Full Text of HB0545 94th General Assembly
HB0545 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB0545
Introduced 1/27/2005, by Rep. William B. Black SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/4-8 |
from Ch. 46, par. 4-8 |
10 ILCS 5/5-7 |
from Ch. 46, par. 5-7 |
10 ILCS 5/6-35 |
from Ch. 46, par. 6-35 |
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Amends the Election Code. Permits an election authority to consider specified factors when determining the residence of a college student applying for voter registration.
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A BILL FOR
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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 | 5 |
| Sections 4-8, 5-7, and 6-35 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/4-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-8)
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| Sec. 4-8. The county clerk shall provide a sufficient | 8 |
| number of blank
forms for the registration of electors, which | 9 |
| shall be known as
registration record cards and which shall | 10 |
| consist of loose leaf sheets
or cards, of suitable size to | 11 |
| contain in plain writing and figures the
data hereinafter | 12 |
| required thereon or shall consist of computer cards of
suitable | 13 |
| nature to contain the data required thereon. The registration | 14 |
| record
cards, which shall include an affidavit of registration | 15 |
| as hereinafter
provided, shall be executed in duplicate.
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| The registration record card shall contain the following | 17 |
| and such
other information as the county clerk may think it | 18 |
| proper to require for
the identification of the applicant for | 19 |
| registration:
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| Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and first | 21 |
| or
Christian name in full, and the middle name or the initial | 22 |
| for such
middle name, if any.
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| Sex.
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| Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or | 25 |
| other location of
the dwelling, including the apartment, unit | 26 |
| or room number, if any, and in the
case of a mobile home the lot | 27 |
| number, and such additional clear and definite
description as | 28 |
| may be necessary to determine the exact location of the
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| dwelling of the applicant. Where the location cannot be | 30 |
| determined by
street and number, then the section, | 31 |
| congressional township and range
number may be used, or such | 32 |
| other description as may be necessary,
including post-office |
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| mailing address. In the case of a homeless individual,
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| individual's voting residence that is his or her mailing | 3 |
| address shall be
included on his or her registration record | 4 |
| card. The form may require the applicant to indicate whether he | 5 |
| or she is a college or university student and, if so, must | 6 |
| provide space for the applicant to provide information about | 7 |
| the applicant with respect to the following factors, which the | 8 |
| county clerk may consider in determining whether the student | 9 |
| resides in the election jurisdiction for the purpose of voter | 10 |
| registration: (i) financial independence; (ii) business | 11 |
| pursuits; (iii) employment; (iv) income sources; (v) residence | 12 |
| for State and federal income tax purposes; (vi) marital status; | 13 |
| (vii) residence of parents, spouse, and children, if any; | 14 |
| (viii) the site of the applicant's leaseholds, if any; (ix) the | 15 |
| site of personal or real property owned by the applicant; and | 16 |
| (x) the jurisdiction in which a motor vehicle or other personal | 17 |
| property is registered.
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| Term of residence in the State of Illinois and precinct. | 19 |
| This
information shall be furnished by the applicant stating | 20 |
| the place or
places where he resided and the dates during which | 21 |
| he resided in such
place or places during the year next | 22 |
| preceding the date of the next
ensuing election.
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| Nativity. The state or country in which the applicant was | 24 |
| born.
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| Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or | 26 |
| naturalized. If
naturalized, the court, place, and date of | 27 |
| naturalization.
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| Date of application for registration, i.e., the day, month | 29 |
| and year
when applicant presented himself for registration.
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| Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
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| Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time | 32 |
| of
registration, which would require assistance in voting.
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| The county and state in which the applicant was last | 34 |
| registered.
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| Signature of voter. The applicant, after the registration | 36 |
| and in the
presence of a deputy registrar or other officer of |
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| registration shall be
required to sign his or her name in ink | 2 |
| to the affidavit on both the
original and duplicate | 3 |
| registration record cards.
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| Signature of deputy registrar or officer of registration.
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| In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may affix | 6 |
| his mark
to the affidavit. In such case the officer empowered | 7 |
| to give the
registration oath shall write a detailed | 8 |
| description of the applicant in
the space provided on the back | 9 |
| or at the bottom of the card or sheet;
and shall ask the | 10 |
| following questions and record the answers thereto:
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| Father's first name.
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| Mother's first name.
