Full Text of HB0814 94th General Assembly
HB0814 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB0814
Introduced 2/2/2005, by Rep. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/4-6.2 |
from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.2 |
10 ILCS 5/5-16.2 |
from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.2 |
10 ILCS 5/6-50.2 |
from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.2 |
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Amends the Election Code. Prohibits the unauthorized copying or retention of personal or other information from a voter registration application. Makes violation a Class A misdemeanor.
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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 4-6.2, 5-16.2, and 6-50.2 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/4-6.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.2)
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| Sec. 4-6.2. (a) The county clerk shall appoint all | 8 |
| municipal and township
or road district clerks or their duly | 9 |
| authorized deputies as deputy registrars
who may accept the | 10 |
| registration of all qualified residents of their
respective | 11 |
| municipalities, townships and road districts. A deputy | 12 |
| registrar
serving as such by virtue of his status as a | 13 |
| municipal clerk, or a duly
authorized deputy of a municipal | 14 |
| clerk, of a municipality the territory of
which lies in more | 15 |
| than one county may accept the registration of any
qualified | 16 |
| resident of the municipality, regardless of which county the
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| resident, municipal clerk or the duly authorized deputy of the | 18 |
| municipal
clerk lives in.
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| The county clerk shall appoint all precinct | 20 |
| committeepersons in the county
as deputy registrars who may | 21 |
| accept the registration of any qualified resident
of the | 22 |
| county, except during the 27 days preceding an election.
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| The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars a | 24 |
| reasonable
number of employees of the Secretary of State | 25 |
| located at driver's license
examination stations and | 26 |
| designated to the election authority by the
Secretary of State | 27 |
| who may accept the registration of any qualified
residents of | 28 |
| the county at any such driver's license examination stations.
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| The appointment of employees of the Secretary of State as | 30 |
| deputy registrars
shall be made in the manner provided in | 31 |
| Section 2-105 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code.
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| The county clerk shall appoint each of the following named |
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| persons as deputy
registrars upon the written request of such | 2 |
| persons:
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| 1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person | 4 |
| designated by the chief
librarian, of any public library | 5 |
| situated within the election jurisdiction,
who may accept | 6 |
| the registrations of any qualified resident of the county,
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| at such library.
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| 2. The principal, or a qualified person designated by | 9 |
| the principal, of
any high school, elementary school, or | 10 |
| vocational school situated
within the election | 11 |
| jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
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| qualified resident of the county, at such school. The | 13 |
| county clerk shall notify
every principal and | 14 |
| vice-principal of each high school, elementary school, and
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| vocational school situated within the election | 16 |
| jurisdiction of their
eligibility to serve as deputy | 17 |
| registrars and offer training courses for
service as deputy | 18 |
| registrars at conveniently located facilities at least 4
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| months prior to every election.
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| 3. The president, or a qualified person designated by | 21 |
| the president, of
any university, college, community | 22 |
| college, academy or other institution of
learning situated | 23 |
| within the election jurisdiction, who may accept the
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| registrations of any resident of the county, at such | 25 |
| university, college,
community college, academy or | 26 |
| institution.
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| 4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide | 28 |
| labor organization,
or a reasonable number of qualified | 29 |
| members designated by such official,
who may accept the | 30 |
| registrations of any qualified resident of the county.
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| 5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bonafide | 32 |
| State civic
organization, as defined and determined by rule | 33 |
| of the State Board of
Elections, or qualified members | 34 |
| designated by such official, who may accept
the | 35 |
| registration of any qualified resident of the county.
In | 36 |
| determining the number of deputy registrars that shall be |
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| appointed,
the county clerk shall consider the population | 2 |
| of the jurisdiction, the
size of the organization, the | 3 |
| geographic size of the jurisdiction,
convenience for the | 4 |
| public, the existing number of deputy registrars in the
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| jurisdiction and their location, the registration | 6 |
| activities of the
organization and the need to appoint | 7 |
| deputy registrars to assist and
facilitate the | 8 |
| registration of non-English speaking individuals. In no
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| event shall a county clerk fix an arbitrary number | 10 |
| applicable to every
civic organization requesting | 11 |
| appointment of its members as deputy
registrars. The State | 12 |
| Board of Elections shall by rule provide for
certification | 13 |
| of bonafide State civic organizations. Such appointments
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| shall be made for a period not to exceed 2 years, | 15 |
| terminating on the first
business day of the month | 16 |
| following the month of the general election, and
shall be | 17 |
| valid for all periods of voter registration as provided by | 18 |
| this
Code during the terms of such appointments.
