Full Text of HB3639 94th General Assembly
HB3639 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB3639
Introduced 2/24/2005, by Rep. Julie Hamos SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Election Code and the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires that deputy registrars accept voter registrations of persons residing anywhere in Illinois. Requires the Departments of Human Services, Children and Family Services, Public Aid, and Employment Services to provide voter registration at their facilities. Requires those Departments, the Secretary of State, and public institutions of higher learning to post downloadable, printable voter registration forms on their websites. Requires public institutions of higher learning to include voter registration forms in any student registration materials they mail to Illinois addresses. Authorizes General Assembly members to provide voter registration forms at their district offices. Requires that address changes made at driver services facilities with respect to driver's licenses be sent to the proper election authority unless the person specifically requests that the change not be sent for voter registration purposes. Requires first time voters who registered by mail to vote in person unless they first provide specified types of documents identifying their name and address. Permits a registered voter whose name has changed but who lives in the same precinct to vote after making an affidavit at the polling place as to his or her identity and registration (now, only if the name change occurred at certain times and only if another voter attests to his or her identity). Requires the election authority to treat the affidavit as a request to register under the new name. Permits election authorities that post specimen ballots on their websites to publish notice of the website specimen ballots and availability of specimen ballots by mail, as an alternative to publishing the specimen ballots in newspapers. Requires that an employer must give an employee 2 hours to vote if the employee's work day begins less than 2 hours after the polls open and ends less than 2 hours before the polls close. Prohibits an employer from reducing an employee's compensation as a result of the employee's absence to vote. With respect to electronic voting systems, removes the requirement that a vendor's computer codes must be kept confidential. Makes other changes.
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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 4-6.2, 4-16, 5-16.2, 5-23, 6-50.2, 6-54, 7-21, 16-10, | 6 |
| 17-15, 23-15.1, 24C-2, and 24C-12 and by adding Sections 1A-17, | 7 |
| 1A-17.5, 4-105, 5-105, and 6-105 as follows: | 8 |
| (10 ILCS 5/1A-17 new)
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| Sec. 1A-17. Voter registration outreach. | 10 |
| (a) The Secretary of State, the Department of Human | 11 |
| Services, the Department of Children and Family Services, the | 12 |
| Department of Public Aid, the Department of Employment | 13 |
| Security, and each public institution of higher learning in | 14 |
| Illinois must make available on its World Wide Web site a | 15 |
| downloadable, printable voter registration form that complies | 16 |
| with the requirements in subsection (d) of Section 1A-16 for | 17 |
| the State Board of Elections' voter registration form. | 18 |
| (b) Each public institution of higher learning in Illinois | 19 |
| must include voter registration information and a voter | 20 |
| registration form supplied by the State Board of Elections | 21 |
| under subsection (e) of Section 1A-16 in any mailing of student | 22 |
| registration materials to an address located in Illinois. Each | 23 |
| public institution of higher learning must provide voter | 24 |
| registration information and a voter registration form | 25 |
| supplied by the State Board of Elections under subsection (e) | 26 |
| of Section 1A-16 to each person with whom the institution | 27 |
| conducts in-person student registration. | 28 |
| (c) Each member of the General Assembly may make available, | 29 |
| or authorize his or her staff to make available, voter | 30 |
| registration forms supplied by the State Board of Elections | 31 |
| under subsection (e) of Section 1A-16 to the public at the | 32 |
| member's district office in a manner determined by the member. |
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| (d) As used in this Section, a public institution of higher | 2 |
| learning means a public university, college, or community | 3 |
| college in Illinois. | 4 |
| (10 ILCS 5/1A-17.5 new)
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| Sec. 1A-17.5. Voter registration at State services | 6 |
| facilities. The Department of Human Services, the Department of | 7 |
| Children and Family Services, the Department of Public Aid, and | 8 |
| the Department of Employment Security shall provide voter | 9 |
| registration services at each facility where they provide | 10 |
| services to the public or to their clients. The voter | 11 |
| registration services shall be the same as, and the manner in | 12 |
| which they are provided shall be similar to, those provided by | 13 |
| the Secretary of State at driver services facilities in | 14 |
| compliance with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, | 15 |
| the Help America Vote Act of 2002, Sections 4-6.2, 5-16.2, and | 16 |
| 6-50.2 of this Code, and Section 2-105 of the Illinois Vehicle | 17 |
| Code. | 18 |
| The Secretary of State, the Department of Human Services, | 19 |
| the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department | 20 |
| of Public Aid, and the Department of Employment Security are | 21 |
| subject to rules adopted by the State Board of Elections that | 22 |
| implement the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the | 23 |
| Help America Vote Act of 2002. The State Board of Elections | 24 |
| shall modify or adopt rules for the implementation of this | 25 |
| Section. In the interest of public welfare, the State Board of | 26 |
| Elections may initially modify or initially adopt rules | 27 |
| implementing this Section under the emergency rulemaking | 28 |
| provisions of Section 5-45 of the Illinois Administrative | 29 |
| Procedure Act. | 30 |
| The Secretary of State, the Department of Human Services, | 31 |
| the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department | 32 |
| of Public Aid, and the Department of Employment Security shall | 33 |
| adopt rules for the implementation of this Section. In the | 34 |
| interest of public welfare, the Secretary of State and each | 35 |
| Department may initially adopt rules implementing this Section |
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| under the emergency rulemaking provisions of Section 5-45 of | 2 |
| the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act.
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| (10 ILCS 5/4-6.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.2)
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| Sec. 4-6.2. (a) The county clerk shall appoint all | 5 |
| municipal and township
or road district clerks or their duly | 6 |
| authorized deputies as deputy registrars
who may accept the | 7 |
| registration of all qualified residents of the State
their
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| respective municipalities, townships and road districts. A | 9 |
| deputy registrar
serving as such by virtue of his status as a | 10 |
| municipal clerk, or a duly
authorized deputy of a municipal | 11 |
| clerk, of a municipality the territory of
which lies in more | 12 |
| than one county may accept the registration of any
qualified | 13 |
| resident of the municipality, regardless of which county the
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| resident, municipal clerk or the duly authorized deputy of the | 15 |
| municipal
clerk lives in .
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| The county clerk shall appoint all precinct | 17 |
| committeepersons in the county
as deputy registrars who may | 18 |
| accept the registration of any qualified resident
of the State
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| county , except during the 27 days preceding an election.
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| The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars a | 21 |
| reasonable
number of employees of the Secretary of State | 22 |
| located at driver's license
examination stations and | 23 |
| designated to the election authority by the
Secretary of State | 24 |
| who may accept the registration of any qualified
residents of | 25 |
| the State
county at any such driver's license examination | 26 |
| stations.
The appointment of employees of the Secretary of | 27 |
| State as deputy registrars
shall be made in the manner provided | 28 |
| in Section 2-105 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code.
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| The county clerk shall appoint deputy registrars | 30 |
| designated by the Department of Human Services, the Department | 31 |
| of Children and Family Services, the Department of Public Aid, | 32 |
| and the Department of Employment Security who may accept the | 33 |
| registration of qualified residents of the State as provided in | 34 |
| Section 1A-17.5.
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| The county clerk shall appoint each of the following named |
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| persons as deputy
registrars upon the written request of such | 2 |
| persons:
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| 1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person | 4 |
| designated by the chief
librarian, of any public library | 5 |
| situated within the election jurisdiction,
who may accept | 6 |
| the registrations of any qualified resident of the State
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| county ,
at such library.
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| 2. The principal, or a qualified person designated by | 9 |
| the principal, of
any high school, elementary school, or | 10 |
| vocational school situated
within the election | 11 |
| jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
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| qualified resident of the State
county , at such school. The | 13 |
| county clerk shall notify
every principal and | 14 |
| vice-principal of each high school, elementary school, and
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| vocational school situated within the election | 16 |
| jurisdiction of their
eligibility to serve as deputy | 17 |
| registrars and offer training courses for
service as deputy | 18 |
| registrars at conveniently located facilities at least 4
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| months prior to every election.
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| 3. The president, or a qualified person designated by | 21 |
| the president, of
any university, college, community | 22 |
| college, academy or other institution of
learning situated | 23 |
| within the election jurisdiction, who may accept the
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| registrations of any resident of the State
county , at such | 25 |
| university, college,
community college, academy or | 26 |
| institution.
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| 4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide | 28 |
| labor organization,
or a reasonable number of qualified | 29 |
| members designated by such official,
who may accept the | 30 |
| registrations of any qualified resident of the State
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| county .
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| 5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bonafide | 33 |
| State civic
organization, as defined and determined by rule | 34 |
| of the State Board of
Elections, or qualified members | 35 |
| designated by such official, who may accept
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| registration of any qualified resident of the State
county .
