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90_SB0313
SEE INDEX
Amends the Election Code and other Acts to implement the
National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Effective
immediately.
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1 AN ACT in relation to voter registration, amending named
2 Acts.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Freedom of Information Act is amended by
6 changing Section 7 as follows:
7 (5 ILCS 140/7) (from Ch. 116, par. 207)
8 Sec. 7. Exemptions.
9 (1) The following shall be exempt from inspection and
10 copying:
11 (a) Information specifically prohibited from
12 disclosure by federal or State law or rules and
13 regulations adopted under federal or State law.
14 (b) Information that, if disclosed, would
15 constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal
16 privacy, unless the disclosure is consented to in writing
17 by the individual subjects of the information. The
18 disclosure of information that bears on the public duties
19 of public employees and officials shall not be considered
20 an invasion of personal privacy. Information exempted
21 under this subsection (b) shall include but is not
22 limited to:
23 (i) files and personal information maintained
24 with respect to clients, patients, residents,
25 students or other individuals receiving social,
26 medical, educational, vocational, financial,
27 supervisory or custodial care or services directly
28 or indirectly from federal agencies or public
29 bodies;
30 (ii) personnel files and personal information
31 maintained with respect to employees, appointees or
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1 elected officials of any public body or applicants
2 for those positions;
3 (iii) files and personal information
4 maintained with respect to any applicant, registrant
5 or licensee by any public body cooperating with or
6 engaged in professional or occupational
7 registration, licensure or discipline;
8 (iv) information required of any taxpayer in
9 connection with the assessment or collection of any
10 tax unless disclosure is otherwise required by State
11 statute; and
12 (v) information revealing the identity of
13 persons who file complaints with or provide
14 information to administrative, investigative, law
15 enforcement or penal agencies; provided, however,
16 that identification of witnesses to traffic
17 accidents, traffic accident reports, and rescue
18 reports may be provided by agencies of local
19 government, except in a case for which a criminal
20 investigation is ongoing, without constituting a
21 clearly unwarranted per se invasion of personal
22 privacy under this subsection.
23 (c) Records compiled by any public body for
24 administrative enforcement proceedings and any law
25 enforcement or correctional agency for law enforcement
26 purposes or for internal matters of a public body, but
27 only to the extent that disclosure would:
28 (i) interfere with pending or actually and
29 reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings
30 conducted by any law enforcement or correctional
31 agency;
32 (ii) interfere with pending administrative
33 enforcement proceedings conducted by any public
34 body;
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1 (iii) deprive a person of a fair trial or an
2 impartial hearing;
3 (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a
4 confidential source or confidential information
5 furnished only by the confidential source;
6 (v) disclose unique or specialized
7 investigative techniques other than those generally
8 used and known or disclose internal documents of
9 correctional agencies related to detection,
10 observation or investigation of incidents of crime
11 or misconduct;
12 (vi) constitute an invasion of personal
13 privacy under subsection (b) of this Section;
14 (vii) endanger the life or physical safety of
15 law enforcement personnel or any other person; or
16 (viii) obstruct an ongoing criminal
17 investigation.
18 (d) Criminal history record information maintained
19 by State or local criminal justice agencies, except the
20 following which shall be open for public inspection and
21 copying:
22 (i) chronologically maintained arrest
23 information, such as traditional arrest logs or
24 blotters;
25 (ii) the name of a person in the custody of a
26 law enforcement agency and the charges for which
27 that person is being held;
28 (iii) court records that are public;
29 (iv) records that are otherwise available
30 under State or local law; or
31 (v) records in which the requesting party is
32 the individual identified, except as provided under
33 part (vii) of paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of
34 this Section.
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1 "Criminal history record information" means data
2 identifiable to an individual and consisting of
3 descriptions or notations of arrests, detentions,
4 indictments, informations, pre-trial proceedings, trials,
5 or other formal events in the criminal justice system or
6 descriptions or notations of criminal charges (including
7 criminal violations of local municipal ordinances) and
8 the nature of any disposition arising therefrom,
9 including sentencing, court or correctional supervision,
10 rehabilitation and release. The term does not apply to
11 statistical records and reports in which individuals are
12 not identified and from which their identities are not
13 ascertainable, or to information that is for criminal
14 investigative or intelligence purposes.
15 (e) Records that relate to or affect the security
16 of correctional institutions and detention facilities.
17 (f) Preliminary drafts, notes, recommendations,
18 memoranda and other records in which opinions are
19 expressed, or policies or actions are formulated, except
20 that a specific record or relevant portion of a record
21 shall not be exempt when the record is publicly cited and
22 identified by the head of the public body. The exemption
23 provided in this paragraph (f) extends to all those
24 records of officers and agencies of the General Assembly
25 that pertain to the preparation of legislative documents.
26 (g) Trade secrets and commercial or financial
27 information obtained from a person or business where the
28 trade secrets or information are proprietary, privileged
29 or confidential, or where disclosure of the trade secrets
30 or information may cause competitive harm, including all
31 information determined to be confidential under Section
32 4002 of the Technology Advancement and Development Act.
33 Nothing contained in this paragraph (g) shall be
34 construed to prevent a person or business from consenting
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1 to disclosure.
2 (h) Proposals and bids for any contract, grant, or
3 agreement, including information which if it were
4 disclosed would frustrate procurement or give an
5 advantage to any person proposing to enter into a
6 contractor agreement with the body, until an award or
7 final selection is made. Information prepared by or for
8 the body in preparation of a bid solicitation shall be
9 exempt until an award or final selection is made.
10 (i) Valuable formulae, designs, drawings and
11 research data obtained or produced by any public body
12 when disclosure could reasonably be expected to produce
13 private gain or public loss.
14 (j) Test questions, scoring keys and other
15 examination data used to administer an academic
16 examination or determined the qualifications of an
17 applicant for a license or employment.
18 (k) Architects' plans and engineers' technical
19 submissions for projects not constructed or developed in
20 whole or in part with public funds and for projects
21 constructed or developed with public funds, to the extent
22 that disclosure would compromise security.
23 (l) Library circulation and order records
24 identifying library users with specific materials.
25 (m) Minutes of meetings of public bodies closed to
26 the public as provided in the Open Meetings Act until the
27 public body makes the minutes available to the public
28 under Section 2.06 of the Open Meetings Act.
29 (n) Communications between a public body and an
30 attorney or auditor representing the public body that
31 would not be subject to discovery in litigation, and
32 materials prepared or compiled by or for a public body in
33 anticipation of a criminal, civil or administrative
34 proceeding upon the request of an attorney advising the
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1 public body, and materials prepared or compiled with
2 respect to internal audits of public bodies.
3 (o) Information received by a primary or secondary
4 school, college or university under its procedures for
5 the evaluation of faculty members by their academic
6 peers.
7 (p) Administrative or technical information
8 associated with automated data processing operations,
9 including but not limited to software, operating
10 protocols, computer program abstracts, file layouts,
11 source listings, object modules, load modules, user
12 guides, documentation pertaining to all logical and
13 physical design of computerized systems, employee
14 manuals, and any other information that, if disclosed,
15 would jeopardize the security of the system or its data
16 or the security of materials exempt under this Section.
17 (q) Documents or materials relating to collective
18 negotiating matters between public bodies and their
19 employees or representatives, except that any final
20 contract or agreement shall be subject to inspection and
21 copying.
22 (r) Drafts, notes, recommendations and memoranda
23 pertaining to the financing and marketing transactions of
24 the public body. The records of ownership, registration,
25 transfer, and exchange of municipal debt obligations, and
26 of persons to whom payment with respect to these
27 obligations is made.
28 (s) The records, documents and information relating
29 to real estate purchase negotiations until those
30 negotiations have been completed or otherwise terminated.
31 With regard to a parcel involved in a pending or actually
32 and reasonably contemplated eminent domain proceeding
33 under Article VII of the Code of Civil Procedure,
34 records, documents and information relating to that
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1 parcel shall be exempt except as may be allowed under
2 discovery rules adopted by the Illinois Supreme Court.
3 The records, documents and information relating to a real
4 estate sale shall be exempt until a sale is consummated.
5 (t) Any and all proprietary information and records
6 related to the operation of an intergovernmental risk
7 management association or self-insurance pool or jointly
8 self-administered health and accident cooperative or
9 pool.
10 (u) Information concerning a university's
11 adjudication of student or employee grievance or
12 disciplinary cases, to the extent that disclosure would
13 reveal the identity of the student or employee and
14 information concerning any public body's adjudication of
15 student or employee grievances or disciplinary cases,
16 except for the final outcome of the cases.
17 (v) Course materials or research materials used by
18 faculty members.
19 (w) Information related solely to the internal
20 personnel rules and practices of a public body.
21 (x) Information contained in or related to
22 examination, operating, or condition reports prepared by,
23 on behalf of, or for the use of a public body responsible
24 for the regulation or supervision of financial
25 institutions or insurance companies, unless disclosure is
26 otherwise required by State law.
27 (y) Information the disclosure of which is
28 restricted under Section 5-108 of the Public Utilities
29 Act.
30 (z) Manuals or instruction to staff that relate to
31 establishment or collection of liability for any State
32 tax or that relate to investigations by a public body to
33 determine violation of any criminal law.
34 (aa) Applications, related documents, and medical
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1 records received by the Experimental Organ
2 Transplantation Procedures Board and any and all
3 documents or other records prepared by the Experimental
4 Organ Transplantation Procedures Board or its staff
5 relating to applications it has received.
6 (bb) Insurance or self insurance (including any
7 intergovernmental risk management association or self
8 insurance pool) claims, loss or risk management
9 information, records, data, advice or communications.
10 (cc) Information and records held by the Department
11 of Public Health and its authorized representatives
12 relating to known or suspected cases of sexually
13 transmissible disease or any information the disclosure
14 of which is restricted under the Illinois Sexually
15 Transmissible Disease Control Act.
16 (dd) Information the disclosure of which is
17 exempted under Section 7 of the Radon Mitigation Act.
18 (ee) Firm performance evaluations under Section 55
19 of the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying
20 Qualifications Based Selection Act.
21 (ff) Computer-stored images of the signatures of
22 registered voters, except as provided by law.
23 (2) This Section does not authorize withholding of
24 information or limit the availability of records to the
25 public, except as stated in this Section or otherwise
26 provided in this Act.
27 (Source: P.A. 87-241; 87-673; 87-895; 88-444.)
28 Section 10. The Election Code is amended by changing
29 Sections 1-3, 1A-9, 4-1, 4-5, 4-6.1, 4-6.2, 4-8, 4-8.01,
30 4-8.03, 4-9, 4-10, 4-13, 4-15, 4-16, 4-18, 4-20, 4-22, 4-24,
31 4-24.1, 4-27, 4-30, 5-1, 5-6, 5-7, 5-7.01, 5-7.03, 5-8, 5-9,
32 5-10, 5-11, 5-12, 5-13, 5-14, 5-16, 5-16.1, 5-16.2, 5-19,
33 5-20, 5-21, 5-22, 5-23, 5-25, 5-28, 5-29, 5-36, 5-37.1, 6-24,
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1 6-27, 6-28, 6-29, 6-35, 6-35.01, 6-35.03, 6-36, 6-37, 6-38,
2 6-39, 6-40, 6-41, 6-43, 6-45, 6-49, 6-50.1, 6-50.2, 6-52,
3 6-53, 6-54, 6-56, 6-57, 6-59, 6-60, 6-65, 6-66, 6A-4, 7-23,
4 7-43, 7-44, 7-45, 7-47, 7-47.1, 17-9, 17-10, 17-13, 18-1,
5 18-5, 18-15, 18-16, 20-13, and 20-13.1 and by adding Article
6 3A, and Sections 4-6.4, 4-20.1, 4-20.2, 5-16.4, 5-28.2,
7 5-28.3, 6-50.4, 6-65.1, and 6-65.2 as follows:
8 (10 ILCS 5/1-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 1-3)
9 Sec. 1-3. As used in this Act, unless the context
10 otherwise requires:
11 1. "Election" includes the submission of all questions
12 of public policy, propositions, and all measures submitted to
13 popular vote, and includes primary elections when so
14 indicated by the context.
15 2. "Regular election" means the general, general
16 primary, nonpartisan, consolidated and consolidated primary
17 elections regularly scheduled in Article 2A. The even
18 numbered year municipal primary established in Article 2A is
19 a regular election only with respect to those municipalities
20 in which a primary is required to be held on such date.
21 3. "Special election" means an election not regularly
22 recurring at fixed intervals, irrespective of whether it is
23 held at the same time and place and by the same election
24 officers as a regular election.
25 4. "General election" means the biennial election at
26 which members of the General Assembly are elected. "General
27 primary election", "nonpartisan election", "consolidated
28 election" and "consolidated primary election" mean the
29 respective elections or the election dates designated and
30 established in Article 2A of this Code.
31 5. "Municipal election" means an election or primary,
32 either regular or special, in cities, villages, and
33 incorporated towns; and "municipality" means any such city,
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1 village or incorporated town.
2 6. "Political or governmental subdivision" means any
3 unit of local government, or school district in which
4 elections are or may be held. "Political or governmental
5 subdivision" also includes, for election purposes, Regional
6 Boards of School Trustees, and Township Boards of School
7 Trustees.
8 7. The word "township" and the word "town" shall apply
9 interchangeably to the type of governmental organization
10 established in accordance with the provisions of the Township
11 Code. The term "incorporated town" shall mean a municipality
12 referred to as an incorporated town in the Illinois Municipal
13 Code, as now or hereafter amended.
14 8. "Election authority" means a county clerk or a Board
15 of Election Commissioners.
16 9. "Election Jurisdiction" means (a) an entire county,
17 in the case of a county in which no city board of election
18 commissioners is located or which is under the jurisdiction
19 of a county board of election commissioners; (b) the
20 territorial jurisdiction of a city board of election
21 commissioners; and (c) the territory in a county outside of
22 the jurisdiction of a city board of election commissioners.
23 In each instance election jurisdiction shall be determined
24 according to which election authority maintains the permanent
25 registration records of qualified electors.
26 10. "Local election official" means the clerk or
27 secretary of a unit of local government or school district,
28 as the case may be, the treasurer of a township board of
29 school trustees, and the regional superintendent of schools
30 with respect to the various school officer elections and
31 school referenda for which the regional superintendent is
32 assigned election duties by The School Code, as now or
33 hereafter amended.
34 11. "Judges of election", "primary judges" and similar
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1 terms, as applied to cases where there are 2 sets of judges,
2 when used in connection with duties at an election during the
3 hours the polls are open, refer to the team of judges of
4 election on duty during such hours; and, when used with
5 reference to duties after the closing of the polls, refer to
6 the team of tally judges designated to count the vote after
7 the closing of the polls and the holdover judges designated
8 pursuant to Section 13-6.2 or 14-5.2. In such case, where,
9 after the closing of the polls, any act is required to be
10 performed by each of the judges of election, it shall be
11 performed by each of the tally judges and by each of the
12 holdover judges.
13 12. "Petition" of candidacy as used in Sections 7-10 and
14 7-10.1 shall consist of a statement of candidacy, candidate's
15 statement containing oath, and sheets containing signatures
16 of qualified primary electors bound together.
17 13. "Election district" and "precinct", when used with
18 reference to a 30-day residence requirement, means the
19 smallest constituent territory in which electors vote as a
20 unit at the same polling place in any election governed by
21 this Act.
22 14. "District" means any area which votes as a unit for
23 the election of any officer, other than the State or a unit
24 of local government or school district, and includes, but is
25 not limited to, legislative, congressional and judicial
26 districts, judicial circuits, county board districts,
27 municipal and sanitary district wards, school board
28 districts, and precincts.
29 15. "Question of public policy" or "public question"
30 means any question, proposition or measure submitted to the
31 voters at an election dealing with subject matter other than
32 the nomination or election of candidates and shall include,
33 but is not limited to, any bond or tax referendum, and
34 questions relating to the Constitution.
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1 16. "Ordinance providing the form of government of a
2 municipality or county pursuant to Article VII of the
3 Constitution" includes ordinances, resolutions and petitions
4 adopted by referendum which provide for the form of
5 government, the officers or the manner of selection or terms
6 of office of officers of such municipality or county,
7 pursuant to the provisions of Sections 4, 6 or 7 of Article
8 VII of the Constitution.
9 17. "List" as used in Sections 4-11, 4-22, 5-14, 5-29,
10 6-60, and 6-66 shall include a computer tape or computer disc
11 or other electronic data processing information containing
12 voter information.
13 18. "Accessible" means accessible to handicapped and
14 elderly individuals for the purpose of voting or
15 registration, as determined by rule of the State Board of
16 Elections.
17 19. "Elderly" means 65 years of age or older.
18 20. "Handicapped" means having a temporary or permanent
19 physical disability.
20 21. "Leading political party" means one of the two
21 political parties whose candidates for governor at the most
22 recent three gubernatorial elections received either the
23 highest or second highest average number of votes. The
24 political party whose candidates for governor received the
25 highest average number of votes shall be known as the first
26 leading political party and the political party whose
27 candidates for governor received the second highest average
28 number of votes shall be known as the second leading
29 political party.
30 22. "Business day" means any day in which the office of
31 an election authority, local election official or the State
32 Board of Elections is open to the public for a minimum of 7
33 hours.
34 23. "Homeless individual" means any person who has a
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1 nontraditional residence, including but not limited to, a
2 shelter, day shelter, park bench, street corner, or space
3 under a bridge.
4 24. "Chief State Election Official" as specified in
5 Section 10 of Public Law 103-31 means the Executive Director
6 of the State Board of Elections who shall be responsible for
7 the coordination of State responsibilities pursuant to Public
8 Law 103-31.
9 (Source: P.A. 87-1241; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)
10 (10 ILCS 5/1A-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 1A-9)
11 Sec. 1A-9. The State Board of Elections shall appoint an
12 executive director and an assistant executive director. The
13 executive director shall be the "Chief State Election
14 Official" as provided for in paragraph 24 of Section 1-3.
15 Subject to the provisions of the "Personnel Code", the annual
16 compensation of the executive director and assistant
17 executive director shall be determined by the Board.
18 The executive director and assistant executive director
19 may be removed from office at any time by a vote of at least
20 5 members of the Board. Upon any such removal a vacancy is
21 created which shall be filled as provided for the initial
22 appointments.
23 The Board, upon the affirmative vote of a majority of its
24 members, may from time to time contract with technical
25 consultants to assist it in the performance of its duties.
26 Such technical consultants shall be compensated only under
27 contracts which specify the duties to be performed and the
28 compensation therefor. Except as otherwise provided in this
29 Section, contracts with technical consultants, other than
30 hearing officers and attorneys representing the Board in
31 litigation, shall terminate no more than 60 days after the
32 commencement of the specified duties and may be extended once
33 for a period of no more than 30 days upon the affirmative
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1 vote of a majority of the Board. The time limitations
2 imposed by this Section on contracts with technical
3 consultants shall not apply to a contract with a technical
4 consultant for the provision of electronic data processing
5 services in connection with the Board's performance of the
6 duties assigned to it pursuant to paragraph (11) of Section
7 1A-8 or in connection with the Board's performance of the
8 duties assigned to it pursuant to Sections 4-8, 5-7 and 6-35
9 concerning the furnishing of electronic data or compilations
10 containing voter registration information to state political
11 committees registered pursuant to the Illinois Campaign
12 Finance Act or the Federal Election Campaign Act. No
13 technical consultant, other than a hearing officer or an
14 attorney engaged to represent the Board in litigation, may be
15 compensated under more than one contract in any fiscal year.
16 (Source: P.A. 84-1026.)
17 (10 ILCS 5/ Art. 3A heading new)
18 Article 3A - Registration of Voters
19 (10 ILCS 5/3A-1 new)
20 Sec. 3A-1. Scope of Article. In addition to any other
21 method allowed by this Election Code, the following
22 procedures shall be used by all election authorities for the
23 registration of voters. The registration of any voter shall
24 not be canceled unless the cancellation is authorized by this
25 Article, and, where procedures for cancellation are
26 prescribed, by those procedures.
27 (10 ILCS 5/3A-2 new)
28 Sec. 3A-2. Meaning of voter registration. A voter is
29 registered to vote when he or she (i) has completed an
30 application to register as a voter and such application has
31 been accepted and acknowledged by the election authority
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1 having jurisdiction of the applicant's place of residence or
2 (ii) has completed a voter registration card in the presence
3 of a deputy registrar and has provided the required 2 forms
4 of identification. Voter registration constitutes a
5 rebuttable presumption that the applicant is qualified to
6 vote in all elections governed by the Illinois Election Code.
7 Once a voter is registered such presumption may be rebutted
8 by showing, according to the procedures set out in the
9 Election Code, that (I) the information supplied by the
10 applicant concerning his or her age, citizenship or Illinois
11 residence is not factually correct, either presently or at
12 the time the application was made, or (II) there exists a
13 civil disability, such as imprisonment for crime, which
14 renders voter registration ineffective as a matter of law.
15 (10 ILCS 5/3A-2.5 new)
16 Sec. 3A-2.5. Qualifications for registration. No person
17 shall be entitled to be registered in and from any precinct
18 unless such person shall by the date of the election next
19 following have resided in the State and within the precinct
20 30 days and be otherwise qualified to vote at such election.
21 Every applicant who shall be 18 years of age or over on the
22 day of the next election shall be permitted to register, if
23 otherwise qualified, and if he or she meets the residence
24 requirements of both Article 3 and this Article 3A.
25 (10 ILCS 5/3A-3 new)
26 Sec. 3A-3. Voter registration application form. The
27 State Board of Elections shall design and promulgate a voter
28 registration application consistent with the provisions of
29 this Section for use throughout the State. The Board shall
30 prescribe the contents, form and specifications, including
31 but not limited to the weight of paper, color and print of
32 such cards. Instructions necessary for completion of the
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1 forms shall be attached to those forms designed for mailing.
2 Each election authority in the State shall make the voter
3 registration application available for use by all Illinois
4 residents within the territory of the election authority,
5 including those Illinois residents transient and temporarily
6 or permanently resident within the territory.
7 The voter registration application shall require only
8 such identifying information and other information as is
9 necessary to enable the election authority to assess the
10 eligibility of the applicant and to administer voter
11 registration and other parts of the election process. The
12 voter registration application shall include the following
13 information:
14 Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and
15 first name in full, and the middle name or the initial, if
16 any.
17 Sex.
18 Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or
19 other location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit
20 or room number, if any, and in the case of a mobile home, the
21 lot number, and such additional clear and definite
22 description as may be necessary to determine the exact
23 location of the dwelling of the applicant. Where the
24 location cannot be determined by street and number, then the
25 section, congressional township and range number may be used,
26 or such other description as may be necessary, including
27 post-office mailing address. In the case of a homeless
28 individual, the individual's voting residence that is his or
29 her mailing address shall be included on his or her voter
30 registration application.
31 Date of application for registration, i.e., the day,
32 month and year when applicant signed the registration
33 application card.
34 Date of birth, by month, day and year.
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1 The last 4 digits of the social security number shall be
2 required. However, space shall be provided for the full
3 social security number which, if provided, shall not be
4 disclosed to the general public or, unless warranted, to
5 persons other than the election authority or State election
6 officials.
7 The full address including county and state in which the
8 applicant was last registered.
9 The voter registration application shall include a
10 statement that (1) specifies each eligibility requirement
11 (including citizenship); (2) contains an attestation that the
12 applicant meets each such requirement; and (3) requires the
13 signature of the applicant, under penalty of perjury. This
14 signature shall be made in black or blue ink. In case the
15 applicant is unable to sign his or her name, he or she may
16 affix his or her mark to the affidavit. Notarization or
17 other formal authentication of the applicant's signature
18 shall not be required.
19 Space shall also be provided for the applicant's complete
20 telephone number.
21 Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit
22 in substantially the following form:
23 AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
24 STATE OF ILLINOIS
25 COUNTY OF
26 I swear or affirm that
27 * I am a citizen of the United States of America.
28 * I will be at least 18 years old on or before the next
29 election.
30 * I will have lived in the State of Illinois and in my
31 election precinct 30 days as of the date of the next
32 election.
33 * All of the information contained on this application is
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1 true.
2 I understand that if it is not true, I can be convicted and
3 fined up to $5,000, jailed for 2 to 5 years, or both.
4 * This is my signature or mark in the space below.
5 ( )
6 (His or her signature or mark)
7 Date:
8 At the bottom of the application, space shall be provided
9 for the name and address for any person providing assistance.
10 Space shall be provided upon the back of each voter
11 registration application form for the notation of the voting
12 record of the person registered thereon except in those
13 jurisdictions that store the voting record and signature
14 electronically.
15 Upon receipt by the election authority, each voter
16 registration application shall be numbered according to
17 precincts, and may be serially or otherwise marked for
18 identification in such manner as the election authority may
19 determine.
20 (10 ILCS 5/3A-4 new)
21 Sec. 3A-4. Use of the voter registration application.
22 Every Illinois resident who is eligible to be registered to
23 vote may apply to register to vote, update previous
24 registration, or transfer registration by submitting a
25 completed voter registration application or the registration
26 application form prescribed by the Federal Election
27 Commission pursuant to the National Voter Registration Act of
28 1993, Public Law 103-31, to the election authority which has
29 jurisdiction of the place where the applicant resides, either
30 in person or by mail. If the applicant is not a resident of
31 the jurisdiction of the election authority to which the voter
32 registration application has been returned, that election
33 authority shall forward, within 3 business days of its
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1 receipt, (i) the voter registration application and (ii) a
2 statement indicating the original recipient of the voter
3 registration appliction, that is, the particular State
4 agency, the driver's license facility, or a statement
5 indicating that the application was sent in the mail, to the
6 election authority having jurisdiction of the residence of
7 the applicant.
8 A voter registration application shall be deemed timely
9 filed if delivered or postmarked prior to the close of
10 registration unless otherwise provided in this Code. If no
11 postmark exists or if the postmark is illegible, the voter
12 registration application shall be considered as timely filed
13 if received in the office of the election authority no later
14 than 5 calendar days after the close of registration.
15 Applications not meeting these requirements shall be held in
16 the office of the election authority until the reopening of
17 registration.
18 Any person who applied to register by mail and not
19 through a deputy registrar or registration office authorized
20 under this Code and has not previously voted in the
21 jurisdiction shall vote in person in the office of the
22 election authority by absentee ballot or on election day at a
23 polling place designated by the election authority. This
24 requirement does not apply to persons (1) who are entitled to
25 vote by absentee ballot under the Uniformed and Overseas
26 Citizens Absentee Voting Act; (2) who are provided the right
27 to vote otherwise than in person pursuant to the Voting
28 Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act; (3) who
29 are entitled to vote otherwise than in person under other
30 federal law; and (4) who are entitled to vote pursuant to
31 Section 19-13 of this Code.
32 (10 ILCS 5/3A-5 new)
33 Sec. 3A-5. Application taken by certain employees of
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1 public service agencies. The following agencies in the State
2 are designated to offer and receive applications for voter
3 registration: all counties of the State not under township
4 organization; all townships of the State; before July 1,
5 1997, the Illinois Department of Mental Health and
6 Developmental Disabilities; the Illinois Department of Public
7 Aid; the Illinois Department of Public Health; before July 1,
8 1997, the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services; and
9 beginning July 1, 1997, the Department of Human Services as
10 successor to the powers of the Department of Mental Health
11 and Development Disabilities and the Department of
12 Rehabilitation Services. Each agency so designated shall,
13 through its employees or contractors directly serving
14 applicants for its services, offer each applicant for certain
15 services identifiable by the agency by rule an opportunity to
16 register to vote at the time of application, recertification
17 or renewal. The definition of "applicant" for the purpose of
18 this Section shall be determined by the law governing the
19 agency acting as a voter registration agency, or as
20 appropriate, by agency rule. Services included under this
21 Section shall be pursuant to rule of the agency providing the
22 service, or in the case of townships or counties not under
23 township organization, by rule of the State Board of
24 Elections.
25 Each agency so designated may use the voter registration
26 application or may provide a form of its own supplied as part
27 of the process of application for those certain services
28 otherwise provided by the agency. If the agency so
29 designated employs its own voter registration application
30 form, the form must be identical in design, content, format,
31 printing, and paper stock to the voter registration
32 application. In no case may an agency designed form bear any
33 distinguishing marks by which it may be determined that the
34 form originated with the agency that provided it.
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1 At the time the applicant for services is offered an
2 opportunity to apply to register to vote the applicant shall
3 also be given a written explanation of his or her rights to
4 execute or decline to execute such an application, which
5 rights shall be identified by rule of the State Board of
6 Elections. Each applicant shall be provided the same degree
7 of assistance with regard to the completion of the
8 registration application form as is provided by the agency
9 with regard to the completion of its own forms, unless the
10 applicant refuses such assistance. Each agency offering
11 registration services under this Section shall keep
12 confidential records of the numbers of persons executing or
13 declining to execute voter registration applications.
14 If an applicant executes a voter registration application
15 form, it shall be forwarded by the agency in an envelope
16 which bears either the agency or the office of the State
17 Board of Elections as a return address to the election
18 authority of the place in which the applicant for service
19 resides. If the applicant is not a resident of the
20 jurisdiction of the election authority to which the voter
21 registration application has been returned, the election
22 authority shall forward, within 3 business days of its
23 receipt, (i) the voter registration application and (ii) a
24 statement indicating the original recipient of the
25 application, that is, the particular State agency, the
26 driver's license facility, or a statement indicating that the
27 application was sent in the mail, to the election authority
28 having jurisdiction of the residence of the applicant. The
29 application shall be transmitted within 10 days of its
30 execution, except that an application executed within 5 days
31 before the last date to register to vote before the next
32 election under the Election Code shall be transmitted within
33 5 days of its execution. If the applicant declines to
34 register to vote, the fact that he or she has declined to
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1 register shall be a matter of confidence between the
2 applicant and the agency, and no identifying data shall be
3 admissible as evidence or discoverable in any action or
4 released to any outside party. No person discharging the
5 responsibilities described by this Section shall seek to
6 discourage an applicant from registering to vote; or to
7 influence the applicant in his or her choice of candidate,
8 attitude toward political issues, or political preference; or
9 imply that the applicant's decision concerning registration
10 will affect benefits or services provided by the agency.
11 (10 ILCS 5/3A-6 new)
12 Sec. 3A-6. Applications taken by certain employees of
13 the Secretary of State. The Illinois Secretary of State,
14 through the employees at each driver facility in the State,
15 shall offer to each person who applies for an initial or a
16 renewal driver's license, driver's permit, or Illinois
17 identification card an opportunity to execute a voter
18 registration application as part of the application for a
19 driver's license. If the applicant for a driver's license,
20 driver's permit, or Illinois identification card declines to
21 register to vote, the employee shall so note on the driver's
22 license application form or shall note the declination
23 otherwise in the records of the Secretary of State. If the
24 applicant executes the application to register to vote, the
25 Secretary of State shall forward the executed voter
26 application form to the election authority of the applicant's
27 place of residence.
28 The application shall be transmitted within 10 days of
29 its execution, except that an application executed within 5
30 days before the last date to register to vote before the next
31 election under the Election Code shall be transmitted within
32 5 days of its execution. The voter registration application
33 form presented by the Secretary of State shall conform to the
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1 design, content, format, printing, and paper stock
2 requirements of the voter registration application as
3 provided in Section 3A-3.
4 The Secretary of State shall keep confidential records of
5 the numbers of persons executing or declining to execute
6 voter registration applications. No person discharging the
7 responsibilities described by this Section shall seek to
8 discourage an applicant from registering to vote, or to
9 influence the applicant in his or her choice of candidate,
10 attitude toward political issues, or political preference.
11 (10 ILCS 5/3A-7 new)
12 Sec. 3A-7. Disposition of voter registration
13 application. When a voter registration application is
14 received by the election authority having jurisdiction of the
15 applicant's place of residence, the election authority, if
16 all information on the application demonstrates that the
17 applicant is qualified to be an elector, shall enter the name
18 of the applicant among the registered voters of the
19 jurisdiction, and shall acknowledge the registration by
20 mailing to the applicant by forwardable mail to the address
21 shown on the application for voter registration a Disposition
22 of Registration, advising the applicant that his or her voter
23 registration is completed, and informing the applicant of his
24 or her polling place, together with such information about
25 the applicant's several electoral districts, as the election
26 authority deems appropriate. If any required information on
27 the application is not provided or demonstrates that the
28 applicant is not qualified to be an elector, the election
29 authority shall send the applicant by forwardable mail, to
30 the address shown on the application for voter registration,
31 a Disposition of Registration advising the applicant, as the
32 case may be, that he or she is not qualified to be an
33 elector, or that his or her voter registration is not
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1 complete and that the applicant must reapply for voter
2 registration before he or she can be registered to vote. The
3 content and design of the Disposition of Registration shall
4 be determined by the State Board of Elections by rule.
5 (10 ILCS 5/3A-8 new)
6 Sec. 3A-8. Cancellation of voter registration. The
7 registration of a voter may be canceled and the name of such
8 person removed from among the registered voters of an
9 election jurisdiction upon the occurrence of one of the
10 following events.
11 (1) The voter requests his voter registration be
12 canceled. Registering to vote in another election
13 authority's jurisdiction or in another state will be deemed
14 to constitute a request to cancel all previous voter
15 registrations. The voter's written acknowledgment that he or
16 she is no longer a resident of the jurisdiction of an
17 election authority will be deemed a request to cancel the
18 voter's registration in that election jurisdiction.
19 (2) The voter is convicted of a crime for which a
20 sentence of imprisonment is imposed.
21 (3) The voter dies.
22 (4) The voter is convicted of any offense in which it is
23 proved that the voter has falsely stated, without regard to
24 mental state, his or her age, citizenship or residence upon
25 his or her voter registration application.
26 (5) It is finally determined in any civil or
27 administrative proceeding that the voter either is not now,
28 or was not at the time he or she made application for voter
29 registration, of lawful age to be a voter by the next
30 election, a citizen of the United States, or a resident of
31 Illinois.
32 (6) The voter fails to respond to a special or general
33 survey or inquiry made to confirm the addresses of registered
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1 voters in the jurisdiction which requires the voter to
2 respond or suffer his or her voter registration to be
3 canceled, but provided that the voter's registration may not
4 be canceled under this subsection (6) unless the election
5 authority complies with the procedures identified in Section
6 3A-9 of this Article.
7 (10 ILCS 5/3A-9 new)
8 Sec. 3A-9. Confirmation of address. The election
9 authority, may from time to time, but not less frequently
10 than once in every 2 years, and in no case in less than 120
11 days before a general primary election or general election,
12 survey some or all of the voters in its jurisdiction to
13 confirm their addresses. If the election authority elects to
14 confirm the addresses of fewer than all the registered voters
15 in its jurisdiction, the selection criteria for those voters
16 included in the address confirmation procedure shall be
17 non-discriminatory with respect to race, creed, ethnic
18 origin, political party preference, or gender. Any
19 confirmation of addresses of fewer than all the registered
20 voters of the jurisdiction shall be in addition to a
21 confirmation of addresses of all voters of the jurisdiction,
22 which shall be conducted not less frequently than every 2
23 years. The election authority shall send, via the United
24 States Postal Service, to each registered voter whose address
25 it wishes to confirm, at the address shown on the voters
26 registration application, a non-forwardable,
27 forwarding-address requested mailing. However, other address
28 information obtained by the election authority from the
29 United States Postal Service or information and procedures
30 approved for such purpose by rule of the State Board of
31 Elections may be used instead of the non-forwardable,
32 forwarding-address requested mailing. If the non-forwardable,
33 forwarding-address requested mailing is not returned, the
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1 voter's address shall be deemed to have been confirmed. If
2 the mailing is returned by the United States Postal Service
3 as not deliverable to the voter at the address on his or her
4 registration card, the election authority shall take one of
5 the following actions, as circumstances in each case require.
6 (1) If the non-forwardable mailing is returned by the
7 United States Postal Service without a forwarding address,
8 the election authority shall send a second notice to the
9 voter at the same address, asking the voter to confirm or
10 correct his or her address. Such second notice shall be sent
11 as forwardable mail and include a postage paid, returnable
12 form pre-addressed to the election authority. If the voter
13 fails to return the forwardable notice, the voter's
14 registration shall be deemed inactive.
15 (2) If the non-forwardable mailing is returned by the
16 United States Postal Service bearing a forwarding address
17 within the election jurisdiction, the election authority
18 shall change the address on the voter's registration record
19 to the new address and shall send a second notice to the
20 voter at the original address on the registration form,
21 advising the voter that his or her address has been changed
22 and informing him or her of the new voting precinct. Such
23 second notice shall also request the voter to confirm or
24 correct the change of address and shall be sent as
25 forwardable mail and include a postage paid returnable form
26 pre-addressed to the election authority.
27 (3) If the non-forwardable mailing is returned by the
28 United States Postal Service bearing a forwarding address
29 outside the election jurisdiction, the election authority
30 shall send a second notice to the voter at the address on the
31 registration form, asking the voter to confirm his or her
32 address and advising the voter how to become eligible to vote
33 if he or she has moved out of the election jurisdiction.
34 This second notice shall be sent as forwardable mail and
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1 include a postage paid returnable card pre-addressed to the
2 election authority.
3 (a) If the voter returns the forwardable notice of
4 change of address confirming the new address outside the
5 election authority's jurisdiction, the voter shall be removed
6 from the list of voters of the election authority.
7 (b) If the voter returns the forwardable notice of
8 change of address denying that he or she has changed
9 residence to a place outside the jurisdiction, the voter
10 shall remain on the list of voters of the election authority.
11 (c) If the voter fails to return this forwardable
12 notice, the voter's registration shall be deemed inactive.
13 The names of all voters whose registrations have been
14 deemed inactive shall be so identified and made available in
15 the polling place on election day along with such information
16 for each voter as required as part of the precinct file,
17 including but not limited to the voter's address and
18 signature. If the voter offers to vote at any election
19 within the period which includes the next 2 general elections
20 ensuing after the forwardable notice is sent to the voter, he
21 or she shall be permitted to vote only in accord with the
22 provisions of Section 3A-10 of this Article. If within the
23 same period the voter neither offers to vote nor otherwise
24 confirms that his or her address remains within the election
25 authority's jurisdiction, his or her name shall be removed
26 from the list of registered voters of the election authority.
27 The election authority shall maintain for at least 2
28 years and shall make available for public inspection and,
29 where available, copies at a reasonable cost, all records
30 concerning the implementation of programs and activities
31 conducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and
32 currency of official lists of eligible voters, except to the
33 extent that such records relate to the declination to
34 register to vote or to the identity of a voter registration
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1 agency through which any voter is registered. This
2 information shall be made available to the State Board of
3 Elections as required by rule of the State Board of Elections
4 in order to report to the Federal Election Commission
5 pursuant to Public Law 103-31 and rule of the Federal
6 Election Commission.
7 (10 ILCS 5/3A-10 new)
8 Sec. 3A-10. Special voting procedures. The procedures
9 contained in this Section shall apply to voters whose
10 registration has been deemed inactive, or who change
11 residence without notice to the election authority. When a
12 voter casts a ballot under subsections (1), (3), or (4) of
13 this Section 3A-10, his or her voter registration record
14 shall be restored to active status and amended as
15 circumstances require.
16 (1) If a voter whose registration has been deemed
17 inactive pursuant to Section 3A-9 of this Article, or whose
18 records have erroneously been changed based upon inaccurate
19 information from the postal service, appears to vote and
20 denies that he or she has changed residence, he or she shall
21 be permitted to vote after completing the address correction
22 form provided in Sections 7-45, 17-10, and 18-5 of this
23 Election Code, subject to the terms and consequences there
24 provided. If the voter's registration had been deemed
25 inactive, the voter's name shall be restored to the list of
26 voters of the election authority.
27 (2) If a voter whose registration has been deemed
28 inactive pursuant to Section 3A-9 of this Article appears at
29 his or her former polling place to vote and acknowledges in
30 writing that he or she has changed residence to any place
31 outside the jurisdiction of the election authority, the voter
32 shall not be permitted to vote, and his or her name shall be
33 removed from the list of registered voters of the election
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1 authority.
