2023 Illinois Compiled Statutes › Chapter 10 - ELECTIONS › 10 ILCS 5/ - Election Code. › Article 21 - Electors of President and Vice-President of United States

(10 ILCS 5/Art. 21 heading)
ARTICLE 21.  
		ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES
(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 electors of President and Vice-President of the
United States and such State Convention or State central committee of such party or group shall also
choose 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 choosing and selection of the
electors of this State, if such party or group is successful at the polls
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 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, but shall
only be deemed and taken to be a vote for the entire list or set of
electors chosen by that political party or group 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 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 after a hearing shall determine which set
of electors was so chosen 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, 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.
(Source: P.A. 99-522, eff. 6-30-16; 100-1027, eff. 1-1-19.)
(10 ILCS 5/21-2) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-2)
Sec. 21-2. The county clerks of the several counties shall, within 21 days
next after holding the election named in subsection (1) of Section 2A-1.2 and
Section 2A-2, make 2 copies of the abstract of the votes cast for electors by
each political party or group, as indicated by the voter, as aforesaid, by a
cross in the square to the left of the bracket aforesaid, or as indicated
by a cross in the appropriate place preceding the appellation or title of
the particular political party or group, and transmit by mail one of the
copies to the office of the State Board of Elections and retain the other
in his office, to be sent for by the electoral board in case the other
should be mislaid. Within 31 days after the holding of such election, and
sooner if all the returns are received by the State Board of Elections, the
State Board of Elections shall proceed to open and canvass said election
returns and to declare which set of candidates for President and
Vice-President received, as aforesaid, the highest number of votes cast at
such election as aforesaid; and the electors of that party whose candidates
for President and Vice-President received the highest number of votes so
cast shall be taken and deemed to be elected as electors of President and
Vice-President, but should 2 or more sets of candidates for President and
Vice-President be returned with an equal and the highest vote, the State
Board of Elections shall cause a notice of the same to be published, which
notice shall name some day and place, not less than 5 days from the time of
such publication of such notice, upon which the State Board of Elections
will decide by lot which of the sets of candidates for President and
Vice-President so equal and highest shall be declared to be highest. And
upon the day and at the place so appointed in the notice, the board shall
so decide by lot and declare which is deemed highest of the sets of
candidates for President and Vice-President so equal and highest, thereby
determining only that the electors chosen as aforesaid by such candidates'
party or group are thereby elected by general ticket to be such electors.
(Source: P.A. 100-863, eff. 8-14-18.)
(10 ILCS 5/21-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-3)
Sec. 21-3. 
		
		Within five days after the votes shall have been canvassed and
the results declared or the result declared by lot as provided for in
Section 21-2 above, the Governor shall cause the result of said election
to be published, and shall proclaim the persons electors of President and
Vice-President so chosen composing the list so elected, by transmitting by
mail to the several persons so chosen and composing the list or set
elected, electors of President and Vice-President certificates in
triplicate, under the Seal of State of their appointment, and shall also
transmit under the Seal of State to the Secretary of State of the United
States the certificate of the election of said electors as required by the
laws of Congress.
(Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)
(10 ILCS 5/21-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-4)
Sec. 21-4. 
		Presidential electors; meeting; allowance. 
		The electors, elected under this Article, shall meet at
the office of the
Secretary of State in a room to be designated by the Secretary in
the Capitol at
Springfield in this State, at the time appointed by the laws of the United
States at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day, and
give
their votes for President and for Vice-President of the United States, in
the manner provided in this Article, and perform such duties as
are or may be
required by law. Each elector shall receive
an allowance for food and lodging equal to the amount per day permitted to
be deducted for such expenses under the Internal Revenue Code, plus a mileage
allowance at the rate in effect under regulations promulgated pursuant to 5
U.S.C.
5707(b)(2) for the number of highway miles necessarily and conveniently
traveled, for going to the seat of
government to
give his or her vote and returning to
his or her residence and otherwise performing the official duties of an
elector, to be
paid on the warrant of the State Comptroller, out of
any
money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, and any person appointed by the
electors assembled to fill a vacancy shall also receive the allowances
provided for electors
appointed.
(Source: P.A. 92-359, eff. 1-1-02.)
(10 ILCS 5/21-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 21-5)
Sec. 21-5. 
		
		In case any person duly elected an elector of President and
Vice-President of the United States shall fail to attend at the Capitol on
the day on which his vote is required to be given, it shall be the duty of
the elector or electors of President and Vice-President, attending at the
time and place, to appoint a person or persons to fill such vacancy;
provided, that should the person or persons chosen, as in this Article
provided, in the foregoing sections, arrive at the place aforesaid before
the votes for President and Vice-President are actually given, the person
or persons appointed to fill such vacancy shall not act as elector of
President and Vice-President.
(Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)