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92_SB0945

 
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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
 5    Section 7-60.1 as follows:

 6        (10 ILCS 5/7-60.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-60.1)
 7        Sec.  7-60.1.  Certification of Candidates - Consolidated
 8    Election.   Each  local  election  official  of  a  political
 9    subdivision  in  which  candidates  for  the respective local
10    offices are nominated at the consolidated primary  shall,  no
11    not  later than 5 days following the canvass and proclamation
12    of the results of the consolidated primary, certify  to  each
13    election  authority  whose duty it is to prepare the official
14    ballot  for  the  consolidated  election  in  that  political
15    subdivision the names of each of the candidates who have been
16    nominated as shown by the  proclamation  of  the  appropriate
17    canvassing board or who have been nominated to fill a vacancy
18    in nomination and direct the election authority to place upon
19    the  official  ballot for the consolidated election the names
20    of such candidates in the same manner and in the  same  order
21    as shown upon the certification, except as otherwise provided
22    by this Section.
23        Whenever  there  are two or more persons nominated by the
24    same political party for multiple offices for any board,  the
25    name  of  the  candidate  of such party receiving the highest
26    number of votes in the consolidated  primary  election  as  a
27    candidate  for  such consolidated primary, shall be certified
28    first under the name of such office, and  the  names  of  the
29    remaining  candidates  of  such  party for such offices shall
30    follow in the order of the number of votes received  by  them
31    respectively at the consolidated primary election as shown by
 
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 1    the official election results.
 2        No   person  who  is  shown  by  the  canvassing  board's
 3    proclamation to  have  been  nominated  at  the  consolidated
 4    primary  as  a  write-in candidate shall have his or her name
 5    certified unless  such  person  shall  have  filed  with  the
 6    certifying office or board within 5 days after the canvassing
 7    board's  proclamation  a  statement  of candidacy pursuant to
 8    Section 7-10 and a statement pursuant to Section 7-10.1.
 9        Each board of election commissioners  of  the  cities  in
10    which established political party candidates for city offices
11    are  nominated at the consolidated primary shall determine by
12    a fair and impartial method of random selection the order  of
13    placement  of  the established political party candidates for
14    the consolidated ballot.  Such determination  shall  be  made
15    within  5  days following the canvass and proclamation of the
16    results of the consolidated primary and shall be open to  the
17    public.   Three  days written notice of the time and place of
18    conducting such random selection shall be given, by each such
19    election  authority,  to  the   County   Chairman   of   each
20    established  political  party,  and  to  each organization of
21    citizens within the election jurisdiction which was entitled,
22    under this Article, at the next preceding election,  to  have
23    pollwatchers  present  on the day of election.  Each election
24    authority shall post in a conspicuous, open and public place,
25    at the entrance of the election authority office,  notice  of
26    the time and place of such lottery.
27        Each  local  election official of a political subdivision
28    in which  established  political  party  candidates  for  the
29    respective  local  offices  are  nominated  by  primary shall
30    determine by a fair and impartial method of random  selection
31    the  order  of  placement  of the established political party
32    candidates for the consolidated election ballot and,  in  the
33    case  of  certain  municipalities having annual elections, on
34    the general primary ballot for election.  Such  determination
 
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 1    shall  be  made  prior  to  the  canvass  and proclamation of
 2    results of the  consolidated  primary  or  special  municipal
 3    primary,  as  the  case  may  be,  in the office of the local
 4    election official and shall be open  to  the  public.   Three
 5    days  written notice of the time and place of conducting such
 6    random selection shall be given, by each such local  election
 7    official,   to   the  County  Chairman  of  each  established
 8    political party, and to each organization of citizens  within
 9    the  election  jurisdiction  which  was  entitled, under this
10    Article, at the next preceding election, to have pollwatchers
11    present on the day of election.  Each local election official
12    shall post in a conspicuous, open and public place notice  of
13    such  lottery.   Immediately  thereafter,  the local election
14    official  shall  certify  the  ballot  placement   order   so
15    determined  to  the  proper election authorities charged with
16    the preparation of  the  consolidated  election,  or  general
17    primary,  ballot for that political subdivision.
18        Not less than 61 days before the date of the consolidated
19    election,   each  local  election  official  of  a  political
20    subdivision in which established political  party  candidates
21    for  the  respective  local  offices  have  been nominated by
22    caucus or have been nominated because no primary was required
23    to be held shall certify to  each  election  authority  whose
24    duty   it   is   to  prepare  the  official  ballot  for  the
25    consolidated election in that political subdivision the names
26    of each of the candidates whose certificates of nomination or
27    nomination papers have been filed in his or  her  office  and
28    direct  the  election  authority  to  place upon the official
29    ballot for  the  consolidated  election  the  names  of  such
30    candidates  in the same manner and in the same order as shown
31    upon the certification.  Such local election official  shall,
32    prior  to  certification,  determine  by a fair and impartial
33    method of random selection the  order  of  placement  of  the
34    established  political  party candidates for the consolidated
 
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 1    election ballot.  Such determination shall  be  made  in  the
 2    office  of  the  local election official and shall be open to
 3    the public.  Three days written notice of the time and  place
 4    of  conducting  such  random selection shall be given by each
 5    such local election official to the county chairman  of  each
 6    established  political  party,  and  to  each organization of
 7    citizens within the election jurisdiction which was entitled,
 8    under this Article, at the next preceding election,  to  have
 9    pollwatchers  present  on  the  day  of election.  Each local
10    election official shall  post  in  a  conspicuous,  open  and
11    public  place,  at  the entrance of the office, notice of the
12    time and place of such lottery.  The local election  official
13    shall  certify  the  ballot  placement order so determined as
14    part of his  official  certification  of  candidates  to  the
15    election authorities whose duty it is to prepare the official
16    ballot  for  the  consolidated  election  in  that  political
17    subdivision.
18        The  certification  shall indicate, where applicable, the
19    following:
20        (1)  The political party affiliation  of  the  candidates
21    for the respective offices;
22        (2)  If there is to be more than one candidate elected or
23    nominated  to an office from the State, political subdivision
24    or district;
25        (3)  If the voter has the right to vote for more than one
26    candidate for an office;
27        (4)  The term of office, if a vacancy is to be filled for
28    less than a full term or if the offices to  be  filled  in  a
29    political subdivision or district are for different terms.
30        The  local  election  official  shall  issue  an  amended
31    certification  whenever  it  is  discovered that the original
32    certification is in error.
33    (Source: P.A. 84-1308.)

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