2 (3) If a voter who has changed his or her residence to
3 another address within the election authority's jurisdiction
4 offers to vote, the election authority shall permit the voter
5 to vote a ballot for federal offices only in the polling
6 place of the former residence, or by absentee ballot for
7 those same offices, upon completion of the address correction
8 form provided in Sections 7-45, 17-10 and 18-5 of this Code,
9 subject to the terms and consequences there provided.
10 Following the election, the voter's registration records
11 shall be changed to reflect the new address and a notice
12 shall be sent to the voter at the new address to advise the
13 voter of his or her new precinct and electoral districts. If
14 the voter's registration had been deemed inactive, the
15 voter's name shall be restored to the list of voters of the
16 election authority.
17 (10 ILCS 5/3A-11 new)
18 Sec. 3A-11. Rules. The Secretary of State; the State
19 Board of Elections; before July 1, 1997, the Illinois
20 Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities;
21 the Illinois Department of Public Aid; the Illinois
22 Department of Public Health; before July 1, 1997, the
23 Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services; and beginning
24 July 1, 1997, the Department of Human Services as successor
25 to the powers of the Department of Mental Health and
26 Developmental Disabilities and the Department of
27 Rehabilitation Services may adopt rules for the
28 implementation of this Article 3A.
29 (10 ILCS 5/3A-12 new)
30 Sec. 3A-12. Any person who has registered to vote in
31 Illinois for federal offices only shall be deemed to be
32 registered to vote for all elections governed by this Code
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1 upon the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1997.
2 (10 ILCS 5/4-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-1)
3 Sec. 4-1. Except as provided in this Article 4, it is
4 unlawful for any person residing in a county containing a
5 population of less than 500,000, to vote at any election at
6 which any officers are to be nominated or elected, or at any
7 election at which any questions of public policy are to be
8 voted on, unless such person is at the time of such election
9 a registered voter under the provisions of Article 3A or of
10 this Article 4.
11 The provisions of this Article do not apply to electors
12 voting in an election of any soil and water conservation
13 district or drainage district or to electors residing in
14 municipalities in this State which have adopted "An Act
15 regulating the holding of elections and declaring the result
16 thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this
17 State", approved June 19, 1885, as amended, or which have
18 adopted Articles 6, 14 and 18 of this Act. This Article shall
19 not apply to electors voting pursuant to Article 20 of this
20 Act.
21 The provisions of Article 3A or of this Article 4, so far
22 as they require the registration of voters as a condition to
23 their being allowed to vote shall not apply to persons
24 otherwise entitled to vote who have made and subscribed to
25 the affidavit provided in paragraph (b) of Section 17-10 of
26 this Act.
27 (Source: P.A. 81-1060.)
28 (10 ILCS 5/4-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-5)
29 Sec. 4-5. The registration preceding the November, 1942,
30 election shall constitute a permanent registration subject to
31 revision and alteration in the manner hereinafter provided;
32 and all registrations subsequent thereto shall be upon
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1 registration application forms record cards provided by an
2 election authority or as otherwise provided by this Code the
3 county clerk. However, if the county board, by resolution
4 adopted before October 15, 1969, determines that there shall
5 be a re-registration in the county before the June, 1970,
6 primary as provided in this Article, such 1942 registration
7 shall be a permanent registration only until such
8 re-registration as provided in Section 4--5.01.
9 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 2987.)
10 (10 ILCS 5/4-6.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.1)
11 Sec. 4-6.1. In addition to registration at the office of
12 the county clerk, and at the offices of municipal and
13 township or road district clerks, each county clerk shall
14 provide for the following additional methods of
15 registration:
16 (1) The appointment of deputy registrars as provided in
17 Section 4-6.2
18 (2) The establishment of temporary places of
19 registration, as provided in Section 4-6.3.
20 (3) Registration by mail as provided in Sections 3A-4
21 and 4-6.4.
22 (4) Registration by certain employees of Public Service
23 Agencies as provided in Section 3A-5, and
24 (5) Registration by certain employees of the Secretary
25 of State as provided in Section 3A-6.
26 Each county clerk may provide for precinct registration
27 pursuant to Section 4-7.
28 (Source: P.A. 83-1059.)
29 (10 ILCS 5/4-6.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.2)
30 Sec. 4-6.2. (a) The county clerk shall appoint all
31 municipal and township or road district clerks or their duly
32 authorized deputies as deputy registrars who may accept the
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1 registration of all qualified residents of their respective
2 municipalities, townships and road districts. A deputy
3 registrar serving as such by virtue of his status as a
4 municipal clerk, or a duly authorized deputy of a municipal
5 clerk, of a municipality the territory of which lies in more
6 than one county may accept the registration of any qualified
7 resident of the municipality, regardless of which county the
8 resident, municipal clerk or the duly authorized deputy of
9 the municipal clerk lives in.
10 The county clerk shall appoint all precinct
11 committeepersons in the county as deputy registrars who may
12 accept the registration of any qualified resident of the
13 county, except during the 28 days preceding an election.
14 The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars
15 a reasonable number of employees of the Secretary of State
16 located at driver's license examination stations and
17 designated to the election authority by the Secretary of
18 State who may accept the registration of any qualified
19 residents of the county at any such driver's license
20 examination stations. The appointment of employees of the
21 Secretary of State as deputy registrars shall be made in the
22 manner provided in Section 2-105 of the Illinois Vehicle
23 Code.
24 The county clerk shall appoint each of the following
25 named persons as deputy registrars upon the written request
26 of such persons:
27 1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person
28 designated by the chief librarian, of any public library
29 situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
30 the registrations of any qualified resident of the
31 county, at such library.
32 2. The principal, or a qualified person designated
33 by the principal, of any high school, elementary school,
34 or vocational school situated within the election
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1 jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
2 qualified resident of the county, at such school. The
3 county clerk shall notify every principal and
4 vice-principal of each high school, elementary school,
5 and vocational school situated within the election
6 jurisdiction of their eligibility to serve as deputy
7 registrars and offer training courses for service as
8 deputy registrars at conveniently located facilities at
9 least 4 months prior to every election.
10 3. The president, or a qualified person designated
11 by the president, of any university, college, community
12 college, academy or other institution of learning
13 situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
14 the registrations of any resident of the county, at such
15 university, college, community college, academy or
16 institution.
17 4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona
18 fide labor organization, or a reasonable number of
19 qualified members designated by such official, who may
20 accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
21 county.
22 5. A duly elected or appointed official of a
23 bonafide State civic organization, as defined and
24 determined by rule of the State Board of Elections, or
25 qualified members designated by such official, who may
26 accept the registration of any qualified resident of the
27 county. In determining the number of deputy registrars
28 that shall be appointed, the county clerk shall consider
29 the population of the jurisdiction, the size of the
30 organization, the geographic size of the jurisdiction,
31 convenience for the public, the existing number of deputy
32 registrars in the jurisdiction and their location, the
33 registration activities of the organization and the need
34 to appoint deputy registrars to assist and facilitate the
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1 registration of non-English speaking individuals. In no
2 event shall a county clerk fix an arbitrary number
3 applicable to every civic organization requesting
4 appointment of its members as deputy registrars. The
5 State Board of Elections shall by rule provide for
6 certification of bonafide State civic organizations. Such
7 appointments shall be made for a period not to exceed 2
8 years, terminating on the first business day of the month
9 following the month of the general election, and shall be
10 valid for all periods of voter registration as provided
11 by this Code during the terms of such appointments.
12 6. (Blank) The Director of the Illinois Department
13 of Public Aid, or a reasonable number of employees
14 designated by the Director and located at public aid
15 offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
16 resident of the county at any such public aid office.
17 7. The Director of the Illinois Department of
18 Employment Security, or a reasonable number of employees
19 designated by the Director and located at unemployment
20 offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
21 resident of the county at any such unemployment office.
22 8. The president of any corporation as defined by
23 the Business Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable
24 number of employees designated by such president, who may
25 accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
26 county.
27 If the request to be appointed as deputy registrar is
28 denied, the county clerk shall, within 10 days after the date
29 the request is submitted, provide the affected individual or
30 organization with written notice setting forth the specific
31 reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the request to be
32 appointed as deputy registrar.
33 The county clerk may appoint as many additional deputy
34 registrars as he considers necessary. The county clerk shall
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1 appoint such additional deputy registrars in such manner that
2 the convenience of the public is served, giving due
3 consideration to both population concentration and area.
4 Some of the additional deputy registrars shall be selected so
5 that there are an equal number from each of the 2 major
6 political parties in the election jurisdiction. The county
7 clerk, in appointing an additional deputy registrar, shall
8 make the appointment from a list of applicants submitted by
9 the Chairman of the County Central Committee of the
10 applicant's political party. A Chairman of a County Central
11 Committee shall submit a list of applicants to the county
12 clerk by November 30 of each year. The county clerk may
13 require a Chairman of a County Central Committee to furnish a
14 supplemental list of applicants.
15 Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time
16 other than the 28 day period preceding an election. All
17 persons appointed as deputy registrars shall be registered
18 voters within the county and shall take and subscribe to the
19 following oath or affirmation:
20 "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that
21 I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the
22 Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will
23 faithfully discharge the duties of the office of deputy
24 registrar to the best of my ability and that I will register
25 no person nor cause the registration of any person except
26 upon his personal application before me.
27 ............................
28 (Signature Deputy Registrar)"
29 This oath shall be administered by the county clerk, or
30 by one of his deputies, or by any person qualified to take
31 acknowledgement of deeds and shall immediately thereafter be
32 filed with the county clerk.
33 Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section,
34 except precinct committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms,
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1 commencing on December 1 following the general election of
2 each even-numbered year; except that the terms of the initial
3 appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
4 general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen shall
5 be for 2-year terms commencing on the date of the county
6 convention following the general primary at which they were
7 elected. The county clerk shall issue a certificate of
8 appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
9 his office for public inspection a list of the names of all
10 appointees.
11 (b) The county clerk shall be responsible for training
12 all deputy registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a),
13 at times and locations reasonably convenient for both the
14 county clerk and such appointees. The county clerk shall be
15 responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy
16 registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a). Deputy
17 registrars appointed under subsection (a) shall be subject to
18 removal for cause.
19 (c) Completed registration materials under the control
20 of deputy registrars, appointed pursuant to subsection (a),
21 shall be returned to the proper election authority within 7
22 days, except that completed registration materials received
23 by the deputy registrars during the period between the 35th
24 and 29th day preceding an election shall be returned by the
25 deputy registrars to the proper election authority within 48
26 hours after receipt thereof. The completed registration
27 materials received by the deputy registrars on the 29th day
28 preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
29 registrars within 24 hours after receipt thereof. Unused
30 materials shall be returned by deputy registrars appointed
31 pursuant to paragraph 4 of subsection (a), not later than the
32 next working day following the close of registration.
33 (d) The county clerk shall not be required to provide
34 additional forms to any deputy registrar having more than 200
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1 registration forms unaccounted for during the preceding 12
2 month period.
3 (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any
4 electioneering or the promotion of any cause during the
5 performance of his or her duties.
6 (f) The county clerk shall not be criminally or civilly
7 liable for the acts or omissions of any deputy registrar.
8 Such deputy registrars shall not be deemed to be employees of
9 the county clerk.
10 (Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
11 (10 ILCS 5/4-6.4 new)
12 Sec. 4-6.4. In addition to registration conducted by the
13 registration officer or deputy registrar, the election
14 authority shall make voter registration applications as
15 provided in Section 3A-3 available in private and
16 governmental locations throughout the jurisdiction in
17 sufficient numbers for the convenience of persons desiring to
18 apply for voter registration by mail. Such locations shall be
19 selected by the election authority in a nondiscriminatory
20 manner. The forms shall be suitable for mailing though may
21 not necessarily bear postage. Instructions for completion of
22 the application shall be attached and shall be as prescribed
23 by rule of the State Board of Elections. The voter
24 registration application dispenser or holder shall bear a
25 uniform logo designed by the State Board of Elections to
26 identify the use of the forms.
27 (10 ILCS 5/4-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-8)
28 Sec. 4-8. The county clerk shall provide a sufficient
29 number of blank forms for the registration of electors, which
30 shall be known as registration record cards and which shall
31 consist of loose leaf sheets or cards, of suitable size to
32 contain in plain writing and figures the data hereinafter
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1 required thereon or shall consist of computer cards of
2 suitable nature to contain the data required thereon. The
3 registration record cards, which shall include an affidavit
4 of registration as hereinafter provided, shall be executed in
5 duplicate.
6 The registration record card shall contain the following
7 and such other information as the county clerk may think it
8 proper to require for the identification of the applicant for
9 registration:
10 Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and first
11 or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the initial
12 for such middle name, if any.
13 Sex.
14 Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or
15 other location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit
16 or room number, if any, and in the case of a mobile home the
17 lot number, and such additional clear and definite
18 description as may be necessary to determine the exact
19 location of the dwelling of the applicant. Where the location
20 cannot be determined by street and number, then the section,
21 congressional township and range number may be used, or such
22 other description as may be necessary, including post-office
23 mailing address. In the case of a homeless individual, the
24 individual's voting residence that is his or her mailing
25 address shall be included on his or her registration record
26 card.
27 Term of residence in the State of Illinois and precinct.
28 This information shall be furnished by the applicant stating
29 the place or places where he resided and the dates during
30 which he resided in such place or places during the year next
31 preceding the date of the next ensuing election.
32 Nativity. The state or country in which the applicant was
33 born.
34 Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
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1 naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place, and date of
2 naturalization.
3 Date of application for registration, i. e., the day,
4 month and year when applicant presented himself for
5 registration.
6 Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
7 The last 4 digits of the social security number shall be
8 required. However, space shall be provided for the full
9 social security number which, if provided, shall not be
10 disclosed to the general public or, unless warranted, to
11 persons other than the election authority or State election
12 officials.
13 Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time
14 of registration, which would require assistance in voting.
15 The county and state in which the applicant was last
16 registered.
17 Signature of voter. The applicant, after the registration
18 and in the presence of a deputy registrar or other officer of
19 registration shall be required to sign his or her name in ink
20 to the affidavit on both the original and duplicate
21 registration record cards.
22 Signature of deputy registrar or officer of registration.
23 In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may
24 affix his mark to the affidavit. In such case the officer
25 empowered to give the registration oath shall write a
26 detailed description of the applicant in the space provided
27 on the back or at the bottom of the card or sheet; and shall
28 ask the following questions and record the answers thereto:
29 Father's first name.
30 Mother's first name.
31 From what address did the applicant last register?
32 Reason for inability to sign name.
33 Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit
34 in substantially the following form:
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1 AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
2 STATE OF ILLINOIS
3 COUNTY OF.......
4 I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
5 United States; that on the date of the next election I shall
6 have resided in the State of Illinois and in the election
7 precinct in which I reside 30 days and that I intend that
8 this location shall be my residence; that I am fully
9 qualified to vote, and that the above statements are true.
10 ..............................
11 (His or her signature or mark)
12 Subscribed and sworn to before me this.... day of....,
13 19...
14 ..................................
15 Signature of registration officer. (To be signed in
16 presence of registrant.)
17 Space shall be provided upon the face of each
18 registration record card for the notation of the voting
19 record of the person registered thereon except in those
20 jurisdictions having the voter's history and signature stored
21 electronically.
22 Each registration record card shall be numbered according
23 to precincts, and may be serially or otherwise marked for
24 identification in such manner as the county clerk may
25 determine.
26 The voter registration applications cards shall be deemed
27 public records and shall be open to inspection during regular
28 business hours, except during the 28 days immediately
29 preceding any election. On written request of any candidate
30 or objector or any person intending to object to a petition,
31 the election authority shall extend its hours for inspection
32 of registration applications cards and other records of the
33 election authority during the period beginning with the
34 filing of petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or 28-3
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1 and continuing through the termination of electoral board
2 hearings on any objections to petitions containing signatures
3 of registered voters in the jurisdiction of the election
4 authority. The extension shall be for a period of hours
5 sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
6 the records but the election authority is not required to
7 extend its hours beyond the period beginning at its normal
8 opening for business and ending at midnight. If the business
9 hours are so extended, the election authority shall post a
10 public notice of such extended hours. Registration
11 applications record cards may also be inspected, upon
12 approval of the officer in charge of the forms cards, during
13 the 28 days immediately preceding any election. Registration
14 information found in the precinct file as provided in Section
15 4-20 record cards shall also be open to inspection by
16 certified judges and poll watchers and challengers at the
17 polling place on election day, but only to the extent
18 necessary to determine the question of the right of a person
19 to vote or to serve as a judge of election. At no time shall
20 poll watchers or challengers be allowed to physically handle
21 the precinct file registration record cards.
22 Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or
23 other electronic data processing information containing voter
24 registration information shall be furnished by the county
25 clerk within 10 days after December 15 and May 15 each year
26 to the State Board of Elections in a form prescribed by the
27 Board. Registration information shall include, but not be
28 limited to, the following information: name, sex, residence,
29 the full social security number or last four digits whichever
30 the registrant provided, telephone number, if any, date of
31 birth, if available age, party affiliation, if applicable,
32 precinct, ward, township, county, and representative,
33 legislative and congressional districts. In the event of
34 noncompliance, the State Board of Elections is directed to
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1 obtain compliance forthwith with this nondiscretionary duty
2 of the election authority by instituting legal proceedings in
3 the circuit court of the county in which the election
4 authority maintains the registration information. The costs
5 of furnishing updated copies of tapes or discs shall be paid
6 at a rate of $.00034 per name of registered voters in the
7 election jurisdiction, but not less than $50 per tape or disc
8 and shall be paid from appropriations made to the State Board
9 of Elections for reimbursement to the election authority for
10 such purpose. The Board shall furnish copies of such tapes,
11 discs, other electronic data or compilations thereof,
12 excluding any portion of any social security number, to state
13 political committees registered pursuant to the Illinois
14 Campaign Finance Act or the Federal Election Campaign Act at
15 their request and at a reasonable cost. Copies of the tapes,
16 discs or other electronic data, excluding any portion of any
17 social security number, shall be furnished by the county
18 clerk to local political committees at their request and at a
19 reasonable cost. Reasonable cost of the tapes, discs, et
20 cetera for this purpose would be the cost of duplication plus
21 15% for administration. The individual representing a
22 political committee requesting copies of such tapes shall
23 make a sworn affidavit that the information shall be used
24 only for bona fide political purposes, including by or for
25 candidates for office or incumbent office holders. Such
26 tapes, discs or other electronic data shall not be used under
27 any circumstances by any political committee or individuals
28 for purposes of commercial solicitation or other business
29 purposes. If such tapes contain information on county
30 residents related to the operations of county government in
31 addition to registration information, that information shall
32 not be used under any circumstances for commercial
33 solicitation or other business purposes. The prohibition in
34 this Section against using the computer tapes or computer
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1 discs or other electronic data processing information
2 containing voter registration information for purposes of
3 commercial solicitation or other business purposes shall be
4 prospective only from the effective date of this amended Act
5 of 1979. Any person who violates this provision shall be
6 guilty of a Class 4 felony.
7 The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October
8 1, 1987, such regulations as may be necessary to ensure
9 uniformity throughout the State in electronic data processing
10 of voter registration information. The regulations shall
11 include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
12 uniform medium, communications protocol and file structure to
13 be employed by the election authorities of this State in the
14 electronic data processing of voter registration information.
15 Each election authority utilizing electronic data processing
16 of voter registration information shall comply with such
17 regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
18 If the applicant for registration was last registered in
19 another county within this State, he shall also sign a
20 certificate authorizing cancellation of the former
21 registration. The certificate shall be in substantially the
22 following form: To the County Clerk of.... County, Illinois.
23 To the Election Commission of the City of...., Illinois.
24 This is to certify that I am registered in your (county)
25 (city) and that my residence was ............................
26 Having moved out of your (county) (city), I hereby authorize
27 you to cancel said registration in your office.
28 Dated at...., Illinois, this.... day of...., 19...
29 .................................
30 (Signature of Voter)
31 Attest:................, County Clerk,.....................
32 County, Illinois.
33 The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately
34 by the County Clerk to the County Clerk (or election
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1 commission as the case may be) where the applicant was
2 formerly registered. Receipt of such certificate shall be
3 full authority for cancellation of any previous registration.
4 (Source: P.A. 86-873; 86-1348; 87-1241.)
5 (10 ILCS 5/4-8.01) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-8.01)
6 Sec. 4-8.01. If an applicant for registration reports a
7 permanent physical disability which would require assistance
8 in voting, the county clerk shall mark all his registration
9 forms cards in the right margin on the front of the form card
10 with a band of ink running the full margin which shall be of
11 contrast to, and easily distinguishable from, the color of
12 the form card. If an applicant for registration attests
13 declares upon properly witnessed oath, with his signature or
14 mark affixed, that he cannot read the English language and
15 that he will require assistance in voting, all his
16 registration forms cards shall be marked in a manner similar
17 to the marking on the forms cards of a voter who requires
18 assistance because of physical disability, except that the
19 marking shall be of a different distinguishing color.
20 Following each election the forms cards of any voter who has
21 requested assistance as a disabled voter, and has stated that
22 the disability is permanent, or who has received assistance
23 because of inability to read the English language, shall be
24 marked in the same manner.
25 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3525.)
26 (10 ILCS 5/4-8.03) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-8.03)
27 Sec. 4-8.03. The State Board of Elections shall design a
28 registration record card which, except as otherwise provided
29 in this Section, shall be used in triplicate by all election
30 authorities in the State, beginning with registrations taken
31 on or after January 1, 1986. The Board shall prescribe the
32 form and specifications, including but not limited to the
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1 weight of paper, color and print of such cards. Such cards
2 shall contain boxes or spaces for the information required
3 under Sections 4-8 and 4-21 of this Code; provided, that such
4 cards shall also contain a box or space for the applicant's
5 driver's license number, or where allowable the applicant's
6 social security number, if any, and a box for the applicant's
7 telephone number, if available.
8 The original and duplicate cards shall respectively
9 constitute the master file and precinct binder registration
10 records of the voter. The triplicate card shall be given to
11 the applicant upon completion of his or her registration or
12 completed transfer of registration.
13 If the applicant for registration in the office of the
14 election authority or before a deputy registrar was last
15 registered in another election jurisdiction within this
16 State, he shall also sign a certificate authorizing
17 cancellation of the former registration. The certificate
18 shall be in substantially the following form: To the County
19 Clerk of ... County, Illinois.
20 To the Election Commission of the (City) (County) of
21 ....., Illinois.
22 This is to certify that I am registered in your (county)
23 (City) and that my residence was ....................Having
24 moved out of your (county) (city), I hereby authorize you to
25 cancel the registration in your office. Dated at ....,
26 Illinois, this .... day of ...., 19..
27 .............................
28 (Signature of Voter)
29 Attest:......................, County Clerk, ...........
30 County, Illinois
31 The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately
32 by the County Clerk to the County (or election commission as
33 the case may be) where the applicant was formerly registered.
34 Receipt of such certificate shall be full authority for
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1 cancellation of any previous registration.
2 Whenever a voter moves to another precinct within the
3 same election jurisdiction or to another election
4 jurisdiction in the State, such voter may transfer his or her
5 registration by presenting his or her triplicate card to the
6 election authority or a deputy registrar. If such voter is
7 not in possession of or has lost his or her triplicate card,
8 he or she may effect a transfer of registration by executing
9 an Affidavit of Cancellation of Previous Registration or by
10 submitting a completed voter registration application. Any
11 transfer of registration received in the office of election
12 authority or postmarked prior to the close of registration
13 shall be deemed to be timely filed. If a postmark is not in
14 evidence or legible, it shall be considered as timely filed
15 if received in the office of the election authority no later
16 than 5 calendar days after the close of registration..
17 In the case of a transfer of registration to a new
18 election jurisdiction, the election authority shall transmit
19 the voter's triplicate card or such affidavit to the election
20 authority of the voter's former election jurisdiction, which
21 shall immediately cause the transmission of the voter's
22 previous registration card to the voter's new election
23 authority. No transfer of registration to a new election
24 jurisdiction shall be complete until the voter's old election
25 authority receives notification.
26 Deputy registrars shall return all triplicate cards or
27 Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous Registration to the
28 election authority within 7 working days after the receipt
29 thereof, except that such cards or Affidavits of Cancellation
30 of Previous Registration received by the deputy registrars
31 between the 35th and 29th 28th day preceding an election
32 shall be returned by the deputy registrars to the election
33 authority within 48 hours after receipt. The deputy
34 registrars shall return the cards or Affidavits of
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1 Cancellation of Previous Registration received by them on the
2 29th 28th day preceding an election to the election authority
3 within 24 hours after receipt thereof.
4 The date by which an election authority is required to
5 take registrations in compliance with this Section may be
6 extended by the State Board of Elections to a date no later
7 than July 1, 1986, where, prior to January 1, 1986, the Board
8 has received a written request for such an extension from the
9 election authority and such request has shown good cause for
10 the extension.
11 (Source: P.A. 86-873.)
12 (10 ILCS 5/4-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-9)
13 Sec. 4-9. The county clerk shall fully instruct the
14 registration officers and deputy registration officers in
15 their duties. Each registration officer and deputy
16 registration officer shall receipt to the county clerk for
17 all blank voter registration application forms record cards
18 issued to him, specifying therein the number of the blanks
19 received by him, and each registration officer and deputy
20 registration officer shall be charged with such blanks until
21 he returns them to the county clerk. If for any cause a blank
22 voter registration application form record card is mutilated
23 or rendered unfit for use in making it out, or if a mistake
24 thereon has been made, such blank shall not be destroyed, but
25 the word "mutilated" shall be written across the face of such
26 form card, and the form card shall be returned to the county
27 clerk and be preserved in the same manner and for the same
28 length of time as mutilated ballots. When each 1969 and 1970
29 precinct re-registration has been completed, each
30 registration officer shall certify the registration records
31 in substantially the following form:
32 "We, the undersigned registration officers or deputy
33 registration officers in the County of .... in the State of
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1 Illinois, do swear (or affirm) that at the registration of
2 electors on the .... day of .... 19.. there was registered by
3 us in the said election precinct the names which appear on
4 the registration records, and that the number of voters
5 registered and qualified was and is the number of ....
6 ......................
7 ......................
8 ......................
9 Registration officers.
10 Date ................"
11 After completion of each 1969 and 1970 precinct
12 re-registration each of the officers of registration for such
13 precinct shall place all registration cards received by him,
14 regardless of whether such cards have been unused, filled
15 out, executed or mutilated, in an envelope to be provided for
16 that purpose by the county clerk and shall seal such envelope
17 with an official wax impression seal and sign his name across
18 the face of such envelope. The judge of registration for such
19 precinct shall include in the envelope sealed by him the
20 certification of the registration records hereinabove
21 required. The judge of registration for such precinct shall
22 within 24 hours after the close of re-registration make
23 personal delivery of all envelopes containing the
24 re-registration cards for such precinct to the county clerk.
25 Other precinct registrations shall be certified and
26 returned in the same manner.
27 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 2987.)
28 (10 ILCS 5/4-10) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-10)
29 Sec. 4-10. Except as herein provided, no person shall be
30 registered, unless he applies in person to a registration
31 officer, answers such relevant questions as may be asked of
32 him by the registration officer, and executes the affidavit
33 of registration or submits a valid voter registration
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1 application under the provisions of Article 3A. The
2 registration officer shall require the applicant to furnish
3 two forms of identification, and except in the case of a
4 homeless individual, one of which must include his or her
5 residence address. These forms of identification shall
6 include, but not be limited to, any of the following:
7 driver's license, social security card, public aid
8 identification card, utility bill, employee or student
9 identification card, credit card, or a civic, union or
10 professional association membership card. The registration
11 officer shall require a homeless individual to furnish
12 evidence of his or her use of the mailing address stated.
13 This use may be demonstrated by a piece of mail addressed to
14 that individual and received at that address or by a
15 statement from a person authorizing use of the mailing
16 address. The registration officer shall require each
17 applicant for registration to read or have read to him the
18 affidavit of registration before permitting him to execute
19 the affidavit.
20 One of the registration officers or a deputy registration
21 officer, county clerk, or clerk in the office of the county
22 clerk, shall administer to all persons who shall personally
23 apply to register the following oath or affirmation:
24 "You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will fully
25 and truly answer all such questions as shall be put to you
26 touching your name, place of residence, place of birth, your
27 qualifications as an elector and your right as such to
28 register and vote under the laws of the State of Illinois."
29 The registration officer shall satisfy himself that each
30 applicant for registration is qualified to register before
31 registering him. If the registration officer has reason to
32 believe that the applicant is a resident of a Soldiers' and
33 Sailors' Home or any facility which is licensed or certified
34 pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act, the following question
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1 shall be put, "When you entered the home which is your
2 present address, was it your bona fide intention to become a
3 resident thereof?" Any voter of a township, city, village or
4 incorporated town in which such applicant resides, shall be
5 permitted to be present at the place of any precinct
6 registration and shall have the right to challenge any
7 applicant who applies to be registered.
8 In case the officer is not satisfied that the applicant
9 is qualified he shall forthwith notify such applicant in
10 writing to appear before the county clerk to complete his
11 registration. Upon the application form card of such
12 applicant shall be written the word "incomplete" and no such
13 applicant shall be permitted to vote unless such registration
14 is satisfactorily completed as hereinafter provided. No
15 registration shall be taken and marked as incomplete if
16 information to complete it can be furnished on the date of
17 the original application.
18 Any person claiming to be an elector in any election
19 precinct and whose registration application card is marked
20 "Incomplete" may make and sign an application in writing,
21 under oath, to the county clerk in substance in the following
22 form:
23 "I do solemnly swear that I,.... did on .... make
24 application to the board of registry of the .... precinct of
25 the township of ....(or to the county clerk of .... county)
26 and that said board or clerk refused to complete my
27 registration as a qualified voter in said precinct. That I
28 reside in said precinct, that I intend to reside in said
29 precinct, and am a duly qualified voter of said precinct and
30 am entitled to be registered to vote in said precinct at the
31 next election.
32 (Signature of applicant)............................."
33 All such applications shall be presented to the county
34 clerk or to his duly authorized representative by the
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1 applicant, in person between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00
2 p.m. on any day after the days on which the 1969 and 1970
3 precinct re-registrations are held but not on any day within
4 28 days preceding the ensuing general election and thereafter
5 for the registration provided in Section 4-7 all such
6 applications shall be presented to the county clerk or his
7 duly authorized representative by the applicant in person
8 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any day
9 prior to 28 days preceding the ensuing general election.
10 Such application shall be heard by the county clerk or his
11 duly authorized representative at the time the application is
12 presented. If the applicant for registration has registered
13 with the county clerk, such application may be presented to
14 and heard by the county clerk or by his duly authorized
15 representative upon the dates specified above or at any time
16 prior thereto designated by the county clerk.
17 Any otherwise qualified person who is absent from his
18 county of residence either due to business of the United
19 States or because he is temporarily outside the territorial
20 limits of the United States may become registered by mailing
21 an application as provided in Section 3A-3, except such
22 person is not required to vote the first time in person
23 pursuant to Section 3A-4, to the county clerk within the
24 periods of registration provided for in this Article, or by
25 simultaneous application for absentee registration and
26 absentee ballot as provided in Article 20 of this Code.
27 Upon receipt of such application the county clerk shall
28 immediately mail an affidavit of registration in duplicate,
29 which affidavit shall contain the following and such other
30 information as the State Board of Elections may think it
31 proper to require for the identification of the applicant:
32 Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and
33 first or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the
34 initial for such middle name, if any.
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1 Sex.
2 Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue or
3 other location of the dwelling, and such additional clear and
4 definite description as may be necessary to determine the
5 exact location of the dwelling of the applicant. Where the
6 location cannot be determined by street and number, then the
7 Section, congressional township and range number may be used,
8 or such other information as may be necessary, including post
9 office mailing address.
10 Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the
11 precinct.
12 Nativity. The State or country in which the applicant
13 was born.
14 Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
15 naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place and date of
16 naturalization.
17 Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
18 Out of State address of ..........................
19 AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
20 State of ...........)
21 )ss
22 County of ..........)
23 I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
24 United States; that on the day of the next election I shall
25 have resided in the State of Illinois and in the election
26 precinct 30 days; that I am fully qualified to vote, that I
27 am not registered to vote anywhere else in the United States,
28 that I intend to remain a resident of the State of Illinois
29 and of the election precinct, that I intend to return to the
30 State of Illinois, and that the above statements are true.
31 ..............................
32 (His or her signature or mark)
33 Subscribed and sworn to before me, an officer qualified
34 to administer oaths, this ..... day of ..... 19 ...
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1 ........................................
2 Signature of officer administering oath.
3 Upon receipt of the executed duplicate affidavit of
4 Registration, the county clerk shall transfer the information
5 contained thereon to duplicate Registration Cards provided
6 for in Section 4-8 of this Article and shall attach thereto a
7 copy of each of the duplicate affidavit of registration and
8 thereafter such registration card and affidavit shall
9 constitute the registration of such person the same as if he
10 had applied for registration in person.
11 (Source: P.A. 86-820; 87-1241.)
12 (10 ILCS 5/4-13) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-13)
13 Sec. 4-13. A docket of all applications to the county
14 clerk, whether such application shall be made for the purpose
15 of being registered, or restored, or for the purpose of
16 erasing a name on the register or for completing
17 registration, shall be made out in the order of the
18 precincts. The county clerk shall sit to hear such
19 applications between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on
20 Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the second week prior to the
21 week in which the 1970 primary election for the nomination of
22 candidates for State and county officers or any election
23 thereafter is to be held. Witnesses may be sworn and examined
24 upon the hearing of the applications.
25 Each person appearing response to an application to have
26 his name erased shall deliver to the county clerk a written
27 affidavit, which shall be, in substance, in the words and
28 figures following:
29 "I do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United
30 States; that I do reside and have resided in the State of
31 Illinois since the .... day of .... and in the county of ....
32 in said state since the .... day of .... and in the ....
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1 precinct of the .... ward, in the city, village, incorporated
2 town or town of .... in said county and state, since the ....
3 day of .... and that I am .... years of age; and that I am
4 the identical person registered in said precinct under the
5 name I subscribe hereto."
6 This affidavit shall be signed and sworn to or affirmed
7 before any person authorized to administer oaths or
8 affirmations. The decision on each application shall be
9 announced at once after the hearing, and a minute made
10 thereof, and when an application to be registered or to be
11 restored to the register or to complete registration shall be
12 allowed, the county clerk shall cause a minute to be made
13 upon the original and any duplicate registration record forms
14 cards.
15 All applications under this section and all hearings
16 hereinafter provided may be heard by a deputy county clerk or
17 clerks specially designated by the county clerk for this
18 purpose, and a decision by a deputy so designated, shall
19 become the decision of the county clerk upon approval by the
20 county clerk.
21 In any case in which the county clerk refuses an
22 application to be registered or restored or to have a
23 registration completed, or orders a name erased or stricken
24 from the register, application may be made to the circuit
25 court to be placed upon the register, and such applications
26 shall be heard, and appeals taken from refusal of such
27 applications, in the manner provided in other civil actions.
28 The court may, at its discretion, hear such applications upon
29 the same days as are specified in this Section for hearings
30 by the county clerk, and, in such cases, application to be
31 heard by the court may be made on such days. Forms for
32 applications to the court shall be furnished by the county
33 clerk.
34 (Source: P.A. 83-334.)
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1 (10 ILCS 5/4-15) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-15)
2 Sec. 4-15. Within 5 days After a person applies to
3 register registers or transfers his registration the election
4 authority at the office of the county clerk, such clerk shall
5 send by forwardable mail a Disposition of Registration as
6 provided for in Section 3A-7 of this Code certificate to such
7 person setting forth the elector's name and address as it
8 appears upon the voter registration application form record
9 card, and such other information as required in Section 3A-7.
10 If the Disposition of Registration is returned as
11 undeliverable not less than 120 days before the general
12 election or general primary, the Disposition of Registration
13 shall be considered the same as the returned, non-forwardable
14 mailing in Section 3A-9 shall request him in case of any
15 error to present the certificate on or before the 7th day
16 next ensuing at the office of the county clerk in order to
17 secure correction of the error. The certificate shall contain
18 on the outside a request for the postmaster to return it
19 within 5 days if it cannot be delivered to the addressee at
20 the address given thereon. Upon the return by the post office
21 of a certificate which it has been unable to deliver at the
22 given address because the addressee cannot be found there or
23 because no such address exists, a notice shall be at once
24 sent through the United States mail to such person at the
25 address appearing upon his registration record card requiring
26 him to appear before the county clerk, within 5 days, to
27 answer questions touching his right to register. If the
28 person notified fails to appear at the county clerk's office
29 within 5 days as directed or if he appears and fails to prove
30 his right to register, the county clerk shall mark his
31 registration card as incomplete and he shall not be permitted
32 to vote until his registration is satisfactorily completed.
33 If an elector possesses such a certificate valid on its
34 face and advising the elector that his or her voter
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1 registration is completed, if his or her name does not
2 expressly appear to have been erased or withdrawn from the
3 precinct list as corrected and revised as provided by Section
4 4--11 of this Article, if he or she makes an affidavit and
5 attaches such certificate thereto, and if such affidavit
6 substantially in the form prescribed in Section 17-- 10 of
7 this Act is sworn to before a judge of election on suitable
8 forms provided by the county clerk for that purpose, such
9 elector shall be permitted to vote even though his or her
10 name duplicate registration card is not to be found in the
11 precinct file binder and even though his or her name is not
12 to be found upon the printed or any other list.
13 (Source: Laws 1961, p. 3394.)
14 (10 ILCS 5/4-16) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-16)
15 Sec. 4-16. Any registered voter who changes his residence
16 from one address to another within the same county wherein
17 this Article is in effect, may have his registration
18 transferred to his new address by making and signing an
19 application for change of residence address upon a form to be
20 provided by the county clerk. Such application must be made
21 to the office of the county clerk and may be made either in
22 person or by mail. In case the person is unable to sign his
23 name, the county clerk shall require him to execute the
24 application in the presence of the county clerk or of his
25 properly authorized representative, by his mark, and if
26 satisfied of the identity of the person, the county clerk
27 shall make the transfer.
28 Upon receipt of the application, the county clerk, or one
29 of his employees deputized to take registrations shall cause
30 the signature of the voter and the data appearing upon the
31 application to be compared with the signature and data on the
32 existing voter registration application record card, and if
33 it appears that the applicant is the same person as the
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1 person previously registered under that name the transfer
2 shall be made.
3 No transfers of registration under the provisions of this
4 Section shall be made during the 28 days preceding any
5 election at which such voter would be entitled to vote except
6 that transfers of registration made by mail shall be deemed
7 as timely submitted if postmarked prior to the 28 days
8 preceding any election or if the postmark is illegible or not
9 in evidence received in the office of the county clerk no
10 later than 5 calendar days after the close of registration.
11 When a removal of a registered voter takes place from one
12 address to another within the same election jurisdiction
13 precinct within a period during which a transfer of
14 registration cannot be made before any election or primary,
15 he shall be entitled to vote upon presenting the judges of
16 election his affidavit substantially in the completed form
17 prescribed in Section 17-10 of this Act of a change of
18 residence address within the election jurisdiction precinct
19 on a date therein specified.
20 The county clerk may obtain information from utility
21 companies, city, village, incorporated town and township
22 records, the post office, or from other sources, regarding
23 the change of address removal of registered voters, and may
24 treat such information, and information procured from his
25 death and marriage records on file in his office, as cause to
26 confirm an application to erase from the register any name
27 concerning which he may so have information that the voter is
28 no longer qualified to vote under the name, or from the
29 address from which registered, and give notice thereof in the
30 manner provided by Section 3A-9 4--12 of this Code Article,
31 and notify voters who have changed their address that a
32 transfer of registration may be made in the manner provided
33 in this Section enclosing a form therefor.
34 If any person be registered by error in a precinct other
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1 than that in which he resides, the county clerk may transfer
2 his registration to the proper precinct, and if the error is
3 or may be on the part of the registration officials, and is
4 disclosed too late before an election or primary to mail the
5 certificate required by Section 4--15, such certificate may
6 be personally delivered to the voter and he or she may vote
7 thereon as therein provided, but such certificates so issued
8 shall be specially listed with the reason for the issuance
9 thereof.
