(10 ILCS 5/7-15) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-15)
Sec. 7-15. At least 60 days prior to each general and consolidated primary,
the election authority shall provide public notice, calculated to reach
elderly voters and voters with disabilities, of the availability of registration and
voting aids under the Federal Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and
Handicapped Act, of the availability of assistance in marking the ballot,
procedures for voting by a vote by mail ballot, and procedures for early
voting
by personal appearance.
At least 20 days before the general primary the county
clerk of each county, and not more than 30 nor less than 10 days before
the consolidated primary the election authority, shall prepare in the
manner provided in this Act, a notice of such primary which notice shall
state the time and place of holding the primary, the hours during which
the polls will be open, the offices for which candidates will be
nominated at such primary and the political parties entitled to
participate therein, notwithstanding that no candidate of any such
political party may be entitled to have his name printed on the primary
ballot. Such notice shall also include the list of addresses of
precinct polling places for the consolidated primary unless such list is
separately published by the election authority not less than 10 days
before the consolidated primary.
In counties, municipalities, or towns having fewer than 500,000
inhabitants notice of the general primary shall be published once in two
or more newspapers published in the county, municipality or town, as the
case may be, or if there is no such newspaper, then in any two or more
newspapers published in the county and having a general circulation
throughout the community.
In counties, municipalities, or towns having 500,000 or more
inhabitants notice of the general primary shall be published at least 15
days prior to the primary by the same authorities and in the same manner
as notice of election for general elections are required to be published
in counties, municipalities or towns of 500,000 or more inhabitants
under this Act.
Notice of the consolidated primary shall be published once in one or
more newspapers published in each political subdivision having such
primary, and if there is no such newspaper, then published once in a
local, community newspaper having general circulation in the
subdivision, and also once in a newspaper published in the county
wherein the political subdivisions, or portions thereof, having such
primary are situated.
(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15; 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
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