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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB0352
Introduced 2/15/2005, by Sen. Susan Garrett SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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10 ILCS 5/19-1 |
from Ch. 46, par. 19-1 |
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Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning absentee voting.
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A BILL FOR
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SB0352 |
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LRB094 09699 JAM 39955 b |
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| AN ACT concerning elections.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing Section |
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| 19-1 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/19-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 19-1)
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| Sec. 19-1. Any qualified elector of the State
State of |
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| Illinois having
duly registered where such registration is |
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| required who expects to be
absent from the county in which he |
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| is a qualified elector or who because
of being appointed a |
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| judge of election in a precinct other than the
precinct in |
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| which he resides or who because of physical incapacity or
the |
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| tenets of his religion in the observance of a religious holiday |
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| or
who because of election duties for the office of an Election |
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| Authority
or the State Board of Elections or who because of |
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| election duties for a
law enforcement agency, including but not |
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| limited to the offices of the
Attorney General, a State's |
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| Attorney, a United States Attorney, or a
State, county, or |
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| municipal police department, or who, because he is
temporarily |
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| abiding outside the precinct in which he is registered to vote
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| due to the fact he is a student attending an institution of |
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| higher
education or who
is serving as a sequestered
juror on a |
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| State or federal jury, will be unable to be present at
the |
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| polls on the day of holding any special, general or
primary |
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| election at which any presidential preference is indicated or
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| any candidates are chosen or elected, for any congressional, |
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| State,
district, county, town, city, village, precinct or |
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| judicial offices or
at which questions of public policy are |
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| submitted, may vote at such
election as hereinafter in this |
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| Article provided.
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| Each Election Authority, law enforcement agency, and the |
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| State Board
of Elections shall compile and keep current a list |