10 Where a revision or rearrangement of precincts is made by
11 the county board, the county clerk shall immediately transfer
12 to the proper precinct the registration of any voter affected
13 by such revision or rearrangement of the precinct; make the
14 proper notations on the registration cards of a voter
15 affected by the revision or rearrangement and shall issue
16 revised certificates to each registrant of such change.
17 Any registered voter who changes his or her name by
18 marriage or otherwise shall be required to register anew and
19 authorize the cancellation of the previous registration; but
20 if the voter still resides in the same election jurisdiction
21 precinct and if the change of name takes place within a
22 period during which a transfer of registration cannot be
23 made, preceding any election or primary, the elector may, if
24 otherwise qualified, vote upon making an affidavit
25 substantially in the form prescribed in Section 17-10 of this
26 Act.
27 The precinct election officials shall report to the
28 county clerk the names and addresses of all persons who have
29 changed their addresses and voted, which shall be treated as
30 an application to change address accordingly, and the names
31 and addresses of all persons otherwise voting by affidavit as
32 in this Section provided, which shall be treated as an
33 application to erase under Section 4--12 hereof.
34 (Source: P.A. 83-999.)
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1 (10 ILCS 5/4-18) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-18)
2 Sec. 4-18. The county clerk on his or her own initiative
3 or upon the order of the county board or of the circuit court
4 shall at all times have authority to conduct investigations
5 in a nondiscriminatory manner and to make canvasses of the
6 registered voters in any precinct by other methods than those
7 prescribed herein, and shall at all times have authority to
8 confirm cancel registration information in the manner
9 provided by this Section. Canvassers appointed for such
10 canvasses and investigations shall be appointed by the county
11 clerk; shall be confirmed by the circuit court in the manner
12 provided by Section 13--3 of this Act for the confirmation of
13 judges of election; shall be officers of that court; and
14 shall be subject to the same control and punishment as judges
15 of election. If upon the basis of investigation or canvasses,
16 the county clerk is of the opinion that any person registered
17 under this Article 4 is not a qualified voter or has ceased
18 to be a qualified voter, he or she shall send a notice
19 through the United States mail to such person following the
20 procedures set forth in Section 3A-9 of this Code., requiring
21 him or her to appear before the county clerk for a hearing
22 within 5 days after the date of mailing the notice and show
23 cause why his or her registration shall not be cancelled. If
24 such person fails to appear within such time as provided, his
25 or her registration shall be cancelled. If such person does
26 appear, he or she shall execute an affidavit similar in every
27 respect to the affidavit required of applicants under Section
28 4--13 of this Article 4.
29 (Source: P.A. 83-334.)
30 (10 ILCS 5/4-20) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-20)
31 Sec. 4-20. The original registration applications cards
32 shall remain permanently in the office of the county clerk
33 except as destroyed as provided in Section 4-5.01; shall be
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1 filed alphabetically with or without regard to precincts, as
2 determined by county clerk; and shall be known as the master
3 file. An official registry of voters shall be compiled for
4 use in the polling place on election day for all elections
5 subject to the provisions of this Article 4. This registry
6 shall be an alphabetical or geographical listing of all
7 registered voters by precinct so as to correspond with the
8 arrangement of the list for such precincts compiled pursuant
9 to Section 4-11 of this Article and shall be known as the
10 precinct file.
11 The precinct file shall be in the form of a computer
12 printout as provided for in Section 4-20.1 or consist of
13 duplicate registration cards and true duplicates of voter
14 registration applications as provided for in Section 4-20.2.
15 In either instance, it shall be a true and accurate listing
16 of every registered voter for every precinct within the
17 jurisdiction. The duplicate registration cards shall
18 constitute the official registry of voters for all elections
19 subject to the provisions of this Article 4, shall be filed
20 by precincts alphabetically or geographically so as to
21 correspond with the arrangement of the list for such
22 precincts respectively, compiled pursuant to Section 4-11 of
23 this Article, and shall be known as the precinct file. The
24 precinct file duplicate cards for use in conducting elections
25 shall be delivered to the judges of election by the county
26 clerk in a suitable binder or other device, which shall be
27 locked and sealed in accordance with the directions to be
28 given by the county clerk and shall also be suitably indexed
29 for convenient use by the precinct officers. The precinct
30 file duplicate cards shall be delivered to the judges of
31 election for use at the polls for elections at the same time
32 as the official ballots are delivered to them, and shall be
33 returned to the county clerk by the judges of election within
34 the time provided for the return of the official ballots. The
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1 county clerk shall determine the manner of delivery and
2 return of such precinct files duplicate cards, and shall at
3 all other times retain them at his or her office except for
4 such use of them as may be made under this Code Article with
5 respect to registration not at the office of the county
6 clerk.
7 (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
8 (10 ILCS 5/4-20.1 new)
9 Sec. 4-20.1. All precinct files in the form of a
10 computer printout shall contain the date of the election for
11 which it was generated, the precinct number or other
12 identifier, the number of registered voters in that precinct
13 and such other information as prescribed by rule of the State
14 Board of Elections and shall include but not be limited to
15 the following information concerning each registered voter of
16 the precinct as attested to on the voter registration
17 application: last name, first name and middle name or
18 initial; residence address; date of birth, if provided; last
19 four digits of the social security number; sex; and shall
20 include a true duplicate of the voter's signature. Space
21 shall be provided to record voter participation at that
22 election. Reproduction of the voter's signature and its
23 clarity, security and source document shall be in accord with
24 rules of the State Board of Elections and must not be
25 provided for any other purpose. Violations of this signature
26 reproduction restriction shall be a Class 3 felony and any
27 person who is convicted of violating this Section shall be
28 ineligible for public employment for a period of 5 years
29 immediately following the completion of that sentence.
30 (10 ILCS 5/4-20.2 new)
31 Sec. 4-20.2. Precinct files consisting of duplicate
32 registration cards and true duplicates of voter registration
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1 applications shall be alphabetically arranged and up-dated
2 prior to each election. Such true duplicates must be clear
3 and of the same size as the original and be true duplicates
4 of the front and back of the original. Rule of the State
5 Board of Elections shall prescribe the weight of paper of the
6 true duplicates and other specifications necessary to ensure
7 a legible and durable precinct file.
8 A duplicate registration card is a copy of the original
9 registration card generated at the time of registration; a
10 true duplicate registration card is a mechanically reproduced
11 copy of the original voter registration application.
12 (10 ILCS 5/4-22) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-22)
13 Sec. 4-22. Except as otherwise provided in this Section
14 upon application to vote each registered elector shall sign
15 his name or make his mark as the case may be, on a
16 certificate substantially as follows:
17 CERTIFICATE OF REGISTERED VOTER
18 City of ....... Ward ....... Precinct .......
19 Election ....... (Date) ....... (Month) ....... (Year)
20 Registration Record .......
21 Checked by .......
22 Voter's number ....
23 INSTRUCTION TO VOTERS
24 Sign this certificate and hand it to the election officer
25 in charge. After the registration record has been checked,
26 the officer will hand it back to you. Whereupon you shall
27 present it to the officer in charge of the ballots.
28 I hereby certify that I am registered from the address
29 below and am qualified to vote.
30 Signature of voter .......
31 residence address .......
32 An individual shall not be required to provide his social
33 security number when applying for a ballot. He shall not be
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1 denied a ballot, nor shall his ballot be challenged, solely
2 because of his refusal to provide his social security number.
3 Nothing in this Act prevents an individual from being
4 requested to provide his social security number when the
5 individual applies for a ballot. If, however, the certificate
6 contains a space for the individual's social security number,
7 the following notice shall appear on the certificate,
8 immediately above such space, in bold-face capital letters,
9 in type the size of which equals the largest type on the
10 certificate:
11 "THE INDIVIDUAL APPLYING FOR A BALLOT WITH THIS DOCUMENT
12 IS NOT REQUIRED TO DISCLOSE HIS OR HER SOCIAL SECURITY
13 NUMBER. HE OR SHE MAY NOT BE DENIED A BALLOT, NOR SHALL HIS
14 OR HER BALLOT BE CHALLENGED, SOLELY BECAUSE OF HIS OR HER
15 REFUSAL TO PROVIDE HIS OR HER SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER."
16 The certificates of each State-wide political party at a
17 general primary election shall be separately printed upon
18 paper of uniform quality, texture and size, but the
19 certificates of no 2 State-wide political parties shall be of
20 the same color or tint. However, if the election authority
21 provides computer generated applications with the precinct,
22 ballot style and voter's name and address preprinted on the
23 application, a single application may be used for State-wide
24 political parties if it contains spaces or check-off boxes to
25 indicate the political party. Such application shall not
26 entitle the voter to vote in the primary of more than one
27 political party at the same election.
28 At the consolidated primary, such certificates may
29 contain spaces or checkoff boxes permitting the voter to
30 request a primary ballot of any other political party which
31 is established only within a political subdivision and for
32 which a primary is conducted on the same election day. Such
33 application shall not entitle the voter to vote in both the
34 primary of the State-wide political party and the primary of
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1 the local political party with respect to the offices of the
2 same political subdivision. In no event may a voter vote in
3 more than one State-wide primary on the same day.
4 The judges in charge of the precinct registration files
5 shall compare the signature upon such certificate with the
6 signature on the precinct files registration record card as a
7 means of identifying the voter. Unless satisfied by such
8 signature comparison that the applicant to vote is the
9 identical person who is registered under the same name, the
10 judges shall ask such applicant the questions for
11 identification which appear on the precinct file registration
12 card, and if the applicant does not prove to the satisfaction
13 of a majority of the judges of the election precinct that he
14 is the identical person registered under the name in question
15 then the vote of such applicant shall be challenged by a
16 judge of election, and the same procedure followed as
17 provided by law for challenged voters.
18 In case the elector is unable to sign his name, a judge
19 of election shall check the data on the precinct file
20 registration card and shall check the address given, with the
21 registered address, in order to determine whether he is
22 entitled to vote.
23 One of the judges of election shall check the certificate
24 of each applicant for a ballot after the precinct file
25 registration record has been examined, and shall sign his
26 initials on the certificate in the space provided therefor,
27 and shall enter upon such certificate the number of the voter
28 in the place provided therefor, and make an entry in the
29 voting record space on the precinct file registration record,
30 to indicate whether or not the applicant voted. Such judge
31 shall then hand such certificate back to the applicant in
32 case he is permitted to vote, and such applicant shall hand
33 it to the judge of election in charge of the ballots. The
34 certificates of the voters shall be filed in the order in
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1 which they are received and shall constitute an official poll
2 record. The term "poll lists" and "poll books", where used
3 in this Article, shall be construed to apply to such official
4 poll record.
5 After each general primary election the county clerk
6 shall indicate by color code or other means next to the name
7 of each registrant on the list of registered voters in each
8 precinct the primary ballot of a political party that the
9 registrant requested at that general primary election. The
10 county clerk, within 60 days after the general primary
11 election, shall provide a copy of this coded list to the
12 chairman of the county central committee of each established
13 political party or to the chairman's duly authorized
14 representative.
15 Within 60 days after the effective date of this
16 amendatory Act of 1983, the county clerk shall provide to the
17 chairman of the county central committee of each established
18 political party or to the chairman's duly authorized
19 representative the list of registered voters in each precinct
20 at the time of the general primary election of 1982 and shall
21 indicate on such list by color code or other means next to
22 the name of a registrant the primary ballot of a political
23 party that the registrant requested at the general primary
24 election of 1982.
25 The county clerk may charge a fee to reimburse the actual
26 cost of duplicating each copy of a list provided under
27 either of the 2 preceding paragraph paragraphs.
28 Where an elector makes application to vote by signing and
29 presenting the certificate provided by this Section, and his
30 name is not found registration record card is not found in
31 the precinct file registry of voters, but his name appears as
32 that of a registered voter in such precinct upon the printed
33 precinct register as corrected or revised by the supplemental
34 list, or upon the consolidated list, if any, and whose name
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1 has not been erased or withdrawn from such register, the
2 printed precinct register as corrected or revised by the
3 supplemental list, or consolidated list, if any, shall be
4 prima facie evidence of the elector's right to vote upon
5 compliance with the provisions hereinafter set forth in this
6 Section. In such event any one of the judges of election
7 shall require an affidavit by such person and one voter
8 residing in the precinct before the judges of election,
9 substantially in the form prescribed in Section 17-10 of this
10 Act, and upon the presentation of such affidavits, a
11 certificate shall be issued to such elector, and upon the
12 presentation of such certificate and affidavits, he shall be
13 entitled to vote.
14 Provided, however, that applications for ballots made by
15 registered voters under the provisions of Article 19 of this
16 Act shall be accepted by the Judges of Election in lieu of
17 the "Certificate of Registered Voter" provided for in this
18 Section.
19 When the county clerk delivers to the judges of election
20 for use at the polls a supplemental or consolidated list of
21 the printed precinct register, he shall give a copy of the
22 supplemental or consolidated list to the chairman of a county
23 central committee of an established political party or to the
24 chairman's duly authorized representative.
25 Whenever 2 or more elections occur simultaneously, the
26 election authority charged with the duty of providing
27 application certificates may prescribe the form thereof so
28 that a voter is required to execute only one, indicating in
29 which of the elections he desires to vote.
30 After the signature has been verified, the judges shall
31 determine in which political subdivisions the voter resides
32 by use of the information contained on the precinct file
33 voter registration cards or the separate registration lists
34 or other means approved by the State Board of Elections and
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1 prepared and supplied by the election authority. The voter's
2 certificate shall be so marked by the judges as to show the
3 respective ballots which the voter is given.
4 (Source: P.A. 84-809.)
5 (10 ILCS 5/4-24) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-24)
6 Sec. 4-24. In the event that any city, village or
7 incorporated town within a county shall become subject to the
8 authority of a board of election commissioners, by the
9 adoption of Articles 6, 14 and 18 of this Act, or shall cease
10 to be subject to the authority of such a board, by the
11 abandonment of said Articles, it shall not be necessary for
12 the registered voters in the area affected by such action to
13 register again, either under this Article or under Article 6
14 of this Act unless they are not re-registered under the 1969
15 and 1970 re-registration provisions in counties where such
16 provisions are applicable.
17 This Article 4 shall immediately become effective in any
18 area of a county that ceases to be subject to the authority
19 of a board of election commissioners.
20 Within 24 hours after the court has entered its order
21 declaring Articles 6, 14 and 18 of this Act adopted by any
22 city, village or incorporated town or rejected by the voters
23 of any city, village or incorporated town, after having been
24 in effect therein, it shall be the duty of the board of
25 election commissioners or of the county clerk, as the case
26 may be, to turn over to the officer or officers thereafter to
27 be charged with the registration of voters within the area
28 affected (the county clerk or board of election
29 commissioners, as the case may be) the original and any
30 duplicate voter registration applications cards of all
31 persons affected by the adoption or rejection of said
32 Articles 6, 14 and 18 of this Act; and at the same time to
33 turn over all forms, papers and other instruments pertaining
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1 to the registration of voters within the area affected, and
2 all booths, ballot boxes and election equipment formerly used
3 in conducting elections in such area.
4 The original registration applications cards of the
5 voters turned over to the county clerk or board of election
6 commissioners, as the case may be, shall be placed in a
7 master file together with the registration forms cards of all
8 voters who previously registered under the provisions of this
9 Article or of Articles 6, 14 and 18 of this Act, as the case
10 may be, and said forms cards shall then become part of the
11 official registration record required to be kept in the
12 office of the county clerk or of the board of election
13 commissioners, as the case may be.
14 Precinct files consisting of duplicate cards and true
15 duplicates of voter registration applications The duplicate
16 cards shall be arranged in precinct order and shall be
17 retained in the office of the county clerk or of the board of
18 election commissioners, as the case may be, for the use in
19 conducting elections. Such precinct file duplicate cards
20 shall become part of the official registration record
21 required to be kept in the office of the county clerk or of
22 the board of election commissioners, as the case may be.
23 (Source: P.A. 83-334.)
24 (10 ILCS 5/4-24.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-24.1)
25 Sec. 4-24.1. If any area becomes subject to a board of
26 election commissioners by reason of annexation to a city,
27 village or incorporated town subject to such a board or
28 ceases to be subject to a board of election commissioners by
29 reason of disconnection from such a city, village or
30 incorporated town, it shall not be necessary for the
31 registered voters in such area to register again, either
32 under this Article or Article 6.
33 As soon as practicable after such annexation or
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1 disconnection, the county clerk or board of election
2 commissioners, as the case may be, shall turn over to officer
3 or officers thereafter to be charged with the registration of
4 voters within the area affected (the board of election
5 commissioners or county clerk, as the case may be) the voter
6 registration applications original and duplicate registration
7 cards of all registered voters in the annexed or disconnected
8 area.
9 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 405.)
10 (10 ILCS 5/4-27) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-27)
11 Sec. 4-27. At each regular special or primary election to
12 which this Article 4 is applicable, the judges of election
13 shall personally affix all affidavits made before them in
14 accordance with the provisions of Sections 4--15, 4--16,
15 4--22, 4--23, 7--45 or 17--10, respectively, to the
16 respective applications to vote.
17 Persons voting for whom no registration card is found in
18 the master file or precinct file binder shall be investigated
19 by the county clerk or persons in his office, as shall
20 likewise be investigated the correctness of affidavits filed
21 under the provisions of the Sections hereinbefore in this
22 Section enumerated. If from such investigation the county
23 clerk shall be satisfied that the provisions of this Article
24 have been violated, or that any person has voted who was not
25 qualified so to do, he shall make a complete report to the
26 State's Attorney of the County, attaching thereto a correct
27 copy of the application to vote and any affidavit which may
28 have been executed by the voter and supporting witnesses, if
29 any. The State's Attorney shall prosecute all such reports of
30 fraud if on the basis of the facts so reported, and of any
31 additional investigation he may cause to be made, he shall be
32 satisfied that a knowing violation of this Article or of this
33 Act has been committed. The County Clerk shall further file
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1 with the circuit court, for such action as is provided in
2 cases of the misbehavior of judges of election, a copy of any
3 such report in which it shall appear that the judges of
4 election knowingly permitted a person to vote who was not
5 qualified so to do under the provisions of this Article or of
6 this Act, or otherwise were guilty of a knowing breach of
7 their duties as such under this Act.
8 (Source: Laws 1965, p. 3481.)
9 (10 ILCS 5/4-30) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-30)
10 Sec. 4-30. The county clerk on his own initiative or
11 upon order of the county board shall at all times have
12 authority to conduct investigations in a nondiscriminatory
13 manner investigation and to make canvasses of the registered
14 voters in any precinct canvass or at other times and by other
15 methods than those so prescribed. However, the county clerk
16 shall at least once in every 2 years, and in no case in less
17 than 120 days before a general primary or general election,
18 conduct a verification of voter registrations as prescribed
19 in Section 3A-9 of this Code and shall cause the cancellation
20 of registration of persons who have ceased to be qualified
21 voters. Such verification shall be accomplished by one of
22 the following methods: (1) precinct canvass conducted by 2
23 qualified persons of opposite party affiliation appointed by
24 the county clerk or (2) written request for verification sent
25 to each registered voter by first class mail, not forwardable
26 or (3) an alternative method of verification submitted in
27 writing to and approved by the State Board of Elections at a
28 public meeting not less than 60 days prior to the date on
29 which the county clerk has fixed for implementation of that
30 method of verification; provided, that the county clerk shall
31 submit to the State Board of Elections a written statement of
32 the results obtained by use of such alternative method within
33 30 days of completion of the verification. Provided that in
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1 each precinct one canvasser may be appointed from outside
2 such precinct if not enough other qualified persons who
3 reside within the precinct can be found to serve as canvasser
4 in such precinct. The one canvasser so appointed to serve in
5 any precinct in which he is not entitled to vote prior to the
6 election must be entitled to vote elsewhere within the ward,
7 township or road district which includes within its
8 boundaries the precinct in which such canvasser is appointed
9 and such canvasser must be otherwise qualified. If upon the
10 basis of investigation or canvasses, the county clerk shall
11 be of the opinion that any person registered under this
12 Article is not a qualified voter or has ceased to be a
13 qualified voter, he shall send a notice through the United
14 States mail to such person and follow the procedures set
15 forth in Section 3A-9 of this Code., requiring him to appear
16 before the county clerk for a hearing within ten days after
17 the date of mailing such notice and show cause why his
18 registration shall not be cancelled. If such person fails to
19 appear within such time as provided, his registration shall
20 be cancelled. If such a person does appear, he shall make an
21 affidavit similar in every respect to the affidavit required
22 of applicants under Section 4-13 and his registration shall
23 be reinstated.
24 If the county clerk cancels such registration upon the
25 voter failing to appear, the county clerk shall immediately
26 request of the clerk of the city, village or incorporated
27 town in which the person claimed residence, to return the
28 triplicate card of registration of the said person and within
29 twenty-four hours after receipt of said request, the said
30 clerk shall mail or cause to be delivered to the county clerk
31 the triplicate card of registration of the said person and
32 the said triplicate card shall thereupon be cancelled by the
33 county clerk.
34 (Source: P.A. 84-1308.)
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1 (10 ILCS 5/5-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-1)
2 Sec. 5-1. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be
3 unlawful for any person residing in a county containing a
4 population of 500,000 or more, to vote at any election,
5 unless such person is at the time of such election a
6 registered voter under the requirements of Article 3A or of
7 this Article 5 or is exempt under Section 5-29.01 from
8 registration. Provided, that this Article 5 shall not apply
9 to electors residing in cities, villages, and incorporated
10 towns in this State which have adopted or are operating under
11 Article 6, 14 and 18 of this Act, or to electors voting
12 pursuant to Article 20 of this Act.
13 (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
14 (10 ILCS 5/5-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-6)
15 Sec. 5-6. Subject to the provisions of Section 5-19 of
16 this Article 5, in addition to the registration authorized at
17 the offices of the County Clerk, city clerk, town clerk,
18 incorporated town clerk and village clerk under Section 5-5
19 of this Article 5, and that provided by Section 5-17 of this
20 Article 5, there shall be three days of re-registration in
21 each precinct as established by the Board of County
22 Commissioners for county and township elections. The first of
23 said three days of re-registration shall be Friday, September
24 15, 1961; the second of said three days of re-registration
25 shall be Friday, October 13, 1961 and the third of said three
26 days of re-registration shall be Tuesday, March 13, 1962. On
27 each of the said three days of re-registration the
28 registration places shall open at eight o'clock a. m. and
29 remain open until nine o'clock p. m. It shall be the duty of
30 the County Board to appoint the place of registry in each
31 precinct and the provisions of Section 5-3 of this Article 5
32 shall apply thereto.
33 The re-registration provided by this Article 5 shall
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1 constitute a permanent registration subject to revision and
2 alteration in the manner hereinafter provided. All
3 registrations shall be upon registration application forms
4 record cards provided by an election authority or as
5 otherwise provided by this Code the County Clerk in
6 accordance with the provisions of this Article 5.
7 Immediately following the first day of precinct
8 re-registration in 1961, all permanent registration records
9 compiled prior to September 15, 1961, shall be destroyed if
10 no election contest is pending in which such records are
11 material.
12 (Source: Laws 1959, p. 1919.)
13 (10 ILCS 5/5-7) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-7)
14 Sec. 5-7. The county clerk shall provide a sufficient
15 number of blank forms for the registration of electors which
16 shall be known as registration record cards and which shall
17 consist of loose leaf sheets or cards, of suitable size to
18 contain in plain writing and figures the data hereinafter
19 required thereon or shall consist of computer cards of
20 suitable nature to contain the data required thereon. The
21 registration record cards, which shall include an affidavit
22 of registration as hereinafter provided, shall be executed in
23 duplicate.
24 The registration record card shall contain the following
25 and such other information as the county clerk may think it
26 proper to require for the identification of the applicant for
27 registration:
28 Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and first
29 or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the initial
30 for such middle name, if any.
31 Sex.
32 Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or
33 other location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit
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1 or room number, if any, and in the case of a mobile home the
2 lot number, and such additional clear and definite
3 description as may be necessary to determine the exact
4 location of the dwelling of the applicant, including
5 post-office mailing address. In the case of a homeless
6 individual, the individual's voting residence that is his or
7 her mailing address shall be included on his or her
8 registration record card.
9 Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the
10 precinct. Which questions may be answered by the applicant
11 stating, in excess of 30 days in the State and in excess of
12 30 days in the precinct.
13 Nativity. The State or country in which the applicant was
14 born.
15 Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
16 naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place and date of
17 naturalization.
18 Date of application for registration, i. e., the day,
19 month and year when applicant presented himself for
20 registration.
21 Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
22 The last 4 digits of the social security number shall be
23 required. However, space shall be provided for the full
24 social security number which, if provided, shall not be
25 disclosed to the general public or, unless warranted, to
26 persons other than the election authority or State election
27 officials.
28 Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time
29 of registration, which would require assistance in voting.
30 The county and state in which the applicant was last
31 registered.
32 Signature of voter. The applicant, after the registration
33 and in the presence of a deputy registrar or other officer of
34 registration shall be required to sign his or her name in ink
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1 to the affidavit on the original and duplicate registration
2 record card.
3 Signature of Deputy Registrar.
4 In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may
5 affix his mark to the affidavit. In such case the officer
6 empowered to give the registration oath shall write a
7 detailed description of the applicant in the space provided
8 at the bottom of the card or sheet; and shall ask the
9 following questions and record the answers thereto:
10 Father's first name.......................
11 Mother's first name.......................
12 From what address did you last register?
13 Reason for inability to sign name.
14 Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit
15 in substantially the following form:
16 AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
17 State of Illinois)
18 )ss
19 County of )
20 I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
21 United States; that on the date of the next election I shall
22 have resided in the State of Illinois and in the election
23 precinct in which I reside 30 days; that I am fully qualified
24 to vote. That I intend that this location shall be my
25 residence and that the above statements are true.
26 ..............................
27 (His or her signature or mark)
28 Subscribed and sworn to before me this.... day of....,
29 19...
30 Signature of Registration Officer. (To be signed in
31 presence of Registrant.)
32 Space shall be provided upon the face of each
33 registration record card for the notation of the voting
34 record of the person registered thereon except in those
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1 jurisdictions having the voter's history and signature stored
2 electronically.
3 Each registration record card shall be numbered according
4 to towns and precincts, wards, cities and villages, as the
5 case may be, and may be serially or otherwise marked for
6 identification in such manner as the county clerk may
7 determine.
8 The voter registration applications cards shall be deemed
9 public records and shall be open to inspection during regular
10 business hours, except during the 28 days immediately
11 preceding any election. On written request of any candidate
12 or objector or any person intending to object to a petition,
13 the election authority shall extend its hours for inspection
14 of registration applications cards and other records of the
15 election authority during the period beginning with the
16 filing of petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or 28-3
17 and continuing through the termination of electoral board
18 hearings on any objections to petitions containing signatures
19 of registered voters in the jurisdiction of the election
20 authority. The extension shall be for a period of hours
21 sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
22 the records but the election authority is not required to
23 extend its hours beyond the period beginning at its normal
24 opening for business and ending at midnight. If the business
25 hours are so extended, the election authority shall post a
26 public notice of such extended hours. Registration
27 applications record cards may also be inspected, upon
28 approval of the officer in charge of the forms cards, during
29 the 28 days immediately preceding any election. Registration
30 information found in the precinct file as provided in Section
31 5-28 record cards shall also be open to inspection by
32 certified judges and poll watchers and challengers at the
33 polling place on election day, but only to the extent
34 necessary to determine the question of the right of a person
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1 to vote or to serve as a judge of election. At no time shall
2 poll watchers or challengers be allowed to physically handle
3 the precinct file registration record cards.
4 Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or
5 other electronic data processing information containing voter
6 registration information shall be furnished by the county
7 clerk within 10 days after December 15 and May 15 each year
8 to the State Board of Elections in a form prescribed by the
9 Board. Registration information shall include, but not be
10 limited to, the following information: name, sex, residence,
11 the full social security number or last 4 digits whichever
12 the registrant has provided, telephone number, if any, date
13 of birth, if available, age, party affiliation, if
14 applicable, precinct, ward, township, county, and
15 representative, legislative and congressional districts. In
16 the event of noncompliance, the State Board of Elections is
17 directed to obtain compliance forthwith with this
18 nondiscretionary duty of the election authority by
19 instituting legal proceedings in the circuit court of the
20 county in which the election authority maintains the
21 registration information. The costs of furnishing updated
22 copies of tapes or discs shall be paid at a rate of $.00034
23 per name of registered voters in the election jurisdiction,
24 but not less than $50 per tape or disc and shall be paid from
25 appropriations made to the State Board of Elections for
26 reimbursement to the election authority for such purpose. The
27 Board shall furnish copies of such tapes, discs, other
28 electronic data or compilations thereof, excluding any
29 portion of any social security number, to state political
30 committees registered pursuant to the Illinois Campaign
31 Finance Act or the Federal Election Campaign Act at their
32 request and at a reasonable cost. Copies of the tapes, discs
33 or other electronic data, excluding any portion of any social
34 security number, shall be furnished by the county clerk to
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1 local political committees at their request and at a
2 reasonable cost. Reasonable cost of the tapes, discs, et
3 cetera for this purpose would be the cost of duplication plus
4 15% for administration. The individual representing a
5 political committee requesting copies of such tapes shall
6 make a sworn affidavit that the information shall be used
7 only for bona fide political purposes, including by or for
8 candidates for office or incumbent office holders. Such
9 tapes, discs or other electronic data shall not be used under
10 any circumstances by any political committee or individuals
11 for purposes of commercial solicitation or other business
12 purposes. If such tapes contain information on county
13 residents related to the operations of county government in
14 addition to registration information, that information shall
15 not be used under any circumstances for commercial
16 solicitation or other business purposes. The prohibition in
17 this Section against using the computer tapes or computer
18 discs or other electronic data processing information
19 containing voter registration information for purposes of
20 commercial solicitation or other business purposes shall be
21 prospective only from the effective date of this amended Act
22 of 1979. Any person who violates this provision shall be
23 guilty of a Class 4 felony.
24 The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October
25 1, 1987, such regulations as may be necessary to ensure
26 uniformity throughout the State in electronic data processing
27 of voter registration information. The regulations shall
28 include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
29 uniform medium, communications protocol and file structure to
30 be employed by the election authorities of this State in the
31 electronic data processing of voter registration information.
32 Each election authority utilizing electronic data processing
33 of voter registration information shall comply with such
34 regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
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1 If the applicant for registration was last registered in
2 another county within this State, he shall also sign a
3 certificate authorizing cancellation of the former
4 registration. The certificate shall be in substantially the
5 following form:
6 To the County Clerk of.... County, Illinois. To the Election
7 Commission of the City of...., Illinois.
8 This is to certify that I am registered in your (county)
9 (city) and that my residence was.....
10 Having moved out of your (county) (city), I hereby
11 authorize you to cancel said registration in your office.
12 Dated at.... Illinois, this.... day of...., 19...
13 ....................
14 (Signature of Voter)
15 Attest......, County Clerk,........ County, Illinois.
16 The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately
17 by the county clerk to the county clerk (or election
18 commission as the case may be) where the applicant was
19 formerly registered. Receipt of such certificate shall be
20 full authority for cancellation of any previous registration.
21 (Source: P.A. 86-873; 86-1348; 87-1241.)
22 (10 ILCS 5/5-7.01) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-7.01)
23 Sec. 5-7.01. If an applicant for registration reports a
24 permanent physical disability which would require assistance
25 in voting, the county clerk shall mark all his registration
26 forms cards in the right margin on the front of the form card
27 with a band of ink running the full margin which shall be of
28 contrast to, and easily distinguishable from, the color of
29 the form card. If an applicant for registration attests
30 declares upon properly witnessed oath, with his signature or
31 mark affixed, that he cannot read the English language and
32 that he will require assistance in voting, all his
33 registration forms cards shall be marked in a manner similar
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1 to the marking on the forms cards of a voter who requires
2 assistance because of physical disability, except that the
3 marking shall be of a different distinguishing color.
4 Following each election the forms cards of any voter who has
5 requested assistance as a disabled voter, and has stated that
6 the disability is permanent, or who has received assistance
7 because of inability to read the English language, shall be
8 marked in the same manner.
9 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3524.)
10 (10 ILCS 5/5-7.03) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-7.03)
11 Sec. 5-7.03. If the applicant for registration in the
12 office of the election authority or before a deputy registrar
13 was last registered in another election jurisdiction within
14 this State, he shall also sign a certificate authorizing
15 cancellation of the former registration. The certificate
16 shall be in substantially the following form: To the County
17 Clerk of ... County, Illinois.
18 To the Election Commission of the (City) (County) of
19 ....., Illinois.
20 This is to certify that I am registered in your (county)
21 (City) and that my residence was ....................Having
22 moved out of your (county) (city), I hereby authorize you to
23 cancel the registration in your office. Dated at ....,
24 Illinois, this .... day of ...., 19..
25 .............................
26 (Signature of Voter)
27 Attest:......................, County Clerk, ...........
28 County, Illinois
29 The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately
30 by the County Clerk to the County (or election commission as
31 the case may be) where the applicant was formerly registered.
32 Receipt of such certificate shall be full authority for
33 cancellation of any previous registration. The State Board of
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1 Elections shall design a registration record card which,
2 except as otherwise provided in this Section, shall be used
3 in triplicate by all election authorities in the State,
4 beginning with registrations taken on or after January 1,
5 1986. The Board shall prescribe the form and specifications,
6 including but not limited to the weight of paper, color and
7 print of such cards. Such cards shall contain boxes or
8 spaces for the information required under Sections 5-7 and
9 5-28.1 of this Code; provided, that such cards shall also
10 contain a box or space for the applicant's driver's license
11 number, or where allowable the applicant's social security
12 number, if any, and a box for the applicant's telephone
13 number, if available.
14 The original and duplicate cards shall respectively
15 constitute the master file and precinct binder registration
16 records of the voter. The triplicate card shall be given to
17 the applicant upon completion of his or her registration or
18 completed transfer of registration.
19 Whenever a voter moves to another precinct within the
20 same election jurisdiction or to another election
21 jurisdiction in the State, such voter may transfer his or her
22 registration by presenting his or her triplicate card to the
23 election authority or a deputy registrar. If such voter is
24 not in possession of or has lost his or her triplicate card,
25 he or she may effect a transfer of registration by executing
26 an Affidavit of Cancellation of Previous Registration or by
27 submitting a completed voter registration application. Any
28 transfer of registration received in the office of election
29 authority or postmarked prior to the close of registration
30 shall be deemed to be timely filed. If a postmark is not in
31 evidence or legible, it shall be considered as timely filed
32 if received in the office of the election authority no later
33 than 5 calendar days after the close of registration. In the
34 case of a transfer of registration to a new election
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1 jurisdiction, the election authority shall transmit the
2 voter's triplicate card or such affidavit to the election
3 authority of the voter's former election jurisdiction, which
4 shall immediately cause the transmission of the voter's
5 previous registration card to the voter's new election
6 authority. No transfer of registration to a new election
7 jurisdiction shall be complete until the voter's old election
8 authority receives notification.
9 Deputy registrars shall return all triplicate cards or
10 Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous Registration to the
11 election authority within 7 working days after the receipt
12 thereof, except that such cards or Affidavits of Cancellation
13 of Previous Registration received by the deputy registrars
14 between the 35th and 29th 28th day preceding an election
15 shall be returned by the deputy registrars to the election
16 authority within 48 hours after receipt. The deputy
17 registrars shall return the cards or Affidavits of
18 Cancellation of Previous Registration received by them on the
19 29th 28th day preceding an election to the election authority
20 within 24 hours after receipt thereof.
21 The date by which an election authority is required to
22 take registrations in compliance with this Section may be
23 extended by the State Board of Elections to a date no later
24 than July 1, 1986, where, prior to January 1, 1986, the Board
25 has received a written request for such an extension from the
26 election authority and such request has shown good cause for
27 the extension.
28 (Source: P.A. 86-873.)
29 (10 ILCS 5/5-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-8)
30 Sec. 5-8. The County Clerk shall supply Deputy
31 Registrars, Officers of Registration and Judges of
32 Registration with registration forms and shall fully instruct
33 them in their duties. Each Deputy Registrar, Officer of
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1 Registration and Judge of Registration shall receipt to the
2 County Clerk for all blank voter registration application
3 forms records issued to them, specifying therein the number
4 of blanks received by them, and each Deputy Registrar,
5 Officer of Registration and Judge of Registration shall be
6 charged with such blanks until he returns them to the County
7 Clerk. If for any cause a blank voter registration
8 application form record card is mutilated or rendered unfit
9 for use in making it out, or if a mistake therein has been
10 made, such blank shall not be destroyed, but the word
11 "mutilated" shall be written across the face of such form
12 blank, and such form blank shall be returned to the County
13 Clerk and shall be preserved in the same manner and for the
14 same length of time as mutilated ballots. When each 1961 and
15 1962 precinct re-registration shall have been completed, a
16 Deputy Registrar or Judge of Registration shall return all
17 registration record cards to the County Clerk whether such
18 cards have been filled out, executed or whether they are
19 unused, or whether they have been mutilated. A Deputy
20 Registrar, or Judge of Registration for precinct registration
21 shall make personal delivery of the registration records to
22 the County Clerk, after the close of each precinct
23 registration. Each Deputy Registrar and Judge of Registration
24 shall certify the registration records in substantially the
25 following form:
26 "We, the undersigned Deputy Registrars and Judge of
27 Registration in the County of .... in the State of Illinois,
28 do swear (or affirm) that at the registration of electors on
29 the .... day of .... there was registered by us in the said
30 election precinct the names which appear on the registration
31 records, and that the number of voters registered and
32 qualified was and is the number .....
33 .... (Judge of Registration)
34 .... (Deputy Registrar)
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1 .... (Deputy Registrar)
2 Date ....."
3 (Source: Laws 1959, p. 1919.)
4 (10 ILCS 5/5-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-9)
5 Sec. 5-9. Except as herein provided, no person shall be
6 registered unless he applies in person to a registration
7 officer, answers such relevant questions as may be asked of
8 him by the registration officer, and executes the affidavit
9 of registration or submits a valid voter registration
10 application under the provisions of Article 3A. The
11 registration officer shall require the applicant to furnish
12 two forms of identification, and except in the case of a
13 homeless individual, one of which must include his or her
14 residence address. These forms of identification shall
15 include, but not be limited to, any of the following:
16 driver's license, social security card, public aid
17 identification card, utility bill, employee or student
18 identification card, credit card, or a civic, union or
19 professional association membership card. The registration
20 officer shall require a homeless individual to furnish
21 evidence of his or her use of the mailing address stated.
22 This use may be demonstrated by a piece of mail addressed to
23 that individual and received at that address or by a
24 statement from a person authorizing use of the mailing
25 address. The registration officer shall require each
26 applicant for registration to read or have read to him the
27 affidavit of registration before permitting him to execute
28 the affidavit.
29 One of the Deputy Registrars, the Judge of Registration,
30 or an Officer of Registration, County Clerk, or clerk in the
31 office of the County Clerk, shall administer to all persons
32 who shall personally apply to register the following oath or
33 affirmation:
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1 "You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will fully
2 and truly answer all such questions as shall be put to you
3 touching your place of residence, name, place of birth, your
4 qualifications as an elector and your right as such to
5 register and vote under the laws of the State of Illinois."
6 The Registration Officer shall satisfy himself that each
7 applicant for registration is qualified to register before
8 registering him. If the registration officer has reason to
9 believe that the applicant is a resident of a Soldiers' and
10 Sailors' Home or any facility which is licensed or certified
11 pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act, the following question
12 shall be put, "When you entered the home which is your
13 present address, was it your bona fide intention to become a
14 resident thereof?" Any voter of a township, city, village or
15 incorporated town in which such applicant resides, shall be
16 permitted to be present at the place of precinct
17 registration, and shall have the right to challenge any
18 applicant who applies to be registered.
