(10 ILCS 5/24B-3)
Sec. 24B-3.
Adoption, experimentation or abandonment of
Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology system; Boundaries of
precincts; Notice. Except as otherwise provided in this Section,
any county board, board of county commissioners and any board of
election commissioners, with respect to territory within its
jurisdiction, may adopt, experiment with, or abandon a Precinct
Tabulation Optical Scan Technology voting system approved for use
by the State Board of Elections and may use the Precinct
Tabulation Optical Scan Technology voting system in all or some
of the precincts within its jurisdiction, or in combination with
paper ballots or voting machines. Any county board, board
of county commissioners or board of election commissioners may
contract for the tabulation of votes at a location outside its
territorial jurisdiction when there is no suitable tabulating
equipment available within its territorial jurisdiction. In no
case may a county board, board of county commissioners or board
of election commissioners contract or arrange for the purchase,
lease or loan of an electronic Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan
Technology voting system or Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan
Technology voting system component without the approval of the
State Board of Elections as provided by Section 24B-16. However,
the county board and board of county commissioners of each county
having a population of 40,000 or more, with respect to all
elections for which the county board or the county clerk is
charged with the duty of providing materials and supplies, and
each board of election commissioners in a municipality having a
population of 40,000 or more, with respect to elections under its
jurisdiction, must provide either Precinct Tabulation Optical
Scan Technology voting systems approved for use by the State
Board of Elections under this Article or voting systems under
Article 24A or Article 24 for each precinct for all such
elections except as provided in Section 24-1.2. For purposes of
this Section 24B-3, the term "population" does not include
persons prohibited from voting by Section 3-5 of this Code.
Before any such Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology
system is introduced, adopted or used in any precinct or
territory at least 2 months public notice must be given before
the date of the first election where the Precinct Tabulation
Optical Scan Technology voting system is to be used. The
election authority shall publish the notice at least once in one
or more newspapers published within the county, or other
jurisdiction, where the election is held.
If there is no such newspaper, the notice shall be published in a
newspaper published in the county and having a general
circulation within such jurisdiction. The notice shall be
substantially as follows:
Notice is hereby given that on (give date),
at (give place where election is held) in the county
of ...., an election will be held for (give name of offices to
be filled) at which a Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan
Technology electronic voting system will be used.
Dated at.... on (insert date).
This notice referred to shall be given only at the
first election at which the Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan
Technology voting machines or Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan
Technology voting systems are used.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
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