(55 ILCS 5/1-5010) (from Ch. 34, par. 1-5010)
Sec. 1-5010.
Challengers.
Whenever the court shall order any county
seat election under the provisions of this Division, the court shall
appoint three resident legal voters of the point to which it is proposed to
remove the county seat, for each and every voting place in the city,
precinct or township in which the county seat is situated, also to appoint
three resident legal voters of the county seat for each and every voting
place in the city, precinct or township to which it is proposed to remove
the county seat, to sit with the regular judges to act as challengers of
election at the voting places to which they are respectively assigned, and
it shall be their duty to act as such challengers and to challenge any and
all persons whom they have good reason to believe are not legal voters at
such county seat election, and they shall sit with such judges of election
until the close of said election, and during the canvass of the votes at
said election. The said challengers, who are thus appointed to act with the
regular judges of election, may, if they desire so to do, make an affidavit
before any person authorized to administer oaths, setting forth in such
affidavit that they have been appointed, as above provided, out of the
city, precinct, township or ward where they would otherwise be voters, and
that they desire to vote at such county seat election; which affidavit,
together with the ballot, shall be sealed up in an envelope and left with
one of the judges of election for the precinct, and on the day of election
shall be by him presented to the board of election and opened in their
presence. The affidavit shall be filed, kept and returned with the ballots
for that precinct as other affidavits are, and the ballot shall be numbered
and deposited in the ballot box, and the name entered on the poll books the
same as other votes are.
(Source: P.A. 86-962.)
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