Full Text of SB2314 095th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | 5 |
| 19-13 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/19-13) (from Ch. 46, par. 19-13)
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| Sec. 19-13. Any qualified voter who has been admitted to a | 8 |
| hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center
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| illness or physical injury not more than 14 5 days before an | 10 |
| election
shall be entitled to personal delivery of an absentee | 11 |
| ballot in the hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center
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| subject to the following conditions:
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| (1) The voter completes the Application for Physically | 14 |
| Incapacitated
Elector as provided in Section 19-3, stating as | 15 |
| reasons therein that he is
a patient in ............... (name | 16 |
| of hospital/home/center), ............... located
at, | 17 |
| ............... (address of hospital/home/center), | 18 |
| ............... (county,
city/village), was admitted for | 19 |
| ............... (nature of illness or
physical injury), on | 20 |
| ............... (date of admission), and does not
expect to be | 21 |
| released from the hospital/home/center on or before the day of | 22 |
| election or, if released, is expected to be homebound on the | 23 |
| day of the election and unable to travel to the polling place .
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| (2) The voter's physician completes a Certificate of | 2 |
| Attending Physician
in a form substantially as follows:
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| CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDING PHYSICIAN
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| I state that I am a physician, duly licensed to practice in | 5 |
| the State of
.........; that .......... is a patient in | 6 |
| .......... (name of hospital/home/center),
located at | 7 |
| ............. (address of hospital/home/center), | 8 |
| ................. (county,
city/village); that such individual | 9 |
| was admitted for ............. (nature
of illness or physical | 10 |
| injury), on ............ (date of admission); and
that I have | 11 |
| examined such individual in the State in which I am licensed
to | 12 |
| practice medicine and do not expect such individual to be | 13 |
| released from
the hospital/home/center on or before the day of | 14 |
| election or, if released, to be able to travel to the polling | 15 |
| place on election day .
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| Under penalties as provided by law pursuant to Section | 17 |
| 29-10 of The Election
Code, the undersigned certifies that the | 18 |
| statements set forth in this
certification are true and | 19 |
| correct.
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| (Signature) ...............
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| (Date licensed) ............
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| (3) Any person who is registered to vote in the same | 23 |
| precinct as the admitted voter or any legal relative of the | 24 |
| admitted voter may
present such voter's absentee ballot | 25 |
| application, completed as prescribed
in paragraph 1, | 26 |
| accompanied by the physician's certificate, completed as
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| prescribed in paragraph 2, to the election authority.
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| precinct voter or relative shall execute and sign an affidavit | 3 |
| furnished
by the election authority attesting that he is a | 4 |
| registered voter in the
same precinct as the admitted voter or | 5 |
| that he is a legal relative of
the admitted voter and stating | 6 |
| the nature of the
relationship. Such precinct voter or relative | 7 |
| shall further attest that
he has been authorized by the | 8 |
| admitted voter to obtain his absentee ballot
from the election | 9 |
| authority and deliver such ballot to him in the hospital, home, | 10 |
| or center.
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| Upon receipt of the admitted voter's application, | 12 |
| physician's
certificate, and the affidavit of the precinct | 13 |
| voter or the relative, the
election authority shall examine the | 14 |
| registration records to determine if
the applicant is qualified | 15 |
| to vote and, if found to be qualified, shall
provide the | 16 |
| precinct voter or the relative the absentee ballot for delivery
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| to the applicant in the hospital, home, or center .
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| Upon receipt of the absentee ballot, the admitted voter | 19 |
| shall mark the
ballot in secret and subscribe to the | 20 |
| certifications on the absentee ballot
return envelope. After | 21 |
| depositing the ballot in the return envelope and
securely | 22 |
| sealing the envelope, such voter shall give the envelope to the
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| precinct voter or the relative who shall deliver it to the | 24 |
| election authority
in sufficient time for the ballot to be | 25 |
| delivered by the election authority
to the election authority's | 26 |
| central ballot counting location
before 7 p.m. on election day.
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| Upon receipt of the admitted voter's absentee ballot,
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| ballot shall be counted in the manner prescribed in this | 3 |
| Article.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-18, eff. 6-14-05; 94-1000, eff. 7-3-06.)
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