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| 1 | AN ACT concerning elections.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section | ||||||
| 5 | 19-13 as follows:
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| 6 | (10 ILCS 5/19-13) (from Ch. 46, par. 19-13)
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| 7 | Sec. 19-13. Any qualified voter who has been admitted to a | ||||||
| 8 | hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center
due to an | ||||||
| 9 | illness or physical injury not more than 5 days before an | ||||||
| 10 | election
shall be entitled to personal delivery of an absentee | ||||||
| 11 | ballot in the hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center
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| 12 | subject to the following conditions:
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| 13 | (1) The voter completes the Application for Physically | ||||||
| 14 | Incapacitated
Elector as provided in Section 19-3, stating as | ||||||
| 15 | reasons therein that he is
a patient in ............... (name | ||||||
| 16 | of hospital/home/center), ............... located
at, | ||||||
| 17 | ............... (address of hospital/home/center), | ||||||
| 18 | ............... (county,
city/village), was admitted
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| 19 | hospitalized for ............... (nature of illness or
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| 20 | physical injury), on ............... (date of admission), and | ||||||
| 21 | does not
expect to be released from the hospital/home/center on | ||||||
| 22 | or before the day of election.
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| 23 | (2) The voter's physician completes a Certificate of | ||||||
| 24 | Attending Physician
in a form substantially as follows:
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| 25 | CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDING PHYSICIAN
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| 26 | I state that I am a physician, duly licensed to practice in | ||||||
| 27 | the State of
.........; that .......... is a patient in | ||||||
| 28 | .......... (name of hospital/home/center),
located at | ||||||
| 29 | ............. (address of hospital/home/center), | ||||||
| 30 | ................. (county,
city/village); that such individual | ||||||
| 31 | was admitted
hospitalized for ............. (nature
of illness | ||||||
| 32 | or physical injury), on ............ (date of admission); and
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| 1 | that I have examined such individual in the State in which I am | ||||||
| 2 | licensed
to practice medicine and do not expect such individual | ||||||
| 3 | to be released from
the hospital/home/center on or before the | ||||||
| 4 | day of election.
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| 5 | Under penalties as provided by law pursuant to Section | ||||||
| 6 | 29-10 of The Election
Code, the undersigned certifies that the | ||||||
| 7 | statements set forth in this
certification are true and | ||||||
| 8 | correct.
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| 9 | (Signature) ...............
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| 10 | (Date licensed) ............
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| 11 | (3) Any person who is registered to vote in the same | ||||||
| 12 | precinct as the admitted
hospitalized voter or any legal | ||||||
| 13 | relative of the admitted
hospitalized voter may
present such | ||||||
| 14 | voter's absentee ballot application, completed as prescribed
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| 15 | in paragraph 1, accompanied by the physician's certificate, | ||||||
| 16 | completed as
prescribed in paragraph 2, to the election | ||||||
| 17 | authority.
Such precinct voter or relative shall execute and | ||||||
| 18 | sign an affidavit furnished
by the election authority attesting | ||||||
| 19 | that he is a registered voter in the
same precinct as the | ||||||
| 20 | admitted
hospitalized voter or that he is a legal relative of
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| 21 | the admitted
hospitalized voter and stating the nature of the
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| 22 | relationship. Such precinct voter or relative shall further | ||||||
| 23 | attest that
he has been authorized by the admitted
hospitalized | ||||||
| 24 | voter to obtain his absentee ballot
from the election authority | ||||||
| 25 | and deliver such ballot to him in the hospital, home, or | ||||||
| 26 | center.
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| 27 | Upon receipt of the admitted
hospitalized voter's | ||||||
| 28 | application, physician's
certificate, and the affidavit of the | ||||||
| 29 | precinct voter or the relative, the
election authority shall | ||||||
| 30 | examine the registration records to determine if
the applicant | ||||||
| 31 | is qualified to vote and, if found to be qualified, shall
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| 32 | provide the precinct voter or the relative the absentee ballot | ||||||
| 33 | for delivery
to the applicant in the hospital, home, or center.
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| 34 | Upon receipt of the absentee ballot, the admitted
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| 35 | hospitalized voter shall mark the
ballot in secret and | ||||||
| 36 | subscribe to the certifications on the absentee ballot
return | ||||||
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| 1 | envelope. After depositing the ballot in the return envelope | ||||||
| 2 | and
securely sealing the envelope, such voter shall give the | ||||||
| 3 | envelope to the
precinct voter or the relative who shall | ||||||
| 4 | deliver it to the election authority
in sufficient time for the | ||||||
| 5 | ballot to be delivered by the election authority
to the proper | ||||||
| 6 | precinct polling place before 7 p.m. on election day.
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| 7 | Upon receipt of the admitted
hospitalized voter's absentee | ||||||
| 8 | ballot,
the ballot shall be counted in the manner prescribed in | ||||||
| 9 | Section 19-9.
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| 10 | (Source: P.A. 84-808.)
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| 11 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
| 12 | becoming law.
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