Full Text of HB2989 96th General Assembly
HB2989ham001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Rep. Michael W. Tryon
Filed: 4/3/2009
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2989
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2989 by replacing | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 7-8 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/7-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-8)
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| Sec. 7-8. The State central committee shall be composed of | 8 |
| one member or two
members from each legislative congressional | 9 |
| district in the State and shall be elected as
follows:
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| State Central Committee
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| (a) Within 30 days after the effective date of this | 12 |
| amendatory Act of
1983 the State central committee of each | 13 |
| political party shall certify to
the State Board of Elections | 14 |
| which of the following alternatives it wishes
to apply to the | 15 |
| State central committee of that party.
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| In each legislative district at the general primary |
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| election held in 2010 and every 4 years thereafter, the | 2 |
| candidate receiving the highest number of votes for State | 3 |
| central committeeman shall be declared elected State central | 4 |
| committeeman from the district. | 5 |
| To qualify as a candidate for election or appointment to | 6 |
| fill a vacancy as a State central committeeman, a person must | 7 |
| be a resident of the legislative district and must have voted | 8 |
| in 3 of the 4 most recent primary elections of the political | 9 |
| party. Alternative A. | 10 |
| Whenever At the primary in
1970 and at the general primary | 11 |
| election held every 4 years thereafter, each primary
elector | 12 |
| may vote for one candidate of his party for member of the State
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| central committee for the congressional district in which he | 14 |
| resides.
The candidate receiving the highest number of votes | 15 |
| shall be declared
elected State central committeeman from the | 16 |
| district. A political party
may, in lieu of the foregoing, by a | 17 |
| majority vote of delegates at any State
convention of such | 18 |
| party, determine to thereafter elect the State central
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| committeemen in the manner following:
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| At the county convention held by such political party State | 21 |
| central
committeemen shall be elected in the same manner as | 22 |
| provided in this
Article for the election of officers of the | 23 |
| county central committee, and
such election shall follow the | 24 |
| election of officers of the county central
committee. Each | 25 |
| elected ward, township or precinct committeeman shall cast
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| his vote one vote for each ballot voted in his ward, township, |
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| part of a
township or precinct in the last preceding primary | 2 |
| election of his
political party. In the case of a county lying | 3 |
| partially within one
congressional district and partially | 4 |
| within another congressional district,
each ward, township or | 5 |
| precinct committeeman shall vote only with respect
to the | 6 |
| congressional district in which his ward, township, part of a
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| township or precinct is located. In the case of a congressional | 8 |
| district
which encompasses more than one county, each ward, | 9 |
| township or precinct
committeeman residing within the | 10 |
| congressional district shall cast as his
vote one vote for each | 11 |
| ballot voted in his ward, township, part of a
township or | 12 |
| precinct in the last preceding primary election of his
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| political party for one candidate of his party for member of | 14 |
| the State
central committee for the congressional district in | 15 |
| which he resides and
the Chairman of the county central | 16 |
| committee shall report the results of
the election to the State | 17 |
| Board of Elections. The State Board of Elections
shall certify | 18 |
| the candidate receiving the highest number of votes elected
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| State central committeeman for that congressional district.
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| The State central committee shall adopt rules to provide | 21 |
| for and govern
the procedures to be followed in the election of | 22 |
| members of the State central
committee.
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| After the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the 91st | 24 |
| General
Assembly, whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of | 25 |
| Chairman of a State
central committee, or at the end of the | 26 |
| term of office of Chairman, the State
central committee of each |
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| political party that has selected Alternative A shall
elect a | 2 |
| Chairman who shall not be required to be a member of the State | 3 |
| Central
Committee. The Chairman shall be a
registered voter in | 4 |
| this State and of the same political party as the State
central | 5 |
| committee.
