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92_SB0006
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1 AN ACT concerning presidential and vice-presidential
2 electors.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
6 Section 21-1 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/21-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-1)
8 Sec. 21-1. Choosing and election of electors of President
9 and Vice-President of the United States shall be in the
10 following manner:
11 (a) In each year in which a President and Vice-President
12 of the United States are chosen, each political party or
13 group in this State shall choose by its State Convention
14 electors of President and Vice-President of the United States
15 and such State Convention of such party or group shall also
16 choose electors at large, if any are to be appointed for this
17 State and such State Convention of such party or group shall
18 by its chairman and secretary certify the total list of such
19 electors together with electors at large so chosen to the
20 State Board of Elections.
21 The filing of such certificate with the Board, of such
22 choosing of electors shall be deemed and taken to be the
23 choosing and selection of the electors of this State, if such
24 party or group is successful at the polls as herein provided
25 in choosing their candidates for President and Vice-President
26 of the United States.
27 (b) The names of the candidates of the several political
28 parties or groups for electors of President and
29 Vice-President shall not be printed on the official ballot to
30 be voted in the election to be held on the day in this Act
31 above named. In lieu of the names of the candidates for such
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1 electors of President and Vice-President, immediately under
2 the appellation of party name of a party or group in the
3 column of its candidates on the official ballot, to be voted
4 at said election first above named in subsection (1) of
5 Section 2A-1.2 and Section 2A-2, there shall be printed
6 within a bracket the name of the candidate for President and
7 the name of the candidate for Vice-President of such party or
8 group with a square to the left of such bracket. Each voter
9 in this State from the several lists or sets of electors so
10 chosen and selected by the said respective political parties
11 or groups, may choose and elect one of such lists or sets of
12 electors by placing a cross in the square to the left of the
13 bracket aforesaid of one of such parties or groups. Placing a
14 cross within the square before the bracket enclosing the
15 names of President and Vice-President shall not be deemed and
16 taken as a direct vote for such candidates for President and
17 Vice-President, or either of them, but shall only be deemed
18 and taken to be a vote for the entire list or set of electors
19 chosen by that political party or group so certified to the
20 State Board of Elections as herein provided. Voting by means
21 of placing a cross in the appropriate place preceding the
22 appellation or title of the particular political party or
23 group, shall not be deemed or taken as a direct vote for the
24 candidates for President and Vice-President, or either of
25 them, but instead to the Presidential vote, as a vote for the
26 entire list or set of electors chosen by that political party
27 or group so certified to the State Board of Elections as
28 herein provided.
29 (c) Such certification by the respective political
30 parties or groups in this State of electors of President and
31 Vice-President shall be made to the State Board of Elections
32 within 2 days after such State convention.
33 (d) Should more than one certificate of choice and
34 selection of electors of the same political party or group be
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1 filed by contesting conventions or contesting groups, it
2 shall be the duty of the State Board of Elections within 10
3 days after the adjournment of the last of such conventions to
4 meet and determine which set of nominees for electors of such
5 party or group was chosen and selected by the authorized
6 convention of such party or group. The Board, after notice to
7 the chairman and secretaries or managers of the conventions
8 or groups and after a hearing shall determine which set of
9 electors was so chosen by the authorized convention and shall
10 so announce and publish the fact, and such decision shall be
11 final and the set of electors so determined upon by the
12 electoral board to be so chosen shall be the list or set of
13 electors to be deemed elected if that party shall be
14 successful at the polls, as herein provided.
15 (e) Should a vacancy occur in the choice of an elector
16 in a congressional district, such vacancy may be filled by
17 the executive committee of the party or group for such
18 congressional district, to be certified by such committee to
19 the State Board of Elections. Should a vacancy occur in the
20 office of elector at large, such vacancy shall be filled by
21 the State committee of such political party or group, and
22 certified by it to the State Board of Elections.
23 (f) Presidential and vice-presidential electors must
24 cast their votes for the winner of the statewide popular
25 vote.
26 (Source: P.A. 84-861.)