SB1272 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB1272

Introduced 2/3/2023, by Sen. Jil Tracy

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

10 ILCS 5/19-25 new

Amends the Election Code. Requires the State Board of Elections, in conjunction with election authorities, to implement a secure, free access system available to voters by January 1, 2024. Provides that the system shall allow a voter to track receipt of the voter's vote by mail ballot and check the ballot's status with the election authority. Requires the election authority to make the system available to vote by mail voters from the first day that vote by mail ballots are accepted until 30 days after completion of the official canvass. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning elections.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Election Code is amended by adding Section 19-25 as follows:

(10 ILCS 5/19-25 new)

Sec. 19-25. Vote by mail tracking. In conjunction with election authorities, the State Board of Elections shall implement by January 1, 2024 a secure, free access system available to voters in each election authority that allows each vote by mail voter to:

(1) track the delivery and receipt of the voter's vote by mail ballot by the election authority; and

(2) learn if the voter's vote by mail ballot was accepted for counting and, if not, the reason why the ballot was rejected.

For each election, the election authority shall make the secure, free access system available to vote by mail voters from the first day that vote by mail ballots are accepted until 30 days after completion of the official canvass.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.