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91_HB2058
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1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Section
2 19-1.
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 19-1 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/19-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 19-1)
8 Sec. 19-1. Right to vote by absentee ballot. Any
9 qualified elector of the State of Illinois having duly
10 registered where such registration is required who expects to
11 be absent from the county in which he is a qualified elector
12 or who because of being appointed a judge of election in a
13 precinct other than the precinct in which he resides or who
14 because of physical incapacity or the tenets of his religion
15 in the observance of a religious holiday or who because of
16 election duties for the office of an Election Authority or
17 the State Board of Elections or who because of election
18 duties for a law enforcement agency, including but not
19 limited to the offices of the Attorney General, a State's
20 Attorney, a United States Attorney, or a State, county, or
21 municipal police department, or who, because he is
22 temporarily abiding outside the precinct in which he is
23 registered to vote due to the fact he is a student attending
24 an institution of higher education or who is serving as a
25 sequestered juror on a State or federal jury, will be unable
26 to be present at the polls on the day of holding any special,
27 general or primary election at which any presidential
28 preference is indicated or any candidates are chosen or
29 elected, for any congressional, State, district, county,
30 town, city, village, precinct or judicial offices or at which
31 questions of public policy are submitted, may vote at that
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1 such election as hereinafter in this Article provided.
2 Each Election Authority, law enforcement agency, and the
3 State Board of Elections shall compile and keep current a
4 list of his or its officers or employees who are eligible to
5 vote under this Article by reason of election duties.
6 For purposes of this Article 19, a physically
7 incapacitated voter marks his or her ballot "personally" when
8 the voter exercises his or her physical abilities to their
9 reasonable limit in marking the ballot, and marking
10 personally may include instructing the person assisting the
11 incapacitated voter when giving such instruction represents
12 the reasonable limit of the physical abilities.
13 (Source: P.A. 86-873; 86-875; 86-1028.)