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| From what address did the applicant last register?
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| Reason for inability to sign name.
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| Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit in
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| substantially the following form:
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| AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
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| STATE OF ILLINOIS
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| COUNTY OF .......
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| I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the | 21 |
| United States;
that on the date of the next election I shall | 22 |
| have resided in the State
of Illinois and in the election | 23 |
| precinct in which I reside 30 days and
that I intend that this | 24 |
| location shall be my residence; that
I am fully qualified to | 25 |
| vote, and that the above statements are true.
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| ..............................
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| (His or her signature or mark)
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| Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
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| ..................................
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| Signature of registration officer.
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| (To be signed in presence of registrant.)
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| Space shall be provided upon the face of each registration | 33 |
| record
card for the notation of the voting record of the person | 34 |
| registered
thereon.
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| Each registration record card shall be numbered according |
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| to
precincts, and may be serially or otherwise marked for | 2 |
| identification in
such manner as the county clerk may | 3 |
| determine.
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| The registration cards shall be deemed public records and | 5 |
| shall be
open to inspection during regular business hours, | 6 |
| except during the 27
days immediately preceding any election. | 7 |
| On written request of any
candidate or objector or any person | 8 |
| intending to object to a petition, the
election authority shall | 9 |
| extend its hours for inspection of registration
cards and other | 10 |
| records of the election authority during the period
beginning | 11 |
| with the filing of petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or
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| 28-3 and continuing through the termination of electoral board | 13 |
| hearings on
any objections to petitions containing signatures | 14 |
| of registered voters in
the jurisdiction of the election | 15 |
| authority. The extension shall be for a
period of hours | 16 |
| sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
the | 17 |
| records but the election authority is not required to extend | 18 |
| its hours
beyond the period beginning at its normal opening for | 19 |
| business and ending
at midnight. If the business hours are so | 20 |
| extended, the election authority
shall post a public notice of | 21 |
| such extended hours. Registration record
cards may also be | 22 |
| inspected, upon approval of the officer in charge of the
cards, | 23 |
| during the 27 days immediately preceding any election.
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| Registration
record cards shall also be open to inspection by | 25 |
| certified judges and poll
watchers and challengers at the | 26 |
| polling place on election day, but only to
the extent necessary | 27 |
| to determine the question of the right of a person to
vote or | 28 |
| to serve as a judge of election. At no time shall poll watchers | 29 |
| or
challengers be allowed to physically handle the registration | 30 |
| record cards.
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| Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or other | 32 |
| electronic data
processing information containing voter | 33 |
| registration information shall
be furnished by the county clerk | 34 |
| within 10 days after December 15 and
May
15 each year and | 35 |
| within 10 days after each registration
period is closed to the | 36 |
| State Board of Elections in a form
prescribed by the
Board. For |
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| the purposes of this Section, a registration period is closed | 2 |
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days before the date of any regular or special election. | 3 |
| Registration
information shall include, but not be limited to, | 4 |
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following information: name, sex, residence, telephone | 5 |
| number, if any,
age, party affiliation, if applicable, | 6 |
| precinct, ward, township,
county, and representative, | 7 |
| legislative and
congressional districts. In the event of | 8 |
| noncompliance, the State
Board of Elections is directed to | 9 |
| obtain compliance forthwith with this
nondiscretionary duty of | 10 |
| the election authority by instituting legal
proceedings in the | 11 |
| circuit court of the county in which the election
authority | 12 |
| maintains the registration information. The costs of | 13 |
| furnishing
updated copies of tapes or discs shall be paid at a | 14 |
| rate of $.00034 per
name of registered voters in the election | 15 |
| jurisdiction, but not less than
$50 per tape or disc and shall | 16 |
| be paid from appropriations made to the
State Board of | 17 |
| Elections for reimbursement to the election authority for
such | 18 |
| purpose. The State Board shall furnish copies of such tapes, | 19 |
| discs, other
electronic data or compilations thereof to state | 20 |
| political committees
registered pursuant to the Illinois | 21 |
| Campaign Finance Act or the Federal
Election Campaign Act and | 22 |
| to governmental entities, at their request and at a reasonable | 23 |
| cost.