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| In determining the number of deputy registrars that shall | 2 |
| be appointed,
the county clerk shall consider the | 3 |
| population of the jurisdiction, the
size of the | 4 |
| organization, the geographic size of the jurisdiction,
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| convenience for the public, the existing number of deputy | 6 |
| registrars in the
jurisdiction and their location, the | 7 |
| registration activities of the
organization and the need to | 8 |
| appoint deputy registrars to assist and
facilitate the | 9 |
| registration of non-English speaking individuals. In no
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| event shall a county clerk fix an arbitrary number | 11 |
| applicable to every
civic organization requesting | 12 |
| appointment of its members as deputy
registrars. The State | 13 |
| Board of Elections shall by rule provide for
certification | 14 |
| of bonafide State civic organizations. Such appointments
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| shall be made for a period not to exceed 2 years, | 16 |
| terminating on the first
business day of the month | 17 |
| following the month of the general election, and
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| valid for all periods of voter registration as provided by | 19 |
| this
Code during the terms of such appointments.
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| 6. (Blank.)
The Director of the Illinois Department of | 21 |
| Public Aid, or a
reasonable number of employees designated | 22 |
| by the Director and located at
public aid offices, who may | 23 |
| accept the registration of any qualified
resident of the | 24 |
| county at any such public aid office.
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| 7. (Blank.)
The Director of the Illinois Department of | 26 |
| Employment Security, or a
reasonable number of employees | 27 |
| designated by the Director and located at
unemployment | 28 |
| offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
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| resident of the county at any such unemployment office.
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| 8. The president of any corporation as defined by the | 31 |
| Business
Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable number of | 32 |
| employees designated by
such president, who may accept the | 33 |
| registrations of any qualified resident
of the State
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| county .
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| If the request to be appointed as deputy registrar is | 36 |
| denied, the
county clerk shall, within 10 days after the date |
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| the request is submitted,
provide the affected individual or | 2 |
| organization with written notice setting
forth the specific | 3 |
| reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the request to
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| appointed as deputy registrar.
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| The county clerk may appoint as many additional deputy | 6 |
| registrars as he
considers necessary. The county clerk shall | 7 |
| appoint such additional deputy
registrars in such manner that | 8 |
| the convenience of the public is served,
giving due | 9 |
| consideration to both population concentration and area. Some
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| of the additional deputy registrars shall be selected so that | 11 |
| there are an
equal number from each of the 2 major political | 12 |
| parties in the election
jurisdiction. The county clerk, in | 13 |
| appointing an additional deputy
registrar, shall make the | 14 |
| appointment from a list of applicants submitted
by the Chairman | 15 |
| of the County Central Committee of the applicant's
political | 16 |
| party. A Chairman of a County Central Committee shall submit a
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| list of applicants to the county clerk by November 30 of each | 18 |
| year. The
county clerk may require a Chairman of a County | 19 |
| Central Committee to
furnish a supplemental list of applicants.
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| Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time | 21 |
| other than the 27
day period preceding an election. All persons | 22 |
| appointed as deputy
registrars shall be registered voters | 23 |
| within the county and shall take and
subscribe to the following | 24 |
| oath or affirmation:
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| "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I | 26 |
| will support
the Constitution of the United States, and the | 27 |
| Constitution of the State
of Illinois, and that I will | 28 |
| faithfully discharge the duties of the office
of deputy | 29 |
| registrar to the best of my ability and that I will register no
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| person nor cause the registration of any person except upon his | 31 |
| personal
application before me.
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| (Signature Deputy Registrar)"
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| This oath shall be administered by the county clerk, or by | 35 |
| one of his
deputies, or by any person qualified to take | 36 |
| acknowledgement of deeds and
shall immediately thereafter be |
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| filed with the county clerk.
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| Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section, | 3 |
| except precinct
committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms, | 4 |
| commencing on December 1 following
the general election of each | 5 |
| even-numbered year; except that the terms of
the initial | 6 |
| appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
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| general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen shall | 8 |
| be for 2-year
terms commencing on the date of the county | 9 |
| convention following the general
primary at which they were | 10 |
| elected. The county clerk shall issue a
certificate of | 11 |
| appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
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| office for public inspection a list of the names of all | 13 |
| appointees.
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| (b) The county clerk shall be responsible for training all | 15 |
| deputy registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), at | 16 |
| times and locations reasonably
convenient for both the county | 17 |
| clerk and such appointees. The county clerk
shall be | 18 |
| responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy | 19 |
| registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a). Deputy | 20 |
| registrars appointed under
subsection (a) shall be subject to | 21 |
| removal for cause.
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| (c) Completed registration materials under the control of | 23 |
| deputy registrars,
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), shall | 24 |
| be returned to the appointing
proper election
authority within | 25 |
| 7 days, except that completed registration materials
received | 26 |
| by the deputy registrars during the period between the 35th and
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| 28th day preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
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| registrars to
the appointing
proper election authority within | 29 |
| 48 hours after receipt thereof. The
completed registration | 30 |
| materials received by the deputy registrars on the
28th day | 31 |
| preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
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| registrars
within 24 hours after receipt thereof. Unused | 33 |
| materials shall be returned
by deputy registrars appointed | 34 |
| pursuant to paragraph 4 of subsection (a),
not later than the | 35 |
| next working day following the close of registration.
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| (d) The county clerk or board of election commissioners, as |
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| the case may
be, must provide any additional forms requested by | 2 |
| any deputy registrar
regardless of the number of unaccounted | 3 |
| registration forms the deputy registrar
may have in his or her | 4 |
| possession.
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| (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any electioneering | 6 |
| or the promotion
of any cause during the performance of his or | 7 |
| her duties.
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| (f) The county clerk shall not be criminally or civilly | 9 |
| liable for the
acts or omissions of any deputy registrar. Such | 10 |
| deputy registrars shall
not be deemed to be employees of the | 11 |
| county clerk.
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| (g) Completed registration materials returned by deputy | 13 |
| registrars for persons residing outside the county shall be | 14 |
| transmitted by the county clerk within 2 days after receipt to | 15 |
| the election authority of the person's election jurisdiction of | 16 |
| residence.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/4-16) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-16)
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| Sec. 4-16. Any registered voter who changes his residence | 20 |
| from one address
to another within the same county wherein this | 21 |
| Article is in effect, may
have his registration transferred to | 22 |
| his new address by making and signing
an application for change | 23 |
| of residence address upon a form to be provided
by the county | 24 |
| clerk. Such application must be made to the office of the
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| county clerk and may be made either in person or by mail. In | 26 |
| case the
person is unable to sign his name, the county clerk | 27 |
| shall require him to
execute the application in the presence of | 28 |
| the county clerk or of his
properly authorized representative, | 29 |
| by his mark, and if satisfied of the
identity of the person, | 30 |
| the county clerk shall make the transfer.
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| Upon receipt of the application, the county clerk, or one | 32 |
| of his
employees deputized to take registrations shall cause | 33 |
| the signature of the
voter and the data appearing upon the | 34 |
| application to be compared with the
signature and data on the | 35 |
| registration record card, and if it appears that
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| is the same person as the person previously registered under
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| that name the transfer shall be made.
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| No transfers of registration under the provisions of this | 4 |
| Section shall
be made during the 27 days preceding any election | 5 |
| at which such
voter would
be entitled to vote. When a removal | 6 |
| of a registered voter takes place from
one address to another | 7 |
| within the same precinct within a period during
which a | 8 |
| transfer of registration cannot be made
before any election or | 9 |
| primary, he shall be entitled to vote upon
presenting the | 10 |
| judges of election his affidavit substantially in the form
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| prescribed in Section 17-10 of this Act of a change of | 12 |
| residence address
within the precinct on a date therein | 13 |
| specified.
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| The county clerk may obtain information from utility | 15 |
| companies, city,
village, incorporated town and township | 16 |
| records, the post office, or from
other sources, regarding the | 17 |
| removal of registered voters, and may treat
such information, | 18 |
| and information procured from his death and marriage
records on | 19 |
| file in his office, as an application to erase from the | 20 |
| register
any name concerning which he may so have information | 21 |
| that the voter is no
longer qualified to vote under the name, | 22 |
| or from the address from which
registered, and give notice | 23 |
| thereof in the manner provided by Section 4--12
of this | 24 |
| Article, and notify voters who have changed their address that | 25 |
| a
transfer of registration may be made in the manner provided | 26 |
| in this
Section enclosing a form therefor.
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| If any person be registered by error in a precinct other | 28 |
| than that in
which he resides, the county clerk may transfer | 29 |
| his registration to the
proper precinct, and if the error is or | 30 |
| may be on the part of the
registration officials, and is | 31 |
| disclosed too late before an election or
primary to mail the | 32 |
| certificate required by Section 4--15, such certificate
may be | 33 |
| personally delivered to the voter and he may vote thereon as | 34 |
| therein
provided, but such certificates so issued shall be | 35 |
| specially listed with
the reason for the issuance thereof.
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| Where a revision or rearrangement of precincts is made by |
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| the county
board, the county clerk shall immediately transfer | 2 |
| to the proper precinct
the registration of any voter affected | 3 |
| by such revision or rearrangement of
the precinct; make the | 4 |
| proper notations on the registration cards of a
voter affected | 5 |
| by the revision or rearrangement and shall issue revised
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| certificates to each registrant of such change.
