State of Illinois
90th General Assembly
Legislation

   [ Search ]   [ Legislation ]   [ Bill Summary ]
[ Home ]   [ Back ]   [ Bottom ]


[ Introduced ][ House Amendment 002 ]

90_HB2814ham001

                                             LRB9009129MWksam
 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2814
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 2814  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT to amend the Election Code."; and
 5    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 6    following:
 7        "Section 5.  The Election Code  is  amended  by  changing
 8    Sections  7-47,  7-47.1, 17-12, 17-13, 18-5 and 18-5.1 and by
 9    adding Sections 19-1.1 and 20-1.1 as follows:
10        (10 ILCS 5/7-47) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-47)
11        Sec. 7-47. Folding  and  delivery  of  ballot;  entry  in
12    primary  pollbook.     Before  leaving the booth, the primary
13    elector shall fold his primary ballot in such  manner  as  to
14    conceal the marks thereon.  The Such voter shall then vote by
15    depositing  the  forthwith  by  handing the primary judge the
16    primary ballot received by such voter. Thereupon the  primary
17    judge  shall  deposit  such primary ballot in the ballot box.
18    The primary judge may observe the voter while the  ballot  is
19    deposited  in  the  ballot  box.   One  of  the  judges shall
20    thereupon enter in the primary poll  book  the  name  of  the
21    primary  elector,  his residence and his party affiliation or
                            -2-              LRB9009129MWksam
 1    shall make  the  entries  on  the  official  poll  record  as
 2    required  by  articles  4,  5  and  6,  if any one of them is
 3    applicable.
 4        Where voting machines or electronic  voting  systems  are
 5    used,  the  provisions  of  this  Section  may be modified as
 6    required  or  authorized  by  Article  24  or  Article   24A,
 7    whichever is applicable.
 8    (Source: Laws 1965, p. 2220.)
 9        (10 ILCS 5/7-47.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-47.1)
10        Sec.  7-47.1.   (a)  In  the  case  of  an  emergency, as
11    determined by the State Board of Elections, or if  the  Board
12    determines  that  all  potential  polling  places  have  been
13    surveyed  by  the  election  authority and that no accessible
14    polling place, as defined by  rule  of  the  State  Board  of
15    Elections, is available within a precinct nor is the election
16    authority  able  to  make a polling place within the precinct
17    temporarily accessible, the Board, upon  written  application
18    by   the  election  authority,  is  authorized  to  grant  an
19    exemption from the accessibility requirements of the  Federal
20    Voting  Accessibility  for  the  Elderly  and Handicapped Act
21    (Public Law 98-435).  Such exemption shall  be  valid  for  a
22    period of 2 years.
23        (b)  Any  temporarily  or permanently physically disabled
24    voter who, because of structural features of the building  in
25    which  the  polling  place is located, is unable to access or
26    enter the  polling  place,  may  request  that  2  judges  of
27    election  of  opposite  party affiliation deliver a ballot to
28    him or her at the point where he or she is unable to continue
29    forward motion toward the polling place;  but,  in  no  case,
30    shall  a  ballot  be delivered to the voter beyond 50 feet of
31    the entrance to the building in which the  polling  place  is
32    located.    Such  request  shall  be  made  to  the  election
33    authority not  later  than  the  close  of  business  at  the
                            -3-              LRB9009129MWksam
 1    election  authority's  office  on the day before the election
 2    and on a form prescribed by the  State  Board  of  Elections.
 3    The  election  authority  shall notify the judges of election
 4    for the appropriate precinct polling places of such requests.
 5        Weather permitting, 2 judges of election shall deliver to
 6    the disabled voter the ballot which he or she is entitled  to
 7    vote,  a  portable  voting booth or other enclosure that will
 8    allow such voter to mark his or her ballot in secrecy, and  a
 9    marking device.
10        (c)  The  voter  must complete the entire voting process,
11    including the application for ballot from which the judges of
12    election  shall  compare  the  voter's  signature  with   the
13    signature  on  his  or  her  registration  record card in the
14    precinct binder.
15        After the voter has marked his or her ballot  and  placed
16    it  in  the  ballot  envelope  (or  folded  it  in the manner
17    prescribed for paper ballots), the 2 judges of election shall
18    return the ballot to the polling place and  give  it  to  the
19    judge  in  charge  of  the  ballot  box  who shall deposit it
20    therein.
