Illinois State Board Of Elections News Events

The State Board of Elections is Relocating its Springfield Office Beginning February 10, 2012

1/27/2012

The State Board of Elections will be relocating its Springfield office to 2329 S. MacArthur Blvd., Springfield, IL 62704-4503 beginning 1PM Friday February 10, 2012. All Springfield office telephone systems will be taken down at that time and remain inoperative until 8AM, Tuesday, February 14, 2012, at which time the Springfield office will reopen at the new location. Note: A limited number of the Board’s Chicago office telephone numbers, including the main switchboard (312-814-6440), will remain active. Additionally, the agency’s website (including the electronic filing of Campaign Disclosure reports) will remain up and running during the transition.

Campaign Disclosure -- Quarterly Report Filing Deadline – Tuesday, January 17, 2012

1/13/2012

The filing period for the December 2011 Quarterly Report ends Tuesday, January 17th. The December 2011 Quarterly Report must include all committee activity from October 1st through December 31st. The Board must receive this report by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17th when filing on paper or by 11:59:59 p.m. on Tuesday, January 17th when filing electronically.

This Quarterly Report must be filed by all active political committees; it must be filed regardless of whether the committee has had any activity during that period of time.

If filing on paper, reports must be postmarked by Saturday, January 14th to be considered a timely filing if received after the deadline.

A Report from the Illinois Campaign Finance Reform Task Force

1/5/2012

The Campaign Finance Reform Task Force was established in 2010 to conduct a thorough review of the implementation of campaign finance reform legislation in the State of Illinois, and the feasibility of implementing a mechanism of campaign finance regulation that would subsidize political campaigns in exchange for voluntary adherence to specified expenditure limitations (10 ILCS 5/9-40).

The Task Force is charged with studying and reporting on the feasibility of implementing a mechanism of campaign finance regulation that would subsidize political campaigns in exchange for voluntary adherence to specified expenditure limitations.

The attached report on Public Campaign Financing and Illinois Elections (i) outlines the history and development of public campaign finance in the United States and in Illinois; (ii) examines the public policy arguments in support of and in opposition to the development and implementation of a public campaign finance system in Illinois; (iii) explains and analyzes the current state of the law with respect to public campaign finance; and (iv) offers several feasible alternatives on how a public campaign finance system might be implemented in Illinois. The report does not include a consensus recommendation regarding public financing, but rather, presents various options related to the adoption of public financing.