
provided that if additional
ballot boxes are provided, the 
additional boxes shall be used instead of
reusing boxes used 
earlier. At the close of each such period of use, a
ballot box 
used for retention ballots shall be immediately unsealed and

opened and the ballots therein counted and tallied by the 
special judges
of election. After counting and tallying the 
retention ballots, the
special judges of election shall place 
the counted ballots in a
container provided for that purpose by 
the County Clerk or Board of
Election Commissioners and clearly 
marked with the appropriate printing
and shall thereupon seal 
such container. One such container shall be
provided for each 
of the four time periods and clearly designated as the

container for the respective period. The tally shall be 
recorded on
sheets provided by the County Clerk or Board of 
Election Commissioners
and designated as tally sheets for the 
respective time periods. Before a
ballot box may be reused, it 
shall in the presence of all of the judges
of election be 
verified to be empty, whereupon it shall be resealed.
After the 
close of the polls, and after the tally of votes cast by vote 
by mail
 voters, the special judges of election shall add 
together the
tallies of all the ballot boxes used throughout 
the day, and complete
the canvass of votes for retention of 
judges in the manner established
by this Act. All of these 
procedures shall be carried out within the
clear view of the 
other judges of election. The sealed containers of
used 
retention ballots shall be returned with other voted ballots to 
the
County Clerk or Board of Election Commissioners in the 
manner provided
by this Act.

    The compensation of a special judge of election may not 
exceed $30
per judge per precinct or district canvassed.

    This Section does not affect any other office or the 
conduct of any
other election held at the same time as the 
election for the retention
of judges in office.

(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 
    (10 ILCS 5/17-22)  (from Ch. 46, par. 17-22)
    Sec. 17-22.  The judges of election shall make the tally 
sheet and
certificate of results in triplicate. If, however, 
the number of
established political parties, as defined in 
Section 10-2, exceeds 2,
one additional copy shall be made for 
each established political party
in excess of 2. One list of 
voters, or other proper return with such
certificate written 
thereon, and accompanying tally sheet footed up so
as to show 
the correct number of votes cast for each person voted for,

shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up by the judges of 
election, 2
of whom (one from each of the 2 major political 
parties) shall
immediately deliver same to the county clerk, or 
his deputy, at the
office of the county clerk, or to an 
officially designated receiving
station established by the 
county clerk where a duly authorized
representative of the 
county clerk shall receive said envelopes for
immediate 
transmission to the office of county clerk, who shall safely

keep them. The other certificates of results and accompanying 
tally
sheet shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up and duly 
directed,
respectively, to the chairp chairman of the county 
central committee of each
then existing established political 
party, and by another of the judges
of election deposited 
immediately in the nearest United States letter
deposit. 
However, if any county chair chairman notifies the county clerk 
not
later than 10 days before the election of his desire to 
receive the
envelope addressed to him at the point and at the 
time same are
delivered to the county clerk, his deputy or 
receiving station designee
the envelopes shall be delivered to 
such county chair chairman or his designee
immediately upon 
receipt thereof by the county clerk, his deputy or his

receiving station designee. The person or persons so designated 
by a
county chair chairman shall sign an official receipt 
acknowledging receipt of
said envelopes. The poll book and 
tally list filed with the county clerk
shall be kept one year, 
and certified copies thereof shall be evidence
in all courts, 
proceedings and election contests. Before the returns are

sealed up, as aforesaid, the judges shall compare the tally 
papers,
footings and certificates and see that they are correct 
and duplicates
of each other, and certify to the correctness of 
the same.
    At the consolidated election, the judges of election
shall 
make a tally sheet and certificate of results for each 
political
subdivision for which candidates or public questions 
are on the ballot
at such election, and shall sign, seal in a 
marked envelope and deliver
them to the county clerk with the 
other certificates of results herein
required. Such tally 
sheets and certificates of results may be
duplicates of the 
tally sheet and certificate of results otherwise
required by 
this Section, showing all votes for all candidates and
public 
questions voted for or upon in the precinct, or may be on

separate forms prepared by the election authority and showing 
only those
votes cast for candidates and public questions of 
each such political
subdivision.
    Within 2 days of delivery of complete returns of the 
consolidated election, the county clerk shall transmit an 
original,
sealed tally sheet and certificate of results from 
each precinct in his
jurisdiction in which candidates or public 
questions of a political
subdivision were on the ballot to the 
local election official of such
political subdivision. Each 
local election official, within 24 hours of
receipt of all of 
the tally sheets and certificates of results for all
precincts 
in which candidates or public questions of his political

subdivision were on the ballot, shall transmit such sealed 
tally sheets
and certificates of results to the canvassing 
board for that political
subdivision.
    In the case of referenda for the formation of a political

subdivision, the tally sheets and certificates of results shall 
be
transmitted by the county clerk to the circuit court that 
ordered the
proposition submitted or to the officials 
designated by the court to
conduct the canvass of votes. In the 
case of school referenda for which
a regional superintendent of 
schools is responsible for the canvass of
votes, the county 
clerk shall transmit the tally sheets and certificates
of 
results to the regional superintendent of schools.
    Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are 
used, the
provisions of this section may be modified as 
required or authorized by
Article 24 or Article 24A, whichever 
is applicable.
    Only judges appointed under the provisions of subsection 
(a) of Section 13-4 or subsection (b) of Section 14-1 may make 
any delivery required by this Section from judges of election 
to a county clerk, or his or her deputy, at the office of the 
county clerk or to a county clerk's duly authorized 
representative at the county clerk's officially designated 
receiving station. 
(Source: P.A. 96-1003, eff. 7-6-10.)
 


    (10 ILCS 5/17-23)  (from Ch. 46, par. 17-23)



    Sec. 17-23. Pollwatchers in a general election shall be 
authorized in
the following manner:

    (1) Each established political party shall be entitled to 
appoint
two pollwatchers per precinct.  Such pollwatchers must 
be affiliated
with the political party for which they are 
pollwatching.  For all
elections, the pollwatchers must be

registered to vote in Illinois.

    (2) Each candidate shall be entitled to appoint two 
pollwatchers per
precinct.  For all elections, the pollwatchers 
must be
registered to vote
in Illinois.

    (3) Each organization of citizens within the county or 
political
subdivision, which has among its purposes or 
interests the investigation
or prosecution of election frauds, 
and which shall have registered its
name and address and the 
name and addresses of its principal officers
with the proper 
election authority at least 40 days before the election,
shall 
be entitled to appoint one pollwatcher per precinct.  For all

elections, the pollwatcher must be registered to vote in

Illinois.

    (3.5) Each State nonpartisan civic organization within the 
county or political subdivision shall be entitled to appoint 
one pollwatcher per precinct, provided that no more than 2 
pollwatchers appointed by State nonpartisan civic 
organizations shall be present in a precinct polling place at 
the same time.  Each organization shall have registered the 
names and addresses of its principal officers with the proper 
election authority at least 40 days before the election.  The 
pollwatchers must be registered to vote in Illinois.  For the 
purpose of this paragraph, a "State nonpartisan civic 
organization" means any corporation, unincorporated 
association, or organization that:
        (i) as part of its written articles of incorporation, 
    bylaws, or charter or by separate written declaration, has 
    among its stated purposes the provision of voter 
    information and education, the protection of individual 
    voters' rights, and the promotion of free and equal 
    elections;
        (ii) is organized or primarily conducts its activities 
    within the State of Illinois; and
        (iii) continuously maintains an office or business 
    location within the State of Illinois, together with a 
    current listed telephone number (a post office box number 
    without a current listed telephone number is not 
    sufficient).

    (4) In any general election held to elect candidates for 
the offices of
a municipality of less than 3,000,000 population 
that is situated in 2 or
more counties, a pollwatcher who is a 
resident of Illinois shall be eligible to serve as a

pollwatcher in any poll located within such
municipality, 
provided that such pollwatcher otherwise complies with the

respective requirements of subsections (1) through (3) of this 
Section and
is a registered voter in Illinois.

    (5) Each organized group of proponents or opponents of a 
ballot
proposition, which shall have registered the name and 
address of its
organization or committee and the name and 
address of its chair chairman with the
proper election 
authority at least 40 days before the election, shall be

entitled to appoint one pollwatcher per precinct.  The 
pollwatcher
must be
registered to vote in Illinois.

    All pollwatchers shall be required to have proper 
credentials.  Such
credentials shall be printed in sufficient 
quantities, shall be issued
by and under the facsimile 
signature(s) of the election authority or the State Board of 
Elections and
shall be available for distribution by the 
election authority and State Board of Elections at least 2 
weeks prior to the
election. Such credentials shall be 
authorized by the real or facsimile
signature of the State or 
local party official or the candidate or the
presiding officer 
of the civic organization or the chair chairman of the

proponent or opponent group, as the case may be. Neither the 
election authority nor the State Board of Elections may require 
any such party official or the candidate or the presiding 
officer of the civic organization or the chair chairman of the 
proponent or opponent group to submit the names or other 
information concerning pollwatchers before making credentials 
available to such persons or organizations.

    Pollwatcher credentials shall be in substantially the 
following form:

 

POLLWATCHER CREDENTIALS


TO THE JUDGES OF ELECTION:

    In accordance with the provisions of the Election
Code, the 
undersigned hereby appoints .......... (name of pollwatcher)

who resides at ........... (address) in  the  county
of 
..........., .......... (township or municipality)
of 
........... (name), State of Illinois and who is duly 
registered
to vote from this  address, to act as a pollwatcher 
in the
........... precinct of the ........... ward (if 
applicable)
of the ........... (township or municipality) of 
........... at the
........... election to be held on (insert 
date).

........................  (Signature of Appointing Authority)

......................... TITLE  (party official,  candidate,

                                civic organization president,

                        proponent or opponent group 
chair chairman)

 

    Under penalties provided by law pursuant to Section 29-10 
of the
Election Code, the undersigned pollwatcher certifies 
that he or she resides
at ................ (address) in the 
county of ............, .........
(township or municipality) 
of ........... (name), State of Illinois, and is
duly 
registered to vote in Illinois.

..........................            .......................

(Precinct and/or Ward in           (Signature of Pollwatcher)

Which Pollwatcher Resides)

 

    Pollwatchers must present their credentials to the Judges 
of Election
upon entering the polling place.  Pollwatcher 
credentials properly
executed and signed shall be proof of the 
qualifications of the
pollwatcher authorized thereby.  Such 
credentials are retained by the
Judges and returned to the 
Election Authority at the end of the day of
election with the 
other election materials.  Once a pollwatcher has
surrendered a 
valid credential, he may leave and reenter the polling place

provided that such continuing action does not disrupt the 
conduct of the
election.  Pollwatchers may be substituted during 
the course of the day, but
established political parties, 
candidates and qualified civic organizations
can have only as 
many pollwatchers at any given time as are authorized in
this 
Article.  A substitute must present his signed credential to the

judges of election upon entering the polling place.  Election 
authorities
must provide a sufficient number of credentials to 
allow for substitution
of pollwatchers.  After the polls have 
closed pollwatchers shall be allowed
to remain until the 
canvass of votes is completed; but may leave and
reenter only 
in cases of necessity, provided that such action is not so

continuous as to disrupt the canvass of votes.

    Candidates seeking office in a district or municipality 
encompassing 2
or more counties shall be admitted to any and 
all polling places throughout
such district or municipality 
without regard to the counties in which such
candidates are 
registered to vote.  Actions of such candidates shall be

governed in each polling place by the same privileges and 
limitations that
apply to pollwatchers as provided in this 
Section.  Any such candidate who
engages in an activity in a 
polling place which could reasonably be
construed by a majority 
of the judges of election as campaign activity
shall be removed 
forthwith from such polling place.

