(10 ILCS 5/18-7) (from Ch. 46, par. 18-7)
Sec. 18-7.
Said judges of election shall have authority and it shall be
their duty to keep the peace, and to cause any person to be arrested for
any breach of the peace or for any breach of election laws, or any
interference with the progress of registration, revision, election or of
the canvass of the ballots; and it shall be the duty of all officers of the
law present to obey the order of such judges of election, or either of
them, and an officer making an arrest, by direction of any judge, shall be
protected in making such arrest the same as if a warrant had been issued to
him to make such arrest.
(Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)
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