(10 ILCS 5/24-18) (from Ch. 46, par. 24-18)
Sec. 24-18.
A voting machine which passes all of the qualities
required by this Article may be supplied, in addition, with any
recording or photographic device on which the votes registered on the
mechanical counters will be separately recorded or photographed. When a
machine is supplied with a recording device which automatically
registers the votes cast for candidates, questions or propositions, on
separate recording sheets one copy shall be removed at the close of the
polls to record the vote cast for each candidate, question or
proposition and the other recording device shall not be taken out or
examined by the election officers who make returns from the precinct,
but such machine shall be locked with such device therein and so remain
until the record made by such photographic or other device is removed
and prepared for examination by the official canvassing board having
charge of canvassing the returns of such election or primary, and the
official canvassing board shall compare the totals as shown on the
official return sheets with the totals as shown on the photographic or
other device, and see that both such totals are the same. In case such
totals are found not to be the same, such canvassing board shall summon
the precinct election board which made the returns and together these
two official bodies shall make the necessary investigation to ascertain
the true facts and shall then correct the official return sheets as
necessary. The record provided by such photographic or other device
shall be filed along with the official return sheets by the officials
now charged by law with filing and preserving the official return
sheets, and shall be kept so filed for the same length of time as the
law now provides for the filing and preservations of the official return
sheets.
(Source: P.A. 80-1031.)
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