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| Alternative B. Each congressional committee shall, within | 7 |
| 30 days after
the adoption of this alternative, appoint a | 8 |
| person of the sex opposite that
of the incumbent member for | 9 |
| that congressional district to serve as an
additional member of | 10 |
| the State central committee until his or her successor
is | 11 |
| elected at the general primary election in 1986. Each | 12 |
| congressional
committee shall make this appointment by voting | 13 |
| on the basis set forth in
paragraph (e) of this Section. In | 14 |
| each congressional district at the
general primary election | 15 |
| held in 1986 and every 4 years thereafter, the
male candidate | 16 |
| receiving the highest number of votes of the party's male
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| candidates for State central committeeman, and the female | 18 |
| candidate
receiving the highest number of votes of the party's | 19 |
| female candidates for
State central committeewoman, shall be | 20 |
| declared elected State central
committeeman and State central | 21 |
| committeewoman from the district. At the
general primary | 22 |
| election held in 1986 and every 4 years thereafter, if all a
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| party's candidates for State central committeemen or State | 24 |
| central
committeewomen from a congressional district are of the | 25 |
| same sex, the candidate
receiving the highest number of votes | 26 |
| shall be declared elected a State central
committeeman or State |
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| central committeewoman from the district, and, because of
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| failure to elect one male and one female to the committee, a | 3 |
| vacancy shall be
declared to exist in the office of the second | 4 |
| member of the State central
committee from the district. This | 5 |
| vacancy shall be filled by appointment by
the congressional | 6 |
| committee of the political party, and the person appointed to
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| fill the vacancy shall be a resident of the congressional | 8 |
| district and of the
sex opposite that of the committeeman or | 9 |
| committeewoman elected at the general
primary election. Each | 10 |
| congressional committee shall make this appointment by
voting | 11 |
| on the basis set forth in paragraph (e) of this Section.
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| The Chairman of a State central committee composed as | 13 |
| provided in this
Alternative B must be selected from the | 14 |
| committee's members.
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| Except as provided for in Alternative A with respect to the | 16 |
| selection of
the Chairman of the State central committee, under | 17 |
| both of the foregoing
alternatives, the
State
central
committee | 18 |
| of each political party shall be composed of members elected
or | 19 |
| appointed from the several legislative congressional districts | 20 |
| of the State,
and of no other person or persons whomsoever. The | 21 |
| members of the State
central committee shall, within 41 days | 22 |
| after each quadrennial election of
the full committee, meet in | 23 |
| the city of Springfield and organize
by electing a chairman, | 24 |
| and may at such time
elect such officers from among their own | 25 |
| number (or otherwise), as they
may deem necessary or expedient. | 26 |
| The outgoing chairman of the State
central committee of the |
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| party shall, 10 days before the meeting, notify
each member of | 2 |
| the State central committee elected at the primary of the
time | 3 |
| and place of such meeting. In the organization and proceedings | 4 |
| of
the State central committee, each State central committeeman | 5 |
| and State
central committeewoman shall have one vote for each | 6 |
| ballot voted in his or her
legislative congressional district | 7 |
| by the primary electors of his or her party at the
primary | 8 |
| election immediately preceding the meeting of the State central
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| committee. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the State central | 10 |
| committee of any
political party, the vacancy shall be filled | 11 |
| by appointment of
the chairmen of the county central committees | 12 |
| of the
political party
of the counties located within the | 13 |
| legislative congressional district in which the vacancy
occurs | 14 |
| and,
if applicable, the ward and township committeemen of the
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| political
party in counties of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants | 16 |
| located within the
legislative congressional
district. If the | 17 |
| legislative congressional district in which the vacancy occurs | 18 |
| lies
wholly within a
county of 2,000,000 or more inhabitants, | 19 |
| the ward and township committeemen
of the political party in | 20 |
| that legislative congressional district shall vote to fill the
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| vacancy. In voting to fill the vacancy, each chairman of a | 22 |
| county central
committee and
each ward and township | 23 |
| committeeman in counties of 2,000,000
or
more inhabitants shall | 24 |
| have one vote for each ballot voted in each precinct of
the | 25 |
| legislative congressional district in which the vacancy exists | 26 |
| of
his or her
county, township, or ward cast by the primary |
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| electors of his or her party
at the
primary election | 2 |
| immediately preceding the meeting to fill the vacancy in the
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| State
central committee. The person appointed to fill the | 4 |
| vacancy shall be a
resident of the
legislative congressional | 5 |
| district in which the vacancy occurs and , shall be a qualified | 6 |
| voter who voted in 3 of the 4 most recent primary elections of | 7 |
| the political party ,
and, in a committee composed as provided | 8 |
| in Alternative B, shall be of the
same
sex as his or her
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| predecessor . A political party may, by a majority vote of the
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| delegates of any State convention of such party, determine to | 11 |
| return
to the election of State central committeeman and State | 12 |
| central
committeewoman by the vote of primary electors.
