Full Text of HB5551 098th General Assembly
HB5551 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 HB5551 Introduced , by Rep. Brad E. Halbrook SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/21-1 | from Ch. 46, par. 21-1 |
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that electors for the President and Vice-President of the United States shall be nominated by congressional district, with the remaining electors being selected by the political party whose candidates won the State-wide vote. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning elections.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 | | 21-1 as follows:
| 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/21-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-1)
| 7 | | Sec. 21-1.
Choosing and election of electors of President | 8 | | and
Vice-President of the United States shall be in the | 9 | | following manner:
| 10 | | (a) In each year in which a President and Vice-President of | 11 | | the United
States are chosen, each political party or group in | 12 | | this State shall choose
by its State Convention electors of | 13 | | President and Vice-President of the
United States and such | 14 | | State Convention of such party or group shall also
choose | 15 | | electors at large, if any are to be appointed for this State | 16 | | and
such State Convention of such party or group shall by its | 17 | | chairman and
secretary certify the total list of such electors | 18 | | together with electors at
large so chosen to the State Board of | 19 | | Elections.
| 20 | | The filing of such certificate with the Board, of such | 21 | | choosing of
electors shall be deemed and taken to be the | 22 | | choosing and selection of the
electors of this State, if such | 23 | | party or group is successful at the polls
as herein provided in |
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| 1 | | choosing their candidates for President and
Vice-President of | 2 | | the United States.
| 3 | | (b) The names of the candidates of the several political | 4 | | parties or
groups for electors of President and Vice-President | 5 | | shall not be printed on
the official ballot to be voted in the | 6 | | election to be held on the day in
this Act above named. In lieu | 7 | | of the names of the candidates for such
electors of President | 8 | | and Vice-President, immediately under the appellation
of party | 9 | | name of a party or group in the column of its candidates on the
| 10 | | official ballot, to be voted at said election first above named | 11 | | in
subsection (1) of Section 2A-1.2 and Section 2A-2, there | 12 | | shall be printed
within a bracket the name of the candidate for
| 13 | | President and the name of the candidate for Vice-President of | 14 | | such party or
group with a square to the left of such bracket. | 15 | | Each voter in this State
from the several lists or sets of | 16 | | electors so chosen and selected by the
said respective | 17 | | political parties or groups, may choose and elect one of
such | 18 | | lists or sets of electors by placing a cross in the square to | 19 | | the left
of the bracket aforesaid of one of such parties or | 20 | | groups. Placing a cross
within the square before the bracket | 21 | | enclosing the names of President and
Vice-President shall not | 22 | | be deemed and taken as a direct vote for such
candidates for | 23 | | President and Vice-President, or either of them, but shall
only | 24 | | be deemed and taken to be a vote for the elector for that | 25 | | congressional district entire list or set of
electors chosen by | 26 | | that political party or group so certified to the State
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| 1 | | of Elections as herein provided , and each congressional | 2 | | district shall nominate its elector independent of the votes | 3 | | cast within other congressional districts . Voting by means of | 4 | | placing a cross
in the appropriate place preceding the | 5 | | appellation or title of the
particular political party or | 6 | | group, shall not be deemed or taken as a
direct vote for the | 7 | | candidates for President and Vice-President, or either
of them, | 8 | | but instead to the Presidential vote, as a vote for the elector | 9 | | for that district entire
list or set of electors chosen by that | 10 | | political party or group so
certified to the State Board of | 11 | | Elections as herein provided , and each congressional district | 12 | | shall nominate its elector independent of the votes cast within | 13 | | other congressional districts. After the electors for every | 14 | | congressional district have been nominated, the remaining | 15 | | electors shall be chosen by that political party or group so
| 16 | | certified to the State Board of Elections whose candidates for | 17 | | President and Vice-President received the most overall votes | 18 | | within the State .
| 19 | | (c) Such certification by the respective political parties | 20 | | or groups in
this State of electors of President and | 21 | | Vice-President shall be made to the
State Board of Elections | 22 | | within 2 days after such State convention.
| 23 | | (d) Should more than one certificate of choice and | 24 | | selection of electors
of the same political party or group be | 25 | | filed by contesting conventions or
contesting groups, it shall | 26 | | be the duty of the State Board of Elections
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| 1 | | after the adjournment of the last of such conventions to
meet | 2 | | and determine which set of nominees for electors of such party | 3 | | or
group were was chosen and selected by the authorized | 4 | | convention of such party or
group. The Board, after notice to | 5 | | the chairman and secretaries or managers
of the conventions or | 6 | | groups and after a hearing shall determine which set
of | 7 | | electors were was so chosen by the authorized convention and | 8 | | shall so
announce and publish the fact, and such decision shall | 9 | | be final and the set
of electors so determined upon by the | 10 | | electoral board to be so chosen shall
be the list or set of | 11 | | electors to be deemed elected if that party shall be
successful | 12 | | at the polls, as herein provided.
| 13 | | (e) Should a vacancy occur in the choice of an elector in a
| 14 | | congressional district, such vacancy may be filled by the | 15 | | executive
committee of the party or group for such | 16 | | congressional district, to be
certified by such committee to | 17 | | the State Board of Elections. Should a
vacancy occur in the | 18 | | office of elector at large, such vacancy shall be
filled by the | 19 | | State committee of such political party or group, and
certified | 20 | | by it to the State Board of Elections.
| 21 | | (Source: P.A. 84-861.)
| 22 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 23 | | becoming law.
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