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| Any registered voter who changes his or her name by | 8 |
| marriage or
otherwise shall be required to register anew and | 9 |
| authorize the cancellation
of the previous registration; but if | 10 |
| the voter still resides in the same
precinct and if the change | 11 |
| of name takes place within a period during
which a transfer of | 12 |
| registration cannot be made, preceding any election
or primary,
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| the elector may, if otherwise
qualified, vote upon making an | 14 |
| affidavit at the polling place attesting that the voter is the | 15 |
| same person who is registered to vote under his or her former | 16 |
| name. The affidavit shall be treated by the election authority | 17 |
| as authorization to cancel the registration under the former | 18 |
| name, and the election authority shall register the person | 19 |
| under his or her current name.
substantially in the form
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| prescribed in Section 17-10 of this Act.
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| The precinct election officials shall report to the county | 22 |
| clerk the
names and addresses of all persons who have changed | 23 |
| their addresses and
voted, which shall be treated as an | 24 |
| application to change address
accordingly, and the names and | 25 |
| addresses of all persons otherwise voting by
affidavit as in | 26 |
| this Section provided, which shall be treated as an
application | 27 |
| to erase under Section 4--12 hereof.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-816, eff. 8-21-02.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/4-105 new) | 30 |
| Sec. 4-105. First time voter. A person must vote for the | 31 |
| first time in person and not by a mailed absentee ballot if the | 32 |
| person registered to vote by mail, unless the person first | 33 |
| provides the appropriate election authority with sufficient | 34 |
| proof of identity by the person's driver's license number or | 35 |
| State identification card number or, if the person does not |
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| have either of those, by the last 4 digits of the person's | 2 |
| social security number, a copy of a current and valid photo | 3 |
| identification, or a copy of a current utility bill, bank | 4 |
| statement, paycheck, government check, or other government | 5 |
| document that shows the person's name and address.
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| (10 ILCS 5/5-16.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.2)
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| Sec. 5-16.2. (a) The county clerk shall appoint all | 8 |
| municipal and
township clerks or their duly authorized deputies | 9 |
| as deputy registrars who
may accept the registration of all | 10 |
| qualified residents of the State
their respective
counties. A | 11 |
| deputy registrar serving as such by virtue of his status as a
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| municipal clerk, or a duly authorized deputy of a municipal | 13 |
| clerk, of a
municipality the territory of which lies in more | 14 |
| than one county may accept
the registration of any qualified | 15 |
| resident of any county in which the
municipality is located, | 16 |
| regardless of which county the resident, municipal
clerk or the | 17 |
| duly authorized deputy of the municipal clerk lives in .
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| The county clerk shall appoint all precinct | 19 |
| committeepersons in the county
as deputy registrars who may | 20 |
| accept the registration of any qualified resident
of the State
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| county , except during the 27 days preceding an election.
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| The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars a | 23 |
| reasonable
number of employees of the Secretary of State | 24 |
| located at driver's license
examination stations and | 25 |
| designated to the election authority by the
Secretary of State | 26 |
| who may accept the registration of any qualified
residents of | 27 |
| the State
county at any such driver's license examination | 28 |
| stations.
The appointment of employees of the Secretary of | 29 |
| State as deputy registrars
shall be made in the manner provided | 30 |
| in Section 2-105 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code.
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| The county clerk shall appoint deputy registrars | 32 |
| designated by the Department of Human Services, the Department | 33 |
| of Children and Family Services, the Department of Public Aid, | 34 |
| and the Department of Employment Security who may accept the | 35 |
| registration of qualified residents of the State as provided in |
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| Section 1A-17.5.
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| The county clerk shall appoint each of the following named | 3 |
| persons as deputy
registrars upon the written request of such | 4 |
| persons:
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| 1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person | 6 |
| designated by the chief
librarian, of any public library | 7 |
| situated within the election jurisdiction,
who may accept | 8 |
| the registrations of any qualified resident of the State
| 9 |
| county ,
at such library.
| 10 |
| 2. The principal, or a qualified person designated by | 11 |
| the principal, of
any high school, elementary school, or | 12 |
| vocational school situated
within the election | 13 |
| jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
| 14 |
| resident of the State
county , at such school. The county | 15 |
| clerk shall notify every
principal and vice-principal of | 16 |
| each high school, elementary school, and
vocational school | 17 |
| situated within the election jurisdiction of their
| 18 |
| eligibility to serve as deputy registrars and offer | 19 |
| training courses for
service as deputy registrars at | 20 |
| conveniently located facilities at least 4
months prior to | 21 |
| every election.
| 22 |
| 3. The president, or a qualified person designated by | 23 |
| the president, of
any university, college, community | 24 |
| college, academy or other institution
of learning situated | 25 |
| within the election jurisdiction, who may accept the
| 26 |
| registrations of any resident of the State
county , at such | 27 |
| university, college,
community college, academy or | 28 |
| institution.
| 29 |
| 4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide | 30 |
| labor organization,
or a reasonable number of qualified | 31 |
| members designated by such official,
who may accept the | 32 |
| registrations of any qualified resident of the State
| 33 |
| county .
| 34 |
| 5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide | 35 |
| State civic
organization, as defined and determined by rule | 36 |
| of the State Board of
Elections, or qualified members |
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| designated by such official, who may accept
the | 2 |
| registration of any qualified resident of the State
county .
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| In determining the number of deputy registrars that shall | 4 |
| be appointed,
the county clerk shall consider the | 5 |
| population of the jurisdiction, the
size of the | 6 |
| organization, the geographic size of the jurisdiction,
| 7 |
| convenience for the public, the existing number of deputy | 8 |
| registrars in the
jurisdiction and their location, the | 9 |
| registration activities of the
organization and the need to | 10 |
| appoint deputy registrars to assist and
facilitate the | 11 |
| registration of non-English speaking individuals. In no
| 12 |
| event shall a county clerk fix an arbitrary number | 13 |
| applicable to every
civic organization requesting | 14 |
| appointment of its members as deputy registrars.
The State | 15 |
| Board of Elections shall by rule provide for
certification | 16 |
| of bona fide State civic organizations.
Such appointments | 17 |
| shall be made for a period not to exceed 2 years,
| 18 |
| terminating on the first business day of the month | 19 |
| following the month of
the general election, and shall be | 20 |
| valid for all periods of voter
registration as provided by | 21 |
| this Code during the terms of such appointments.
| 22 |
| 6. (Blank.)
The Director of the Illinois Department of | 23 |
| Public Aid, or a
reasonable number of employees designated | 24 |
| by the Director and located at
public aid offices, who may | 25 |
| accept the registration of any qualified
resident of the | 26 |
| county at any such public aid office.
| 27 |
| 7. (Blank.)
The Director of the Illinois Department of | 28 |
| Employment Security, or a
reasonable number of employees | 29 |
| designated by the Director and located at
unemployment | 30 |
| offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
| 31 |
| resident of the county at any such unemployment office.
| 32 |
| 8. The president of any corporation as defined by the | 33 |
| Business
Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable number of | 34 |
| employees designated by
such president, who may accept the | 35 |
| registrations of any qualified resident
of the State
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| county .
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| If the request to be appointed as deputy registrar is | 2 |
| denied, the
county clerk shall, within 10 days after the date | 3 |
| the request is submitted,
provide the affected individual or | 4 |
| organization with written notice setting
forth the specific | 5 |
| reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the request to
be | 6 |
| appointed as deputy registrar.
| 7 |
| The county clerk may appoint as many additional deputy | 8 |
| registrars as he
considers necessary. The county clerk shall | 9 |
| appoint such additional deputy
registrars in such manner that | 10 |
| the convenience of the public is served,
giving due | 11 |
| consideration to both population concentration and area. Some
| 12 |
| of the additional deputy registrars shall be selected so that | 13 |
| there are an
equal number from each of the 2 major political | 14 |
| parties in the election
jurisdiction. The county clerk, in | 15 |
| appointing an additional deputy
registrar, shall make the | 16 |
| appointment from a list of applicants submitted
by the Chairman | 17 |
| of the County Central Committee of the applicant's
political | 18 |
| party. A Chairman of a County Central Committee shall submit a
| 19 |
| list of applicants to the county clerk by November 30 of each | 20 |
| year. The
county clerk may require a Chairman of a County | 21 |
| Central Committee to
furnish a supplemental list of applicants.
| 22 |
| Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time | 23 |
| other than the 27
day period preceding an election. All persons | 24 |
| appointed as deputy
registrars shall be registered voters | 25 |
| within the county and shall take and
subscribe to the following | 26 |
| oath or affirmation:
| 27 |
| "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I | 28 |
| will support
the Constitution of the United States, and the | 29 |
| Constitution of the State
of Illinois, and that I will | 30 |
| faithfully discharge the duties of the office
of deputy | 31 |
| registrar to the best of my ability and that I will register
no | 32 |
| person nor cause the registration of any person except upon his | 33 |
| personal
application before me.
| 34 |
| ...............................
| 35 |
| (Signature of Deputy Registrar)"
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| This oath shall be administered by the county clerk, or by |
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| one of his
deputies, or by any person qualified to take | 2 |
| acknowledgement of deeds and
shall immediately thereafter be | 3 |
| filed with the county clerk.
| 4 |
| Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section, | 5 |
| except precinct
committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms, | 6 |
| commencing on December 1 following
the general election of each | 7 |
| even-numbered year, except that the terms of
the initial | 8 |
| appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
| 9 |
| general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen shall | 10 |
| be for
2-year terms commencing on the date of the county | 11 |
| convention following the
general primary at which they were | 12 |
| elected. The county clerk shall issue a
certificate of | 13 |
| appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
his | 14 |
| office for public inspection a list of the names of all | 15 |
| appointees.
