Amends the Election Code. Provides that a candidate seeking election to an office for which candidates of political parties are nominated by caucus who is a participant in the caucus and who has participated in the caucus of another established political party or a new political party or who has signed a petition of another established political party, a new political party, or an independent candidate is ineligible to be listed on the ballot at that general or consolidated election as a candidate of the political party holding the caucus. Makes conforming changes. Amends the Township Code. Provides that a person shall not be able to participate or vote at any township or multi-township caucus if the person participated in the caucus of another established political party or a new political party or signed a petition for a candidate of another established political party, a new political party, or an independent candidate at anytime during the 12 months before the caucus.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 10 ILCS 5/7, 10 ILCS 5/10, 10 ILCS 5/17, 60 ILCS 1/45