Full Text of HB3418 095th General Assembly
HB3418 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB3418
Introduced 2/27/2007, by Rep. David Reis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/4-110 new |
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10 ILCS 5/5-110 new |
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10 ILCS 5/6-110 new |
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10 ILCS 5/17-9 |
from Ch. 46, par. 17-9 |
10 ILCS 5/18-5 |
from Ch. 46, par. 18-5 |
10 ILCS 5/18A-5 |
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Amends the Election Code. Requires that a person seeking to vote in person on election day present a government-issued photo identification to the election judge. Requires each election authority to issue a photo identification card to each registered voter in its jurisdiction who cannot afford to obtain another government-issued photo identification. Makes failure to present a government-issued photo identification one of the reasons a person may vote a provisional ballot.
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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 | 5 |
| Sections 17-9, 18-5, and 18A-5 and by adding Sections 4-110, | 6 |
| 5-110, and 6-110 as follows: | 7 |
| (10 ILCS 5/4-110 new)
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| Sec. 4-110. Voter identification card. Each election | 9 |
| authority shall issue a voter identification card to each | 10 |
| registered voter in its jurisdiction who cannot afford to | 11 |
| obtain another form of photo identification card required for | 12 |
| presentation at the polling place under Sections 17-9 and 18-5. | 13 |
| The card shall include at least (i) the voter's name, | 14 |
| signature, and photograph, (ii) the name and seal of the | 15 |
| issuing election authority, and (iii) an expiration date | 16 |
| determined by rule of the election authority. | 17 |
| (10 ILCS 5/5-110 new)
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| Sec. 5-110. Voter identification card. Each election | 19 |
| authority shall issue a voter identification card to each | 20 |
| registered voter in its jurisdiction who cannot afford to | 21 |
| obtain another form of photo identification card required for | 22 |
| presentation at the polling place under Sections 17-9 and 18-5. |
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| The card shall include at least (i) the voter's name, | 2 |
| signature, and photograph, (ii) the name and seal of the | 3 |
| issuing election authority, and (iii) an expiration date. | 4 |
| (10 ILCS 5/6-110 new)
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| Sec. 6-110. Voter identification card. Each election | 6 |
| authority shall issue a voter identification card to each | 7 |
| registered voter in its jurisdiction who cannot afford to | 8 |
| obtain another form of photo identification card required for | 9 |
| presentation at the polling place under Sections 17-9 and 18-5. | 10 |
| The card shall include at least (i) the voter's name, | 11 |
| signature, and photograph, (ii) the name and seal of the | 12 |
| issuing election authority, and (iii) an expiration date. | 13 |
| (10 ILCS 5/17-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-9) | 14 |
| Sec. 17-9. Any person desiring to vote shall (i) present to | 15 |
| the judges of election for verification of the person's | 16 |
| identity his or her Illinois driver's license, his or her | 17 |
| non-driver identification card issued by the Illinois | 18 |
| Secretary of State, his or her voter identification card, or | 19 |
| another government-issued identification document containing | 20 |
| his or her photograph and (ii) give his name and, if
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| to do so, his residence to the judges of election, one of whom
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| shall thereupon announce the same in a loud and distinct tone | 23 |
| of voice,
clear, and audible; the judges of elections shall | 24 |
| check each application
for ballot against the list of voters |
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| registered in that precinct to
whom grace period, absentee,
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| early
ballots have been issued for that election, which shall | 3 |
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provided by the election authority and which list shall be | 4 |
| available for
inspection by pollwatchers. A voter applying to | 5 |
| vote in the
precinct on election day whose name appears on the | 6 |
| list as having
been issued a grace period, absentee,
or early
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| ballot shall not be permitted to vote in the
precinct, except | 8 |
| that a voter to whom an absentee ballot was issued may vote in | 9 |
| the precinct if the voter submits to the election judges that | 10 |
| absentee ballot for cancellation. If the voter is unable to | 11 |
| submit the absentee ballot, it shall be sufficient for the | 12 |
| voter to submit to the election judges (i) a portion of the | 13 |
| absentee ballot if the absentee ballot was torn or mutilated or | 14 |
| (ii) an affidavit executed before the election judges | 15 |
| specifying that (A) the voter never received an absentee ballot | 16 |
| or (B) the voter completed and returned an absentee ballot and | 17 |
| was informed that the election authority did not receive that | 18 |
| absentee ballot. All applicable provisions of Articles
4, 5 or | 19 |
| 6 shall be complied with and if such name is found on the | 20 |
| register of
voters by the
officer having charge thereof, he | 21 |
| shall likewise repeat said name, and
the voter shall be allowed | 22 |
| to enter within the proximity of the voting
booths, as above | 23 |
| provided. One of the judges shall give the voter one,
and only | 24 |