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| 6. The Director of the Illinois Department of Public | 20 |
| Aid, or a
reasonable number of employees designated by the | 21 |
| Director and located at
public aid offices, who may accept | 22 |
| the registration of any qualified
resident of the county at | 23 |
| any such public aid office.
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| 7. The Director of the Illinois Department of | 25 |
| Employment Security, or a
reasonable number of employees | 26 |
| designated by the Director and located at
unemployment | 27 |
| offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
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| resident of the county at any such unemployment office.
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| 8. The president of any corporation as defined by the | 30 |
| Business
Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable number of | 31 |
| employees designated by
such president, who may accept the | 32 |
| registrations of any qualified resident
of the county.
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| If the request to be appointed as deputy registrar is | 34 |
| denied, the
county clerk shall, within 10 days after the date | 35 |
| the request is submitted,
provide the affected individual or | 36 |
| organization with written notice setting
forth the specific |
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| reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the request to
be | 2 |
| appointed as deputy registrar.
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| The county clerk may appoint as many additional deputy | 4 |
| registrars as he
considers necessary. The county clerk shall | 5 |
| appoint such additional deputy
registrars in such manner that | 6 |
| the convenience of the public is served,
giving due | 7 |
| consideration to both population concentration and area. Some
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| of the additional deputy registrars shall be selected so that | 9 |
| there are an
equal number from each of the 2 major political | 10 |
| parties in the election
jurisdiction. The county clerk, in | 11 |
| appointing an additional deputy
registrar, shall make the | 12 |
| appointment from a list of applicants submitted
by the Chairman | 13 |
| of the County Central Committee of the applicant's
political | 14 |
| party. A Chairman of a County Central Committee shall submit a
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| list of applicants to the county clerk by November 30 of each | 16 |
| year. The
county clerk may require a Chairman of a County | 17 |
| Central Committee to
furnish a supplemental list of applicants.
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| Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time | 19 |
| other than the 27
day period preceding an election. All persons | 20 |
| appointed as deputy
registrars shall be registered voters | 21 |
| within the county and shall take and
subscribe to the following | 22 |
| oath or affirmation:
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| "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I | 24 |
| will support
the Constitution of the United States, and the | 25 |
| Constitution of the State
of Illinois, and that I will | 26 |
| faithfully discharge the duties of the office
of deputy | 27 |
| registrar to the best of my ability and that I will register no
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| person nor cause the registration of any person except upon his | 29 |
| personal
application before me.
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| (Signature Deputy Registrar)"
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| This oath shall be administered by the county clerk, or by | 33 |
| one of his
deputies, or by any person qualified to take | 34 |
| acknowledgement of deeds and
shall immediately thereafter be | 35 |
| filed with the county clerk.
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| Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section, |
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| except precinct
committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms, | 2 |
| commencing on December 1 following
the general election of each | 3 |
| even-numbered year; except that the terms of
the initial | 4 |
| appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
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| general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen shall | 6 |
| be for 2-year
terms commencing on the date of the county | 7 |
| convention following the general
primary at which they were | 8 |
| elected. The county clerk shall issue a
certificate of | 9 |
| appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
his | 10 |
| office for public inspection a list of the names of all | 11 |
| appointees.
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| (b) The county clerk shall be responsible for training all | 13 |
| deputy registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), at | 14 |
| times and locations reasonably
convenient for both the county | 15 |
| clerk and such appointees. The county clerk
shall be | 16 |
| responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy | 17 |
| registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a). Deputy | 18 |
| registrars appointed under
subsection (a) shall be subject to | 19 |
| removal for cause.