    Candidates seeking office in a district or municipality 
encompassing 2 or
more counties who desire to be admitted to 
polling places on election day
in such district or municipality 
shall be required to have proper
credentials.  Such credentials 
shall be printed in sufficient quantities,
shall be issued by 
and under the facsimile signature of the State Board of 
Elections or the
election authority of the election 
jurisdiction where the polling place in
which the candidate 
seeks admittance is located, and shall be available for

distribution at least 2 weeks prior to the election.  Such 
credentials shall
be signed by the candidate.

    Candidate credentials shall be in substantially the 
following form:

 

CANDIDATE CREDENTIALS


    TO THE JUDGES OF ELECTION:

    In accordance with the provisions of the Election Code, I 
...... (name of
candidate) hereby certify that I am a candidate 
for ....... (name of
office) and seek admittance to ....... 
precinct of the ....... ward (if
applicable) of the ....... 
(township or municipality) of ....... at the
....... election 
to be held on (insert date).

.........................             .......................

(Signature of Candidate)              OFFICE FOR WHICH

                                      CANDIDATE SEEKS

                                      NOMINATION OR

                                      ELECTION

 

    Pollwatchers shall be permitted to observe all proceedings 
and view all reasonably requested records relating
to the 
conduct of the election, provided the secrecy of the ballot is 
not impinged, and to station themselves in a position
in the 
voting room as will enable them to observe the judges making 
the
signature comparison between the voter application and the 
voter
registration record card; provided, however, that such 
pollwatchers
shall not be permitted to station themselves in 
such close proximity to
the judges of election so as to 
interfere with the orderly conduct of
the election and shall 
not, in any event, be permitted to handle
election materials.  
Pollwatchers may challenge for cause the voting
qualifications 
of a person offering to vote and may call to the
attention of 
the judges of election any incorrect procedure or apparent

violations of this Code.

    If a majority of the judges of election determine that the 
polling
place has become too overcrowded with pollwatchers so 
as to interfere
with the orderly conduct of the election, the 
judges shall, by lot,
limit such pollwatchers to a reasonable 
number, except that each
established or new political party 
shall be permitted to have at least
one pollwatcher present.

    Representatives of an election authority, with regard to an 
election
under its jurisdiction, the State Board of Elections, 
and law
enforcement agencies, including but not limited to a 
United States
Attorney, a State's attorney, the Attorney 
General, and a State, county,
or local police department, in 
the performance of their official
election duties, shall be 
permitted at all times to enter and remain in
the polling 
place.  Upon entering the polling place, such
representatives 
shall display their official credentials or other

identification to the judges of election.

    Uniformed police officers assigned to polling place duty 
shall follow
all lawful instructions of the judges of election.

    The provisions of this Section shall also apply to 
supervised casting of vote by mail
 ballots as provided in 
Section 19-12.2 of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 7-29-13; 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/18-1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 18-1)



    Sec. 18-1. 
The provisions of this Article 18 shall be 
applicable only to
and in municipalities operating under 
Article 6 of this Act.

    At every election in any municipality operating under 
Article 6 of this
Act, each of the political parties shall have 
the right to designate a
canvasser for each election precinct, 
who may make a canvass of the
precinct in which he is appointed 
to act, not less than 20 nor more than 31
days previous to such 
election, for the purpose of ascertaining the names
and 
addresses of the legal voters residing in such precinct. An 
authority
signed by the executive director of the board of 
election
commissioners, shall be
sufficient evidence of the 
right of such canvasser to make a canvass of the
precinct in 
which he is appointed to act. The executive director of the 
board of
election commissioners shall issue such certificate of 
authority to any
person designated in a written request signed 
by the recognized chair chairman or
presiding officer of the 
chief managing committee of a political party in
such city, 
village or incorporated town; and a record shall be kept in the

office of the election commissioners of all appointments of 
such
canvassers. In making such canvass no person shall refuse 
to answer
questions and give the information asked for and 
known to him or her.

(Source: P.A. 82-373.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/18-14)  (from Ch. 46, par. 18-14)



    Sec. 18-14. 
The judges of election shall make duplicate 
statements of
the result of the canvass, which shall be written 
or partly written and
partly printed. Each of the statements 
shall contain a caption stating
the day on which, and the 
number of the election precinct and the ward,
city and county, 
in relation to which such statements shall be made, and
the 
time of opening and closing of the polls of such election 
precinct.
It shall also contain a statement showing the whole 
number of votes
given for each person, designating the office 
for which they were given,
which statement shall be written, or 
partly written and partly printed,
in words at length; and in 
case a proposition of any kind has been
submitted to a vote at 
such election, such statements shall also show
the whole number 
of votes cast for or against such proposition, written
out or 
partly written and partly printed, in words at length, and at 
the
end thereof a certificate that such statement is correct in 
all
respects; which certificate, and each sheet of paper 
forming part of the
statement, shall be subscribed by the 
judges. If any judge shall decline
to sign such return, he 
shall state his reason therefor in writing, and
a copy thereof, 
signed by himself, shall be enclosed with each return.
Each of 
the statements shall be enclosed in an envelope, which shall

then be securely sealed with sealing wax or other adhesive 
material; and
each of the judges shall write his name across 
every fold at which the
envelope, if unfastened, could be 
opened. One of the envelopes shall be
directed to the county 
clerk and one to the comptroller of the city, or
to the officer 
of such city whose duties correspond with those of
comptroller. 
The judges of election shall make quadruplicate sets of

tallies, and each set of tallies shall also be signed by the 
judges of
the election. If, however, the number of established 
political parties,
as defined in Section 10-2, exceeds 2, one 
additional set of tallies
shall be made and signed for each 
established political party in excess
of 2. Each set shall be 
enclosed in an envelope, securely sealed and
signed in like 
manner; and one of the envelopes shall be directed on the

outside to the election commissioners and the other to the 
city, village
or town clerk; the other two envelopes shall be 
addressed, respectively,
to the chairmen of the county central 
committees of the established
political parties. On the outside 
of every envelope shall be endorsed
whether it contains the 
statements of the votes cast or the tallies, and
for what 
precinct and ward, village or town.

    However, in those jurisdictions where electronic voting 
systems utilizing
in-precinct counting equipment are used, one 
such envelope shall be transmitted
to the chair chairman of the 
county central committee of each established political
party 
and 2 such envelopes shall be transmitted to the board of 
election
commissioners.

    Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are 
used, the
provisions of this Section may be modified as 
required or authorized by
Article 24 or Article 24A, whichever 
is applicable.

    At the nonpartisan and consolidated elections, the judges 
of election
shall make a tally sheet and certificate of results 
for each political
subdivision as to which candidates or public 
questions are on the ballot
at such election, except where such 
votes are to be canvassed by the
board of election 
commissioners or by the city canvassing board provided
in 
Section 22-8. The judges shall sign, seal in a marked envelope 
and
deliver them to the county clerk with the other 
certificates of results
herein required. Such tally sheets and 
certificates of results may be
duplicates of the tally sheet 
and certificate of results otherwise
required by this Section, 
showing all votes for all candidates and
public questions voted 
for or upon in the precinct, or may be on
separate forms 
prepared by the election authority and showing only those
votes 
cast for candidates and public questions of each such political

subdivision.

    Within 2 days of delivery of complete returns of the 
consolidated and
nonpartisan elections, the board of election 
commissioners shall
transmit an original, sealed tally sheet 
and certificate of results from
each precinct in its 
jurisdiction in which candidates or public
questions of a 
political subdivision were on the ballot to the local
election 
official of such political subdivision where a local canvassing

board is designated to canvass such votes. Each local election 
official,
within 24 hours of receipt of all of the tally sheets 
and certificates
of results for all precincts in which 
candidates or public questions of
his political subdivision 
were on the ballot, shall transmit such sealed
tally sheets and 
certificates of results to the canvassing board for
that 
political subdivision.

    In the case of referenda for the formation of a political 
subdivision
the tally sheets and certificates of results shall 
be transmitted by the
board of election commissioners to the 
circuit court that ordered the
proposition submitted or to the 
officials designated by the court to
conduct the canvass of 
votes. In the case of school referenda for which
a regional 
superintendent of schools is responsible for the canvass of

votes, the board of election commissioners shall transmit the 
tally
sheets and certificates of results to the regional 
superintendent.

(Source: P.A. 82-1014.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/21-1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 21-1)



    Sec. 21-1. 
Choosing and election of electors of President 
and
Vice-President of the United States shall be in the 
following manner:

    (a) In each year in which a President and Vice-President of 
the United
States are chosen, each political party or group in 
this State shall choose
by its State Convention or State 
central committee electors of President and Vice-President of 
the
United States and such State Convention or State central 
committee of such party or group shall also
choose electors at 
large, if any are to be appointed for this State and
such State 
Convention or State central committee of such party or group 
shall by its chair chairman and
secretary certify the total 
list of such electors together with electors at
large so chosen 
to the State Board of Elections.

    The filing of such certificate with the Board, of such 
choosing of
electors shall be deemed and taken to be the 
choosing and selection of the
electors of this State, if such 
party or group is successful at the polls
as herein provided in 
choosing their candidates for President and
Vice-President of 
the United States.

    (b) The names of the candidates of the several political 
parties or
groups for electors of President and Vice-President 
shall not be printed on
the official ballot to be voted in the 
election to be held on the day in
this Act above named. In lieu 
of the names of the candidates for such
electors of President 
and Vice-President, immediately under the appellation
of party 
name of a party or group in the column of its candidates on the

official ballot, to be voted at said election first above named 
in
subsection (1) of Section 2A-1.2 and Section 2A-2, there 
shall be printed
within a bracket the name of the candidate for

President and the name of the candidate for Vice-President of 
such party or
group with a square to the left of such bracket. 
Each voter in this State
from the several lists or sets of 
electors so chosen and selected by the
said respective 
political parties or groups, may choose and elect one of
such 
lists or sets of electors by placing a cross in the square to 
the left
of the bracket aforesaid of one of such parties or 
groups. Placing a cross
within the square before the bracket 
enclosing the names of President and
Vice-President shall not 
be deemed and taken as a direct vote for such
candidates for 
President and Vice-President, or either of them, but shall
only 
be deemed and taken to be a vote for the entire list or set of

electors chosen by that political party or group so certified 
to the State
Board of Elections as herein provided. Voting by 
means of placing a cross
in the appropriate place preceding the 
appellation or title of the
particular political party or 
group, shall not be deemed or taken as a
direct vote for the 
candidates for President and Vice-President, or either
of them, 
but instead to the Presidential vote, as a vote for the entire

list or set of electors chosen by that political party or group 
so
certified to the State Board of Elections as herein 
provided.

    (c) Such certification by the respective political parties 
or groups in
this State of electors of President and 
Vice-President shall be made to the
State Board of Elections 
within 2 days after such State convention or meeting of the 
State central committee in which the electors were chosen.

    (d) Should more than one certificate of choice and 
selection of electors
of the same political party or group be 
filed by contesting conventions or
contesting groups, it shall 
be the duty of the State Board of Elections
within 10 days 
after the adjournment of the last of such conventions to
meet 
and determine which set of nominees for electors of such party 
or
group was chosen and selected by the authorized convention 
of such party or
group. The Board, after notice to the chair 
chairman and secretaries or managers
of the conventions or 
groups and after a hearing shall determine which set
of 
electors was so chosen by the authorized convention and shall 
so
announce and publish the fact, and such decision shall be 
final and the set
of electors so determined upon by the 
electoral board to be so chosen shall
be the list or set of 
electors to be deemed elected if that party shall be
successful 
at the polls, as herein provided.