19 In case the officer is not satisfied that the applicant
20 is qualified, he shall forthwith in writing notify such
21 applicant to appear before the County Clerk to furnish
22 further proof of his qualifications. Upon the application
23 form card of such applicant shall be written the word
24 "Incomplete" and no such applicant shall be permitted to vote
25 unless such registration is satisfactorily completed as
26 hereinafter provided. No registration shall be taken and
27 marked as "incomplete" if information to complete it can be
28 furnished on the date of the original application.
29 Any person claiming to be an elector in any election
30 precinct in such township, city, village or incorporated town
31 and whose registration application is marked "Incomplete" may
32 make and sign an application in writing, under oath, to the
33 County Clerk in substance in the following form:
34 "I do solemnly swear that I,.......... did on
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1 ........... make application to the Board of Registry of the
2 ........ precinct of ........ ward of the City of .... or
3 of the ......... District ......... Town of .......... (or
4 to the County Clerk of ............. ) and ............
5 County; that said Board or Clerk refused to complete my
6 registration as a qualified voter in said precinct, that I
7 reside in said precinct (or that I intend to reside in said
8 precinct), am a duly qualified voter and entitled to vote in
9 said precinct at the next election.
10 ...........................
11 (Signature of Applicant)"
12 All such applications shall be presented to the County
13 Clerk by the applicant, in person between the hours of nine
14 o'clock a. m. and five o'clock p. m., on Monday and
15 Tuesday of the third week subsequent to the weeks in which
16 the 1961 and 1962 precinct re-registrations are to be held,
17 and thereafter for the registration provided in Section 5-17
18 of this Article, all such applications shall be presented to
19 the County Clerk by the applicant in person between the hours
20 of nine o'clock a.m. and nine o'clock p. m. on Monday and
21 Tuesday of the third week prior to the date on which such
22 election is to be held.
23 Any otherwise qualified person who is absent from his
24 county of residence either due to business of the United
25 States or because he is temporarily outside the territorial
26 limits of the United States may become registered by mailing
27 an application as provided in Section 3A-3, except such
28 person is not required to vote the first time in person
29 pursuant to Section 3A-4, to the county clerk within the
30 periods of registration provided for in this Article or by
31 simultaneous application for absentee registration and
32 absentee ballot as provided in Article 20 of this Code.
33 Upon receipt of such application the county clerk shall
34 immediately mail an affidavit of registration in duplicate,
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1 which affidavit shall contain the following and such other
2 information as the State Board of Elections may think it
3 proper to require for the identification of the applicant:
4 Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and
5 first or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the
6 initial for such middle name, if any.
7 Sex.
8 Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue or
9 other location of the dwelling, and such additional clear and
10 definite description as may be necessary to determine the
11 exact location of the dwelling of the applicant. Where the
12 location cannot be determined by street and number, then the
13 Section, congressional township and range number may be used,
14 or such other information as may be necessary, including post
15 office mailing address.
16 Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the
17 precinct.
18 Nativity. The State or country in which the applicant
19 was born.
20 Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
21 naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place and date of
22 naturalization.
23 Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
24 Out of State address of ..........................
25 AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
26 State of .........)
27 )ss
28 County of ........)
29 I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
30 United States; that on the day of the next election I shall
31 have resided in the State of Illinois for 6 months and in the
32 election precinct 30 days; that I am fully qualified to vote,
33 that I am not registered to vote anywhere else in the United
34 States, that I intend to remain a resident of the State of
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1 Illinois and of the election precinct, that I intend to
2 return to the State of Illinois, and that the above
3 statements are true.
4 ..............................
5 (His or her signature or mark)
6 Subscribed and sworn to before me, an officer qualified
7 to administer oaths, this ...... day of ..... 19 ...
8 ........................................
9 Signature of officer administering oath.
10 Upon receipt of the executed duplicate affidavit of
11 Registration, the county clerk shall transfer the information
12 contained thereon to duplicate Registration Cards provided
13 for in Section 5-7 of this Article and shall attach thereto a
14 copy of each of the duplicate affidavit of registration and
15 thereafter such registration card and affidavit shall
16 constitute the registration of such person the same as if he
17 had applied for registration in person.
18 (Source: P.A. 86-820; 87-1241.)
19 (10 ILCS 5/5-10) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-10)
20 Sec. 5-10. Pursuant to Section 3A-9 of this Code, the
21 election authority may from time to time but in no case
22 within 120 days before a general primary election or general
23 election canvass some or all of the voters in its
24 jurisdiction to confirm their addresses. If fewer than all
25 of the voters in the jurisdiction are selected to be
26 canvassed, the selection criteria shall be nondiscriminatory
27 with respect to race, creed, ethnic origin, political party
28 preference, and gender.
29 The two Deputy Registrars provided by this Article 5 for
30 re-registration in each precinct shall be the canvassers of
31 the precinct for which they are appointed.
32 The County Clerk shall furnish to each Deputy Registrar a
33 verification list of registered voters of the precinct or a
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1 blank book which shall be named "Verification List", each
2 page of which shall be ruled into columns, and to be marked
3 thus:
4 .............................................................
5 Write name of street on this line ...........................
6 .............................................................
7 Names Registered
8 .............................................................
9 House Miss Remarks
10 .........................
11 Number Last Name First Name Initial Mrs. "OK," moved or died
12 .............................................................
13 Such book shall contain pages sufficient to allow listing
14 of all names on the registration records record card by
15 street, avenue, alley, drive, lane, road and court in the
16 precinct in question. During the progress of the 3rd
17 re-registration, or immediately thereafter, each Deputy
18 Registrar shall transfer all the names upon the registration
19 record cards to such verification list; arranging them
20 according to streets, avenues, alleys, drives, lanes, roads
21 or courts, beginning with the lowest residence number, and
22 placing them numerically, as near as possible, from the
23 lowest up to the highest number, starting each street,
24 avenue, alley, drive, lane, road and court upon a separate
25 sheet.
26 They shall first write the name of such street, avenue,
27 alley, lane, road or court at the top of the page, and then
28 proceed to transfer the names of such "Verification Lists"
29 according to the street numbers as above indicated.
30 If, during either day of the 1961 and 1962 precinct
31 re-registration, any registered voter of the township, city,
32 village or incorporated town shall come before the Deputy
33 Registrars and the Judge of Registration and make an oath
34 that he believes that any particular person whose name has
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1 been entered upon the registry is not a qualified voter, such
2 fact shall be noted; and after the completion of such
3 "Verification Lists" one of the Registrars, or Judge of
4 Registration, shall make a cross or check mark in ink
5 opposite such name. If said Deputy Registrars or the Judge of
6 Registration know any person so complained of is a qualified
7 voter and believe that such complaint was made only to vex or
8 harass such qualified voter, then such name shall be placed
9 upon such lists without such cross or check mark, but such
10 cross or check mark shall be placed upon such lists in case
11 either of the Registrars or the Judge of Registration
12 desires.
13 (Source: Laws 1959, p. 1919.)
14 (10 ILCS 5/5-11) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-11)
15 Sec. 5-11. At a time designated by the election authority
16 Upon the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday following the last
17 day of precinct registration, if so much time is required,
18 the two Deputy Registrars shall go together and canvass the
19 precinct for which they have been appointed, calling at each
20 dwelling place as indicated upon said "Verification Lists";
21 and if they shall find that any person whose name appears
22 upon their "Verification Lists" does not reside at the place
23 designated thereupon, they shall make a notation in the
24 column headed "Remarks" as follows: "Not Found", "Died", or
25 "Moved", as the case may be, indicating that such person does
26 not reside at such place.
27 Whenever deemed necessary by the canvassers, or either of
28 them, he, she or they may demand of the person having
29 command of the police in such precinct to furnish a
30 policeman, to accompany them and protect them in the
31 performance of their duties; and it shall be the duty of the
32 person having command of the police in such precinct to
33 furnish a policeman for such purpose.
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1 In making such canvass no person shall refuse to answer
2 questions and give the information asked for and known to him
3 or her, or shall wilfully and knowingly give false
4 information, or make false statements. In making such canvass
5 said canvassers shall make special inquiry at the residence
6 or place designated on the said verification books, as to all
7 persons registered as qualified voters, and shall receive
8 information from judges of election, party canvassers, or
9 other persons.
10 (Source: Laws 1963, p. 2532.)
11 (10 ILCS 5/5-12) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-12)
12 Sec. 5-12. Immediately upon the completion of canvass,
13 said canvassers, or one of them, shall sign a notice and send
14 the same through the United States mail, duly stamped, to the
15 address given on the verification books, or in the case of
16 homeless individuals, to their mailing address, of all
17 persons in connection with whose names they have made a
18 notation indicating that they do not reside at such place.,
19 which notice shall require such persons to appear before the
20 Board of Revision, composed of said canvassers and the judge
21 of registration, on the Monday and Tuesday following
22 completion of the canvass, giving the time and place of such
23 session, to show cause why his or her name should not be
24 erased from the registry of the precinct in question. Proper
25 blanks and postage stamps shall be furnished for this purpose
26 to the canvassers by said County Clerk. A personal notice
27 shall also be served by the canvassers at the time such
28 canvass is being made, by leaving the same with the party, if
29 found, or if he or she is not found at the place designated
30 in such verification books, by leaving the same at such
31 address, if there be such place. Such notice, to be sent
32 through the mail, must be mailed not later than 10 o'clock
33 p.m. of Thursday of the week of such canvass.
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1 Proper blank notices and postage shall be furnished for
2 this purpose to the canvassers by the election authority.
3 This notice shall be a non-forwardable, forwarding-address
4 requested mailing to be returned to the election authority.
5 If the notice is returned as not deliverable to the voter at
6 the address provided on the registration form, the election
7 authority shall take one of the actions detailed in Section
8 3A-9, as circumstances require.
9 If sufficient postage stamps are not delivered to the
10 canvassers by the election authority County Clerk for the
11 purpose aforesaid, then anyone may furnish such postage
12 stamps to such canvassers for the purpose or such canvassers
13 may procure the same at their own expense and afterwards
14 render an account therefor to the election authority County
15 Clerk, duly sworn to, and the election authority County Clerk
16 shall audit such account and cause the same to be paid by the
17 County Treasurer. Such election authority County Clerk, upon
18 application, shall deliver to such canvassers postage stamps
19 sufficient for the purpose aforesaid.
20 The registration officers shall make their returns to the
21 election authority County Clerk not later than noon of the
22 day following the last day of the canvass of the registration
23 as established by the election authority provided by this
24 Section.
25 The election authority County Clerk when complaint is
26 made to him shall investigate the action of such canvassers
27 and shall cause them or either of them to be prosecuted
28 criminally for such wilful neglect of duty.
29 (Source: P.A. 87-1241.)
30 (10 ILCS 5/5-13) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-13)
31 Sec. 5-13. The canvassers, or one of them, shall prepare
32 a list of the names of the parties designated as aforesaid,
33 and to whom such notice has been sent, given, or left at the
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1 address, and make and attach his, her, or their affidavit or
2 affidavits thereto stating that notice, duly stamped, was
3 mailed to each of the said parties at the places designated
4 on said list, on or before 10 o'clock p. m. of the Thursday
5 following the canvass, and that notice was also personally
6 left at the said address of each of said parties named in
7 said lists so attached, if there be such address and
8 indicating the date and approximate time of the mailing.
9 Blank affidavit forms shall be furnished by the election
10 authority County Clerk for the purpose aforesaid.; but if
11 none are furnished, such canvassers shall cause the same to
12 be drawn, and they shall swear to such affidavit before the
13 Judge of Registration of such precinct or County Clerk, or
14 one of his Deputies.
15 Either of the canvassers shall have the power and right
16 of both in the matter pertaining to such canvass; but in case
17 either refuses or neglects to make such canvass as aforesaid,
18 then the other may make such canvass alone.
19 In case of the temporary disability upon the part of
20 either canvasser, the remaining canvasser shall appoint a
21 temporary canvasser who shall represent and be affiliated
22 with the same political party as the canvasser whose place is
23 being filled, and shall administer to him the usual oath of
24 office for canvassers. Such temporary canvasser shall perform
25 all the duties of the office until the disability of the
26 regular canvasser is removed.
27 (Source: Laws 1963, p. 2532.)
28 (10 ILCS 5/5-14) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-14)
29 Sec. 5-14. Either of the canvassers shall, at the end of
30 the canvass, return the "Verification Lists" to the County
31 Clerk and a certificate of the correctness of such return.
32 Immediately after receipt of such Verification Lists, the
33 County Clerk shall cause copies to be printed in plain large
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1 type in sufficient numbers to meet all demands, and upon
2 application, a copy of the same shall be given to any person
3 applying therefor. All records concerning the implementation
4 of the canvass, including lists of the names and addresses of
5 those canvassed and to whom subsequent notices were sent and
6 information concerning whether or not each such person
7 responded to the notice shall be maintained for at least 2
8 years and shall be made available for public inspection.
9 Thereafter A list of registered voters in each precinct shall
10 be compiled by the election authority within 28 days County
11 clerk, prior to the General Election to be held in November
12 of each even numbered year. On the list, the County Clerk
13 shall indicate, by italics, asterisk, or other means, the
14 names of all persons who have registered since the last
15 regularly scheduled election in the consolidated schedule of
16 elections established in Section 2A-1.1 of this Act.
17 When the list of registered voters in each precinct is
18 compiled, the County Clerk shall give a copy of it to the
19 chairman of a county central committee of an established
20 political party, as such party is defined in Section 10-2 of
21 this Act, or to the chairman's duly authorized
22 representative. Within 30 days of the effective date of this
23 Amendatory Act of 1983, the County Clerk shall give the list
24 of registered voters in each precinct that was compiled prior
25 to the general November election of 1982 to the chairman of a
26 county central committee of an established political party or
27 to the chairman's duly authorized representative.
28 Within 60 days after each general election the county
29 clerk shall indicate by italics, asterisk, or other means, on
30 the list of registered voters in each precinct, each
31 registrant who voted at that general election, and shall
32 provide a copy of such list to the chairman of the county
33 central committee of each established political party or to
34 the chairman's duly authorized representative.
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1 Within 60 days after the effective date of this
2 amendatory Act of 1983, the county clerk shall indicate by
3 italics, asterisk, or other means, on the list of registered
4 voters in each precinct, each registrant who voted at the
5 general election of 1982, and shall provide a copy of such
6 coded list to the chairman of the county central committee of
7 each established political party or to the chairman's duly
8 authorized representative.
9 The county clerk may charge a fee to reimburse the actual
10 cost of duplicating each copy of a list provided under
11 either of the 2 preceding paragraph paragraphs.
12 (Source: P.A. 83-1263.)
13 (10 ILCS 5/5-16) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-16)
14 Sec. 5-16. A docket of all applications to the County
15 Clerk, whether such application shall be made for the purpose
16 of being registered, or restored, or for the purpose of
17 erasing a name on the register or for completing registration
18 shall be made out in the order of the towns, wards,
19 districts, precincts as the case may be. The County Clerk
20 shall sit to hear such applications between the hours of ten
21 o'clock a. m. and nine o'clock p. m. on Thursday, Friday and
22 Saturday of the third week preceding the week in which such
23 April 10, 1962 Primary Election is to be held, and thereafter
24 the County Clerk shall sit to hear such applications between
25 the hours of ten o'clock a. m. and nine o'clock p. m. on
26 Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the second week prior to the
27 week in which any county, city, town, village or incorporated
28 town election is to be held. At the request of either party
29 to such applications, the Clerk shall issue subpoenas to
30 witnesses to appear at such hearings, and Witnesses may be
31 sworn and examined upon the hearing of said applications.
32 Each person appearing in response to an application to have a
33 name erased shall deliver to the County Clerk a written
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1 affidavit, which shall be, in substance, in the words and
2 figures following:
3 "I do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United
4 States; that I do reside and have resided in the State of
5 Illinois since the .... day of .... and in the county of ....
6 in said State, since the .... day of .... and in the ....
7 precinct of the .... ward, in the city, village or
8 incorporated town of .... or in the .... district town of
9 .... in said county and State, since the .... day of .... and
10 that I am .... years of age; that I am the identical person
11 registered in said precinct under the name I subscribe
12 hereto."
13 This answer shall be signed and sworn to or affirmed
14 before any person authorized to administer oaths or
15 affirmations. The decision on each application shall be
16 announced at once after hearing, and a minute made thereof,
17 and when an application to be registered or to be restored to
18 such register or to complete registration shall be allowed,
19 the said County Clerk shall cause a minute to be made upon
20 the original and any duplicate registration record forms
21 records withdrawn.
22 All applications under this Section and hearings as
23 hereinafter provided may be heard by deputy county clerks
24 specially designated by the County Clerk for this purpose,
25 and a decision by such deputies so designated, shall become
26 the decision of the County Clerk, upon approval by the County
27 Clerk.
28 (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
29 (10 ILCS 5/5-16.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.1)
30 Sec. 5-16.1. In addition to registration at the office of
31 the county clerk and at the offices of municipal and township
32 clerks, each county subject to this Article shall provide for
33 the following methods of registration:
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1 (1) The appointment of deputy registrars as provided in
2 Section 5-16.2;
3 (2) The establishment of temporary places of
4 registration as provided in Section 5-16.3;.
5 (3) Registration by mail as provided in Sections 3A-4
6 and 5-16.4;
7 (4) Registration by certain employees of Public Service
8 Agencies as provided in Section 3A-5; and
9 (5) Registration by certain employees of the Secretary
10 of State as provided in Section 3A-6.
11 Each county subject to this Article may provide for
12 precinct registration pursuant to Section 5-17.
13 (Source: P.A. 83-1059.)
14 (10 ILCS 5/5-16.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.2)
15 Sec. 5-16.2. (a) The county clerk shall appoint all
16 municipal and township clerks or their duly authorized
17 deputies as deputy registrars who may accept the registration
18 of all qualified residents of their respective counties. A
19 deputy registrar serving as such by virtue of his status as a
20 municipal clerk, or a duly authorized deputy of a municipal
21 clerk, of a municipality the territory of which lies in more
22 than one county may accept the registration of any qualified
23 resident of any county in which the municipality is located,
24 regardless of which county the resident, municipal clerk or
25 the duly authorized deputy of the municipal clerk lives in.
26 The county clerk shall appoint all precinct
27 committeepersons in the county as deputy registrars who may
28 accept the registration of any qualified resident of the
29 county, except during the 28 days preceding an election.
30 The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars
31 a reasonable number of employees of the Secretary of State
32 located at driver's license examination stations and
33 designated to the election authority by the Secretary of
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1 State who may accept the registration of any qualified
2 residents of the county at any such driver's license
3 examination stations. The appointment of employees of the
4 Secretary of State as deputy registrars shall be made in the
5 manner provided in Section 2-105 of the Illinois Vehicle
6 Code.
7 The county clerk shall appoint each of the following
8 named persons as deputy registrars upon the written request
9 of such persons:
10 1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person
11 designated by the chief librarian, of any public library
12 situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
13 the registrations of any qualified resident of the
14 county, at such library.
15 2. The principal, or a qualified person designated
16 by the principal, of any high school, elementary school,
17 or vocational school situated within the election
18 jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
19 resident of the county, at such school. The county clerk
20 shall notify every principal and vice-principal of each
21 high school, elementary school, and vocational school
22 situated within the election jurisdiction of their
23 eligibility to serve as deputy registrars and offer
24 training courses for service as deputy registrars at
25 conveniently located facilities at least 4 months prior
26 to every election.
27 3. The president, or a qualified person designated
28 by the president, of any university, college, community
29 college, academy or other institution of learning
30 situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
31 the registrations of any resident of the county, at such
32 university, college, community college, academy or
33 institution.
34 4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona
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1 fide labor organization, or a reasonable number of
2 qualified members designated by such official, who may
3 accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
4 county.
5 5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona
6 fide State civic organization, as defined and determined
7 by rule of the State Board of Elections, or qualified
8 members designated by such official, who may accept the
9 registration of any qualified resident of the county. In
10 determining the number of deputy registrars that shall be
11 appointed, the county clerk shall consider the population
12 of the jurisdiction, the size of the organization, the
13 geographic size of the jurisdiction, convenience for the
14 public, the existing number of deputy registrars in the
15 jurisdiction and their location, the registration
16 activities of the organization and the need to appoint
17 deputy registrars to assist and facilitate the
18 registration of non-English speaking individuals. In no
19 event shall a county clerk fix an arbitrary number
20 applicable to every civic organization requesting
21 appointment of its members as deputy registrars. The
22 State Board of Elections shall by rule provide for
23 certification of bona fide State civic organizations.
24 Such appointments shall be made for a period not to
25 exceed 2 years, terminating on the first business day of
26 the month following the month of the general election,
27 and shall be valid for all periods of voter registration
28 as provided by this Code during the terms of such
29 appointments.
30 6. (Blank) The Director of the Illinois Department
31 of Public Aid, or a reasonable number of employees
32 designated by the Director and located at public aid
33 offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
34 resident of the county at any such public aid office.
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1 7. The Director of the Illinois Department of
2 Employment Security, or a reasonable number of employees
3 designated by the Director and located at unemployment
4 offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
5 resident of the county at any such unemployment office.
6 8. The president of any corporation as defined by
7 the Business Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable
8 number of employees designated by such president, who may
9 accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
10 county.
11 If the request to be appointed as deputy registrar is
12 denied, the county clerk shall, within 10 days after the date
13 the request is submitted, provide the affected individual or
14 organization with written notice setting forth the specific
15 reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the request to be
16 appointed as deputy registrar.
17 The county clerk may appoint as many additional deputy
18 registrars as he considers necessary. The county clerk shall
19 appoint such additional deputy registrars in such manner that
20 the convenience of the public is served, giving due
21 consideration to both population concentration and area.
22 Some of the additional deputy registrars shall be selected so
23 that there are an equal number from each of the 2 major
24 political parties in the election jurisdiction. The county
25 clerk, in appointing an additional deputy registrar, shall
26 make the appointment from a list of applicants submitted by
27 the Chairman of the County Central Committee of the
28 applicant's political party. A Chairman of a County Central
29 Committee shall submit a list of applicants to the county
30 clerk by November 30 of each year. The county clerk may
31 require a Chairman of a County Central Committee to furnish a
32 supplemental list of applicants.
33 Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time
34 other than the 28 day period preceding an election. All
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1 persons appointed as deputy registrars shall be registered
2 voters within the county and shall take and subscribe to the
3 following oath or affirmation:
4 "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that
5 I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the
6 Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will
7 faithfully discharge the duties of the office of deputy
8 registrar to the best of my ability and that I will register
9 no person nor cause the registration of any person except
10 upon his personal application before me.
11 ...............................
12 (Signature of Deputy Registrar)"
13 This oath shall be administered by the county clerk, or
14 by one of his deputies, or by any person qualified to take
15 acknowledgement of deeds and shall immediately thereafter be
16 filed with the county clerk.
17 Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section,
18 except precinct committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms,
19 commencing on December 1 following the general election of
20 each even-numbered year, except that the terms of the initial
21 appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
22 general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen
23 shall be for 2-year terms commencing on the date of the
24 county convention following the general primary at which they
25 were elected. The county clerk shall issue a certificate of
26 appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
27 his office for public inspection a list of the names of all
28 appointees.
29 (b) The county clerk shall be responsible for training
30 all deputy registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a),
31 at times and locations reasonably convenient for both the
32 county clerk and such appointees. The county clerk shall be
33 responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy
34 registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a). Deputy
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1 registrars appointed under subsection (a) shall be subject to
2 removal for cause.
3 (c) Completed registration materials under the control
4 of deputy registrars, appointed pursuant to subsection (a),
5 shall be returned to the proper election authority within 7
6 days, except that completed registration materials received
7 by the deputy registrars during the period between the 35th
8 and 29th day preceding an election shall be returned by the
9 deputy registrars to the proper election authority within 48
10 hours after receipt thereof. The completed registration
11 materials received by the deputy registrars on the 29th day
12 preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
13 registrars within 24 hours after receipt thereof. Unused
14 materials shall be returned by deputy registrars appointed
15 pursuant to paragraph 4 of subsection (a), not later than the
16 next working day following the close of registration.
17 (d) The county clerk shall not be required to provide
18 additional forms to any deputy registrar having more than 200
19 registration forms unaccounted for during the preceding 12
20 month period.
21 (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any
22 electioneering or the promotion of any cause during the
23 performance of his or her duties.
24 (f) The county clerk shall not be criminally or civilly
25 liable for the acts or omissions of any deputy registrar.
26 Such deputy registers shall not be deemed to be employees of
27 the county clerk.
28 (Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
29 (10 ILCS 5/5-16.4 new)
30 Sec. 5-16.4. In addition to registration conducted by
31 the registration officer or deputy registrar, the election
32 authority shall make voter registration applications as
33 provided in Section 3A-3 available in private and
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1 governmental locations throughout the jurisdiction in
2 sufficient numbers for the convenience of persons desiring to
3 apply for voter registration by mail. Such locations shall
4 be selected by the election authority in a nondiscriminatory
5 manner. The forms shall be suitable for mailing though may
6 not necessarily bear postage. Instructions for completion of
7 the application shall be attached and shall be as prescribed
8 by rule of the State Board of Elections. The voter
9 registration application dispenser or holder shall bear a
10 uniform logo designed by the State Board of Elections to
11 identify the use of the forms.
12 (10 ILCS 5/5-19) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-19)
13 Sec. 5-19. Only persons residing within the corporate
14 limits of a city, village or incorporated town wherein this
15 Article 5 is in effect, shall be permitted to register in the
16 office of the clerk of the respective city, village or
17 incorporated town in which they reside and then only during
18 the periods provided by Section 5-5 of this Article 5.
19 Within 24 hours after a person has registered in the
20 office of the clerk of a city, village or incorporated town,
21 the said clerk shall transmit by mail or cause to be
22 delivered to the County Clerk the registration application
23 forms original and duplicate registration cards of the person
24 who has registered in his office.
25 Only persons who reside within the limits of a town in a
26 county wherein this Article 5 is in effect shall be permitted
27 to register in the office of the town clerk of the respective
28 towns in which they reside and then only during the periods
29 provided by Section 5-5 of this Article 5.
30 Within 24 hours after a person not residing within the
31 corporate limits of a city, village or incorporated town has
32 registered in the office of a town clerk, the town clerk
33 shall transmit by mail or cause to be delivered to the county
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1 clerk the registration application forms original and
2 duplicate cards of the person who has registered in his
3 office. Within 24 hours after a person who resides within the
4 limits of a city, village or incorporated town has registered
5 in the office of a town clerk, the town clerk shall transmit
6 by mail or cause to be delivered the registration application
7 forms original and duplicate cards of the person so
8 registered to the county clerk.
9 Any person residing in the territory wherein this Article
10 5 is in effect, may register in the office of the county
11 clerk during the hours, and within the periods provided by
12 Section 5-5 of this Article 5.
13 (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
14 (10 ILCS 5/5-20) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-20)
15 Sec. 5-20. Registrations under the above section shall be
16 made in the manner provided by sections 5-7 and 5-9, but
17 electors whose registrations are marked "Incomplete" may make
18 the applications provided by section 5-9 only on Monday and
19 Tuesday of the third week prior to the week in which the
20 election for officers, for which they are permitted to vote,
21 is to be held. The subsequent procedure with reference to
22 said applications cards shall be the same as that provided
23 for voters registering under section 5--19 except that the
24 election referred to shall be the election at which the
25 applicant would be permitted to vote if otherwise qualified.
26 (Source: Laws 1949, p. 855.)
27 (10 ILCS 5/5-21) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-21)
28 Sec. 5-21. To each person who registers at the office of
29 the county, city, village, incorporated town or town clerk,
30 or any place designated by the Board of County Commissioners
31 under Section 5-17 of Article 5 and within five days
32 thereafter, the County Clerk shall send by mail a Disposition
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1 of Registration as provided for in Section 3A-7 notice
2 setting forth the elector's name and address as it appears on
3 the voter registration application. record card, and shall
4 request him in case of any error to present the notice on or
5 before the seventh day next ensuing at the office of the
6 County Clerk in order to secure the correction of the error.
7 Such notice shall contain on the outside a request for the
8 postmaster to return it within five days if it cannot be
9 delivered to the addressee at the address given thereon. Upon
10 the return by the post office of such notice which it has
11 been unable to deliver at the given address because the
12 addressee cannot be found there, a notice shall be at once
13 sent through the United States mail to such person at the
14 address appearing upon his registration record card requiring
15 him to appear before the County Clerk, within five days, to
16 answer questions touching his right to register. If the
17 person notified fails to appear at the County Clerk's office
18 within five days as directed or if he appears and fails to
19 prove his right to register, the County Clerk shall cancel
20 his registration.
21 (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
22 (10 ILCS 5/5-22) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-22)
23 Sec. 5-22. As soon as possible after the precinct
24 registration held under section 5-6 and again after the
25 registrations provided by section 5-17 of this article 5, the
26 County Clerk shall require all city, village and incorporated
27 town clerks to call at his office and shall give written and
28 verbal instructions relative to duties under this article 5
29 to all city, village and incorporated town clerks, and shall
30 also supply them with, and get their receipts for blank
31 registration application forms cards to enable them to
32 perform their duties with respect to the registration of
33 voters in their offices under section 5-19 of this article 5.
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1 As soon as possible after the precinct registration held
2 under section 5-6 of this article, the County Clerk shall
3 require all town clerks to appear at his office at which time
4 he shall give them verbal and written instructions relative
5 to their duties under this article 5, and at the same time he
6 shall also supply them with and get their receipts for blank
7 registration application forms cards to enable them to
8 perform their duties with respect to the registration of
9 voters in their offices under section 5-19 of this article 5.
10 (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
11 (10 ILCS 5/5-23) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-23)
12 Sec. 5-23. Any registered voter who changes his residence
13 from one address, number or place to another within the same
14 county wherein this article 5 is in effect, may have his
15 registration transferred to his new address by making and
16 signing an application for such change of residence upon a
17 form to be provided by the county clerk. Such application
18 must be made to the office of the county clerk. In case the
19 person is unable to sign his name the county clerk shall
20 require such person to execute the request in the presence of
21 the county clerk or of his properly authorized
22 representative, by his mark, and if satisfied of the identity
23 of the person, the county clerk shall make the transfer.
24 Upon receipt of such application, the county clerk, or
25 one of his employees deputized to take registrations shall
26 cause the signature of the voter and the data appearing upon
27 the application to be compared with the signature and data on
28 the existing voter registration application registration
29 record, and if it appears that the applicant is the same
30 person as the party previously registered under that name the
31 transfer shall be made.
32 Transfer of registration under the provisions of this
33 section may not be made within the period when the county
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1 clerk's office is closed to registration prior to an election
2 at which such voter would be entitled to vote, except that
3 transfers of registration made by mail shall be deemed as
4 timely submitted if postmarked prior to the 28 days preceding
5 any election or if the postmark is illegible or not in
6 evidence received in the office of the county clerk no later
7 than 5 calendar days after the close of registration.
8 Any registered voter who changes his or her name by
9 marriage or otherwise, shall be required to register anew and
10 authorize the cancellation of the previous registration;
11 provided, however, that if the change of name takes place
12 within a period during which such new registration cannot be
13 made, next preceding any election or primary, the elector
14 may, if otherwise qualified, vote upon making the following
15 affidavit before the judges of election:
16 I do solemnly swear that I am the same person now
17 registered in the .... precinct of the .... ward of the city
18 of .... or .... District Town of .... under the name of ....
19 and that I still reside in said precinct or district.
20 (Signed) ....
21 When a removal of a registered voter takes place from one
22 address to another within the same election jurisdiction
23 precinct within a period during which such transfer of
24 registration cannot be made, before any election or primary,
25 he shall be entitled to vote upon presenting to the judges of
26 election an affidavit of a change and having said affidavit
27 supported by the affidavit of a qualified voter of the same
28 election jurisdiction precinct.
29 Suitable forms for this purpose shall be provided by the
30 county clerk. The form in all cases shall be similar to the
31 form furnished by the county clerk for county and state
32 elections.
33 The precinct election officials shall report to the
34 county clerk the names and addresses of all such persons who
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1 have changed their addresses and voted. The city, village,
2 town and incorporated town clerks shall within five days
3 after every election report to the county clerk the names and
4 addresses of the persons reported to them as having voted by
5 affidavit as in this section provided.
6 The county clerk may obtain information from utility
7 companies, city, village, town and incorporated town records,
8 the post office or from other sources regarding the change of
9 address removal of registered voters and notify such voters
10 that a transfer of registration may be made in the manner
11 provided by this section.
12 If any person be registered by error in a precinct other
13 than that in which he resides the county clerk shall be
14 empowered to transfer his registration to the proper
15 precinct.
16 Where a revision or rearrangement of precincts is made by
17 the board of county commissioners, the county clerk shall
18 immediately transfer to the proper precinct the registration
19 of any voter affected by such revision or rearrangement of
20 the precincts; make the proper notations on the registration
21 cards of a voter affected by the revision of registration and
22 shall notify the registrant of such change.
23 (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
24 (10 ILCS 5/5-25) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-25)
25 Sec. 5-25. The county clerk on his own initiative or upon
26 order of the board of county commissioners shall at all times
27 have authority to conduct investigations in a
28 nondiscriminatory manner investigation and to make canvasses
29 of the registered voters in any precinct canvass or at other
30 times and by other methods than those so prescribed. However,
31 the county clerk shall conduct a verification of voter
32 registrations at least once in every 2 years as prescribed in
33 Section 3A-9 of this Code, and shall cause the cancellation
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1 of registration of persons who have ceased to be qualified
2 voters. Such verification shall be accomplished by one of
3 the following methods: (1) precinct canvass conducted by 2
4 qualified persons of opposite party affiliation appointed by
5 the county clerk or (2) written request for verification sent
6 to each registered voter by first class mail, not forwardable
7 or (3) an alternative method of verification submitted in
8 writing to and approved by the State Board of Elections at a
9 public meeting not less than 60 days prior to the date which
10 the county clerk has fixed for implementation of that method
11 of verification; provided, that the county clerk shall submit
12 to the State Board of Elections a written statement of the
13 results obtained by use of such alternative method within 30
14 days of completion of the verification. In each precinct one
15 canvasser may be appointed from outside such precinct if not
16 enough other qualified persons who reside within the precinct
17 can be found to serve as canvasser in such precinct. The one
18 canvasser so appointed to serve in any precinct in which he
19 is not entitled to vote prior to the election must be
20 entitled to vote elsewhere within the ward or township which
21 includes within its boundaries the precinct in which such
22 canvasser is appointed and such canvasser must be otherwise
23 qualified. If upon the basis of investigation or canvasses,
24 the county clerk shall be of the opinion that any person
25 registered under this Article 5 is not a qualified voter or
26 has ceased to be a qualified voter, he shall send a notice
27 through the United States mail to such person and follow the
28 procedures set forth in Section 3A-9 of this Code, requiring
29 him to appear before the county clerk for a hearing within
30 ten days after the date of mailing such notice and show cause
31 why his registration shall not be cancelled. If such person
32 fails to appear within such time as provided, his
33 registration shall be cancelled. If such a person does
34 appear, he shall make an affidavit similar in every respect
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1 to the affidavit required of applicants under Section 5-16 of
2 this Article 5.
3 (Source: P.A. 81-1535.)
4 (10 ILCS 5/5-28) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-28)
5 Sec. 5-28. The original registration applications record
6 cards shall remain permanently in the office of the county
7 clerk except as destroyed as provided in Section 5--6; shall
8 be filed alphabetically with or without regard to precincts,
9 as determined by the county clerk; and shall be known as the
10 master file. An official registry of voters shall be compiled
11 for use in the polling place on election day for all
12 elections subject to the provisions of this Article 5. This
13 registry shall be an alphabetical or geographical listing of
14 all registered voters by precinct so as to correspond with
15 the arrangement of the list for such precincts compiled
16 pursuant to Section 5-14 of this Article and shall be known
17 as the precinct file.
18 The precinct file shall be in the form of a computer
19 printout as provided for in Section 5-28.2 or consist of
20 duplicate registration cards and true duplicates of voter
21 registration applications as provided for in Section 5-28.3.
22 In either instance, it shall be a true and accurate listing
23 of every registered voter for every precinct within the
24 jurisdiction. The duplicate registration record cards shall
25 constitute the official registry of voters for all elections
26 and shall be filed by precincts and townships. The precinct
27 file duplicate cards for use in conducting elections shall be
28 delivered to the judges of election by the county clerk in a
29 suitable binder or other device, which shall be locked and
30 sealed in accordance with the directions to be given by the
31 county clerk and shall also be suitably indexed for
32 convenient use by the precinct officers. The precinct files
33 shall be delivered to the judges of election for use at the
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1 polls for elections at the same time as the official ballots
2 are delivered to them, and shall be returned to the county
3 clerk by the judges of election within the time provided for
4 the return of the official ballots. The county clerk shall
5 determine the manner of return and delivery of such file.
6 (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
7 (10 ILCS 5/5-28.2 new)
8 Sec. 5-28.2. All precinct files in the form of a computer
9 printout shall contain the date of the election for which it
10 was generated, the precinct number or other identifier, the
11 number of registered voters in the precinct and such other
12 information as prescribed by rule of the State Board of
13 Elections and shall include but not be limited to the
14 following information concerning each registered voter of the
15 precinct as attested to on the voter registration
16 application: last name, first name and middle name or
17 initial; residence address; date of birth, if provided; last
18 4 digits of the social security number; sex; and shall
19 include a true duplicate of the voter's signature. Space
20 shall be provided to record voter participation at that
21 election. Reproduction of the voter's signature and its
22 clarity, security and source document shall be in accord with
23 rule of the State Board of Elections and must not be provided
24 for any other purpose. Violation of this signature
25 reproduction restriction shall be a Class 3 felony and any
26 person who is convicted of violating this Section shall be
27 ineligible for public employment for a period of 5 years
28 immediately following the completion of that sentence.
29 (10 ILCS 5/5-28.3 new)
30 Sec. 5-28.3. Precinct files consisting of duplicate
31 registration cards and true duplicates of voter registration
32 applications shall be alphabetically arranged and up-dated
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1 prior to each election. Such true duplicates must be clear
2 and of the same size as the original and be true duplicates
3 of the front and back of the original. Rule of the State
4 Board of Elections shall prescribe the weight of paper of the
5 true duplicates and other specifications necessary to ensure
6 a legible and durable precinct file.
7 A duplicate registration card is a copy of the original
8 registration card generated at the time of registration; a
9 true duplicate registration card is a mechanically reproduced
10 copy of the original voter registration card.
11 (10 ILCS 5/5-29) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-29)
12 Sec. 5-29. Upon application to vote, except as
13 hereinafter provided for absent electors, each registered
14 elector shall sign his name or make his mark as the case may
15 be, on a certificate substantially as follows:
16 "Certificate of Registered Voter
17 Town of................District or Precinct Number..........;
18 City of................Ward...............Precinct..........;
19 Village of................................Precinct..........;
20 Election.....................................................
21 (date) (month) (year)
22 Registration record
23 Checked by.....................
24 Voter's number..................
25 Instruction to voters
26 Sign this certificate and hand it to the election officer
27 in charge. After the registration record has been checked,
28 the officer will hand it back to you. Whereupon you shall
29 present it to the officer in charge of the ballots.
30 I hereby certify that I am registered from the address
31 below and am qualified to vote.
32 Signature of voter ...............
33 Residence address ..............."
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1 An individual shall not be required to provide his social
2 security number when applying for a ballot. He shall not be
3 denied a ballot, nor shall his ballot be challenged, solely
4 because of his refusal to provide his social security number.
5 Nothing in this Act prevents an individual from being
6 requested to provide his social security number when the
7 individual applies for a ballot. If, however, the certificate
8 contains a space for the individual's social security number,
9 the following notice shall appear on the certificate,
10 immediately above such space, in bold-face capital letters,
11 in type the size of which equals the largest type on the
12 certificate:
13 "THE INDIVIDUAL APPLYING FOR A BALLOT WITH THIS DOCUMENT
14 IS NOT REQUIRED TO DISCLOSE HIS OR HER SOCIAL SECURITY
15 NUMBER. HE OR SHE MAY NOT BE DENIED A BALLOT, NOR SHALL HIS
16 OR HER BALLOT BE CHALLENGED, SOLELY BECAUSE OF HIS OR HER
17 REFUSAL TO PROVIDE HIS OR HER SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER."
18 Certificates as above prescribed shall be furnished by
19 the county clerk for all elections.
