Full Text of HB5774 94th General Assembly
HB5774 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB5774
Introduced 03/24/06, by Rep. Bill Mitchell SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/7-19 |
from Ch. 46, par. 7-19 |
10 ILCS 5/7-43 |
from Ch. 46, par. 7-43 |
10 ILCS 5/7-44 |
from Ch. 46, par. 7-44 |
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Amends the Election Code. Eliminates separate primary ballots for different political parties. Requires that all candidates for all offices appear on a universal primary ballot. Permits a primary voter, without specifying party affiliation, to vote for candidates from more than one party. Prohibits voting for more than one candidate for each office unless otherwise authorized by law.
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A BILL FOR
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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 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 |
| Sections 7-19, 7-43, and 7-44 as
follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/7-19) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-19)
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| Sec. 7-19. Universal primary ballot. Notwithstanding any | 8 |
| provision of this Code to the contrary, all candidates | 9 |
| certified to appear on the primary ballot for nomination to the | 10 |
| same office shall appear on a universal primary ballot with | 11 |
| appropriate political party designations; no political party | 12 |
| shall have a separate primary ballot. Each qualified primary | 13 |
| voter shall receive a universal primary ballot containing the | 14 |
| names of the certified candidates for the offices for which he | 15 |
| or she is entitled to vote and may vote for candidates of one | 16 |
| or more political parties but may not vote for more than one | 17 |
| candidate for each office unless otherwise authorized by law. | 18 |
| References in this Code to primary ballots of each political | 19 |
| party or to primary ballots of political parties shall be | 20 |
| construed to mean the universal primary ballot required by this | 21 |
| amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly. The primary ballot | 22 |
| of each political party for each precinct shall be
arranged and | 23 |
| printed substantially in the manner following:
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| 1. Designating words. At the top of each political party's | 25 |
| portion of the ballot shall be printed in
large capital | 26 |
| letters, words designating the portion
ballot , if a Republican
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| portion
ballot , the designating words shall be: "REPUBLICAN | 28 |
| PRIMARY BALLOT"; if
a Democratic portion
ballot the designating | 29 |
| words shall be: "DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY
BALLOT"; and in like manner | 30 |
| for each political party.
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| 2. Order of Names, Directions to Voters, etc. Beginning not | 32 |
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than one inch below designating words, the name of each |
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| office to be
filled shall be printed in capital letters. Such | 2 |
| names may be printed on
the ballot either in a single column or | 3 |
| in 2 or more columns and in the
following order, to-wit:
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| President of the United States, State offices, | 5 |
| congressional offices,
delegates and alternate delegates to be | 6 |
| elected from the State at large
to National nominating | 7 |
| conventions, delegates and alternate delegates to
be elected | 8 |
| from congressional districts to National nominating
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| conventions, member or members of the State central committee, | 10 |
| trustees of sanitary
districts, county offices, judicial | 11 |
| officers, city, village and
incorporated town offices, town | 12 |
| offices, or of such of the said offices
as candidates are to be | 13 |
| nominated for at such primary, and precinct,
township or ward | 14 |
| committeemen. If two or more columns are used, the
foregoing | 15 |
| offices to and including member of the State central committee
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| shall be listed in the left-hand column and Senatorial offices, | 17 |
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defined in Section 8-3, shall be the
first offices listed in | 18 |
| the second column.
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| Below the name of each office shall be printed in small | 20 |
| letters the
directions to voters: "Vote for one"; "Vote for | 21 |
| two"; "Vote for three";
or a spelled number designating how | 22 |
| many persons under that head are to
be voted for.
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| Next to the name of each candidate for delegate or | 24 |
| alternate delegate
to a national nominating convention shall | 25 |
| appear either (a)
the name of the
candidate's preference for | 26 |
| President of the United States or the word
"uncommitted" or (b) | 27 |
| no official designation, depending upon the action
taken by the | 28 |
| State central committee pursuant to Section 7-10.3 of this Act.
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| Below the name of each office shall be printed in capital | 30 |
| letters the
names of all candidates, arranged in the order in | 31 |
| which their petitions
for nominations were filed, except as | 32 |
| otherwise provided in Sections
7-14 and 7-17 of this Article. | 33 |
| Opposite and in front of the name of each
candidate shall be | 34 |
| printed a square and all squares upon the primary
ballot shall | 35 |
| be of uniform size. Spaces between the names of candidates
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| under each office shall be uniform and sufficient spaces shall |
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| separate
the names of candidates for one office from the names | 2 |
| of candidates for
another office, to avoid confusion and to | 3 |
| permit the writing in of the
names of other candidates.
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| Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are | 5 |
| used, the
provisions of this Section may be modified as | 6 |
| required or authorized by
Article 24 ,
or Article 24A, Article | 7 |
| 24B, or Article 24C, whichever is applicable.