21        Pollwatchers as provided in Sections 7-34  and  17-23  of
22    this  Code  shall  be  permitted  to accompany the judges and
23    observe the above procedure.
24        No assistance may be given to such voter in  marking  his
25    or  her  ballot,  unless  the  voter  requests assistance and
26    completes the affidavit required by  Section  17-14  of  this
27    Code.
28        The  provisions  of this amendatory Act of 1998 shall not
29    apply to this Section 7-47.1.
30    (Source: P.A. 84-808.)
31        (10 ILCS 5/17-12) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-12)
32        Sec. 17-12. Folding and  delivery  of  ballot;  entry  in
33    pollbook.   The ballot shall be folded by the voter and shown
                            -4-              LRB9009129MWksam
 1    delivered  to one of the judges of election; and if the judge
 2    be satisfied, that the person offering the vote  is  a  legal
 3    voter,  the  judges  of  election shall enter the name of the
 4    voter, and his number, under the proper heading in  the  poll
 5    books,  (except  as otherwise provided in Articles 4, 5 or 6)
 6    and the voter shall  immediately  put  the  ballot  into  the
 7    ballot box.  The judge may observe the voter while the ballot
 8    is deposited into the ballot box.
 9        The  voter  shall  in  like  manner  fold and show to the
10    judges deliver the separate blue ballot or ballots pertaining
11    to a proposal or proposals for constitutional  amendments  or
12    the  calling of a constitutional convention, if such proposal
13    or proposals have been submitted to a vote of the  people  at
14    such  election and shall also in like manner fold and show to
15    the  judges  deliver  the  separate   representative   ballot
16    provided  for  in  Article  8A in cases where that Article is
17    applicable. The judge of election to  whom  the  voter  shows
18    delivers  his ballots shall not accept the same unless all of
19    the ballots given to the voter are  returned  by  him.  If  a
20    voter  shows  the judge delivers less than all of the ballots
21    given to him, the judge to whom the same  are  offered  shall
22    advise  him in a voice clearly audible to the other judges of
23    election that the voter must  return  the  remainder  of  the
24    ballots.  The  statement  of  the  judge  to  the voter shall
25    clearly express the fact that the voter is  not  required  to
26    vote  such remaining ballots but that whether or not he votes
27    them he must fold and show deliver  them  to  the  judge.  In
28    making  such  statement  the  judge  of  election  shall  not
29    indicate  by  word,  gesture  or intonation of voice that the
30    unreturned ballots shall be voted in any  particular  manner.
31    No  new voter shall be permitted to enter the voting booth of
32    a voter who has failed to show the judge  deliver  the  total
33    number  of  ballots  received  by  him  until  such voter has
34    returned to the voting booth pursuant to the judge's  request
                            -5-              LRB9009129MWksam
 1    and  again quit the booth with all of the ballots required to
 2    be returned by him. Upon receipt  of  all  such  ballots  the
 3    judges of election shall enter the name of the voter, and his
 4    number,  as  above  provided  in  this Section, and the voter
 5    judge to whom the ballots are delivered shall immediately put
 6    the ballots into the ballot  box  but,  in  the  case  of  an
 7    election for Representatives in the General Assembly pursuant
 8    to  Article  8A,  the official representative ballot shall be
 9    placed in the separate ballot box provided for such  purpose.
10    If  any  voter  who has failed to show the judges deliver all
11    the ballots received by him refuses to return to  the  voting
12    booth  after being advised by the judge of election as herein
13    provided, the judge shall inform the  other  judges  of  such
14    refusal,  and  thereupon the ballot or ballots shown returned
15    to the judge shall be deposited in  the  ballot  box  by  the
16    voter,  the  voter  shall  be  permitted  to  depart from the
17    polling place, and a new voter shall be  permitted  to  enter
18    the voting booth.
19        No  judge  of  election  shall accept from any voter less
20    than the full  number  of  ballots  received  by  such  voter
21    without first advising the voter in the manner above provided
22    of  the  necessity of returning all of the ballots, nor shall
23    any judge advise such voter in  a  manner  contrary  to  that
24    which is herein permitted, or in any other manner violate the
25    provisions of this Section; provided that the acceptance by a
26    judge  of  election  of  less than the full number of ballots
27    delivered to a voter who refuses  to  return  to  the  voting
28    booth  after being properly advised by the judge shall not be
29    a violation of this Section.