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| (b) The county clerk shall be responsible for training all | 17 |
| deputy registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), at | 18 |
| times and locations reasonably
convenient for both the county | 19 |
| clerk and such appointees. The county clerk
shall be | 20 |
| responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy | 21 |
| registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a). Deputy | 22 |
| registrars appointed under
subsection (a) shall be subject to | 23 |
| removal for cause.
| 24 |
| (c) Completed registration materials under the control of | 25 |
| deputy registrars,
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), shall | 26 |
| be returned to the appointing
proper election
authority within | 27 |
| 7 days, except that completed registration materials
received | 28 |
| by the deputy registrars during the period between the 35th and
| 29 |
| 28th day preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
| 30 |
| registrars to
the appointing
proper election authority within | 31 |
| 48 hours after receipt thereof. The
completed registration | 32 |
| materials received by the deputy registrars on the
28th day | 33 |
| preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
| 34 |
| registrars within 24 hours after receipt thereof.
Unused | 35 |
| materials shall be returned by deputy
registrars appointed | 36 |
| pursuant to paragraph 4 of subsection (a), not later
than the |
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| next working day following the close of registration.
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| (d) The county clerk or board of election commissioners, as | 3 |
| the case may
be, must provide any additional forms requested by | 4 |
| any deputy registrar
regardless of the number of unaccounted | 5 |
| registration forms the deputy registrar
may have in his or her | 6 |
| possession.
| 7 |
| (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any electioneering | 8 |
| or the promotion
of any cause during the performance of his or | 9 |
| her duties.
| 10 |
| (f) The county clerk shall not be criminally or civilly | 11 |
| liable for the
acts or omissions of any deputy registrar. Such | 12 |
| deputy registers shall not
be deemed to be employees of the | 13 |
| county clerk.
| 14 |
| (g) Completed registration materials returned by deputy | 15 |
| registrars for persons residing outside the county shall be | 16 |
| transmitted by the county clerk within 2 days after receipt to | 17 |
| the election authority of the person's election jurisdiction of | 18 |
| residence.
| 19 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
| 20 |
| (10 ILCS 5/5-23) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-23)
| 21 |
| Sec. 5-23. Any registered voter who changes his residence | 22 |
| from one address,
number or place to another within the same | 23 |
| county wherein this article 5
is in effect, may have his | 24 |
| registration transferred to his new address by
making and | 25 |
| signing an application for such change of residence upon a form
| 26 |
| to be provided by the county clerk. Such application must be | 27 |
| made to the
office of the county clerk. In case the person is | 28 |
| unable to sign his name
the county clerk shall require such | 29 |
| person to execute the request in the
presence of the county | 30 |
| clerk or of his properly authorized representative,
by his | 31 |
| mark, and if satisfied of the identity of the person, the | 32 |
| county
clerk shall make the transfer.
| 33 |
| Upon receipt of such application, the county clerk, or one | 34 |
| of his employees
deputized to take registrations shall cause | 35 |
| the signature of the voter and
the data appearing upon the |
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| application to be compared with the signature
and data on the | 2 |
| registration record, and if it appears that the applicant
is | 3 |
| the same person as the party previously registered under that | 4 |
| name the
transfer shall be made.
| 5 |
| Transfer of registration under the provisions of this | 6 |
| section may not be
made within the period when the county | 7 |
| clerk's office is closed to registration
prior to an election | 8 |
| at which such voter would be entitled to vote.
| 9 |
| Any registered voter who changes his or her name by | 10 |
| marriage or
otherwise, shall be required to register anew and | 11 |
| authorize the
cancellation of the previous registration; | 12 |
| provided, however, that if
the change of name takes place | 13 |
| within a period during which such new
registration cannot be | 14 |
| made, next preceding any election or primary, the
elector may, | 15 |
| if otherwise qualified, vote upon making the following
| 16 |
| affidavit before the judges of election:
| 17 |
| I do solemnly swear that I am the same person now | 18 |
| registered in the
.... precinct of the .... ward of the city of | 19 |
| .... or .... District Town
of .... under the name of .... and | 20 |
| that I still reside in said precinct
or district.
| 21 |
| (Signed) ....
| 22 |
| If the voter whose name has changed still resides in the | 23 |
| same precinct, the voter may vote after making the affidavit at | 24 |
| the polling place regardless of when the change of name | 25 |
| occurred. In that event, the affidavit shall not state that the | 26 |
| voter is required to register; the affidavit shall be treated | 27 |
| by the election authority as authorization to cancel the | 28 |
| registration under the former name, and the election authority | 29 |
| shall register the voter under his or her current name.
| 30 |
| When a removal of a registered voter takes place from one | 31 |
| address to
another within the same precinct within a period | 32 |
| during which such
transfer of registration cannot be made, | 33 |
| before any election or primary,
he shall be entitled to vote | 34 |
| upon presenting to the judges of election
an affidavit of a | 35 |
| change and having said affidavit supported by the
affidavit of | 36 |
| a qualified voter of the same precinct.
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| Suitable forms for this purpose shall be provided by the | 2 |
| county clerk. The form
in all cases shall be similar to the | 3 |
| form furnished by the county clerk
for county and state | 4 |
| elections.
| 5 |
| The precinct election officials shall report to the county | 6 |
| clerk the names
and addresses of all such persons who have | 7 |
| changed their addresses and voted.
The city, village, town and | 8 |
| incorporated town clerks shall within five days
after every | 9 |
| election report to the county clerk the names and addresses
of | 10 |
| the persons reported to them as having voted by affidavit as in | 11 |
| this
section provided.
| 12 |
| The county clerk may obtain information from utility | 13 |
| companies, city,
village, town and incorporated town records, | 14 |
| the post office or from
other sources regarding the removal of | 15 |
| registered voters and notify such
voters that a transfer of | 16 |
| registration may be made in the manner
provided by this | 17 |
| section.
| 18 |
| If any person be registered by error in a precinct other | 19 |
| than that in
which he resides the county clerk shall be | 20 |
| empowered to transfer his
registration to the proper precinct.
| 21 |
| Where a revision or rearrangement of precincts is made by | 22 |
| the board
of county commissioners, the county clerk shall | 23 |
| immediately transfer to
the proper precinct the registration of | 24 |
| any voter affected by such
revision or rearrangement of the | 25 |
| precincts; make the proper notations on
the registration cards | 26 |
| of a voter affected by the revision of
registration and shall | 27 |
| notify the registrant of such change.
| 28 |
| (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
| 29 |
| (10 ILCS 5/5-105 new) | 30 |
| Sec. 5-105. First time voter. A person must vote for the | 31 |
| first time in person and not by a mailed absentee ballot if the | 32 |
| person registered to vote by mail, unless the person first | 33 |
| provides the appropriate election authority with sufficient | 34 |
| proof of identity by the person's driver's license number or | 35 |
| State identification card number or, if the person does not |
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| have either of those, by the last 4 digits of the person's | 2 |
| social security number, a copy of a current and valid photo | 3 |
| identification, or a copy of a current utility bill, bank | 4 |
| statement, paycheck, government check, or other government | 5 |
| document that shows the person's name and address.
| 6 |
| (10 ILCS 5/6-50.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.2)
| 7 |
| Sec. 6-50.2. (a) The board of election commissioners shall | 8 |
| appoint all
precinct committeepersons in the election | 9 |
| jurisdiction as deputy registrars
who may accept the | 10 |
| registration of any qualified resident of the State
election
| 11 |
| jurisdiction , except during the 27 days preceding an election.
| 12 |
| The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars a | 13 |
| reasonable
number of employees of the Secretary of State | 14 |
| located at driver's license
examination stations and | 15 |
| designated to the election authority by the
Secretary of State | 16 |
| who may accept the registration of any qualified
residents of | 17 |
| the State
county at any such driver's license examination | 18 |
| stations. The
appointment of employees of the Secretary of | 19 |
| State as deputy registrars shall
be made in the manner provided | 20 |
| in Section 2-105 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
| 21 |
| The board of election commissioners shall appoint deputy | 22 |
| registrars designated by the Department of Human Services, the | 23 |
| Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of | 24 |
| Public Aid, and the Department of Employment Security who may | 25 |
| accept the registration of qualified residents of the State as | 26 |
| provided in Section 1A-17.5.
| 27 |
| The board of election commissioners shall appoint each of | 28 |
| the following
named persons as deputy registrars upon the | 29 |
| written request of such persons:
| 30 |
| 1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person | 31 |
| designated by the chief
librarian, of any public library | 32 |
| situated within the election jurisdiction,
who may accept | 33 |
| the registrations of any qualified resident of the State
| 34 |
| election
jurisdiction , at such library.
| 35 |
| 2. The principal, or a qualified person designated by |
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| the principal, of
any high school, elementary school, or | 2 |
| vocational school situated
within the election | 3 |
| jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
| 4 |
| resident of the State
election jurisdiction , at such | 5 |
| school. The board of election
commissioners shall notify | 6 |
| every principal and vice-principal of each high
school, | 7 |
| elementary school, and vocational school situated in the | 8 |
| election
jurisdiction of their eligibility to serve as | 9 |
| deputy registrars and offer
training courses for service as | 10 |
| deputy registrars at conveniently located
facilities at | 11 |
| least 4 months prior to every election.
| 12 |
| 3. The president, or a qualified person designated by | 13 |
| the president, of
any university, college, community | 14 |
| college, academy or other institution
of learning situated | 15 |
| within the State
election jurisdiction , who may accept the
| 16 |
| registrations of any resident of the election | 17 |
| jurisdiction, at such university,
college, community | 18 |
| college, academy or institution.
| 19 |
| 4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide | 20 |
| labor
organization, or a reasonable number of qualified | 21 |
| members designated
by such official, who may accept the | 22 |
| registrations of any qualified
resident of the State
| 23 |
| election jurisdiction .
| 24 |
| 5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide | 25 |
| State civic
organization, as defined and determined by rule | 26 |
| of the State Board of
Elections, or qualified members | 27 |
| designated by such official, who may accept
the | 28 |
| registration of any qualified resident of the State
| 29 |
| election jurisdiction .
