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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2025 and 2026
SB3298

Introduced 2/3/2026, by Sen. Julie A. Morrison

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

10 ILCS 5/11-2

from Ch. 46, par. 11-2
10 ILCS 5/11-3

from Ch. 46, par. 11-3

Amends the Election Code. Provides that the County Board in each
county, except in counties having a population of 3,000,000 inhabitants or
over, shall, at its regular meeting in June or an adjourned meeting in
July, divide its election precincts so that each precinct shall contain,
as near as may be practicable, 1,200 registered voters who cast a ballot in
person on the day of the most recent general election (rather than 1,200
registered voters). Provides that the Board of Election Commissioners
shall change the boundaries of election precincts after each decennial
census as soon as practicable following the completion of congressional
and legislative redistricting, and such precincts shall contain as nearly
as practicable 1,800 registered voters (rather than 1,200 registered
voters if the precinct is located in a county with fewer than 3,000,000
inhabitants; or 1,800 registered voters if the precinct is located in a
county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants). Makes conforming changes.
LRB104 19828 SPS 33278 b

A BILL FOR

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AN ACT concerning elections.

2

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3
represented in the General Assembly:

4

Section 5.
The Election Code is amended by changing
5
Sections 11-2 and 11-3 as follows:

6

(10 ILCS 5/11-2)

(from Ch. 46, par. 11-2)
7

Sec. 11-2.
Election precincts.

8

(a)
The County Board in each county, except in counties
9
having a population of 3,000,000 inhabitants or over, shall,
10
at its regular meeting in June or an adjourned meeting in July,
11
divide its election precincts so that each precinct shall
12
contain, as near as may be practicable, 1,200 registered
13
voters
who cast a ballot in person on the day of the most
14
recent general election
. Insofar as is practicable, each
15
precinct shall be situated within a single congressional,
16
legislative and representative district and in not more than
17
one County Board district and one municipal ward. In order to
18
situate each precinct within a single district or ward, the
19
County Board shall change the boundaries of election precincts
20
after each decennial census as soon as is practicable
21
following the completion of congressional and legislative
22
redistricting, except that, in 2021, the county board shall
23
change the boundaries at a regular or special meeting within

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60 days after
November 15, 2021 (
the effective date of
Public
2
Act 102-668)

this amendatory Act of the 102nd General
3
Assembly
. In determining whether a division of precincts
4
should be made, the county board may anticipate increased
5
voter registration in any precinct in which there is in
6
progress new construction of dwelling units which will be
7
occupied by voters more than 30 days before the next election.
8
Each district shall be composed of contiguous territory in as
9
compact form as can be for the convenience of the electors
10
voting therein. The several county boards in establishing
11
districts shall describe them by metes and bounds and number
12
them.
13

(b) The

And so often thereafter as it shall appear by the
14
number of votes cast at the general election held in November
15
of any year, that any election district or undivided election
16
precinct contains more than 1,200 registered voters, the

17
County Board of the county in which
an election

the district or

18
precinct
or election precincts are located
may
be, shall
at
19
its regular meeting in June, or an adjourned meeting in July
20
next, after such November election, redivide
, consolidate,
or
21
readjust such
election district or
election precinct
or
22
election precincts
, so that no
district or
election precinct
23
shall contain more than the number of votes
above
specified
in
24
subsection (a)
.
25

If for any reason the County Board fails in any year to
26
redivide or readjust the
election districts or
election

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precinct
or election precincts
, then the
districts or