    (e) Should a vacancy occur in the choice of an elector in a

congressional district, such vacancy may be filled by the 
executive
committee of the party or group for such 
congressional district, to be
certified by such committee to 
the State Board of Elections. Should a
vacancy occur in the 
office of elector at large, such vacancy shall be
filled by the 
State committee of such political party or group, and
certified 
by it to the State Board of Elections.

(Source: P.A. 99-522, eff. 6-30-16.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/22-1)
  (from Ch. 46, par. 22-1)



    Sec. 22-1. Abstracts of votes. Within 21 days after the

close of the
election at which candidates for offices 
hereinafter named in this Section are
voted upon, the election 
authorities of the respective counties shall open the returns 
and make abstracts of
the votes on a separate sheet for each of 
the following:

        A. For Governor and Lieutenant Governor;

        B. For State officers;

        C. For presidential electors;

        D. For United States Senators and Representatives to 
    Congress;

        E. For judges of the Supreme Court;

        F. For judges of the Appellate Court;

        G. For judges of the circuit court;

        H. For Senators and Representatives to the General 
    Assembly;

        I. For State's Attorneys elected from 2 or more 
    counties;

        J. For amendments to the Constitution, and for other 
    propositions
submitted to the electors of the entire State;

        K. For county officers and for propositions submitted 
    to the
electors of the county only;

        L. For Regional Superintendent of Schools;

        M. For trustees of Sanitary Districts; and

        N. For Trustee of a Regional Board of School Trustees.

    Each sheet shall report the returns by precinct or ward.
    Multiple originals of each of the sheets shall be prepared 
and one of
each shall be turned over to the chair chairman of 
the county central
committee of each of the then existing 
established political parties, as
defined in Section 10-2, or 
his duly authorized representative
immediately after the 
completion of the entries on the sheets and before
the totals 
have been compiled.

    The foregoing abstracts shall be preserved by the election 
authority in its office.

    Whenever any county clerk is unable to canvass the vote,


the deputy county clerk or a designee of the county clerk shall 
serve in his or her place.

    The powers and duties of the election authority canvassing 
the votes are limited to
those specified in this Section.

    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.
(Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 94-647, eff. 1-1-06; 
95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/22-4)  (from Ch. 46, par. 22-4)



    Sec. 22-4. 
On the day appointed, the clerk and the chair 
chairmen (or vice-chair
vice-chairman or secretary, as the case 
may be) of the county central
committees of the Republican and 
Democratic parties and other canvassers,
or, in case of their 
absence the state's attorney or sheriff, shall attend,
and the 
parties interested shall appear and determine by lot which of 
them
is to be declared elected; and the clerk shall issue his 
certificate of
election to the person thus declared elected.

(Source: Laws 1955, p. 1015.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/22-8)
  (from Ch. 46, par. 22-8)



    Sec. 22-8. In municipalities operating under Article 6 of 
this Act,
within  21 days after the close of such election, the 
board of election
commissioners
shall open all returns and 
shall make abstracts or
statements of the votes for all offices 
and questions voted on at the election.

    Each abstract or statement shall report the returns by 
precinct or ward.

    Multiple originals of each of the abstracts or statements 
shall be prepared and one of
each shall be turned over to the 
chair chairman of the county central committee
of each of the 
then existing established political parties, as defined in

Section 10-2.

(Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 94-647, eff. 1-1-06; 
95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/22-15)  (from Ch. 46, par. 22-15)



    Sec. 22-15. The election
authority shall, upon request,
and 
by mail if so requested, furnish free of charge to any 
candidate for any office, whose name appeared
upon the ballot 
within the jurisdiction of
the election
authority, a copy of 
the abstract
of votes by precinct or ward for all candidates 
for the office for which such
person was a candidate. Such 
abstract shall be furnished no later than 2
days after the 
receipt of the request or 8 days after the completing of the

canvass, whichever is later.

    Within one calendar day following the canvass and

proclamation of each general
primary election and general 
election, each election authority shall transmit
to the 
principal office of the State Board of Elections copies of the 
abstracts
of votes by precinct or ward for the offices of
ward, 
township, and precinct committeeperson committeeman via 
overnight mail so that the
abstract of votes arrives at the 
address the following calendar day.  Each
election authority 
shall
also transmit to the principal office of the State Board 
of Elections copies
of current precinct poll lists.

(Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 94-647, eff. 1-1-06; 
95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/22-15.1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 22-15.1)



    Sec. 22-15.1. (a) Within 60 days following the canvass
of 
the general election within each election jurisdiction, the 
election
authority shall
prepare, in typewritten or legible 
computer-generated form, a report of the
abstracts of votes by 
precinct for all offices and
questions of public policy in 
connection with which votes were cast within
the election 
jurisdiction at the general election.  The report shall
include 
the total number of ballots cast within each precinct or ward 
and the
total
number of registered voters within each precinct 
or ward.  The election
authority shall provide a copy of the 
report to the chair chairman of the county
central committee of 
each established political party in the county within
which the 
election jurisdiction is contained, and shall make a reasonable

number of copies of the report available for distribution to 
the public.

    (b) Within 60 days after the effective date of this 
amendatory Act of
1985, each election authority shall prepare, 
in typewritten or legible
computer-generated form, a report of 
the type required
by subsection (a) concerning the general 
election of 1984.  The election
authority shall provide a copy 
of the report to the chairperson chairman of the county
central 
committee of each established political party in the county in

which the election jurisdiction is contained, and shall make a 
reasonable
number of copies of the report available for 
distribution to the public.

    (c) An election authority may charge a fee to reimburse the 
actual cost
of duplicating each copy of a report provided 
pursuant to subsection (a) or
(b).

(Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/24-13)  (from Ch. 46, par. 24-13)



    Sec. 24-13. 
Four sets of ballot labels for use in each 
voting
machine shall be provided for each polling place for 
each election by
the election authority.
There shall also be 
furnished all other necessary materials or supplies
for the 
proper use of the voting machines, including durable 
transparent
noninflammable covering at least 1/16 inch thick 
with which all the
ballot labels shall be securely covered to 
prevent shifting, tampering
with or mutilations of the ballot 
labels, facsimile diagrams, return
sheets, certificates, forms 
and materials of all kinds provided for in
this Article. The 
election authority shall before the
day of election, cause the 
proper ballot labels, together with the
transparent protective 
covering for same, to be put upon each machine,
corresponding 
with the sample ballot labels herein provided for, and the

machine in every way to be put in order, set and adjusted, 
ready for use
in voting when delivered at the precinct polling 
places and for the
purpose of so labeling the machine, putting 
in order, setting and
adjusting the same, they may employ one 
competent person to be known as
the voting machine custodian 
and additional deputy custodians as
required. The election 
authority
shall, preceding each
election day, holding a meeting 
or meetings for the purpose of
instructing all election 
precinct officials who are to serve in an
election precinct 
where voting machines are to be used. Before preparing
any 
voting machines for any election, the election authority shall 
cause written
notices to be sent to the chair chairman of the 
county central committee of
each political party having a 
candidate or candidates on the ballot, or
the chair chairman of 
each municipal or township
committee of each political
party 
having candidates on the ballot, in the case of a municipal or 
township
election, stating the times when, and the place
or 
places where,
the voting machines will be prepared for the 
election; they shall also
cause written notices to be sent to 
the chair chairman or presiding officer of
any organization of 
citizens within the county, or other political subdivision,

having as its purpose, or among its purposes or interests, the

prevention, investigation or prosecution of election frauds, 
which has
registered its name and address and the names of its 
principal officers
with the officer, officers or board having 
charge of the preparation of
the machines for the election, at 
least 40 days before such
election, stating the times when, and 
the place or places where, the
voting machines will be prepared 
for the election, at which times and
place or places, one 
representative of each such political party,
certified by the 
respective chair chairman of the county managing committee of

each such political party, or the chair chairman of the 
municipal or township
committee in the case of a municipal or 
township
election, and one
representative of each such 
candidate, certified by such candidate, and
one representative 
of each organization of citizens, certified by the
respective 
chair chairman or presiding officers of such organizations 
shall be
entitled to be present and see that the machines are 
properly prepared
and tested and placed in proper condition and 
order for use at the
election. The custodian or custodians of 
voting machines and the party
representatives shall take the 
constitutional oath of office. It shall
be the privilege of 
such party and organization representatives to be
present at 
the preparation of the voting machines for the election and
to 
see that each machine is tested for accuracy and is properly 
prepared
and that all registering counters are set at zero. The 
custodian shall,
in the presence of the party and candidate and 
organization
representatives, prepare the voting machine for 
the election and set all
registering counters at zero, and he 
shall then, assisted by the
watchers, test each such 
registering counter for accuracy by casting
votes upon it, and 
such testing shall be done in the presence of the
watchers, 
until each such registering counter is correctly registering

each vote cast upon it, and each certificate for each machine 
shall
state that this has been done, and the custodians shall 
then, in the
presence of the party and candidate and 
organization representatives,
reset each registering counter 
to zero, and shall then immediately seal
the voting machine 
with a numbered metal seal, and a record of the
number on the 
seal shall then and there be made by the custodian on the

certificate for that machine and the seal shall be so placed as 
to
prevent operation of the machine or its registering counters 
without
breaking the seal, and the custodian shall then 
immediately make a
record on the certificate for that machine 
of the reading shown on the
protective counter. Immediately 
after each machine has been so tested
and prepared for the 
election, it shall be the duty of such custodian or
custodians 
to make a certificate in writing which shall be filed in the

office of the election authority, stating the serial
number of 
each voting
machine, whether or not such machine has all the 
registering counters
set at zero, whether or not such machine 
has been tested by voting on
each registering counter so as to 
prove that each such registering
counter is in perfect and 
accurate working condition, the number
registered on the 
protective counter, and the number on the metal seal
with which 
the machine is sealed against operation. Unless objection is

filed, within 2 days, with the election authority, to the use

of a particular machine or
machines, such voting machine or 
machines when certified to be correct
by the custodian shall be 
conclusively presumed to have been properly
prepared for use at 
the election for which they were prepared. Any
objection filed 
shall particularly set forth the number of the machine
objected 
to, and the particulars or basis for the objection. The machine

shall then be locked so that it cannot be operated or voted 
upon without
first unlocking it and the keys shall be at once 
returned to the custody
of the election authority, and the 
election authority shall cause the
machine so labeled in order, 
set and adjusted, to be delivered at the
polling place, 
together with all necessary furniture and appliances that
go 
with the same, not later than one hour before the hour at which 
the
polls are to be opened. The election authority shall 
deliver the keys,
which unlock the
voting mechanism and the 
registering counters or counter compartment of
the voting 
machine, to the precinct election board, not earlier than
noon 
on the Saturday preceding the election day, nor later than one 
hour
before the opening of the polls, and shall receive and 
file a receipt
therefor. The keys shall be enclosed in a sealed 
envelope on which shall
be written or printed: (1) The name, 
number of or designation of the
election precinct or district; 
(2) The number of the voting machine; (3)
The number of the 
seal with which the machine is sealed; (4) The number

registered on the protective counter or device as reported by 
the
custodian. No precinct election official shall break the 
seal of such
envelope except in the presence of all members of 
the precinct election
board, and such envelope shall not be 
opened until it shall have been
examined by each member of the 
precinct election board to see that it
has not been previously 
opened. Such envelope shall not be opened until
it shall have 
been found that the numbers and records recorded thereon
are 
correct and agree in every respect with the numbers and records 
as
shown on the machine. If any such number is found not to 
agree with the
numbers on the machine, the envelope shall not 
be opened until the
precinct election officials shall have 
notified the
election authority, and until the election 
authority
or some other person authorized by the election 
authority shall have
presented himself at the polling place for