20 The Judges in charge of the precinct registration files
21 shall compare the signature upon such certificate with the
22 signature in on the precinct files registration record card
23 as a means of identifying the voter. Unless satisfied by such
24 signature comparison that the applicant to vote is the
25 identical person who is registered under the same name, the
26 Judges shall ask such applicant the questions for
27 identification which appear on the precinct file registration
28 card and if the applicant does not prove to the satisfaction
29 of a majority of the judges of the election precinct that he
30 is the identical person registered under the name in question
31 then the vote for such applicant shall be challenged by a
32 Judge of Election, and the same procedure followed as
33 provided by law for challenged voters.
34 In case the elector is unable to sign his name, a Judge
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1 of Election shall check the data on the precinct file
2 registration card and shall check the address given, with the
3 registered address, in order to determine whether he is
4 entitled to vote.
5 One of the Judges of election shall check the certificate
6 of each applicant for a ballot after the precinct file
7 registration record has been examined and shall sign his
8 initials on the certificate in the space provided therefor,
9 and shall enter upon such certificate the number of the voter
10 in the place provided therefor, and make an entry in the
11 voting record space on the precinct file registration record,
12 to indicate whether or not the applicant voted. Such judge
13 shall then hand such certificate back to the applicant in
14 case he is permitted to vote, and such applicant shall hand
15 it to the judge of election in charge of the ballots. The
16 certificates of the voters shall be filed in the order in
17 which they are received and shall constitute an official poll
18 record. The term "Poll Lists" and "Poll Books" where used in
19 this article 5 shall be construed to apply to such official
20 poll records.
21 After each general primary election the county clerk
22 shall indicate by color code or other means next to the name
23 of each registrant on the list of registered voters in each
24 precinct the primary ballot of a political party that the
25 registrant requested at that general primary election. The
26 county clerk, within 60 days after the general primary
27 election, shall provide a copy of this coded list to the
28 chairman of the county central committee of each established
29 political party or to the chairman's duly authorized
30 representative.
31 Within 60 days after the effective date of this
32 amendatory Act of 1983, the county clerk shall provide to the
33 chairman of the county central committee of each established
34 political party or to the chairman's duly authorized
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1 representative the list of registered voters in each precinct
2 at the time of the general primary election of 1982 and shall
3 indicate on such list by color code or other means next to
4 the name of a registrant the primary ballot of a political
5 party that the registrant requested at the general primary
6 election of 1982.
7 The county clerk may charge a fee to reimburse the actual
8 cost of duplicating each copy of a list provided under either
9 of the 2 preceding paragraph paragraphs.
10 Where an elector makes application to vote by signing and
11 presenting the certificate provided by this Section, and his
12 name registration record card is not found in the precinct
13 file registry of voters, but his name appears as that of a
14 registered voter in such precinct upon the printed precinct
15 list of voters and whose name has not been erased or
16 withdrawn from such register, it shall be the duty of any one
17 of the Judges of Election shall to require an affidavit by
18 such person and two voters residing in the precinct before
19 the judges of election that he is the same person whose name
20 appears upon the precinct register and that he resides in the
21 precinct stating the street number of his residence. Forms
22 for such affidavit shall be supplied by the county clerk for
23 all elections. Upon the making of such affidavit and the
24 presentation of his certificate such elector shall be
25 entitled to vote. All affidavits made under this paragraph
26 shall be preserved and returned to the county clerk in an
27 envelope. It shall be the duty of the county clerk within 30
28 days after such election to take steps provided by Section
29 5-27 of this article 5 for the execution of new registration
30 affidavits by electors who have voted under the provisions of
31 this paragraph.
32 Provided, however, that the applications for ballots made
33 by registered voters and under the provisions of article 19
34 of this act shall be accepted by the Judges of Election in
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1 lieu of the "certificate of registered voter" provided for in
2 this section.
3 When the county clerk delivers to the judges of election
4 for use at the polls a supplemental or consolidated list of
5 the printed precinct register, he shall give a copy of the
6 supplemental or consolidated list to the chairman of a county
7 central committee of an established political party or to the
8 chairman's duly authorized representative.
9 Whenever two or more elections occur simultaneously, the
10 election authority charged with the duty of providing
11 application certificates may prescribe the form thereof so
12 that a voter is required to execute only one, indicating in
13 which of the elections he desires to vote.
14 After the signature has been verified, the judges shall
15 determine in which political subdivisions the voter resides
16 by use of the information contained on the precinct file
17 voter registration cards or the separate registration lists
18 or other means approved by the State Board of Elections and
19 prepared and supplied by the election authority. The voter's
20 certificate shall be so marked by the judges as to show the
21 respective ballots which the voter is given.
22 (Source: P.A. 84-809; 84-832.)
23 (10 ILCS 5/5-36) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-36)
24 Sec. 5-36. In the event that the voters of any city,
25 village or incorporated town (in any county having a
26 population of 500,000 or more) which has adopted Articles 6,
27 14 and 18 of this Act (or the Act of which they are a
28 continuation) shall reject the city election law as provided
29 by said Article 6, it shall not be necessary for the
30 registered voters of said city, so rejecting the city
31 election law to register again under the provisions of this
32 Article 5 unless they are not registered under the 1961 and
33 1962 re-registration provisions.
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1 Within twenty-four hours after the Circuit Judge has
2 entered his order declaring Articles 6, 14 and 18 of this Act
3 rejected by the voters of any city, village, or incorporated
4 town, it shall be the duty of the Board of Election
5 Commissioners formerly having jurisdiction over elections
6 held in such city, village or incorporated town to turn over
7 to the County Clerk the original and any duplicate voter
8 registration applications cards of all persons affected by
9 the rejection of the city election law in said city, village
10 or incorporated town; the said Board of Election
11 Commissioners shall also turn over to the County Clerk all
12 forms, papers and other instruments pertaining to the
13 registration and election of voters within the said city,
14 village or incorporated town that rejected the city election
15 law, and they shall also cause to be delivered to the clerk
16 of any such city, village or incorporated town that rejected
17 the city election law, all booths and ballot boxes formerly
18 used in conducting elections in said city, village or
19 incorporated town.
20 The original registration applications cards of the
21 voters turned over to the County Clerk by the Board of
22 Election Commissioners shall be placed in a master file
23 together with the registration forms cards of all voters who
24 previously registered under the provisions of this Article 5
25 and said forms cards shall then become part of the official
26 registration record for the county in which this Article 5 is
27 in effect.
28 Precinct files consisting of duplicate cards and true
29 duplicates of voter registration applications The duplicate
30 cards shall be arranged in precinct order and shall be
31 retained in the office of the county clerk for use in
32 conducting State, county and township elections. The precinct
33 file said duplicate cards shall become part of the official
34 registration record for the county in which this Article 5 is
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1 in effect.
2 (Source: P.A. 80-1469.)
3 (10 ILCS 5/5-37.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-37.1)
4 Sec. 5-37.1. If any area becomes subject to a board of
5 election commissioners by reason of annexation to a city,
6 village or incorporated town subject to such a board or
7 ceases to be subject to a board of election commissioners by
8 reason of disconnection from such a city, village or
9 incorporated town, it shall not be necessary for the
10 registered voters in such area to register again, either
11 under this Article or Article 6.
12 As soon as practicable after such annexation or
13 disconnection, the county clerk or board of election
14 commissioners, as the case may be, shall turn over to officer
15 or officers thereafter to be charged with the registration of
16 voters within the area affected (the board of election
17 commissioners or county clerk, as the case may be) the voter
18 registration applications original and duplicate registration
19 cards of all registered voters in the annexed or disconnected
20 area.
21 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 405.)
22 (10 ILCS 5/6-24) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-24)
23 Sec. 6-24. Within 20 days after such first appointment
24 shall be made, such commissioners shall organize as a board
25 by electing one of their number as chairman and one as
26 secretary, and they shall perform the duties incident to such
27 offices. And upon every new appointment of a commissioner,
28 such board shall reorganize in like manner. Each
29 commissioner, before taking his seat in such board, shall
30 take an oath of office before the court, which in substance
31 shall be in the following form:
32 "I, .... do solemnly swear, (or affirm) that I am a
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1 citizen of the United States, and have resided in the State
2 of Illinois for a period of 2 years last past, and that I am
3 a legal voter and resident of the jurisdiction of the
4 .......... Board of Election Commissioners. That I will
5 support the Constitution of the United States and of the
6 State of Illinois, and the laws passed in pursuance thereof,
7 to the best of my ability, and will faithfully and honestly
8 discharge the duties of the office of election commissioner."
9 Where the 2 year residence requirement is waived by the
10 appointing court, the provision pertaining to the 2 year
11 residence requirement shall be omitted from the oath of
12 office.
13 Which oath, when subscribed and sworn to before such
14 court shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of
15 said county and be there preserved. Such commissioner shall
16 also, before taking such oath, give an official bond in the
17 sum of $10,000.00 with two securities, to be approved by said
18 court, conditioned for the faithful and honest performance of
19 his duties and the preservation of the property of his
20 office. Such board of commissioners shall at once secure and
21 open an office sufficient for the purposes of such board,
22 which shall be kept open during ordinary business hours of
23 each week day and such other days and such other times as the
24 board may direct or as otherwise required by law, legal
25 holidays excepted; provided that such office shall be kept
26 open from the time of opening the polls on the day of any
27 election, primary or general, and until all returns of that
28 election have been received from each precinct under the
29 jurisdiction of such Board. Upon the opening of such office
30 the county clerk of the county in which such city, village or
31 incorporated town is situated shall, upon demand, turn over
32 to such board all registry books, registration record cards,
33 voter registration applications, precinct files, poll books,
34 tally sheets and ballot boxes heretofore used and all other
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1 books, forms, blanks and stationery of every description in
2 his hands in any way relating to elections or the holding of
3 elections within such city, village or incorporated town.
4 (Source: P.A. 80-1437.)
5 (10 ILCS 5/6-27) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-27)
6 Sec. 6-27. Every person having resided in the State and
7 in election precinct 30 days next preceding any election
8 therein and who shall be a citizen of the United States of
9 the age of 18 or more years, shall be entitled to vote at
10 such elections described in the last preceding Section.
11 After the first registration provided by this Article,
12 the vote of no person, other than an elector voting pursuant
13 to Article 20 of this Act or exempt under Section 6-67.01 or
14 6-67.02 of this Article from registration, shall be received
15 in any election conducted under the provisions of this
16 Article 6 or Articles 14 and 18 of this Act unless such
17 person has registered under the provisions of Article 3A or
18 of this Article in the precinct in which such person resides.
19 For the purposes of this Article, the word "election" shall
20 include primary.
21 No person shall be entitled to be registered in or from
22 any precinct unless such person shall, by the date of the
23 election next following, have resided in the State and within
24 the precinct for 30 days, and be otherwise qualified to vote
25 at such election. Every applicant who shall be 18 years of
26 age on the day of the next election shall be permitted to
27 register, if otherwise qualified.
28 To constitute residence under this Act, Article 3 is
29 controlling.
30 (Source: P.A. 81-953.)
31 (10 ILCS 5/6-28) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-28)
32 Sec. 6-28. The first registration under this Article
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1 shall be that preceding the election to be held on the first
2 Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1936.
3 Registration for such election shall be conducted by the
4 Board of Election Commissioners, shall be either at the
5 office of such Board or in the precinct, as hereinafter
6 provided in this Article, and shall be upon registration
7 record cards in the manner application forms provided by this
8 Article the election authority or as otherwise provided by
9 this Code. Such first registration under this Article and
10 subsequent revisions thereof shall be under the full charge
11 and control of the Board of Election Commissioners, and the
12 expenses thereof shall be paid in the manner provided by this
13 Article. It shall be the duty of such board to give timely
14 notice through the press of the time and place of such first
15 registration.
16 (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)
17 (10 ILCS 5/6-29) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-29)
18 Sec. 6-29. For the purpose of registering voters under
19 this Article, the office of the Board of Election
20 Commissioners shall be open during ordinary business hours of
21 each week day, from 9 a.m. to 12 o'clock noon on the last
22 four Saturdays immediately preceding the end of the period of
23 registration preceding each election, and such other days and
24 such other times as the board may direct. During the 28 days
25 immediately preceding any election there shall be no
26 registration of voters at the office of the Board of Election
27 Commissioners in cities, villages and incorporated towns of
28 fewer than 200,000 inhabitants. In cities, villages and
29 incorporated towns of 200,000 or more inhabitants, there
30 shall be no registration of voters at the office of the Board
31 of Election Commissioners during the 28 35 days immediately
32 preceding any election; provided, however, where no precinct
33 registration is being conducted prior to any election then
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1 registration may be taken in the office of the Board up to
2 and including the 29th day prior to such election. The Board
3 of Election Commissioners may set up and establish as many
4 branch offices for the purpose of taking registrations as it
5 may deem necessary, and the branch offices may be open on any
6 or all dates and hours during which registrations may be
7 taken in the main office. All officers and employees of the
8 Board of Election Commissioners who are authorized by such
9 board to take registrations under this Article shall be
10 considered officers of the circuit court, and shall be
11 subject to the same control as is provided by Section 14-5 of
12 this Act with respect to judges of election.
13 In any election called for the submission of the revision
14 or alteration of, or the amendments to the Constitution,
15 submitted by a Constitutional Convention, the final day for
16 registration at the office of the election authority charged
17 with the printing of the ballot of this election shall be the
18 15th day prior to the date of election.
19 The Board of Election Commissioners shall appoint one or
20 more registration teams, consisting of 2 of its employees for
21 each team, for the purpose of accepting the registration of
22 any voter who files an affidavit, within the period for
23 taking registrations provided for in this article, that he is
24 physically unable to appear at the office of the Board or at
25 any appointed place of registration. On the day or days when
26 a precinct registration is being conducted such teams shall
27 consist of one member from each of the 2 leading political
28 parties who are serving on the Precinct Registration Board.
29 Each team so designated shall visit each disabled person and
30 shall accept the registration of such person the same as if
31 he had applied for registration in person.
32 Any otherwise qualified person who is absent from his
33 county of residence due to business of the United States, or
34 who is temporarily residing outside the territorial limits of
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1 the United States, may make application to become registered
2 by mail as provided in Section 3A-3, except such person is
3 not required to vote the first time in person pursuant to
4 Section 3A-4, to the Board of Election Commissioners within
5 the periods for registration provided for in this Article or
6 by simultaneous application for absentee registration and
7 absentee ballot as provided in Article 20 of this Code.
8 Upon receipt of such application the Board of Election
9 Commissioners shall immediately mail an affidavit of
10 registration in duplicate, which affidavit shall contain the
11 following and such other information as the State Board of
12 Elections may think it proper to require for the
13 identification of the applicant:
14 Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and
15 first or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the
16 initial for such middle name, if any.
17 Sex.
18 Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue or
19 other location of the dwelling, and such additional clear and
20 definite description as may be necessary to determine the
21 exact location of the dwelling of the applicant. Where the
22 location cannot be determined by street and number, then the
23 section, congressional township and range number may be used,
24 or such other information as may be necessary, including post
25 office mailing address.
26 Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the
27 precinct.
28 Nativity. The state or country in which the applicant
29 was born.
30 Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
31 naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place and date of
32 naturalization.
33 Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
34 Out of State address of ..................
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1 AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
2 State of .........)
3 ) ss.
4 County of ........)
5 I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
6 United States; that on the day of the next election I shall
7 have resided in the State of Illinois and in the election
8 precinct 30 days; that I am fully qualified to vote, that I
9 am not registered to vote anywhere else in the United States,
10 that I intend to remain a resident of the State of Illinois,
11 and of the election precinct, that I intend to return to the
12 State of Illinois, and that the above statements are true.
13 ...............................
14 (His or her signature or mark)
15 Subscribed and sworn to before me, an officer qualified
16 to administer oaths, this ....... day of ....... 19 .......
17 ..........................................
18 Signature of officer administering oath.
19 Upon receipt of the executed duplicate affidavit of
20 Registration, the Board of Election Commissioners shall
21 transfer the information contained thereon to duplicate
22 Registration Cards provided for in Section 6-35 of this
23 Article and shall attach thereto a copy of each of the
24 duplicate affidavit of registration and thereafter such
25 registration card and affidavit shall constitute the
26 registration of such person the same as if he had applied for
27 registration in person.
28 (Source: P.A. 81-953.)
29 (10 ILCS 5/6-35) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-35)
30 Sec. 6-35. The Boards of Election Commissioners shall
31 provide a sufficient number of blank forms for the
32 registration of electors which shall be known as registration
33 record cards and which shall consist of loose leaf sheets or
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1 cards, of suitable size to contain in plain writing and
2 figures the data hereinafter required thereon or shall
3 consist of computer cards of suitable nature to contain the
4 data required thereon. The registration record cards, which
5 shall include an affidavit of registration as hereinafter
6 provided, shall be executed in duplicate. The duplicate of
7 which may be a carbon copy of the original or a copy of the
8 original made by the use of other method or material used for
9 making simultaneous true copies or duplications.
10 The registration record card shall contain the following
11 and such other information as the Board of Election
12 Commissioners may think it proper to require for the
13 identification of the applicant for registration:
14 Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and first
15 or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the initial
16 for such middle name, if any.
17 Sex.
18 Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or
19 other location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit
20 or room number, if any, and in the case of a mobile home the
21 lot number, and such additional clear and definite
22 description as may be necessary to determine the exact
23 location of the dwelling of the applicant, including
24 post-office mailing address. In the case of a homeless
25 individual, the individual's voting residence that is his or
26 her mailing address shall be included on his or her
27 registration record card.
28 Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the
29 precinct.
30 Nativity. The state or country in which the applicant was
31 born.
32 Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
33 naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place, and date of
34 naturalization.
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1 Date of application for registration, i. e., the day,
2 month and year when the applicant presented himself for
3 registration.
4 Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
5 The last 4 digits of the social security number shall be
6 required. However, space shall be provided for the full
7 social security number which, if provided, shall not be
8 disclosed to the general public or, unless warranted, to
9 persons other than the election authority or State election
10 officials.
11 Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time
12 of registration, which would require assistance in voting.
13 The county and state in which the applicant was last
14 registered.
15 Signature of voter. The applicant, after registration and
16 in the presence of a deputy registrar or other officer of
17 registration shall be required to sign his or her name in ink
18 to the affidavit on both the original and the duplicate
19 registration record card.
20 Signature of deputy registrar.
21 In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may
22 affix his mark to the affidavit. In such case the
23 registration officer shall write a detailed description of
24 the applicant in the space provided at the bottom of the card
25 or sheet; and shall ask the following questions and record
26 the answers thereto:
27 Father's first name.........................
28 Mother's first name.........................
29 From what address did you last register?....
30 Reason for inability to sign name...........
31 Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit
32 in substantially the following form:
33 AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
34 State of Illinois )
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1 )ss
2 County of....... )
3 I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
4 United States, that on the day of the next election I shall
5 have resided in the State of Illinois and in the election
6 precinct 30 days and that I intend that this location is my
7 residence; that I am fully qualified to vote, and that the
8 above statements are true.
9 ..............................
10 (His or her signature or mark)
11 Subscribed and sworn to before me this.... day of....,
12 19...
13 Signature of registration officer (to be signed in
14 presence of registrant).
15 Space shall be provided upon the face of each
16 registration record card for the notation of the voting
17 record of the person registered thereon except in those
18 jurisdictions having the voter's history and signature stored
19 electronically.
20 Each registration record card shall be numbered according
21 to wards or precincts, as the case may be, and may be
22 serially or otherwise marked for identification in such
23 manner as the Board of Election Commissioners may determine.
24 The voter registration applications cards shall be deemed
25 public records and shall be open to inspection during regular
26 business hours, except during the 28 days immediately
27 preceding any election. On written request of any candidate
28 or objector or any person intending to object to a petition,
29 the election authority shall extend its hours for inspection
30 of registration applications cards and other records of the
31 election authority during the period beginning with the
32 filing of petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or 28-3
33 and continuing through the termination of electoral board
34 hearings on any objections to petitions containing signatures
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1 of registered voters in the jurisdiction of the election
2 authority. The extension shall be for a period of hours
3 sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
4 the records but the election authority is not required to
5 extend its hours beyond the period beginning at its normal
6 opening for business and ending at midnight. If the business
7 hours are so extended, the election authority shall post a
8 public notice of such extended hours. Registration
9 applications record cards may also be inspected, upon
10 approval of the officer in charge of the forms cards, during
11 the 28 days immediately preceding any election. Registration
12 information found in the precinct file as provided in Section
13 6-65 record cards shall also be open to inspection by
14 certified judges and poll watchers and challengers at the
15 polling place on election day, but only to the extent
16 necessary to determine the question of the right of a person
17 to vote or to serve as a judge of election. At no time shall
18 poll watchers or challengers be allowed to physically handle
19 the precinct file registration record cards.
20 Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or
21 other electronic data processing information containing voter
22 registration information shall be furnished by the Board of
23 Election Commissioners within 10 days after December 15 and
24 May 15 each year to the State Board of Elections in a form
25 prescribed by the State Board. Registration information
26 shall include, but not be limited to, the following
27 information: name, sex, residence, the full social security
28 number or last 4 digits whichever the registrant has
29 provided, telephone number, if any, date of birth, if
30 available, age, party affiliation, if applicable, precinct,
31 ward, township, county, and representative, legislative and
32 congressional districts. In the event of noncompliance, the
33 State Board of Elections is directed to obtain compliance
34 forthwith with this nondiscretionary duty of the election
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1 authority by instituting legal proceedings in the circuit
2 court of the county in which the election authority maintains
3 the registration information. The costs of furnishing
4 updated copies of tapes or discs shall be paid at a rate of
5 $.00034 per name of registered voters in the election
6 jurisdiction, but not less than $50 per tape or disc and
7 shall be paid from appropriations made to the State Board of
8 Elections for reimbursement to the election authority for
9 such purpose. The State Board shall furnish copies of such
10 tapes, discs, other electronic data or compilations thereof,
11 excluding any portion of any social security number, to state
12 political committees registered pursuant to the Illinois
13 Campaign Finance Act or the Federal Election Campaign Act at
14 their request and at a reasonable cost. Copies of the tapes,
15 discs or other electronic data, excluding any portion of any
16 social security number, shall be furnished by the Board of
17 Election Commissioners to local political committees at their
18 request and at a reasonable cost. Reasonable cost of the
19 tapes, discs, et cetera for this purpose would be the cost of
20 duplication plus 15% for administration. The individual
21 representing a political committee requesting copies of such
22 tapes shall make a sworn affidavit that the information shall
23 be used only for bona fide political purposes, including by
24 or for candidates for office or incumbent office holders.
25 Such tapes, discs or other electronic data shall not be used
26 under any circumstances by any political committee or
27 individuals for purposes of commercial solicitation or other
28 business purposes. If such tapes contain information on
29 county residents related to the operations of county
30 government in addition to registration information, that
31 information shall not be used under any circumstances for
32 commercial solicitation or other business purposes. The
33 prohibition in this Section against using the computer tapes
34 or computer discs or other electronic data processing
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1 information containing voter registration information for
2 purposes of commercial solicitation or other business
3 purposes shall be prospective only from the effective date of
4 this amended Act of 1979. Any person who violates this
5 provision shall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.
6 The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October
7 1, 1987, such regulations as may be necessary to ensure
8 uniformity throughout the State in electronic data processing
9 of voter registration information. The regulations shall
10 include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
11 uniform medium, communications protocol and file structure to
12 be employed by the election authorities of this State in the
13 electronic data processing of voter registration information.
14 Each election authority utilizing electronic data processing
15 of voter registration information shall comply with such
16 regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
17 If the applicant for registration was last registered in
18 another county within this State, he shall also sign a
19 certificate authorizing cancellation of the former
20 registration. The certificate shall be in substantially the
21 following form:
22 To the County Clerk of.... County, Illinois.
23 To the Election Commission of the City of...., Illinois.
24 This is to certify that I am registered in your (county)
25 (city) and that my residence was..... Having moved out of
26 your (county), (city), I hereby authorize you to cancel that
27 registration in your office.
28 Dated at...., Illinois, this.... day of.... 19...
29 ....................
30 (Signature of Voter)
31 Attest...., Clerk, Election Commission of the City
32 of...., Illinois.
33 The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately
34 by the clerk of the Election Commission to the county clerk,
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1 (or Election Commission as the case may be) where the
2 applicant was formerly registered. Receipt of such
3 certificate shall be full authority for cancellation of any
4 previous registration.
5 (Source: P.A. 86-873; 86-1348; 87-1241.)
6 (10 ILCS 5/6-35.01) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-35.01)
7 Sec. 6-35.01. If an applicant for registration reports a
8 permanent physical disability which would require assistance
9 in voting, the board of election commissioners shall mark all
10 his registration forms cards in the right margin on the front
11 of the form card with a band of ink running the full margin
12 which shall be of contrast to, and easily distinguishable
13 from, the color of the form card. If an applicant for
14 registration attests declares upon properly witnessed oath,
15 with his signature or mark affixed, that he cannot read the
16 English language and that he will require assistance in
17 voting, all his registration forms cards shall be marked in a
18 manner similar to the marking on the forms cards of a voter
19 who requires assistance because of physical disability,
20 except that the marking shall be of a different
21 distinguishing color. Following each election the forms cards
22 of any voter who has requested assistance as a disabled
23 voter, and has stated that the disability is permanent, or
24 who has received assistance because of inability to read the
25 English language, shall be marked in the same manner.
26 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3524.)
27 (10 ILCS 5/6-35.03) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-35.03)
28 Sec. 6-35.03. If the applicant for registration in the
29 office of the election authority or before a deputy registrar
30 was last registered in another election jurisdiction within
31 this State, he shall also sign a certificate authorizing
32 cancellation of the former registration. The certificate
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1 shall be in substantially the following form: to the County
2 Clerk of ... County, Illinois.
3 To the Election Commission of the (City) (County)
4 of....., Illinois. This is to certify that I am registered in
5 your (county) (city) and that my residence
6 was................ Having moved out of your (county) (city),
7 I hereby authorize you to cancel the registration in your
8 office.
9 Dated at ..., Illinois, this .... day of ...., 19..
10 ............................
11 (Signature of Voter)
12 Attest: ..................., County Clerk,
13 ............County, Illinois
14 The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately
15 by the County Clerk to the County (or election commission as
16 the case may be) where the applicant was formerly registered.
17 Receipt of such certificate shall be full authority for
18 cancellation of any previous registration.
19 The State Board of Elections shall design a registration
20 record card which, except as otherwise provided in this
21 Section, shall be used in triplicate by all election
22 authorities in the State, beginning with registrations taken
23 on or after January 1, 1986. The Board shall prescribe the
24 form and specifications, including but not limited to the
25 weight of paper, color and print of such cards. Such cards
26 shall contain boxes or spaces for the information required
27 under Sections 6-31.1 and 6-35 of this Code; provided, that
28 such cards shall also contain a box or space for the
29 applicant's driver's license number, or where allowable the
30 applicant's social security number, if any, and a box for the
31 applicant's telephone number, if available.
32 The original and duplicate cards shall respectively
33 constitute the master file and precinct binder registration
34 records of the voter. The triplicate card shall be given to
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1 the applicant upon completion of his or her registration or
2 completed transfer of registration.
3 Whenever a voter moves to another precinct within the
4 same election jurisdiction or to another election
5 jurisdiction in the State, such voter may transfer his or her
6 registration by presenting his or her triplicate card to the
7 election authority or a deputy registrar. If such voter is
8 not in possession of or has lost his or her triplicate card,
9 he or she may effect a transfer of registration by executing
10 an Affidavit of Cancellation of Previous Registration or by
11 submitting a completed voter registration application. Any
12 transfer or registration received in the office of election
13 authority or postmarked prior to the close of registration
14 shall be deemed to be timely filed. If a postmark is not in
15 evidence or legible, it shall be considered as timely filed
16 if received in the office of the election authority no later
17 than 5 calendar days after the close of registration.
18 In the case of a transfer of registration to a new
19 election jurisdiction, the election authority shall transmit
20 the voter's triplicate card or such affidavit to the election
21 authority of the voter's former election jurisdiction, which
22 shall immediately cause the transmission of the voter's
23 previous registration card to the voter's new election
24 authority. No transfer of registration to a new election
25 jurisdiction shall be complete until the voter's old election
26 authority receives notification.
27 Deputy registrars shall return all triplicate cards or
28 Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous Registration to the
29 election authority within 7 working days after the receipt
30 thereof. Such cards or Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous
31 Registration received by the deputy registrars between the
32 35th and 29th 28th day preceding an election shall be
33 returned by the deputy registrars within 48 hours after
34 receipt thereof. Such cards or Affidavits of Cancellation of
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1 Previous Registration received by the deputy registrars on
2 the 29th 28th day preceding an election shall be returned by
3 the deputy registrars to the election authority within 24
4 hours after receipt thereof.
5 The date by which an election authority is required to
6 take registrations in compliance with this Section may be
7 extended by the State Board of Elections to a date no later
8 than July 1, 1986, where, prior to January 1, 1986, the Board
9 has received a written request for such an extension from the
10 election authority and such request has shown good cause for
11 the extension.
12 In the case of a transfer of registration to a new
13 election jurisdiction, the election authority shall transmit
14 the voter's triplicate card or such affidavit to the election
15 authority of the voter's former election jurisdiction, which
16 shall immediately cause the transmission of the voter's
17 previous registration card to the voter's new election
18 authority. No transfer of registration to a new election
19 jurisdiction shall be complete until the voter's old election
20 authority receives notification.
21 Deputy registrars shall return all voter registration
22 applications triplicate cards or Affidavits of Cancellation
23 of Previous Registration to the election authority pursuant
24 to Section 6-50.2(c). within 7 working days after the receipt
25 thereof, except that the deputy registrars shall return the
26 cards or Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous Registration
27 received by them between the 35th and 28th day preceding an
28 election to the election authority within 48 hours after the
29 receipt thereof.
30 Such cards or Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous
31 Registration received during the 28th day preceding an
32 election shall be returned by the deputy registrars to the
33 election authority within 24 hours after receipt thereof.
34 (Source: P.A. 86-873.)
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1 (10 ILCS 5/6-36) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-36)
2 Sec. 6-36. The board of election commissioners shall
3 supply deputy registrars and judges of registration with
4 registration forms and shall fully instruct them in their
5 duties. Each deputy registrar and judge of registration shall
6 receipt to the board of election commissioners for all blank
7 voter registration application forms record cards issued to
8 them, specifying therein the number of the blanks received by
9 them, and each such deputy registrar and judge of
10 registration shall be charged with such blanks until he
11 returns them to the board of election commissioners. If for
12 any cause a blank voter registration application form record
13 card is mutilated or rendered unfit for use in making it out,
14 or if a mistake therein has been made, such blank shall not
15 be destroyed, but the word "mutilated" shall be written
16 across the face of such form blank, and such form blank shall
17 be returned to the board of election commissioners and shall
18 be preserved in the same manner and for the same length of
19 time as mutilated ballots. When any registration shall have
20 been completed, each deputy registrar and judge of
21 registration shall return all voter registration application
22 forms record cards to the board of election commissioners
23 whether such forms cards have been filled out and executed or
24 whether they are unused, or whether they have been mutilated.
25 Deputy registrars and judges of registration shall make
26 personal delivery of the registration records to the board of
27 election commissioners, after the close of each registration
28 and before they separate. Each deputy registrar and judge of
29 registration shall certify the registration records in
30 substantially the following form:
31 "We, the undersigned deputy registrars and judge of
32 registration in .... County of .... in the State of Illinois,
33 do swear (or affirm) that at the registration of electors on
34 the .... day of .... there was registered by us in the said
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1 election precinct the names which appear on the registration
2 record cards, and that the number of voters registered and
3 qualified was and is the number of .....
4 ..............(Judge of Registration)
5 ...........(Deputy Registrar) ...........(Deputy Registrar)
6 Date ........."
7 (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)
8 (10 ILCS 5/6-37) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-37)
9 Sec. 6-37. Except as otherwise provided for in Section
10 6-29 of this Article, no person shall be registered unless he
11 applies in person to a registration officer, answers such
12 relevant questions as may be asked of him by the registration
13 officer, and executes the affidavit of registration or
14 submits a valid voter registration application under the
15 provisions of Article 3A. The registration officer shall
16 require the applicant to furnish two forms of identification,
17 and except in the case of a homeless individual, one of which
18 must include his or her residence address. These forms of
19 identification shall include, but not be limited to, any of
20 the following: driver's license, social security card, public
21 aid identification card, utility bill, employee or student
22 identification card, credit card, or a civic, union or
23 professional association membership card. The registration
24 officer shall require a homeless individual to furnish
25 evidence of his or her use of the mailing address stated.
26 This use may be demonstrated by a piece of mail addressed to
27 that individual and received at that address or by a
28 statement from a person authorizing use of the mailing
29 address. The registration officer shall require each
30 applicant for registration to read or have read to him the
31 affidavit of registration before permitting him to execute
32 the affidavit.
33 The registration officer shall satisfy himself that each
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1 applicant for registration is qualified to register before
2 registering him. Any voter of the ward, village or
3 incorporated town in which such applicant resides, shall be
4 permitted to be present at the place of registration, and
5 shall have the right to challenge any applicant who applies
6 to be registered.
7 In case the officer is not satisfied that the applicant
8 is qualified he shall forthwith in writing notify such
9 applicant to appear before the board of election
10 commissioners to furnish further proof of his qualification.
11 Upon the application form card of such applicant shall be
12 written the word "incomplete" and no such applicant shall be
13 permitted to vote unless such registration is satisfactorily
14 completed as hereinafter provided.
15 Any person claiming to be an elector in any election
16 precinct in such city, village or incorporated town and whose
17 registration application is marked "incomplete" may make and
18 sign an application in writing, under oath, to the board of
19 election commissioners in substance in the following form:
20 "I do solemnly swear that I,.... did on .... make
21 application to the board of registry of the .... precinct of
22 .... ward of the city of ....(or to the board of election
23 commissioners of ....) and that said board refused to
24 complete my registration as a qualified voter in said
25 precinct, that I reside in said precinct, am a duly qualified
26 voter and entitled to vote in said precinct at the next
27 election.
28 ....(Signature of Applicant)"
29 In all cities, villages or incorporated towns having a
30 population of less than 200,000 all such applications shall
31 be presented to the board of election commissioners by the
32 applicant, in person, between the hours of nine o'clock a.m.,
33 and five o'clock p.m. on Tuesday or Wednesday of the second
34 week prior to the week in which such election is to be held,
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1 and in all municipalities having a population of more than
2 200,000 and having a board of election commissioners and in
3 all cities, villages and incorporated towns within the
4 jurisdiction of such board, all such applications shall be
5 presented to the board of election commissioners by the
6 applicant, in person between the hours of nine o'clock a.m.
7 and five o'clock p.m., on Monday and Tuesday of the third
8 week prior to the week in which such election is to be held.
9 (Source: P.A. 87-1241.)
10 (10 ILCS 5/6-38) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-38)
11 Sec. 6-38. Pursuant to Section 3A-9 of this Code, the
12 election authority may from time to time, but in no case
13 within 120 days before a general primary election or general
14 election, canvass some or all of the voters in its
15 jurisdiction to confirm their addresses. If fewer than all of
16 the voters in the jurisdiction are selected to be canvassed,
17 the selection criteria shall be nondiscriminatory with
18 respect to race, creed, ethnic origin, political party
19 preference, and gender. The 2 deputy registrars provided by
20 this Article 6 for registration in each precinct preceding
21 the election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first
22 Monday in November, 1936, and for the last day of
23 registration provided for in Section 6-49.1, shall be the
24 canvassers of the precinct for which they are appointed.
25 The Board of Election Commissioners shall furnish to each
26 deputy registrar a verification list of registered voters
27 approved by the Board of Election Commissioners or a blank
28 book which shall be named "Verification List", each page of
29 which shall be ruled into 4 columns, and to be marked thus:
30 Street Remarks
31 Number Street Names O.K. - Died - Moved, etc.
32 Such book shall contain pages sufficient to allow 6 pages
33 for each street, avenue, alley and court in the precinct in
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1 question. During the progress of the registration, or
2 immediately thereafter, each deputy registrar shall transfer
3 all the names upon the registration record cards to such
4 verification list; arranging them according to streets,
5 avenues, alleys or courts, beginning with the lowest
6 residence number, and placing them numerically, as near as
7 possible, from the lowest up to the highest number.
8 They shall first write the name of such street, avenue,
9 alley or court, at the top of the second column, and then
10 proceed to transfer the names to such "Verification Lists"
11 according to the street numbers as above indicated.
12 If, during either day of registration, any registered
13 voter of the ward, village, or incorporated town shall come
14 before the deputy registrars and the judge of registration
15 and make oath that he believes that any particular person
16 whose name has been entered upon the registry is not a
17 qualified voter, such fact shall be noted; and after the
18 completion of such "Verification Lists" one of the
19 registrars, or judge of registration, shall make a cross or
20 check mark in ink opposite such name. If the deputy
21 registrars or the judge of the registration know any person
22 so complained of is a qualified voter and believe that such
23 complaint was made only to vex and harass such qualified
24 voter, then such name shall be placed upon such lists without
25 such cross or check mark but such cross or check mark shall
26 be placed upon such lists in case either of the registrars or
27 the judge of registration desires.
28 (Source: P.A. 84-1308.)
29 (10 ILCS 5/6-39) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-39)
30 Sec. 6-39. At a time designated by the election authority
31 Upon the Wednesday and Thursday following the last day of
32 registration, and upon the Wednesday and Thursday following
33 the last day of precinct registration provided for in Section
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1 6-49.1 of this Article, if so much time is required, the 2
2 deputy registrars shall go together and canvass the precinct
3 for which they have been appointed, calling at each dwelling
4 place or each house from which any one is registered in such
5 precinct and each dwelling place as indicated upon said
6 "Verification Lists"; and if they shall find that any person
7 whose name appears upon their verification lists does not
8 reside at the place designated thereupon, they shall make a
9 notation in the column headed "Remarks" as follows: "Changed
10 Name"; "Died", or "Moved", as the case may be, indicating
11 that such person does not reside at such place.
12 Whenever deemed necessary by the canvassers, or either of
13 them, he, she, or they may demand of the person having
14 command of the police in such precinct to furnish a
15 policeman, to accompany them and protect them in the
16 performance of their duties; and it shall be the duty of the
17 person having command of the police in such precinct to
18 furnish a policeman for such purpose. In such canvass no
19 person shall refuse to answer questions and give the
20 information asked for and known to him or her, or shall
21 knowingly give false information, or make false statements.
22 In making such canvass the canvassers shall make special
23 inquiry at the residence or place designated on the
24 verification lists, as to all the persons registered as
25 qualified voters, and shall receive information from judges
26 of election, party canvassers, or other persons.
27 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 2987.)
28 (10 ILCS 5/6-40) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-40)
29 Sec. 6-40. Where verification lists are furnished to the
30 canvassers by the Board of Election Commissioners,
31 immediately upon completion of the canvass, the canvassers,
32 or one of them, shall file with the Board of Election
33 Commissioners the list of registered voters upon which the
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1 canvassers have made notation in the column headed "Remarks"
2 as follows: "O. K.", if they still reside at the address
3 shown on the registration list, or "Died", "Moved", or
4 "Changed Name" as the case may be. Such lists shall be
5 attested to by the canvassers in an attached affidavit. No
6 canvasser shall be remunerated for services as canvasser
7 until such signed affidavit is filed with the Board of
8 Election Commissioners.
9 Upon receipt by the Board of Election Commissioners of
10 the completed list and the attached affidavit as to the
11 correctness of the list, the Board of Election Commissioners
12 shall prepare an address verification notice for post card
13 "Notices to Show Cause Why Registration Should not be
14 Cancelled" to send to each voter on each list after whose
15 name the canvassers have written "Died", "Moved", or "Changed
16 Name" to be sent through the United States mail, duly
17 stamped, to the address given on the list, or in the case of
18 homeless individuals to their mailing address. The notice
19 shall be a non-forwardable, forwarding address requested
20 mailing to be returned to the election authority. If the
21 notice is returned as not deliverable to the voter at the
22 address provided, the election authority shall take action as
23 circumstances require pursuant to Section 3A-9 of this Code.
