102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB2489

 

Introduced 2/19/2021, by Rep. Deanne M. Mazzochi

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
10 ILCS 5/19-1  from Ch. 46, par. 19-1

    Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning voting by mail.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning elections.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5Section 19-1 as follows:
 
6    (10 ILCS 5/19-1)  (from Ch. 46, par. 19-1)
7    Sec. 19-1. Any qualified elector of the the State of
8Illinois having duly registered where such registration is
9required may vote at such election as hereinafter in this
10Article provided.
11    For purposes of this Article 19, a physically
12incapacitated voter marks his or her ballot "personally" when
13the voter exercises his or her physical abilities to their
14reasonable limit in marking the ballot, and marking personally
15may include instructing the person assisting the incapacitated
16voter when giving such instruction represents the reasonable
17limit of the physical abilities.
18(Source: P.A. 95-440, eff. 8-27-07; 96-553, eff. 8-17-09.)