30    (Source: Laws 1964, 1st S.S., p. 711.)
31        (10 ILCS 5/17-13) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-13)
32        Sec.  17-13.   (a)  In  the  case  of  an  emergency,  as
33    determined by the State Board of Elections, or if  the  Board
                            -6-              LRB9009129MWksam
 1    determines  that  all  potential  polling  places  have  been
 2    surveyed  by  the  election  authority and that no accessible
 3    polling place, as defined by  rule  of  the  State  Board  of
 4    Elections, is available within a precinct nor is the election
 5    authority  able  to  make a polling place within the precinct
 6    temporarily accessible, the Board, upon  written  application
 7    by   the  election  authority,  is  authorized  to  grant  an
 8    exemption from the accessibility requirements of the  Federal
 9    Voting  Accessibility  for  the  Elderly  and Handicapped Act
10    (Public Law 98-435).  Such exemption shall  be  valid  for  a
11    period of 2 years.
12        (b)  Any  temporarily  or permanently physically disabled
13    voter who, because of structural features of the building  in
14    which  the  polling  place is located, is unable to access or
15    enter the  polling  place,  may  request  that  2  judges  of
16    election  of  opposite  party affiliation deliver a ballot to
17    him or her at the point where he or she is unable to continue
18    forward motion toward the polling place;  but,  in  no  case,
19    shall  a  ballot  be delivered to the voter beyond 50 feet of
20    the entrance to the building in which the  polling  place  is
21    located.    Such  request  shall  be  made  to  the  election
22    authority not  later  than  the  close  of  business  at  the
23    election  authority's  office  on the day before the election
24    and on a form prescribed by the  State  Board  of  Elections.
25    The  election  authority  shall notify the judges of election
26    for the appropriate precinct polling places of such requests.
27        Weather permitting, 2 judges of election shall deliver to
28    the disabled voter the ballot which he or she is entitled  to
29    vote,  a  portable  voting booth or other enclosure that will
30    allow such voter to mark his or her ballot in secrecy, and  a
31    marking device.
32        (c)  The  voter  must complete the entire voting process,
33    including the application for ballot from which the judges of
34    election  shall  compare  the  voter's  signature  with   the
                            -7-              LRB9009129MWksam
 1    signature  on  his  or  her  registration  record card in the
 2    precinct binder.
 3        After the voter has marked his or her ballot  and  placed
 4    it  in  the  ballot  envelope  (or  folded  it  in the manner
 5    prescribed for paper ballots), the 2 judges of election shall
 6    return the ballot to the polling place and  give  it  to  the
 7    judge  in  charge  of  the  ballot  box  who shall deposit it
 8    therein.
 9        Pollwatchers as provided in Sections 7-34  and  17-23  of
10    this  Code  shall  be  permitted  to accompany the judges and
11    observe the above procedure.
12        No assistance may be given to such voter in  marking  his
13    or  her  ballot,  unless  the  voter  requests assistance and
14    completes the affidavit required by  Section  17-14  of  this
15    Code.
16        The  provisions  of this amendatory Act of 1998 shall not
17    apply to this Section 17-13.
18    (Source: P.A. 84-808.)