2
precincts as then existing shall continue until the next
3
regular June meeting of the County Board; at which regular
4
June meeting or an adjourned meeting in July the County Board
5
shall redivide or readjust the election districts or election
6
precincts in manner as herein required. When at any meeting of
7
the County Board any redivision, readjustment
,
or change in
8
name or number of election districts or election precincts is
9
made by the County Board, the County Clerk shall immediately
10
notify the State Board of Elections of such redivision,
11
readjustment
,
or change. The County Board in every case shall
12
fix and establish the places for holding elections in its
13
respective county and all elections shall be held at the
14
places so fixed. The polling places shall in all cases be upon
15
the ground floor in the front room, the entrance to which is in
16
a highway or public street which is at least 40 feet wide, and
17
is as near the center of the voting population of the precinct
18
as is practicable, and for the convenience of the greatest
19
number of electors to vote thereat; provided, however, where
20
the County Board is unable to secure a suitable polling place
21
within the boundaries of a precinct, it may select a polling
22
place at the most conveniently located suitable place outside
23
the precinct; but in no case shall an election be held in any
24
room used or occupied as a saloon, dramshop, bowling alley or
25
as a place of resort for idlers and disreputable persons,
26
billiard hall or in any room connected therewith by doors or

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hallways. No person shall be permitted to vote at any election
2
except at the polling place for the precinct in which he
3
resides, except as otherwise provided in this Section or
4
Article 19 of this
Code

Act
. In counties having a population of
5
3,000,000 inhabitants or over the County Board shall divide
6
its election precincts and shall fix and establish places for
7
holding elections as hereinbefore provided during the month of
8
January instead of at its regular meeting in June or at an
9
adjourned meeting in July.
10

However, in the event that additional divisions of
11
election precincts are indicated after a division made by the
12
County Board in the month of January, such additional
13
divisions may be made by the County Board in counties having a
14
population of 3,000,000 inhabitants or over, at the regular
15
meeting in June or at adjourned meeting in July. The county
16
board of such county may divide or readjust precincts at any
17
meeting of the county board when the voter registration in a
18
precinct has increased beyond 1,800 registered voters and an
19
election is scheduled before the next regular January or June
20
meeting of the county board.
21

(c)
When in any city, village or incorporated town
22
territory has been annexed thereto or disconnected therefrom,
23
which annexation or disconnection becomes effective after
24
election precincts or election districts have been established
25
as
above
provided in this Section, the clerk of the
26
municipality shall inform the county clerk thereof as provided

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in Section 4-21, 5-28.1, or 6-31.1, whichever is applicable.
2
In the event that a regular meeting of the County Board is to
3
be held after such notification and before any election, the
4
County Board shall, at its next regular meeting
,
establish new
5
election precinct lines in affected territory. In the event
6
that no regular meeting of the County Board is to be held
7
before such election the county clerk shall, within 5 days
8
after being so informed, call a special meeting of the county
9
board on a day fixed by him not more than 20 days thereafter
10
for the purpose of establishing election precincts or election
11
districts in the affected territory for the ensuing elections.
12

At any consolidated primary or consolidated election at
13
which municipal officers are to be elected, and at any
14
emergency referendum at which a public question relating to a
15
municipality is to be voted on, notwithstanding any other
16
provision of this Code, the election authority shall establish
17
a polling place within such municipality, upon the request of
18
the municipal council or board of trustees at least 60 days
19
before the election and provided that the municipality
20
provides a suitable polling place. To accomplish this purpose,
21
the election authority may establish an election precinct
22
constituting a single municipality of under 500 population for
23
all elections, notwithstanding the minimum precinct size
24
otherwise specified herein.
25

(d)
Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Section

26
the above
, when there are no more than 50 registered voters in

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a precinct who are entitled to vote in a local government or
2
school district election, the election authority having
3
jurisdiction over the precinct is authorized to reassign such
4
voters to one or more polling places in adjacent precincts,
5
within or without the election authority's jurisdiction, for
6
that election. For the purposes of such local government or
7
school district election only, the votes of the reassigned
8
voters shall be tallied and canvassed as votes from the
9
precinct of the polling place to which such voters have been
10
reassigned. The election authority having jurisdiction over
11
the precinct shall approve all administrative and polling
12
place procedures. Such procedures shall take into account
13
voter convenience, and ensure that the integrity of the
14
election process is maintained and that the secrecy of the
15
ballot is not violated.
16

