Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 Elections: Article 23 - Contesting Elections

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.1a
  Election contest - Statewide - Jurisdiction. The Supreme Court shall have jurisdiction over contests of the results of any election, including a primary, for...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.2a
  Election contest - Statewide offices - Who may contest - Time and place for filing - Fee. The results of an election, including a...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.3a
  Election contest - Statewide - Petition - Contents. A Petition of State Election Contest shall be signed and verified by each person contesting the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.4a
  Election contest - Statewide - Notice to parties. Upon receipt of a properly executed Petition of State Election Contest and the filing fee, the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.5a
  Election contest - Statewide - Appearances and responsive pleadings - Time. Within 20 days of the filing of a Petition of State Election Contest,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.6a
  Election contest - Statewide - Examination of records - Procedure. If a petitioner in any election contest desires to examine records and equipment under...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.7a
  Election contest - Statewide - Initial procedures and rules. Subsequent to the time that all candidates in the election contest have appeared or are...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.8a
  Election contest - Statewide - Procedures for recount and initial hearing. In all cases for which the Supreme Court finds it appropriate that there...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.8b
  Election contest - Statewide - State Board of Elections. In the event the circuit judge, in any such case, is of the opinion that...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.9a
  Election contest - Statewide - Recommended findings of Circuit Judge. Each recount or hearing presided over by a Circuit Judge pursuant to Section 23-1.8a...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.10a
  Election contest - Statewide - Final Decision by Supreme Court. Within 15 days of the issuance of Recommended Findings of Fact by a Circuit...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.11a
  Election contest - Statewide - Assessment of Costs. The Supreme Court shall also make a determination of costs to be assessed, taking into consideration...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.12a
  Election contest - Statewide - Timing and finality of determination by Supreme Court. The determination of the contest shall be made as soon as...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-1.13a
  If any of the powers or duties to be exercised or performed by the Supreme Court under Sections 23-1.1a through 23-1.12a may not constitutionally...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-2
  The senate and house of representatives shall severally hear and determine contests of the election of their respective members. (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-3
  The circuit court shall hear and determine contests of the election of judges of the Supreme Court, judges of the appellate court, clerk of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-4
  The circuit courts in the respective counties may hear and determine contests of the election of mayors of cities, presidents of county boards, presidents...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-5
  The circuit court shall hear and determine contests of election of all other county, township and precinct officers, and all other officers for the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-6.1
  Whenever an election contest for a municipal trustee or alderman is brought involving ballots from the same precincts which are subject to the jurisdiction...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-12
  The election of any member declared duly elected to a seat in the senate or house of representatives of the General Assembly, may be...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-13
  The contestant shall, within 30 days after the proclamation of the result of the canvass of the State electoral board as provided in Section...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-14
  Whenever a notice shall have been given of intention to contest an election, as provided in the preceding section, either party may proceed to...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-15
  The officer before whom depositions are taken shall have power to compel the production of papers, and the attendance of witnesses; and the same...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-15.1
  Production of ballot counting code and attendance of witnesses. All voting-system vendors shall, within 90 days after the adoption of rules or upon application for...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-16
  A copy of the notice to take depositions, with proof of the service thereof, with the deposition, shall be sealed up and transmitted by...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-17
  The State Board of Elections shall deliver the copy of the notice deposited with him by the contestant, and the depositions unopened, to the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-18
  Nothing herein contained shall be construed to abridge the right of either branch of the General Assembly to grant commissions to take depositions, or...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-19
  The election of any person declared elected to any office other than Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary of State, State Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney General, Senator or...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-20
  The person desiring to contest such election shall, within thirty (30) days after the person whose election is contested is declared elected, file with...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-21
  Upon the filing of such statement, summons shall issue against the person whose office is contested, and he may be served with process, or...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-22
  Evidence may be taken in the same manner and upon like notice as in other civil cases. (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-23
  The case shall be tried in like manner as other civil cases, and may be heard and determined by the court at any time not...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-23.1
  No election contest shall abate on account of the death of any contestee in such contest. Upon the suggestion of the death of any...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-23.2
  A court hearing an election contest pursuant to this Article or any other provision of the law shall grant a petition for a recount...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-24
  In the case of all constitutional amendments or other questions of public policy submitted to the voters of this State, and of all questions...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-25
  In case of any contest under section 23-24 of this Act, the court shall allow any one or more electors of the State or...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-26
  The judgment of the court in cases of contested election, shall confirm or annul the election according to the right of the matter; or,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-27
  If it appears that two or more persons have, or would have had if the legal ballots cast or intended to be cast for...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-28
  A certified copy of the judgment of the court shall have the same effect as to the result of the election as if it...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-29
  When the person whose election is contested is found to have received the highest number of legal votes, but the election is declared null...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-30
  In all cases of contested elections in the circuit courts, appeals may be taken in the same manner, and upon like conditions as is...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 23-50
  Definition of a vote. For the purpose of any recount of votes under this Code, a vote is defined as provided in Sections 7-100, 17-100,...

Last modified: February 18, 2015