Any | 13 |
| action taken by a political party at a State convention in | 14 |
| accordance
with this Section shall be reported to the State | 15 |
| Board of Elections by the
chairman and secretary of such | 16 |
| convention within 10 days after such action.
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| On and after the date of organization of a State central | 18 |
| committee whose members are elected at the 2010 general | 19 |
| primary, a reference in this Code or other statute to a State | 20 |
| central committee organized or operating under Alternative A or | 21 |
| Alternative B is a reference to a State central committee whose | 22 |
| predecessor was organized or operated under the Alternative A | 23 |
| or Alternative B authorized by this subsection (a) before the | 24 |
| effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | 25 |
| Assembly. | 26 |
| The changes made to this subsection (a) by this amendatory |
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| Act of the 96th General Assembly apply to State central | 2 |
| committees elected at or after the 2010 general primary. | 3 |
| Ward, Township and Precinct Committeemen
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| (b) At the primary in 1972 and
at the general primary | 5 |
| election every 4 years thereafter, each primary elector in | 6 |
| cities having a
population of 200,000 or over may vote for one | 7 |
| candidate of his party in
his ward for ward committeeman. Each | 8 |
| candidate for ward committeeman
must be a resident of and in | 9 |
| the ward where he seeks to be elected ward
committeeman. The | 10 |
| one having the highest number of votes shall be such
ward | 11 |
| committeeman of such party for such ward. At the primary | 12 |
| election
in 1970 and at the general primary election every 4 | 13 |
| years thereafter,
each primary elector in counties containing a | 14 |
| population of 2,000,000 or
more, outside of cities containing a | 15 |
| population of 200,000 or more, may
vote for one candidate of | 16 |
| his party for township committeeman. Each
candidate for | 17 |
| township committeeman must be a resident of and in the
township | 18 |
| or part of a township (which lies outside of a city having a
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| population of 200,000 or more, in counties containing a | 20 |
| population of
2,000,000 or more), and in which township or part | 21 |
| of a township he seeks
to be elected township committeeman. The | 22 |
| one having the highest number
of votes shall be such township | 23 |
| committeeman of such party for such
township or part of a | 24 |
| township. At the primary
in 1970 and at the general primary | 25 |
| election every 2 years thereafter, each primary elector,
except | 26 |
| in counties having a population of 2,000,000 or over, may vote
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| for one candidate of his party in his precinct for precinct
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| committeeman. Each candidate for precinct committeeman must be | 3 |
| a bona
fide resident of the precinct where he seeks to be | 4 |
| elected precinct
committeeman. The one having the highest | 5 |
| number of votes shall be such
precinct committeeman of such | 6 |
| party for such precinct. The official
returns of the primary | 7 |
| shall show the name of the committeeman of each
political | 8 |
| party.
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| Terms of Committeemen. All precinct committeemen elected | 10 |
| under the
provisions of this Article shall continue as such | 11 |
| committeemen until the
date of the primary to be held in the | 12 |
| second year after their election.
