Full Text of HB2870 98th General Assembly
HB2870ham001 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Rep. Brad E. Halbrook Filed: 3/15/2013
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2870
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2870 with the | 3 | | following:
| 4 | | on page 1, lines 4 and 5, by replacing "Section 7-10" with | 5 | | "Sections 7-10 and 10-4"; and | 6 | | on page 4, line 26, by deleting " prong fasteners, "; and | 7 | | on page 15, by inserting the following immediately after line | 8 | | 4:
| 9 | | "(10 ILCS 5/10-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 10-4)
| 10 | | Sec. 10-4. Form of petition for nomination. All petitions | 11 | | for nomination
under this Article 10 for
candidates for public | 12 | | office in this State, shall in addition to other
requirements | 13 | | provided by law, be as follows: Such petitions shall
consist of | 14 | | sheets of uniform size and each sheet shall contain, above
the |
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| 1 | | space for signature, an appropriate heading, giving the | 2 | | information
as to name of candidate or candidates in whose | 3 | | behalf such petition is
signed; the office; the party; place of | 4 | | residence; and such other
information or wording as required to | 5 | | make same valid, and the heading
of each sheet shall be the | 6 | | same. Such petition shall be signed by the
qualified voters in | 7 | | their own proper persons only, and opposite the
signature of | 8 | | each signer his residence address shall be written or
printed. | 9 | | The residence address required to be written or printed
| 10 | | opposite each qualified primary elector's name shall include | 11 | | the street
address or rural route number of the signer, as the | 12 | | case may be, as well as
the signer's county, and city, village | 13 | | or town, and state. However,
the county or city, village or
| 14 | | town, and state of residence of such electors may be printed on | 15 | | the
petition forms where all of the such electors signing the | 16 | | petition
reside in the same county or city, village or town, | 17 | | and state. Standard
abbreviations may be used in writing the | 18 | | residence address, including
street number, if any. No | 19 | | signature shall be valid or be counted in
considering the | 20 | | validity or sufficiency of such petition unless the
| 21 | | requirements of this Section are complied with. At the bottom | 22 | | of each
sheet of such petition shall be added a circulator's | 23 | | statement, signed by a
person 18
years of age or older who is a | 24 | | citizen of the United States; stating the street address or | 25 | | rural route
number, as the case may be, as well as the county,
| 26 | | city,
village or town, and state; certifying that the |
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| 1 | | signatures on that sheet of
the petition
were signed in his or | 2 | | her presence; certifying that the signatures are
genuine;
and | 3 | | either (1) indicating the dates on which that sheet was | 4 | | circulated, or (2)
indicating the first and last dates on which | 5 | | the sheet was circulated, or (3)
certifying that none of the | 6 | | signatures on the sheet were signed more than 90
days preceding | 7 | | the last day for the filing of the petition; and
certifying
| 8 | | that to the best of his knowledge and belief the persons so | 9 | | signing were at the
time of signing the petition duly | 10 | | registered voters under Articles 4, 5 or 6 of
the Code of the | 11 | | political subdivision or district for which the candidate or
| 12 | | candidates shall be nominated, and certifying that their | 13 | | respective residences
are correctly stated therein. Such | 14 | | statement shall be sworn to before some
officer authorized to | 15 | | administer oaths in this State. No petition sheet shall
be | 16 | | circulated more than 90 days preceding the last day provided in | 17 | | Section 10-6
for the filing of such petition. Such sheets, | 18 | | before being presented to the
electoral board or filed with the | 19 | | proper officer of the electoral district or
division of the | 20 | | state or municipality, as the case may be, shall be neatly
| 21 | | bound fastened together in book form , by placing the sheets in | 22 | | a pile and fastening
them together at one edge in a secure and | 23 | | suitable manner, and the sheets shall
then be numbered | 24 | | consecutively. Petitions filed that are bound using paper | 25 | | clips, tape, or any similar temporary fastening device shall be | 26 | | found invalid. The sheets shall not be fastened by pasting
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| 1 | | together end to end, so as to form a continuous strip or roll. | 2 | | All
petition sheets which are filed with the proper local | 3 | | election officials,
election authorities or the State Board of | 4 | | Elections shall be the original
sheets which have been signed | 5 | | by the voters and by the circulator, and not
photocopies or | 6 | | duplicates of such sheets. A petition, when presented or
filed, | 7 | | shall not be withdrawn, altered, or added to, and no signature | 8 | | shall be
revoked except by revocation in writing presented or | 9 | | filed with the officers or
officer with whom the petition is | 10 | | required to be presented or filed, and before
the presentment | 11 | | or filing of such petition. Whoever forges any name of a
signer | 12 | | upon any petition shall be deemed guilty of a forgery, and on | 13 | | conviction
thereof, shall be punished accordingly. The word | 14 | | "petition" or "petition for
nomination", as used herein, shall | 15 | | mean what is sometimes known as nomination
papers, in | 16 | | distinction to what is known as a certificate of nomination. | 17 | | The
words "political division for which the candidate is | 18 | | nominated", or its
equivalent, shall mean the largest political | 19 | | division in which all qualified
voters may vote upon such | 20 | | candidate or candidates, as the state in the case of
state | 21 | | officers; the township in the case of township officers et | 22 | | cetera.
Provided, further, that no person shall circulate or | 23 | | certify petitions for
candidates of more than one political | 24 | | party, or for an independent candidate or
candidates in | 25 | | addition to one political party, to be voted upon at the next
| 26 | | primary or general election, or for such candidates and parties |
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| 1 | | with respect to
the same political subdivision at the next | 2 | | consolidated election.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 91-57, eff. 6-30-99; 92-129, eff. 7-20-01.)".
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