Bill Text: IL SB2224 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that electors of President and Vice President of the United States shall be chosen by congressional district. Provides that 2 electors at large shall cast their ballot for the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate that received the highest number of votes in the State.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-25 - Assigned to Executive [SB2224 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-SB2224-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026 SB2224 Introduced 2/7/2025, by Sen. Terri Bryant SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/21-1 from Ch. 46, par. 21-1
Amends the Election Code. Provides that electors of President and Vice President of the United States shall be chosen by congressional district. Provides that 2 electors at large shall cast their ballot for the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate that received the highest number of votes in the State.
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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 21-1 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/21-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-1)
Sec. 21-1. Choosing and election of electors of President
and Vice-President of the United States shall be in the
following manner:
(a) In each year in which a President and Vice-President
of the United States are chosen, each political party or group
in this State shall choose by its State Convention or State
central committee one elector electors and alternate electors
of President and Vice-President of the United States from each
congressional district and such State Convention or State
central committee of such party or group shall also choose 2
electors at large and alternate electors at large, if any are
to be appointed for this State and such State Convention or
State central committee of such party or group shall by its
chair and secretary certify the total list of such electors
and alternate electors together with electors at large and
alternate electors at large so chosen to the State Board of
Elections.

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The filing of such certificate with the Board, of such
choosing of electors and alternate electors shall be deemed
and taken to be the choosing and selection of the electors and
alternate electors for the individual congressional districts
of this State, if such party or group is successful at the
polls in the individual congressional district as herein
provided in choosing their candidates for President and
Vice-President of the United States.
(b) The names of the candidates of the several political
parties or groups for electors and alternate electors of
President and Vice-President shall not be printed on the
official ballot to be voted in the election to be held on the
day in this Act above named. In lieu of the names of the
candidates for such electors and alternate electors of
President and Vice-President, immediately under the
appellation of party name of a party or group in the column of
its candidates on the official ballot, to be voted at said
election first above named in subsection (1) of Section 2A-1.2
and Section 2A-2, there shall be printed within a bracket the
name of the candidate for President and the name of the
candidate for Vice-President of such party or group with a
square to the left of such bracket. Each voter in this State
from the several lists or sets of electors and alternate
electors so chosen and selected by the said respective
political parties or groups, may choose and elect an elector
one of such lists or sets of electors and alternate electors by

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placing a cross in the square to the left of the bracket
aforesaid of one of such parties or groups. Placing a cross
within the square before the bracket enclosing the names of
President and Vice-President shall not be deemed and taken as
a direct vote for such candidates for President and
Vice-President, or either of them, but shall only be deemed
and taken to be a vote for the elector entire list or set of
electors and alternate electors chosen by that political party
or group for that congressional district so certified to the
State Board of Elections as herein provided. Voting by means
of placing a cross in the appropriate place preceding the
appellation or title of the particular political party or
group, shall not be deemed or taken as a direct vote for the
candidates for President and Vice-President, or either of
them, but instead to the Presidential vote, as a vote for the
elector entire list or set of electors and alternate electors
chosen by that political party or group so certified to the
State Board of Elections as herein provided.
(c) Such certification by the respective political parties
or groups in this State of electors and alternate electors of
President and Vice-President shall be made to the State Board
of Elections within 2 days after such State convention or
meeting of the State central committee in which the electors
and alternate electors were chosen.
(d) Should more than one certificate of choice and
selection of electors and alternate electors of the same

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political party or group be filed by contesting conventions or
contesting groups, it shall be the duty of the State Board of
Elections within 10 days after the adjournment of the last of
such conventions to meet and determine which set of nominees
for electors and alternate electors of such party or group was
chosen and selected by the authorized convention of such party
or group. The Board, after notice to the chair and secretaries
or managers of the conventions or groups and after a hearing
shall determine which elector set of electors and alternate
electors was so chosen for each congressional district by the
authorized convention and shall so announce and publish the
fact, and such decision shall be final and the set of electors
and alternate electors so determined upon by the electoral
board to be so chosen shall be the list or set of electors and
alternate electors to be deemed elected if that party shall be
successful at the polls in each congressional district, as
herein provided.
(e) Should a vacancy occur in the office of elector, such
vacancy shall be filled in accordance with Section 25 of the
Uniform Faithful Presidential Electors Act.
(f) Each congressional district presidential elector shall
cast his or her ballot for the Presidential and Vice
Presidential candidate who received the highest number of
votes in his or her congressional district. Each elector at
large shall cast his or her ballot for the Presidential and
Vice Presidential candidate who received the highest number of

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votes in the State.
(Source: P.A. 103-600, eff. 7-1-24.)