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91_HB2055
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1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Section
2 4-1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
6 Section 4-1 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/4-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-1)
8 Sec. 4-1. Necessity of registration; application of
9 Article. Except as provided in this Article 4, it is
10 unlawful for any person residing in a county containing a
11 population of less than 500,000, to vote at any election at
12 which any officers are to be nominated or elected, or at any
13 election at which any questions of public policy are to be
14 voted on, unless that such person is at the time of the such
15 election a registered voter under the provisions of this
16 Article 4.
17 The provisions of this Article do not apply to electors
18 voting in an election of any soil and water conservation
19 district or drainage district or to electors residing in
20 municipalities in this State that which have adopted "An Act
21 regulating the holding of elections and declaring the result
22 thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this
23 State", approved June 19, 1885, as amended, or which have
24 adopted Articles 6, 14 and 18 of this Act. This Article shall
25 not apply to electors voting pursuant to Article 20 of this
26 Act.
27 The provisions of this Article 4, so far as they require
28 the registration of voters as a condition to their being
29 allowed to vote shall not apply to persons otherwise entitled
30 to vote who have made and subscribed to the affidavit
31 provided in paragraph (b) of Section 17-10 of this Act.
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1 (Source: P.A. 81-1060.)