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| (c) Completed registration materials under the control of | 21 |
| deputy registrars,
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), shall | 22 |
| be returned to the proper election
authority within 7 days, | 23 |
| except that completed registration materials
received by the | 24 |
| deputy registrars during the period between the 35th and
28th | 25 |
| day preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
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| registrars to
the proper election authority within 48 hours | 27 |
| after receipt thereof. The
completed registration materials | 28 |
| received by the deputy registrars on the
28th day preceding an | 29 |
| election shall be returned by the deputy
registrars
within 24 | 30 |
| hours after receipt thereof. Unused materials shall be returned
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| by deputy registrars appointed pursuant to paragraph 4 of | 32 |
| subsection (a),
not later than the next working day following | 33 |
| the close of registration.
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| (d) The county clerk or board of election commissioners, as | 35 |
| the case may
be, must provide any additional forms requested by | 36 |
| any deputy registrar
regardless of the number of unaccounted |
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| registration forms the deputy registrar
may have in his or her | 2 |
| possession.
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| (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any electioneering | 4 |
| or the promotion
of any cause during the performance of his or | 5 |
| her duties.
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| (f) The county clerk shall not be criminally or civilly | 7 |
| liable for the
acts or omissions of any deputy registrar. Such | 8 |
| deputy registrars shall
not be deemed to be employees of the | 9 |
| county clerk. A person, including a deputy registrar, who | 10 |
| copies, photocopies, or in any way retains information from a | 11 |
| voter registration application except as authorized or | 12 |
| required by State or federal law, rule, or regulation commits a | 13 |
| Class A misdemeanor. Information includes, but is not limited | 14 |
| to, personal information such as the applicant's name, address, | 15 |
| phone number, social security number, or driver's license | 16 |
| number.
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| (Source: P.A. 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/5-16.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.2)
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| Sec. 5-16.2. (a) The county clerk shall appoint all | 20 |
| municipal and
township clerks or their duly authorized deputies | 21 |
| as deputy registrars who
may accept the registration of all | 22 |
| qualified residents of their respective
counties. A deputy | 23 |
| registrar serving as such by virtue of his status as a
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| municipal clerk, or a duly authorized deputy of a municipal | 25 |
| clerk, of a
municipality the territory of which lies in more | 26 |
| than one county may accept
the registration of any qualified | 27 |
| resident of any county in which the
municipality is located, | 28 |
| regardless of which county the resident, municipal
clerk or the | 29 |
| duly authorized deputy of the municipal clerk lives in.
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| The county clerk shall appoint all precinct | 31 |
| committeepersons in the county
as deputy registrars who may | 32 |
| accept the registration of any qualified resident
of the | 33 |
| county, except during the 27 days preceding an election.
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| The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars a | 35 |
| reasonable
number of employees of the Secretary of State |
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| located at driver's license
examination stations and | 2 |
| designated to the election authority by the
Secretary of State | 3 |
| who may accept the registration of any qualified
residents of | 4 |
| the county at any such driver's license examination stations.
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| The appointment of employees of the Secretary of State as | 6 |
| deputy registrars
shall be made in the manner provided in | 7 |
| Section 2-105 of the Illinois
Vehicle Code.
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| The county clerk shall appoint each of the following named | 9 |
| persons as deputy
registrars upon the written request of such | 10 |
| persons:
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| 1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person | 12 |
| designated by the chief
librarian, of any public library | 13 |
| situated within the election jurisdiction,
who may accept | 14 |
| the registrations of any qualified resident of the county,
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| at such library.
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| 2. The principal, or a qualified person designated by | 17 |
| the principal, of
any high school, elementary school, or | 18 |
| vocational school situated
within the election | 19 |
| jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
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| resident of the county, at such school. The county clerk | 21 |
| shall notify every
principal and vice-principal of each | 22 |
| high school, elementary school, and
vocational school | 23 |
| situated within the election jurisdiction of their
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| eligibility to serve as deputy registrars and offer | 25 |
| training courses for
service as deputy registrars at | 26 |
| conveniently located facilities at least 4
months prior to | 27 |
| every election.
