Elections & Campaign Reform Committee
Filed: 3/9/2010
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5157
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5157 on page 1, by | ||||||
3 | inserting immediately below line 3 the following:
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4 | "Section 4. The Election Code is amended by changing | ||||||
5 | Section 17-22 as follows: | ||||||
6 | (10 ILCS 5/17-22) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-22) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 17-22. The judges of election shall make the tally | ||||||
8 | sheet and
certificate of results in triplicate. If, however, | ||||||
9 | the number of
established political parties, as defined in | ||||||
10 | Section 10-2, exceeds 2,
one additional copy shall be made for | ||||||
11 | each established political party
in excess of 2. One list of | ||||||
12 | voters, or other proper return with such
certificate written | ||||||
13 | thereon, and accompanying tally sheet footed up so
as to show | ||||||
14 | the correct number of votes cast for each person voted for,
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15 | shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up by the judges of | ||||||
16 | election, 2
of whom (one from each of the 2 major political |
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1 | parties) shall
immediately deliver same to the county clerk, or | ||||||
2 | his deputy, at the
office of the county clerk, or to an | ||||||
3 | officially designated receiving
station established by the | ||||||
4 | county clerk where a duly authorized
representative of the | ||||||
5 | county clerk shall receive said envelopes for
immediate | ||||||
6 | transmission to the office of county clerk, who shall safely
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7 | keep them. The other certificates of results and accompanying | ||||||
8 | tally
sheet shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up and duly | ||||||
9 | directed,
respectively, to the chairman of the county central | ||||||
10 | committee of each
then existing established political party, | ||||||
11 | and by another of the judges
of election deposited immediately | ||||||
12 | in the nearest United States letter
deposit. However, if any | ||||||
13 | county chairman notifies the county clerk not
later than 10 | ||||||
14 | days before the election of his desire to receive the
envelope | ||||||
15 | addressed to him at the point and at the time same are
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16 | delivered to the county clerk, his deputy or receiving station | ||||||
17 | designee
the envelopes shall be delivered to such county | ||||||
18 | chairman or his designee
immediately upon receipt thereof by | ||||||
19 | the county clerk, his deputy or his
receiving station designee. | ||||||
20 | The person or persons so designated by a
county chairman shall | ||||||
21 | sign an official receipt acknowledging receipt of
said | ||||||
22 | envelopes. The poll book and tally list filed with the county | ||||||
23 | clerk
shall be kept one year, and certified copies thereof | ||||||
24 | shall be evidence
in all courts, proceedings and election | ||||||
25 | contests. Before the returns are
sealed up, as aforesaid, the | ||||||
26 | judges shall compare the tally papers,
footings and |
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1 | certificates and see that they are correct and duplicates
of | ||||||
2 | each other, and certify to the correctness of the same. | ||||||
3 | At the nonpartisan and consolidated election elections , | ||||||
4 | the judges of election
shall make a tally sheet and certificate | ||||||
5 | of results for each political
subdivision for which candidates | ||||||
6 | or public questions are on the ballot
at such election, and | ||||||
7 | shall sign, seal in a marked envelope and deliver
them to the | ||||||
8 | county clerk with the other certificates of results herein
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9 | required. Such tally sheets and certificates of results may be
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10 | duplicates of the tally sheet and certificate of results | ||||||
11 | otherwise
required by this Section, showing all votes for all | ||||||
12 | candidates and
public questions voted for or upon in the | ||||||
13 | precinct, or may be on
separate forms prepared by the election | ||||||
14 | authority and showing only those
votes cast for candidates and | ||||||
15 | public questions of each such political
subdivision. | ||||||
16 | Within 2 days of delivery of complete returns of the | ||||||
17 | consolidated election and
nonpartisan elections , the county | ||||||
18 | clerk shall transmit an original,
sealed tally sheet and | ||||||
19 | certificate of results from each precinct in his
jurisdiction | ||||||
20 | in which candidates or public questions of a political
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21 | subdivision were on the ballot to the local election official | ||||||
22 | of such
political subdivision. Each local election official, | ||||||
23 | within 24 hours of
receipt of all of the tally sheets and | ||||||
24 | certificates of results for all
precincts in which candidates | ||||||
25 | or public questions of his political
subdivision were on the | ||||||
26 | ballot, shall transmit such sealed tally sheets
and |
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1 | certificates of results to the canvassing board for that | ||||||
2 | political
subdivision. | ||||||
3 | In the case of referenda for the formation of a political
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4 | subdivision, the tally sheets and certificates of results shall | ||||||
5 | be
transmitted by the county clerk to the circuit court that | ||||||
6 | ordered the
proposition submitted or to the officials | ||||||
7 | designated by the court to
conduct the canvass of votes. In the | ||||||
8 | case of school referenda for which
a regional superintendent of | ||||||
9 | schools is responsible for the canvass of
votes, the county | ||||||
10 | clerk shall transmit the tally sheets and certificates
of | ||||||
11 | results to the regional superintendent of schools. | ||||||
12 | Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are | ||||||
13 | used, the
provisions of this section may be modified as | ||||||
14 | required or authorized by
Article 24 or Article 24A, whichever | ||||||
15 | is applicable. | ||||||
16 | Only judges appointed under the provisions of subsection | ||||||
17 | (a) of Section 13-4 or subsection (b) of Section 14-1 may make | ||||||
18 | any delivery required by this Section from judges of election | ||||||
19 | to a county clerk, or his or her deputy, at the office of the | ||||||
20 | county clerk or to a county clerk's duly authorized | ||||||
21 | representative at the county clerk's officially designated | ||||||
22 | receiving station. | ||||||
23 | (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)".
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