the purpose of re-examining the machine, and shall have 
certified that
it is properly arranged after testing and 
examining it. On the morning
of the election the precinct 
election officials shall meet in the
polling place at least one 
hour before the time for opening the polls.
They shall see that 
the sample ballot labels and instructions for voting
are posted 
properly, and prominently so that the voters can have easy

access to them and that the instruction model is placed on the 
precinct
election officials' table and that everything is in 
readiness for voting
at the hour of opening the polls. They 
shall also see that the voting
machine is properly illuminated 
in accordance with the equipment
furnished. The precinct 
election officials shall compare the ballot
labels on the 
machine with the sample ballots and return sheets, see
that 
they are correct, examine and see that all the registering 
counters
in the machine are set at zero (0) or if the machine 
is equipped with a
device which will automatically record the 
number on the registering
columns on the back of the machine to 
recording sheets of paper and the
said paper can be removed 
without opening the back of the machine, that
all of the said 
registering counters for each candidate as appears on
the said 
recording sheet registers (0) and that the public counter is

also set at zero (0) and that the machine is otherwise in 
perfect order
and they shall compare and record the number on 
the metal seal with
which the voting machine is sealed, with 
the number furnished them as
recorded on the envelope 
containing the keys, by the election authority,
and if the 
number on the seal and the number on the protective
counter do 
not agree with the numbers supplied to them, they shall not

open the polls, but shall notify the election authority, and 
the election
authority or its authorized representatives or

custodian, shall, as soon as may be, test, examine and set the 
machine
in the same manner as is provided in this section for 
the testing,
setting and preparation of voting machines for an 
election. If, after
being so tested and examined, it is found 
that such voting machine is in
perfect working order, all 
registering counters shall be set at zero
(0), the reading of 
the protective counter shall be read and recorded
and the 
precinct election officials may proceed with the opening of the

polls. If such machine be found not to be in perfect working 
order as
hereinbefore provided, it shall not be used in the 
election, but shall
be replaced with another machine which is 
in perfect working order,
properly set, tested and sealed, and 
the election board shall then
proceed to examine such machine 
in the same manner as is provided in
this section for the 
examination of each voting machine by the election
board before 
the opening of the polls. They shall not thereafter permit
the 
counters to be operated or moved except by electors in voting, 
and
they shall also see that all necessary arrangements and 
adjustments are
made for voting irregular ballots on the 
machine. Each precinct election
official shall sign a 
certificate which shall certify that he has
complied with all 
the provisions of this Article, and that, before the
polls were 
declared open, he found the ballot labels to be in their
proper 
places and to exactly agree with the facsimile diagrams and

return or recording sheet belonging to that precinct; all 
registering
counters set at zero (0); the number on the metal 
seal and the number on
the protective counter exactly agree 
with the records furnished by the
election authority; the metal 
seal actually was sealed so as to prevent
movement of the 
voting machine mechanism without first breaking the
seal; all 
ballot labels were clean and without marks of any kind upon

them and they were in no way defaced or mutilated. When voting 
machines
are used in an election precinct, the watchers or 
challengers
representing the various political parties, 
candidates and citizens'
organizations, provided by law to be 
present shall be permitted to be
present from the time the 
precinct election board convenes on election
morning until the 
completion of the canvass after the close of the
polls. Such 
watchers shall be permitted to carefully examine each voting

machine before the polls are declared open and to compare the 
number of
the metal seal and the number on the protective 
counter with their own
records, and to see that all ballot 
labels are in their proper places,
and that the machine 
registering counters are all set at zero (0), and
that the 
machine or machines are in every way ready for voting at the

opening of the polls. If it is found that the ballot labels are 
not in
their proper places on the machine, or that they fail to 
conform in any
respect, with the facsimile diagrams and return 
sheets belonging to the
precinct, the precinct election 
officials shall not use such machine but
shall at once notify 
the proper election authority,
and such machine shall not be 
used until the election authority or person
authorized by it, 
shall have
supplied the proper ballot labels, and shall have 
placed such proper
ballot labels in their proper places, and 
they shall have been found to
be correct by the precinct 
election officials and watchers. If any
registering counter 
shall be found not to be set at zero (0), the
precinct election 
officials shall immediately notify the custodian or
officer or 
officers or board having charge of the preparation of the

voting machines for the election or primary, and the election 
authority
or person authorized by him or them
or it shall 
adjust
such registering counter or counters to zero (0), in the 
presence of all
the precinct election officials and watchers 
serving in such election
district.

(Source: P.A. 80-1469.)

 
    (10 ILCS 5/24A-10)  (from Ch. 46, par. 24A-10)

    Sec. 24A-10. (1) In an election jurisdiction which has 
adopted an
electronic voting system, the election official in 
charge of the
election shall select one of the 3 following 
procedures for receiving,
counting, tallying, and return of the 
ballots:


    (a) Two ballot boxes shall be provided for each polling 
place. The
first ballot box is for the depositing of votes cast 
on the electronic
voting system; and the second ballot box is 
for all votes cast on paper
ballots, including any
paper 
ballots
required to be voted other than on the electronic 
voting system.
Ballots
deposited in the second
ballot box shall 
be counted, tallied, and returned as is elsewhere
provided in 
"The Election Code," as amended, for the counting and
handling 
of paper ballots. Immediately after the closing of the polls, 
the judges of election shall make out a slip indicating the

number of persons who voted in the precinct at the election. 
Such slip
shall be signed by all the judges of election and 
shall be inserted by
them in the first ballot box. The judges 
of election shall thereupon
immediately lock each ballot box; 
provided, that if
such box is not of a type which may be 
securely locked, such box shall be
sealed with filament tape 
provided for such purpose
which shall be wrapped around the box 
lengthwise and crosswise, at least
twice each way, and in such 
manner that the seal completely covers the
slot in the ballot 
box, and each of the judges shall sign such seal. Thereupon
two 
of the judges of election, of different political parties, 
shall
forthwith and by the most direct route transport both 
ballot boxes to
the counting location designated by the county 
clerk or board of
election commissioners.


    Before the ballots of a precinct are fed to the electronic 
tabulating
equipment, the first ballot box shall be opened at 
the central counting
station by the two precinct transport 
judges. Upon opening a ballot box,
such team shall first count 
the number of ballots in the box. If 2 or
more  are folded 
together so as to appear to have been cast by the same
person, 
all of the ballots so folded together shall be marked and

returned with the other ballots in the same condition, as near 
as may
be, in which they were found when first opened, but 
shall not be
counted. If the remaining ballots are found to 
exceed the number of
persons voting in the precinct as shown by 
the slip signed by the judges
of election, the ballots shall be 
replaced in the box, and the box
closed and well shaken and 
again opened and one of the precinct
transport judges shall 
publicly draw out so many ballots unopened as are
equal to such 
excess.


    Such excess ballots shall be marked "Excess-Not Counted" 
and signed
by the two precinct transport judges and shall be 
placed in the "After
7:00 p.m. Defective Ballots Envelope".  The 
number of excess ballots
shall be noted in the remarks section 
of the Certificate of Results.
"Excess" ballots shall not be 
counted in the total of  "defective"
ballots.


    The precinct transport judges shall then examine the 
remaining
ballots for write-in votes and shall count and 
tabulate the write-in
vote; or


    (b) A single ballot box, for the deposit of all votes cast, 
shall be
used. All ballots which are not to be tabulated on the 
electronic voting
system shall be counted, tallied, and 
returned as elsewhere provided in
"The Election Code," as 
amended, for the counting and handling of paper
ballots.


    All ballots to be processed and tabulated with the 
electronic voting
system shall be processed as follows:


    Immediately after the closing of the polls, the precinct 
judges of
election then shall open the ballot box and canvass 
the votes polled to
determine that the number of ballots 
therein agree with the number of
voters voting as shown by the 
applications for ballot or if the same do
not agree the judges 
of election shall make such ballots agree with the
applications 
for ballot in the manner provided by Section 17-18 of "The

Election Code." The judges of election shall then examine all 
ballot cards and ballot card envelopes which
are in
the ballot 
box to determine whether the
ballot cards and
ballot card 
envelopes bear the initials of a precinct judge of election.
If 
any ballot card or ballot card envelope is not
initialed, it 
shall be marked on the back "Defective," initialed as to
such 
label by all judges immediately under such word "Defective," 
and
not counted, but placed in the envelope provided for that 
purpose
labeled "Defective Ballots Envelope."


    When an electronic voting system is used which utilizes a 
ballot
card, before separating the ballot cards from their 
respective
covering envelopes, the judges of election shall 
examine the ballot card
envelopes for write-in votes. When the 
voter has voted a write-in vote,
the judges of election shall 
compare the write-in vote with the votes on
the ballot card to 
determine whether such write-in results in an
overvote for any 
office. In case of an overvote for any office, the
judges of 
election, consisting in each case of at least one judge of

election of each of the two major political parties, shall make 
a true
duplicate ballot of all votes on such ballot card except 
for the office
which is overvoted, by using the ballot label 
booklet of the precinct
and one of the marking devices of the 
precinct so as to transfer all
votes of the voter except for 
the office overvoted, to an official
ballot card of that kind 
used in the precinct at that election. The
original ballot card 
and envelope upon which there is an overvote shall
be clearly 
labeled "Overvoted Ballot", and each shall bear the same
serial 
number which shall be placed thereon by the judges of election,

commencing with number 1 and continuing consecutively for the 
ballots of
that kind in that precinct. The judges of election 
shall initial the
"Duplicate Overvoted Ballot" ballot cards and 
shall place them in the
box for return of the ballots. The 
"Overvoted Ballot" ballots and their
envelopes shall be placed 
in the "Duplicate Ballots" envelope. Envelopes
bearing 
write-in votes marked in the place designated therefor and

bearing the initials of a precinct judge of election and not 
resulting
in an overvote and otherwise complying with the 
election laws as to
marking shall be counted, tallied, and 
their votes recorded on a tally
sheet provided by the election 
official in charge of the election. The
ballot cards and ballot 
card envelopes shall be separated and all except
any defective 
or overvoted shall be placed separately in the box for
return 
of the ballots. The judges of election shall examine the

ballots and ballot cards to determine if any is damaged or 
defective so
that it cannot be counted by the automatic 
tabulating equipment. If any
ballot or ballot card is damaged 
or defective so that it cannot properly
be counted by the 
automatic tabulating equipment, the judges of
election, 
consisting in each case of at least one judge of election of

each of the two major political parties, shall make a true 
duplicate
ballot of all votes on such ballot card by using the 
ballot label
booklet of the precinct and one of the marking 
devices of the precinct.
The original ballot or ballot card and 
envelope shall be clearly labeled
"Damaged Ballot" and the 
ballot or ballot card so produced "Duplicate
Damaged Ballot," 
and each shall bear the same number which shall be
placed 
thereon by the judges of election, commencing with number 1 and

continuing consecutively for the ballots of that kind in the 
precinct.
The judges of election shall initial the "Duplicate 
Damaged Ballot"
ballot or ballot cards, and shall place them in 
the box for return of
the ballots. The "Damaged Ballot" ballots 
or ballot cards and their
envelopes shall be placed in the 
"Duplicated Ballots" envelope. A slip
indicating the number of 
voters voting in person shall be made out, signed by all
judges 
of election, and inserted in the box for return of the ballots.

