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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 663
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 663, AS AMENDED,
3 on page 1, line 5 by inserting "Section 16-3, Section
4 16-6.1," immediately before "Section 24B-2"; and
5 on page 1, by inserting the following immediately after line
6 5:
7 (10 ILCS 5/16-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 16-3)
8 "Sec. 16-3. The names of all candidates to be voted for
9 in each election district or precinct shall be printed on one
10 ballot, except as is provided in Sections 16-6.1 and 21-1.01
11 of this Act and except as otherwise provided in this Act with
12 respect to the odd year regular elections and the emergency
13 referenda; all nominations of any political party being
14 placed under the party appellation or title of such party as
15 designated in the certificates of nomination or petitions.
16 The names of all independent candidates shall be printed upon
17 the ballot in a column or columns under the heading
18 "independent" arranged under the names or titles of the
19 respective offices for which such independent candidates
20 shall have been nominated and so far as practicable, the name
21 or names of any independent candidate or candidates for any
22 office shall be printed upon the ballot opposite the name or
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1 names of any candidate or candidates for the same office
2 contained in any party column or columns upon said ballot.
3 The ballot shall contain no other names, except that in cases
4 of electors for President and Vice-President of the United
5 States, the names of the candidates for President and
6 Vice-President may be added to the party designation and
7 words calculated to aid the voter in his choice of candidates
8 may be added, such as "Vote for one," "Vote for three." When
9 an electronic voting system is used which utilizes a ballot
10 label booklet, the candidates and questions shall appear on
11 the pages of such booklet in the order provided by this Code;
12 and, in any case where candidates for an office appear on a
13 page which does not contain the name of any candidate for
14 another office, and where less than 50% of the page is
15 utilized, the name of no candidate shall be printed on the
16 lowest 25% of such page. On the back or outside of the
17 ballot, so as to appear when folded, shall be printed the
18 words "Official Ballot", followed by the designation of the
19 polling place for which the ballot is prepared, the date of
20 the election and a facsimile of the signature of the election
21 authority who has caused the ballots to be printed. The
22 ballots shall be of plain white paper, through which the
23 printing or writing cannot be read. However, ballots for use
24 at the nonpartisan and consolidated elections may be printed
25 on different color paper, except blue paper, whenever
26 necessary or desirable to facilitate distinguishing between
27 ballots for different political subdivisions. In the case of
28 nonpartisan elections for officers of a political
29 subdivision, unless the statute or an ordinance adopted
30 pursuant to Article VII of the Constitution providing the
31 form of government therefor requires otherwise, the column
32 listing such nonpartisan candidates shall be printed with no
33 appellation or circle at its head. The party appellation or
34 title, or the word "independent" at the head of any column
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1 provided for independent candidates, shall be printed in
2 capital letters not less than one-fourth of an inch in height
3 and a circle one-half inch in diameter shall be printed at
4 the beginning of the line in which such appellation or title
5 is printed, provided, however, that no such circle shall be
6 printed at the head of any column or columns provided for
7 such independent candidates. The names of candidates shall be
8 printed in capital letters not less than one-eighth nor more
9 than one-fourth of an inch in height, and at the beginning of
10 each line in which a name of a candidate is printed a square
11 shall be printed, the sides of which shall be not less than
12 one-fourth of an inch in length. However, the names of the
13 candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor on the same
14 ticket shall be printed within a bracket and a single square
15 shall be printed in front of the bracket. The list of
16 candidates of the several parties and any such list of
17 independent candidates shall be placed in separate columns on
18 the ballot in such order as the election authorities charged
19 with the printing of the ballots shall decide; provided, that
20 the names of the candidates of the several political parties,
21 certified by the State Board of Elections to the several
22 county clerks shall be printed by the county clerk of the
23 proper county on the official ballot in the order certified
24 by the State Board of Elections. Any county clerk refusing,
25 neglecting or failing to print on the official ballot the
26 names of candidates of the several political parties in the
27 order certified by the State Board of Elections, and any
28 county clerk who prints or causes to be printed upon the
29 official ballot the name of a candidate, for an office to be
30 filled by the Electors of the entire State, whose name has
31 not been duly certified to him upon a certificate signed by
32 the State Board of Elections shall be guilty of a Class C
33 misdemeanor.
34 When an electronic voting system is used which utilizes a
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1 ballot card, on the inside flap of each ballot card envelope
2 there shall be printed a form for write-in voting which shall
3 be substantially as follows:
4 WRITE-IN VOTES
5 (See card of instructions for specific information.
6 Duplicate form below by hand for additional write-in votes.)
7 _____________________________
8 Title of Office
9 ( ) ____________________________
10 Name of Candidate
11 When an electronic voting system is used which uses a
12 ballot sheet, the instructions to voters on the ballot sheet
13 shall refer the voter to the card of instructions for
14 specific information on write-in voting. Below each office
15 appearing on such ballot sheet there shall be a provision for
16 the casting of a write-in vote.