24 They shall be mailed to those whose registration is
25 questioned by the Board of Election Commissioners not later
26 than 10 P.M. on Friday of the week of the canvass. The
27 affidavits made by the canvassers showing the names and
28 addresses of such canvassers shall be a public record for 60
29 days.
30 The Board of Election Commissioners shall also prepare a
31 correct list of those registered voters in each precinct who
32 are designated "O.K." in the remarks column by the canvassers
33 and supplemental lists after a determination is made as to
34 the registration status of each of the voters on the lists
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1 submitted by the canvassers, such the hearings on "Notices to
2 Show Cause Why Registration Should Not be Cancelled"; such
3 lists to be called "Printed Register of Registered Voters" of
4 a given date and supplements thereto.
5 It shall be the duty of the Board of Election
6 Commissioners when complaint is made to them, to investigate
7 the action of such canvassers and to cause them or either of
8 them to be brought before the circuit court and to prosecute
9 them as for contempt, and also at the discretion of the Board
10 of Election Commissioners, to cause them to be prosecuted
11 criminally for such wilful neglect of duty.
12 All records concerning the implementation of the canvass,
13 including lists of the names and addresses of those canvassed
14 and to whom subsequent notices were sent and information
15 concerning whether or not each person responded to the notice
16 shall be maintained for at least 2 years and shall be made
17 available for public inspection.
18 (Source: Laws 1965, p. 3501.)
19 (10 ILCS 5/6-41) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-41)
20 Sec. 6-41. The canvassers, or one of them, shall prepare
21 a list of the names of the parties designated as aforesaid,
22 and to whom such notice has been sent, given, or left at the
23 address, and make and attach his or their affidavit or
24 affidavits thereto, stating that notice, duly stamped, was
25 mailed to each of said parties at the places designated on
26 the list, on or before 10 o'clock p. m. of the Thursday
27 following the canvass, and that notice was also personally
28 left at the said address of each of the parties named in the
29 lists so attached, if there be such address; and such
30 canvassers shall also file in the office of the Board of
31 Election Commissioners on or before 6 o'clock p. m. on the
32 Friday following the canvass, an exact duplicate of such list
33 with the affidavit or affidavits attached thereto. Blank
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1 affidavit forms shall be furnished by the board for the
2 purpose aforesaid; but if none are furnished, such canvassers
3 shall cause the same to be drawn, and they shall swear to
4 such affidavit before the judge of registration of such
5 precinct, or a member of the Board of Election Commissioners,
6 or the executive director thereof.
7 In cities, villages and incorporated towns having a
8 population of over 200,000 and having a Board of Election
9 Commissioners and in cities, villages and incorporated towns
10 within the jurisdiction of the Board of Election
11 Commissioners, the Board of Election Commissioners shall
12 remain in session from 10 o'clock a.m. to 9 o'clock p.m. for
13 10 days following the last day of the canvass for the sole
14 purpose of revising their registry. No new name shall be
15 added to the registry at such session of the Board of
16 Election Commissioners.
17 In cities, villages and incorporated towns having a
18 population of less than 200,000, the hearing herein provided
19 and the final revision of the registry, shall be by the Board
20 of Election Commissioners for such city, village or
21 incorporated town. The commissioners shall meet for this
22 purpose upon the Monday and Tuesday following the canvass,
23 and shall remain in session between the hours of 8 o'clock
24 a.m. and 10 o'clock p.m., and the precinct election officials
25 who made the canvass of the precinct shall meet with them as
26 may be required by the Board of Election Commissioners.
27 If any person to whom such notice has been sent, shall
28 appear before the Board of Election Commissioners during the
29 session, he shall make oath and sign an affidavit in
30 substance as follows:
31 "I do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United
32 States and that I have resided in the .... precinct of the
33 .... Ward of the City of ...., in the State of Illinois,
34 since the .... day of ....; and that I have never been
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1 convicted of any crime (or if convicted, state the time and
2 when pardoned by the Governor of any State)."
3 This affidavit shall be signed and sworn to before one of
4 such Board of Election Commissioners, or the clerk of the
5 board, and it shall be filed in the office of the Board of
6 Election Commissioners and be preserved for at least 2 years
7 60 days.
8 Thereupon the Board of Election Commissioners shall
9 further examine him and shall also swear such canvassers or
10 the precinct election officials as the case may be, and hear
11 them upon the question, and the Board of Election
12 Commissioners shall have the power to send one or both of the
13 canvassers or precinct election officials, as the case may
14 be, to make further examination and inquiry at the place
15 claimed by such person to be his residence, and again examine
16 such canvassers or precinct election officials touching the
17 same; and if after such further examination and hearing, the
18 majority of the board in question are of the opinion that
19 such person is not a qualified voter in such precinct, they
20 shall indicate in the proper manner that the name card of
21 such person shall remain in be removed from the precinct file
22 and the registration shall not be deemed inactive.
23 At the close of any such session, if any person so
24 notified to appear at such session has not appeared and shown
25 cause why the card bearing his name should not be withdrawn
26 from the precinct file, the same shall be withdrawn from the
27 file.
28 The Board of Election Commissioners shall, however, keep
29 the cancelled cards in a suspense file for 2 years and
30 reinstate them at any time within such 2 year suspense
31 period, when a person's registration is cancelled under this
32 or other Sections of this Article for failure to apply for
33 reinstatement or to appear in proper time, and there is
34 sufficient subsequent showing that he is a duly qualified
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1 elector.
2 Either of said canvassers shall have the power and right
3 of both in the matter pertaining to such canvass; but in case
4 either refuses or neglects to make such canvass as aforesaid,
5 then the other may make such canvass alone.
6 In case of the temporary disability upon the part of
7 either canvasser, the remaining canvasser shall appoint a
8 temporary canvasser who shall represent and be affiliated
9 with the same political party as the canvasser whose place is
10 being filled, and shall administer to him the usual oath of
11 office for canvassers. Such temporary canvasser shall perform
12 all the duties of the office until the disability of the
13 regular canvasser is removed.
14 (Source: P.A. 82-373.)
15 (10 ILCS 5/6-43) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-43)
16 Sec. 6-43. After the close of registration prior to each
17 General Election, Immediately after the completion of the
18 revision by the Board of Election Commissioners, the board
19 shall cause copies to be made of all names upon the
20 registration records record cards not deemed inactive marked
21 or erased, with the address, and shall have the same arranged
22 according to the streets, avenues, courts, or alleys,
23 commencing with the lowest number, and arranging the same in
24 order according to the street numbers, and shall then cause
25 such precinct register, upon such arrangement, to be printed
26 in plain, large type in sufficient numbers to meet all
27 demands, and upon application a copy of the same shall be
28 given to any person applying therefor. Provided, however,
29 that in municipalities having a population of more than
30 500,000 and having a Board of Election Commissioners, as to
31 all elections, excepting any elections held for the purpose
32 of electing judges of the circuit courts, registrations for
33 which are made solely before the Board of Election
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1 Commissioners, and where no general precinct registrations
2 were provided for or held within 28 days before the election,
3 the Board of Election Commissioners shall cause, within 10
4 days after the last day of registration before such board,
5 copies to be made of all names of qualified electors
6 appearing upon each registration application form record card
7 in like manner as hereinabove provided, and upon application
8 a copy of the same shall be given to any person applying
9 therefor: Provided, further, that whenever an election is
10 held within 90 days after a preceding election, or when any
11 elections are held for the purpose of electing judges of the
12 circuit courts, the printed list and the supplement thereto
13 provided for the last preceding election shall constitute the
14 Printed Precinct Register for the ensuing election, subject
15 to such changes as shall be made, if any, as herein provided,
16 which changes, if any, and the contents of any supplemental
17 list, insofar as the latter have not been changed pursuant to
18 this Act, shall be printed in a new supplemental list which
19 shall supplant the prior supplemental list and shall be
20 delivered to the judges of the respective precincts, with the
21 printed register and the certification, in the manner and at
22 the time provided in Sections 6-48 and 6-60 of this Article.
23 Such list shall have printed on the bottom thereof the
24 facsimile signatures of the members of the Board of Election
25 Commissioners certifying that the names on the list are the
26 names of all voters entitled to vote in the precinct
27 indicated on the top thereof. Such list shall be termed the
28 "Printed Precinct Register" and shall be prima facie evidence
29 that the electors whose names appear thereon are entitled to
30 vote. Provided that if, on order of the Board of Election
31 Commissioners a corrected or revised precinct register of
32 voters in a precinct or precincts is printed, such list or
33 lists shall have printed thereon the day and month of such
34 revision and shall be designated "Revised Precinct Register
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1 of Voters."
2 Any elector whose name does not appear as a registered
3 voter on such printed precinct register, supplemental list or
4 any list provided for in this Article and whose name has not
5 been erased or withdrawn shall be entitled to vote as
6 hereinafter in this Article provided if his registration
7 application card is in the master file. Such elector shall
8 within 7 days after the publication of such printed precinct
9 register, file with the Board of Election Commissioners an
10 application stating that he is a duly registered voter and
11 that his registration application card is in the master file.
12 The Board shall hold a hearing upon such application within 2
13 days after the filing thereof and shall announce its decision
14 thereon within 3 days after the hearing. If the name of such
15 applicant appears upon the registration application card in
16 the master file, the board shall issue to such elector a
17 certificate setting forth that his name does so appear and
18 certifying that he has the right to vote at the next
19 succeeding election. Such certificate shall be issued in
20 duplicate, one to be retained in the files of the board, and
21 the other to be issued to the elector.
22 The Board of Election Commissioners upon the issuance of
23 such certificate shall see that the name of such elector
24 appears upon the precinct registry list in the precinct.
25 (Source: Laws 1965, p. 3481.)
26 (10 ILCS 5/6-45) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-45)
27 Sec. 6-45. A docket of all applications to said board of
28 election commissioners, whether such application shall be
29 made for the purpose of being registered or restored, or for
30 the purpose of erasing a name on the register or for
31 completing registration shall be made out in the order of the
32 wards and precincts as the case may be. Such docket shall
33 show the disposition of each case and be available to the
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1 public. In cities, villages or incorporated towns having a
2 population of less than 500,000 the commissioners shall sit
3 to hear such applications between the hours of 10 o'clock a.
4 m., and 9 o'clock p. m. on the Tuesday, Wednesday and
5 Thursday immediately preceding such election, and in cities,
6 villages and incorporated towns having a population of over
7 500,000 and having a board of election commissioners, (except
8 as otherwise provided for such municipalities in section
9 6--60 of this Article), and in all cities, villages and
10 incorporated towns within the jurisdiction of such board,
11 such commissioners shall sit to hear such applications
12 between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 9 o'clock p. m., on
13 Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the second week prior to the
14 week in which such election is to be held. At the request of
15 either party to such applications, the board shall issue
16 subpoenas to witnesses to appear at such hearings, and
17 Witnesses may be sworn and examined upon the hearing of said
18 application. Each person appearing in response to an
19 application to have a name erased shall deliver to the board
20 a written affidavit, which shall be, in substance, in the
21 words and figures following:
22 "I do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United
23 States; that I have resided in the State of Illinois since
24 the .... day of .... and in the county of .... said State,
25 since the .... day of .... and in the .... precinct of the
26 .... ward, in the city of .... said county and State, since
27 the .... day of .... and that I am .... years of age; that I
28 am the identical person registered in said precinct under the
29 name I subscribe hereto."
30 This answer shall be signed and sworn to or affirmed
31 before any person authorized to administer oaths or
32 affirmations. The decision on each application shall be
33 announced at once after hearing, and a minute made thereof,
34 and when an application to be registered or to be restored to
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1 such register or to complete registration shall be allowed
2 the said board of election commissioners shall cause a minute
3 to be made upon the original and any duplicate registration
4 forms records. And where an application to erase a name shall
5 be allowed, the board of election commissioners shall cause
6 the name to be erased forthwith, and the registration record
7 card withdrawn.
8 In cities, villages and incorporated towns of 500,000 or
9 more inhabitants, having a board of election commissioners,
10 and in cities, villages and incorporated towns within the
11 jurisdiction of such board of election commissioners,
12 applications under this section and hearings or citations
13 under Sections 6--56, 6--59 and 6--60 hereof, may be heard by
14 individual commissioners or by persons specially designated
15 by the commissioners for this purpose, and a decision by such
16 individual commissioner or person so designated, shall become
17 the decision of the board of election commissioners upon
18 approval of such board.
19 (Source: Laws 1947, p. 899.)
20 (10 ILCS 5/6-49) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-49)
21 Sec. 6-49. The registration hereinabove provided
22 preceding the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
23 November, 1936, shall constitute a permanent registration,
24 subject to revision and alteration in the manner hereinafter
25 provided. However, except as provided in Section 6--49.1 of
26 this Article, the registration hereinabove provided for shall
27 constitute a permanent registration only until September 15,
28 1961, in municipalities having 3 days of precinct
29 registration preceding the 1962 primary election and only
30 until the last day of precinct re-registration in 1970 in
31 other municipalities, at which time such registrations shall
32 become null and void and shall be cancelled immediately
33 thereafter by such Board.
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1 All registrations subsequent to that hereinbefore
2 provided shall be upon voter registration application forms
3 record cards provided by the Board of Election Commissioners
4 in accordance with the provisions of Section 3A-3 6--35 of
5 this Code Article.
6 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 2987.)
7 (10 ILCS 5/6-50.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.1)
8 Sec. 6-50.1. In addition to registration at the office of
9 the board of election commissioners, the board of election
10 commissioners shall provide the following methods of
11 registration:
12 (1) The appointment of deputy registrars as provided in
13 Section 6-50.2;
14 (2) The establishment of temporary places of
15 registration as provided in Section 6-50.3;
16 (3) Registration by mail as provided in Section 3A-4 and
17 6-50.4;
18 (4) Registration by certain employees of Public Service
19 Agencies as provided in Section 3A-5; and
20 (5) Registration by certain employees of the Secretary
21 of State as provided in Section 3A-6.
22 The board of election commissioners may provide for
23 registration pursuant to Section 6-51.
24 (Source: P.A. 83-1059.)
25 (10 ILCS 5/6-50.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.2)
26 Sec. 6-50.2. (a) The board of election commissioners
27 shall appoint all precinct committeepersons in the election
28 jurisdiction as deputy registrars who may accept the
29 registration of any qualified resident of the election
30 jurisdiction, except during the 28 days preceding an
31 election.
32 The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars
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1 a reasonable number of employees of the Secretary of State
2 located at driver's license examination stations and
3 designated to the election authority by the Secretary of
4 State who may accept the registration of any qualified
5 residents of the county at any such driver's license
6 examination stations. The appointment of employees of the
7 Secretary of State as deputy registrars shall be made in the
8 manner provided in Section 2-105 of the Illinois Vehicle
9 Code.
10 The board of election commissioners shall appoint each of
11 the following named persons as deputy registrars upon the
12 written request of such persons:
13 1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person
14 designated by the chief librarian, of any public library
15 situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
16 the registrations of any qualified resident of the
17 election jurisdiction, at such library.
18 2. The principal, or a qualified person designated
19 by the principal, of any high school, elementary school,
20 or vocational school situated within the election
21 jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
22 resident of the election jurisdiction, at such school.
23 The board of election commissioners shall notify every
24 principal and vice-principal of each high school,
25 elementary school, and vocational school situated in the
26 election jurisdiction of their eligibility to serve as
27 deputy registrars and offer training courses for service
28 as deputy registrars at conveniently located facilities
29 at least 4 months prior to every election.
30 3. The president, or a qualified person designated
31 by the president, of any university, college, community
32 college, academy or other institution of learning
33 situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
34 the registrations of any resident of the election
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1 jurisdiction, at such university, college, community
2 college, academy or institution.
3 4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona
4 fide labor organization, or a reasonable number of
5 qualified members designated by such official, who may
6 accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
7 election jurisdiction.
8 5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona
9 fide State civic organization, as defined and determined
10 by rule of the State Board of Elections, or qualified
11 members designated by such official, who may accept the
12 registration of any qualified resident of the election
13 jurisdiction. In determining the number of deputy
14 registrars that shall be appointed, the board of election
15 commissioners shall consider the population of the
16 jurisdiction, the size of the organization, the
17 geographic size of the jurisdiction, convenience for the
18 public, the existing number of deputy registrars in the
19 jurisdiction and their location, the registration
20 activities of the organization and the need to appoint
21 deputy registrars to assist and facilitate the
22 registration of non-English speaking individuals. In no
23 event shall a board of election commissioners fix an
24 arbitrary number applicable to every civic organization
25 requesting appointment of its members as deputy
26 registrars. The State Board of Elections shall by rule
27 provide for certification of bona fide State civic
28 organizations. Such appointments shall be made for a
29 period not to exceed 2 years, terminating on the first
30 business day of the month following the month of the
31 general election, and shall be valid for all periods of
32 voter registration as provided by this Code during the
33 terms of such appointments.
34 6. (Blank) The Director of the Illinois Department
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1 of Public Aid, or a reasonable number of employees
2 designated by the Director and located at public aid
3 offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
4 resident of the election jurisdiction at any such public
5 aid office.
6 7. The Director of the Illinois Department of
7 Employment Security, or a reasonable number of employees
8 designated by the Director and located at unemployment
9 offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
10 resident of the election jurisdiction at any such
11 unemployment office. If the request to be appointed as
12 deputy registrar is denied, the board of election
13 commissioners shall, within 10 days after the date the
14 request is submitted, provide the affected individual or
15 organization with written notice setting forth the
16 specific reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the
17 request to be appointed as deputy registrar.
18 8. The president of any corporation, as defined by
19 the Business Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable
20 number of employees designated by such president, who may
21 accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
22 election jurisdiction.
23 The board of election commissioners may appoint as many
24 additional deputy registrars as it considers necessary. The
25 board of election commissioners shall appoint such additional
26 deputy registrars in such manner that the convenience of the
27 public is served, giving due consideration to both population
28 concentration and area. Some of the additional deputy
29 registrars shall be selected so that there are an equal
30 number from each of the 2 major political parties in the
31 election jurisdiction. The board of election commissioners,
32 in appointing an additional deputy registrar, shall make the
33 appointment from a list of applicants submitted by the
34 Chairman of the County Central Committee of the applicant's
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1 political party. A Chairman of a County Central Committee
2 shall submit a list of applicants to the board by November 30
3 of each year. The board may require a Chairman of a County
4 Central Committee to furnish a supplemental list of
5 applicants.
6 Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time
7 other than the 28 day period preceding an election. All
8 persons appointed as deputy registrars shall be registered
9 voters within the election jurisdiction and shall take and
10 subscribe to the following oath or affirmation:
11 "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that
12 I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the
13 Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will
14 faithfully discharge the duties of the office of registration
15 officer to the best of my ability and that I will register no
16 person nor cause the registration of any person except upon
17 his personal application before me.
18 ....................................
19 (Signature of Registration Officer)"
20 This oath shall be administered and certified to by one
21 of the commissioners or by the executive director or by some
22 person designated by the board of election commissioners, and
23 shall immediately thereafter be filed with the board of
24 election commissioners. The members of the board of election
25 commissioners and all persons authorized by them under the
26 provisions of this Article to take registrations, after
27 themselves taking and subscribing to the above oath, are
28 authorized to take or administer such oaths and execute such
29 affidavits as are required by this Article.
30 Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section,
31 except precinct committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms,
32 commencing on December 1 following the general election of
33 each even-numbered year, except that the terms of the initial
34 appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
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1 general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen shall
2 be for 2-year terms commencing on the date of the county
3 convention following the general primary at which they were
4 elected. The county clerk shall issue a certificate of
5 appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
6 his office for public inspection a list of the names of all
7 appointees.
8 (b) The board of election commissioners shall be
9 responsible for training all deputy registrars appointed
10 pursuant to subsection (a), at times and locations reasonably
11 convenient for both the board of election commissioners and
12 such appointees. The board of election commissioners shall
13 be responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy
14 registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a). Deputy
15 registrars appointed under subsection (a) shall be subject to
16 removal for cause.
17 (c) Completed registration materials under the control
18 of deputy registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a)
19 shall be returned to the proper election authority within 7
20 days, except that completed registration materials received
21 by the deputy registrars during the period between the 35th
22 and 29th day preceding an election shall be returned by the
23 deputy registrars to the proper election authority within 48
24 hours after receipt thereof. The completed registration
25 materials received by the deputy registrars on the 29th day
26 preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
27 registrars within 24 hours after receipt thereof. Unused
28 materials shall be returned by deputy registrars appointed
29 pursuant to paragraph 4 of subsection (a), not later than the
30 next working day following the close of registration.
31 (d) The board of election commissioners shall not be
32 required to provide additional forms to any deputy registrar
33 having more than 200 registration forms unaccounted for
34 during the preceding 12 month period.
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1 (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any
2 electioneering or the promotion of any cause during the
3 performance of his or her duties.
4 (f) The board of election commissioners shall not be
5 criminally or civilly liable for the acts or omissions of any
6 deputy registrar. Such deputy registrars shall not be deemed
7 to be employees of the board of election commissioners.
8 (Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
9 (10 ILCS 5/6-50.4 new)
10 Sec. 6-50.4. In addition to registration conducted by
11 the registration officer or deputy registrar, the election
12 authority shall make voter registration applications as
13 provided in Section 3A-3 available in private and
14 governmental locations throughout the jurisdiction in
15 sufficient numbers for the convenience of persons desiring to
16 apply for voter registration by mail. Such locations shall
17 be selected by the election authority in a nondiscriminatory
18 manner. The forms shall be suitable for mailing though may
19 not necessarily bear postage. Instructions for completion of
20 the application shall be attached and shall be as prescribed
21 by rule of the State Board of Elections. The voter
22 registration application dispenser or holder shall bear a
23 uniform logo designed by the State Board of Elections to
24 identify the use of the forms.
25 (10 ILCS 5/6-52) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-52)
26 Sec. 6-52. All voter registrations made in jurisdictions
27 under a Board of Election Commissioners shall be made in a
28 manner provided for by Article 3A or by this Article 6 of
29 this Code. Registration under Sections 6-49.1, 6-50, 6-50.2,
30 6-50.3 and 6-51 of this Article shall be made in the manner
31 provided by Sections 6-34, 6-35 and 6-37 of this Article.
32 With respect to registrations at the office of the Board of
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1 Election Commissioners under Section 6-50 hereof,
2 applications to complete registrations and hearings thereon
3 shall (except as may be otherwise provided in Sections 6-43
4 and 6-60 of this Article) be made and heard at such times as
5 may by rule be prescribed by the Board of Election
6 Commissioners, but the hearing and decision thereof by the
7 Board of Election Commissioners shall be within 30 days after
8 the application for registration. In such cases and in all
9 other cases not specifically provided for by this Article,
10 applications for hearings by the court may be made within 5
11 days after decision by the board in the manner provided by
12 Section 6-46, and a hearing and decision by such court shall
13 be had within 30 days after such application. Appeals may be
14 taken as in other civil cases. In all cases where
15 registration is had at the office of the Board of Election
16 Commissioners within 42 days before any election hearings by
17 such board and by the court shall (except as may be otherwise
18 provided in Sections 6-43 and 6-60 of this Article) be on the
19 days preceding the election specified in Sections 6-45 and
20 6-46 of this Article. Hearings and decisions shall be had
21 within the periods specified by such sections.
22 (Source: P.A. 79-1364.)
23 (10 ILCS 5/6-53) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-53)
24 Sec. 6-53. Any registered elector who changes his
25 residence from one address number or place to another within
26 the same precinct, city or village or incorporated town, may
27 have his registration transferred to his new address by
28 making and signing an application for such change of
29 residence address upon a form to be provided by such board of
30 election commissioners. Such application may be made to the
31 office of such board or at any place designated in accordance
32 with section 6--51 of this Article.
33 Upon receipt of such application the board of election
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1 commissioners or officer, employee or deputy registrar
2 designated by such board shall cause the signature of the
3 voter and the data appearing upon the application to be
4 compared with the signature and data on the existing voter
5 registration application record, and if it appears that the
6 applicant is the same person as the party previously
7 registered under that name, the transfer shall be made. In
8 case the person is unable to sign his name the board of
9 election commissioners shall require such person to execute
10 the request in the presence of the board or of its properly
11 authorized representative, by his mark, and if satisfied of
12 the identity of the person, the board of election
13 commissioners shall make the transfer. The person in charge
14 of the registration shall draw a line through the last
15 address, ward and precinct number on the original and
16 duplicate and write the new address, ward and precinct number
17 on the original and duplicate registration records.
18 Any registered elector may transfer his registration only
19 at any such time as is provided by this Article for the
20 registration of voters at the office of the board. When a
21 removal of a registered voter takes place from one address to
22 another within the same precinct within a period during which
23 such transfer of registration cannot be made, before any
24 election or primary, he shall be entitled to vote upon
25 presenting to the judges of election an affidavit of a change
26 and having said affidavit supported by the affidavit of a
27 qualified voter who is a householder in the same precinct.
28 Suitable forms for this purpose shall be provided by the
29 board of election commissioners whose duty it is to conduct
30 the election; and thereupon the precinct election officials
31 shall report to the board of election commissioners the names
32 of all such persons who have changed their address and voted.
33 The board of election commissioners may obtain
34 information from utility companies, city records, the post
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1 office or from other sources regarding the removal of
2 registered voters, and notify such voters that a transfer of
3 registration may be made in the manner provided by this
4 section.
5 If any person be registered by error in a precinct other
6 than that in which he resides, a transfer of registration to
7 the precinct in which he resides may be made in the manner
8 provided by this section.
9 Where a revision or rearrangement of precincts is made by
10 the board of election commissioners under the power conferred
11 by Section 11--3 of Article 11 of this Act, such board shall
12 immediately transfer to the proper precinct the registration
13 of any voter affected by such revision or rearrangement of
14 precincts; make the proper notations on the cards in the
15 master and precinct files; and shall notify the registrant of
16 such change.
17 (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3449.)
18 (10 ILCS 5/6-54) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-54)
19 Sec. 6-54. Any registered voter who changes his or her
20 name by marriage or otherwise, shall be required to register
21 anew and authorize the cancellation of the previous
22 registration; provided, however, that if the voter still
23 resides in the same election jurisdiction and if the change
24 of name takes place within a period during which such new
25 registration cannot be made, next preceding any election or
26 primary, the elector may, if otherwise qualified, vote upon
27 making the following affidavit before the judges of election:
28 "I do solemnly swear that I am the same person now
29 registered in the .... precinct of the .... ward, under the
30 name of .... and that I still reside in the election
31 jurisdiction said precinct.
32 (Signed)...."
33 (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)
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1 (10 ILCS 5/6-56) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-56)
2 Sec. 6-56. Not more than 135 30 nor less than 133 28 days
3 before any election under this Article, all owners, managers,
4 administrators or operators of hotels, lodging houses,
5 rooming houses, furnished apartments or facilities licensed
6 or certified under the Nursing Home Care Act, which house 4
7 or more persons, outside the members of the family of such
8 owner, manager, administrator or operator, shall file with
9 the board of election commissioners a report, under oath,
10 together with one copy thereof, in such form as may be
11 required by the board of election commissioners, of the names
12 and descriptions of all lodgers, guests or residents claiming
13 a voting residence at the hotels, lodging houses, rooming
14 houses, furnished apartments, or facility licensed or
15 certified under the Nursing Home Care Act under their
16 control. In counties having a population of 500,000 or more
17 such report shall be made on forms mailed to them by the
18 board of election commissioners. The board of election
19 commissioners shall sort and assemble the sworn copies of the
20 reports in numerical order according to ward and according to
21 precincts within each ward and shall, not later than 5 days
22 after the last day allowed by this Article for the filing of
23 the reports, maintain one assembled set of sworn duplicate
24 reports available for public inspection until 60 days after
25 election days. Except as is otherwise expressly provided in
26 this Article, the board shall not be required to perform any
27 duties with respect to the sworn reports other than to mail,
28 sort, assemble, post and file them as hereinabove provided.
29 Unless it is determined by the board that such action
30 might be discriminatory with respect to race, creed, or
31 ethnic origin, Except in such cases where a precinct canvass
32 is being conducted by the board of election commissioners
33 prior to a Primary or Election, the board of election
34 commissioners shall compare the original copy of each such
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1 report with the list of registered voters from such
2 addresses. Every person registered from such address and not
3 listed in such report or whose name is different from any
4 name so listed, shall be sent a notice to confirm the
5 registrant's address following the procedures set forth in
6 Section 3A-9 of this Code immediately after the last day of
7 registration be sent a notice through the United States mail,
8 at the address appearing upon his registration record card,
9 requiring him to appear before the board of election
10 commissioners on one of the days specified in Section 6-45 of
11 this Article and show cause why his registration should not
12 be cancelled. The provisions of Sections 6-45, 6-46 and 6-47
13 of this Article shall apply to such hearing and proceedings
14 subsequent thereto.
15 Any owner, manager or operator of any such hotel, lodging
16 house, rooming house or furnished apartment who shall fail or
17 neglect to file such statement and copy thereof as in this
18 Article provided, may, upon written information of the
19 attorney for the election commissioners, be cited by the
20 election commissioners or upon the complaint of any voter of
21 such city, village or incorporated town, to appear before
22 them and furnish such sworn statement and copy thereof and
23 make such oral statements under oath regarding such hotel,
24 lodging house, rooming house or furnished apartment, as the
25 election commissioners may require. The election
26 commissioners shall sit to hear such citations on a day not
27 less than 100 days prior to any election the Friday of the
28 fourth week preceding the week in which such election is to
29 be held. Such citation shall be served not later than the day
30 preceding the day on which it is returnable.
31 (Source: P.A. 86-820.)
32 (10 ILCS 5/6-57) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-57)
33 Sec. 6-57. To each person who registers at the office of
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1 the board of election commissioners or at any place
2 designated by such board under section 6-51 of this Article,
3 after the first registration under this Article, the board
4 shall send by mail a Disposition of Registration as provided
5 for in Section 3A-7 of this Code notice setting forth the
6 elector's name and address as it appears on the voter
7 registration application form. record card, and shall request
8 him in case of any error to present the notice on or before
9 the tenth day next ensuing at the office of the Board of
10 Election Commissioners in order to secure the correction of
11 the error. Such notice shall contain on the outside a request
12 for the postmaster to return it within five days if it cannot
13 be delivered to the addressee at the address given thereon.
14 Upon the return by the post office of any such notice which
15 it has been unable to deliver at the given address because
16 the addressee cannot be found there, a notice shall be at
17 once sent through the United States mail to such person at
18 the address appearing upon his registration record card
19 requiring him to appear before the Board of Election
20 Commissioners at a time and place specified in the notice and
21 show cause why his name should not be cancelled from the
22 register. Thereafter, proceedings shall be, as nearly as may
23 be, in conformity with those established by section 6--52 of
24 this Article with respect to applications to complete
25 registration. Such notice may be sent at any time within
26 thirty days after the registration of any person, but such
27 notice shall be sent within five days after the last day of
28 registration before any election, to all persons who have
29 registered since the last preceding election, and to whom no
30 such notice has theretofore been sent; and where the
31 addressee cannot be found, notice requiring such person to
32 appear before the board of election commissioners shall
33 specify dates for hearing before the election not later than
34 those prescribed by section 6--45 of this Article.
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1 (Source: Laws 1951, p. 1795.)
2 (10 ILCS 5/6-59) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-59)
3 Sec. 6-59. The Board of Election Commissioners on its
4 own initiative, or upon order of the circuit court, shall at
5 all times have authority to conduct investigations in a
6 nondiscriminatory manner and to make canvasses of the
7 registered voters in any precinct or precincts within its
8 jurisdiction either by the methods provided in this Article
9 or at other times and by other methods than those prescribed
10 herein. However, the Board of Election Commissioners shall,
11 at least once in every 2 years, conduct a verification of
12 voter registrations as prescribed in Section 3A-9 of this
13 Code and shall cause the cancellation of registration of
14 persons who have ceased to be qualified voters. Such
15 verification shall be accomplished by one of the following
16 methods: (1) precinct canvass conducted by 2 qualified
17 persons of opposite party affiliation appointed by the Board
18 of Election Commissioners or (2) written request sent to each
19 registered voter by first class mail, not forwardable or (3)
20 an alternative method of verification submitted in writing to
21 and approved by The State Board of Elections at a public
22 meeting not less than 60 days prior to the date on which the
23 Board of Election Commissioners has fixed for implementation
24 of that method of verification; provided, said Board shall
25 submit to the State Board of Elections a written statement of
26 the results obtained by use of such alternative method within
27 30 days of the completion of the verification. If, upon the
28 basis of investigations or canvasses, the board shall be of
29 the opinion that any person registered under this Article is
30 not a qualified voter or has ceased to be a qualified voter,
31 it shall send a notice through the United States mail to such
32 person, and follow the procedures set forth in Section 3A-9
33 of this Code requiring him to appear before such board at a
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1 time specified in such notice, not less than 10 nor more than
2 30 days after the mailing of such notice and show cause why
3 his registration should not be cancelled. If such a person
4 does not appear, his registration shall be cancelled. If such
5 a person does appear he shall make an affidavit and shall be
6 heard in the manner provided by Section 6-45 of this Article,
7 and if his registration is cancelled as a result of such a
8 hearing, he shall be entitled to a hearing in the circuit
9 court and to an appeal to the Supreme Court in the manner
10 provided by Section 6-52 of this Article.
11 Whenever the Board of Election Commissioners acting under
12 authority of this section conducts a canvass of the
13 registered voters in any precinct or precincts and the board
14 designates canvassers to conduct the canvass, the board shall
15 appoint as canvassers persons affiliated with the leading
16 political parties in like manner as judges of election are
17 appointed under the provisions of Section 14-4 of this Act;
18 provided that in each precinct in counties of 500,000
19 inhabitants or more, one canvasser may be appointed from
20 outside such precinct if not enough other qualified persons
21 who reside within the precinct can be found to serve as
22 canvasser in such precinct. The one canvasser so appointed to
23 serve in any precinct in which he is not entitled to vote
24 prior to the election must be entitled to vote elsewhere
25 within the ward or township which includes within its
26 boundaries the precinct in which such canvasser is appointed
27 and such canvasser must be otherwise qualified.
28 The canvassers, so appointed by virtue of this section,
29 shall comply with the provisions of Sections 6-40 and 6-41
30 relative to the mailing and leaving of notices at the
31 addresses of persons whose right to vote in the precinct or
32 precincts is questioned.
33 (Source: P.A. 81-1433.)
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1 (10 ILCS 5/6-60) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-60)
2 Sec. 6-60. Immediately after the last registration day
3 before any election, except as is otherwise provided in
4 Section 6-43 of this Article, the board of election
5 commissioners shall prepare and print precinct registers in
6 the manner provided by Section 6-43 of this article, and make
7 such copies available to any person applying therefor.
8 Provided, however, that in cities, villages and incorporated
9 towns of less than 200,000 inhabitants such printed lists
10 shall be prepared only before a general election. On the
11 precinct registers, the board of election commissioners shall
12 indicate, by italics, asterisk, or other means, the names of
13 all persons who have registered since the last regularly
14 scheduled election in the consolidated schedule of elections
15 established in Section 2A-1.1 of this Act.
16 Prior to the general election of even-numbered years, all
17 boards of election commissioners shall give the precinct
18 registers to the chairman of a county central committee of an
19 established political party, as such party is defined in
20 Section 10-2 of this Act, or to the chairman's duly
21 authorized representative. Within 30 days of the effective
22 date of this Amendatory Act of 1983, all boards of election
23 commissioners shall give the precinct registers compiled
24 prior to the general November election of 1982 to the
25 chairman of a county central committee of an established
26 political party or to the chairman's duly authorized
27 representative.
28 For the first registration under this article, such
29 precinct register shall be printed and available to any
30 person upon application therefor at least three days before
31 the first day upon which any voter may make application in
32 writing to have any name erased from the register as provided
33 by Section 6-44 of this Article. For subsequent
34 registrations, Such precinct registers, except as otherwise
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1 provided in this section for municipalities of more than
2 500,000, shall be printed and shall be available to any
3 person upon application at least five days before the first
4 day upon which any voter may make application in writing to
5 have any name erased from the register.
6 Application to have a name upon such register erased may
7 be made in the manner provided by Section 6-44 of this
8 Article, and Applications to erase names, complete
9 registration, or to register or restore names shall be heard
10 in the same manner as is provided by Section 6-45 of this
11 Article, with application to the circuit court and appeal to
12 the Supreme Court as provided in Sections 6-46 and 6-47. The
13 rights conferred and the times specified by these sections
14 with respect to the first election under this article shall
15 also apply to succeeding registrations and elections.
16 Provided, however, that in municipalities having a population
17 of more than 500,000, and having a Board of Election
18 Commissioners, as to all elections, registrations for which
19 are made solely with the Board of Election Commissioners, and
20 where no general precinct registrations were provided for or
21 held within twenty-eight days before the election, an
22 application to have a name upon such register erased, as
23 provided for in Section 6-44, shall be made within two days
24 after the publication of the printed precinct register, and
25 the Board of Election Commissioners shall announce its
26 decision on such applications within four days after said
27 applications are made, and within four days after its
28 decision on such applications shall cause a supplemental
29 printed precinct register showing such correction as may be
30 necessary by reason of such decision to be printed in like
31 manner as hereinabove provided in Section 6-43 hereof, and
32 upon application a copy of the same shall be given to any
33 person applying therefor. Such list shall have printed on
34 the bottom thereof the facsimile signatures of the members of
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1 the board of election commissioners. Said supplemental
2 printed precinct register shall be prima facie evidence that
3 the electors whose names appear thereon are entitled to vote.
4 If the dates specified in this Article as to applications to
5 complete or erase registrations or as to proceedings before
6 the Board of Election Commissioners or the circuit court in
7 the first registration under this Article shall not be
8 applicable to any subsequent primary or regular or special
9 election, the Board of Election Commissioners shall, with the
10 approval of the circuit court, adopt and publish a schedule
11 of dates which shall permit equal intervals of time therefor
12 as are provided for such first registrations.
13 After action by the Board of Election Commissioners and
14 by the circuit court, a supplemental list shall be prepared
15 and made available in the manner provided by Section 6-48 of
16 this Article.
17 Within 60 days after each general election the board of
18 election commissioners shall indicate by italics, asterisk,
19 or other means, on the list of registered voters in each
20 precinct, each registrant who voted at that general election,
21 and shall provide a copy of such list to the chairman of the
22 county central committee of each established political party
23 or to the chairman's duly authorized representative.
24 Within 60 days after the effective date of this
25 amendatory Act of 1983, the board of election commissioners
26 shall indicate by italics, asterisk, or other means, on the
27 list of registered voters in each precinct, each registrant
28 who voted at the general election of 1982, and shall provide
29 a copy of such coded list to the chairman of the county
30 central committee of each established political party or to
31 the chairman's duly authorized representative.
32 The board of election commissioners may charge a fee to
33 reimburse the actual cost of duplicating each copy of a list
34 provided under either of the 2 preceding paragraph
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1 paragraphs.
2 (Source: P.A. 83-1263.)
3 (10 ILCS 5/6-65) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-65)
4 Sec. 6-65. An official registry of voters shall be
5 compiled for use in the polling place on election day for all
6 elections subject to the provisions of this Article 6. This
7 registry shall be an alphabetical or geographical listing of
8 all registered voters by precinct, as determined by the Board
9 of Election Commissioners, so as to correspond with the
10 arrangement of the list for such precincts complied pursuant
11 to Section 6-60 of this Article and shall be known as the
12 precinct file.
13 The precinct file shall be in the form of a computer
14 printout as provided for in Section 6-65.1 or consist of
15 duplicate registration cards and true duplicates of voter
16 registration applications as provided for in Section 6-65.2.
17 In either instance, it shall be a true and accurate listing
18 of every registered voter for every precinct within the
19 jurisdiction. The duplicate registration record cards shall
20 remain permanently in the office of the Board of Election
21 Commissioners; shall be filed alphabetically without regard
22 to wards or precincts; and shall be known as the master file.