Except as otherwise provided | 13 |
| in this Section for certain State central
committeemen who have | 14 |
| 2 year terms, all State central committeemen, township
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| committeemen and ward committeemen shall continue as such | 16 |
| committeemen
until the date of primary to be held in the fourth | 17 |
| year after their
election. However, a vacancy exists in the | 18 |
| office of precinct committeeman
when a precinct committeeman | 19 |
| ceases to reside in the precinct in which he
was elected and | 20 |
| such precinct committeeman shall thereafter neither have
nor | 21 |
| exercise any rights, powers or duties as committeeman in that | 22 |
| precinct,
even if a successor has not been elected or | 23 |
| appointed.
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| (c) The Multi-Township Central Committee shall consist of | 25 |
| the precinct
committeemen of such party, in the multi-township | 26 |
| assessing district formed
pursuant to Section 2-10 of the |
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| Property Tax Code and shall be organized for the purposes set | 2 |
| forth in Section
45-25 of the Township Code. In the | 3 |
| organization and proceedings of the
Multi-Township Central | 4 |
| Committee each precinct committeeman shall have one vote
for | 5 |
| each ballot voted in his precinct by the primary electors of | 6 |
| his party at
the primary at which he was elected.
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| County Central Committee
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| (d) The county central committee of each political party in | 9 |
| each
county shall consist of the various township committeemen, | 10 |
| precinct
committeemen and ward committeemen, if any, of such | 11 |
| party in the county.
In the organization and proceedings of the | 12 |
| county central committee,
each precinct committeeman shall | 13 |
| have one vote for each ballot voted in
his precinct by the | 14 |
| primary electors of his party at the primary at
which he was | 15 |
| elected; each township committeeman shall have one vote for
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| each ballot voted in his township or part of a township as the | 17 |
| case may
be by the primary electors of his party at the primary | 18 |
| election
for the nomination of candidates for election to the | 19 |
| General Assembly
immediately preceding the meeting of the | 20 |
| county central committee; and
in the organization and | 21 |
| proceedings of the county central committee,
each ward | 22 |
| committeeman shall have one vote for each ballot voted in his
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| ward by the primary electors of his party at the primary | 24 |
| election
for the nomination of candidates for election to the | 25 |
| General Assembly
immediately preceding the meeting of the | 26 |
| county central committee.
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| Cook County Board of Review Election District Committee
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| (d-1) Each board of review election district committee of | 3 |
| each political
party in Cook County shall consist of the
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| various township committeemen and ward committeemen, if any, of | 5 |
| that party in
the portions of the county composing the board of | 6 |
| review election district. In
the organization and proceedings | 7 |
| of each of the 3 election
district committees, each township | 8 |
| committeeman shall have one vote for each
ballot voted in his | 9 |
| or her township or part of a township, as the case may be,
by
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| the primary electors of his or her party at the primary | 11 |
| election immediately
preceding the meeting of the board of | 12 |
| review election district committee; and
in the organization and | 13 |
| proceedings of each of the 3 election district
committees, each | 14 |
| ward committeeman shall have one vote for each
ballot voted in
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| his or her ward or part of that ward, as the case may be, by the | 16 |
| primary
electors of his or her party at the primary election | 17 |
| immediately preceding the
meeting of the board of review | 18 |
| election district committee.
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| Congressional Committee
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| (e) The congressional committee of each party in each | 21 |
| congressional
district shall be composed of the chairmen of the | 22 |
| county central
committees of the counties composing the | 23 |
| congressional district, except
that in congressional districts | 24 |
| wholly within the territorial limits of
one county, the | 25 |
| precinct
committeemen, township committeemen and ward | 26 |
| committeemen, if any, of
the party representing the precincts |
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| within the limits of the
congressional district, shall compose | 2 |
| the congressional committee. Each A
State central committeeman | 3 |
| in each district shall be a member and the
chairman or, when a | 4 |
| district has 2 or more State central committeemen, a | 5 |
| co-chairman
of the congressional committee, but shall not have | 6 |
| the right to
vote except in case of a tie.
