Full Text of HB5820 96th General Assembly
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Rep. Lou Lang
Filed: 3/8/2010
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| AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5820
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5820 on page 1, in | 3 |
| line 5, by replacing "and 7-53" with "7-53, and 24B-6"; and | 4 |
| on page 22, by inserting below line 17 the following:
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| "(10 ILCS 5/24B-6) | 6 |
| Sec. 24B-6. Ballot Information; Arrangement; Electronic | 7 |
| Precinct
Tabulation Optical Scan Technology Voting System; | 8 |
| Absentee
Ballots; Spoiled Ballots. The ballot information, | 9 |
| shall, as far
as practicable, be in the order of arrangement | 10 |
| provided for paper
ballots, except that the information may be | 11 |
| in vertical or
horizontal rows, or on a number of separate | 12 |
| pages or displays on the marking
device. Ballots for
all | 13 |
| questions or propositions to be voted on should be provided
in | 14 |
| a similar manner and must be arranged on the ballot sheet or | 15 |
| marking
device in
the places provided for such purposes. | 16 |
| Ballots shall be of white
paper unless provided otherwise by |
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| administrative rule of the State Board of
Elections or | 2 |
| otherwise specified. | 3 |
| All propositions, including but not limited to | 4 |
| propositions
calling for a constitutional convention, | 5 |
| constitutional
amendment, judicial retention, and public | 6 |
| measures to be voted
upon shall be placed on separate portions | 7 |
| of the ballot sheet or marking
device by
utilizing borders or | 8 |
| grey screens. Candidates shall be listed on
a separate portion | 9 |
| of the ballot sheet or marking device by utilizing
borders or
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| grey screens. Whenever a person has submitted a declaration of | 11 |
| intent to be a write-in candidate as required in Sections | 12 |
| 17-16.1 and 18-9.1,
a line or lines on which the voter
may | 13 |
| select a
write-in candidate shall be printed below the name of | 14 |
| the last candidate nominated for such office. Such line or | 15 |
| lines shall be proximate to an area provided for marking
votes | 16 |
| for the write-in candidate or
candidates. The number of | 17 |
| write-in lines for an office shall equal the number
of persons | 18 |
| who have filed declarations of intent to be write-in candidates | 19 |
| plus an additional line or lines for write-in candidates who | 20 |
| qualify to file declarations to be write-in candidates under | 21 |
| Sections 17-16.1 and 18-9.1 when the certification of ballot | 22 |
| contains the words "OBJECTION PENDING" next to the name of that | 23 |
| candidate, up to the number of
candidates
for which a voter may | 24 |
| vote. In the case of write-in lines for the offices of Governor | 25 |
| and Lieutenant Governor, 2 lines shall be printed within a | 26 |
| bracket and a single square shall be printed in front of the |
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| bracket. More than one amendment to the constitution may be
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| placed on the
same portion of the ballot sheet or marking | 3 |
| device.
Constitutional convention or constitutional amendment
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| propositions shall be printed or displayed on a separate | 5 |
| portion of the
ballot
sheet or marking device and designated by | 6 |
| borders or grey screens, unless
otherwise
provided by | 7 |
| administrative rule of the State Board of Elections.
More than | 8 |
| one public measure or proposition may be placed on the
same | 9 |
| portion of the ballot sheet or marking device. More than
one | 10 |
| proposition for retention of judges in office may be placed
on | 11 |
| the same portion of the ballot sheet or marking device.
Names | 12 |
| of candidates shall be printed in black. The party
affiliation | 13 |
| of each candidate or the word "independent" shall
appear near | 14 |
| or under the candidate's name, and the names of
candidates for | 15 |
| the same office shall be listed vertically under
the title of | 16 |
| that office, on separate pages of the marking device, or as
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| otherwise approved by the State Board of Elections. If no | 18 |
| candidate or candidates file for an office and if no person or | 19 |
| persons file a declaration as a write-in candidate for that | 20 |
| office, then below the title of that office the election | 21 |
| authority instead shall print "No Candidate". In the case of
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| nonpartisan elections
for officers of political subdivisions, | 23 |
| unless the statute or an
ordinance adopted pursuant to Article | 24 |
| VII of the Constitution
requires otherwise, the listing of | 25 |
| nonpartisan candidates
shall not include any party or | 26 |
| "independent" designation.
Judicial retention
questions and |
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| ballot questions for all public measures and other propositions
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| shall be designated by borders or grey screens on the ballot or | 3 |
| marking
device.
In primary
elections, a separate ballot, or | 4 |
| displays on the marking device, shall be
used for each | 5 |
| political
party holding a primary, with the ballot or marking | 6 |
| device arranged to
include
names of the candidates of the party | 7 |
| and public measures and
other propositions to be voted upon on | 8 |
| the day of the primary
election. | 9 |
| If the ballot includes both candidates for office and | 10 |
| public
measures or propositions to be voted on, the election | 11 |
| official in
charge of the election shall divide the ballot or | 12 |
| displays on the marking
device in sections for
"Candidates" and | 13 |
| "Propositions", or separate ballots may be used. | 14 |
| Absentee ballots may consist of envelopes, paper ballots or
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| ballot sheets voted in person in the office of the election
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| official in charge of the election or voted by mail. Where a
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| Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology ballot is used for
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| voting by mail it must be accompanied by voter instructions. | 19 |
| Any voter who spoils his or her ballot, makes an error, or | 20 |
| has a ballot
returned by the automatic tabulating equipment may | 21 |
| return
the ballot to the judges of election and get another | 22 |
| ballot. | 23 |
| (Source: P.A. 95-699, eff. 11-9-07; 95-862, eff. 8-19-08.)".
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