To protect the privacy and confidentiality of voter | 24 |
| registration information,
the disclosure
of electronic voter | 25 |
| registration records to any person or entity other than to a
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| State or local political
committee and other than to a | 27 |
| governmental entity for a governmental
purpose is specifically | 28 |
| prohibited. Copies of
the tapes, discs, or other electronic | 29 |
| data shall be furnished by the county
clerk to local political | 30 |
| committees and governmental entities at their request and at a
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| reasonable cost.
Reasonable cost of the tapes, discs, et cetera | 32 |
| for
this purpose would be the cost of duplication plus 15% for
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| administration. The individual representing a political | 34 |
| committee
requesting copies of such tapes shall make a sworn | 35 |
| affidavit that the
information shall be used only for bona fide | 36 |
| political purposes,
including by or for candidates for office |
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| or incumbent office holders.
Such tapes, discs or other | 2 |
| electronic data shall not be used under any
circumstances by | 3 |
| any political committee or individuals for purposes of
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| commercial solicitation or other business purposes. If such | 5 |
| tapes
contain information on county residents related to the | 6 |
| operations of
county government in addition to registration | 7 |
| information, that
information shall not be used under any | 8 |
| circumstances for commercial
solicitation or other business | 9 |
| purposes. The prohibition in this
Section against using the | 10 |
| computer tapes or computer discs or other
electronic data | 11 |
| processing information containing voter registration
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| information for purposes of commercial solicitation or other | 13 |
| business
purposes shall be prospective only from the effective | 14 |
| date of this
amended Act of 1979. Any person who violates this | 15 |
| provision shall be
guilty of a Class 4 felony.
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| The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October | 17 |
| 1, 1987, such
regulations as may be necessary to ensure | 18 |
| uniformity throughout the State
in electronic data processing | 19 |
| of voter registration information. The
regulations shall | 20 |
| include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
uniform | 21 |
| medium, communications protocol and file structure to be | 22 |
| employed
by the election authorities of this State in the | 23 |
| electronic data processing
of voter registration information. | 24 |
| Each election authority utilizing
electronic data processing | 25 |
| of voter registration information shall comply
with such | 26 |
| regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
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| If the applicant for registration was last registered in | 28 |
| another
county within this State, he shall also sign a | 29 |
| certificate authorizing
cancellation of the former | 30 |
| registration. The certificate shall be in
substantially the | 31 |
| following form:
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| To the County Clerk of.... County, Illinois. (or)
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| To the Election Commission of the City of ...., Illinois.
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| This is to certify that I am registered in your (county) | 35 |
| (city) and
that my residence was ............................
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| Having moved out of your (county) (city), I hereby authorize |
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| you to
cancel said registration in your office.
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| Dated at ...., Illinois, on (insert date).
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| .................................
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| (Signature of Voter)
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| Attest: ................, County Clerk, .............
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| County, Illinois.
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| The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately | 8 |
| by the
County Clerk to the County Clerk (or election commission | 9 |
| as the case may
be) where the applicant was formerly | 10 |
| registered. Receipt of such
certificate shall be full authority | 11 |
| for cancellation of any previous
registration.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-465, eff. 1-1-02; 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; | 13 |
| 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/5-7)
(from Ch. 46, par. 5-7)
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| Sec. 5-7. The county clerk shall provide a sufficient | 16 |
| number of
blank forms for the registration of electors which | 17 |
| shall be known as
registration record cards and which shall | 18 |
| consist of loose leaf sheets
or cards, of suitable size to | 19 |
| contain in plain writing and figures the
data hereinafter | 20 |
| required thereon or shall consist of computer cards of
suitable | 21 |
| nature to contain the data required thereon. The registration
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| record cards, which shall include an affidavit of registration | 23 |
| as
hereinafter provided, shall be executed in duplicate.
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| The registration record card shall contain the following | 25 |
| and such
other information as the county clerk may think it | 26 |
| proper to require for
the identification of the applicant for | 27 |
| registration:
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| Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and first | 29 |
| or
Christian name in full, and the middle name or the initial | 30 |
| for such
middle name, if any.
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| Sex.