(e)
Except in the event of a fire, flood or total loss of
17
heat in a place fixed or established by any county board or
18
election authority pursuant to this Section as a polling place
19
for an election, no election authority shall change the
20
location of a polling place so established for any precinct
21
after notice of the place of holding the election for that
22
precinct has been given as required under Article 12 unless
23
the election authority notifies all registered voters in the
24
precinct of the change in location by first class mail in
25
sufficient time for such notice to be received by the
26
registered voters in the precinct at least one day prior to the

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date of the election.
2

(f)
The provisions of this Section apply to all precincts,
3
including those where voting machines or electronic voting
4
systems are used.
5
(Source: P.A. 102-668, eff. 11-15-21; revised 6-24-25.)

6

(10 ILCS 5/11-3)

(from Ch. 46, par. 11-3)
7

Sec. 11-3.
Election precincts.
8

(a) It shall be the duty of the Board of Commissioners
9
established by Article 6 of this Act, within 2 months after its
10
first organization, to divide the city, village or
11
incorporated town which may adopt or is operating under
12
Article 6, into election precincts, each of which shall be
13
situated within a single congressional, legislative and
14
representative district insofar as is practicable and in not
15
more than one County Board district and one municipal ward; in
16
order to situate each precinct within a single district or
17
ward, the Board of Election Commissioners shall change the
18
boundaries of election precincts after each decennial census
19
as soon as is practicable following the completion of
20
congressional and legislative redistricting and such precincts
21
shall contain as nearly as practicable
1,800 registered
22
voters

: (i) 1,200 registered voters if the precinct is located
23
in a county with fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants; or (ii)
24
1,800 registered voters if the precinct is located in a county
25
with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants
.

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(b) Within 90 days after each presidential election, such
2
board in a city with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants, village
3
or incorporated town shall revise and rearrange such precincts
4
on the basis of the votes cast at such election, making such
5
precincts to contain, as near as practicable,
1,200 registered
6
voters or
1,800 registered voters
, as applicable
. However, any
7
apartment building in which more than
1,200 or
1,800
8
registered voters
, as applicable,
reside may be made a single
9
precinct even though the vote in such precinct exceeds
1,200
10
or
1,800 registered voters
, as applicable
.
11

(c) Within 90 days after each presidential election, a
12
board in a city with more than 500,000 inhabitants shall
13
revise and rearrange such precincts on the basis of the votes
14
cast at such election, making such precincts to contain, as
15
near as practicable
: (i) 1,200 registered voters if the
16
precinct is located in a county with fewer than 3,000,000
17
inhabitants; or (ii)
1,800 registered voters
if the precinct
18
is located in a county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants
.
19
However, any apartment building in which more than
1,200
20
registered voters or
1,800 registered voters
, as applicable,

21
reside may be made a single precinct even though the vote in
22
such precinct exceeds
1,200 or
1,800 registered voters
, as
23
applicable
.
24

(d) Immediately after the annexation of territory to the
25
city, village or incorporated town becomes effective the Board
26
of Election Commissioners shall revise and rearrange election

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precincts therein to include such annexed territory.
2

(e) Provided, however, that at any election where but one
3
candidate is nominated and is to be voted upon at any election
4
held in any political subdivision of a city, village or
5
incorporated town, the Board of Election Commissioners shall
6
have the power in such political subdivision to determine the
7
number of voting precincts to be established in such political
8
subdivision at such election, without reference to the number
9
of qualified voters therein. The precincts in each ward,
10
village or incorporated town shall be numbered from one
11
upwards, consecutively, with no omission.
12

(f) The provisions of this Section apply to all precincts,
13
including those where voting machines or electronic voting
14
systems are used.
15
(Source: P.A. 102-668, eff. 11-15-21.)

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