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 1        AN ACT in relation to 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    Section 24A-2 as follows:

 6        (10 ILCS 5/24A-2) (from Ch. 46, par. 24A-2)
 7        Sec.   24A-2.   As  used  in  this  Article:  "Computer",
 8    "Automatic  tabulating  equipment"  or  "equipment"  includes
 9    apparatus necessary to automatically examine and count  votes
10    as  designated on ballots, and data processing machines which
11    can be used for counting ballots and tabulating results.
12        "Ballot card" means  a  ballot  which  is  voted  by  the
13    process of punching.
14        "Ballot  configuration"  means the particular combination
15    of  political  subdivision  ballots   including,   for   each
16    political subdivision, the particular combination of offices,
17    candidate   names   and  ballot  position  numbers  for  each
18    candidate and question as it appears for each group of voters
19    who may cast the same ballot.
20        "Ballot labels" means the cards, papers,  booklet,  pages
21    or  other  material  containing  the  names  of  officers and
22    candidates and statements of measures to be voted on.
23        "Ballot sheet" means a paper ballot  printed  on  one  or
24    both  sides  which  is  (1) designed and prepared so that the
25    voter may indicate his or  her  votes  in  designated  areas,
26    which  must  be  enclosed  areas clearly printed or otherwise
27    delineated for such purpose, and (2) capable of having  votes
28    marked   in  the  designated  areas  automatically  examined,
29    counted, and tabulated by an electronic scanning process.
30        "Ballot" may include  ballot  cards,  ballot  labels  and
31    paper ballots and electronic ballot forms.
 
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 1        "Separate ballot", with respect to ballot sheets, means a
 2    separate  portion  of  the ballot sheet in which the color of
 3    the ink used in printing that portion of the ballot sheet  is
 4    distinct from the color of the ink used in printing any other
 5    portion of the ballot sheet.
 6        "Column"  in an electronic voting system which utilizes a
 7    ballot card means a space on a ballot card for  punching  the
 8    voter's  vote  arranged  in  a  row running lengthwise on the
 9    ballot card.
10        "Central Counting" means the counting of ballots  in  one
11    or  more locations selected by the election authority for the
12    processing or counting, or both, of ballots. A  location  for
13    central counting shall be within the territorial jurisdiction
14    of  such  election  authority  unless  there  is  no suitable
15    tabulating  equipment  available   within   his   territorial
16    jurisdiction. However, in any event a counting location shall
17    be within this State.
18        "In-precinct  counting"  means the counting of ballots on
19    automatic  tabulating  equipment  provided  by  the  election
20    authority in the same precinct polling place in  which  those
21    ballots have been cast.
22        "Data  pack"  means  an  electronic  media container upon
23    which  electronic  data  processing  instructions  and   vote
24    results are stored.
25        "Electronic  ballot  form"  means  a  ballot  that may be
26    displayed upon a video terminal screen.
27        "Computer  operator"  means   any   person   or   persons
28    designated by the election authority to operate the automatic
29    tabulating  equipment during any portion of the vote tallying
30    process in an election,  but  shall  not  include  judges  of
31    election operating vote tabulating equipment in the precinct.
32        "Computer   program"   or  "program"  means  the  set  of
33    operating instructions for the automatic tabulating equipment
34    by which it examines, counts, tabulates, canvasses and prints
 
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 1    votes recorded by a voter on a ballot card or other medium.
 2        "Edit listing" means a computer generated listing of  the
 3    names  and  ballot  position  numbers  for each candidate and
 4    proposition as they appear in the program for each precinct.
 5        "Voting System" or "Electronic Voting System" means  that
 6    combination  of  equipment  and programs used in the casting,
 7    examination and tabulation of ballots and the cumulation  and
 8    reporting of results by electronic means.
 9        "Header card" means a data processing card which is coded
10    to  indicate  to  the  computer  the precinct identity of the
11    ballot cards that will follow immediately and may indicate to
12    the computer how such ballot cards are to be tabulated.
13        "Marking device"  means  either  an  apparatus  in  which
14    ballots  or  ballot cards are inserted and used in connection
15    with a punch apparatus for the piercing  of  ballots  by  the
16    voter, or any approved device for marking a paper ballot with
17    ink  or  other  substance  which will enable the ballot to be
18    tabulated by means of automatic tabulating equipment or by an
19    electronic scanning process.
20        "Redundant count" means a verification  of  the  original
21    computer count by another count using compatible equipment or
22    by hand as part of a discovery recount.
23        "Security punch" means a punch placed on a ballot card to
24    identify to the computer program the offices and propositions
25    for  which  votes  may  be cast and to indicate the manner in
26    which votes cast  should  be  tabulated  while  negating  any
27    inadmissable votes.
28    (Source: P.A. 86-867.)