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| Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or | 33 |
| other
location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit | 34 |
| or room number,
if any, and in the case of a mobile home the lot | 35 |
| number, and such additional
clear and definite description as |
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| may be necessary to determine the exact
location of the | 2 |
| dwelling of the applicant, including post-office mailing
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| address. In the case of a homeless individual, the individual's | 4 |
| voting
residence that is his or her mailing address shall be | 5 |
| included on his or her
registration record card. The form may | 6 |
| require the applicant to indicate whether he or she is a | 7 |
| college or university student and, if so, must provide space | 8 |
| for the applicant to provide information about the applicant | 9 |
| with respect to the following factors, which the county clerk | 10 |
| may consider in determining whether the student resides in the | 11 |
| election jurisdiction for the purpose of voter registration: | 12 |
| (i) financial independence; (ii) business pursuits; (iii) | 13 |
| employment; (iv) income sources; (v) residence for State and | 14 |
| federal income tax purposes; (vi) marital status; (vii) | 15 |
| residence of parents, spouse, and children, if any; (viii) the | 16 |
| site of the applicant's leaseholds, if any; (ix) the site of | 17 |
| personal or real property owned by the applicant; and (x) the | 18 |
| jurisdiction in which a motor vehicle or other personal | 19 |
| property is registered.
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| Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the | 21 |
| precinct. Which
questions may be answered by the applicant | 22 |
| stating, in excess of 30 days
in the State and in excess of 30 | 23 |
| days in the precinct.
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| Nativity. The State or country in which the applicant was | 25 |
| born.
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| Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or | 27 |
| naturalized. If
naturalized, the court, place and date of | 28 |
| naturalization.
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| Date of application for registration, i.e., the day, month | 30 |
| and year
when applicant presented himself for registration.
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| Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
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| Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time | 33 |
| of
registration, which would require assistance in voting.
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| The county and state in which the applicant was last | 35 |
| registered.
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| Signature of voter. The applicant, after the registration |
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| and in the
presence of a deputy registrar or other officer of | 2 |
| registration shall be
required to sign his or her name in ink | 3 |
| to the affidavit on the original
and duplicate registration | 4 |
| record card.
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| Signature of Deputy Registrar.
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| In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may affix | 7 |
| his mark
to the affidavit. In such case the officer empowered | 8 |
| to give the
registration oath shall write a detailed | 9 |
| description of the applicant in
the space provided at the | 10 |
| bottom of the card or sheet; and shall ask the
following | 11 |
| questions and record the answers thereto:
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| Father's first name .......................
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| Mother's first name .......................
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| From what address did you last register?
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| Reason for inability to sign name.
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| Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit in
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| substantially the following form:
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| AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
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| State of Illinois)
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| )ss
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| County of )
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| I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the | 23 |
| United States;
that on the date of the next election I shall | 24 |
| have resided in the State
of Illinois and in the election | 25 |
| precinct in which I reside 30 days; that
I am fully qualified | 26 |
| to vote. That I intend that this location shall be
my residence | 27 |
| and that the above statements are true.
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| ..............................
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| (His or her signature or mark)
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| Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
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| .........................................
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| Signature of Registration Officer.
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| (To be signed in presence of Registrant.)
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| Space shall be provided upon the face of each registration | 35 |
| record
card for the notation of the voting record of the person |
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| registered
thereon.
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| Each registration record card shall be numbered according | 3 |
| to towns
and precincts, wards, cities and villages, as the case | 4 |
| may be, and may
be serially or otherwise marked for | 5 |
| identification in such manner as the
county clerk may | 6 |
| determine.
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| The registration cards shall be deemed public records and | 8 |
| shall be
open to inspection during regular business hours, | 9 |
| except during the 27
days immediately preceding any election. | 10 |
| On written request of any
candidate or objector or any person | 11 |
| intending to object to a petition, the
election authority shall | 12 |
| extend its hours for inspection of registration
cards and other | 13 |
| records of the election authority during the period
beginning | 14 |
| with the filing of petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or
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| 28-3 and continuing through the termination of electoral board | 16 |
| hearings on
any objections to petitions containing signatures | 17 |
| of registered voters in
the jurisdiction of the election | 18 |
| authority. The extension shall be for a
period of hours | 19 |
| sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
the | 20 |
| records but the election authority is not required to extend | 21 |
| its hours
beyond the period beginning at its normal opening for | 22 |
| business and ending
at midnight. If the business hours are so | 23 |
| extended, the election authority
shall post a public notice of | 24 |
| such extended hours. Registration record cards
may also be | 25 |
| inspected, upon approval of the officer in charge of the cards,
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| during the 27 days immediately preceding any election. | 27 |
| Registration
record
cards shall also be open to inspection by | 28 |
| certified judges and poll watchers
and challengers at the | 29 |
| polling place on election day, but only to the extent
necessary | 30 |
| to determine the question of the right of a person to vote or | 31 |
| to
serve as a judge of election. At no time shall poll watchers | 32 |
| or challengers be
allowed to physically handle the registration | 33 |
| record cards.