17 When such electronic system is used, there shall be
18 printed on the back of each ballot card, each ballot card
19 envelope, and the first page of the ballot label when a
20 ballot label is used, the words "Official Ballot," followed
21 by the number of the precinct or other precinct
22 identification, which may be stamped, in lieu thereof and, as
23 applicable, the number and name of the township, ward or
24 other election district for which the ballot card, ballot
25 card envelope, and ballot label are prepared, the date of the
26 election and a facsimile of the signature of the election
27 authority who has caused the ballots to be printed. The back
28 of the ballot card shall also include a method of identifying
29 the ballot configuration such as a listing of the political
30 subdivisions and districts for which votes may be cast on
31 that ballot, or a number code identifying the ballot
32 configuration or color coded ballots, except that where there
33 is only one ballot configuration in a precinct, the precinct
34 identification, and any applicable ward identification, shall
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1 be sufficient. Ballot card envelopes used in punch card
2 systems shall be of paper through which no writing or punches
3 may be discerned and shall be of sufficient length to enclose
4 all voting positions. However, the election authority may
5 provide ballot card envelopes on which no precinct number or
6 township, ward or other election district designation, or
7 election date are preprinted, if space and a preprinted form
8 are provided below the space provided for the names of
9 write-in candidates where such information may be entered by
10 the judges of election. Whenever an election authority
11 utilizes ballot card envelopes on which the election date and
12 precinct is not preprinted, a judge of election shall mark
13 such information for the particular precinct and election on
14 the envelope in ink before tallying and counting any write-in
15 vote written thereon. If some method of insuring ballot
16 secrecy other than an envelope is used, such information must
17 be provided on the ballot itself.
18 In the designation of the name of a candidate on the
19 ballot, the candidate's given name or names, initial or
20 initials, a nickname by which the candidate is commonly
21 known, or a combination thereof, may be used in addition to
22 the candidate's surname. No other designation such as a title
23 or degree or nickname suggesting or implying possession of a
24 title, degree or professional status, or similar information
25 may be used in connection with the candidate's surname,
26 except that the title "Mrs." may be used in the case of a
27 married woman.
28 Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are
29 used, the provisions of this Section may be modified as
30 required or authorized by Article 24 or Article 24A,
31 whichever is applicable.
32 Nothing in this Section shall prohibit election
33 authorities from using or reusing ballot card envelopes which
34 were printed before the effective date of this amendatory Act
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1 of 1985.
2 (Source: P.A. 84-1308.)
3 (10 ILCS 5/16-6.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 16-6.1)
4 Sec. 16-6.1. In elections held pursuant to the
5 provisions of Section 12 of Article VI of the Constitution
6 relating to retention of judges in office, the form of the
7 proposition to be submitted for each candidate shall be as
8 provided in paragraph (1) or (2), as the election authority
9 may choose.
10 (1) The names of all persons seeking retention in
11 the same office shall be listed, in the order provided in
12 this Section, with one proposition that reads
13 substantially as follows: "Shall each of the persons
14 listed be retained in office as (insert name of office
15 and court)?". To the right of each candidate's name must
16 be places for the voter to mark "Yes" or "No". If the
17 list of candidates for retention in the same office
18 exceeds one page of the ballot, the proposition must
19 appear on each page upon which the list of candidates
20 continues.
21 (2) The form of the proposition for each candidate
22 shall be substantially as follows:
23 ___________________________________________________
24 Shall ....... (insert name YES
25 of candidate) be retained in
26 office as ..... (insert name
27 of office and Court)? NO
28 ___________________________________________________
29 The names of all candidates thus submitting their names
30 for retention in office in any particular judicial district
31 or circuit shall appear on the same ballot which shall be
32 separate from all other ballots voted on at the general
33 election.
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1 Propositions on Supreme Court judges, if any are seeking
2 retention, shall appear on the ballot in the first group, for
3 judges of the Appellate Court in the second group immediately
4 under the first, and for circuit judges in the last group.
5 The grouping of candidates for the same office shall be
6 preceded by a heading describing the office and the court.
7 If there are two or more candidates for each office, the
8 names of such candidates in each group shall be listed in the
9 order determined as follows: The name of the person with the
10 greatest length of time served in the specified office of the
11 specified court shall be listed first in each group. The
12 rest of the names shall be listed in the appropriate order
13 based on the same seniority standard. If two or more
14 candidates for each office have served identical periods of
15 time in the specified office, such candidates shall be listed
16 alphabetically at the appropriate place in the order of names
17 based on seniority in the office as described. Circuit
18 judges shall be credited for the purposes of this section
19 with service as associate judges prior to July 1, 1971 and
20 with service on any court the judges of which were made
21 associate judges on January 1, 1964 by virtue of Paragraph 4,
22 subparagraphs (c) and (d) of the Schedule to Article VI of
23 the former Illinois Constitution.
24 At the top of the ballot on the same side as the
25 propositions on the candidates are listed shall be printed an
26 explanation to read substantially as follows: "Vote on the
27 proposition with respect to all or any of the judges listed
28 on this ballot. No judge listed is running against any other
29 judge. The sole question is whether each judge shall be
30 retained in his present office".
31 Such separate ballot shall be printed on paper of
32 sufficient size so that when folded once it shall be large
33 enough to contain the following words, which shall be printed
34 on the back, "Ballot for judicial candidates seeking
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1 retention in office". Such ballot shall be handed to the
2 elector at the same time as the ballot containing the names
3 of other candidates for the general election and shall be
4 returned therewith by the elector to the proper officer in
5 the manner designated by this Act. All provisions of this
6 Act relating to ballots shall apply to such separate ballot,
7 except as otherwise specifically provided in this section.
8 Such separate ballot shall be printed upon paper of a green
9 color. No other ballot at the same election shall be green
10 in color.
11 In precincts in which voting machines are used, the
12 special ballot containing the propositions on the retention
13 of judges may be placed on the voting machines if such voting
14 machines permit the casting of votes on such propositions.
15 An electronic voting system authorized by Article 24A may
16 be used in voting and tabulating the judicial retention
17 ballots. When an electronic voting system is used which
18 utilizes a ballot label booklet and ballot card, there shall
19 be used in the label booklet a separate ballot label page or
20 pages as required for such proposition, which page or pages
21 for such proposition shall be of a green color separate and
22 distinct from the ballot label page or pages used for any
23 other proposition or candidates.".
24 (Source: P.A. 79-201.)