Full Text of HB1125 94th General Assembly
HB1125eng 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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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 | 5 |
| Sections 17-8 and 17-11 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/17-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-8)
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| Sec. 17-8. The county clerk shall provide in each polling
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| place, so designated or provided a sufficient number of booths, | 9 |
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shall be provided with such supplies and conveniences, | 10 |
| including
shelves, pens, penholders, ink, blotters and | 11 |
| pencils, as will enable the
voter to prepare his ballot for | 12 |
| voting, and in which voters may prepare
their ballots screened | 13 |
| from all observation as to the manner in which
they do so. They | 14 |
| shall be within plain view of election officers, and both
they | 15 |
| and the ballot boxes shall be within plain view of those within | 16 |
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proximity of the voting booths. Each of said booths shall | 17 |
| have 3 sides
enclosed, one
side in front, to be closed with a | 18 |
| curtain. Each side of each booth
shall be 6 feet 4 inches and | 19 |
| the curtain shall extend within 2 feet of
the floor, which | 20 |
| shall be closed while the voter is preparing his
ballot. Each | 21 |
| booth shall be at least 32 inches square and shall contain
a | 22 |
| shelf at least one foot wide, at a convenient height for | 23 |
| writing. No
person other than the election officers and the | 24 |
| challengers allowed by
law, and those admitted for the purpose | 25 |
| of voting as herein provided,
shall be permitted within the | 26 |
| proximity of the voting booths, (i)
except by authority of the
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| election officers to keep order and enforce the law and (ii) | 28 |
| except that one or more children under the age of 18 may | 29 |
| accompany their parent or guardian into the voting booth as | 30 |
| long as a request to do so is made to the election officers | 31 |
| and, in the sole discretion of the election officers, the child | 32 |
| or children are not likely to disrupt or interfere with the |
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| voting process or influence the casting of a vote . The number | 2 |
| of such
voting booths shall not be less than one to every 75 | 3 |
| voters or fraction
thereof who voted at the last preceding | 4 |
| election in the precinct. The
expense of providing booths and | 5 |
| other things required in
this Act shall be paid in the same | 6 |
| manner as other election expenses.
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| Where electronic voting systems are used, a booth with a
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| self-contained electronic voting device may be used. Each such | 9 |
| booth
shall have 3 sides enclosed and shall be equipped with a | 10 |
| curtain for
closing the front of the booth. The curtain must | 11 |
| extend to within 2
feet of the floor. Each side shall be of | 12 |
| such a height, in no event
less than 5 feet, one inch, as to | 13 |
| insure the secrecy of the voter. Each
booth shall be at least | 14 |
| 32 inches square, provided, however, that where
a booth is no | 15 |
| more than 23 inches wide and the sides of such booth
extend | 16 |
| from a point below the device to a height of 5 feet, one inch, | 17 |
| at
the front of the booth, and such booth insures that voters | 18 |
| may prepare
their ballots in secrecy, such booth may be used.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/17-11) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-11)
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| Sec. 17-11. On receipt of his ballot the voter shall | 22 |
| forthwith, and
without leaving the inclosed space, retire | 23 |
| alone , or accompanied by children as provided in Section 17-8,
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| to one of the voting
booths so provided and shall prepare his | 25 |
| ballot by making in the
appropriate margin or place a cross (X) | 26 |
| opposite the name of the
candidate of his choice for each | 27 |
| office to be filled, or by writing in
the name of the candidate | 28 |
| of his choice in a blank space on said ticket,
making a cross | 29 |
| (X) opposite thereto; and in case of a question submitted
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| the vote of the people, by making in the appropriate margin or | 31 |
| place
a cross (X) against the answer he desires to give. A | 32 |
| cross (X) in the
square in front of the bracket enclosing the | 33 |
| names of a team of
candidates for Governor and Lieutenant | 34 |
| Governor counts as one vote for
each of such candidates. Before | 35 |
| leaving the voting booth the voter shall fold
his
ballot in |
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| such manner as to conceal the marks thereon. He shall then
vote | 2 |
| forthwith in the manner herein provided, except that the number
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| corresponding to the number of the voter on the poll books | 4 |
| shall not be
indorsed on the back of his ballot. He shall mark | 5 |
| and deliver his ballot
without undue delay, and shall quit said | 6 |
| inclosed space as soon as he
has voted. No voter shall be | 7 |
| allowed to occupy a voting booth already
occupied by another, | 8 |
| nor remain within said inclosed space more than ten
minutes, | 9 |
| nor to occupy a voting booth more than five minutes in case all
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| of said voting booths are in use and other voters waiting to | 11 |
| occupy the
same. No voter not an election officer, shall, after | 12 |
| having voted, be
allowed to re-enter said inclosed space during | 13 |
| said election. No person
shall take or remove any ballot from | 14 |
| the polling place before the close
of the poll. No voter shall | 15 |
| vote or offer to vote any ballot except such
as he has received | 16 |
| from the judges of election in charge of the ballots.
Any voter | 17 |
| who shall, by accident or mistake, spoil his ballot, may, on
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| returning said spoiled ballot, receive another in place thereof | 19 |
| only after
the word "spoiled" has been written in ink | 20 |
| diagonally across the entire
face of the ballot returned by the | 21 |
| voter.
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| Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are | 23 |
| used, the
provisions of this section may be modified as | 24 |
| required or authorized by
Article 24 or Article 24A, whichever | 25 |
| is applicable.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
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