| one of each ballot to be voted at the election, on the back of
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| which ballots such judge shall indorse his initials in such | 26 |
| manner that
they may be seen when each such ballot is properly |
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| folded, and the
voter's name shall be immediately checked on | 2 |
| the register list. In those
election jurisdictions where | 3 |
| perforated ballot cards are utilized of the
type on which | 4 |
| write-in votes can be cast above the perforation, the election
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| authority shall provide a space both above and below the | 6 |
| perforation for
the judge's initials, and the judge shall | 7 |
| endorse his or her initials in
both spaces. Whenever
a proposal | 8 |
| for a constitutional amendment or for the calling of a
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| constitutional convention is to be voted upon at the election, | 10 |
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separate blue ballot or ballots pertaining thereto shall, | 11 |
| when being
handed to the voter, be placed on top of the other | 12 |
| ballots to be voted
at the election in such manner that the | 13 |
| legend appearing on the back
thereof, as prescribed in Section | 14 |
| 16-6 of this Act, shall be plainly
visible to the voter. At all | 15 |
| elections, when a registry may be
required, if the name of any | 16 |
| person so desiring to vote at such election
is not found on the | 17 |
| register of voters, he or she shall not receive a ballot
until | 18 |
| he or she shall have complied with the law prescribing the | 19 |
| manner and
conditions of voting by unregistered voters. If any | 20 |
| person desiring to
vote at any election shall be challenged, he | 21 |
| or she shall not receive a ballot
until he or she shall have | 22 |
| established his right to vote in the manner provided
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| hereinafter; and if he or she shall be challenged after he has | 24 |
| received his
ballot, he shall not be permitted to vote until he | 25 |
| or she has fully complied
with such requirements of the law | 26 |
| upon being challenged. Besides the
election officer, not more |
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| than 2 voters in excess of the whole number
of voting booths | 2 |
| provided shall be allowed within the proximity of the voting
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| booths at one
time. The provisions of this Act, so far as they | 4 |
| require the
registration of voters as a condition to their | 5 |
| being allowed to vote
shall not apply to persons otherwise | 6 |
| entitled to vote, who are, at the
time of the election, or at | 7 |
| any time within 60 days prior to such
election have been | 8 |
| engaged in the military or naval service of the
United States, | 9 |
| and who appear personally at the polling place on
election day | 10 |
| and produce to the judges of election satisfactory evidence
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| thereof, but such persons, if otherwise qualified to vote, | 12 |
| shall be
permitted to vote at such election without previous | 13 |
| registration.
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| All such persons shall also make an affidavit which shall | 15 |
| be in
substantially the following form:
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| State of Illinois,)
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| County of ........)
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| ............... Precinct .......... Ward
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| I, ...., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen | 21 |
| of the
United States, of the age of 18 years or over, and that | 22 |
| within the past
60 days prior to the date of this election at | 23 |
| which I am applying to
vote, I have been engaged in the .... | 24 |
| (military or naval) service of the
United States; and I am | 25 |
| qualified to vote under and by virtue of the
Constitution and | 26 |
| laws of the State of Illinois, and that I am a legally
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| qualified voter of this precinct and ward except that I have, | 2 |
| because of
such service, been unable to register as a voter; | 3 |
| that I now reside at
.... (insert street and number, if any) in | 4 |
| this precinct and ward; that I
have maintained a legal | 5 |
| residence in this precinct and ward for 30 days
and in this | 6 |
| State 30 days next preceding this election.
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| Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
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| Judge of Election.
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| The affidavit of any such person shall be supported by the | 12 |
| affidavit
of a resident and qualified voter of any such | 13 |
| precinct and ward, which
affidavit shall be in substantially | 14 |
| the following form:
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| State of Illinois,)
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| County of ........)
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| ........... Precinct ........... Ward
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| I, ...., do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I am a | 20 |
| resident of this
precinct and ward and entitled to vote at this | 21 |
| election; that I am
acquainted with .... (name of the | 22 |
| applicant); that I verily believe him
to be an actual bona fide | 23 |
| resident of this precinct and ward and that I
verily believe | 24 |
| that he or she has maintained a legal residence therein 30 days
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| and in this State 30 days next preceding this election.
