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IL SB0080
Bill
AI Summary
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Removes the option for churches and private schools serving as polling places to extend the campaign-free zone to their entire property, standardizing the 100-foot electioneering prohibition from polling room entrances for all polling locations
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Prohibits the placement of temporary campaign signs on polling place property beyond the campaign-free zone, changing previous language that had explicitly allowed such signage
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Creates an exception allowing residents of private dwellings in buildings containing polling places to display temporary signs inside their units or on doors/windows if located on a different floor or at least 100 horizontal feet from the polling room entrance
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Applies these electioneering restrictions to early voting locations and reaffirms that regulation of electioneering at polling places is an exclusive state power, preempting home rule authority
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Requires election judges to place signage indicating polling place entrances and location signs on nearby public roadways, with the State Board of Elections establishing placement guidelines
Legislative Description
ELECTIONS-CAMPAIGN FREE ZONE
Last Action
Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee
8/16/2009