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| (Source: P.A. 83-33.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/7-43) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-43)
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| Sec. 7-43. Primary voter qualifications.
Every person | 11 |
| having resided in this State 6 months and
in the precinct 30 | 12 |
| days next preceding any primary therein who shall be
a citizen | 13 |
| of the United States of the age of 18 or more
years, shall be
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| entitled to vote at such primary.
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| The following regulations shall be applicable to | 16 |
| primaries:
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| No person shall be entitled to vote at a primary:
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| (a) (Blank).
Unless he declares his party affiliations as | 19 |
| required by
this
Article.
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| (b) (Blank).
Who shall have signed the petition for | 21 |
| nomination of a
candidate
of any party with which he does not | 22 |
| affiliate, when such candidate is to
be voted for at the | 23 |
| primary.
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| (c) (Blank).
who shall have
signed the nominating papers of | 25 |
| an independent
candidate for any office for which office | 26 |
| candidates for nomination are
to be voted for at such primary.
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| (c.5) (Blank).
If that person has participated in the town | 28 |
| political
party caucus,
under Section 45-50 of the Township | 29 |
| Code, of another political party by
signing an affidavit of | 30 |
| voters attending the caucus within 45 days before the
first day | 31 |
| of the calendar month in which the primary is held.
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| (d) (Blank).
If he has voted at a primary held under this | 33 |
| Article 7 of
another political party within a period of 23 | 34 |
| calendar months next
preceding the calendar month in which such | 35 |
| primary is held: Provided,
participation by a primary elector |
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| in a primary of a political party
which, under the provisions | 2 |
| of Section 7-2 of this Article, is a
political party within a | 3 |
| city, village or incorporated town or town only
and entitled | 4 |
| hereunder to make nominations of candidates for city,
village | 5 |
| or incorporated town or town offices only, and for no other
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| office or offices, shall not disqualify such primary elector | 7 |
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participating in other primaries of his party: And, | 8 |
| provided, that no
qualified voter shall be precluded from | 9 |
| participating in the primary of
any purely city, village or | 10 |
| incorporated town or town political party
under the provisions | 11 |
| of Section 7-2 of this Article by reason of such
voter having | 12 |
| voted at the primary of another political party within a
period | 13 |
| of 23 calendar months next preceding the calendar month in | 14 |
| which
he seeks to participate is held.
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| (e) In cities, villages and incorporated towns having a | 16 |
| board of
election commissioners only voters registered as | 17 |
| provided by Article 6
of this Act shall be entitled to vote at | 18 |
| such primary.
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| (f) No person shall be entitled to vote at a primary unless | 20 |
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is
registered under the provisions of Articles 4, 5 or 6 of | 21 |
| this Act, when
his registration is required by any of said | 22 |
| Articles to entitle him to
vote at the election with reference | 23 |
| to which the primary is held.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-331, eff. 8-17-95.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/7-44) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-44)
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| Sec. 7-44. Announcement of voter's name and residence; | 27 |
| judge's initials.
Any person desiring to vote at a primary | 28 |
| shall state his
or her name and , residence and party | 29 |
| affiliation to the primary
judges,
one of whom shall thereupon | 30 |
| announce the same in a distinct tone of voice,
sufficiently | 31 |
| loud to be heard by all persons in the polling place. When | 32 |
| article
4, 5 or 6 is applicable the Certificate of Registered | 33 |
| Voter therein prescribed
shall be made and signed and the | 34 |
| official poll record shall be made. If the
person desiring to | 35 |
| vote is not challenged, one of the primary judges shall give
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| him or her one , and only one, primary ballot of the
political
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| party with which he declares himself
affiliated , on the back of | 3 |
| which the
such primary judge shall endorse
his or her initials | 4 |
| in such manner that they may be seen when the primary
ballot is | 5 |
| properly folded. If the person desiring to vote is challenged | 6 |
| he or
she shall not receive a primary ballot from the primary | 7 |
| judges until he or
she
shall have established his or her right | 8 |
| to vote as hereinafter provided
in this Article . No person who | 9 |
| refuses to state his party affiliation
shall be allowed to vote | 10 |
| at a primary.
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| A person who
declares his party affiliation
with a | 12 |
| statewide established political party and requests a primary | 13 |
| ballot
of such party may nonetheless also declare his | 14 |
| affiliation with a political
party established only within a | 15 |
| political subdivision, and may also vote in
the primary of
such | 16 |
| local party on the same election day, provided that
such voter | 17 |
| may not vote in both such party primaries with
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| offices of the same political subdivision. However, no person
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| declaring his affiliation with a statewide
established | 20 |
| political party may vote in the primary of any other statewide
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| political party on the same election day.
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| (Source: P.A. 81-1535.)
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