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| Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or other | 35 |
| electronic data
processing information containing voter | 36 |
| registration information shall
be furnished by the county clerk |
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| within 10 days after December 15 and
May
15 each year and | 2 |
| within 10 days after each registration
period is closed to the | 3 |
| State Board of Elections in a form
prescribed by the
Board. For | 4 |
| the purposes of this Section, a registration period is closed | 5 |
| 27
days before the date of any regular or special election. | 6 |
| Registration
information
shall include, but not be limited to, | 7 |
| the
following information: name, sex, residence, telephone | 8 |
| number, if any, age,
party affiliation, if applicable, | 9 |
| precinct, ward, township, county, and
representative, | 10 |
| legislative and congressional districts. In the event of
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| noncompliance, the State Board of Elections is directed to | 12 |
| obtain compliance
forthwith with this nondiscretionary duty of | 13 |
| the election authority by
instituting legal proceedings in the | 14 |
| circuit court of the county in which the
election authority | 15 |
| maintains the registration information. The costs of
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| furnishing updated copies of tapes or discs shall be paid at a | 17 |
| rate of $.00034
per name of registered voters in the election | 18 |
| jurisdiction, but not less than
$50 per tape or disc and shall | 19 |
| be paid from appropriations made to the State
Board of | 20 |
| Elections for reimbursement to the election authority for such
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| purpose. The State Board shall furnish copies of such tapes, | 22 |
| discs, other electronic
data or compilations thereof to state | 23 |
| political committees registered pursuant
to the Illinois | 24 |
| Campaign Finance Act or the Federal Election Campaign Act and | 25 |
| to governmental entities, at
their request and at a reasonable | 26 |
| cost.
To protect the privacy and confidentiality of voter | 27 |
| registration information,
the disclosure
of electronic voter | 28 |
| registration records to any person or entity other than to a
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| State or local political
committee and other than to a | 30 |
| governmental entity for a governmental
purpose
is specifically | 31 |
| prohibited.
Copies of the tapes, discs or other
electronic data | 32 |
| shall be furnished by the county clerk to local political
| 33 |
| committees and governmental entities at their request and at a | 34 |
| reasonable cost. Reasonable cost of the
tapes, discs, et cetera | 35 |
| for this purpose would be the cost of duplication plus
15% for | 36 |
| administration. The individual representing a political |
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| committee
requesting copies of such tapes shall make a sworn | 2 |
| affidavit that the
information shall be used only for bona fide | 3 |
| political purposes,
including by or for candidates for office | 4 |
| or incumbent office holders.
Such tapes, discs or other | 5 |
| electronic data shall not be used under any
circumstances by | 6 |
| any political committee or individuals for purposes of
| 7 |
| commercial solicitation or other business purposes. If such | 8 |
| tapes
contain information on county residents related to the | 9 |
| operations of
county government in addition to registration | 10 |
| information, that
information shall not be used under any | 11 |
| circumstances for commercial
solicitation or other business | 12 |
| purposes. The prohibition in this
Section against using the | 13 |
| computer tapes or computer discs or other
electronic data | 14 |
| processing information containing voter registration
| 15 |
| information for purposes of commercial solicitation or other | 16 |
| business
purposes shall be prospective only from the effective | 17 |
| date of this
amended Act of 1979. Any person who violates this | 18 |
| provision shall be
guilty of a Class 4 felony.
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| The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October | 20 |
| 1, 1987, such
regulations as may be necessary to ensure | 21 |
| uniformity throughout the State
in electronic data processing | 22 |
| of voter registration information. The
regulations shall | 23 |
| include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
uniform | 24 |
| medium, communications protocol and file structure to be | 25 |
| employed
by the election authorities of this State in the | 26 |
| electronic data processing
of voter registration information. | 27 |
| Each election authority utilizing
electronic data processing | 28 |
| of voter registration information shall comply
with such | 29 |
| regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
| 30 |
| If the applicant for registration was last registered in | 31 |
| another
county within this State, he shall also sign a | 32 |
| certificate authorizing
cancellation of the former | 33 |
| registration. The certificate shall be in
substantially the | 34 |
| following form:
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| To the County Clerk of .... County, Illinois. To the Election
| 36 |
| Commission of the City of ...., Illinois.
