Bill Text: IL HB3109 | 2019-2020 | 101st 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 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3109 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB3109-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB3109 Introduced , by Rep. Tim Butler 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 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,
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 together with electors at large so chosen to the State
Board of Elections.
The filing of such certificate with the Board, of such
choosing of electors shall be deemed and taken to be the

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choosing and selection of the 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 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 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 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 by 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,

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but shall only be deemed and taken to be a vote for the elector
entire list or set of 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 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 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 were chosen.
(d) Should more than one certificate of choice and
selection of electors of the same 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 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

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after a hearing shall determine which elector set of 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 so determined
upon by the electoral board to be so chosen shall be the list
or set of 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 choice of an elector in a
congressional district, such vacancy may be filled by the
executive committee of the party or group for such
congressional district, to be certified by such committee to
the State Board of Elections. Should a vacancy occur in the
office of elector at large, such vacancy shall be filled by the
State committee of such political party or group, and certified
by it to the State Board of Elections.
(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 votes
in the State.
(Source: P.A. 99-522, eff. 6-30-16; 100-1027, eff. 1-1-19.)