23 The original registration applications record cards shall
24 constitute the official precinct registry of voters; shall be
25 filed by wards and precincts; and shall be known as the
26 precinct file. The precinct file original cards shall be
27 delivered to the judges of election by the Board of Election
28 Commissioners in a suitable binder or other device, which
29 shall be locked and sealed in accordance with directions to
30 be given by the Board of Election Commissioners and shall
31 also be suitably indexed for convenient use by the precinct
32 officers. The precinct files shall be delivered to the
33 precinct officers for use at the polls, on the day of
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1 election and shall be returned to the Board of Election
2 Commissioners immediately after the close of the polls. The
3 board shall determine by rules the manner of delivery and
4 return to such precinct file. At all other times the precinct
5 file shall be retained at the office of the Board of Election
6 Commissioners except for such use of it as may be made under
7 this Code Article with respect to registration not at the
8 office of the Board of Election Commissioners.
9 (Source: P. A. 78-934.)
10 (10 ILCS 5/6-65.1 new)
11 Sec. 6-65.1. All precinct files in the form of a
12 computer printout shall contain the date of the election for
13 which it was generated, the precinct number or other
14 identifier, the number of registered voters in that precinct
15 and such other information as prescribed by rule of the State
16 Board of Elections and shall include but not be limited to
17 the following information concerning each registered voter of
18 the precinct as attested to on the voter registration
19 application: last name, first name and middle name or
20 initial; residence address; date of birth, if provided; last
21 four digits of the social security number; sex; and shall
22 include a true duplicate of the voter's signature. Space
23 shall be provided to record voter participation at that
24 election. Reproduction of the voter's signature and its
25 clarity, security and source document shall be in accord with
26 rule of the State Board of Elections and must not be provided
27 for any other purpose. Violation of this signature
28 reproduction restriction shall be a Class 3 felony and any
29 person who is convicted of violating this Section shall be
30 ineligible for public employment for a period of 5 years
31 immediately following the completion of that sentence.
32 (10 ILCS 5/6-65.2 new)
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1 Sec. 6-65.2. Precinct files consisting of duplicate
2 registration cards and true duplicates of voter registration
3 applications shall be alphabetically arranged and up-dated
4 prior to each election. Such true duplicates must be clear
5 and of the same size as the original and be true duplicates
6 of the front and back of the original. Rule of the State
7 Board of Elections shall prescribe the weight of paper of the
8 true duplicates and other specifications necessary to ensure
9 a legible and durable precinct file.
10 A duplicate registration card is a copy of the original
11 registration card generated at the time of registration; a
12 true duplicate registration card is a mechanically reproduced
13 copy of the original voter registration card.
14 (10 ILCS 5/6-66) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-66)
15 Sec. 6-66. Upon application to vote each registered
16 elector shall sign his name or make his mark as the case may
17 be, on a certificate substantially as follows:
18 "CERTIFICATE OF REGISTERED VOTER
19 City of ................. Ward .... Precinct ....
20 Election ...............(Date).......(Month)...........(Year)
21 Registration Record ....... Checked by ...............
22 Voter's number ....
23 INSTRUCTION TO VOTERS
24 Sign this certificate and hand it to the election
25 officers in charge. After the registration record has been
26 checked, the officer will hand it back to you. Whereupon you
27 shall present it to the officer in charge of the ballots.
28 I hereby certify that I am registered from the address
29 below and am qualified to vote.
30 Signature of voter ................
31 Residence address ................"
32 An individual shall not be required to provide his social
33 security number when applying for a ballot. He shall not be
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1 denied a ballot, nor shall his ballot be challenged, solely
2 because of his refusal to provide his social security number.
3 Nothing in this Act prevents an individual from being
4 requested to provide his social security number when the
5 individual applies for a ballot. If, however, the certificate
6 contains a space for the individual's social security number,
7 the following notice shall appear on the certificate,
8 immediately above such space, in bold-face capital letters,
9 in type the size of which equals the largest type on the
10 certificate:
11 "THE INDIVIDUAL APPLYING FOR A BALLOT WITH THIS DOCUMENT
12 IS NOT REQUIRED TO DISCLOSE HIS OR HER SOCIAL SECURITY
13 NUMBER. HE OR SHE MAY NOT BE DENIED A BALLOT, NOR SHALL HIS
14 OR HER BALLOT BE CHALLENGED, SOLELY BECAUSE OF HIS OR HER
15 REFUSAL TO PROVIDE HIS OR HER SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER."
16 The applications of each State-wide political party at a
17 primary election shall be separately printed upon paper of
18 uniform quality, texture and size, but the applications of no
19 2 State-wide political parties shall be of the same color or
20 tint. If the election authority provides computer generated
21 applications with the precinct, ballot style, and voter's
22 name and address preprinted on the application, a single
23 application may be used for State-wide political parties if
24 it contains spaces or check-off boxes to indicate the
25 political party. Such applications may contain spaces or
26 check-off boxes permitting the voter to also request a
27 primary ballot of any political party which is established
28 only within a political subdivision and for which a primary
29 is conducted on the same election day. Such applications
30 shall not entitle the voter to vote in both the primary of a
31 State-wide political party and the primary of a local
32 political party with respect to the offices of the same
33 political subdivision or to vote in the primary of more than
34 one State-wide political party on the same day.
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1 The judges in charge of the precinct registration files
2 shall compare the signature upon such certificate with the
3 signature in on the precinct file registration record card as
4 a means of identifying the voter. Unless satisfied by such
5 signature comparison that the applicant to vote is the
6 identical person who is registered under the same name, the
7 judges shall ask such applicant the questions for
8 identification which appear on the precinct file registration
9 card, and if the applicant does not prove to the satisfaction
10 of a majority of the judges of the election precinct that he
11 is the identical person registered under the name in question
12 then the vote of such applicant shall be challenged by a
13 judge of election, and the same procedure followed as
14 provided in this Article and Act for challenged voters.
15 In case the elector is unable to sign his name, a judge
16 of election shall check the data on the precinct file
17 registration card and shall check the address given, with the
18 registered address, in order to determine whether he is
19 entitled to vote.
20 One of the judges of election shall check the certificate
21 of such applicant for a ballot after the precinct file
22 registration record has been examined, and shall sign his
23 initials on the certificate in the space provided therefor,
24 and shall enter upon such certificate the number of the voter
25 in the place provided therefor, and make an entry in the
26 voting record space on the precinct file registration record,
27 to indicate whether or not the applicant voted. Such judge
28 shall then hand such certificate back to the applicant in
29 case he is permitted to vote, and such applicant shall hand
30 it to the judge of election in charge of the ballots. The
31 certificates of the voters shall be filed in the order in
32 which they are received and shall constitute an official poll
33 record. The terms "poll lists" and "poll books", where used
34 in this Article and Act, shall be construed to apply to such
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1 official poll record.
2 After each general primary election the board of election
3 commissioners shall indicate by color code or other means
4 next to the name of each registrant on the list of registered
5 voters in each precinct the primary ballot of a political
6 party that the registrant requested at the general primary
7 election. The board of election commissioners, within 60 days
8 after that general primary election, shall provide a copy of
9 this coded list to the chairman of the county central
10 committee of each established political party or to the
11 chairman's duly authorized representative.
12 Within 60 days after the effective date of this
13 amendatory Act of 1983, the board of election commissioners
14 shall provide to the chairman of the county central committee
15 of each established political party or to the chairman's duly
16 authorized representative the list of registered voters in
17 each precinct at the time of the general primary election of
18 1982 and shall indicate on such list by color code or other
19 means next to the name of a registrant the primary ballot of
20 a political party that the registrant requested at the
21 general primary election of 1982.
22 The board of election commissioners may charge a fee to
23 reimburse the actual cost of duplicating each copy of a list
24 provided under the either of the 2 preceding paragraph
25 paragraphs.
26 Where an elector makes application to vote by signing and
27 presenting the certificate provided by this Section, and his
28 name is not found registration card is not found in the
29 precinct file registry of voters, but his name appears as
30 that of a registered voter in such precinct upon the printed
31 precinct register as corrected or revised by the supplemental
32 list, or upon the consolidated list, if any provided by this
33 Article and whose name has not been erased or withdrawn from
34 such register, the printed precinct register as corrected or
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1 revised by the supplemental list, or consolidated list, if
2 any, shall be prima facie evidence of the elector's right to
3 vote upon compliance with the provisions hereinafter set
4 forth in this Section. In such event it shall be the duty of
5 any one of the judges of election shall to require an
6 affidavit by such person substantially in the form prescribed
7 in Section 17-10 of this Code and 2 voters residing in the
8 precinct before the judges of election that he is the same
9 person whose name appears upon the printed precinct register
10 as corrected or revised by the supplemental list, or
11 consolidated list, if any, and that he resides in the
12 precinct, stating the street and number of his residence, and
13 upon the presentation of such affidavits, a certificate shall
14 be issued to such elector, and upon the presentation of such
15 certificate and affidavits, he shall be entitled to vote. Any
16 elector whose name does not appear as a registered voter on
17 the printed precinct register or supplemental list but who
18 has a certificate issued by the board of election
19 commissioners as provided in Section 6-43 of this Article,
20 shall be entitled to vote upon the presentation of such
21 certificate accompanied by the affidavits of 2 voters
22 residing in the precinct that the elector is the same person
23 described in such certificate and that he resides in the
24 precinct, stating the street and number of his residence.
25 Forms for all affidavits required hereunder shall be supplied
26 by the board of election commissioners. All affidavits made
27 under this paragraph shall be preserved and returned to the
28 board of election commissioners in the manner provided by
29 this Article and Article 18 of this Act. It shall be the duty
30 of the board of election commissioners, within 30 days after
31 such election, to take the steps provided by Section 6-64 of
32 this Article for the execution of new registration affidavits
33 by electors who have voted under the provisions of this
34 paragraph.
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1 When the board of election commissioners delivers to the
2 judges of election for use at the polls a supplemental or
3 consolidated list of the printed precinct register, it shall
4 give a copy of the supplemental or consolidated list to the
5 chairman of a county central committee of an established
6 political party or to the chairman's duly authorized
7 representative.
8 Whenever 2 or more elections occur simultaneously, the
9 election official or officials charged with the duty of
10 providing application certificates may prescribe the form
11 thereof so that a voter is required to execute only one,
12 indicating in which of the elections he desires to vote.
13 After the signature has been verified, the judges shall
14 determine in which political subdivisions the voter resides
15 by use of the information contained in on the precinct file
16 voter registration cards or the separate registration lists
17 or other means approved by the State Board of Elections and
18 prepared and supplied by the election authority. The voter's
19 certificate shall be so marked by the judges as to show the
20 respective ballots which the voter is given.
21 (Source: P.A. 84-809.)
22 (10 ILCS 5/6A-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 6A-4)
23 Sec. 6A-4. Upon the opening of the office of the county
24 board of election commissioners, the county clerk shall turn
25 over to such board all registry books, registration record
26 cards, registration application forms, precinct files, poll
27 books, tally sheets and ballot boxes and all other books,
28 forms, blanks and stationery of every description in his
29 hands in any way relating to elections or the holding of
30 elections in the county. Thereupon, all functions, powers and
31 duties of the county clerk or the county board relating to
32 elections are transferred to the county board of election
33 commissioners.
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1 (Source: P. A. 78-465.)
2 (10 ILCS 5/7-23) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-23)
3 Sec. 7-23. All necessary primary poll books, official
4 poll records, voter registration applications, precinct
5 files, tally sheets, return blanks, stationery and other
6 necessary primary supplies shall be furnished by the same
7 authorities upon whom is imposed the duty of furnishing such
8 supplies at general elections, by this Act.
9 (Source: Laws 1943, vol. 2, p. 1.)
10 (10 ILCS 5/7-43) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-43)
11 Sec. 7-43. Every person having resided in this State 6
12 months and in the precinct 30 days next preceding any primary
13 therein who shall be a citizen of the United States of the
14 age of 18 or more years, shall be entitled to vote at such
15 primary.
16 The following regulations shall be applicable to
17 primaries:
18 No person shall be entitled to vote at a primary:
19 (a) Unless he declares his party affiliations as
20 required by this Article.
21 (b) Who shall have signed the petition for nomination of
22 a candidate of any party with which he does not affiliate,
23 when such candidate is to be voted for at the primary.
24 (c) Who shall have signed the nominating papers of an
25 independent candidate for any office for which office
26 candidates for nomination are to be voted for at such
27 primary.
28 (c.5) If that person has participated in the town
29 political party caucus, under Section 45-50 of the Township
30 Code, of another political party by signing an affidavit of
31 voters attending the caucus within 45 days before the first
32 day of the calendar month in which the primary is held.
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1 (d) (Blank) If he has voted at a primary held under this
2 Article 7 of another political party within a period of 23
3 calendar months next preceding the calendar month in which
4 such primary is held: Provided, participation by a primary
5 elector in a primary of a political party which, under the
6 provisions of Section 7-2 of this Article, is a political
7 party within a city, village or incorporated town or town
8 only and entitled hereunder to make nominations of candidates
9 for city, village or incorporated town or town offices only,
10 and for no other office or offices, shall not disqualify such
11 primary elector from participating in other primaries of his
12 party: And, provided, that no qualified voter shall be
13 precluded from participating in the primary of any purely
14 city, village or incorporated town or town political party
15 under the provisions of Section 7-2 of this Article by reason
16 of such voter having voted at the primary of another
17 political party within a period of 23 calendar months next
18 preceding the calendar month in which he seeks to participate
19 is held.
20 (e) (Blank) In cities, villages and incorporated towns
21 having a board of election commissioners only voters
22 registered as provided by Article 6 of this Act shall be
23 entitled to vote at such primary.
24 (f) No person shall be entitled to vote at a primary
25 unless he is registered under the provisions of Articles 4, 5
26 or 6 of this Act, when his registration is required by any of
27 said Articles to entitle him to vote at the election with
28 reference to which the primary is held.
29 (Source: P.A. 89-331, eff. 8-17-95.)
30 (10 ILCS 5/7-44) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-44)
31 Sec. 7-44. Any person desiring to vote at a primary shall
32 state his name, residence and party affiliation to the
33 primary judges, one of whom shall thereupon announce the same
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1 in a distinct tone of voice, sufficiently loud to be heard by
2 all persons in the polling place. When Article 3A, 4, 5 or 6
3 is applicable the Certificate of Registered Voter therein
4 prescribed shall be made and signed and the official poll
5 record shall be made. If the person desiring to vote is not
6 challenged, one of the primary judges shall give to him one,
7 and only one, primary ballot of the political party with
8 which he declares himself affiliated, on the back of which
9 such primary judge shall endorse his initials in such manner
10 that they may be seen when the primary ballot is properly
11 folded. If the person desiring to vote is challenged he shall
12 not receive a primary ballot from the primary judges until he
13 shall have established his right to vote as hereinafter
14 provided. No person who refuses to state his party
15 affiliation shall be allowed to vote at a primary.
16 A person who declares his party affiliation with a
17 statewide established political party and requests a primary
18 ballot of such party may nonetheless also declare his
19 affiliation with a political party established only within a
20 political subdivision, and may also vote in the primary of
21 such local party on the same election day, provided that such
22 voter may not vote in both such party primaries with respect
23 to offices of the same political subdivision. However, no
24 person declaring his affiliation with a statewide established
25 political party may vote in the primary of any other
26 statewide political party on the same election day.
27 (Source: P.A. 81-1535.)
28 (10 ILCS 5/7-45) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-45)
29 Sec. 7-45. (a) Whenever a person offering to vote at a
30 primary is challenged, and is not personally known to the
31 judges of election to have the qualifications required in
32 this Article to vote, the person so challenged shall make and
33 subscribe an affidavit in the following form, which shall be
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1 presented to and retained by the primary judges and returned
2 by them affixed to the primary poll book or with the official
3 poll record:
4 State of Illinois)
5 )ss.
6 County of .......)
7 I, ...., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a
8 citizen of the United States, of the age of 18 years or over,
9 and am qualified to vote under and by virtue of the
10 Constitution and laws of the State of Illinois, and am a
11 legally qualified voter of the precinct; that I now reside at
12 ....(insert street and number, if any) in this election
13 jurisdiction, precinct, and am a member of and affiliated
14 with the .... party; that I have not voted at a primary of
15 another political party within a period of 23 calendar months
16 prior to the calendar month in which this primary is being
17 held; and that I voted at the .... city, village,
18 incorporated town, or town primary, with the .... political
19 party at the .... election held in ...., .... which the
20 .... political party was entitled at such primary to make
21 nominations of candidates for city, village, incorporated
22 town or town offices only, and for no other offices, and that
23 the name or names of no candidate or candidates of the ....
24 political party (the political party with which the primary
25 elector declares himself affiliated) were, at such city,
26 village, incorporated town or town primary, printed on the
27 primary ballot; that I have not signed the petition for
28 nomination of a candidate of a political party with which I
29 am not affiliated, and that I have not signed the nominating
30 papers of an independent candidate for any office for which
31 office candidates for nomination are voted for at this
32 primary.
33 .........................
34 Subscribed and sworn to before me, this .... day of
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1 ...., ....
2 .........................
3 Judge of Primary
4 In addition to such affidavit the person so challenged
5 shall provide to the judges of election proof of residence by
6 producing two forms of identification showing the person's
7 current residence address, provided that such identification
8 may include not more than one piece of mail addressed to the
9 person at his current residence address and postmarked not
10 earlier than 30 days prior to the date of the primary
11 election., or the person shall produce the affidavit of one
12 voter of the precinct, who shall be a qualified voter at such
13 primary, and who shall be personally known or proved to the
14 judges to be a voter in the precinct, which affidavit shall
15 be in the following form:
16 State of Illinois)
17 )ss.
18 County of........)
19 I,...., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a voter
20 of this precinct and entitled to vote at this primary; that I
21 am acquainted with ....(name of the party challenged), whose
22 right to vote at this primary has been challenged; that I
23 know him or her to be an actual bona fide resident of this
24 precinct, and that he has resided herein 30 days, and I
25 verily believe he or she has resided in this State 30 days
26 next preceding this primary; that I verily believe he or she
27 is a member of and affiliated with the .... party.
28 .........................
29 Subscribed and sworn to before me, this .... day of
30 ...., ....
31 .........................
32 Judge of Primary
33 (b) Whenever, at any primary election, in any precinct,
34 district, city, village, incorporated town, town or ward, any
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1 person offering to vote for federal offices only pursuant to
2 Section 3A-10 has moved within the election jurisdiction
3 prior to the primary election, he shall complete and submit
4 the following form, which shall be retained by the judges of
5 election, and returned by them affixed to the official poll
6 record:
7 State of Illinois)
8 )ss.
9 County of .......)
10 I, .........., affirm that I am a citizen of the United
11 States; that I am 18 years of age; that I have not voted at
12 this election; that preceding this election I was a duly
13 qualified and registered voter in every respect in this
14 election precinct; that I have moved from (here give the
15 particular house or place of residence, and, if in a town or
16 city, the street and number), in this election precinct; that
17 I now reside at (here give the particular house or place of
18 residence, and, if in a town or city, the street and number),
19 within the same election jurisdiction.
20 So help me God, (or "This I do solemnly and sincerely
21 affirm).
22 Signature of applicant..............................
23 ................ ...................
24 Date Judge of Election
25 (c) Whenever at any primary election, in any precinct,
26 district, city, village, incorporated town, town or ward, any
27 person offering to vote for all offices and referenda has
28 moved therefrom within 30 days prior to the primary election,
29 he shall make and subscribe an affidavit, in the following
30 form, which shall be supported by providing to the judges of
31 election proof of residence (i) by producing 2 forms of
32 identification showing the person's current residence
33 address, providing that this identification may include not
34 more than one piece of mail addressed to the person at his
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1 current residence address and postmarked not earlier than 30
2 days before the date of the election or (ii) by one affidavit
3 of a registered voter in the precinct, as provided herein,
4 both of which shall be retained by the judges of election,
5 and returned by them affixed to the poll books or with the
6 official poll record:
7 State of Illinois)
8 )ss.
9 County of .......)
10 I, ........, do solemnly affirm that I am a citizen of
11 the United States; that I am 18 years of age; that I have not
12 voted at this election; that prior to 30 days preceding this
13 election I was a duly qualified and registered voter in every
14 respect in this election precinct; that I have recently moved
15 from (here give the particular house or place of residence,
16 and, if in a town or city, the street and number), in this
17 election precinct, that I now reside at (here give the
18 particular house or place of residence, and, if in a town or
19 city, the street and number), in another election
20 jurisdiction in the State.
21 So help me God, (or "This I do solemnly and sincerely
22 affirm").
23 ....................
24 Subscribed and sworn to before me this .......... day of
25 .........., 19...
26 ....................
27 State of Illinois)
28 )ss.
29 County of .......)
30 .......... Precinct .......... Ward
31 I, .........., do solemnly affirm, that I am a resident
32 of this precinct and entitled to vote at this election; that
33 I am acquainted with .......... (name of the applicant; that
34 I verily believe him to have been an actual bona fide
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1 resident and registered voter of this precinct and that he
2 maintained a legal residence therein, 30 days next preceding
3 this election.
4 ....................
5 Subscribed and sworn to before me this .......... day of
6 .........., 19...
7 ....................
8 Judge of Election
9 The oath may be administered by either of the judges of
10 election, or by any officer, resident in the precinct or
11 district, authorized by law to administer oaths.
12 (Source: P.A. 86-867.)
13 (10 ILCS 5/7-47) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-47)
14 Sec. 7-47. Before leaving the booth, the primary elector
15 shall fold his primary ballot in such manner as to conceal
16 the marks thereon. Such voter shall then vote forthwith by
17 handing the primary judge the primary ballot received by such
18 voter. Thereupon the primary judge shall deposit such primary
19 ballot in the ballot box. One of the judges shall thereupon
20 enter in the primary poll book the name of the primary
21 elector, his residence and his party affiliation or shall
22 make the entries on the official poll record as required by
23 Articles 3A, 4, 5 and 6, if any one of them is applicable.
24 Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are
25 used, the provisions of this section may be modified as
26 required or authorized by Article 24 or Article 24A,
27 whichever is applicable.
28 (Source: Laws 1965, p. 2220.)
29 (10 ILCS 5/7-47.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-47.1)
30 Sec. 7-47.1. (a) In the case of an emergency, as
31 determined by the State Board of Elections, or if the Board
32 determines that all potential polling places have been
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1 surveyed by the election authority and that no accessible
2 polling place, as defined by rule of the State Board of
3 Elections, is available within a precinct nor is the election
4 authority able to make a polling place within the precinct
5 temporarily accessible, the Board, upon written application
6 by the election authority, is authorized to grant an
7 exemption from the accessibility requirements of the Federal
8 Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act
9 (Public Law 98-435). Such exemption shall be valid for a
10 period of 2 years.
11 (b) Any temporarily or permanently physically disabled
12 voter who, because of structural features of the building in
13 which the polling place is located, is unable to access or
14 enter the polling place, may request that 2 judges of
15 election of opposite party affiliation deliver a ballot to
16 him or her at the point where he or she is unable to continue
17 forward motion toward the polling place; but, in no case,
18 shall a ballot be delivered to the voter beyond 50 feet of
19 the entrance to the building in which the polling place is
20 located. Such request shall be made to the election
21 authority not later than the close of business at the
22 election authority's office on the day before the election
23 and on a form prescribed by the State Board of Elections.
24 The election authority shall notify the judges of election
25 for the appropriate precinct polling places of such requests.
26 Weather permitting, 2 judges of election shall deliver to
27 the disabled voter the ballot which he or she is entitled to
28 vote, a portable voting booth or other enclosure that will
29 allow such voter to mark his or her ballot in secrecy, and a
30 marking device.
31 (c) The voter must complete the entire voting process,
32 including the application for ballot from which the judges of
33 election shall compare the voter's signature with the
34 signature on his or her signature registration record card in
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1 the file precinct binder.
2 After the voter has marked his or her ballot and placed
3 it in the ballot envelope (or folded it in the manner
4 prescribed for paper ballots), the 2 judges of election shall
5 return the ballot to the polling place and give it to the
6 judge in charge of the ballot box who shall deposit it
7 therein.
8 Pollwatchers as provided in Sections 7-34 and 17-23 of
9 this Code shall be permitted to accompany the judges and
10 observe the above procedure.
11 No assistance may be given to such voter in marking his
12 or her ballot, unless the voter requests assistance and
13 completes the affidavit required by Section 17-14 of this
14 Code.
15 (Source: P.A. 84-808.)
16 (10 ILCS 5/17-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-9)
17 Sec. 17-9. Any person desiring to vote shall give his
18 name and, if required to do so, his residence to the judges
19 of election, one of whom shall thereupon announce the same in
20 a loud and distinct tone of voice, clear, and audible; the
21 judges of elections shall check each application for ballot
22 against the list of voters registered in that precinct to
23 whom absentee ballots have been issued for that election,
24 which shall be provided by the election authority and which
25 list shall be available for inspection by pollwatchers. A
26 voter applying to vote in the precinct on election day whose
27 name appears on the list as having been issued an absentee
28 ballot shall not be permitted to vote in the precinct unless
29 that voter submits to the judges of election, for
30 cancellation or revocation, his absentee ballot. In the case
31 that the voter's absentee ballot is not present in the
32 polling place, it shall be sufficient for any such voter to
33 submit to the judges of election in lieu of his absentee
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1 ballot, either a portion of such ballot if torn or mutilated,
2 an affidavit executed before the judges of election
3 specifying that the voter never received an absentee ballot,
4 or an affidavit executed before the judges of election
5 specifying that the voter desires to cancel or revoke any
6 absentee ballot that may have been cast in the voter's name.
7 All applicable provisions of Articles 3A, 4, 5 or 6 shall be
8 complied with and if such name is found on the register of
9 voters or precinct file by the officer having charge thereof,
10 he shall likewise repeat said name, and the voter shall be
11 allowed to enter within the proximity of the voting booths,
12 as above provided. One of the judges shall give the voter
13 one, and only one of each ballot to be voted at the election,
14 on the back of which ballots such judge shall indorse his
15 initials in such manner that they may be seen when each such
16 ballot is properly folded, and the voter's name shall be
17 immediately checked on the register list. In those election
18 jurisdictions where perforated ballot cards are utilized of
19 the type on which write-in votes can be cast above the
20 perforation, the election authority shall provide a space
21 both above and below the perforation for the judge's
22 initials, and the judge shall endorse his or her initials in
23 both spaces. Whenever a proposal for a constitutional
24 amendment or for the calling of a constitutional convention
25 is to be voted upon at the election, the separate blue ballot
26 or ballots pertaining thereto shall, when being handed to the
27 voter, be placed on top of the other ballots to be voted at
28 the election in such manner that the legend appearing on the
29 back thereof, as prescribed in Section 16-6 of this Act,
30 shall be plainly visible to the voter. At all elections,
31 when a registry may be required, if the name of any person so
32 desiring to vote at such election is not found on the
33 register of voters, he or she shall not receive a ballot
34 until he or she shall have complied with the law prescribing
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1 the manner and conditions of voting by such unregistered
2 voters. If any person desiring to vote at any election shall
3 be challenged, he or she shall not receive a ballot until he
4 or she shall have established his right to vote in the manner
5 provided hereinafter; and if he or she shall be challenged
6 after he has received his ballot, he shall not be permitted
7 to vote until he or she has fully complied with such
8 requirements of the law upon being challenged. Besides the
9 election officer, not more than 2 voters in excess of the
10 whole number of voting booths provided shall be allowed
11 within the proximity of the voting booths at one time. The
12 provisions of this Act, so far as they require the
13 registration of voters as a condition to their being allowed
14 to vote shall not apply to persons otherwise entitled to
15 vote, who are, at the time of the election, or at any time
16 within 60 days prior to such election have been engaged in
17 the military or naval service of the United States, and who
18 appear personally at the polling place on election day and
19 produce to the judges of election satisfactory evidence
20 thereof, but such persons, if otherwise qualified to vote,
21 shall be permitted to vote at such election without previous
22 registration.
23 All such persons shall also make an affidavit which shall
24 be in substantially the following form:
25 State of Illinois,)
26 ) ss.
27 County of ........)
28 ............... Precinct.......... Ward
29 I,...., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen
30 of the United States, of the age of 18 years or over, and
31 that within the past 60 days prior to the date of this
32 election at which I am applying to vote, I have been engaged
33 in the....(military or naval) service of the United States;
34 and I am qualified to vote under and by virtue of the
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1 Constitution and laws of the State of Illinois, and that I am
2 a legally qualified voter of this precinct and ward except
3 that I have, because of such service, been unable to register
4 as a voter; that I now reside at ....(insert street and
5 number, if any) in this precinct and ward; that I have
6 maintained a legal residence in this precinct and ward for 30
7 days and in this State 30 days next preceding this election.
8 .........................
9 Subscribed and sworn to before me this.... day of....,
10 19...
11 .........................
12 Judge of Election.
13 The affidavit of any such person shall be supported by
14 the affidavit of a resident and qualified voter of any such
15 precinct and ward, which affidavit shall be in substantially
16 the following form:
17 State of Illinois,)
18 ) ss.
19 County of ........)
20 ........... Precinct........... Ward
21 I,...., do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I am a
22 resident of this precinct and ward and entitled to vote at
23 this election; that I am acquainted with....(name of the
24 applicant); that I verily believe him to be an actual bona
25 fide resident of this precinct and ward and that I verily
26 believe that he or she has maintained a legal residence
27 therein 30 days and in this State 30 days next preceding this
28 election.
29 .........................
30 Subscribed and sworn to before me this.... day of....,
31 19...
32 .........................
33 Judge of Election.
34 All affidavits made under the provisions of this Section
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1 shall be enclosed in a separate envelope securely sealed, and
2 shall be transmitted with the returns of the elections to the
3 election authority county clerk or to the board of election
4 commissioners, who shall preserve the said affidavits for the
5 period of 6 months, during which period such affidavits shall
6 be deemed public records and shall be freely open to
7 examination as such.
8 (Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
9 (10 ILCS 5/17-10) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-10)
10 Sec. 17-10. (a) Whenever, at any election, in any
11 precinct, any person offering to vote is not personally known
12 to the judges of election to have the qualifications required
13 in this Act, if his vote is challenged by a legal voter at
14 such election, he or she shall make and subscribe an
15 affidavit, in the following form, which shall be retained by
16 the judges of election, and returned by them affixed to the
17 poll books or with the official poll record:
18 State of Illinois)
19 )ss.
20 County of .......)
21 I,...., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen
22 of the United States; that I am 18 years of age or over; that
23 I have resided in this State and in this election precinct
24 district 30 days next preceding this election; that I have
25 not voted at this election; that I am a duly qualified voter
26 in every respect; that I now reside at (here give the
27 particular house or place of residence, and, if in a town or
28 city, the street and number), in this election jurisdiction
29 district; *1. that I registered to vote from said address;
30 *2. that I changed my residence to the above address from
31 ...., both of which is are in this election precinct and from
32 where I registered to vote district; *3. that I changed my
33 name from .... to that which I have signed below.
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1 So help me God, (or "This I do solemnly and sincerely
2 affirm", as the case may be).
3 .........................
4 Subscribed and sworn to before me this .... day of ....,
5 19...
6 .........................
7 *1. If your present address is not the address from
8 which you registered to vote If registration is not required,
9 draw a line through 1 above.
10 *2. Fill in the blank ONLY if not more than 2 federal
11 elections have been held since you moved you have moved
12 within 2 years.
13 *3. Fill in the blank ONLY if you have changed your name
14 within 2 years.
15 In addition to such an affidavit, the person so
16 challenged shall provide to the judges of election proof of
17 residence by producing two forms of identification showing
18 the person's current residence address, provided that such
19 identification may include not more than one piece of mail
20 addressed to the person at his current residence address and
21 postmarked not earlier than 30 days prior to the date of the
22 election, or the person shall procure a witness personally
23 known to the judges of election, and resident in the precinct
24 (or district), or who shall be proved by some legal voter of
25 such precinct or district, known to the judges to be such,
26 who shall take the oath following, viz:
27 I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a resident of
28 this election precinct (or district), and entitled to vote at
29 this election, and that I have been a resident of this State
30 for 30 days last past, and am well acquainted with the person
31 whose vote is now offered; that he is an actual and bona fide
32 resident of this election precinct (or district), and has
33 resided herein 30 days, and as I verily believe, in this
34 State, 30 days next preceding this election.
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1 The oath in each case may be administered by either of
2 the judges of election, or by any officer, resident in the
3 precinct or district, authorized by law to administer oaths.
4 (a-1) Whenever, at any regular or special election, in
5 any precinct, district, city, village, incorporated town,
6 town, or ward, any person offering to vote for federal
7 offices only pursuant to Section 3A-10 has moved within the
8 election jurisdiction prior to the regular or special
9 election, he shall complete and submit the following form,
10 which shall be retained by the judges of election, and
11 returned by them affixed to the official poll record:
12 State of Illinois)
13 )ss.
14 County of .......)
15 I, .........., affirm that I am a citizen of the United
16 States; that I am 18 years of age; that I have not voted at
17 this election; that preceding this election I was a duly
18 qualified and registered voter in every respect in this
19 election precinct; that I have moved from (here give the
20 particular house or place of residence, and, if in a town or
21 city, the street and number), in this election precinct; that
22 I now reside at (here give the particular house or place of
23 residence, and, if in a town or city, the street and number),
24 within the same election jurisdiction.
25 So help me God, (or "This I do solemnly and sincerely
26 affirm").
27 Signature of applicant...........................
28 ................. ....................
29 Date Judge of Election
30 (b) Whenever, at any regular or special election, in any
31 precinct, district, city, village, incorporated town, town or
32 ward, any person offering to vote for all offices and
33 referenda has moved therefrom within 30 days prior to said
34 regular or special election, he shall make and subscribe an
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1 affidavit, in the following form, which shall be supported by
2 providing to the judges of election proof of residence by
3 producing two forms of identification showing the person's
4 current residence address, provided that such identification
5 may include not more than one piece of mail addressed to the
6 person at his current residence address and postmarked not
7 earlier than 30 days prior to the date of the election, or by
8 one 1 affidavit of a registered voter in the precinct, as
9 provided herein, both of which shall be retained by the
10 judges of election, and returned by them affixed to the poll
11 books or with the official poll record:
12 State of Illinois)
13 )ss.
14 County of .......)
15 I, ........., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a
16 citizen of the United States; that I am 18 years of age;
17 that I have not voted at this election; that prior to 30 days
18 preceding this election I was a duly qualified and registered
19 voter in every respect in this election precinct district;
20 that I have recently moved from (here give the particular
21 house or place of residence, and, if in a town or city, the
22 street and number), in this election precinct district; that
23 I now reside at (here give the particular house or place of
24 residence, and, if in a town or city, the street and number),
25 in another election jurisdiction district in the State.
26 So help me God, (or "This I do solemnly and sincerely
27 affirm", as the case may be).
28 ......................
29 Subscribed and sworn to before me this ............. day
30 of ........, 19......
31 ......................
32 State of Illinois)
33 )ss.
34 County of .......)
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1 ......... Precinct ........ Ward
2 I, ........, do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I am a
3 resident of this precinct and entitled to vote at this
4 election; that I am acquainted with .... (name of the
5 applicant); that I verily believe him to have been an actual
6 bona fide resident and registered voter of this precinct and
7 that he maintained a legal residence therein, 30 days next
8 preceding this election.
9 ....................
10 Subscribed and sworn to before me this .... day of....,
11 19...
12 ....................
13 Judge of Election.
14 The oath may be administered by either of the judges of
15 election, or by any officer, resident in the precinct or
16 district, authorized by law to administer oaths.
17 (Source: P.A. 86-867.)
18 (10 ILCS 5/17-13) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-13)
19 Sec. 17-13. (a) In the case of an emergency, as
20 determined by the State Board of Elections, or if the Board
21 determines that all potential polling places have been
22 surveyed by the election authority and that no accessible
23 polling place, as defined by rule of the State Board of
24 Elections, is available within a precinct nor is the election
25 authority able to make a polling place within the precinct
26 temporarily accessible, the Board, upon written application
27 by the election authority, is authorized to grant an
28 exemption from the accessibility requirements of the Federal
29 Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act
30 (Public Law 98-435). Such exemption shall be valid for a
31 period of 2 years.
32 (b) Any temporarily or permanently physically disabled
33 voter who, because of structural features of the building in
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1 which the polling place is located, is unable to access or
2 enter the polling place, may request that 2 judges of
3 election of opposite party affiliation deliver a ballot to
4 him or her at the point where he or she is unable to continue
5 forward motion toward the polling place; but, in no case,
6 shall a ballot be delivered to the voter beyond 50 feet of
7 the entrance to the building in which the polling place is
8 located. Such request shall be made to the election
9 authority not later than the close of business at the
10 election authority's office on the day before the election
11 and on a form prescribed by the State Board of Elections.
12 The election authority shall notify the judges of election
13 for the appropriate precinct polling places of such requests.
14 Weather permitting, 2 judges of election shall deliver to
15 the disabled voter the ballot which he or she is entitled to
16 vote, a portable voting booth or other enclosure that will
17 allow such voter to mark his or her ballot in secrecy, and a
18 marking device.
19 (c) The voter must complete the entire voting process,
20 including the application for ballot from which the judges of
21 election shall compare the voter's signature with his or her
22 the signature on his or her registration record card in the
23 precinct file binder.
24 After the voter has marked his or her ballot and placed
25 it in the ballot envelope (or folded it in the manner
26 prescribed for paper ballots), the 2 judges of election shall
27 return the ballot to the polling place and give it to the
28 judge in charge of the ballot box who shall deposit it
29 therein.
30 Pollwatchers as provided in Sections 7-34 and 17-23 of
31 this Code shall be permitted to accompany the judges and
32 observe the above procedure.
33 No assistance may be given to such voter in marking his
34 or her ballot, unless the voter requests assistance and
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1 completes the affidavit required by Section 17-14 of this
2 Code.
3 (Source: P.A. 84-808.)
4 (10 ILCS 5/18-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 18-1)
5 Sec. 18-1. The provisions of this Article 18 shall be
6 applicable only to and in municipalities operating under
7 Article 6 of this Act.
8 As part of any canvass being conducted by a Board of
9 Election Commissioners At every election in any municipality
10 operating under Article 6 of this Act, each of the political
11 parties shall have the right to designate a canvasser for
12 each election precinct, who may make a canvass of the
13 precinct in which he is appointed to act, not less than 20
14 nor more than 31 days previous to such election, for the
15 purpose of ascertaining the names and addresses of the legal
16 voters residing in such precinct. An authority signed by the
17 executive director of the board of election commissioners,
18 shall be sufficient evidence of the right of such canvasser
19 to make a canvass of the precinct in which he is appointed to
20 act. The executive director of the board of election
21 commissioners shall issue such certificate of authority to
22 any person designated in a written request signed by the
23 recognized chairman or presiding officer of the chief
24 managing committee of a political party in such city, village
25 or incorporated town; and a record shall be kept in the
26 office of the election commissioners of all appointments of
27 such canvassers. In making such canvass no person shall
28 refuse to answer questions and give the information asked for
29 and known to him or her.
30 (Source: P.A. 82-373.)