In determining the number of deputy | 30 |
| registrars that shall be appointed,
the board of election | 31 |
| commissioners shall consider the population of the
| 32 |
| jurisdiction, the size of the organization, the geographic | 33 |
| size of the
jurisdiction, convenience for the public, the | 34 |
| existing number of deputy
registrars in the jurisdiction | 35 |
| and their location, the registration
activities of the | 36 |
| organization and the need to appoint deputy registrars to
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| assist and facilitate the registration of non-English | 2 |
| speaking individuals.
In no event shall a board of election | 3 |
| commissioners fix an arbitrary
number applicable to every | 4 |
| civic organization requesting appointment of its
members | 5 |
| as deputy registrars. The State Board of Elections shall by | 6 |
| rule
provide for certification of bona fide State civic | 7 |
| organizations. Such
appointments shall be made for a period | 8 |
| not to exceed 2 years, terminating
on the first business | 9 |
| day of the month following the month of the general
| 10 |
| election, and shall be valid for all periods of voter | 11 |
| registration as
provided by this Code during the terms of | 12 |
| such appointments.
| 13 |
| 6. (Blank.)
The Director of the Illinois Department of | 14 |
| Public Aid, or a
reasonable number of employees designated | 15 |
| by the Director and located at
public aid offices, who may | 16 |
| accept the registration of any qualified
resident of the | 17 |
| election jurisdiction at any such public aid office.
| 18 |
| 7. (Blank.)
The Director of the Illinois Department of | 19 |
| Employment Security, or a
reasonable number of employees | 20 |
| designated by the Director and located at
unemployment | 21 |
| offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
| 22 |
| resident of the election jurisdiction at any such | 23 |
| unemployment office.
If the request to be appointed as | 24 |
| deputy registrar is denied, the board
of election | 25 |
| commissioners shall, within 10 days after the date the | 26 |
| request
is submitted, provide the affected individual or | 27 |
| organization with written
notice setting forth the | 28 |
| specific reasons or criteria relied upon to deny
the | 29 |
| request to be appointed as deputy registrar.
| 30 |
| 8. The president of any corporation, as defined by the | 31 |
| Business
Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable number of | 32 |
| employees designated by
such president, who may accept the | 33 |
| registrations of any qualified resident
of the State
| 34 |
| election jurisdiction .
| 35 |
| The board of election commissioners may appoint as many | 36 |
| additional deputy
registrars as it considers necessary. The |
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| board of election commissioners
shall appoint such additional | 2 |
| deputy registrars in such manner that the
convenience of the | 3 |
| public is served, giving due consideration to both
population | 4 |
| concentration and area. Some of the additional deputy
| 5 |
| registrars shall be selected so that there are an equal number | 6 |
| from
each of the 2 major political parties in the election | 7 |
| jurisdiction. The
board of election commissioners, in | 8 |
| appointing an additional deputy registrar,
shall make the | 9 |
| appointment from a list of applicants submitted by the Chairman
| 10 |
| of the County Central Committee of the applicant's political | 11 |
| party. A Chairman
of a County Central Committee shall submit a | 12 |
| list of applicants to the board
by November 30 of each year. | 13 |
| The board may require a Chairman of a County
Central Committee | 14 |
| to furnish a supplemental list of applicants.
| 15 |
| Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time | 16 |
| other than the 27
day period preceding an election. All persons | 17 |
| appointed as deputy
registrars shall be registered voters | 18 |
| within the election jurisdiction and
shall take and subscribe | 19 |
| to the following oath or affirmation:
| 20 |
| "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I | 21 |
| will support
the Constitution of the United States, and the | 22 |
| Constitution of the State
of Illinois, and that I will | 23 |
| faithfully discharge the duties of the office
of registration | 24 |
| officer to the best of my ability and that I will register
no | 25 |
| person nor cause the registration of any person except upon his | 26 |
| personal
application before me.
| 27 |
| ....................................
| 28 |
| (Signature of Registration Officer)"
| 29 |
| This oath shall be administered and certified to by one of | 30 |
| the commissioners
or by the executive director or by some | 31 |
| person designated by the board of
election commissioners, and | 32 |
| shall immediately thereafter be filed with the
board of | 33 |
| election commissioners. The members of the board of election
| 34 |
| commissioners and all persons authorized by them under the | 35 |
| provisions of
this Article to take registrations, after | 36 |
| themselves taking and subscribing
to the above oath, are |
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| authorized to take or administer such oaths and
execute such | 2 |
| affidavits as are required by this Article.
| 3 |
| Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section, | 4 |
| except precinct
committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms, | 5 |
| commencing on December 1 following
the general election of each | 6 |
| even-numbered year, except that the terms of
the initial | 7 |
| appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
| 8 |
| general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen shall | 9 |
| be for 2-year
terms commencing on the date of the county | 10 |
| convention following the general
primary at which they were | 11 |
| elected. The county clerk shall issue a
certificate of | 12 |
| appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
his | 13 |
| office for public inspection a list of the names of all | 14 |
| appointees.
| 15 |
| (b) The board of election commissioners shall be | 16 |
| responsible for training
all deputy registrars appointed | 17 |
| pursuant to subsection (a), at times and
locations reasonably | 18 |
| convenient for both the board of election commissioners
and | 19 |
| such appointees. The board of election commissioners shall be | 20 |
| responsible
for certifying and supervising all deputy | 21 |
| registrars appointed pursuant
to subsection (a). Deputy | 22 |
| registrars appointed under subsection (a) shall
be subject to | 23 |
| removal for cause.
| 24 |
| (c) Completed registration materials under the control of | 25 |
| deputy
registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a) shall be | 26 |
| returned to the appointing
proper election authority within 7 | 27 |
| days, except that completed registration
materials received by | 28 |
| the deputy registrars during the period between the
35th and | 29 |
| 28th day preceding an election shall be returned by the
deputy
| 30 |
| registrars to the appointing
proper election authority within | 31 |
| 48 hours after receipt
thereof. The completed registration | 32 |
| materials received by the deputy
registrars on the 28th day | 33 |
| preceding an election shall be returned
by the
deputy | 34 |
| registrars within 24 hours after receipt thereof. Unused | 35 |
| materials
shall be returned by deputy registrars appointed | 36 |
| pursuant to paragraph 4 of
subsection (a), not later than the |
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| next working day following the close of
registration.
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| (d) The county clerk or board of election commissioners, as | 3 |
| the case may
be, must provide any additional forms requested by | 4 |
| any deputy registrar
regardless of the number of unaccounted | 5 |
| registration forms the deputy registrar
may have in his or her | 6 |
| possession.
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| (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any electioneering | 8 |
| or the promotion
of any cause during the performance of his or | 9 |
| her duties.
| 10 |
| (f) The board of election commissioners shall not be | 11 |
| criminally or
civilly liable for the acts or omissions of any | 12 |
| deputy registrar. Such
deputy registrars shall not be deemed to | 13 |
| be employees of the board of
election commissioners.
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| (g) Completed registration materials returned by deputy | 15 |
| registrars for persons residing outside the election | 16 |
| jurisdiction shall be transmitted by the board of election | 17 |
| commissioners within 2 days after receipt to the election | 18 |
| authority of the person's election jurisdiction of residence.
| 19 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/6-54) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-54)
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| Sec. 6-54. Any registered voter who changes his or her name | 22 |
| by marriage or
otherwise, shall be required to register anew | 23 |
| and authorize the
cancellation of the previous registration; | 24 |
| provided, however, that if the
change of name takes place | 25 |
| within a period during which such new
registration cannot be | 26 |
| made, next preceding any election or primary, the
elector may, | 27 |
| if otherwise qualified, vote upon making the following
| 28 |
| affidavit before the judges of election:
| 29 |
| "I do solemnly swear that I am the same person now | 30 |
| registered in the
.... precinct of the .... ward, under the | 31 |
| name of .... and that I still
reside in said precinct.
| 32 |
| (Signed)...."