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| Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
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| Judge of Election.
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| All affidavits made under the provisions of this Section | 6 |
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enclosed in a separate envelope securely sealed, and | 7 |
| shall be
transmitted with the returns of the elections to the | 8 |
| county clerk or to
the board of election commissioners, who | 9 |
| shall preserve the said
affidavits for the period of 6 months, | 10 |
| during which period such
affidavits shall be deemed public | 11 |
| records and shall be freely open to
examination as such.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 94-1000, eff. 7-3-06.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/18-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 18-5) | 14 |
| Sec. 18-5. Any person desiring to vote and whose name is | 15 |
| found upon
the register of voters by the person having charge | 16 |
| thereof, (i) present to the judges of election for verification | 17 |
| of the person's identity his or her Illinois driver's license, | 18 |
| his or her non-driver identification card issued by the | 19 |
| Illinois Secretary of State, his or her voter identification | 20 |
| card, or another government-issued identification document | 21 |
| containing his or her photograph, (ii) shall then
be questioned | 22 |
| by one of the judges as to his nativity, his term of
residence | 23 |
| at present address, precinct, State and United States, his
age, | 24 |
| whether naturalized and if so the date of naturalization papers |
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court from which secured, and he shall be asked to state | 2 |
| his residence
when last previously registered and the date of | 3 |
| the election for which
he then registered. The judges of | 4 |
| elections shall check each application
for ballot against the | 5 |
| list of voters registered in that precinct to whom
grace | 6 |
| period, absentee, and early ballots have been issued for that | 7 |
| election, which shall
be provided
by the election authority and | 8 |
| which list shall be available for inspection
by pollwatchers. A | 9 |
| voter applying to vote in
the precinct on
election day whose | 10 |
| name appears on the list as having been issued a grace period, | 11 |
| absentee,
or early ballot shall not be permitted to vote in the | 12 |
| precinct, except that a voter to whom an absentee ballot was | 13 |
| issued may vote in the precinct if the voter submits to the | 14 |
| election judges that absentee ballot for cancellation. If the | 15 |
| voter is unable to submit the absentee ballot, it shall be | 16 |
| sufficient for the voter to submit to the election judges (i) a | 17 |
| portion of the absentee ballot if the absentee ballot was torn | 18 |
| or mutilated or (ii) an affidavit executed before the election | 19 |
| judges specifying that (A) the voter never received an absentee | 20 |
| ballot or (B) the voter completed and returned an absentee | 21 |
| ballot and was informed that the election authority did not | 22 |
| receive that absentee ballot.
If such person
so registered | 23 |
| shall be challenged as disqualified, the party challenging
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| shall assign his reasons therefor, and thereupon one of the | 25 |
| judges shall
administer to him an oath to answer questions, and | 26 |
| if he shall take the
oath he shall then be questioned by the |
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| judge or judges touching such cause
of challenge, and touching | 2 |
| any other cause of disqualification. And he may
also be | 3 |
| questioned by the person challenging him in regard to his
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| qualifications and identity. But if a majority of the judges | 5 |
| are of the
opinion that he is the person so registered and a | 6 |
| qualified voter, his vote
shall then be received accordingly. | 7 |
| But if his vote be rejected by such
judges, such person may | 8 |
| afterward produce and deliver an affidavit to such
judges, | 9 |
| subscribed and sworn to by him before one of the judges, in | 10 |
| which
it shall be stated how long he has resided in such | 11 |
| precinct, and state;
that he is a citizen of the United States, | 12 |
| and is a duly qualified voter in
such precinct, and that he is | 13 |
| the identical person so registered.
In addition to such an | 14 |
| affidavit, the person so challenged shall provide
to the judges | 15 |
| of election proof of residence by producing 2 forms of
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| identification showing the person's current residence address, | 17 |
| provided
that such identification to the person at his current | 18 |
| residence address and
postmarked not earlier than 30 days prior | 19 |
| to the date of the
election, or the person shall procure a | 20 |
| witness personally known to the
judges of election, and | 21 |
| resident in the precinct (or district), or who
shall be proved | 22 |
| by some legal voter of such precinct or district, known to
the | 23 |
| judges to be such, who shall take the oath following, viz:
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| I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a resident of | 25 |
| this election
precinct (or district), and entitled to vote at | 26 |
| this election, and that I
have been a resident of this State |
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| for 30 days last past, and am well
acquainted with the person | 2 |
| whose vote is now offered; that he is an actual
and bona fide | 3 |
| resident of this election precinct (or district), and has
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| resided herein 30 days, and as I verily believe, in this State, | 5 |
| 30 days
next preceding this election.