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| In the organization and proceedings of congressional | 8 |
| committees
composed of precinct committeemen or township | 9 |
| committeemen or ward
committeemen, or any combination thereof, | 10 |
| each precinct committeeman
shall have one vote for each ballot | 11 |
| voted in his precinct by the primary
electors of his party at | 12 |
| the primary at which he was elected, each
township committeeman | 13 |
| shall have one vote for each ballot voted in his
township or | 14 |
| part of a township as the case may be by the primary
electors | 15 |
| of his party at the primary election immediately preceding the
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| meeting of the congressional committee, and each ward | 17 |
| committeeman shall
have one vote for each ballot voted in each | 18 |
| precinct of his ward located
in such congressional district by | 19 |
| the primary electors of his party at
the primary election | 20 |
| immediately preceding the meeting of the
congressional | 21 |
| committee; and in the organization and proceedings of
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| congressional committees composed of the chairmen of the county | 23 |
| central
committees of the counties within such district, each | 24 |
| chairman of such
county central committee shall have one vote | 25 |
| for each ballot voted in
his county by the primary electors of | 26 |
| his party at the primary election
immediately preceding the |
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| meeting of the congressional committee.
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| Judicial District Committee
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| (f) The judicial district committee of each political party | 4 |
| in each
judicial district shall be composed of the chairman of | 5 |
| the county
central committees of the counties composing the | 6 |
| judicial district.
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| In the organization and proceedings of judicial district | 8 |
| committees
composed of the chairmen of the county central | 9 |
| committees of the
counties within such district, each chairman | 10 |
| of such county central
committee shall have one vote for each | 11 |
| ballot voted in his county by the
primary electors of his party | 12 |
| at the primary election immediately
preceding the meeting of | 13 |
| the judicial district committee.
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| Circuit Court Committee
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| (g) The circuit court committee of each political party in | 16 |
| each
judicial circuit outside Cook County shall be composed of | 17 |
| the chairmen
of the county central committees of the counties | 18 |
| composing the judicial
circuit.
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| In the organization and proceedings of circuit court | 20 |
| committees, each
chairman of a county central committee shall | 21 |
| have one vote for each
ballot voted in his county by the | 22 |
| primary electors of his party at the
primary election | 23 |
| immediately preceding the meeting of the circuit court
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| committee.
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| Judicial Subcircuit Committee
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| (g-1) The judicial subcircuit committee of each political |
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| party in
each judicial subcircuit in a judicial circuit divided | 2 |
| into subcircuits
shall be composed of (i) the ward and township | 3 |
| committeemen
of the townships and wards composing the judicial | 4 |
| subcircuit in Cook County and
(ii) the precinct committeemen of | 5 |
| the precincts
composing the judicial subcircuit in any county | 6 |
| other than Cook County.
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| In the organization and proceedings of each judicial | 8 |
| subcircuit committee,
each township committeeman shall have | 9 |
| one vote for each ballot voted in his
township or part of a | 10 |
| township, as the case may be, in the judicial
subcircuit by the | 11 |
| primary electors of his party at the primary election
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| immediately preceding the meeting of the judicial subcircuit | 13 |
| committee;
each precinct committeeman shall have one vote for | 14 |
| each ballot voted in his
precinct or part of a precinct, as the | 15 |
| case may be, in the judicial subcircuit
by the primary electors | 16 |
| of his party at the primary election immediately
preceding the | 17 |
| meeting of the judicial subcircuit committee;
and
each ward | 18 |
| committeeman shall have one vote for each ballot voted in his
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| ward or part of a ward, as the case may be, in the judicial | 20 |
| subcircuit by
the primary electors of his party at the primary | 21 |
| election immediately
preceding the meeting of the judicial | 22 |
| subcircuit committee.