The tally sheets recording the write-in votes shall be placed 
in this
box. The judges of election thereupon immediately shall 
securely lock the
ballot box or other suitable
box furnished 
for return of the ballots by the election official in
charge of 
the election; provided that if such box is not of a type which

may be securely locked, such box shall be sealed with filament 
tape provided
for such purpose which shall be wrapped around 
the box lengthwise and crosswise,
at least twice each way.  A 
separate adhesive seal label signed by each of
the judges of 
election of the precinct shall be affixed to the box so as
to 
cover any slot therein and to identify the box of the precinct; 
and
if such box is sealed with filament tape as provided herein 
rather than
locked, such tape shall be wrapped around the box 
as provided herein, but
in such manner that the separate 
adhesive seal label affixed to the box
and signed by the judges 
may not be removed without breaking the filament
tape and 
disturbing the signature of the judges.  Thereupon, 2 of the

judges of election, of different major political parties, 
forthwith shall
by the most direct route transport the box for

return of the ballots and enclosed ballots and returns to the 
central
counting location designated by the election official 
in charge of the
election. If, however, because of the lack of 
adequate parking
facilities at the central counting location or 
for any other reason, it
is impossible or impracticable for the 
boxes from all the polling places
to be delivered directly to 
the central counting location, the election
official in charge 
of the election may designate some other location to
which the 
boxes shall be delivered by the 2 precinct judges. While at

such other location the boxes shall be in the care and custody 
of one or
more teams, each consisting of 4 persons, 2 from each 
of the two major
political parties, designated for such purpose 
by the election official
in charge of elections from 
recommendations by the appropriate political
party 
organizations. As soon as possible, the boxes shall be 
transported
from such other location to the central counting 
location by one or more
teams, each consisting of 4 persons, 2 
from each of the 2 major
political parties, designated for such 
purpose by the election official
in charge of elections from 
recommendations by the appropriate political
party 
organizations.


    The "Defective Ballots" envelope, and "Duplicated Ballots" 
envelope
each shall be securely sealed and the flap or end 
thereof of each signed
by the precinct judges of election and 
returned to the central counting
location with the box for 
return of the ballots, enclosed ballots and
returns.


    At the central counting location, a team of tally judges 
designated
by the election official in charge of the election 
shall check the box
returned containing the ballots to 
determine that all seals are intact,
and thereupon shall open 
the box, check the voters' slip and compare the
number of 
ballots so delivered against the total number of voters of the

precinct who voted, remove the ballots or ballot cards and 
deliver them
to the technicians operating the automatic 
tabulating equipment.  Any
discrepancies between the number of 
ballots and total number of voters
shall be noted on a sheet 
furnished for that purpose and signed by the
tally judges; or


    (c) A single ballot box, for the deposit of all votes cast, 
shall be used.
Immediately after the closing of the polls, the 
precinct judges of election shall
securely
lock the ballot box; 
provided that if such box is not of a
type which may be 
securely locked, such box shall be sealed with filament
tape 
provided for such purpose which shall be wrapped around the box 
lengthwise
and crosswise, at least twice each way.
A separate 
adhesive seal label signed by each of the judges of election
of 
the precinct shall be affixed to the box so as to cover any 
slot therein
and to identify the box of the precinct; and if 
such box is sealed with
filament tape as provided herein rather 
than locked, such tape shall be
wrapped around the box as 
provided herein, but in such manner that the separate
adhesive 
seal label affixed to the box and signed by the judges may not

be removed without breaking the filament tape and disturbing 
the signature
of the judges.  Thereupon, 2 of the judges
of 
election, of different
major political parties, shall 
forthwith by the most direct route transport
the box for return 
of the ballots and enclosed vote by mail and early ballots
and 
returns
to the central counting location designated by the 
election official
in charge of the election.  If however, 
because of the lack of adequate
parking facilities at the 
central counting location or for some other reason,
it is 
impossible or impracticable for the boxes from all the polling 
places
to be delivered directly to the central counting 
location, the election
official in charge of the election may 
designate some other location to
which the boxes shall be 
delivered by the 2 precinct judges.  While at
such other 
location the boxes shall be in the care and custody of one or

more teams, each consisting of 4 persons, 2 from each of the 
two major
political
parties, designated for such purpose by the 
election official in charge
of elections from recommendations 
by the appropriate political party
organizations.
As soon as 
possible, the boxes shall be transported from such other 
location
to the central counting location by one or more teams, 
each consisting of
4 persons, 2 from each of the 2 major 
political parties, designated for
such purpose by the election 
official in charge of the election from
recommendations
by the 
appropriate political party organizations.


    At the central counting location there shall be one or more 
teams of tally
judges who possess the same qualifications as 
tally judges in election
jurisdictions
using paper ballots.  The 
number of such teams shall be determined by the
election 
authority.  Each team shall consist of 5 tally judges, 3 
selected
and approved by the county board from a certified list 
furnished by the chair
chairman of the county central committee 
of the party with the majority
of members on the county board 
and 2 selected and approved by the county
board from a 
certified list furnished by the chair chairman of the county 
central
committee of the party with the second largest number 
of members
on the county board.  At the central counting 
location a team of tally judges
shall open the ballot box and 
canvass the votes polled to determine that
the number of ballot 
sheets
therein agree with the number of voters voting as shown 
by the applications
for ballot; and, if the same do not agree, 
the tally judges shall make such
ballots agree with the number 
of applications for ballot in the manner provided
by Section 
17-18 of the Election Code.  The tally judges shall then examine

all ballot sheets which are in the ballot box to determine 
whether they
bear the initials of the precinct judge of 
election.  If any ballot is not
initialed, it shall be marked on 
the back "Defective", initialed as to such
label by all tally 
judges immediately under such word "Defective", and not

counted, but placed in the envelope provided for that purpose 
labeled
"Defective
Ballots Envelope".  An overvote for one 
office shall invalidate
only the vote or count of that 
particular office.


    At the central counting location, a team of tally judges 
designated
by the election official in charge of the election 
shall deliver the ballot
sheets to the technicians operating 
the automatic tabulating equipment.
Any discrepancies between 
the number of ballots and total number of voters
shall be noted 
on a sheet furnished for that purpose and signed by the tally

judges.


    (2) Regardless of which procedure described in subsection 
(1) of this
Section is used,
the judges of election designated 
to transport the ballots, properly signed
and sealed as 
provided herein, shall ensure that the ballots are delivered
to 
the central counting station no later than 12 hours after the 
polls close.
At the central counting station a team of tally 
judges designated by the
election official in charge of the 
election shall examine the ballots so
transported and shall not 
accept ballots for tabulating which are not signed
and sealed 
as provided in subsection (1) of this Section until the
judges 
transporting the
same make and sign the necessary corrections.  
Upon acceptance of the ballots
by a team of tally judges at the 
central counting station, the election
judges transporting the 
same shall take a receipt signed by the election
official in 
charge of the election and stamped with the date and time of

acceptance.  The election judges whose duty it is to transport 
any ballots
shall, in the event
such ballots cannot be found 
when needed, on proper request, produce the
receipt which they 
are to take as above provided.


(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/24A-11)  (from Ch. 46, par. 24A-11)



    Sec. 24A-11. 
All proceedings at the location for central 
counting
shall be under the
direction of the county clerk or 
board of election commissioners, as the
case may be. Except for 
any specially trained technicians required for the
operation of 
the automatic tabulating equipment, the employees at the

counting station shall be equally divided between members of 
the 2 leading
political parties and all duties performed by 
such employees shall be by
teams consisting of an equal number 
of members of each political party.
Thirty days before an 
election the county clerk or board of election
commissioners 
shall submit to the chair chairman of each political party, for 
his
approval or disapproval, a list of persons of his party 
proposed to be
employed. If a chair chairman fails to notify 
the election authority of his
disapproval of any proposed 
employee within a period of 10 days thereafter
the list shall 
be deemed approved.

(Source: P.A. 82-1014.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/24A-15)  (from Ch. 46, par. 24A-15)



    Sec. 24A-15. The precinct return printed by the automatic 
tabulating
equipment shall include the number of ballots cast

and votes cast for each candidate and proposition and shall 
constitute the
official return of each precinct.  In addition to 
the precinct return, the
election authority shall provide the 
number of applications for ballots
in each precinct, the 
write-in votes, the total number of ballots counted in
each 
precinct for each political subdivision and district and the 
number
of registered voters in each precinct. However, the 
election authority
shall check the totals shown by the precinct 
return and, if there is an
obvious discrepancy with respect to 
the total number of votes cast in any
precinct, shall have the 
ballots for such precinct retabulated to correct
the return. 
The procedures for retabulation shall apply prior to and
after 
the proclamation is completed; however, after the proclamation 
of
results, the election authority must obtain a court order to 
unseal voted
ballots except for election contests and discovery 
recounts.
In those election jurisdictions that utilize 
in-precinct counting
equipment, the certificate of results, 
which has been prepared by the
judges of election after the 
ballots have been
tabulated, shall be the document used for the 
canvass of votes for such
precinct.  Whenever a discrepancy 
exists during the canvass of votes
between the unofficial 
results and the certificate of results, or whenever
a 
discrepancy exists during the canvass of votes between the 
certificate of
results and the set of totals which has been 
affixed to such certificate of
results, the ballots for such 
precinct shall be retabulated to correct the
return.  As an 
additional part of this check prior to the proclamation, in

those jurisdictions where in-precinct counting equipment is 
utilized, the
election authority shall retabulate the total 
number of votes cast in 5% of
the precincts within the election 
jurisdiction, as well as 5% of the voting devices used in early 
voting.  The precincts and the voting devices to be
retabulated 
shall be selected after election day on a random basis by the

State Board of Elections, so that every precinct in the 
election jurisdiction and every voting device used in early 
voting has
an equal mathematical chance of being selected.  The 
State Board of
Elections shall design a standard and scientific 
random method of selecting
the precincts and voting devices 
which are to be retabulated.  The State central committee chair


chairman of each established political party shall be given 
prior written notice of the time and place of
such random 
selection procedure and may be represented at such procedure.

Such retabulation shall consist of counting the ballot cards 
which were
originally counted and shall not involve any 
determination as to which
ballot cards were, in fact, properly 
counted.  The ballots from the
precincts selected for such 
retabulation shall remain at all times under
the custody and 
control of the election authority and shall be transported
and 
retabulated by the designated staff of the election authority.

    As part of such retabulation, the election authority shall 
test the
computer program in the selected precincts and on the 
selected early voting devices.  Such test
shall be conducted by 
processing a preaudited group of ballots so punched
so as to 
record a predetermined number of valid votes for each candidate

and on each public question, and shall include for each office 
one or more
ballots which have votes in excess of the number 
allowed by law in order
to test the ability of the equipment to 
reject such votes.  If any error
is detected, the cause therefor 
shall be ascertained and corrected and an
errorless count shall 
be made prior to the official canvass and proclamation
of 
election results.

    The State Board of Elections, the State's Attorney and 
other appropriate
law enforcement agencies, the county chair 
chairman of each established political
party and qualified 
civic organizations shall be given prior written notice
of the 
time and place of such retabulation and may be represented at 
such
retabulation.

    The results of this retabulation shall be treated in the 
same manner and
have the same effect as the results of the 
discovery procedures set forth
in Section 22-9.1 of this Act.  
Upon completion of the retabulation, the
election authority 
shall print a comparison of the results of the
retabulation 
with the original precinct return printed by the automatic

tabulating equipment. Such comparison shall be done for each 
precinct and for each early voting device selected for testing 
and
for each office voted upon within that precinct or on that 
voting device, and the comparisons shall
be open to the public.

(Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/24B-10)



    Sec. 24B-10. Receiving, Counting, Tallying and Return of

Ballots; Acceptance of Ballots by Election Authority.