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| The oath in each case may be administered by one of the | 7 |
| judges of
election, or by any officer, resident in the precinct | 8 |
| or district,
authorized by law to administer oaths. Also | 9 |
| supported by an affidavit by a
registered voter residing in | 10 |
| such precinct, stating his own residence, and
that he knows | 11 |
| such person; and that he does reside at the place mentioned
and | 12 |
| has resided in such precinct and state for the length of time | 13 |
| as stated
by such person, which shall be subscribed and sworn | 14 |
| to in the same way.
Whereupon the vote of such person shall be | 15 |
| received, and entered as other
votes. But such judges, having | 16 |
| charge of such registers, shall state in
their respective books | 17 |
| the facts in such case, and the affidavits, so
delivered to the | 18 |
| judges, shall be preserved and returned to the office of
the | 19 |
| commissioners of election. Blank affidavits of the character | 20 |
| aforesaid
shall be sent out to the judges of all the precincts, | 21 |
| and the judges of
election shall furnish the same on demand and | 22 |
| administer the oaths without
criticism. Such oaths, if | 23 |
| administered by any other officer than such judge
of election, | 24 |
| shall not be received. Whenever a proposal for a
constitutional | 25 |
| amendment or for the calling of a constitutional convention
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| to be voted upon at the election, the separate blue ballot or |
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| ballots
pertaining thereto shall be placed on top of the other | 2 |
| ballots to be voted
at the election in such manner that the | 3 |
| legend appearing on the back
thereof, as prescribed in Section | 4 |
| 16-6 of this Act, shall be plainly
visible to the voter, and in | 5 |
| this fashion the ballots shall be handed to
the voter by the | 6 |
| judge.
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| The voter shall, upon quitting the voting booth, deliver to | 8 |
| one of
the judges of election all of the ballots, properly | 9 |
| folded, which he
received. The judge of election to whom the | 10 |
| voter delivers his ballots
shall not accept the same unless all | 11 |
| of the ballots given to the voter
are returned by him. If a | 12 |
| voter delivers less than all of the ballots
given to him, the | 13 |
| judge to whom the same are offered shall advise him in
a voice | 14 |
| clearly audible to the other judges of election that the voter
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| must return the remainder of the ballots. The statement of the | 16 |
| judge to
the voter shall clearly express the fact that the | 17 |
| voter is not required
to vote such remaining ballots but that | 18 |
| whether or not he votes them he
must fold and deliver them to | 19 |
| the judge. In making such statement the
judge of election shall | 20 |
| not indicate by word, gesture or intonation of
voice that the | 21 |
| unreturned ballots shall be voted in any particular
manner. No | 22 |
| new voter shall be permitted to enter the voting booth of a
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| voter who has failed to deliver the total number of ballots | 24 |
| received by
him until such voter has returned to the voting | 25 |
| booth pursuant to the
judge's request and again quit the booth | 26 |
| with all of the ballots
required to be returned by him. Upon |
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| receipt of all such ballots the
judges of election shall enter | 2 |
| the name of the voter, and his number, as
above provided in | 3 |
| this Section, and the judge to whom the ballots are
delivered | 4 |
| shall immediately put the ballots into the ballot box. If any
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| voter who has failed to deliver all the ballots received by him | 6 |
| refuses
to return to the voting booth after being advised by | 7 |
| the judge of
election as herein provided, the judge shall | 8 |
| inform the other judges of
such refusal, and thereupon the | 9 |
| ballot or ballots returned to the judge
shall be deposited in | 10 |
| the ballot box, the voter shall be permitted to
depart from the | 11 |
| polling place, and a new voter shall be permitted to
enter the | 12 |
| voting booth.
