(620 ILCS 50/17) (from Ch. 15 1/2, par. 121)
    Sec. 17. Whenever in this Act, it is required that a specified percentage of the legal voters of the county sign a petition, such percentage may exceed that specified, and the number so required shall be based on the total number of votes cast for candidates for Governor in the general election held in that county, next preceding the date of the filing of such petition.
(Source: Laws 1945, p. 594.)