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| This is to certify that I am registered in your (county) | 2 |
| (city) and
that my residence was .....
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| Having moved out of your (county) (city), I hereby | 4 |
| authorize you to
cancel said registration in your office.
| 5 |
| Dated at .... Illinois, on (insert date).
| 6 |
| ....................
| 7 |
| (Signature of Voter)
| 8 |
| Attest ......, County Clerk, ........ County, Illinois.
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| The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately | 10 |
| by the
county clerk to the county clerk (or election commission | 11 |
| as the case may
be) where the applicant was formerly | 12 |
| registered. Receipt of such
certificate shall be full authority | 13 |
| for cancellation of any previous
registration.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-465, eff. 1-1-02; 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; | 15 |
| 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/6-35) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-35)
| 17 |
| Sec. 6-35. The Boards of Election Commissioners shall | 18 |
| provide a
sufficient number of blank forms for the registration | 19 |
| of electors which
shall be known as registration record cards | 20 |
| and which shall consist of
loose leaf sheets or cards, of | 21 |
| suitable size to contain in plain writing
and figures the data | 22 |
| hereinafter required thereon or shall consist of computer
cards | 23 |
| of suitable nature to contain the data required thereon. The | 24 |
| registration
record cards, which shall include an affidavit of | 25 |
| registration as
hereinafter provided, shall be executed in | 26 |
| duplicate. The duplicate of
which may be a carbon copy of the | 27 |
| original or a copy of the original
made by the use of other | 28 |
| method or material used for making simultaneous
true copies or | 29 |
| duplications.
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| The registration record card shall contain the following | 31 |
| and such
other information as the Board of Election | 32 |
| Commissioners may think it
proper to require for the | 33 |
| identification of the applicant for
registration:
| 34 |
| Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and first | 35 |
| or
Christian name in full, and the middle name or the initial |
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| for such
middle name, if any.
| 2 |
| Sex.
| 3 |
| Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or | 4 |
| other
location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit | 5 |
| or room number,
if any, and in the case of a mobile home the lot | 6 |
| number, and such additional
clear and definite description as | 7 |
| may be necessary to determine the exact
location of the | 8 |
| dwelling of the applicant, including post-office mailing
| 9 |
| address. In the case of a homeless individual, the individual's | 10 |
| voting
residence that is his or her mailing address shall be | 11 |
| included on his or her
registration record card. The form may | 12 |
| require the applicant to indicate whether he or she is a | 13 |
| college or university student and, if so, must provide space | 14 |
| for the applicant to provide information about the applicant | 15 |
| with respect to the following factors, which the board of | 16 |
| election commissioners may consider in determining whether the | 17 |
| student resides in the election jurisdiction for the purpose of | 18 |
| voter registration: (i) financial independence; (ii) business | 19 |
| pursuits; (iii) employment; (iv) income sources; (v) residence | 20 |
| for State and federal income tax purposes; (vi) marital status; | 21 |
| (vii) residence of parents, spouse, and children, if any; | 22 |
| (viii) the site of the applicant's leaseholds, if any; (ix) the | 23 |
| site of personal or real property owned by the applicant; and | 24 |
| (x) the jurisdiction in which a motor vehicle or other personal | 25 |
| property is registered.
| 26 |
| Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the | 27 |
| precinct.
| 28 |
| Nativity. The state or country in which the applicant was | 29 |
| born.
| 30 |
| Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or | 31 |
| naturalized. If
naturalized, the court, place, and date of | 32 |
| naturalization.
| 33 |
| Date of application for registration, i.e., the day, month | 34 |
| and year
when the applicant presented himself for registration.
| 35 |
| Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
| 36 |
| Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time |
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| of
registration, which would require assistance in voting.
| 2 |
| The county and state in which the applicant was last | 3 |
| registered.