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| If the voter whose name has changed still resides in the | 34 |
| same precinct, the voter may vote after making the affidavit at | 35 |
| the polling place regardless of when the change of name |
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| occurred. In that event, the affidavit shall not state that the | 2 |
| voter is required to register; the affidavit shall be treated | 3 |
| by the election authority as authorization to cancel the | 4 |
| registration under the former name, and the election authority | 5 |
| shall register the voter under his or her current name.
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| (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/6-105 new) | 8 |
| Sec. 6-105. First time voter. A person must vote for the | 9 |
| first time in person and not by a mailed absentee ballot if the | 10 |
| person registered to vote by mail, unless the person first | 11 |
| provides the appropriate election authority with sufficient | 12 |
| proof of identity by the person's driver's license number or | 13 |
| State identification card number or, if the person does not | 14 |
| have either of those, by the last 4 digits of the person's | 15 |
| social security number, a copy of a current and valid photo | 16 |
| identification, or a copy of a current utility bill, bank | 17 |
| statement, paycheck, government check, or other government | 18 |
| document that shows the person's name and address.
| 19 |
| (10 ILCS 5/7-21) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-21)
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| Sec. 7-21. The election authority shall transmit or cause | 21 |
| to be delivered to the
primary judges, and to the respective | 22 |
| local election officials prior to
the consolidated primary, | 23 |
| specimen ballots of each political party, substantially
in the | 24 |
| form of the official primary ballots, to be used at such | 25 |
| primary,
which specimen ballot shall be printed upon paper of a | 26 |
| different texture
and color from the official primary ballot. | 27 |
| In units of local government
having fewer than 500,000
| 28 |
| inhabitants the election authority shall have published in two | 29 |
| or more newspapers
published in the county, municipality or
| 30 |
| town, as the case may be, or if there is no such newspaper, | 31 |
| then in any
two or more newspapers published in the county and | 32 |
| having
general circulation throughout the community, at least 5 | 33 |
| days prior to
the general primary, a true copy of the specimen | 34 |
| ballot, and the primary judges
shall post one of each such |
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| specimen ballots at the polling place. In
counties, | 2 |
| municipalities or towns having 500,000
or more inhabitants the | 3 |
| primary judges shall post not less than 5 of
each such specimen | 4 |
| ballots in the precinct, and one of each such
specimen ballots | 5 |
| at the polling place. For the consolidated primary, the
local | 6 |
| election official shall have the duty to make such publication | 7 |
| with
respect to the ballots for his unit of local government, | 8 |
| and may make his
publication as part of the announcement | 9 |
| heretofore required.
| 10 |
| An election authority that posts a specimen ballot on its | 11 |
| official website need not publish the specimen ballot in | 12 |
| newspapers but may instead publish in those newspapers notice | 13 |
| of the specimen ballot on the website, the website address, and | 14 |
| instructions on how a person may request that the election | 15 |
| authority mail the person a copy of the specimen ballot.
| 16 |
| (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/16-10) (from Ch. 46, par. 16-10)
| 18 |
| Sec. 16-10. The judges of election shall cause not less | 19 |
| than one of
such cards to be posted in each voting booth | 20 |
| provided for the
preparation of ballots, and not less than four | 21 |
| of such cards to be
posted in and about the polling places upon | 22 |
| the day of election. In
every county of not more than 500,000
| 23 |
| inhabitants, each election authority shall cause to be | 24 |
| published, prior to the
day of any election, in at least two | 25 |
| newspapers, if there be so many
published in such county, a | 26 |
| list of all the nominations made as in this Act provided and
to | 27 |
| be voted for at such election, as near as may be, in the form in
| 28 |
| which they shall appear upon the general ballot.
| 29 |
| An election authority that posts a specimen ballot on its | 30 |
| official website need not publish the specimen ballot in | 31 |
| newspapers but may instead publish in those newspapers notice | 32 |
| of the specimen ballot on the website, the website address, and | 33 |
| instructions on how a person may request that the election | 34 |
| authority mail the person a copy of the specimen ballot.
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| (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/17-15) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-15)
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| Sec. 17-15. Any person entitled to vote at a general or | 3 |
| special election or
at any election at which propositions are | 4 |
| submitted to a popular vote in
this State, shall, on the day of | 5 |
| such election, be entitled to absent
himself from any services | 6 |
| or employment in which he is then engaged or
employed, for a | 7 |
| period of 2 hours between the time of opening and closing
the | 8 |
| polls; and such voter shall not because of so absenting himself | 9 |
| be
liable to any penalty; Provided, however, that application | 10 |
| for such leave
of absence shall be made prior to the day of | 11 |
| election. The employer may
specify the hours during which said | 12 |
| employee may absent himself as
aforesaid , except that the | 13 |
| employer must permit a 2-hour absence during working hours if | 14 |
| the employee's working hours begin less than 2 hours after the | 15 |
| opening of the polls and end less than 2 hours before the | 16 |
| closing of the polls . No person or corporation shall refuse to | 17 |
| an employee the
privilege hereby conferred, nor shall subject | 18 |
| an employee to a penalty , including a reduction in compensation | 19 |
| due to an absence under this Section,
because of the exercise | 20 |
| of such privilege, nor shall directly or indirectly
violate the | 21 |
| provisions of this section.
| 22 |
| (Source: Laws 1963, p. 2532.)
| 23 |
| (10 ILCS 5/23-15.1)
| 24 |
| Sec. 23-15.1. Production of ballot counting code and | 25 |
| attendance of
witnesses . All voting-system vendors shall, | 26 |
| within 90 days after the adoption
of rules or upon application | 27 |
| for voting-system approval, place in escrow all
computer code | 28 |
| for its voting system with the State Board of Elections. All | 29 |
| computer codes placed in escrow with the State Board of | 30 |
| Elections shall be public records available for inspection at | 31 |
| the principal office of the State Board of Elections. This | 32 |
| requirement in no way prohibits vendors from charging any fees | 33 |
| for the initial distribution or ongoing maintenance of their | 34 |
| software. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the |
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| contrary, no action required under this Code shall invalidate | 2 |
| the copyright protections otherwise enjoyed by the owners or | 3 |
| authors of those codes. The
State Board of Elections shall | 4 |
| promulgate rules to implement this Section. For
purposes of | 5 |
| this Section, the term "computer code" includes, but is not | 6 |
| limited
to, ballot counting source code, table structures, | 7 |
| modules, program narratives,
and other human readable computer | 8 |
| instructions (whether compiled or not) used to count ballots.
| 9 |
| Any computer code submitted by vendors to the State Board of | 10 |
| Elections shall be
considered strictly confidential and the | 11 |
| intellectual property of the vendors
and shall not be subject | 12 |
| to public disclosure under the Freedom of
Information Act.
| 13 |
| The State Board of Elections shall determine which software | 14 |
| components of a
voting system it deems necessary to enable the | 15 |
| review and verification of the
computer. The State Board of | 16 |
| Elections shall secure and
maintain all
proprietary computer | 17 |
| codes in strict confidence and shall make a
computer code | 18 |
| available to authorized persons in
connection with an election | 19 |
| contest or pursuant to any State or federal court
order.
| 20 |
| In an election contest, each party to the contest may | 21 |
| designate one or more
persons who are authorized to receive the | 22 |
| computer code of the
relevant voting systems. The person or | 23 |
| persons authorized to receive the
relevant computer code shall | 24 |
| enter into a confidentiality
agreement with the State Board of | 25 |
| Elections and must exercise the highest
degree of reasonable | 26 |
| care to maintain the confidentiality of all proprietary
| 27 |
| information.
| 28 |
| The State Board of Elections shall promulgate rules to | 29 |
| provide for the
security, review, and verification of computer | 30 |
| codes.
Verification
includes, but is not limited to, | 31 |
| determining that the computer
code corresponds to computer | 32 |
| instructions actually in use to count ballots. The State Board | 33 |
| of Elections shall hire, contract with, or otherwise provide | 34 |
| sufficiently qualified resources, both human and capital, to | 35 |
| conduct the reviews with the greatest possible expectation of | 36 |
| thoroughness, completeness, and effectiveness. The resources |
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| shall be independent of and have no business, personal, | 2 |
| professional, or other affiliation with any of the system | 3 |
| vendors currently or prospectively supplying voting systems to | 4 |
| any county in the State of Illinois.