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| The judge of election who receives the ballot or ballots | 14 |
| from the
voter shall announce the residence and name of such | 15 |
| voter in a loud
voice. The judge shall put the ballot or | 16 |
| ballots received from the voter
into the ballot box in the | 17 |
| presence of the voter and the judges of
election, and in plain | 18 |
| view of the public. The judges having charge of
such registers | 19 |
| shall then, in a column prepared thereon, in the same
line of, | 20 |
| the name of the voter, mark "Voted" or the letter "V".
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| No judge of election shall accept from any voter less than | 22 |
| the full
number of ballots received by such voter without first | 23 |
| advising the
voter in the manner above provided of the | 24 |
| necessity of returning all of
the ballots, nor shall any such | 25 |
| judge advise such voter in a manner
contrary to that which is | 26 |
| herein permitted, or in any other manner
violate the provisions |
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| of this Section; provided, that the acceptance by
a judge of | 2 |
| election of less than the full number of ballots delivered to
a | 3 |
| voter who refuses to return to the voting booth after being | 4 |
| properly
advised by such judge shall not be a violation of this | 5 |
| Section.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 94-1000, eff. 7-3-06.)
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| Sec. 18A-5. Provisional voting; general provisions.
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| (a) A person who claims to be a registered voter is | 10 |
| entitled to cast a
provisional ballot under the following | 11 |
| circumstances:
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| (1) The person's name does not appear on the official | 13 |
| list of eligible
voters for the precinct in which
the | 14 |
| person seeks to vote. The official list is the centralized | 15 |
| statewide voter registration list established and | 16 |
| maintained in accordance with Section 1A-25;
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| (2) The person's voting status has been challenged by | 18 |
| an election judge, a
pollwatcher, or any legal voter and | 19 |
| that challenge has been sustained by a
majority of the | 20 |
| election judges;
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| (3) A federal or State court order extends the time for | 22 |
| closing the polls
beyond the time period established by | 23 |
| State law and the person votes during the
extended time | 24 |
| period; or
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| (4) The voter registered to vote by mail and is |
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| required by law to
present identification when voting | 2 |
| either in person or , in the case of a voter who registered | 3 |
| by mail, when voting by absentee ballot, but
fails to do | 4 |
| so.
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| (b) The procedure for obtaining and casting a provisional | 6 |
| ballot at the
polling place
shall be as follows:
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| (1) After first verifying through an examination of the | 8 |
| precinct register that the person's address is within the | 9 |
| precinct boundaries, an election judge at the polling place | 10 |
| shall notify a person who is
entitled to cast a provisional | 11 |
| ballot pursuant to subsection (a)
that he or she may cast a | 12 |
| provisional ballot in that election.
An election judge
must | 13 |
| accept any information provided by a person who casts a | 14 |
| provisional ballot
that the person believes supports his or | 15 |
| her claim that he or she is a duly
registered voter and | 16 |
| qualified to vote in the election. However, if the person's | 17 |
| residence address is outside the precinct boundaries, the | 18 |
| election judge shall inform the person of that fact, give | 19 |
| the person the appropriate telephone number of the election | 20 |
| authority in order to locate the polling place assigned to | 21 |
| serve that address, and instruct the person to go to the | 22 |
| proper polling place to vote.
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| (2) The person shall execute a written form provided by | 24 |
| the
election judge that shall state or contain all of the | 25 |
| following that is available:
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| (i) an affidavit stating the following:
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| State of Illinois, County of ................, | 2 |
| Township
.............,
Precinct ........, Ward | 3 |
| ........, I, ......................., do solemnly
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| swear (or affirm) that: I am a citizen of the United | 5 |
| States; I am 18 years of
age or older; I have resided | 6 |
| in this State and in this precinct for 30 days
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| preceding this election; I have not voted in this | 8 |
| election; I am a duly
registered voter in every | 9 |
| respect; and I am eligible to vote in this election.
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| Signature ...... Printed Name of Voter ....... Printed | 11 |
| Residence
Address of Voter ...... City
...... State | 12 |
| .... Zip Code ..... Telephone Number ...... Date of | 13 |
| Birth .......
and Illinois Driver's License Number | 14 |
| ....... or Last 4 digits of Social
Security
Number | 15 |
| ...... or State Identification Card
Number issued to | 16 |
| you by the Illinois Secretary of State........
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| (ii) A box for the election judge to check one of the 3 | 18 |
| reasons why the
person was given a provisional ballot under | 19 |
| subsection (a) of Section 18A-5.
