Full Text of SB0439 95th General Assembly
SB0439eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 16-5.01 as
follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/16-5.01) (from Ch. 46, par. 16-5.01)
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| Sec. 16-5.01. (a) The election authority shall, at least 60
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| days prior to the date of any general election at which federal | 9 |
| officers
are elected and 45 days prior to any other regular | 10 |
| election, have a
sufficient number of ballots printed so that | 11 |
| such ballots will be available
for mailing 60 days prior to the | 12 |
| date of the election to persons who have
filed application for | 13 |
| a ballot under the provisions of Article 20 of this Act.
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| (b) If at any general election at which federal offices are | 15 |
| elected
the election authority is unable to comply with the | 16 |
| provisions
of subsection (a), the election authority shall mail | 17 |
| to each such person, in
lieu of the ballot, a Special Write-in | 18 |
| Absentee Voter's Blank Ballot.
The Special Write-in Absentee | 19 |
| Voter's Blank Ballot shall be used only at
general elections at | 20 |
| which federal officers are elected and shall be
prepared by the | 21 |
| election authority in substantially the following form:
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| Special Write-in Absentee Voter's Blank Ballot
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| (To vote for a person, write the title of the office and |
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| his or her name
on the lines provided. Place to the left of and | 2 |
| opposite the title of
office a square and place a cross (X) in | 3 |
| the square.)
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| Title of Office Name of Candidate
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| The election authority shall send with the Special Write-in | 12 |
| Absentee
Voter's Blank Ballot a list of all referenda for which | 13 |
| the voter is qualified
to vote and all candidates for whom | 14 |
| nomination papers have been filed and
for whom the voter is | 15 |
| qualified to vote. The voter shall be entitled to
write in the | 16 |
| name of any candidate seeking
election and any referenda for | 17 |
| which he or she is entitled to vote.
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| On the back or outside of the ballot, so as to appear when | 19 |
| folded, shall
be printed the words "Official Ballot", the date | 20 |
| of the election and a
facsimile of the signature of the | 21 |
| election authority who has caused the
ballot to be printed.
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| The provisions of Article 20, insofar as they may be | 23 |
| applicable to the
Special Write-in Absentee Voter's Blank | 24 |
| Ballot, shall be applicable herein.
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| (c) Notwithstanding any provision of this Code or other law
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| to the contrary, the governing body of a municipality may |
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| adopt, upon submission of a written statement by the | 2 |
| municipality's election authority attesting to the | 3 |
| administrative ability of the election authority to administer | 4 |
| an election using a ranked ballot to the municipality's | 5 |
| governing body,
an ordinance requiring, and that | 6 |
| municipality's election
authority shall prepare, a ranked | 7 |
| absentee ballot for
municipal and township office candidates to | 8 |
| be voted on in the consolidated
election.
This ranked ballot | 9 |
| shall be for use only by
a qualified voter who either is a | 10 |
| member of the United States
military or will be outside of the | 11 |
| United States on the
consolidated primary election day and the | 12 |
| consolidated
election day. The ranked ballot shall contain a | 13 |
| list of the
titles of all municipal and township offices | 14 |
| potentially contested at both the consolidated
primary | 15 |
| election and the consolidated election and the candidates for | 16 |
| each office and shall
permit the elector to vote in the | 17 |
| consolidated election by
indicating his or her order of | 18 |
| preference for each candidate
for each office. To indicate his | 19 |
| or her order of preference for
each candidate for each office, | 20 |
| the voter shall put the number
one next to the name of the | 21 |
| candidate who is the voter's first
choice, the number 2 for his | 22 |
| or her second choice, and so forth
so that, in consecutive | 23 |
| numerical order, a number indicating
the voter's preference is | 24 |
| written by the voter next to each
candidate's name on the | 25 |
| ranked ballot. The voter shall not be required
to indicate his | 26 |
| or her preference for more than one candidate
on the ranked |
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| ballot. The voter may not cast a write-in vote using the ranked | 2 |
| ballot for the consolidated election. The election authority | 3 |
| shall, if using the
ranked absentee ballot authorized by this | 4 |
| subsection, also
prepare instructions for use of the ranked | 5 |
| ballot. The ranked ballot for the consolidated election shall | 6 |
| be mailed to the voter at the same time that the ballot for the | 7 |
| consolidated primary election is mailed to the voter and the | 8 |
| election authority shall accept the completed ranked ballot for | 9 |
| the consolidated election when the authority accepts the | 10 |
| completed ballot for the consolidated primary election.
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| The voter shall also be sent an absentee ballot for the | 12 |
| consolidated election for those races that are not related to | 13 |
| the results of the consolidated primary election as soon as the | 14 |
| consolidated election ballot is certified.
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| The State Board of Elections shall adopt rules for election
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| authorities for the implementation of this subsection,
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| including but not limited to the application for and counting
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| of ranked ballots.
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| (Source: P.A. 86-875 .)
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