SB2267 Summary

• Amends Illinois Election Code to require ranked-choice voting for elections of General Assembly members and statewide constitutional offices (Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Treasurer), but only in general and special elections, not primaries.

• Establishes ballot format allowing voters to rank candidates in order of preference for offices elected by ranked-choice voting, with space for one write-in candidate if desired.

• Creates tallying procedures where votes are counted in rounds: in each round, ballots count for each voter's highest-ranked continuing candidate, exhausted ballots are discarded, and the last-place candidate is eliminated until only 2 candidates remain, with the candidate having more votes declared the winner.

• Defines key terms including "exhausted ballot," "continuing candidate," "overvote," and "mathematically impossible to be elected," and allows batch elimination of multiple candidates simultaneously.

• Addresses tie-breaking by lot, permits limiting rankings to no fewer than 6, and authorizes the State Board of Elections to adopt implementing rules.