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10 ILCS 5/17-22

(10 ILCS 5/17-22) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-22)
Sec. 17-22.

 The judges of election shall make the tally sheet and
certificate of results in triplicate. If, however, the number of
established political parties, as defined in Section 10-2, exceeds 2,
one additional copy shall be made for each established political party
in excess of 2. One list of voters, or other proper return with such
certificate written thereon, and accompanying tally sheet footed up so
as to show the correct number of votes cast for each person voted for,
shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up by the judges of election, 2
of whom (one from each of the 2 major political parties) shall
immediately deliver same to the county clerk, or his deputy, at the
office of the county clerk, or to an officially designated receiving
station established by the county clerk where a duly authorized
representative of the county clerk shall receive said envelopes for
immediate transmission to the office of county clerk, who shall safely
keep them. The other certificates of results and accompanying tally
sheet shall be carefully enveloped and sealed up and duly directed,
respectively, to the chair of the county central committee of each
then existing established political party, and by another of the judges
of election deposited immediately in the nearest United States letter
deposit. However, if any county chair notifies the county clerk not
later than 10 days before the election of his desire to receive the
envelope addressed to him at the point and at the time same are
delivered to the county clerk, his deputy or receiving station designee
the envelopes shall be delivered to such county chair or his designee
immediately upon receipt thereof by the county clerk, his deputy or his
receiving station designee. The person or persons so designated by a
county chair shall sign an official receipt acknowledging receipt of
said envelopes. The poll book and tally list filed with the county clerk
shall be kept one year, and certified copies thereof shall be evidence
in all courts, proceedings and election contests. Before the returns are
sealed up, as aforesaid, the judges shall compare the tally papers,
footings and certificates and see that they are correct and duplicates
of each other, and certify to the correctness of the same.

At the consolidated election, the judges of election
shall make a tally sheet and certificate of results for each political
subdivision for which candidates or public questions are on the ballot
at such election, and shall sign, seal in a marked envelope and deliver
them to the county clerk with the other certificates of results herein
required. Such tally sheets and certificates of results may be
duplicates of the tally sheet and certificate of results otherwise
required by this Section, showing all votes for all candidates and
public questions voted for or upon in the precinct, or may be on
separate forms prepared by the election authority and showing only those
votes cast for candidates and public questions of each such political
subdivision.

Within 2 days of delivery of complete returns of the consolidated election, the county clerk shall transmit an original,
sealed tally sheet and certificate of results from each precinct in his
jurisdiction in which candidates or public questions of a political
subdivision were on the ballot to the local election official of such
political subdivision. Each local election official, within 24 hours of
receipt of all of the tally sheets and certificates of results for all
precincts in which candidates or public questions of his political
subdivision were on the ballot, shall transmit such sealed tally sheets
and certificates of results to the canvassing board for that political
subdivision.

In the case of referenda for the formation of a political
subdivision, the tally sheets and certificates of results shall be
transmitted by the county clerk to the circuit court that ordered the
proposition submitted or to the officials designated by the court to
conduct the canvass of votes. In the case of school referenda for which
a regional superintendent of schools is responsible for the canvass of
votes, the county clerk shall transmit the tally sheets and certificates
of results to the regional superintendent of schools.

Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are used, the
provisions of this section may be modified as required or authorized by
Article 24 or Article 24A, whichever is applicable.

Only judges appointed under the provisions of subsection (a) of Section 13-4 or subsection (b) of Section 14-1 may make any delivery required by this Section from judges of election to a county clerk, or his or her deputy, at the office of the county clerk or to a county clerk's duly authorized representative at the county clerk's officially designated receiving station.

(Source: P.A. 100-1027, eff. 1-1-19; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19.)