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10 ILCS 5/29-5

(10 ILCS 5/29-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 29-5)

Sec. 29-5. Voting more than once.

Any person who, having voted once, knowingly during any election 
where the ballot or machine lists any of the same candidates and issues
listed on the ballot or machine previously used for voting by that person,
(a) files an application to vote in the same or another polling place, or
(b) accepts a ballot or enters a voting machine (except to legally give
assistance pursuant to the provisions of this Code), shall be guilty of a
Class 3 felony; however, if a person has delivered a ballot or ballots to
an election authority as a vote by mail voter and due to a change of
circumstances is able to and does vote in the precinct of his residence on
election day, shall not be deemed to be in violation of this Code.

(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15; 99-522, eff. 6-30-16.)