19        (10 ILCS 5/18-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 18-5)
20        Sec. 18-5.  Questioning of person desiring to vote; oath;
21    folding and delivery of ballot.   Any person desiring to vote
22    and whose name is found upon the register of  voters  by  the
23    person having charge thereof, shall then be questioned by one
24    of  the  judges  as to his nativity, his term of residence at
25    present address, precinct, State and United States, his  age,
26    whether  naturalized  and  if  so  the date of naturalization
27    papers and court from which secured, and he shall be asked to
28    state his residence when last previously registered  and  the
29    date of the election for which he then registered. The judges
30    of  elections shall check each application for ballot against
31    the list of  voters  registered  in  that  precinct  to  whom
32    absentee  ballots  have  been issued for that election, which
33    shall be provided by the election authority  and  which  list
                            -8-              LRB9009129MWksam
 1    shall  be  available  for inspection by pollwatchers. A voter
 2    applying to vote in the precinct on election day  whose  name
 3    appears  on the list as having been issued an absentee ballot
 4    shall not be permitted to vote in the  precinct  unless  that
 5    voter  submits to the judges of election, for cancellation or
 6    revocation, his  absentee  ballot.   In  the  case  that  the
 7    voter's  absentee ballot is not present in the polling place,
 8    it shall be sufficient for any such voter to  submit  to  the
 9    judges  of  election in lieu of his absentee ballot, either a
10    portion of such ballot if torn  or  mutilated,  an  affidavit
11    executed  before  the  judges of election specifying that the
12    voter never received an  absentee  ballot,  or  an  affidavit
13    executed  before  the  judges of election specifying that the
14    voter desires to cancel or revoke any  absentee  ballot  that
15    may  have  been  cast  in the voter's name. If such person so
16    registered shall be challenged  as  disqualified,  the  party
17    challenging  shall assign his reasons therefor, and thereupon
18    one of the judges shall administer to him an oath  to  answer
19    questions,  and  if  he  shall take the oath he shall then be
20    questioned by the judge or  judges  touching  such  cause  of
21    challenge,  and touching any other cause of disqualification.
22    And he may also be questioned by the person  challenging  him
23    in  regard  to  his  qualifications  and  identity.  But if a
24    majority of the judges are of the  opinion  that  he  is  the
25    person  so  registered  and a qualified voter, his vote shall
26    then be received accordingly. But if his vote be rejected  by
27    such judges, such person may afterward produce and deliver an
28    affidavit  to  such  judges,  subscribed  and sworn to by him
29    before one of the judges, in which it  shall  be  stated  how
30    long he has resided in such precinct, and state; that he is a
31    citizen  of  the United States, and is a duly qualified voter
32    in such precinct, and that he  is  the  identical  person  so
33    registered.  In  addition to such an affidavit, the person so
34    challenged shall provide to the judges of election  proof  of
                            -9-              LRB9009129MWksam
 1    residence  by producing 2 forms of identification showing the
 2    person's  current  residence  address,  provided  that   such
 3    identification to the person at his current residence address
 4    and  postmarked not earlier than 30 days prior to the date of
 5    the  election,  or  the  person  shall  procure   a   witness
 6    personally  known  to the judges of election, and resident in
 7    the precinct (or district), or who shall be  proved  by  some
 8    legal voter of such precinct or district, known to the judges
 9    to be such, who shall take the oath following, viz:
10        I  do  solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a resident of
11    this election precinct (or district), and entitled to vote at
12    this election, and that I have been a resident of this  State
13    for 30 days last past, and am well acquainted with the person
14    whose vote is now offered; that he is an actual and bona fide
15    resident  of  this  election  precinct (or district), and has
16    resided herein 30 days, and as  I  verily  believe,  in  this
17    State, 30 days next preceding this election.
18        The  oath  in each case may be administered by one of the
19    judges of election,  or  by  any  officer,  resident  in  the
20    precinct  or district, authorized by law to administer oaths.
21    Also supported by an affidavit by a registered voter residing
22    in such precinct, stating his  own  residence,  and  that  he
23    knows  such  person;  and  that  he  does reside at the place
24    mentioned and has resided in such precinct and state for  the
25    length  of  time  as  stated  by  such person, which shall be
26    subscribed and sworn to in the same way. Whereupon  the  vote
27    of such person shall be received, and entered as other votes.
28    But such judges, having charge of such registers, shall state
29    in  their  respective  books  the facts in such case, and the
30    affidavits, so delivered to the judges,  shall  be  preserved
31    and  returned to the office of the commissioners of election.
32    Blank affidavits of the character aforesaid shall be sent out
33    to the judges  of  all  the  precincts,  and  the  judges  of
34    election  shall furnish the same on demand and administer the
                            -10-             LRB9009129MWksam
 1    oaths without criticism. Such oaths, if administered  by  any
 2    other  officer  than  such  judge  of  election, shall not be
 3    received. Whenever a proposal for a constitutional  amendment
 4    or  for  the  calling of a constitutional convention is to be
 5    voted upon at the  election,  the  separate  blue  ballot  or
 6    ballots  pertaining  thereto  shall  be  placed on top of the
 7    other ballots to be voted at the election in such manner that
 8    the legend appearing on the back thereof,  as  prescribed  in
 9    Section  16-6  of  this  Act, shall be plainly visible to the
10    voter, and in this fashion the ballots shall be handed to the
11    voter by the judge.
