(10 ILCS 5/17-12) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-12)
Sec. 17-12.
The ballot shall be folded by the voter and delivered to one of
the judges of election; and if the judge be satisfied, that the person
offering the vote is a legal voter, the judges of election shall enter the
name of the voter, and his number, under the proper heading in the poll
books, (except as otherwise provided in Articles 4, 5 or 6) and shall
immediately put the ballot into the ballot box.
The voter shall in like manner fold and deliver the separate blue ballot
or ballots pertaining to a proposal or proposals for constitutional
amendments or the calling of a constitutional convention, if such proposal
or proposals have been submitted to a vote of the people at such election
and shall also in like manner fold and deliver the separate representative
ballot provided for in Article 8A in cases where that Article is
applicable. The judge of election to whom the voter delivers his ballots
shall not accept the same unless all of the ballots given to the voter are
returned by him. If a voter delivers less than all of the ballots given to
him, the judge to whom the same are offered shall advise him in a voice
clearly audible to the other judges of election that the voter must return
the remainder of the ballots. The statement of the judge to the voter shall
clearly express the fact that the voter is not required to vote such
remaining ballots but that whether or not he votes them he must fold and
deliver them to the judge. In making such statement the judge of election
shall not indicate by word, gesture or intonation of voice that the
unreturned ballots shall be voted in any particular manner. No new voter
shall be permitted to enter the voting booth of a voter who has failed to
deliver the total number of ballots received by him until such voter has
returned to the voting booth pursuant to the judge's request and again quit
the booth with all of the ballots required to be returned by him. Upon
receipt of all such ballots the judges of election shall enter the name of
the voter, and his number, as above provided in this section, and the judge
to whom the ballots are delivered shall immediately put the ballots into
the ballot box but, in the case of an election for Representatives in the
General Assembly pursuant to Article 8A, the official representative ballot
shall be placed in the separate ballot box provided for such purpose. If
any voter who has failed to deliver all the ballots received by him refuses
to return to the voting booth after being advised by the judge of election
as herein provided, the judge shall inform the other judges of such
refusal, and thereupon the ballot or ballots returned to the judge shall be
deposited in the ballot box, the voter shall be permitted to depart from
the polling place, and a new voter shall be permitted to enter the voting
booth.
No judge of election shall accept from any voter less than the full
number of ballots received by such voter without first advising the voter
in the manner above provided of the necessity of returning all of the
ballots, nor shall any judge advise such voter in a manner contrary to that
which is herein permitted, or in any other manner violate the provisions of
this section; provided that the acceptance by a judge of election of less
than the full number of ballots delivered to a voter who refuses to return
to the voting booth after being properly advised by the judge shall not be
a violation of this section.
(Source: Laws 1964, 1st S.S., p. 711.)
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