31 (10 ILCS 5/18-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 18-5)
32 Sec. 18-5. Any person desiring to vote and whose name is
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1 found upon the register of voters or precinct file by the
2 person having charge thereof, shall then be asked to state
3 his or her name and residence to the judges of election, one
4 of whom shall thereupon announce the same in a loud and
5 distinct tone of voice, clear and audible questioned by one
6 of the judges as to his nativity, his term of residence at
7 present address, precinct, State and United States, his age,
8 whether naturalized and if so the date of naturalization
9 papers and court from which secured, and he shall be asked to
10 state his residence when last previously registered and the
11 date of the election for which he then registered. The judges
12 of elections shall check each application for ballot against
13 the list of voters registered in that precinct to whom
14 absentee ballots have been issued for that election, which
15 shall be provided by the election authority and which list
16 shall be available for inspection by pollwatchers. A voter
17 applying to vote in the precinct on election day whose name
18 appears on the list as having been issued an absentee ballot
19 shall not be permitted to vote in the precinct unless that
20 voter submits to the judges of election, for cancellation or
21 revocation, his absentee ballot. In the case that the
22 voter's absentee ballot is not present in the polling place,
23 it shall be sufficient for any such voter to submit to the
24 judges of election in lieu of his absentee ballot, either a
25 portion of such ballot if torn or mutilated, an affidavit
26 executed before the judges of election specifying that the
27 voter never received an absentee ballot, or an affidavit
28 executed before the judges of election specifying that the
29 voter desires to cancel or revoke any absentee ballot that
30 may have been cast in the voter's name. If such person so
31 registered shall be challenged as disqualified, the party
32 challenging shall assign his reasons therefor, and thereupon
33 one of the judges shall administer to him an oath to answer
34 questions, and if he shall take the oath he shall then be
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1 questioned by the judge or judges touching such cause of
2 challenge, and touching any other cause of disqualification.
3 And he may also be questioned by the person challenging him
4 in regard to his qualifications and identity. But if a
5 majority of the judges are of the opinion that he is the
6 person so registered and a qualified voter, his vote shall
7 then be received accordingly. But if his vote be rejected by
8 such judges, such person may afterward produce and deliver an
9 affidavit to such judges, subscribed and sworn to by him
10 before one of the judges, in which it shall be stated how
11 long he has resided in such precinct, and state; that he is a
12 citizen of the United States, and is a duly qualified voter
13 in such precinct, and that he is the identical person so
14 registered. In addition to such an affidavit, the person so
15 challenged shall provide to the judges of election proof of
16 residence by producing 2 forms of identification showing the
17 person's current residence address, provided that such
18 identification to the person at his current residence address
19 and postmarked not earlier than 30 days prior to the date of
20 the election, or the person shall procure a witness
21 personally known to the judges of election, and resident in
22 the precinct (or district), or who shall be proved by some
23 legal voter of such precinct or district, known to the judges
24 to be such, who shall take the oath following, viz:
25 I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a resident of
26 this election precinct (or district), and entitled to vote at
27 this election, and that I have been a resident of this State
28 for 30 days last past, and am well acquainted with the person
29 whose vote is now offered; that he is an actual and bona fide
30 resident of this election precinct (or district), and has
31 resided herein 30 days, and as I verily believe, in this
32 State, 30 days next preceding this election.
33 The oath in each case may be administered by one of the
34 judges of election, or by any officer, resident in the
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1 precinct or district, authorized by law to administer oaths.
2 Also supported by an affidavit by a registered voter residing
3 in such precinct, stating his own residence, and that he
4 knows such person; and that he does reside at the place
5 mentioned and has resided in such precinct and state for the
6 length of time as stated by such person, which shall be
7 subscribed and sworn to in the same way. Whereupon the vote
8 of such person shall be received, and entered as other votes.
9 But such judges, having charge of such registers, shall state
10 in their respective books the facts in such case, and the
11 affidavits, so delivered to the judges, shall be preserved
12 and returned to the office of the commissioners of election.
13 Blank affidavits of the character aforesaid shall be sent out
14 to the judges of all the precincts, and the judges of
15 election shall furnish the same on demand and administer the
16 oaths without criticism. Such oaths, if administered by any
17 other officer than such judge of election, shall not be
18 received. Whenever a proposal for a constitutional amendment
19 or for the calling of a constitutional convention is to be
20 voted upon at the election, the separate blue ballot or
21 ballots pertaining thereto shall be placed on top of the
22 other ballots to be voted at the election in such manner that
23 the legend appearing on the back thereof, as prescribed in
24 Section 16-6 of this Act, shall be plainly visible to the
25 voter, and in this fashion the ballots shall be handed to the
26 voter by the judge. The judges having charge of the register
27 of voters shall then, in a space provided thereon for that
28 voter and that election, marked "Voted" or the letter "V".
29 The voter shall, upon quitting the voting booth, deliver
30 to one of the judges of election all of the ballots, properly
31 folded, which he received. The judge of election to whom the
32 voter delivers his ballots shall not accept the same unless
33 all of the ballots given to the voter are returned by him. If
34 a voter delivers less than all of the ballots given to him,
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1 the judge to whom the same are offered shall advise him in a
2 voice clearly audible to the other judges of election that
3 the voter must return the remainder of the ballots. The
4 statement of the judge to the voter shall clearly express the
5 fact that the voter is not required to vote such remaining
6 ballots but that whether or not he votes them he must fold
7 and deliver them to the judge. In making such statement the
8 judge of election shall not indicate by word, gesture or
9 intonation of voice that the unreturned ballots shall be
10 voted in any particular manner. No new voter shall be
11 permitted to enter the voting booth of a voter who has failed
12 to deliver the total number of ballots received by him until
13 such voter has returned to the voting booth pursuant to the
14 judge's request and again quit the booth with all of the
15 ballots required to be returned by him. Upon receipt of all
16 such ballots the judges of election shall enter the name of
17 the voter, and his number, as above provided in this Section,
18 and the judge to whom the ballots are delivered shall
19 immediately put the ballots into the ballot box. If any voter
20 who has failed to deliver all the ballots received by him
21 refuses to return to the voting booth after being advised by
22 the judge of election as herein provided, the judge shall
23 inform the other judges of such refusal, and thereupon the
24 ballot or ballots returned to the judge shall be deposited in
25 the ballot box, the voter shall be permitted to depart from
26 the polling place, and a new voter shall be permitted to
27 enter the voting booth.
28 The judge of election who receives the ballot or ballots
29 from the voter shall announce the residence and name of such
30 voter in a loud voice. The judge shall put the ballot or
31 ballots received from the voter into the ballot box in the
32 presence of the voter and the judges of election, and in
33 plain view of the public. The judges having charge of such
34 registers shall then, in a column prepared thereon, in the
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1 same line of, the name of the voter, mark "Voted" or the
2 letter "V".
3 No judge of election shall accept from any voter less
4 than the full number of ballots received by such voter
5 without first advising the voter in the manner above provided
6 of the necessity of returning all of the ballots, nor shall
7 any such judge advise such voter in a manner contrary to that
8 which is herein permitted, or in any other manner violate the
9 provisions of this section; provided, that the acceptance by
10 a judge of election of less than the full number of ballots
11 delivered to a voter who refuses to return to the voting
12 booth after being properly advised by such judge shall not be
13 a violation of this Section.
14 The provisions of Section 17-10, insofar as applicable to
15 challenged voters and voting procedures shall be applicable
16 in this Section.
17 (Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
18 (10 ILCS 5/18-15) (from Ch. 46, par. 18-15)
19 Sec. 18-15. The official poll record poll books shall be
20 enclosed in an envelope, which shall then be securely sealed
21 with sealing wax, or other adhesive material; and each of the
22 judges shall write his name across every fold at which the
23 envelope if unfastened could be opened.
24 (Source: Laws 1957, p. 1450.)
25 (10 ILCS 5/18-16) (from Ch. 46, par. 18-16)
26 Sec. 18-16. Thereupon one of the judges of election shall
27 take charge of the official poll record poll books and the
28 key to the ballot box. Two of the judges shall each take one
29 of the statements of the votes cast into his possession
30 sealed up in the envelopes as aforesaid, and each of the
31 remaining 2 judges shall take one of the tally sheets sealed
32 up in the envelopes as aforesaid. Thereupon the judge having
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1 possession of such official poll record poll books shall
2 immediately deliver the record poll books to the Board of
3 Election Commissioners, or to the person or persons delegated
4 by the board to receive such envelopes, and at such place or
5 places within the area served by the board as pre-determined
6 by the board, with the seal unbroken and shall receive a
7 receipt therefor; and the other judges shall immediately
8 deliver the statements and tallies so in their possession
9 respectively, to the respective officers to whom addressed as
10 aforesaid and who, by this Act, are entitled to receive the
11 same, and when delivered, each one shall take a receipt from
12 the officer to whom delivered. Such envelopes shall be
13 delivered to such officers or their duly authorized and
14 appointed representatives, at the time and place where such
15 envelopes are delivered to the Board of Election
16 Commissioners or its designated receiving stations as
17 pre-determined by the board, as hereinabove provided for. And
18 none of them shall receive pay for their services as such
19 judges without the production of the receipts so given them
20 by the officers as aforesaid. It shall be the duty of the
21 respective officers so designated, to whom such statements
22 and tallies are ordered to be delivered, to receive the same,
23 and to safely keep under lock and key until ordered to be
24 surrendered as herein provided; and the Board of Election
25 Commissioners shall safely keep such poll records books under
26 lock and key for one year.
27 Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are
28 used, the provisions of this Section may be modified as
29 required or authorized by Article 24 or Article 24A,
30 whichever is applicable.
31 (Source: P. A. 76-1309.)
32 (10 ILCS 5/20-13) (from Ch. 46, par. 20-13)
33 Sec. 20-13. If otherwise qualified to vote, any person
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1 not covered by Sections 20-2, 20-2.1 or 20-2.2 of this
2 Article who is not registered to vote and who is temporarily
3 absent from his county of residence, may make special
4 application to the election authority having jurisdiction
5 over his precinct of permanent residence by mail, not less
6 than 5 days before a presidential election, or in person in
7 the office of the election authority, not more than 30 nor
8 less than 1 day before a presidential election, for an
9 absentee ballot to vote for the president and vice-president
10 only. Such application shall be furnished by the election
11 authority and shall be in substantially the following form:
12 SPECIAL ABSENTEE BALLOT APPLICATION (For use by
13 non-registered Illinois residents temporarily absent from the
14 county to vote for the president and vice-president only)
15 AFFIDAVIT
16 1. I hereby request an absentee ballot to vote for the
17 president and vice-president only ......... (insert date of
18 general election)
19 2. I am a citizen of the United States and a permanent
20 resident of Illinois.
21 3. I have maintained, and still maintain, a permanent
22 abode in Illinois for the past .......... years at:
23 .......... (House) .......... (Number) .......... (Street)
24 .......... (City) .......... (Village) .......... (Town)
25 4. I will not be able to regularly register in person as
26 a voter because .................... (Give reason for
27 temporary absence such as "Student", "Temporary job
28 transfer", etc.)
29 5. I was born .......... (Month) .......... (Day)
30 .......... (Year) in .................... (State or County);
31 6. To be filled in only by a person who is foreign-born
32 (If answer is "yes" in either a. or b. below, fill in
33 appropriate information in c.):
34 a. One or both of my parents were United States citizens
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1 at the time of my birth?
2 ( ) YES ( ) NO)
3 b. My United States citizenship was derived through an
4 act of the Congress of the United States?
5 ( ) YES ( ) NO
6 c. The name of the court issuing papers and the date
7 thereof upon which my United States citizenship was derived
8 is .................... located in .......... (City)
9 .......... (State) on .......... (Month) .......... (Day)
10 .......... (Year)
11 (For persons who derived citizenship through papers
12 issued through a parent or spouse, fill in the following)
13 (1) My parents or spouse's name is:
14 ......... (First) .......... (Middle) .......... (Last)
15 (2) ........ (Month) .......... (Day) .......... (Year)
16 is the date of my marriage or my age at which time I
17 derived my citizenship.
18 7. I am not registered as a voter in any other county in
19 the State of Illinois or in any other State.
20 8. I am not requesting a ballot from any other place and
21 am not voting in any other manner in this election and I have
22 not voted and do not intend to vote in this election at any
23 other address. (If absentee request), I request that you mail
24 my ballot to the following address:
25 (Print name and complete mailing address)
26 .........................................
27 .........................................
28 .........................................
29 9. Under penalties as provided by law pursuant to
30 Article 29 of The Election Code, the undersigned certifies
31 that the statements set forth in this application are true
32 and correct.
33 ......................
34 Signature of Applicant
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1 The procedures set forth in Sections 20-4 through 20-12
2 of this Article, insofar as they may be made applicable,
3 shall be applicable to absentee voting under this Section.
4 (Source: P.A. 86-875.)
5 (10 ILCS 5/20-13.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 20-13.1)
6 Sec. 20-13.1. Any person not covered by Sections 20-2,
7 20-2.1 or 20-2.2 of this Article who is registered to vote
8 but who is disqualified from voting because he moved outside
9 his election jurisdiction precinct during the 30 days
10 preceding a presidential election may make special
11 application to the election authority having jurisdiction
12 over his precinct of former residence by mail, not more than
13 30 nor less than 5 days before a presidential Federal
14 election, or in person in the office of the election
15 authority, not more than 30 nor less than 1 day before a
16 presidential Federal election, for an absentee ballot to vote
17 for the president and vice-president only. Such application
18 shall be furnished by the election authority and shall be in
19 substantially the following form:
20 SPECIAL VOTER APPLICATION
21 (For use by registered Illinois voters disqualified for
22 having moved outside their election jurisdiction precinct on
23 or after the 30th day preceding the election, to vote for
24 president and vice-president only.)
25 1. I hereby request a ballot to vote for president and
26 vice-president only on .......... (insert date of general
27 election).
28 2. I am a citizen of the United States and my present
29 address is: .................... (Residence Number)
30 .......... (Street) ....................
31 (City/Village/Township) .......... (County) ..........
32 (State).
33 3. As of .......... (Month), .......... (Day),
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1 .......... (Year) I was a registered voter at ..........
2 (Residence Number) .......... (Street) ....................
3 (City/Village/Township).
4 4. I moved to my present address on .......... (Month)
5 .......... (Day) .......... (Year).
6 5. I have not registered to vote from nor have I
7 requested a ballot in any other election jurisdiction in this
8 State or in another State.
9 6. (If absentee request), I request that you mail the
10 ballot to the following address:
11 Print name and complete mailing address.
12 ........................................
13 ........................................
14 ........................................
15 Under the penalties as provided by law pursuant to
16 Article 29 of The Election Code, the undersigned certifies
17 that the statements set forth in this application are true
18 and correct.
19 ........................
20 (Signature of Applicant)
21 7. Subscribed and sworn to before me on ..........
22 (Month) .......... (Day) .......... (Year)
23 ........................
24 (Signature of Official
25 Administering Oath)
26 The procedures set forth in Sections 20-4 through 20-12
27 of this Article, insofar as they may be made applicable,
28 shall be applicable to absentee voting under this Section.
29 (Source: P.A. 81-953.)
30 Section 15. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
31 changing Sections 2-105, 2-106, and 2-123 as follows:
32 (625 ILCS 5/2-105) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 2-105)
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1 Sec. 2-105. Offices of Secretary of State. The Secretary
2 of State shall maintain offices in the State capital and in
3 such other places in the State as he may deem necessary to
4 properly carry out the powers and duties vested in him.
5 The Secretary of State may construct and equip one or
6 more buildings in the State of Illinois outside of the County
7 of Sangamon as he deems necessary to properly carry out the
8 powers and duties vested in him. The Secretary of State may,
9 on behalf of the State of Illinois, acquire public or private
10 property needed therefor by lease, purchase or eminent
11 domain. The care, custody and control of such sites and
12 buildings constructed thereon shall be vested in the
13 Secretary of State. Expenditures for the construction and
14 equipping of any of such buildings upon premises owned by
15 another public entity shall not be subject to the provisions
16 of any State law requiring that the State be vested with
17 absolute fee title to the premises. The exercise of the
18 authority vested in the Secretary of State by this Section is
19 subject to the appropriation of the necessary funds.
20 Pursuant to Sections 4-6.2, 5-16.2, and 6-50.2 of The
21 Election Code, the Secretary of State shall make drivers
22 license exam stations available for use as temporary places
23 of registration. Registration within the offices shall be in
24 the most public, orderly and convenient portions thereof, and
25 Section 4-3, 5-3, and 11-4 of The Election Code relative to
26 the attendance of police officers during the conduct of
27 registration shall apply. Registration under this Section
28 shall be made in the manner provided by Sections 4-8, 4-10,
29 5-7, 5-9, 6-34, 6-35, and 6-37 of The Election Code.
30 Within 30 days after the effective date of this
31 amendatory Act of 1990, and no later than November 1 of each
32 even-numbered year thereafter, the Secretary of State, to the
33 extent practicable, shall designate to each election
34 authority in the State a reasonable number of employees at
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1 each driver's license examination station registered to vote
2 within the jurisdiction of such election authority and within
3 adjacent election jurisdictions for appointment as deputy
4 registrars by the election authority located within the
5 election jurisdiction where the employees maintain their
6 residences. Such designation shall be in writing and
7 certified by the Secretary of State.
8 Each person applying at a driver's license examination
9 station for a driver's license or permit, a corrected
10 driver's license or permit, an Illinois identification card
11 or a corrected Illinois identification card shall be notified
12 that the person may register at such station to vote in the
13 election jurisdiction in which the station is located or in
14 an election jurisdiction adjacent to the location of the
15 station and may also transfer his voter registration at such
16 station to an address in the election jurisdiction within
17 which the station is located or to an address in an adjacent
18 election jurisdiction. Such notification may be made in
19 writing or verbally issued by an employee or the Secretary of
20 State.
21 Pursuant to Section 3A-6 of the Election Code, the
22 Secretary of State, through the employees at each driver's
23 license exam station, shall offer each person applying for a
24 driver's license, a corrected driver's license, and Illinois
25 identification card or a corrected Illinois identification
26 card an opportunity to apply for voter registration. If the
27 person executes the application to register to vote, the
28 Secretary of State shall forward the completed application
29 form to the appropriate election authority within 10 days of
30 the date of its execution, except that an application to vote
31 executed within 5 days before the last day to register to
32 vote before the next election shall be transmitted within 5
33 days of its execution. Application for voter registration
34 under this Section shall be made in the manner provided by
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1 Section 3A-3 of the Election Code.
2 The Secretary of State shall maintain a record of the
3 numbers of persons executing or declining to execute voter
4 registration applications and shall report these numbers to
5 the State Board of Elections every 2 years, as required by
6 rule of the State Board of Elections.
7 The Secretary of State shall promulgate such rules as may
8 be necessary for the efficient execution of his duties and
9 the duties of his employees under the this amendatory Act of
10 1990 and this amendatory Act of 1997.
11 (Source: P.A. 86-1435.)
12 (625 ILCS 5/2-106) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 2-106)
13 Sec. 2-106. Secretary of State to prescribe forms.
14 The Secretary of State shall prescribe or provide
15 suitable forms of applications, certificates of title, voter
16 registration applications in accordance with the Election
17 Code cards, driver's licenses and such other forms requisite
18 or deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act
19 and any other laws pertaining to vehicles the enforcement and
20 administration of which are vested in the Secretary of State.
21 (Source: P.A. 76-1586.)
22 (625 ILCS 5/2-123) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 2-123)
23 Sec. 2-123. Sale and Distribution of Information.
24 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section, the
25 Secretary may make the driver's license, vehicle and title
26 registration lists, in part or in whole, and any statistical
27 information derived from these lists available to local
28 governments, elected state officials, state educational
29 institutions, public libraries and all other governmental
30 units of the State and Federal Government requesting them for
31 governmental purposes. The Secretary shall require any such
32 applicant for services to pay for the costs of furnishing
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1 such services and the use of the equipment involved, and in
2 addition is empowered to establish prices and charges for the
3 services so furnished and for the use of the electronic
4 equipment utilized.
5 (b) The Secretary is further empowered to and he may, in
6 his discretion, furnish to any applicant, other than listed
7 in subsection (a) of this Section, vehicle or driver data on
8 a computer tape, disk, or printout at a fixed fee of $200 in
9 advance and require in addition a further sufficient deposit
10 based upon the Secretary of State's estimate of the total
11 cost of the information requested and a charge of $20 per
12 1,000 units or part thereof identified or the actual cost,
13 whichever is greater. The Secretary is authorized to refund
14 any difference between the additional deposit and the actual
15 cost of the request. This service shall not be in lieu of an
16 abstract of a driver's record nor of a title or registration
17 search. The information sold pursuant to this subsection
18 shall be the entire vehicle or driver data list, or part
19 thereof.
20 (c) Secretary of State may issue registration lists.
21 The Secretary of State shall compile and publish, at least
22 annually, a list of all registered vehicles. Each list of
23 registered vehicles shall be arranged serially according to
24 the registration numbers assigned to registered vehicles and
25 shall contain in addition the names and addresses of
26 registered owners and a brief description of each vehicle
27 including the serial or other identifying number thereof.
28 Such compilation may be in such form as in the discretion of
29 the Secretary of State may seem best for the purposes
30 intended.
31 (d) The Secretary of State shall furnish no more than 2
32 current available lists of such registrations to the sheriffs
33 of all counties and to the chiefs of police of all cities and
34 villages and towns of 2,000 population and over in this State
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1 at no cost. Additional copies may be purchased at the fee of
2 $400 each or at the cost of producing the list as determined
3 by the Secretary of State.
4 (e) The Secretary of State shall upon written request
5 and the payment of the fee of $400 furnish the current
6 available list of such motor vehicle registrations to any
7 person so long as the supply of available registration lists
8 shall last.
9 (e-1) Commercial purchasers of driver and vehicle record
10 databases shall enter into a written agreement with the
11 Secretary of State that includes disclosure of the commercial
12 use of the intended purchase. Affected drivers, vehicle
13 owners, or registrants may request that their personally
14 identifiable information not be used for commercial
15 solicitation purposes.
16 (f) Title or registration search and certification
17 thereof - Fee. The Secretary of State shall make a title or
18 registration search of the records of his office and a
19 written report on the same for any person, upon written
20 application of such person, accompanied by a fee of $4 for
21 each registration or title search. No fee shall be charged
22 for a title or registration search, or for the certification
23 thereof requested by a government agency.
24 The Secretary of State shall certify a title or
25 registration record upon written request. The fee for
26 certification shall be $4 in addition to the fee required for
27 a title or registration search. Certification shall be made
28 under the signature of the Secretary of State and shall be
29 authenticated by Seal of the Secretary of State.
30 The Secretary of State may notify the vehicle owner or
31 registrant of the request for purchase of his title or
32 registration information as the Secretary deems appropriate.
33 The vehicle owner or registrant residence address and
34 other personally identifiable information on the record shall
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1 not be disclosed. This nondisclosure shall not apply to
2 requests made by law enforcement officials, government
3 agencies, financial institutions, attorneys, insurers,
4 employers, automobile associated businesses, other business
5 entities for purposes consistent with the Illinois Vehicle
6 Code, the vehicle owner or registrant, or other entities as
7 the Secretary may exempt by rule and regulation. This
8 information may be withheld from the entities listed above,
9 except law enforcement and government agencies upon
10 presentation of a valid court order of protection for the
11 duration of the order.
12 No information shall be released to the requestor until
13 expiration of a 10 day period. This 10 day period shall not
14 apply to requests for information made by law enforcement
15 officials, government agencies, financial institutions,
16 attorneys, insurers, employers, automobile associated
17 businesses, persons licensed as a private detective or firms
18 licensed as a private detective agency under the Private
19 Detective, Private Alarm, and Private Security Act of 1983,
20 who are employed by or are acting on behalf of law
21 enforcement officials, government agencies, financial
22 institutions, attorneys, insurers, employers, automobile
23 associated businesses, and other business entities for
24 purposes consistent with the Illinois Vehicle Code, the
25 vehicle owner or registrant or other entities as the
26 Secretary may exempt by rule and regulation.
27 Any misrepresentation made by a requestor of title or
28 vehicle information shall be punishable as a petty offense,
29 except in the case of persons licensed as a private detective
30 or firms licensed as a private detective agency which shall
31 be subject to disciplinary sanctions under Section 22 or 25
32 of the Private Detective, Private Alarm, and Private Security
33 Act of 1983.
34 (g) 1. The Secretary of State may, upon receipt of a
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1 written request and a fee of $5, furnish to the person or
2 agency so requesting a driver's record. Such document
3 may include a record of: current driver's license
4 issuance information, except that the information on
5 judicial driving permits shall be available only as
6 otherwise provided by this Code; convictions; orders
7 entered revoking, suspending or cancelling a driver's
8 license or privilege; and notations of accident
9 involvement. All other information, unless otherwise
10 permitted by this Code, shall remain confidential.
11 2. The Secretary of State may certify an abstract
12 of a driver's record upon written request therefor.
13 Such certification shall be made under the signature of
14 the Secretary of State and shall be authenticated by the
15 Seal of his office.
16 3. All requests for driving record information
17 shall be made in a manner prescribed by the Secretary.
18 The Secretary of State may notify the affected
19 driver of the request for purchase of his driver's record
20 as the Secretary deems appropriate.
21 The affected driver residence address and other
22 personally identifiable information on the record shall
23 not be disclosed. This nondisclosure shall not apply to
24 requests made by law enforcement officials, government
25 agencies, financial institutions, attorneys, insurers,
26 employers, automobile associated businesses, other
27 business entities for purposes consistent with the
28 Illinois Vehicle Code, the affected driver, or other
29 entities as the Secretary may exempt by rule and
30 regulation. This information may be withheld from the
31 entities listed above, except law enforcement and
32 government agencies, upon presentation of a valid court
33 order of protection for the duration of the order.
34 No information shall be released to the requester
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1 until expiration of a 10 day period. This 10 day period
2 shall not apply to requests for information made by law
3 enforcement officials, government agencies, financial
4 institutions, attorneys, insurers, employers, automobile
5 associated businesses, persons licensed as a private
6 detective or firms licensed as a private detective agency
7 under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, and Private
8 Security Act of 1983, who are employed by or are acting
9 on behalf of law enforcement officials, government
10 agencies, financial institutions, attorneys, insurers,
11 employers, automobile associated businesses, and other
12 business entities for purposes consistent with the
13 Illinois Vehicle Code, the affected driver or other
14 entities as the Secretary may exempt by rule and
15 regulation.
16 Any misrepresentation made by a requestor of driver
17 information shall be punishable as a petty offense,
18 except in the case of persons licensed as a private
19 detective or firms licensed as a private detective agency
20 which shall be subject to disciplinary sanctions under
21 Section 22 or 25 of the Private Detective, Private Alarm,
22 and Private Security Act of 1983.
23 4. The Secretary of State may furnish without fee,
24 upon the written request of a law enforcement agency, any
25 information from a driver's record on file with the
26 Secretary of State when such information is required in
27 the enforcement of this Code or any other law relating to
28 the operation of motor vehicles, including records of
29 dispositions; documented information involving the use of
30 a motor vehicle; whether such individual has, or
31 previously had, a driver's license; and the address and
32 personal description as reflected on said driver's
33 record.
34 5. Except as otherwise provided in this Section,
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1 the Secretary of State may furnish, without fee,
2 information from an individual driver's record on file,
3 if a written request therefor is submitted by any public
4 transit system or authority, public defender, law
5 enforcement agency, a state or federal agency, or an
6 Illinois local intergovernmental association, if the
7 request is for the purpose of a background check of
8 applicants for employment with the requesting agency, or
9 for the purpose of an official investigation conducted by
10 the agency, or to determine a current address for the
11 driver so public funds can be recovered or paid to the
12 driver, or for any other lawful purpose.
13 The Secretary may also furnish the courts a copy of
14 an abstract of a driver's record, without fee, subsequent
15 to an arrest for a violation of Section 11-501 or a
16 similar provision of a local ordinance. Such abstract
17 may include records of dispositions; documented
18 information involving the use of a motor vehicle as
19 contained in the current file; whether such individual
20 has, or previously had, a driver's license; and the
21 address and personal description as reflected on said
22 driver's record.
23 6. Any abstract issued by the Secretary of State
24 pursuant to this Section, to a court or on request of a
25 law enforcement agency, for the record of a named person
26 as to the status of the person's driver's license shall
27 be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated and
28 if the name appearing in such abstract is the same as
29 that of a person named in an information or warrant, such
30 abstract shall be prima facie evidence that the person
31 named in such information or warrant is the same person
32 as the person named in such abstract.
33 7. Subject to any restrictions contained in the
34 Juvenile Court Act of 1987, and upon receipt of a proper
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1 request and a fee of $5, the Secretary of State shall
2 provide a driver's record to the affected driver, or the
3 affected driver's attorney, upon verification. Such
4 record shall contain all the information referred to in
5 paragraph 1 of this subsection (g) plus: any recorded
6 accident involvement as a driver; information recorded
7 pursuant to subsection (e) of Section 6-117 and paragraph
8 4 of subsection (a) of Section 6-204 of this Code. All
9 other information, unless otherwise permitted by this
10 Code, shall remain confidential.
11 (h) The Secretary shall not disclose social security
12 numbers except pursuant to a written request by, or with the
13 prior written consent of, the individual except to: (1)
14 officers and employees of the Secretary who have a need to
15 know the social security numbers in performance of their
16 official duties, (2) law enforcement officials for a lawful,
17 civil or criminal law enforcement investigation, and if the
18 head of the law enforcement agency has made a written request
19 to the Secretary specifying the law enforcement investigation
20 for which the social security numbers are being sought, (3)
21 the United States Department of Transportation, or any other
22 State, pursuant to the administration and enforcement of the
23 Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986, (3.5)the State
24 Board of Elections for voter registration purposes, (4)
25 pursuant to the order of a court of competent jurisdiction,
26 or (5) the Department of Public Aid for utilization in the
27 child support enforcement duties assigned to that Department
28 under provisions of the Public Aid Code after the individual
29 has received advanced meaningful notification of what
30 redisclosure is sought by the Secretary in accordance with
31 the federal Privacy Act; provided, the redisclosure shall not
32 be authorized by the Secretary prior to September 30, 1992.
33 (i) The Secretary of State is empowered to promulgate
34 rules and regulations to effectuate this Section.
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1 (j) Medical statements or medical reports received in
2 the Secretary of State's Office shall be confidential. No
3 confidential information may be open to public inspection or
4 the contents disclosed to anyone, except officers and
5 employees of the Secretary who have a need to know the
6 information contained in the medical reports and the Driver
7 License Medical Advisory Board, unless so directed by an
8 order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
9 (k) All fees collected under this Section shall be paid
10 into the Road Fund of the State Treasury, except that $3 of
11 the $5 fee for a driver's record shall be paid into the
12 Secretary of State Special Services Fund.
13 (l) The Secretary of State shall report his
14 recommendations to the General Assembly by January 1, 1993,
15 regarding the sale and dissemination of the information
16 maintained by the Secretary, including the sale of lists of
17 driver and vehicle records.
18 (Source: P.A. 88-208; 88-363; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94; 89-503,
19 eff. 7-1-96.)
20 (10 ILCS 5/4-2 rep.)
21 (10 ILCS 5/4-12 rep.)
22 (10 ILCS 5/4-14 rep.)
23 (10 ILCS 5/4-17 rep.)
24 (10 ILCS 5/4-18.01 rep.)
25 (10 ILCS 5/4-19 rep.)
26 (10 ILCS 5/5-2 rep.)
27 (10 ILCS 5/5-15 rep.)
28 (10 ILCS 5/5-24 rep.)
29 (10 ILCS 5/5-25.01 rep.)
30 (10 ILCS 5/5-26 rep.)
31 (10 ILCS 5/6-42 rep.)
32 (10 ILCS 5/6-44 rep.)
33 (10 ILCS 5/6-50 rep.)
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1 (10 ILCS 5/6-58 rep.)
2 (10 ILCS 5/6-59.01 rep.)
3 (10 ILCS 5/6-64 rep.)
4 Section 95. The Election Code is amended by repealing
5 Sections 4-2, 4-12, 4-14, 4-17, 4-18.01, 4-19, 5-2, 5-15,
6 5-24, 5-25.01, 5-26, 6-42, 6-44, 6-50, 6-58, 6-59.01, and
7 6-64.
8 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9 becoming law.
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1 INDEX
2 Statutes amended in order of appearance
3 5 ILCS 140/7 from Ch. 116, par. 207
4 10 ILCS 5/1-3 from Ch. 46, par. 1-3
5 10 ILCS 5/1A-9 from Ch. 46, par. 1A-9
6 10 ILCS 5/ Art. 3A heading new
7 10 ILCS 5/3A-1 new
8 10 ILCS 5/3A-2 new
9 10 ILCS 5/3A-2.5 new
10 10 ILCS 5/3A-3 new
11 10 ILCS 5/3A-4 new
12 10 ILCS 5/3A-5 new
13 10 ILCS 5/3A-6 new
14 10 ILCS 5/3A-7 new
15 10 ILCS 5/3A-8 new
16 10 ILCS 5/3A-9 new
17 10 ILCS 5/3A-10 new
18 10 ILCS 5/3A-11 new
19 10 ILCS 5/3A-12 new
20 10 ILCS 5/4-1 from Ch. 46, par. 4-1
21 10 ILCS 5/4-5 from Ch. 46, par. 4-5
22 10 ILCS 5/4-6.1 from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.1
23 10 ILCS 5/4-6.2 from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.2
24 10 ILCS 5/4-6.4 new
25 10 ILCS 5/4-8 from Ch. 46, par. 4-8
26 10 ILCS 5/4-8.01 from Ch. 46, par. 4-8.01
27 10 ILCS 5/4-8.03 from Ch. 46, par. 4-8.03
28 10 ILCS 5/4-9 from Ch. 46, par. 4-9
29 10 ILCS 5/4-10 from Ch. 46, par. 4-10
30 10 ILCS 5/4-13 from Ch. 46, par. 4-13
31 10 ILCS 5/4-15 from Ch. 46, par. 4-15
32 10 ILCS 5/4-16 from Ch. 46, par. 4-16
33 10 ILCS 5/4-18 from Ch. 46, par. 4-18
34 10 ILCS 5/4-20 from Ch. 46, par. 4-20
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1 10 ILCS 5/4-20.1 new
2 10 ILCS 5/4-20.2 new
3 10 ILCS 5/4-22 from Ch. 46, par. 4-22
4 10 ILCS 5/4-24 from Ch. 46, par. 4-24
5 10 ILCS 5/4-24.1 from Ch. 46, par. 4-24.1
6 10 ILCS 5/4-27 from Ch. 46, par. 4-27
7 10 ILCS 5/4-30 from Ch. 46, par. 4-30
8 10 ILCS 5/5-1 from Ch. 46, par. 5-1
9 10 ILCS 5/5-6 from Ch. 46, par. 5-6
10 10 ILCS 5/5-7 from Ch. 46, par. 5-7
11 10 ILCS 5/5-7.01 from Ch. 46, par. 5-7.01
12 10 ILCS 5/5-7.03 from Ch. 46, par. 5-7.03
13 10 ILCS 5/5-8 from Ch. 46, par. 5-8
14 10 ILCS 5/5-9 from Ch. 46, par. 5-9
15 10 ILCS 5/5-10 from Ch. 46, par. 5-10
16 10 ILCS 5/5-11 from Ch. 46, par. 5-11
17 10 ILCS 5/5-12 from Ch. 46, par. 5-12
18 10 ILCS 5/5-13 from Ch. 46, par. 5-13
19 10 ILCS 5/5-14 from Ch. 46, par. 5-14
20 10 ILCS 5/5-16 from Ch. 46, par. 5-16
21 10 ILCS 5/5-16.1 from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.1
22 10 ILCS 5/5-16.2 from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.2
23 10 ILCS 5/5-16.4 new
24 10 ILCS 5/5-19 from Ch. 46, par. 5-19
25 10 ILCS 5/5-20 from Ch. 46, par. 5-20
26 10 ILCS 5/5-21 from Ch. 46, par. 5-21
27 10 ILCS 5/5-22 from Ch. 46, par. 5-22
28 10 ILCS 5/5-23 from Ch. 46, par. 5-23
29 10 ILCS 5/5-25 from Ch. 46, par. 5-25
30 10 ILCS 5/5-28 from Ch. 46, par. 5-28
31 10 ILCS 5/5-28.2 new
32 10 ILCS 5/5-28.3 new
33 10 ILCS 5/5-29 from Ch. 46, par. 5-29
34 10 ILCS 5/5-36 from Ch. 46, par. 5-36
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1 10 ILCS 5/5-37.1 from Ch. 46, par. 5-37.1
2 10 ILCS 5/6-24 from Ch. 46, par. 6-24
3 10 ILCS 5/6-27 from Ch. 46, par. 6-27
4 10 ILCS 5/6-28 from Ch. 46, par. 6-28
5 10 ILCS 5/6-29 from Ch. 46, par. 6-29
6 10 ILCS 5/6-35 from Ch. 46, par. 6-35
7 10 ILCS 5/6-35.01 from Ch. 46, par. 6-35.01
8 10 ILCS 5/6-35.03 from Ch. 46, par. 6-35.03
9 10 ILCS 5/6-36 from Ch. 46, par. 6-36
10 10 ILCS 5/6-37 from Ch. 46, par. 6-37
11 10 ILCS 5/6-38 from Ch. 46, par. 6-38
12 10 ILCS 5/6-39 from Ch. 46, par. 6-39
13 10 ILCS 5/6-40 from Ch. 46, par. 6-40
14 10 ILCS 5/6-41 from Ch. 46, par. 6-41
15 10 ILCS 5/6-43 from Ch. 46, par. 6-43
16 10 ILCS 5/6-45 from Ch. 46, par. 6-45
17 10 ILCS 5/6-49 from Ch. 46, par. 6-49
18 10 ILCS 5/6-50.1 from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.1
19 10 ILCS 5/6-50.2 from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.2
20 10 ILCS 5/6-50.4 new
21 10 ILCS 5/6-52 from Ch. 46, par. 6-52
22 10 ILCS 5/6-53 from Ch. 46, par. 6-53
23 10 ILCS 5/6-54 from Ch. 46, par. 6-54
24 10 ILCS 5/6-56 from Ch. 46, par. 6-56
25 10 ILCS 5/6-57 from Ch. 46, par. 6-57
26 10 ILCS 5/6-59 from Ch. 46, par. 6-59
27 10 ILCS 5/6-60 from Ch. 46, par. 6-60
28 10 ILCS 5/6-65 from Ch. 46, par. 6-65
29 10 ILCS 5/6-65.1 new
30 10 ILCS 5/6-65.2 new
31 10 ILCS 5/6-66 from Ch. 46, par. 6-66
32 10 ILCS 5/6A-4 from Ch. 46, par. 6A-4
33 10 ILCS 5/7-23 from Ch. 46, par. 7-23
34 10 ILCS 5/7-43 from Ch. 46, par. 7-43
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1 10 ILCS 5/7-44 from Ch. 46, par. 7-44
2 10 ILCS 5/7-45 from Ch. 46, par. 7-45
3 10 ILCS 5/7-47 from Ch. 46, par. 7-47
4 10 ILCS 5/7-47.1 from Ch. 46, par. 7-47.1
5 10 ILCS 5/17-9 from Ch. 46, par. 17-9
6 10 ILCS 5/17-10 from Ch. 46, par. 17-10
7 10 ILCS 5/17-13 from Ch. 46, par. 17-13
8 10 ILCS 5/18-1 from Ch. 46, par. 18-1
9 10 ILCS 5/18-5 from Ch. 46, par. 18-5
10 10 ILCS 5/18-15 from Ch. 46, par. 18-15
11 10 ILCS 5/18-16 from Ch. 46, par. 18-16
12 10 ILCS 5/20-13 from Ch. 46, par. 20-13
13 10 ILCS 5/20-13.1 from Ch. 46, par. 20-13.1
14 625 ILCS 5/2-105 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 2-105
15 625 ILCS 5/2-106 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 2-106
16 625 ILCS 5/2-123 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 2-123
17 10 ILCS 5/4-2 rep.
18 10 ILCS 5/4-12 rep.
19 10 ILCS 5/4-14 rep.
20 10 ILCS 5/4-17 rep.
21 10 ILCS 5/4-18.01 rep.
22 10 ILCS 5/4-19 rep.
23 10 ILCS 5/5-2 rep.
24 10 ILCS 5/5-15 rep.
25 10 ILCS 5/5-24 rep.
26 10 ILCS 5/5-25.01 rep.
27 10 ILCS 5/5-26 rep.
28 10 ILCS 5/6-42 rep.
29 10 ILCS 5/6-44 rep.
30 10 ILCS 5/6-50 rep.
31 10 ILCS 5/6-58 rep.
32 10 ILCS 5/6-59.01 rep.
33 10 ILCS 5/6-64 rep.