12        The voter shall, upon quitting  the  voting  booth,  show
13    deliver  to one of the judges of election all of the ballots,
14    properly folded, which he received. The judge of election  to
15    whom  the  voter  shows delivers his ballots shall not accept
16    the same unless all of the ballots given  to  the  voter  are
17    returned  by  him.  If  a voter shows the judge delivers less
18    than all of the ballots given to him, the judge to  whom  the
19    same  are offered shall advise him in a voice clearly audible
20    to the other judges of election that the  voter  must  return
21    the  remainder  of the ballots. The statement of the judge to
22    the voter shall clearly express the fact that  the  voter  is
23    not  required to vote such remaining ballots but that whether
24    or not he votes them he must fold and show  deliver  them  to
25    the  judge.  In  making  such statement the judge of election
26    shall not indicate by word, gesture or  intonation  of  voice
27    that  the unreturned ballots shall be voted in any particular
28    manner. No new voter shall be permitted to enter  the  voting
29    booth of a voter who has failed to show the judge deliver the
30    total  number of ballots received by him until such voter has
31    returned to the voting booth pursuant to the judge's  request
32    and  again quit the booth with all of the ballots required to
33    be returned by him. Upon receipt  of  all  such  ballots  the
34    judges of election shall enter the name of the voter, and his
                            -11-             LRB9009129MWksam
 1    number,  as  above  provided  in  this Section, and the voter
 2    judge to whom the ballots are delivered shall immediately put
 3    the ballots into the ballot box. If any voter who has  failed
 4    to  return deliver all the ballots received by him refuses to
 5    return to the voting booth after being advised by  the  judge
 6    of  election  as  herein provided, the judge shall inform the
 7    other judges of such refusal, and  thereupon  the  ballot  or
 8    ballots shown returned to the judge shall be deposited in the
 9    ballot  box  by  the  voter,  the voter shall be permitted to
10    depart from the polling place,  and  a  new  voter  shall  be
11    permitted to enter the voting booth.
12        The  judge of election who receives the ballot or ballots
13    from the voter shall announce the residence and name of  such
14    voter  in  a loud voice. The voter judge shall put the ballot
15    or ballots received from the voter into the ballot box in the
16    presence of the voter and the  judges  of  election,  and  in
17    plain  view  of  the public. The judges having charge of such
18    registers shall then, in a column prepared  thereon,  in  the
19    same  line  of,  the  name  of the voter, mark "Voted" or the
20    letter "V".
21        No judge of election shall accept  from  any  voter  less
22    than  the  full  number  of  ballots  received  by such voter
23    without first advising the voter in the manner above provided
24    of the necessity of returning all of the ballots,  nor  shall
25    any such judge advise such voter in a manner contrary to that
26    which is herein permitted, or in any other manner violate the
27    provisions  of this Section; provided, that the acceptance by
28    a judge of election of less than the full number  of  ballots
29    delivered  to  a  voter  who  refuses to return to the voting
30    booth after being properly advised by such judge shall not be
31    a violation of this Section.
32    (Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
33        (10 ILCS 5/18-5.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 18-5.1)
                            -12-             LRB9009129MWksam
 1        Sec. 18-5.1.  The provisions of Section 17-13, insofar as
 2    they may be made applicable to disabled voters  in  elections
 3    under  the  jurisdiction of boards of election commissioners,
 4    shall be applicable herein.
 5        The provisions of this amendatory Act of 1998  shall  not
 6    apply to this Section 18-5.1.
 7    (Source: P.A. 84-808.)
 8        (10 ILCS 5/19-1.1 new)
 9        Sec.  19-1.1.  Applicability.   The  provisions  of  this
10    amendatory Act of 1998 shall not apply to this Article 19.
11        (10 ILCS 5/20-1.1 new)
12        Sec.  20-1.1.  Applicability.   The  provisions  of  this
13    amendatory Act of 1998 shall not apply to this Article 20.".

[ Top ]