| 4 |
| Signature of voter. The applicant, after registration and | 5 |
| in the
presence of a deputy registrar or other officer of | 6 |
| registration shall be
required to sign his or her name in ink | 7 |
| to the affidavit on both the
original and the duplicate | 8 |
| registration record card.
| 9 |
| Signature of deputy registrar.
| 10 |
| In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may affix | 11 |
| his mark
to the affidavit. In such case the registration | 12 |
| officer shall write a
detailed description of the applicant in | 13 |
| the space provided at the
bottom of the card or sheet; and | 14 |
| shall ask the following questions and
record the answers | 15 |
| thereto:
| 16 |
| Father's first name .........................
| 17 |
| Mother's first name .........................
| 18 |
| From what address did you last register? ....
| 19 |
| Reason for inability to sign name ...........
| 20 |
| Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit in
| 21 |
| substantially the following form:
| 22 |
| AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
| 23 |
| State of Illinois )
| 24 |
| )ss
| 25 |
| County of ....... )
| 26 |
| I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the | 27 |
| United States,
that on the day of the next election I shall | 28 |
| have resided in the State
of Illinois and in the election | 29 |
| precinct 30 days and that I intend that
this location is my | 30 |
| residence; that I am fully qualified to
vote, and that the | 31 |
| above statements are true.
| 32 |
| ..............................
| 33 |
| (His or her signature or mark)
| 34 |
| Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
| 35 |
| ......................................
| 36 |
| Signature of registration officer
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| (to be signed in presence of registrant).
| 2 |
| Space shall be provided upon the face of each registration | 3 |
| record
card for the notation of the voting record of the person | 4 |
| registered
thereon.
| 5 |
| Each registration record card shall be numbered according | 6 |
| to wards or
precincts, as the case may be, and may be serially | 7 |
| or otherwise marked
for identification in such manner as the | 8 |
| Board of Election Commissioners
may determine.
| 9 |
| The registration cards shall be deemed public records and | 10 |
| shall be
open to inspection during regular business hours, | 11 |
| except during the 27
days immediately preceding any election. | 12 |
| On written request of any
candidate or objector or any person | 13 |
| intending to object to a petition, the
election authority shall | 14 |
| extend its hours for inspection of registration
cards and other | 15 |
| records of the election authority during the period
beginning | 16 |
| with the filing of petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or
| 17 |
| 28-3 and continuing through the termination of electoral board | 18 |
| hearings on
any objections to petitions containing signatures | 19 |
| of registered voters in
the jurisdiction of the election | 20 |
| authority. The extension shall be for a
period of hours | 21 |
| sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
the | 22 |
| records but the election authority is not required to extend | 23 |
| its hours
beyond the period beginning at its normal opening for | 24 |
| business and ending
at midnight. If the business hours are so | 25 |
| extended, the election authority
shall post a public notice of | 26 |
| such extended hours. Registration record cards
may also be | 27 |
| inspected, upon approval of the officer in charge of the cards,
| 28 |
| during the 27 days immediately preceding any election. | 29 |
| Registration
record
cards shall also be open to inspection by | 30 |
| certified judges and poll watchers
and challengers at the | 31 |
| polling place on election day, but only to the extent
necessary | 32 |
| to determine the question of the right of a person to vote or | 33 |
| to
serve as a judge of election. At no time shall poll watchers | 34 |
| or challengers be
allowed to physically handle the registration | 35 |
| record cards.
| 36 |
| Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or other |
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| electronic data
processing information containing voter | 2 |
| registration information shall
be furnished by the Board of | 3 |
| Election Commissioners within 10 days after
December 15 and May | 4 |
| 15 each year and within 10
days after each registration period | 5 |
| is closed to the State Board
of Elections in a
form prescribed | 6 |
| by the State Board. For the purposes of this Section, a
| 7 |
| registration period is closed 27 days before the date of any | 8 |
| regular
or special
election. Registration information shall
| 9 |
| include, but not be limited to, the following information: | 10 |
| name, sex,
residence, telephone number, if any, age, party | 11 |
| affiliation, if
applicable, precinct, ward, township, county, | 12 |
| and representative,
legislative and congressional districts. | 13 |
| In the event of noncompliance,
the State Board of Elections is | 14 |
| directed to obtain compliance forthwith
with this | 15 |
| nondiscretionary duty of the election authority by instituting
| 16 |
| legal proceedings in the circuit court of the county in which | 17 |
| the election
authority maintains the registration information. | 18 |
| The costs of furnishing
updated copies of tapes or discs shall | 19 |
| be paid at a rate of $.00034
per name of registered voters in | 20 |
| the election jurisdiction, but not less
than $50 per tape or | 21 |
| disc and shall be paid from appropriations made to the
State | 22 |
| Board of Elections for reimbursement to the election authority | 23 |
| for
such purpose. The State Board shall furnish copies of such | 24 |
| tapes, discs,
other electronic data or compilations thereof to | 25 |
| state political committees
registered pursuant to the Illinois | 26 |
| Campaign Finance Act or the Federal
Election Campaign Act and | 27 |
| to governmental entities, at their request and at a reasonable | 28 |
| cost.
