Full Text of HB5157 96th 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,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 4. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 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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| shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up by the judges of | 16 |
| election, 2
of whom (one from each of the 2 major political | 17 |
| parties) shall
immediately deliver same to the county clerk, or | 18 |
| his deputy, at the
office of the county clerk, or to an | 19 |
| officially designated receiving
station established by the | 20 |
| county clerk where a duly authorized
representative of the | 21 |
| county clerk shall receive said envelopes for
immediate | 22 |
| transmission to the office of county clerk, who shall safely
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| keep them. The other certificates of results and accompanying |
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| tally
sheet shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up and duly | 2 |
| directed,
respectively, to the chairman of the county central | 3 |
| committee of each
then existing established political party, | 4 |
| and by another of the judges
of election deposited immediately | 5 |
| in the nearest United States letter
deposit. However, if any | 6 |
| county chairman notifies the county clerk not
later than 10 | 7 |
| days before the election of his desire to receive the
envelope | 8 |
| addressed to him at the point and at the time same are
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| delivered to the county clerk, his deputy or receiving station | 10 |
| designee
the envelopes shall be delivered to such county | 11 |
| chairman or his designee
immediately upon receipt thereof by | 12 |
| the county clerk, his deputy or his
receiving station designee. | 13 |
| The person or persons so designated by a
county chairman shall | 14 |
| sign an official receipt acknowledging receipt of
said | 15 |
| envelopes. The poll book and tally list filed with the county | 16 |
| clerk
shall be kept one year, and certified copies thereof | 17 |
| shall be evidence
in all courts, proceedings and election | 18 |
| contests. Before the returns are
sealed up, as aforesaid, the | 19 |
| judges shall compare the tally papers,
footings and | 20 |
| certificates and see that they are correct and duplicates
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| each other, and certify to the correctness of the same. | 22 |
| At the nonpartisan and consolidated election elections , | 23 |
| the judges of election
shall make a tally sheet and certificate | 24 |
| of results for each political
subdivision for which candidates | 25 |
| or public questions are on the ballot
at such election, and | 26 |
| shall sign, seal in a marked envelope and deliver
them to the |
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| county clerk with the other certificates of results herein
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| required. Such tally sheets and certificates of results may be
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| duplicates of the tally sheet and certificate of results | 4 |
| otherwise
required by this Section, showing all votes for all | 5 |
| candidates and
public questions voted for or upon in the | 6 |
| precinct, or may be on
separate forms prepared by the election | 7 |
| authority and showing only those
votes cast for candidates and | 8 |
| public questions of each such political
subdivision. | 9 |
| Within 2 days of delivery of complete returns of the | 10 |
| consolidated election and
nonpartisan elections , the county | 11 |
| clerk shall transmit an original,
sealed tally sheet and | 12 |
| certificate of results from each precinct in his
jurisdiction | 13 |
| in which candidates or public questions of a political
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| subdivision were on the ballot to the local election official | 15 |
| of such
political subdivision. Each local election official, | 16 |
| within 24 hours of
receipt of all of the tally sheets and | 17 |
| certificates of results for all
precincts in which candidates | 18 |
| or public questions of his political
subdivision were on the | 19 |
| ballot, shall transmit such sealed tally sheets
and | 20 |
| certificates of results to the canvassing board for that | 21 |
| political
subdivision. | 22 |
| In the case of referenda for the formation of a political
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| subdivision, the tally sheets and certificates of results shall | 24 |
| be
transmitted by the county clerk to the circuit court that | 25 |
| ordered the
proposition submitted or to the officials | 26 |
| designated by the court to
conduct the canvass of votes. In the |
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| case of school referenda for which
a regional superintendent of | 2 |
| schools is responsible for the canvass of
votes, the county | 3 |
| clerk shall transmit the tally sheets and certificates
of | 4 |
| results to the regional superintendent of schools. | 5 |
| Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are | 6 |
| used, the
provisions of this section may be modified as | 7 |
| required or authorized by
Article 24 or Article 24A, whichever | 8 |
| is applicable. | 9 |
| Only judges appointed under the provisions of subsection | 10 |
| (a) of Section 13-4 or subsection (b) of Section 14-1 may make | 11 |
| any delivery required by this Section from judges of election | 12 |
| to a county clerk, or his or her deputy, at the office of the | 13 |
| county clerk or to a county clerk's duly authorized | 14 |
| representative at the county clerk's officially designated | 15 |
| receiving station. | 16 |
| (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/19-12.3 rep.)
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by repealing | 19 |
| Section 19-12.3.
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 21 |
| becoming law.
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