    (a) In an election jurisdiction which has adopted an 
electronic Precinct
Tabulation Optical Scan Technology voting 
system, the election
official in charge of the election shall 
select one of the 3
following procedures for receiving, 
counting, tallying, and
return of the ballots:

        (1) Two ballot boxes shall be provided for each polling

    place.  The first ballot box is for the depositing of votes 
    cast
on the electronic voting system; and the second ballot 
    box is for
all votes cast on other ballots, including any 
    paper ballots required to be voted other than on
the 
    Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology electronic 
    voting
system.  Ballots deposited in the second
ballot box 
    shall be counted, tallied, and returned as is
elsewhere 
    provided in this Code for the
counting and handling of 
    paper ballots.  Immediately after the
closing of the polls, 
    the
judges of election shall make out a slip
indicating the 
    number of persons who voted in the precinct at the

    election.  The slip shall be signed by all the judges of

    election and shall be inserted by them in the first ballot 
    box.
The judges of election shall thereupon immediately 
    lock each

ballot box; provided, that if the box is not of a 
    type which may
be securely locked, the box shall be sealed 
    with filament tape
provided for the purpose that shall be 
    wrapped around the box
lengthwise and crosswise, at least 
    twice each way, and in a
manner that the seal completely 
    covers the slot in the ballot
box, and each of the judges 
    shall sign the seal.  Two
of the judges of election, of 
    different political parties, shall
by the most direct route 
    transport both ballot
boxes to the counting location 
    designated by the county clerk or
board of election 
    commissioners.

        Before the ballots of a precinct are fed to the 
    electronic
Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology 
    tabulating equipment,
the first ballot box shall be opened 
    at the central counting
station by the 2 precinct transport 
    judges.  Upon opening a
ballot box, the team shall first 
    count the number of ballots in
the box.  If 2 or more are 
    folded together to appear to
have been cast by the same 
    person, all of the ballots folded
together shall be marked 
    and returned with the other ballots in
the same condition, 
    as near as may be, in which they were found
when first 
    opened, but shall not be counted.  If the remaining
ballots 
    are found to exceed the number of persons voting in the

    precinct as shown by the slip signed by the judges of 
    election,
the ballots shall be replaced in the box, and the 
    box closed and
well shaken and again opened and one of the 
    precinct transport
judges shall publicly draw out so many 
    ballots unopened as are
equal to the excess.

        The excess ballots shall be marked "Excess-Not 
    Counted" and
signed by the 2 precinct transport judges and 
    shall be placed
in the "After 7:00 p.m. Defective Ballots 
    Envelope".  The number
of excess ballots shall be noted in 
    the remarks section of the
Certificate of Results.  "Excess" 
    ballots shall not be counted in
the total of "defective" 
    ballots.

        The precinct transport judges shall then examine the

    remaining ballots for write-in votes and shall count and 
    tabulate
the write-in vote.

        (2) A single ballot box, for the deposit of all votes 
    cast,
shall be used.  All ballots which are not to be 
    tabulated on the
electronic voting system shall be counted, 
    tallied, and returned
as elsewhere provided in this Code 
    for the
counting and handling of paper ballots.

        All ballots to be processed and tabulated with the 
    electronic
Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology 
    voting system shall
be processed as follows:

        Immediately after the closing of the polls, the 
    precinct judges of
election shall open the ballot box and 
    canvass the votes
polled to determine that the number of 
    ballots agree with
the number of voters voting as shown by 
    the applications for
ballot, or if the same do not agree 
    the judges of election shall
make such ballots agree with 
    the applications for ballot in the
manner provided by 
    Section 17-18 of this Code.

        In case of an overvote for any office, the judges of

    election, consisting in each case of at least one judge of

    election of each of the 2 major political parties, shall 
    make a
true duplicate ballot of all votes on the ballot 
    except for
the office which is overvoted, by using the 
    ballot of the
precinct and one of the marking devices, or 
    equivalent ballot, of the
precinct to
transfer all votes of 
    the voter except for the office overvoted,
to an official 
    ballot of that kind used in the precinct at
that election.  
    The original ballot upon which there is an
overvote shall 
    be clearly labeled "Overvoted Ballot", and each
shall bear 
    the same serial number which shall be placed thereon
by the 
    judges of election, beginning with number 1 and
continuing 
    consecutively for the ballots of that kind in that

    precinct.  The judges of election shall initial the 
    "Duplicate
Overvoted Ballot" ballots and shall place them 
    in the box for
return of the ballots.  The "Overvoted 
    Ballot" ballots shall be
placed in the "Duplicate Ballots" 
    envelope.  The ballots except
any defective or overvoted 
    ballot shall be placed separately in
the box for return of 
    the ballots.  The judges
of election shall examine the 
    ballots to determine if any is
damaged or defective so that 
    it cannot be counted by the
automatic tabulating equipment.  
    If any ballot is
damaged or defective so that it cannot 
    properly be counted by the
automatic tabulating equipment, 
    the judges of election,
consisting in each case of at least 
    one judge of election of each
of the 2 major political 
    parties, shall make a true duplicate
ballot of all votes on 
    such ballot by using the ballot of
the precinct and one of 
    the marking devices, or equivalent ballot, of the
precinct.  
    The
original ballot and ballot envelope shall be clearly

    labeled "Damaged Ballot" and the ballot so
produced 
    "Duplicate Damaged Ballot", and each shall bear the same

    number which shall be placed thereon by the judges of 
    election,
commencing with number 1 and continuing 
    consecutively for the
ballots of that kind in the precinct.  
    The judges of election
shall initial the "Duplicate Damaged 
    Ballot" ballot  and shall place them in
the box for return 
    of the ballots.
The "Damaged Ballot" ballots
shall be 
    placed in the "Duplicated Ballots" envelope.  A slip

    indicating the number of voters voting in person and the 
    total number
of voters of the precinct who voted at the 
    election shall be made
out, signed by all judges of 
    election, and inserted in the box
for return of the 
    ballots.  The tally sheets recording the write-in votes 
    shall
be placed in this box.  The judges of election 
    immediately shall
securely lock the ballot box or other 
    suitable box furnished for return of the
ballots by the 
    election official in charge of the election; provided that 
    if
the box is not of a type which may be securely locked, 
    the box shall be
sealed with filament tape provided for the 
    purpose which shall
be wrapped around the box lengthwise 
    and crosswise, at least
twice each way.  A separate adhesive 
    seal label signed by each of
the judges of election of the 
    precinct shall be affixed to the
box to cover any slot 
    therein and to identify the box of
the precinct; and if the 
    box is sealed with filament tape as
provided rather than 
    locked, such tape shall be wrapped
around the box as 
    provided, but in such manner that the
separate adhesive 
    seal label affixed to the box and signed by the
judges may 
    not be removed without breaking the filament tape and

    disturbing the signature of the judges.  Two of the
judges 
    of election, of different major political parties,
shall by 
    the most direct route transport the box for
return of the 
    ballots and enclosed ballots and returns to the
central 
    counting location designated by the election official in

    charge of the election.  If, however, because of the lack of

    adequate parking facilities at the central counting 
    location or
for any other reason, it is impossible or 
    impracticable for the
boxes from all the polling places to 
    be delivered directly to the
central counting location, the 
    election official in charge of the
election may designate 
    some other location to which the boxes
shall be delivered 
    by the 2 precinct judges.  While at the other
location the 
    boxes shall be in the care and custody of one or
more 
    teams, each consisting of 4 persons, 2 from each of the 2

    major political parties, designated for such purpose by the

    election official in charge of elections from 
    recommendations by
the appropriate political party 
    organizations.  As soon as
possible, the boxes shall be 
    transported from the other location
to the central counting 
    location by one or more teams, each
consisting of 4 
    persons, 2 from each of the 2 major political
parties, 
    designated for the purpose by the election official in

    charge of elections from recommendations by the 
    appropriate
political party organizations.

        The "Defective Ballots" envelope, and "Duplicated 
    Ballots"
envelope each shall be securely sealed and the 
    flap or end
of each envelope signed by the precinct judges 
    of election and
returned to the central counting location 
    with the box for return
of the ballots, enclosed ballots 
    and returns.

        At the central counting location, a team of tally 
    judges
designated by the election official in charge of the 
    election
shall check the box returned containing the 
    ballots to determine
that all seals are intact, and shall 
    open the box,
check the voters' slip and compare the number 
    of ballots so
delivered against the total number of voters 
    of the precinct who
voted, remove the ballots and deliver 
    them to the
technicians operating the automatic tabulating 
    equipment.  Any
discrepancies between the number of ballots 
    and total number of
voters shall be noted on a sheet 
    furnished for that purpose and
signed by the tally judges.

        (3) A single ballot box, for the deposit of all votes 
    cast,
shall be used.  Immediately after the closing of the 
    polls, the

precinct judges of election shall securely lock 
    the ballot box;
provided that if such box is not of a type 
    which may be securely
locked, the box shall be sealed with 
    filament tape provided for
the purpose which shall be 
    wrapped around the box lengthwise and
crosswise, at least 
    twice each way.  A separate adhesive seal
label signed by 
    each of the judges of election of the precinct
shall be 
    affixed to the box to cover any slot therein and
to 
    identify the box of the precinct; and if the box is sealed

    with filament tape as provided rather than locked, such

    tape shall be wrapped around the box as provided, but in
a 
    manner that the separate adhesive seal label affixed to the

    box and signed by the judges may not be removed without 
    breaking
the filament tape and disturbing the signature of 
    the judges.
Two of the judges of election, of different 
    major
political parties, shall by the most direct route

    transport the box for return of the ballots and enclosed 
    vote by mail and early
ballots and returns to the central 
    counting location designated
by the election official in 
    charge of the election.  If however,
because of the lack of 
    adequate parking facilities at the central
counting 
    location or for some other reason, it is impossible or

    impracticable for the boxes from all the polling places to 
    be
delivered directly to the central counting location, the 
    election
official in charge of the election may designate 
    some other
location to which the boxes shall be delivered 
    by the 2 precinct
judges.  While at the other location the 
    boxes shall be in the
care and custody of one or more 
    teams, each consisting of 4
persons, 2 from each of the 2 
    major political parties,
designated for the purpose by the 
    election official in charge of
elections from 
    recommendations by the appropriate political party

    organizations.  As soon as possible, the boxes shall be

    transported from the other location to the central counting

    location by one or more teams, each consisting of 4 
    persons, 2
from each of the 2 major political parties, 
    designated for the
purpose by the election official in 
    charge of the election from
recommendations by the 
    appropriate political party organizations.

        At the central counting location there shall be one or 
    more
teams of tally judges who possess the same 
    qualifications as
tally judges in election jurisdictions 
    using paper ballots.  The
number of the teams shall be 
    determined by the election
authority.  Each team shall 
    consist of 5 tally judges, 3 selected
and approved by the 
    county board from a certified list furnished
by the chair 
    chairman of the county central committee of the party with

    the majority of members on the county board and 2 selected 
    and
approved by the county board from a certified list 
    furnished by
the chair chairman of the county central 
    committee of the party with
the second largest number of 
    members on the county board.  At the
central counting 
    location  a team of tally judges shall open the
ballot box 
    and canvass the votes polled to determine that the
number 
    of ballot sheets therein agree with the number of voters

    voting as shown by the applications for ballot and, if the 
    same do not agree, the tally judges shall
make such ballots 
    agree with the number of applications for
ballot in the 
    manner provided by Section 17-18 of this
Code.  The tally 
    judges shall then examine all ballot sheets
that are in the 
    ballot box to determine whether they bear the
initials of 
    the precinct judge of election.  If any ballot is not

    initialed, it shall be marked on the back "Defective", 
    initialed
as to that label by all tally judges immediately 
    under the word
"Defective", and not counted, but placed in 
    the envelope provided
for that purpose labeled "Defective 
    Ballots Envelope".  An
overvote for one office shall 
    invalidate only the vote or count
for that particular 
    office.