Nothing in this Section | 5 |
| shall impair the obligation of any contract between a
| 6 |
| voting-systems vendor and an election authority that provides | 7 |
| access to
computer code that is equal to or greater than that | 8 |
| provided by
this Section.
| 9 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
| 10 |
| (10 ILCS 5/24C-2)
| 11 |
| Sec. 24C-2. Definitions. As used in this Article:
| 12 |
| "Audit trail" or "audit capacity" means a continuous trail
| 13 |
| of evidence linking individual transactions related to the
| 14 |
| casting of a vote, the vote count and the summary record of | 15 |
| vote
totals, but which shall not allow for the identification | 16 |
| of the
voter. It shall permit verification of the accuracy of | 17 |
| the
count and detection and correction of problems and shall | 18 |
| provide
a record of each step taken in: defining and producing | 19 |
| ballots
and generating related software for specific | 20 |
| elections;
installing ballots and software; testing system | 21 |
| readiness;
casting and tabulating ballots; and producing | 22 |
| images of votes
cast and reports of vote totals. The record | 23 |
| shall incorporate
system status and error messages generated | 24 |
| during election
processing, including a log of machine | 25 |
| activities and routine
and unusual intervention by authorized | 26 |
| and unauthorized
individuals. Also part of an audit trail is | 27 |
| the documentation
of such items as ballots delivered and | 28 |
| collected, administrative
procedures for system security, | 29 |
| pre-election testing of voting
systems, and maintenance | 30 |
| performed on voting equipment. All test results, | 31 |
| documentation, and other records used to plan, execute, and | 32 |
| record the results of the testing and verification shall be | 33 |
| made part of the public record and shall be freely available to | 34 |
| anyone. "Audit trail" or "audit capacity"
It also
means that | 35 |
| the voting system is capable of producing and shall
produce |
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| immediately after a ballot is cast a permanent paper
record of | 2 |
| each ballot cast that shall be available as an
official record | 3 |
| for any recount, redundant count, or
verification or | 4 |
| retabulation of the vote count conducted with
respect to any | 5 |
| election in which the voting system is used.
| 6 |
| "Ballot" means an electronic audio or video display or any
| 7 |
| other medium, including paper, used to record a voter's choices
| 8 |
| for the candidates of their preference and for or against | 9 |
| public
questions.
| 10 |
| "Ballot configuration" means the particular combination of
| 11 |
| political subdivision or district ballots including, for each
| 12 |
| political subdivision or district, the particular combination | 13 |
| of
offices, candidate names and public questions as it appears | 14 |
| for
each group of voters who may cast the same ballot.
| 15 |
| "Ballot image" means a corresponding representation in
| 16 |
| electronic or paper form of the mark or vote position of a
| 17 |
| ballot.
| 18 |
| "Ballot label" or "ballot screen" means the display of
| 19 |
| material containing the names of offices and candidates and
| 20 |
| public questions to be voted on.
| 21 |
| "Central counting" means the counting of ballots in one or
| 22 |
| more locations selected by the election authority for the
| 23 |
| processing or counting, or both, of ballots. A location for
| 24 |
| central counting shall be within the territorial jurisdiction | 25 |
| of
the election authority unless there is no suitable | 26 |
| tabulating
equipment available within his territorial | 27 |
| jurisdiction.
However, in any event a counting location shall | 28 |
| be within this
State.
| 29 |
| "Computer", "automatic tabulating equipment" or | 30 |
| "equipment"
includes apparatus necessary to automatically | 31 |
| examine and count
votes as designated on ballots, and data | 32 |
| processing machines
which can be used for counting ballots and | 33 |
| tabulating results.
| 34 |
| "Computer operator" means any person or persons designated
| 35 |
| by the election authority to operate the automatic tabulating
| 36 |
| equipment during any portion of the vote tallying process in an
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| election, but shall not include judges of election operating
| 2 |
| vote tabulating equipment in the precinct.
| 3 |
| "Computer program" or "program" means the set of operating
| 4 |
| instructions for the automatic tabulating equipment that
| 5 |
| examines, records, counts, tabulates, canvasses and prints | 6 |
| votes
recorded by a voter on a ballot.
| 7 |
| "Direct recording electronic voting system", "voting
| 8 |
| system" or "system" means the total combination of mechanical,
| 9 |
| electromechanical or electronic equipment, programs and
| 10 |
| practices used to define ballots, cast and count votes, report
| 11 |
| or display election results, maintain or produce any audit | 12 |
| trail
information, identify all system components, test the | 13 |
| system
during development, maintenance and operation, maintain | 14 |
| records
of system errors and defects, determine specific system | 15 |
| changes
to be made to a system after initial qualification, and | 16 |
| make
available any materials to the voter such as notices,
| 17 |
| instructions, forms or paper ballots.
| 18 |
| "Edit listing" means a computer generated listing of the
| 19 |
| names of each candidate and public question as they appear in
| 20 |
| the program for each precinct.
| 21 |
| "In-precinct counting" means the recording and counting of
| 22 |
| ballots on automatic tabulating equipment provided by the
| 23 |
| election authority in the same precinct polling place in which
| 24 |
| those ballots have been cast.
| 25 |
| "Marking device" means any device approved by the State
| 26 |
| Board of Elections for marking a ballot so as to enable the
| 27 |
| ballot to be recorded, counted and tabulated by automatic
| 28 |
| tabulating equipment.
| 29 |
| "Permanent paper record" means a paper record upon which
| 30 |
| shall be printed in human readable form the votes cast for each
| 31 |
| candidate and for or against each public question on each | 32 |
| ballot
recorded in the voting system. Each permanent paper | 33 |
| record
shall be printed by the voting device upon activation of | 34 |
| the
marking device by the voter and shall contain a unique, | 35 |
| randomly
assigned identifying number that shall correspond to | 36 |
| the number
randomly assigned by the voting system to each |
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| ballot as it is
electronically recorded.
| 2 |
| "Redundant count" means a verification of the original
| 3 |
| computer count of ballots by another count using compatible
| 4 |
| equipment or other means as part of a discovery recount,
| 5 |
| including a count of the permanent paper record of each ballot
| 6 |
| cast by using compatible equipment, different equipment | 7 |
| approved
by the State Board of Elections for that purpose, or | 8 |
| by hand.
| 9 |
| "Separate ballot" means a separate page or display screen
| 10 |
| of the ballot that is clearly defined and distinguishable from
| 11 |
| other portions of the ballot.
| 12 |
| "Voting device" or "voting machine" means an apparatus that
| 13 |
| contains the ballot label or ballot screen and allows the voter
| 14 |
| to record his or her vote.
| 15 |
| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
| 16 |
| (10 ILCS 5/24C-12)
| 17 |
| Sec. 24C-12. Procedures for Counting and Tallying of
| 18 |
| Ballots.
| 19 |
| In an election jurisdiction where a Direct Recording
| 20 |
| Electronic Voting System is used, the following procedures for
| 21 |
| counting and tallying the ballots shall apply:
| 22 |
| Before the opening of the polls, the judges of elections
| 23 |
| shall assemble the voting equipment and devices and turn the
| 24 |
| equipment on. The judges shall, if necessary, take steps to
| 25 |
| activate the voting devices and counting equipment by inserting
| 26 |
| into the equipment and voting devices appropriate data cards
| 27 |
| containing passwords and data codes that will select the proper
| 28 |
| ballot formats selected for that polling place and that will
| 29 |
| prevent inadvertent or unauthorized activation of the | 30 |
| poll-opening function.
Before voting begins and before ballots | 31 |
| are
entered into the voting devices, the judges of election | 32 |
| shall
cause to be printed a record of the following: the | 33 |
| election's
identification data, the device's unit | 34 |
| identification, the
ballot's format identification, the | 35 |
| contents of each active
candidate register by office and of |
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| each active public question
register showing that they contain | 2 |
| all zero votes, all ballot
fields that can be used to invoke | 3 |
| special voting options, and
other information needed to ensure | 4 |
| the readiness of the
equipment and to accommodate | 5 |
| administrative reporting
requirements. The judges must also | 6 |
| check to be sure that the
totals are all zeros in the counting | 7 |
| columns and in the public
counter affixed to the voting | 8 |
| devices.
| 9 |
| After the judges have determined that a person is qualified
| 10 |
| to vote, a voting device with the proper ballot to which the
| 11 |
| voter is entitled shall be enabled to be used by the voter. The
| 12 |
| ballot may then be cast by the voter by marking by appropriate
| 13 |
| means the designated area of the ballot for the casting of a
| 14 |
| vote for any candidate or for or against any public question.
| 15 |
| The voter shall be able to vote for any and all candidates and
| 16 |
| public measures appearing on the ballot in any legal number and
| 17 |
| combination and the voter shall be able to delete, change or
| 18 |
| correct his or her selections before the ballot is cast. The
| 19 |
| voter shall be able to select candidates whose names do not
| 20 |
| appear upon the ballot for any office by entering | 21 |
| electronically
as many names of candidates as the voter is | 22 |
| entitled to select
for each office.
| 23 |
| Upon completing his or her selection of candidates or
| 24 |
| public questions, the voter shall signify that voting has been
| 25 |
| completed by activating the appropriate button, switch or | 26 |
| active
area of the ballot screen associated with end of voting. | 27 |
| Upon
activation, the voting system shall record an image of the
| 28 |
| completed ballot, increment the proper ballot position
| 29 |
| registers, and shall signify to the voter that the ballot has
| 30 |
| been cast. Upon activation, the voting system shall also print
| 31 |
| a permanent paper record of each ballot cast as defined in
| 32 |
| Section 24C-2 of this Code. This permanent paper record shall
| 33 |
| either be self-contained within the voting device or shall be | 34 |
| printed in a clear, readily readable format that can be easily | 35 |
| reviewed by the voter for completeness and accuracy and then
| 36 |
| deposited by the voter into a secure ballot box. No permanent
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| paper record shall be removed from the polling place except by
| 2 |
| election officials as authorized by this Article. All permanent
| 3 |
| paper records shall be preserved and secured by election
| 4 |
| officials in the same manner as paper ballots and shall be
| 5 |
| available as an official record for any recount, redundant
| 6 |
| count, or verification or retabulation of the vote count
| 7 |
| conducted with respect to any election in which the voting
| 8 |
| system is used. The voter shall exit the voting station and
the | 9 |
| voting system shall prevent any further attempt to vote
until | 10 |
| it has been properly re-activated. If a voting device has
been | 11 |
| enabled for voting but the voter leaves the polling place
| 12 |
| without casting a ballot, 2 judges of election, one from each | 13 |
| of
the 2 major political parties, shall spoil the ballot.
