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Home My WebLink AboutORDINANCES-1971-010-O-7112,1 Reconsidered and Adopted 3-1-71 10-0-71 AN ORDINANCE Amending Section 15-1 of the Code of the City of Evanston, 1957, as Amended, Pro- viding for Appointment of Judges for Municipal Elections BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS: SECTION 1: That Section 15-1 of the Code of the City of Evanston, 1957, as amended, be further amended to read as follows: "Sec. 15-1. Designation of polling places; appoint- menct of judges. (a) The city clerk shall maintain a list of poten- tial judges of election for municipal elections. Such list shall contain the names of all judges of election who served in the last previous municipal and general elections, including primary elections therefor, and shall include the street addresses and precincts and wards of residence of the several judges. The list shall include entries indicating the name of any judge who, having been appointed to serve in a previous municipal election, failed to serve, and the circumstances of such failure, if known; the list shall also indicate whether the judge has completed the county clerk's or other training course for judges; and indicating further the political party by which the judge was nominated, if such judge has served in any general election or primary election for a political party. Said list shall also include the names and addresses, by ward and precinct of residence, of other qualified elec- tors, who have expressed a desire to serve in a future election, if known to the city clerk. El ,y7 f�1 (b) Not less than ninety days before any regular election at which a city official is to be elected, or in the case of a special municipal election, as soon as the city council shall enact an ordinance providing for such election, the city clerk shall determine the identity of all judges in each pre- cinct who served at the last general or primary election of the County of Cook, who shall be de- fined as "sitting judges." The city clerk shall forthwith invite all sitting judges to serve in the forthcoming municipal election, providing that they reside in the ward in which they serve as sitting judges. Such judges shall be invited to serve in, and shall be appointed for, the precinct in which they reside, notwithstanding the precinct in which they may have served in the last general or primary election; except that where five sitting judges reside in a given precinct and served in that precinct in the last general or primary election, such other sitting judges as reside in that precinct shall be invited by the city clerk to serve in other pre- cincts within the ward in which they reside in such a manner as to distribute experienced judges as equally as may be possible among the precincts. The names of such sitting judges as so qualify and so asdent"shall be submitted to the city council for confirmation as provided in paragraph (g) below. For the purposes of paragraphs (e) and (f) below, the office of judge of election shall be deemed vacant for those sitting judges who do not so qualify and assent. (c) Not less than forty-three days before any election at which a city official is to be elec- ted, the mayor shall appoint a canvassing com- mittee of five aldermen, the names of four of whom shall be drawn by lot by the mayor from among those aldermen who are not candidates for municipal office at the election in question. A fifth member shall be appointed by the mayor without confirmation. (d) Upon the appointment of a canvassing committee, the city clerk shall promptly mail, to all persons who are candidates for election, a current list of potential judges whose current residences have been ascertained by the city clerk, for all precincts in the ward of a candidate for election. Said list shall include all judges who sat as judges in re- cent elections and other qualified electors whose desire to serve has been made known to the city clerk. The list may include annotations by the city clerk in addition to those required by para- graph (a) above. ;� J MPZ E 1 �3 �J R (e) Each person who is a candidate for election in each ward may review the list of potential - judges forwarded by the city clerk, and may return to the city clerk within seven days a list of nominees to fill vacancies within each precinct in his ward, indicating thereon for each precinct a numerical order of preference for the selection of such nominees. Such nominees must be residents of the precincts in which they are nominated to serve. (f) Upon receipt of such lists of nominees from the candidates for election, the city clerk shall forward such nomination lists, together with the lists provided for in paragraph (b), to the can- vassing committee. He shall also, as soon as possible and not later than forty-three days prior to the election, submit to the canvassing committee the names of all sitting judges whose assent to serve in the forthcoming election has been secured. The canvassing committee shall then proceed to select judges to fill vacancies in each precinct by lot from the lists submitted by the candidates, in such a way that for any given va- cancy the selection shall be from among those nominees who remain at the top of the priority lists submitted by each candidate. Should the lists provided by the candidates not contain enough names to fill all vacancies in a given precinct, or should the nominees thus selected from the lists submitted by the candidates de- cline to serve, the canvassing committee shall proceed to select additional nominees from among the list of previous judges described in para- graph (b); and it may so select more names than there are vacancies to be filled, instructing the city clerk to seek assent from the nominees in an order of priority to be determined by the canvas- sing committee until the assent of a sufficient number of judges is secured by the city clerk. The city clerk shall forward the names of all nominees who assent under the provisions of this paragraph (f) to the city council not later than thirty-six days prior to the election. (g) At the regular meeting of the city council no later than thirty-six days prior to the elec- tion, the city clerk shall introduce for con- firmation the names of all nominated qualified electors who have assented to serve as judges of election. If at that time, the city clerk has not been able to obtain the assent of the full number MCI: M i a, of nominees for each precinct, he shall report that fact to the canvassing committee of the city coun- cil, which shall then complete the list of nomina- tions for said precinct or precincts. (h) At a regular meeting of the city council, but no later than twenty-nine days prior to the elec- tion, the city council shall designate the place or places in which such elections shall be held, and shall confirm a complete list of five judges of election for each precinct. Every such judge shall be a qualified elector of the City of Evanston, and, if there is an election for alderman in the ward in which he is to serve, such judge must be a qualified elector of that ward. (i) Promptly upon the confirmation of the list of judges of election by the city council, the city clerk shall notify such judges in writing of their appointment in the manner provided by law. (j) If, subsequent to the confirmation of the list • of judges by the city council, a vacancy in the office of judge of election shall occur, the city • clerk shall appoint a qualified elector to fill such vacancy; and such appointment shall have the same standing as if confirmed by the city council. However, such appointments shall not result in more than one non-resident judge serving in a given precinct; nor shall such appointment be of an elec- tor residing outside the ward in which the precinct is located, if an alderman is to be elected in that precinct. (k) If, at the time of the opening of any election, any person appointed or constituted a judge of elec- tion shall not be present, or will not act or take the oath to act in such a capacity, the judge or judges present may appoint some other qualified person or persons in the manner provided for in such cases by the Election Code of the State of Illinois, except that the restrictions contained therein as to political party shall not apply." SECTION 2: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. i -4- IDS • F. A SECTION 3: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication in the manner provided by law. Introduced February 8 1971 Adopted March 1 1971 Attest: /s/ Mau3A&e- F. Brown City Clerk Approved March 1 , 1971 /s/ Edgar Vanneman, Jr. Mayor Approved as to form: /s/ Jack M. Siegel Corporation Counsel -5- P