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| Municipal Central Committee
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| (h) The municipal central committee of each political party | 25 |
| shall be
composed of the precinct, township or ward | 26 |
| committeemen, as the case may
be, of such party representing |
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| the precincts or wards, embraced in such
city, incorporated | 2 |
| town or village. The voting strength of each
precinct, township | 3 |
| or ward committeeman on the municipal central
committee shall | 4 |
| be the same as his voting strength on the county central
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| committee.
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| For political parties, other than a statewide political | 7 |
| party,
established only within a municipality or
township, the | 8 |
| municipal or township managing committee shall be composed
of | 9 |
| the party officers of the local established party. The party | 10 |
| officers
of a local established party shall be as follows: the | 11 |
| chairman and
secretary of the caucus for those municipalities | 12 |
| and townships authorized
by statute to nominate candidates by | 13 |
| caucus shall serve as party officers
for the purpose of filling | 14 |
| vacancies in nomination under Section
7-61; for municipalities | 15 |
| and townships authorized by statute or ordinance
to nominate | 16 |
| candidates by petition and primary election, the party officers
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| shall be the party's candidates who are nominated at the | 18 |
| primary. If no party
primary was held because of the provisions | 19 |
| of Section 7-5, vacancies in
nomination shall be filled by the | 20 |
| party's remaining candidates who shall
serve as the party's | 21 |
| officers.
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| Powers
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| (i) Each committee and its officers shall have the powers | 24 |
| usually
exercised by such committees and by the officers | 25 |
| thereof, not
inconsistent with the provisions of this Article. | 26 |
| The several committees
herein provided for shall not have power |
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| to delegate any of their
powers, or functions to any other | 2 |
| person, officer or committee, but this
shall not be construed | 3 |
| to prevent a committee from appointing from its
own membership | 4 |
| proper and necessary subcommittees.
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| (j) The State central committee of a political party which | 6 |
| elects it
members by Alternative B under paragraph (a) of this | 7 |
| Section shall adopt a
plan to give effect to the delegate | 8 |
| selection rules of the national political
party and file a copy | 9 |
| of such plan with the State Board of Elections when
approved by | 10 |
| a national political party.
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| (k) For the purpose of the designation of a proxy by a | 12 |
| Congressional
Committee to vote in place of an
absent State | 13 |
| central committeeman or committeewoman at meetings of the
State | 14 |
| central committee of a political party which elects its members | 15 |
| by
Alternative B under paragraph (a) of this Section, the proxy | 16 |
| shall be
appointed by the vote of the ward and township | 17 |
| committeemen, if any, of the
wards and townships which lie | 18 |
| entirely or partially within the
Congressional District from | 19 |
| which the absent State central committeeman or
committeewoman | 20 |
| was elected and the vote of the chairmen of the county
central | 21 |
| committees of those counties which lie entirely or partially | 22 |
| within
that Congressional District and in which there are no | 23 |
| ward or township
committeemen. When voting for such proxy the | 24 |
| county chairman, ward
committeeman or township committeeman, | 25 |
| as the case may be shall have one
vote for each ballot voted in | 26 |
| his county, ward or township, or portion
thereof within the |
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| Congressional District, by the primary electors of his
party at | 2 |
| the primary at which he was elected. However, the absent State
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| central committeeman or committeewoman may designate a proxy | 4 |
| when permitted
by the rules of a political party which elects | 5 |
| its members by Alternative B
under paragraph (a) of this | 6 |
| Section.
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| Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, a person is | 8 |
| ineligible to hold the position of committeeperson in any | 9 |
| committee established pursuant to this Section if he or she is | 10 |
| statutorily ineligible to vote in a general election because of | 11 |
| conviction of a felony. When a committeeperson is convicted of | 12 |
| a felony, the position occupied by that committeeperson shall | 13 |
| automatically become vacant.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 95-6, eff. 6-20-07; 95-699, | 15 |
| eff. 11-9-07.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 17 |
| becoming law.".
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