| 14 |
| Throughout the election day and before the closing of the
| 15 |
| polls, no person may check any vote totals for any candidate or
| 16 |
| public question on the voting or counting equipment. Such
| 17 |
| equipment shall be programmed so that no person may reset the
| 18 |
| equipment for reentry of ballots unless provided the proper | 19 |
| code
from an authorized representative of the election | 20 |
| authority.
| 21 |
| The precinct judges of election shall check the public
| 22 |
| register to determine whether the number of ballots counted by
| 23 |
| the voting equipment agrees with the number of voters voting as
| 24 |
| shown by the applications for ballot. If the same do not agree,
| 25 |
| the judges of election shall immediately contact the offices of
| 26 |
| the election authority in charge of the election for further
| 27 |
| instructions. If the number of ballots counted by the voting
| 28 |
| equipment agrees with the number of voters voting as shown by
| 29 |
| the application for ballot, the number shall be listed on the
| 30 |
| "Statement of Ballots" form provided by the election authority.
| 31 |
| The totals for all candidates and propositions shall be
| 32 |
| tabulated; and 4 copies of a "Certificate of Results" shall be
| 33 |
| printed by the automatic tabulating equipment; one copy shall | 34 |
| be
posted in a conspicuous place inside the polling place; and
| 35 |
| every effort shall be made by the judges of election to provide
| 36 |
| a copy for each authorized pollwatcher or other official
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| authorized to be present in the polling place to observe the
| 2 |
| counting of ballots; but in no case shall the number of copies
| 3 |
| to be made available to pollwatchers be fewer than 4, chosen by
| 4 |
| lot by the judges of election. In addition, sufficient time
| 5 |
| shall be provided by the judges of election to the pollwatchers
| 6 |
| to allow them to copy information from the copy which has been
| 7 |
| posted.
| 8 |
| If instructed by the election authority, the judges of
| 9 |
| election shall cause the tabulated returns to be transmitted
| 10 |
| electronically to the offices of the election authority via
| 11 |
| modem or other electronic medium.
| 12 |
| The precinct judges of election shall select a bi-partisan
| 13 |
| team of 2 judges, who shall immediately return the ballots in a
| 14 |
| sealed container, along with all other election materials and
| 15 |
| equipment as instructed by the election authority; provided,
| 16 |
| however, that such container must first be sealed by the
| 17 |
| election judges with filament tape or other approved sealing
| 18 |
| devices provided for the purpose in a manner that the ballots
| 19 |
| cannot be removed from the container without breaking the seal
| 20 |
| or filament tape and disturbing any signatures affixed by the
| 21 |
| election judges to the container. The election authority shall
| 22 |
| keep the office of the election authority, or any receiving
| 23 |
| stations designated by the authority, open for at least 12
| 24 |
| consecutive hours after the polls close or until the ballots | 25 |
| and
election material and equipment from all precincts within | 26 |
| the
jurisdiction of the election authority have been returned | 27 |
| to the
election authority. Ballots and election materials and
| 28 |
| equipment returned to the office of the election authority | 29 |
| which
are not signed and sealed as required by law shall not be
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| accepted by the election authority until the judges returning
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| the ballots make and sign the necessary corrections. Upon
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| acceptance of the ballots and election materials and equipment
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| by the election authority, the judges returning the ballots
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| shall take a receipt signed by the election authority and
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| stamped with the time and date of the return. The election
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| judges whose duty it is to return any ballots and election
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| materials and equipment as provided shall, in the event the
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| ballots, materials or equipment cannot be found when needed, on
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| proper request, produce the receipt which they are to take as
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| above provided.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
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| Section 10. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by | 7 |
| changing Section 2-105 as follows:
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| (625 ILCS 5/2-105) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 2-105)
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| Sec. 2-105. Offices of Secretary of State. The Secretary of | 10 |
| State shall maintain offices in the State capital and
in such | 11 |
| other places in the State as he may deem necessary to properly
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| carry out the powers and duties vested in him.
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| The Secretary of State may construct and equip one or more | 14 |
| buildings in
the State of Illinois outside of the County of | 15 |
| Sangamon as he deems
necessary to properly carry out the powers | 16 |
| and duties vested in him. The
Secretary of State may, on behalf | 17 |
| of the State of Illinois, acquire public
or private property | 18 |
| needed therefor by lease, purchase or eminent domain.
The care, | 19 |
| custody and control of such sites and buildings constructed
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| thereon shall be vested in the Secretary of State. Expenditures | 21 |
| for the
construction and equipping of any of such buildings | 22 |
| upon premises owned by
another public entity shall not be | 23 |
| subject to the provisions of any State
law requiring that the | 24 |
| State be vested with absolute fee title to the
premises. The | 25 |
| exercise of the authority vested in the Secretary of State by
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| this Section is subject to the appropriation of the necessary | 27 |
| funds.
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| Pursuant to Sections 4-6.2, 5-16.2, and 6-50.2 of The | 29 |
| Election Code,
the Secretary of State shall make driver | 30 |
| services facilities available for use as temporary places of | 31 |
| registration. Registration
within the offices shall be in the | 32 |
| most public, orderly and convenient portions
thereof, and | 33 |
| Section 4-3, 5-3, and 11-4 of The Election Code relative
to the | 34 |
| attendance of police officers during the conduct of |
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| registration
shall apply. Registration under this Section | 2 |
| shall be made in the manner
provided by Sections 4-8, 4-10, | 3 |
| 5-7, 5-9, 6-34, 6-35, and 6-37 of The
Election Code.
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| Within 30 days after the effective date of this amendatory | 5 |
| Act of 1990,
and no later than November 1 of each even-numbered | 6 |
| year thereafter, the
Secretary of State, to the extent | 7 |
| practicable, shall designate to each
election authority in the | 8 |
| State a reasonable number of employees at each
driver services | 9 |
| facility
registered
to vote
within the
jurisdiction of such | 10 |
| election authority and within adjacent election
jurisdictions | 11 |
| for appointment as deputy registrars by the election
authority | 12 |
| located within the election jurisdiction where the employees
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| maintain their residences. Such designation shall be in writing | 14 |
| and
certified by the Secretary of State.
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| Each person applying at a driver services facility for a | 16 |
| driver's
license or permit, a corrected driver's license or | 17 |
| permit, an Illinois
identification card or a corrected Illinois | 18 |
| identification card
shall be notified that the person may | 19 |
| register at such station to vote in
the State
election | 20 |
| jurisdiction in which the station is located or in an election
| 21 |
| jurisdiction adjacent to the location of the station and may | 22 |
| also
transfer his voter registration at such station to a | 23 |
| different
an address in the State
election jurisdiction within | 24 |
| which the station is located or to an address
in an adjacent | 25 |
| election jurisdiction . Such notification may be made in
writing | 26 |
| or verbally issued by an employee or the Secretary of State.
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| Whenever an address change is made at a driver services | 28 |
| facility with respect to a driver's license or a State | 29 |
| identification card, the Secretary of State or Secretary of | 30 |
| State employee shall promptly transmit that change to the | 31 |
| proper election authority for voter registration purposes, | 32 |
| whether or not the person making the change requests that | 33 |
| transmission, unless the person specifically requests that the | 34 |
| change not be transmitted to an election authority.
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| The Secretary of State shall promulgate such rules as may | 36 |
| be necessary
for the efficient execution of his duties and the |
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| duties of his employees
under this amendatory Act of 1990.
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INDEX
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Statutes amended in order of appearance
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| 3 |
| 10 ILCS 5/1A-17 new |
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| 4 |
| 10 ILCS 5/1A-17.5 new |
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| 5 |
| 10 ILCS 5/4-6.2 |
from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.2 |
| 6 |
| 10 ILCS 5/4-16 |
from Ch. 46, par. 4-16 |
| 7 |
| 10 ILCS 5/4-105 new |
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| 8 |
| 10 ILCS 5/5-16.2 |
from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.2 |
| 9 |
| 10 ILCS 5/5-23 |
from Ch. 46, par. 5-23 |
| 10 |
| 10 ILCS 5/5-105 new |
|
| 11 |
| 10 ILCS 5/6-50.2 |
from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.2 |
| 12 |
| 10 ILCS 5/6-54 |
from Ch. 46, par. 6-54 |
| 13 |
| 10 ILCS 5/6-105 new |
|
| 14 |
| 10 ILCS 5/7-21 |
from Ch. 46, par. 7-21 |
| 15 |
| 10 ILCS 5/16-10 |
from Ch. 46, par. 16-10 |
| 16 |
| 10 ILCS 5/17-15 |
from Ch. 46, par. 17-15 |
| 17 |
| 10 ILCS 5/23-15.1 |
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| 18 |
| 10 ILCS 5/24C-2 |
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| 19 |
| 10 ILCS 5/24C-12 |
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| 625 ILCS 5/2-105 |
from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 2-105 |
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