99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2015 and 2016
HB0262

 

Introduced , by Rep. Joe Sosnowski

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
10 ILCS 5/21-1  from Ch. 46, par. 21-1

    Amends the Election Code. Provides that electors of President and Vice-President of the United States shall be chosen by congressional district.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning elections.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section
521-1 as follows:
 
6    (10 ILCS 5/21-1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 21-1)
7    Sec. 21-1. Choosing and election of electors of President
8and Vice-President of the United States shall be in the
9following manner:
10    (a) In each year in which a President and Vice-President of
11the United States are chosen, each political party or group in
12this State shall choose by its State Convention one elector
13electors of President and Vice-President of the United States
14from each congressional district and such State Convention of
15such party or group shall also choose 2 electors at large, if
16any are to be appointed for this State and such State
17Convention of such party or group shall by its chairman and
18secretary certify the total list of such electors together with
19electors at large so chosen to the State Board of Elections.
20    The filing of such certificate with the Board, of such
21choosing of electors shall be deemed and taken to be the
22choosing and selection of the electors for the individual
23congressional districts of this State, if such party or group

 

 

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1is successful at the polls in the individual congressional
2district as herein provided in choosing their candidates for
3President and Vice-President of the United States.
4    (b) The names of the candidates of the several political
5parties or groups for electors of President and Vice-President
6shall not be printed on the official ballot to be voted in the
7election to be held on the day in this Act above named. In lieu
8of the names of the candidates for such electors of President
9and Vice-President, immediately under the appellation of party
10name of a party or group in the column of its candidates on the
11official ballot, to be voted at said election first above named
12in subsection (1) of Section 2A-1.2 and Section 2A-2, there
13shall be printed within a bracket the name of the candidate for
14President and the name of the candidate for Vice-President of
15such party or group with a square to the left of such bracket.
16Each voter in this State from the several lists or sets of
17electors so chosen and selected by the said respective
18political parties or groups, may choose and elect an elector
19one of such lists or sets of electors by placing a cross in the
20square to the left of the bracket aforesaid of one of such
21parties or groups. Placing a cross within the square before the
22bracket enclosing the names of President and Vice-President
23shall not be deemed and taken as a direct vote for such
24candidates for President and Vice-President, or either of them,
25but shall only be deemed and taken to be a vote for the elector
26entire list or set of electors chosen by that political party

 

 

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1or group for that congressional district so certified to the
2State Board of Elections as herein provided. Voting by means of
3placing a cross in the appropriate place preceding the
4appellation or title of the particular political party or
5group, shall not be deemed or taken as a direct vote for the
6candidates for President and Vice-President, or either of them,
7but instead to the Presidential vote, as a vote for the elector
8entire list or set of electors chosen by that political party
9or group so certified to the State Board of Elections as herein
10provided.
11    (c) Such certification by the respective political parties
12or groups in this State of electors of President and
13Vice-President shall be made to the State Board of Elections
14within 2 days after such State convention.
15    (d) Should more than one certificate of choice and
16selection of electors of the same political party or group be
17filed by contesting conventions or contesting groups, it shall
18be the duty of the State Board of Elections within 10 days
19after the adjournment of the last of such conventions to meet
20and determine which set of nominees for electors of such party
21or group was chosen and selected by the authorized convention
22of such party or group. The Board, after notice to the chairman
23and secretaries or managers of the conventions or groups and
24after a hearing shall determine which elector set of electors
25was so chosen for each congressional district by the authorized
26convention and shall so announce and publish the fact, and such

 

 

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1decision shall be final and the set of electors so determined
2upon by the electoral board to be so chosen shall be the list
3or set of electors to be deemed elected if that party shall be
4successful at the polls in each congressional district, as
5herein provided.
6    (e) Should a vacancy occur in the choice of an elector in a
7congressional district, such vacancy may be filled by the
8executive committee of the party or group for such
9congressional district, to be certified by such committee to
10the State Board of Elections. Should a vacancy occur in the
11office of elector at large, such vacancy shall be filled by the
12State committee of such political party or group, and certified
13by it to the State Board of Elections.
14    (f) Each congressional district presidential elector shall
15cast his or her ballot for the Presidential and Vice
16Presidential candidate who received the highest number of votes
17in his or her congressional district.
18(Source: P.A. 84-861.)