Bill Text: IL HB3519 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Engrossed
Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. In the definition of "signature", includes a named signed in ink or signed in digitized form (rather than a name signed in ink or in digitized form). Effective immediately.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HB3519 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HB3519-Engrossed.html
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1 | AN ACT concerning elections.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
5 | 1-3 as follows:
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6 | (10 ILCS 5/1-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 1-3)
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7 | Sec. 1-3. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise | ||||||
8 | requires:
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9 | 1. "Election" includes the submission of all questions of | ||||||
10 | public
policy, propositions, and all measures submitted to | ||||||
11 | popular vote, and
includes primary elections when so indicated | ||||||
12 | by the context.
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13 | 2. "Regular election" means the general, general primary,
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14 | consolidated and consolidated primary elections regularly | ||||||
15 | scheduled in Article
2A. The even numbered year municipal | ||||||
16 | primary established in Article 2A is
a regular election only | ||||||
17 | with respect to those municipalities in which a
primary is | ||||||
18 | required to be held on such date.
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19 | 3. "Special election" means an election not regularly | ||||||
20 | recurring at fixed
intervals, irrespective of whether it is | ||||||
21 | held at the same time and place and by
the same election | ||||||
22 | officers as a regular election.
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23 | 4. "General election" means the biennial election at which |
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1 | members of
the General Assembly are elected. "General primary | ||||||
2 | election", "consolidated election" and "consolidated primary | ||||||
3 | election" mean
the respective elections or the election dates | ||||||
4 | designated and established
in Article 2A of this Code.
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5 | 5. "Municipal election" means an election or primary, | ||||||
6 | either regular
or special, in cities, villages, and | ||||||
7 | incorporated towns; and "municipality"
means any such city, | ||||||
8 | village or incorporated town.
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9 | 6. "Political or governmental subdivision" means any unit | ||||||
10 | of local
government, or school district in which elections are | ||||||
11 | or may be held.
"Political or governmental subdivision" also | ||||||
12 | includes, for election purposes,
Regional Boards of School | ||||||
13 | Trustees, and Township Boards of School Trustees.
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14 | 7. The word "township" and the word "town" shall apply
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15 | interchangeably to the type of governmental organization | ||||||
16 | established in
accordance with the provisions of the Township | ||||||
17 | Code. The term
"incorporated town" shall mean a municipality | ||||||
18 | referred to as an
incorporated town in the Illinois Municipal | ||||||
19 | Code, as now or hereafter
amended.
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20 | 8. "Election authority" means a county clerk or a Board of | ||||||
21 | Election
Commissioners.
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22 | 9. "Election Jurisdiction" means (a) an entire county, in | ||||||
23 | the case of
a county in which no city board of election | ||||||
24 | commissioners is located or
which is under the jurisdiction of | ||||||
25 | a county board of election commissioners;
(b) the territorial | ||||||
26 | jurisdiction of a city board of election commissioners;
and (c) |
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1 | the territory in a county outside of the jurisdiction of a city
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2 | board of election commissioners. In each instance election | ||||||
3 | jurisdiction
shall be determined according to which election | ||||||
4 | authority maintains the
permanent registration records of | ||||||
5 | qualified electors.
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6 | 10. "Local election official" means the clerk or secretary | ||||||
7 | of a unit
of local government or school district, as the case | ||||||
8 | may be, the treasurer
of a township board of school trustees, | ||||||
9 | and the regional superintendent
of schools with respect to the | ||||||
10 | various school officer elections and school
referenda for which | ||||||
11 | the regional superintendent is assigned election duties
by The | ||||||
12 | School Code, as now or hereafter amended.
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13 | 11. "Judges of election", "primary judges" and similar | ||||||
14 | terms, as
applied to cases where there are 2 sets of judges, | ||||||
15 | when used in
connection with duties at an election during the | ||||||
16 | hours the polls are
open, refer to the team of judges of | ||||||
17 | election on duty during such hours;
and, when used with | ||||||
18 | reference to duties after the closing of the polls,
refer to | ||||||
19 | the team of tally judges designated to count the vote after the
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20 | closing of the polls and the holdover judges designated | ||||||
21 | pursuant to
Section 13-6.2 or 14-5.2. In such case, where, | ||||||
22 | after the closing of the
polls, any act is required to be | ||||||
23 | performed by each of the judges of
election, it shall be | ||||||
24 | performed by each of the tally judges and by each
of the | ||||||
25 | holdover judges.