        At the central counting location, a team of tally 
    judges
designated by the election official in charge of the 
    election
shall deliver the ballot sheets to the technicians 
    operating the
automatic Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan 
    Technology tabulating
equipment.  Any discrepancies between 
    the number of ballots and
total number of voters shall be 
    noted on a sheet furnished for
that purpose and signed by 
    the tally judges.

    (b) Regardless of which procedure described in subsection

(a) of this Section is used, the judges of election designated 
to
transport the ballots properly signed and sealed,
shall 
ensure that the ballots are delivered to the
central counting 
station no later than 12 hours after the polls
close.  At the 
central counting station, a team of tally judges
designated by 
the election official in charge of the election
shall examine 
the ballots so transported and shall not accept
ballots for 
tabulating which are not signed and sealed as
provided in 
subsection (a) of this Section until the judges
transporting 
the ballots make and sign the necessary corrections.
Upon 
acceptance of the ballots by a team of tally judges at the

central counting station, the election judges transporting the

ballots shall take a receipt signed by the election official in

charge of the election and stamped with the date and time of

acceptance.  The election judges whose duty it is to transport

any ballots shall, in the event the ballots cannot be found 
when
needed, on proper request, produce the receipt which they 
are to
take as above provided.

(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/24B-11)



    Sec. 24B-11. 
Proceedings at Location for Central
Counting; 
Employees; Approval of List.  All proceedings at the location 
for
central counting shall be under the direction of the county 
clerk
or board of election commissioners.  Except
for any 
specially trained technicians required for the operation
of the 
automatic Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology

tabulating equipment, the employees at the counting station 
shall
be equally divided between members of the 2 leading 
political
parties and all duties performed by the employees 
shall be by
teams consisting of an equal number of members of 
each political
party.  Thirty days before an election the county 
clerk or board
of election commissioners shall submit to the 
chair chairman of each
political party, for his or her approval 
or disapproval, a list of
persons of his or her party proposed 
to be employed.  If a chair chairman
fails to notify the 
election authority of his or her disapproval of any
proposed 
employee within a period of 10 days thereafter the list
shall 
be deemed approved.

(Source: P.A. 89-394, eff. 1-1-97.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/24B-15)



    Sec. 24B-15. Official Return of Precinct; Check of Totals; 
Retabulation. The precinct return printed by the automatic

Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology tabulating 
equipment
shall include the number of ballots cast
and votes 
cast for each candidate and proposition and shall
constitute 
the official return of each precinct.   In addition to the 
precinct
return, the election
authority shall provide the 
number of applications for ballots in
each precinct, the 
write-in votes, the total number of ballots
counted in each 
precinct for each political subdivision and
district and the 
number of registered voters in each precinct.
However, the 
election authority shall check the totals shown by
the precinct 
return and, if there is an obvious discrepancy regarding
the 
total number of votes cast in any precinct, shall
have the 
ballots for that precinct retabulated to correct the
return.

The procedures for retabulation shall apply prior to and after 
the
proclamation is completed; however, after the proclamation 
of results, the
election authority must obtain a court order to 
unseal voted ballots except for
election contests and discovery 
recounts.
In those election jurisdictions that use in-precinct

counting equipment, the certificate of results, which has been

prepared by the judges of election after the
ballots have been 
tabulated, shall be the document used for the
canvass of votes 
for such precinct.  Whenever a discrepancy
exists during the 
canvass of votes between the unofficial results
and the 
certificate of results, or whenever a discrepancy exists
during 
the canvass of votes between the certificate of results
and the 
set of totals which has been affixed to the certificate
of 
results, the ballots for that precinct shall be retabulated to

correct the return.  As an additional part of this check prior 
to
the proclamation, in those jurisdictions where in-precinct

counting equipment is used, the election authority shall

retabulate the total number of votes cast in 5% of the 
precincts
within the election jurisdiction, as well as 5% of 
the voting devices used in early voting.  The precincts and the 
voting devices to be
retabulated shall be selected after 
election day on a random
basis by the State Board of Elections, 
so that every precinct in the
election jurisdiction and every 
voting device used in early voting has an equal mathematical 
chance of being
selected.  The State Board of Elections shall 
design a standard
and scientific random method of selecting the 
precincts and voting devices which are
to be retabulated.  The 
State central committee chair chairman of each established 
political party
shall be given prior written notice
of the time 
and place of the random selection procedure and may
be 
represented at the procedure.  The retabulation shall
consist of 
counting the ballots which were originally counted and
shall 
not involve any determination of which ballots were, in
fact, 
properly counted.  The ballots from the precincts selected
for 
the retabulation shall remain at all times under the custody

and control of the election authority and shall be transported

and retabulated by the designated staff of the election

authority.

    As part of the retabulation, the election authority shall

test the computer program in the selected precincts and on the 
selected early voting devices.  The test
shall be conducted by 
processing a preaudited group of ballots
marked to record a 
predetermined number of valid votes for
each candidate and on 
each public question, and shall include for
each office one or 
more ballots which have votes in excess of the
number allowed 
by law to test the ability of the
equipment and the marking 
device to reject such votes.  If any error is
detected, the

cause shall be determined and corrected, and an
errorless count 
shall be made prior to the official canvass and
proclamation of 
election results.

    The State Board of Elections, the State's Attorney and 
other
appropriate law enforcement agencies, the county chair 
chairman of each
established political party and qualified 
civic organizations
shall be given prior written notice of the 
time and place of the
retabulation and may be represented at 
the retabulation.

    The results of this retabulation shall be treated in the

same manner and have the same effect as the results of the

discovery procedures set forth in Section 22-9.1 of this Code.

Upon completion of the retabulation, the election authority 
shall
print a comparison of the results of the retabulation 
with the
original precinct return printed by the automatic 
tabulating
equipment.  The comparison shall be done for each 
precinct and for each early voting device selected for testing 
and
for each office voted upon within that precinct or on that 
voting device, and the
comparisons shall be open to the public.  
Upon completion of the
retabulation, the returns shall be open 
to the public.

(Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/24C-13)



    Sec. 24C-13. Vote by Mail ballots; Early voting ballots; 
Proceedings at Location for
Central Counting; Employees; 
Approval of List.
    (a) All jurisdictions using Direct Recording Electronic

Voting Systems shall use paper ballots or paper ballot sheets

approved for use under Articles 16, 24A or 24B of this Code 
when
conducting vote by mail voting.  All vote by mail
 ballots 
shall be counted at the central ballot counting location of the 
election
authority.  The provisions of Section 24A-9, 24B-9 and 
24C-9 of
this Code shall apply to the testing and notice 
requirements for
central count tabulation equipment, including 
comparing the
signature on the ballot envelope with the 
signature of the voter
on the permanent voter registration 
record card taken from the
master file.  Vote results shall be 
recorded by precinct and shall
be added to the vote results for 
the precinct in which the vote by mail
 voter was eligible to 
vote prior to completion of the
official canvass.

    (b) All proceedings at the location for central counting

shall be under the direction of the county clerk or board of

election commissioners. Except for any specially trained

technicians required for the operation of the Direct Recording

Electronic Voting System, the employees at the counting station

shall be equally divided between members of the 2 leading

political parties and all duties performed by the employees

shall be by teams consisting of an equal number of members of

each political party.  Thirty days before an election the county

clerk or board of election commissioners shall submit to the 
chair
chairman of each political party, for his or her approval 
or
disapproval, a list of persons of his or her party proposed 
to
be employed.  If a chair chairman fails to notify the 
election
authority of his or her disapproval of any proposed 
employee
within a period of 10 days thereafter the list shall 
be deemed
approved.

(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 


    (10 ILCS 5/24C-15)




    Sec. 24C-15. Official Return of Precinct; Check of Totals;

Audit. The precinct return printed by the Direct Recording

Electronic Voting System tabulating equipment shall include 
the
number of ballots cast and votes cast for each candidate 
and
public question and shall constitute the official return of 
each
precinct.  In addition to the precinct return, the election

authority shall provide the number of applications for ballots

in each precinct, the total number of ballots and vote by mail

ballots counted in each precinct for each political subdivision

and district and the number of registered voters in each

precinct.  However, the election authority shall check the

totals shown by the precinct return and, if there is an obvious

discrepancy regarding the total number of votes cast in any

precinct, shall have the ballots for that precinct audited to

correct the return.  The procedures for this audit shall apply

prior to and after the proclamation is completed; however, 
after
the proclamation of results, the election authority must 
obtain
a court order to unseal voted ballots or voting devices 
except
for election contests and discovery recounts.  The 
certificate
of results, which has been prepared and signed by 
the judges of
election after the ballots have been
tabulated, 
shall be the document used for the canvass of votes
for such 
precinct.  Whenever a discrepancy exists during the
canvass of 
votes between the unofficial results and the
certificate of 
results, or whenever a discrepancy exists during
the canvass of 
votes between the certificate of results and the
set of totals 
reflected on the certificate of results, the
ballots for that 
precinct shall be audited to correct the
return.

    Prior to the proclamation, the election authority shall

test the voting devices and equipment in 5% of the precincts

within the election jurisdiction, as well as 5% of the voting 
devices used in early voting.  The precincts and the voting 
devices to be tested
shall be selected after election day on a 
random basis by the
State Board of Elections, so that every 
precinct and every device used in early voting in the election

jurisdiction has an equal mathematical chance of being 
selected.
The State Board of Elections shall design a standard 
and
scientific random method of selecting the precincts and 
voting devices that are to
be tested.  The State central 
committee chair

chairman of each established political party 
shall be given prior written notice of the time
and place of 
the random selection procedure and may be
represented at the 
procedure.

    The test shall be conducted by counting the votes marked on

the permanent paper record of each ballot cast in the tested

precinct printed by the voting system at the time that each

ballot was cast and comparing the results of this count with 
the
results shown by the certificate of results prepared by the

Direct Recording Electronic Voting System in the test precinct.

The election authority shall test count these votes either by

hand or by using an automatic tabulating device other than a

Direct Recording Electronic voting device that has been 
approved
by the State Board of Elections for that purpose and 
tested
before use to ensure accuracy. The election authority 
shall
print the results of each test count.  If any error is 
detected,
the cause shall be determined and corrected, and an 
errorless
count shall be made prior to the official canvass and

proclamation of election results.  If an errorless count cannot

be conducted and there continues to be difference in vote

results between the certificate of results produced by the

Direct Recording Electronic Voting System and the count of the

permanent paper records or if an error was detected and

corrected, the election authority shall immediately prepare 
and
forward to the appropriate canvassing board a written 
report
explaining the results of the test and any errors 
encountered
and the report shall be made available for public 
inspection.

    The State Board of Elections, the State's Attorney and

other appropriate law enforcement agencies, the county chair 
chairman
of each established political party and qualified 
civic
organizations shall be given prior written notice of the 
time
and place of the test and may be represented at the test.

    The results of this post-election test shall be treated in

the same manner and have the same effect as the results of the

discovery procedures set forth in Section 22-9.1 of this Code.

(Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11; 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/25-6)  (from Ch. 46, par. 25-6)



    Sec. 25-6. 
(a) When a vacancy occurs in the office of State 
Senator or
Representative in the General Assembly, the vacancy 
shall be filled within
30 days by appointment of the 
legislative or representative committee of
that legislative or 
representative district of the political
party of which the 
incumbent was a candidate at the time of his
election. The 
appointee shall be a member of the same political party as
the 
person he succeeds was at the time of his election, and shall 
be
otherwise eligible to serve as a member of the General 
Assembly.


