Full Text of HB4037 96th General Assembly
HB4037 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010 HB4037
Introduced 2/27/2009, by Rep. Emily McAsey SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/19A-10 |
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10 ILCS 5/19A-15 |
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Amends the Election Code. Requires an election authority to designate at least one early voting permanent polling place. Specifies that an election authority's primary office is a permanent early voting polling place unless the authority designates another. Requires that an early voting permanent polling place be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on the final Saturday and Sunday of the early voting period.
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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 19A-10 and 19A-15 as follows: | 6 |
| (10 ILCS 5/19A-10)
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| Sec. 19A-10. Permanent polling places for early voting.
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| (a) Each election authority shall designate at least one | 9 |
| permanent polling place for early voting. The primary office of | 10 |
| an election authority is a permanent polling place for early | 11 |
| voting, unless an election authority establishes An election | 12 |
| authority may establish permanent polling places for early
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| voting by personal appearance at locations throughout the | 14 |
| election authority's
jurisdiction, including but not limited | 15 |
| to a municipal clerk's office, a township clerk's office, a | 16 |
| road district clerk's office, or a county or local public | 17 |
| agency office. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), | 18 |
| any person
entitled to vote early by personal appearance may do | 19 |
| so at any polling place
established for early voting.
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| (b) If it is impractical for the election authority to | 21 |
| provide at each
polling place for early voting a ballot in | 22 |
| every form required in the election
authority's jurisdiction, | 23 |
| the election authority may:
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| (1) provide appropriate forms of ballots to the office | 2 |
| of the municipal
clerk in a municipality not having a board | 3 |
| of election commissioners; the
township clerk; or in | 4 |
| counties not under township organization, the road
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| district clerk; and
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| (2) limit voting at that polling place to registered | 7 |
| voters in that
municipality, ward or group of wards, | 8 |
| township, or road district.
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| If the early voting polling place does not have the correct | 10 |
| ballot form for a person seeking to vote early, the election | 11 |
| judge or election official conducting early voting at that | 12 |
| polling place shall inform the person of that fact, give the | 13 |
| person the appropriate telephone number of the election | 14 |
| authority in order to locate an early voting polling place with | 15 |
| the correct ballot form for use in that person's assigned | 16 |
| precinct, and instruct the person to go to the proper early | 17 |
| voting polling place to vote early.
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| (c) During each general primary and general election, each | 19 |
| election authority in a county with a population over 250,000 | 20 |
| shall establish at least one polling place for early voting by | 21 |
| personal appearance at a location within each of the 3 largest | 22 |
| municipalities within its jurisdiction. If any of the 3 largest | 23 |
| municipalities is over 80,000, the election authority shall | 24 |
| establish at least 2 polling places within the municipality. | 25 |
| All population figures shall be determined by the federal | 26 |
| census.
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| During each general primary and general election, each | 2 |
| board of election commissioners established under Article 6 of | 3 |
| this Code in any city, village, or incorporated town with a | 4 |
| population over 100,000 shall establish at least 2 polling | 5 |
| places for early voting by personal appearance. All population | 6 |
| figures shall be determined by the federal census.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05; 95-699, eff. 11-9-07.) | 8 |
| (10 ILCS 5/19A-15)
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| Sec. 19A-15. Period for early voting; hours.
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| (a) The period for early voting by personal appearance | 11 |
| begins the 22nd day preceding a general primary, consolidated | 12 |
| primary, consolidated, or
general election and extends through | 13 |
| the 5th day before election day.
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| (b) A permanent polling place for early voting must remain | 15 |
| open during the
hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., or 9:00 a.m. | 16 |
| to 5:00 p.m., on weekdays and
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on | 17 |
| Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays , except a permanent polling | 18 |
| place must remain open during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 | 19 |
| p.m. or 9:00 a.m. to until 5:00 p.m. on the final Saturday and | 20 |
| Sunday of the early voting period .
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| (Source: P.A. 94-645, eff. 8-22-05.)
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