Bill Text: IL HB4892 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Provides that a ranked-choice voting method that allows voters to rank candidates for an office in order of preference and has ranked-choice ballots cast tabulated in multiple rounds following the elimination of a candidate until a single candidate attains a majority may not be used in determining the election or nomination of any candidate to any local, State, or federal elective office in this State. Provides that an ordinance existing on the effective date of the amendatory Act or adopted after the effective date of the amendatory Act by a county, a municipality, or any other unit of local government that is in conflict with the provisions is void. Removes a provision allowing a municipality to adopt an ordinance to administer an election using a ranked ballot for municipal and township office candidates to be voted on in the consolidated election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-05 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4892 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HB4892-Introduced.html

103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
HB4892

Introduced , by Rep. Dennis Tipsword, Jr.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/1-26 new
10 ILCS 5/16-5.01 from Ch. 46, par. 16-5.01

Amends the Election Code. Provides that a ranked-choice voting method that allows voters to rank candidates for an office in order of preference and has ranked-choice ballots cast tabulated in multiple rounds following the elimination of a candidate until a single candidate attains a majority may not be used in determining the election or nomination of any candidate to any local, State, or federal elective office in this State. Provides that an ordinance existing on the effective date of the amendatory Act or adopted after the effective date of the amendatory Act by a county, a municipality, or any other unit of local government that is in conflict with the provisions is void. Removes a provision allowing a municipality to adopt an ordinance to administer an election using a ranked ballot for municipal and township office candidates to be voted on in the consolidated election.
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A BILL FOR

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1 AN ACT concerning elections.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5Section 16-5.01 and by adding Section 1-26 as follows:
6 (10 ILCS 5/1-26 new)
7 Sec. 1-26. Ranked-choice voting prohibited.
8 (a) A ranked-choice voting method that allows voters to
9rank candidates for an office in order of preference and has
10ranked-choice ballots cast tabulated in multiple rounds
11following the elimination of a candidate until a single
12candidate attains a majority may not be used in determining
13the election or nomination of any candidate to any local,
14state, or federal elective office in this State.
15 (b) An ordinance existing on the effective date of this
16amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly or adopted after
17the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General
18Assembly by a county, a municipality, or any other unit of
19local government that is in conflict with this Section is
20void.
21 (10 ILCS 5/16-5.01) (from Ch. 46, par. 16-5.01)
22 Sec. 16-5.01. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this

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1Code, the election authority shall, at least 46 days prior to
2the date of any election at which federal officers are elected
3and 45 days prior to any other regular election, have a
4sufficient number of ballots printed so that such ballots will
5be available for mailing 45 days prior to the date of the
6election to persons who have filed application for a ballot
7under the provisions of Article 20 of this Code.
8 (b) If at any election at which federal offices are
9elected or nominated the election authority is unable to
10comply with the provisions of subsection (a), the election
11authority shall mail to each such person, in lieu of the
12ballot, a Special Write-in Vote by Mail Voter's Blank Ballot.
13The Special Write-in Vote by Mail Voter's Blank Ballot shall
14be used at all elections at which federal officers are elected
15or nominated and shall be prepared by the election authority
16in substantially the following form:
17
Special Write-in Vote by Mail Voter's Blank Ballot
18 (To vote for a person, write the title of the office and
19his or her name on the lines provided. Place to the left of and
20opposite the title of office a square and place a cross (X) in
21the square.)
22 Title of Office Name of Candidate
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3 The election authority shall send with the Special
4Write-in Vote by Mail Voter's Blank Ballot a list of all
5referenda for which the voter is qualified to vote and all
6candidates for whom nomination papers have been filed and for
7whom the voter is qualified to vote. The voter shall be
8entitled to write in the name of any candidate seeking
9election and any referenda for which he or she is entitled to
10vote.
11 On the back or outside of the ballot, so as to appear when
12folded, shall be printed the words "Official Ballot", the date
13of the election and a facsimile of the signature of the
14election authority who has caused the ballot to be printed.
15 The provisions of Article 20, insofar as they may be
16applicable to the Special Write-in Vote by Mail Voter's Blank
17Ballot, shall be applicable herein.
18 (c) (Blank). Notwithstanding any provision of this Code or
19other law to the contrary, the governing body of a
20municipality may adopt, upon submission of a written statement
21by the municipality's election authority attesting to the
22administrative ability of the election authority to administer
23an election using a ranked ballot to the municipality's
24governing body, an ordinance requiring, and that
25municipality's election authority shall prepare, a ranked vote
26by mail ballot for municipal and township office candidates to

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1be voted on in the consolidated election. This ranked ballot
2shall be for use only by a qualified voter who either is a
3member of the United States military or will be outside of the
4United States on the consolidated primary election day and the
5consolidated election day. The ranked ballot shall contain a
6list of the titles of all municipal and township offices
7potentially contested at both the consolidated primary
8election and the consolidated election and the candidates for
9each office and shall permit the elector to vote in the
10consolidated election by indicating his or her order of
11preference for each candidate for each office. To indicate his
12or her order of preference for each candidate for each office,
13the voter shall put the number one next to the name of the
14candidate who is the voter's first choice, the number 2 for his
15or her second choice, and so forth so that, in consecutive
16numerical order, a number indicating the voter's preference is
17written by the voter next to each candidate's name on the
18ranked ballot. The voter shall not be required to indicate his
19or her preference for more than one candidate on the ranked
20ballot. The voter may not cast a write-in vote using the ranked
21ballot for the consolidated election. The election authority
22shall, if using the ranked vote by mail ballot authorized by
23this subsection, also prepare instructions for use of the
24ranked ballot. The ranked ballot for the consolidated election
25shall be mailed to the voter at the same time that the ballot
26for the consolidated primary election is mailed to the voter

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