(10 ILCS 5/4-15) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-15)
Sec. 4-15.
Within 5 days after a person registers or transfers his
registration with the office of the election authority, such election authority shall send by
mail, and by electronic mail if the registrant has provided the election authority with an e-mail address, a certificate to such person setting forth the elector's name and
address as it appears upon the registration record card, and shall request
him in case of any error to present the certificate on or before the 7th
day next ensuing at the office of the election authority in order to secure
correction of the error. The certificate shall contain on the outside a
request for the postmaster to return it within 5 days if it cannot be
delivered to the addressee at the address given thereon. Upon the return by
the post office of a certificate which it has been unable to deliver at the
given address because the addressee cannot be found there or because no
such address exists, a notice shall be at once sent through the United
States mail to such person at the address appearing upon his registration
record card requiring him to appear before the election authority, within 5 days,
to answer questions touching his right to register. If the person notified
fails to appear at the election authority's office within 5 days as directed or
if he appears and fails to prove his right to register, the election authority
shall mark his registration card as incomplete and he shall not be
permitted to vote until his registration is satisfactorily completed.
If an elector possesses such a certificate valid on its face, if his
name does not expressly appear to have been erased or withdrawn from the
precinct list as corrected and revised as provided by Section 4-11 of this
Article, if he makes an affidavit and attaches such certificate thereto,
and if such affidavit substantially in the form prescribed in Section 17-10
of this Act is sworn to before a judge of election on suitable forms
provided by the election authority for that purpose, such elector shall be
permitted to vote even though his duplicate registration card is not to be
found in the precinct binder and even though his name is not to be found
upon the printed or any other list.
(Source: P.A. 98-115, eff. 10-1-13.)
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