    (b) When a vacancy occurs in the office of a legislator 
elected
other than as a candidate of a political party, the 
vacancy shall be
filled within 30 days of such occurrence by 
appointment of the Governor.
The appointee shall not be a 
member of a political party, and shall be
otherwise eligible to 
serve as a member of the General Assembly.
Provided, however, 
the appropriate body of the General Assembly may, by

resolution, allow a legislator elected other than as a 
candidate of a
political party to affiliate with a political 
party for his term of
office in the General Assembly. A vacancy 
occurring in the office of any
such legislator who affiliates 
with a political party pursuant to
resolution shall be filled 
within 30 days of such occurrence by
appointment of the 
appropriate legislative or representative
committee of that 
legislative or representative district of the political
party 
with which the legislator so affiliates. The appointee shall be 
a
member of the political party with which the incumbent 
affiliated.

    (c) For purposes of this Section, a person is a member of a

political party for 23 months after (i) signing a candidate 
petition, as
to the political party whose nomination is sought; 
(ii) signing a
statement of candidacy, as to the political 
party where nomination or
election is sought; (iii) signing a 
Petition of Political Party
Formation, as to the proposed 
political party; (iv) applying for and
receiving a primary 
ballot, as to the political party whose ballot is
received; or 
(v) becoming a candidate for election to or accepting

appointment to the office of ward, township, precinct or state 
central committeeperson
committeeman.

    (d) In making appointments under this Section, each 
committeeperson committeeman of
the appropriate legislative or 
representative committee
shall be entitled to one vote for each 
vote that was received, in that
portion of the legislative or 
representative district which he represents
on the committee, 
by the Senator or Representative whose seat is vacant at the

general election at which that legislator was elected to the 
seat which
has been vacated and a majority of the total number 
of votes received in
such election by the Senator or 
Representative whose seat is vacant is
required for the 
appointment of his successor; provided,
however, that in making 
appointments in legislative or representative
districts 
comprising only one county or part of a county
other than a 
county containing 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, each 
committeeperson
committeeman shall be entitled to cast only one 
vote.

    (e) Appointments made under this Section shall be in 
writing
and shall be signed by members of the legislative or 
representative committee
whose total votes are sufficient to 
make the appointments or by the
Governor, as the case may be. 
Such appointments shall be filed with the
Secretary of State 
and with the Clerk of the House of Representatives or
the 
Secretary of the Senate, whichever is appropriate.

    (f) An appointment made under this Section shall be for the

remainder of the term, except that, if the appointment is to 
fill a
vacancy in the office of State Senator and the vacancy 
occurs with more
than 28 months remaining in the term, the term 
of the
appointment shall expire at the time of
the next general 
election at which time a
Senator shall be elected for a new 
term commencing on the determination
of the results of the 
election and ending on the second Wednesday of
January in the 
second odd-numbered year next occurring.  Whenever a
Senator has 
been appointed to fill a vacancy and
was thereafter elected to 
that office, the term of service under the
authority of the 
election shall
be considered a new term of service, separate 
from the term of service
rendered under the authority of the 
appointment.

(Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/25-11)  (from Ch. 46, par. 25-11)



    Sec. 25-11. 
When a vacancy occurs in any elective county 
office, or in a
county of less than 3,000,000 population in the 
office of clerk of the circuit
court, in a county which is not 
a home rule unit, the county board or board
of county 
commissioners shall declare that such vacancy exists and

notification thereof
shall be given to the county central 
committee or the appropriate county board
or board of county 
commissioners district committee of each established
political 
party within 3 days of the
occurrence of the vacancy.  The 
vacancy shall be filled
within 60 days by appointment of the 
chair chairman of the county board
or board of county 
commissioners with the advice and consent of the county
board 
or board of county commissioners.
In counties in which forest 
preserve district commissioners are
elected by districts and 
are not also members of the county board, however,
vacancies in 
the office of forest preserve district commissioner shall be

filled within 60 days by appointment of the president of the 
forest preserve
district board of commissioners with the advice 
and consent of the forest
preserve district board of 
commissioners. In counties in which the forest
preserve 
district president is not also a member of the county board, 
vacancies
in
the office of forest preserve district president 
shall be filled within 60 days
by the forest preserve district 
board of commissioners by appointing one of the
commissioners 
to serve as president.
The appointee
shall be a member of the 
same political party as the person he
succeeds was at the time 
of his election and shall be otherwise
eligible to serve.
The 
appointee shall serve the remainder of the unexpired term.  
However, if
more than 28 months remain in the term, the 
appointment shall be until the
next general election at which 
time the vacated office shall be
filled by election for the 
remainder of the term.  In the
case of a vacancy in a seat on a 
county board or board of county
commissioners which
has been 
divided into districts under Section 2-3003 or 2-4006.5 of
the 
Counties Code, the appointee must also be a resident of the

county board or county commission district.
If a county 
commissioner ceases to reside in the district that he or
she 
represents, a vacancy in that office exists.

    Except as otherwise provided by county ordinance or by law, 
in
any county which is a home rule unit, vacancies in elective

county offices, other than the office of chief executive 
officer,
and vacancies in the office of clerk of the circuit 
court in a county of
less than 3,000,000 population, shall be 
filled
by the county board or board of county commissioners.

(Source: P.A. 92-189, eff. 8-1-01; 92-583, eff. 6-26-02.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/28-13)  (from Ch. 46, par. 28-13)



    Sec. 28-13. 
Each political party and civic organization as 
well as the
registered proponents and opponents of a proposed

statewide advisory public question shall be entitled to one 
watcher in
the office of the election authority to observe the 
conduct of the sample
signature verification.  However, in those 
election jurisdictions where
a 10% sample is required, the 
proponents and opponents may appoint no more than
5 assistant 
watchers in addition to the 1 principal watcher permitted 
herein.

    Within 7 days following the last day for filing of the 
original petition,
the proponents and opponents shall certify 
in writing to the Board that they
publicly support or oppose 
the proposed statewide
advisory public question.  The 
proponents and opponents of such questions shall
register the 
name and address of its group and the name and address of its 
chair
chairman and designated agent for acceptance of service 
of notices with
the Board.  Thereupon, the Board shall prepare a 
list of the registered
proponents and opponents and shall adopt 
a standard proponents' and opponents' watcher
credential form.  
A copy of such list and sufficient copies of such credentials

shall be transmitted with the list for the sample signature 
verification
to the appropriate election authorities.  Those 
election authorities shall
issue credentials to the 
permissible number of watchers for each proponent and opponent

group; provided, however, that a prospective watcher shall 
first present
to the election authority a letter of 
authorization signed by the chair chairman
of the proponent or 
opponent group he or she represents.

    Political party and qualified civic organization watcher 
credentials shall
be substantially in the form and shall be 
authorized in the manner prescribed
in Section 7-34 of this 
Code.

    The rights and limitations of pollwatchers as prescribed by 
Section 7-34
of this Code, insofar as they may be made 
applicable, shall be applicable
to watchers at the conduct of 
the sample signature verification.

    The principal watcher for the proponents and opponents may 
make signed written
objections to the Board relating to 
procedures observed during the conduct
of the sample signature 
verification which could materially affect the results
of the 
sample.  Such written objections shall be presented to the 
election
authority and a copy mailed to the Board and shall be 
attached to the certificate
of sample results transmitted by 
the election authority to the Board.

(Source: P.A. 97-81, eff. 7-5-11.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/29B-10)  (from Ch. 46, par. 29B-10; formerly Ch. 
      46, par. 1103)



    Sec. 29B-10. Code of Fair Campaign Practices. At the time a

political committee, as defined in Article 9, files its

statements of organization, the State Board of Elections, in 
the case of a
state political committee or a political 
committee acting as both a state
political committee and a 
local political committee, or the county clerk,
in the case of 
a local political committee, shall give the political
committee 
a blank form of the Code of Fair Campaign Practices and a copy 
of
the provisions of this Article.  The State Board of Elections 
or county clerk
shall inform each political committee that 
subscription to the Code is
voluntary.  The text of the Code 
shall read as follows:

CODE OF FAIR CAMPAIGN PRACTICES


    There are basic principles of decency, honesty, and fair 
play that every
candidate for public office in the State of 
Illinois has a moral obligation
to observe and uphold, in order 
that, after vigorously contested but fairly
conducted 
campaigns, our citizens may exercise their constitutional 
right
to a free and untrammeled choice and the will of the 
people may be fully
and clearly expressed on the issues.

    THEREFORE:

    (1) I will conduct my campaign openly and publicly, and 
limit attacks on
my opponent to legitimate challenges to his 
record.

    (2) I will not use or permit the use of character 
defamation, whispering
campaigns, libel, slander, or 
scurrilous attacks on any candidate or his
personal or family 
life.

    (3) I will not use or permit any appeal to negative 
prejudice based on
race, sex, sexual orientation, religion or 
national origin.

    (4) I will not use campaign material of any sort that 
misrepresents,
distorts, or otherwise falsifies the facts, nor 
will I use
malicious or unfounded accusations that aim at 
creating or exploiting
doubts, without justification, as to the 
personal integrity or patriotism
of my opposition.

    (5) I will not undertake or condone any dishonest or 
unethical practice
that tends to corrupt or undermine our 
American system of free elections
or that hampers or prevents 
the full and free expression of the will of
the voters.

    (6) I will defend and uphold the right of every qualified 
American voter
to full and equal participation in the electoral 
process.

    (7) I will immediately and publicly repudiate methods and 
tactics that
may come from others that I have pledged not to 
use or condone.  I shall
take firm action against any 
subordinate who violates any provision of this
Code or the laws 
governing elections.

    I, the undersigned, candidate for election to public office 
in the State
of Illinois or chair chairman of a political 
committee in support of or
opposition to a question of public 
policy, hereby voluntarily endorse,
subscribe to, and solemnly 
pledge myself to conduct my campaign
in accordance with the 
above principles and practices.

   ______________           _______________________________

      Date                            Signature

(Source: P.A. 86-873; 87-1052.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/29B-20)  (from Ch. 46, par. 29B-20; formerly Ch. 
      46, par. 1105)



    Sec. 29B-20. 
Acceptance of completed forms; retentions for 
public
inspection. The State Board of Elections and the county 
clerks shall accept,
at all times prior to an election, all 
completed copies of the Code of Fair
Campaign Practices that 
are properly subscribed to by a candidate or the chair
chairman 
of a political committee in support of or opposition to a 
question of
public policy, and shall retain them for public 
inspection until 30 days after
the election.

(Source: P.A. 86-873; 87-1052.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/29B-25)  (from Ch. 46, par. 29B-25; formerly Ch. 
      46, par. 1106)



    Sec. 29B-25. Subscribed forms as public records. Every copy 
of the Code of
Fair Campaign Practices subscribed to by a 
candidate or the chair chairman of a
political committee in 
support of or opposition to a question of public policy
under 
this Article is a public record open for public inspection.

(Source: P.A. 86-873; 87-1052.)

 



    (10 ILCS 5/29B-30)  (from Ch. 46, par. 29B-30; formerly Ch. 
      46, par. 1107)



    Sec. 29B-30. Subscription to Code voluntary. The 
subscription by a candidate
or the chair chairman of a 
political committee in support of or opposition to a
question 
of public policy is voluntary.

    A candidate, or the chair chairman of a political 
committee, who has filed a
copy of the Code of Fair Campaign 
Practices may so indicate on any campaign
literature or 
advertising in a form to be determined by the State Board of

Elections.

(Source: P.A. 86-873; 87-1052.)

 
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 
1, 2019.