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| (iii) An area for the election judge to affix his or | 21 |
| her signature and to
set forth any facts that support or | 22 |
| oppose the allegation that the person is
not qualified to | 23 |
| vote in the precinct in which the person is seeking to | 24 |
| vote.
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| The written affidavit form described in this subsection | 26 |
| (b)(2) must be
printed on a multi-part form prescribed by the |
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| county clerk or board of
election commissioners, as the case | 2 |
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| (3) After the person executes the portion of the written | 4 |
| affidavit described
in subsection (b)(2)(i) of this Section, | 5 |
| the election judge shall complete the
portion of the written | 6 |
| affidavit described in subsection (b)(2)(iii) and
(b)(2)(iv).
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| (4) The election judge shall give a copy of the completed | 8 |
| written affidavit
to the person. The election judge shall place | 9 |
| the original written affidavit in
a self-adhesive clear plastic | 10 |
| packing list envelope that must be attached to a
separate | 11 |
| envelope marked as a "provisional ballot envelope". The | 12 |
| election judge
shall also place any information provided by the | 13 |
| person who casts a provisional
ballot in the clear plastic | 14 |
| packing list envelope. Each county clerk or board
of election | 15 |
| commissioners, as the case may be,
must design, obtain or | 16 |
| procure self-adhesive clear plastic packing list
envelopes and | 17 |
| provisional ballot envelopes that are suitable for | 18 |
| implementing
this subsection (b)(4) of this Section.
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| (5) The election judge shall provide the person with a | 20 |
| provisional ballot,
written instructions for casting a | 21 |
| provisional ballot, and the provisional
ballot envelope with | 22 |
| the clear plastic packing list envelope affixed to it,
which | 23 |
| contains the person's original written affidavit and, if any, | 24 |
| information
provided by the provisional voter to support his or | 25 |
| her claim that he or she is
a duly registered voter. An | 26 |
| election judge must also give the person written
information |
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| shall be
able to ascertain, pursuant to guidelines established | 3 |
| by the State Board of
Elections, whether the provisional vote | 4 |
| was counted in the official canvass of
votes for that election | 5 |
| and, if the provisional vote was not counted, the
reason that | 6 |
| the vote was not counted.
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| (6) After the person has completed marking his or her | 8 |
| provisional ballot, he
or she shall place the marked ballot | 9 |
| inside of the provisional ballot envelope,
close and seal the | 10 |
| envelope, and return the envelope to an election judge, who
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| shall then deposit the sealed provisional ballot envelope into | 12 |
| a securable
container separately identified and utilized for | 13 |
| containing sealed provisional
ballot envelopes. Ballots that | 14 |
| are provisional because they are cast after 7:00 p.m. by court
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| order shall be kept separate from other provisional ballots. | 16 |
| Upon the closing of the polls, the securable container shall
be
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| sealed with filament tape provided for that purpose, which | 18 |
| shall be wrapped
around the box lengthwise and crosswise, at | 19 |
| least twice each way, and each of
the election judges shall | 20 |
| sign the seal.
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| (c) Instead of the affidavit form described in subsection | 22 |
| (b), the county
clerk or board of election commissioners, as | 23 |
| the case may be, may design and
use a multi-part affidavit form | 24 |
| that is imprinted upon or attached to the
provisional ballot | 25 |
| envelope described in subsection (b). If a county clerk or
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| board of election commissioners elects to design and use its |
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| own multi-part
affidavit form, then the county clerk or board | 2 |
| of election commissioners shall
establish a mechanism for | 3 |
| accepting any information the provisional voter has
supplied to | 4 |
| the election judge to support his or her claim that he or she | 5 |
| is a
duly registered voter. In all other respects, a county | 6 |
| clerk or board of
election commissioners shall establish | 7 |
| procedures consistent with subsection
(b).
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| (d) The county clerk or board of election commissioners, as | 9 |
| the case may be,
shall use the completed affidavit form | 10 |
| described in subsection (b) to update
the person's voter | 11 |
| registration information in the State voter registration
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| database and voter registration database of the county clerk or | 13 |
| board of
election commissioners, as the case may be. If a | 14 |
| person is later determined not
to be a registered voter based | 15 |
| on Section 18A-15 of this Code, then the
affidavit shall be | 16 |
| processed by the county clerk or board of election
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| commissioners, as the case may be, as a voter registration | 18 |
| application.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 93-1071, eff. 1-18-05; | 20 |
| 94-645, eff. 8-22-05.)
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