(10 ILCS 5/4-27) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-27)
Sec. 4-27.
At each regular special or primary election to which this
Article 4 is applicable, the judges of election shall personally affix all
affidavits made before them in accordance with the provisions of Sections
4-15, 4-16, 4-22, 4-23, 7-45 or 17-10, respectively, to the
respective applications to vote.
Persons voting for whom no registration card is found in the master file
or precinct binder shall be investigated by the county clerk or persons in
his office, as shall likewise be investigated the correctness of affidavits
filed under the provisions of the Sections hereinbefore in this Section
enumerated. If from such investigation the county clerk shall be satisfied
that the provisions of this Article have been violated, or that any person
has voted who was not qualified so to do, he shall make a complete report
to the State's Attorney of the County, attaching thereto a correct copy of
the application to vote and any affidavit which may have been executed by
the voter and supporting witnesses, if any. The State's Attorney shall
prosecute all such reports of fraud if on the basis of the facts so
reported, and of any additional investigation he may cause to be made, he
shall be satisfied that a knowing violation of this Article or of this Act
has been committed. The County Clerk shall further file with the circuit
court, for such action as is provided in cases of the misbehavior of judges
of election, a copy of any such report in which it shall appear that the
judges of election knowingly permitted a person to vote who was not
qualified so to do under the provisions of this Article or of this Act, or
otherwise were guilty of a knowing breach of their duties as such under
this Act.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 3481.)
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