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26 | 12. "Petition" of candidacy as used in Sections 7-10 and |
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1 | 7-10.1
shall consist of a statement of candidacy, candidate's | ||||||
2 | statement
containing oath, and sheets containing signatures of | ||||||
3 | qualified primary
electors bound together.
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4 | 13. "Election district" and "precinct", when used with | ||||||
5 | reference to
a 30-day residence requirement, means the smallest | ||||||
6 | constituent territory
in which electors vote as a unit at the | ||||||
7 | same polling place in any
election governed by this Act.
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8 | 14. "District" means any area which votes as a unit for the | ||||||
9 | election of
any officer, other than the State or a unit of | ||||||
10 | local government or school
district, and includes, but is not | ||||||
11 | limited to, legislative, congressional
and judicial districts, | ||||||
12 | judicial circuits, county board districts,
municipal and | ||||||
13 | sanitary district wards, school board districts, and | ||||||
14 | precincts.
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15 | 15. "Question of public policy" or "public question"
means | ||||||
16 | any question, proposition or measure submitted to the voters at | ||||||
17 | an
election dealing with subject matter other than the | ||||||
18 | nomination or election
of candidates and shall include, but is | ||||||
19 | not limited to, any bond or tax
referendum, and questions | ||||||
20 | relating to the Constitution.
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21 | 16. "Ordinance providing the form of government of a | ||||||
22 | municipality
or county pursuant to Article VII of the | ||||||
23 | Constitution" includes ordinances,
resolutions and petitions | ||||||
24 | adopted by referendum which provide for the form
of government, | ||||||
25 | the officers or the manner of selection or terms of office
of | ||||||
26 | officers of such municipality or county, pursuant to the |
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1 | provisions of
Sections 4, 6 or 7 of Article VII of the | ||||||
2 | Constitution.
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3 | 17. "List" as used in Sections 4-11, 4-22, 5-14, 5-29, | ||||||
4 | 6-60, and 6-66
shall include a computer tape or computer disc | ||||||
5 | or other electronic data
processing information containing | ||||||
6 | voter information.
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7 | 18. "Accessible" means accessible to persons with | ||||||
8 | disabilities and elderly
individuals for the purpose of voting | ||||||
9 | or registration, as determined by
rule of the State Board of | ||||||
10 | Elections.
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11 | 19. "Elderly" means 65 years of age or older.
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12 | 20. "Person with a disability" means a person having a | ||||||
13 | temporary or permanent physical disability.
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14 | 21. "Leading political party" means one of the two | ||||||
15 | political parties
whose candidates for governor at the most | ||||||
16 | recent three gubernatorial
elections received either the | ||||||
17 | highest or second highest average number of
votes. The | ||||||
18 | political party whose candidates for governor received the
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19 | highest average number of votes shall be known as the first | ||||||
20 | leading
political party and the political party whose | ||||||
21 | candidates for governor
received the second highest average | ||||||
22 | number of votes shall be known as the
second leading political | ||||||
23 | party.
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24 | 22. "Business day" means any day in which the office of an | ||||||
25 | election
authority, local election official or the State Board | ||||||
26 | of Elections is open
to the public for a minimum of 7 hours.
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1 | 23. "Homeless individual" means any person who has a | ||||||
2 | nontraditional
residence, including, but not limited to, a | ||||||
3 | shelter, day shelter, park
bench, street corner, or space under | ||||||
4 | a bridge.
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5 | 24. "Signature" means a name signed in ink or signed in | ||||||
6 | digitized form. This definition does not apply to a nominating | ||||||
7 | or candidate petition or a referendum petition. | ||||||
8 | 25. "Intelligent mail barcode tracking system" means a | ||||||
9 | printed trackable barcode attached to the return business reply | ||||||
10 | envelope for mail-in ballots under Article 19 or Article 20 | ||||||
11 | that allows an election authority to determine the date the | ||||||
12 | envelope was mailed in absence of a postmark. | ||||||
13 | (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-522, eff. 6-30-16.)
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14 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
15 | becoming law.
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