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10 ILCS 5/5-21

(10 ILCS 5/5-21) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-21)

Sec. 5-21.

To each person who registers at the office of the county, city,
village, incorporated town or town clerk, or any place designated by the
Board of County Commissioners under Section 5-17 of Article 5 and within
five days thereafter, the election authority shall send by mail, and electronic mail if the registrant has provided the election authority with an e-mail address, a notice setting
forth the elector's name and address as it appears on the registration record
card, and shall request him in case of any error to present the notice on
or before the seventh day next ensuing at the office of the election authority 
in order to secure the correction of the error. Such notice shall contain
on the outside a request for the postmaster to return it within five days
if it cannot be delivered to the addressee at the address given thereon.
Upon the return by the post office of such notice which it has been unable
to deliver at the given address because the addressee cannot be found there,
a notice shall be at once sent through the United States mail to such person
at the address appearing upon his registration record card requiring him
to appear before the election authority, within five days, to answer questions
touching his right to register. If the person notified fails to appear at
the election authority's office within five days as directed or if he appears
and fails to prove his right to register, the election authority shall cancel
his registration.

(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 10-1-13.)