To protect the privacy and confidentiality of voter | 29 |
| registration information,
the disclosure
of electronic voter | 30 |
| registration records to any person or entity other than to a
| 31 |
| State or local political
committee and other than to a | 32 |
| governmental entity for a governmental
purpose is specifically | 33 |
| prohibited.
Copies of the
tapes, discs or other electronic data | 34 |
| shall be furnished by the Board of
Election Commissioners to | 35 |
| local political committees and governmental entities at their | 36 |
| request and at a
reasonable cost. Reasonable cost of the tapes, |
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| discs, et cetera for
this purpose would be the cost of | 2 |
| duplication plus 15% for
administration. The individual | 3 |
| representing a political committee
requesting copies of such | 4 |
| tapes shall make a sworn affidavit that the
information shall | 5 |
| be used only for bona fide political purposes,
including by or | 6 |
| for candidates for office or incumbent office holders.
Such | 7 |
| tapes, discs or other electronic data shall not be used under | 8 |
| any
circumstances by any political committee or individuals for | 9 |
| purposes of
commercial solicitation or other business | 10 |
| purposes. If such tapes
contain information on county residents | 11 |
| related to the operations of
county government in addition to | 12 |
| registration information, that
information shall not be used | 13 |
| under any circumstances for commercial
solicitation or other | 14 |
| business purposes. The prohibition in this
Section against | 15 |
| using the computer tapes or computer discs or other
electronic | 16 |
| data processing information containing voter registration
| 17 |
| information for purposes of commercial solicitation or other | 18 |
| business
purposes shall be prospective only from the effective | 19 |
| date of this
amended Act of 1979. Any person who violates this | 20 |
| provision shall be
guilty of a Class 4 felony.
| 21 |
| The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October | 22 |
| 1, 1987, such
regulations as may be necessary to ensure | 23 |
| uniformity throughout the State
in electronic data processing | 24 |
| of voter registration information. The
regulations shall | 25 |
| include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
uniform | 26 |
| medium, communications protocol and file structure to be | 27 |
| employed
by the election authorities of this State in the | 28 |
| electronic data processing
of voter registration information. | 29 |
| Each election authority utilizing
electronic data processing | 30 |
| of voter registration information shall comply
with such | 31 |
| regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
| 32 |
| If the applicant for registration was last registered in | 33 |
| another
county within this State, he shall also sign a | 34 |
| certificate authorizing
cancellation of the former | 35 |
| registration. The certificate shall be in
substantially the | 36 |
| following form:
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| To the County Clerk of .... County, Illinois.
| 2 |
| To the Election Commission of the City of ...., Illinois.
| 3 |
| This is to certify that I am registered in your (county) | 4 |
| (city) and
that my residence was ..... Having moved out of your | 5 |
| (county), (city), I
hereby authorize you to cancel that | 6 |
| registration in your office.
| 7 |
| Dated at ...., Illinois, on (insert date).
| 8 |
| ....................
| 9 |
| (Signature of Voter)
| 10 |
| Attest ...., Clerk, Election Commission of the City of....,
| 11 |
| Illinois.
| 12 |
| The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately | 13 |
| by the clerk
of the Election Commission to the county clerk, | 14 |
| (or Election Commission
as the case may be) where the applicant | 15 |
| was formerly registered. Receipt
of such certificate shall be | 16 |
| full authority for cancellation of any
previous registration.
| 17 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-465, eff. 1-1-02; 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; | 18 |
| 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 93-847, eff. 7-30-04.)
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