Bill Text: IL HB3299 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that election authorities may authorize service of objections to candidate nominations through electronic mail in lieu of personal service under specified circumstances. Makes conforming changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Referred to Rules Committee [HB3299 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB3299-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 HB3299 Introduced , by Rep. Marcus C. Evans, Jr. SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/10-8 from Ch. 46, par. 10-8
10 ILCS 5/10-8.5 new
Amends the Election Code. Provides that election authorities may authorize service of objections to candidate nominations through electronic mail in lieu of personal service under specified circumstances. Makes conforming changes.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning elections.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
Section 10-8 and by adding Section 10-8.5 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/10-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 10-8)
Sec. 10-8. Except as otherwise provided in this Code,
certificates of nomination and nomination papers, and
petitions to submit public questions to a referendum, being
filed as required by this Code, and being in apparent
conformity with the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed to
be valid unless objection thereto is duly made in writing
within 5 business days after the last day for filing the
certificate of nomination or nomination papers or petition for
a public question, with the following exceptions:
A. In the case of petitions to amend Article IV of the
Constitution of the State of Illinois, there shall be a
period of 35 business days after the last day for the
filing of such petitions in which objections can be filed.
B. In the case of petitions for advisory questions of
public policy to be submitted to the voters of the entire
State, there shall be a period of 35 business days after
the last day for the filing of such petitions in which

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objections can be filed.
Any legal voter of the political subdivision or district
in which the candidate or public question is to be voted on, or
any legal voter in the State in the case of a proposed
amendment to Article IV of the Constitution or an advisory
public question to be submitted to the voters of the entire
State, having objections to any certificate of nomination or
nomination papers or petitions filed, shall file an objector's
petition together with 2 copies thereof in the principal
office or the permanent branch office of the State Board of
Elections, or in the office of the election authority or local
election official with whom the certificate of nomination,
nomination papers or petitions are on file. Objection
petitions that do not include 2 copies thereof, shall not be
accepted. In the case of nomination papers or certificates of
nomination, the State Board of Elections, election authority
or local election official shall note the day and hour upon
which such objector's petition is filed, and shall, not later
than 12:00 noon on the second business day after receipt of the
petition, transmit by registered mail or receipted personal
delivery, or by electronic delivery under Section 10-8.5, the
certificate of nomination or nomination papers and the
original objector's petition to the chair of the proper
electoral board designated in Section 10-9 hereof, or his
authorized agent, and shall transmit a copy by registered mail
or receipted personal delivery, or by electronic delivery

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under Section 10-8.5, of the objector's petition, to the
candidate whose certificate of nomination or nomination papers
are objected to, addressed to the place of residence
designated in said certificate of nomination or nomination
papers. In the case of objections to a petition for a proposed
amendment to Article IV of the Constitution or for an advisory
public question to be submitted to the voters of the entire
State, the State Board of Elections shall note the day and hour
upon which such objector's petition is filed and shall
transmit a copy of the objector's petition by registered mail
or receipted personal delivery, or by electronic delivery
under Section 10-8.5, to the person designated on a
certificate attached to the petition as the principal
proponent of such proposed amendment or public question, or as
the proponents' attorney, for the purpose of receiving notice
of objections. In the case of objections to a petition for a
public question, to be submitted to the voters of a political
subdivision, or district thereof, the election authority or
local election official with whom such petition is filed shall
note the day and hour upon which such objector's petition was
filed, and shall, not later than 12:00 noon on the second
business day after receipt of the petition, transmit by
registered mail or receipted personal delivery, or by
electronic delivery under Section 10-8.5, the petition for the
public question and the original objector's petition to the
chair of the proper electoral board designated in Section 10-9

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hereof, or his authorized agent, and shall transmit a copy by
registered mail or receipted personal delivery, or by
electronic delivery under Section 10-8.5, of the objector's
petition to the person designated on a certificate attached to
the petition as the principal proponent of the public
question, or as the proponent's attorney, for the purposes of
receiving notice of objections.
The objector's petition shall give the objector's name and
residence address, and shall state fully the nature of the
objections to the certificate of nomination or nomination
papers or petitions in question, and shall state the interest
of the objector and shall state what relief is requested of the
electoral board.
The provisions of this Section and of Sections 10-9, 10-10
and 10-10.1 shall also apply to and govern objections to
petitions for nomination filed under Article 7 or Article 8,
except as otherwise provided in Section 7-13 for cases to
which it is applicable, and also apply to and govern petitions
for the submission of public questions under Article 28.
(Source: P.A. 102-15, eff. 6-17-21.)
(10 ILCS 5/10-8.5 new)
Sec. 10-8.5. Electronic service of objections. Election
authorities may authorize service of objections to candidate
nominations through electronic mail in lieu of personal
service if the election authority responsible for convening

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the electoral board: (1) requires candidates to provide an
electronic mail address where notices of objections and
electoral board proceedings may be sent electronically in lieu
of personal service; (2) requires objectors to provide an
electronic mail address where notices and electoral board
proceedings may be sent electronically in lieu of personal
service; and (3) publishes notice of its decision to use this
Section on its website within 5 business days of the effective
date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly.