[ Search ] [ Legislation ]
[ Home ] [ Back ] [ Bottom ]
91_HB2052
LRB9103712MWgc
1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Section
2 14-1.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
6 Section 14-1 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/14-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 14-1)
8 Sec. 14-1. Selection of judges of election. The board
9 of election commissioners established or existing under
10 Article 6 shall, at the time and in the manner provided in
11 Section 14-3.1, select and choose 5 electors, men or women,
12 as judges of election for each precinct in the such city,
13 village or incorporated town.
14 Where neither voting machines nor electronic, mechanical
15 or electric voting systems are used, the board of election
16 commissioners may, for any precinct with respect to which the
17 board considers that such action necessary or desirable in
18 view of the number of voters, and shall for general elections
19 for any precinct containing more than 600 registered voters,
20 appoint in addition to the 5 judges of election a team of 5
21 tally judges. In those such precincts the judges of election
22 shall preside over the election during the hours the polls
23 are open, and the tally judges, with the assistance of the
24 holdover judges designated pursuant to Section 14-5.2, shall
25 count the vote after the closing of the polls. The tally
26 judges shall possess the same qualifications and shall be
27 appointed in the same manner and with the same division
28 between political parties as is provided for judges of
29 election. The foregoing provisions relating to the
30 appointment of tally judges are inapplicable in counties with
31 a population of 1,000,000 or more.
-2- LRB9103712MWgc
1 To qualify as judges the electors must:
2 (1) be citizens of the United States;
3 (2) be of good repute and character;
4 (3) be able to speak, read and write the English
5 language;
6 (4) be skilled in the 4 fundamental rules of arithmetic;
7 (5) be of good understanding and capable;
8 (6) not be candidates for any office at the election and
9 not be elected committeemen;
10 (7) reside and be entitled to vote in the precinct in
11 which they are selected to serve, except that in each
12 precinct not more than one judge of each party may be
13 appointed from outside the such precinct. Any judge so
14 appointed to serve in any precinct in which he or she is not
15 entitled to vote must be entitled to vote elsewhere within
16 the county that which encompasses the precinct in which the
17 such judge is appointed and the such judge must otherwise
18 meet the qualifications of this Section.
19 The board of election commissioners may select 2
20 additional judges of election, one from each of the major
21 political parties, for each 200 voters in excess of 600 in
22 any precinct having more than 600 voters as authorized by
23 Section 11--3. These additional judges must meet the
24 qualifications prescribed in this Section.
25 (Source: P.A. 80-779.)