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1 AN ACT concerning presidential electors.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5 Section 21-4 as follows:
6 (10 ILCS 5/21-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-4)
7 Sec. 21-4. Presidential electors; meeting; reimbursement.
8 The electors, elected under this Article as aforesaid, shall
9 meet at the office of the Secretary of State in a room to be
10 designated by the Secretary him in the Capitol at Springfield
11 in this State, at the time appointed by the laws of the
12 United States at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of
13 that such day, and give their votes for President and for
14 Vice-President of the United States, in the manner herein
15 provided in this Article, and perform such duties as are or
16 may be required by law. Each elector shall receive
17 reimbursement for every 20 miles necessary travel, lodging,
18 meals, and related expenses in going to the seat of
19 government to give his or her vote and returning to his or
20 her residence and otherwise performing the official duties of
21 an elector, as provided in the rules established by the
22 Secretary of State's Travel Control Board to be computed by
23 the most usual route, the sum of $3, to be paid on the
24 warrant of the State Comptroller, out of funds appropriated
25 to the Secretary of State for travel any money in the
26 treasury not otherwise appropriated, and any person appointed
27 by the electors assembled to fill a vacancy shall also
28 receive the reimbursement compensation provided for electors
29 appointed.
30 (Source: P.A. 78-592.)