(10 ILCS 5/24-10) (from Ch. 46, par. 24-10)
Sec. 24-10.
For the instruction of the voters on election day, there shall
be provided for each polling place, one mechanically operated instruction
model for each machine, showing a portion of the face of the voting
machine. Each such instruction model shall show the arrangement of party
rows, office columns and questions, but only fictitious candidates' names
shall be used. Such model shall be located on the election officials'
table, or in some other place which the voters must pass to reach the
machine, and each voter, upon request, before entering the machine, shall
be offered instruction in its operation by use of the instruction model,
and the voter shall be given ample opportunity to operate the model
himself. Each voter shall also have called to his attention the facsimile
diagrams at least two of which shall be posted on the walls of the polling
place, which facsimile diagrams shall be exact facsimiles, including the
color of the ballot labels, as near as may be, of the face of the voting
machine, so that the voter can become familiar with the location of the
questions, parties, officers and candidates. In case any voter after
entering the voting machine booth shall ask for further instructions
concerning the manner of voting, two judges of opposite political parties
shall give such instructions to him; but no precinct election official, or
person assisting a voter shall in any manner request, suggest or seek to
persuade, or induce any voter to vote any particular ticket, or for any
particular candidate, or for or against any particular amendment, question
or proposition. During such instruction, the curtains shall be thrown aside
so that the instruction may be observed by persons in the polling place.
After giving such instructions such precinct election officials shall
retire from the machine booth, and the voter shall thereafter, with the
curtains closed around him, proceed to vote as in the case of an unassisted
voter.
(Source: Laws 1949, p. 817.)
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