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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 14 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 for | ||||||
| 19 | ............... (nature of illness or
physical injury), on | ||||||
| 20 | ............... (date of admission), and does not
expect to be | ||||||
| 21 | released from the hospital/home/center on or before the day of | ||||||
| 22 | election or, if released, is expected to be homebound on the | ||||||
| 23 | day of the election and unable to travel to the polling place.
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| 1 | (2) The voter's physician completes a Certificate of | ||||||
| 2 | Attending Physician
in a form substantially as follows:
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| 3 | CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDING PHYSICIAN
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| 4 | I state that I am a physician, duly licensed to practice in | ||||||
| 5 | the State of
.........; that .......... is a patient in | ||||||
| 6 | .......... (name of hospital/home/center),
located at | ||||||
| 7 | ............. (address of hospital/home/center), | ||||||
| 8 | ................. (county,
city/village); that such individual | ||||||
| 9 | was admitted for ............. (nature
of illness or physical | ||||||
| 10 | injury), on ............ (date of admission); and
that I have | ||||||
| 11 | examined such individual in the State in which I am licensed
to | ||||||
| 12 | practice medicine and do not expect such individual to be | ||||||
| 13 | released from
the hospital/home/center on or before the day of | ||||||
| 14 | election or, if released, to be able to travel to the polling | ||||||
| 15 | place on election day.
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| 16 | Under penalties as provided by law pursuant to Section | ||||||
| 17 | 29-10 of The Election
Code, the undersigned certifies that the | ||||||
| 18 | statements set forth in this
certification are true and | ||||||
| 19 | correct.
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| 20 | (Signature) ...............
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| 21 | (Date licensed) ............
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| 22 | (3) Any person who is registered to vote in the same | ||||||
| 23 | precinct as the admitted voter or any legal relative of the | ||||||
| 24 | admitted voter may
present such voter's absentee ballot | ||||||
| 25 | application, completed as prescribed
in paragraph 1, | ||||||
| 26 | accompanied by the physician's certificate, completed as
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| 1 | prescribed in paragraph 2, to the election authority.
Such | ||||||
| 2 | precinct voter or relative shall execute and sign an affidavit | ||||||
| 3 | furnished
by the election authority attesting that he is a | ||||||
| 4 | registered voter in the
same precinct as the admitted voter or | ||||||
| 5 | that he is a legal relative of
the admitted voter and stating | ||||||
| 6 | the nature of the
relationship. Such precinct voter or relative | ||||||
| 7 | shall further attest that
he has been authorized by the | ||||||
| 8 | admitted voter to obtain his absentee ballot
from the election | ||||||
| 9 | authority and deliver such ballot to him in the hospital, home, | ||||||
| 10 | or center.
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| 11 | Upon receipt of the admitted voter's application, | ||||||
| 12 | physician's
certificate, and the affidavit of the precinct | ||||||
| 13 | voter or the relative, the
election authority shall examine the | ||||||
| 14 | registration records to determine if
the applicant is qualified | ||||||
| 15 | to vote and, if found to be qualified, shall
provide the | ||||||
| 16 | precinct voter or the relative the absentee ballot for delivery
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| 17 | to the applicant in the hospital, home, or center.
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| 18 | Upon receipt of the absentee ballot, the admitted voter | ||||||
| 19 | shall mark the
ballot in secret and subscribe to the | ||||||
| 20 | certifications on the absentee ballot
return envelope. After | ||||||
| 21 | depositing the ballot in the return envelope and
securely | ||||||
| 22 | sealing the envelope, such voter shall give the envelope to the
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| 23 | precinct voter or the relative who shall deliver it to the | ||||||
| 24 | election authority
in sufficient time for the ballot to be | ||||||
| 25 | delivered by the election authority
to the election authority's | ||||||
| 26 | central ballot counting location
before 7 p.m. on election day.
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| 1 | Upon receipt of the admitted voter's absentee ballot,
the | ||||||
| 2 | ballot shall be counted in the manner prescribed in this | ||||||
| 3 | Article.
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| 4 | (Source: P.A. 94-18, eff. 6-14-05; 94-1000, eff. 7-3-06.)
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