Full Text of SB3059 93rd General Assembly
SB3059 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 SB3059
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/24-1 |
from Ch. 46, par. 24-1 |
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Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning voting machines.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 24-1 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/24-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 24-1)
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| Sec. 24-1. The election authority in all jurisdictions when | 8 |
| voting machines
are used shall, except as otherwise provided in | 9 |
| this Code,
provide a voting machine or voting
machines for any | 10 |
| or all of the election precincts or election districts,
as the | 11 |
| case may be, for which the election authority is by law charged | 12 |
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duty of conducting an election or
elections.
A voting | 13 |
| machine or machines sufficient in number to provide a machine | 14 |
| for each
400 voters or fraction thereof shall be supplied for | 15 |
| use at all
elections. However, no such voting machine shall be | 16 |
| used,
purchased, or adopted until the board of voting machine | 17 |
| commissioners
hereinafter provided for, or a majority thereof, | 18 |
| shall have made and
filed a report certifying that they have | 19 |
| examined such machine; that it
affords each elector an | 20 |
| opportunity to vote in absolute secrecy; that it
enables
each | 21 |
| elector to vote a ticket selected in part from the nominees of | 22 |
| one
party, and in part from the nominees of any or all other | 23 |
| parties, and in
part from independent nominees printed in the | 24 |
| columns of candidates for
public office, and in part of persons | 25 |
| not in nomination by any party or
upon any independent ticket; | 26 |
| that it enables each elector to vote a
written or printed | 27 |
| ballot of his or her own selection, for any person for any
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| office for whom he may desire to vote; that it enables each | 29 |
| elector to
vote for all candidates for whom he is entitled to | 30 |
| vote, and prevents
him from voting for any candidate for any | 31 |
| office more than once, unless
he is lawfully entitled to cast | 32 |
| more than one vote for one candidate,
and in that event permits |
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| him to cast only as many votes for that
candidate as he is by | 2 |
| law entitled, and no more; that it prevents the
elector from | 3 |
| voting for more than one person for the same office, unless
he | 4 |
| is lawfully entitled to vote for more than one person therefor, | 5 |
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in that event permits him to vote for as many persons for | 6 |
| that office as
he is by law entitled, and no more; and that | 7 |
| such machine will register
correctly by means of exact counters | 8 |
| every vote cast for the regular
tickets thereon; and has the | 9 |
| capacity to contain the tickets of at least
5 political parties | 10 |
| with the names of all the candidates thereon,
together with all | 11 |
| propositions in the form provided by law, where such
form is | 12 |
| prescribed, and where no such provision is made for the form
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| thereof, then in brief form, not to exceed 75 words; that all | 14 |
| votes cast
on the machine on a regular ballot or ballots shall | 15 |
| be registered; that
voters may, by means of irregular ballots | 16 |
| or otherwise vote for any
person for any office, although such | 17 |
| person may not have been nominated
by any party and his name | 18 |
| may not appear on such machine; that when a
vote is cast for | 19 |
| any person for any such office, when his name does not
appear | 20 |
| on the machine, the elector cannot vote for any other name on | 21 |
| the
machine for the same office; that each elector can, | 22 |
| understandingly and
within the period of 4 minutes cast his | 23 |
| vote for all candidates of his
choice; that the machine is so | 24 |
| constructed that the candidates for
presidential electors of | 25 |
| any party can be voted for only by voting for
the ballot label | 26 |
| containing a bracket within which are the names of the
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| candidates for President and Vice-President of the party or | 28 |
| group; that
the machine is provided with a lock or locks by the | 29 |
| use of which any
movement of the voting or registering | 30 |
| mechanism is absolutely prevented
so that it cannot be tampered | 31 |
| with or manipulated for any purpose; that
the machine is | 32 |
| susceptible of being closed during the progress of the
voting | 33 |
| so that no person can see or know the number of votes | 34 |
| registered
for any candidate; that each elector is permitted to | 35 |
| vote for or against
any question, proposition or amendment upon | 36 |
| which he is entitled to
vote, and is prevented from voting for |
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| or against any question,
proposition or amendment upon which he | 2 |
| is not entitled to vote; that the
machine is capable of | 3 |
| adjustment by the election authority,
so as to permit
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| elector, at a party primary election, to vote only for the
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| candidates seeking nomination by the political party in which | 6 |
| primary he
is entitled to vote: Provided, also that no such | 7 |
| machine or machines
shall be purchased, unless the party or | 8 |
| parties making the sale shall
guarantee in writing to keep the | 9 |
| machine or machines in good working
order for 5 years without | 10 |
| additional cost and shall give a sufficient
bond conditioned to | 11 |
| that effect.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
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