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| 3. The president, or a qualified person designated by | 29 |
| the president, of
any university, college, community | 30 |
| college, academy or other institution
of learning situated | 31 |
| within the election jurisdiction, who may accept the
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| registrations of any resident of the county, at such | 33 |
| university, college,
community college, academy or | 34 |
| institution.
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| 4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide | 36 |
| labor organization,
or a reasonable number of qualified |
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| members designated by such official,
who may accept the | 2 |
| registrations of any qualified resident of the county.
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| 5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide | 4 |
| State civic
organization, as defined and determined by rule | 5 |
| of the State Board of
Elections, or qualified members | 6 |
| designated by such official, who may accept
the | 7 |
| registration of any qualified resident of the county.
In | 8 |
| determining the number of deputy registrars that shall be | 9 |
| appointed,
the county clerk shall consider the population | 10 |
| of the jurisdiction, the
size of the organization, the | 11 |
| geographic size of the jurisdiction,
convenience for the | 12 |
| public, the existing number of deputy registrars in the
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| jurisdiction and their location, the registration | 14 |
| activities of the
organization and the need to appoint | 15 |
| deputy registrars to assist and
facilitate the | 16 |
| registration of non-English speaking individuals. In no
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| event shall a county clerk fix an arbitrary number | 18 |
| applicable to every
civic organization requesting | 19 |
| appointment of its members as deputy registrars.
The State | 20 |
| Board of Elections shall by rule provide for
certification | 21 |
| of bona fide State civic organizations.
Such appointments | 22 |
| shall be made for a period not to exceed 2 years,
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| terminating on the first business day of the month | 24 |
| following the month of
the general election, and shall be | 25 |
| valid for all periods of voter
registration as provided by | 26 |
| this Code during the terms of such appointments.
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| 6. The Director of the Illinois Department of Public | 28 |
| Aid, or a
reasonable number of employees designated by the | 29 |
| Director and located at
public aid offices, who may accept | 30 |
| the registration of any qualified
resident of the county at | 31 |
| any such public aid office.
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| 7. The Director of the Illinois Department of | 33 |
| Employment Security, or a
reasonable number of employees | 34 |
| designated by the Director and located at
unemployment | 35 |
| offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
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| resident of the county at any such unemployment office.
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| 8. The president of any corporation as defined by the | 2 |
| Business
Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable number of | 3 |
| employees designated by
such president, who may accept the | 4 |
| registrations of any qualified resident
of the county.
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| If the request to be appointed as deputy registrar is | 6 |
| denied, the
county clerk shall, within 10 days after the date | 7 |
| the request is submitted,
provide the affected individual or | 8 |
| organization with written notice setting
forth the specific | 9 |
| reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the request to
be | 10 |
| appointed as deputy registrar.
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| The county clerk may appoint as many additional deputy | 12 |
| registrars as he
considers necessary. The county clerk shall | 13 |
| appoint such additional deputy
registrars in such manner that | 14 |
| the convenience of the public is served,
giving due | 15 |
| consideration to both population concentration and area. Some
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| of the additional deputy registrars shall be selected so that | 17 |
| there are an
equal number from each of the 2 major political | 18 |
| parties in the election
jurisdiction. The county clerk, in | 19 |
| appointing an additional deputy
registrar, shall make the | 20 |
| appointment from a list of applicants submitted
by the Chairman | 21 |
| of the County Central Committee of the applicant's
political | 22 |
| party. A Chairman of a County Central Committee shall submit a
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| list of applicants to the county clerk by November 30 of each | 24 |
| year. The
county clerk may require a Chairman of a County | 25 |
| Central Committee to
furnish a supplemental list of applicants.
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| Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time | 27 |
| other than the 27
day period preceding an election. All persons | 28 |
| appointed as deputy
registrars shall be registered voters | 29 |
| within the county and shall take and
subscribe to the following | 30 |
| oath or affirmation:
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| "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I | 32 |
| will support
the Constitution of the United States, and the | 33 |
| Constitution of the State
of Illinois, and that I will | 34 |
| faithfully discharge the duties of the office
of deputy | 35 |
| registrar to the best of my ability and that I will register
no | 36 |
| person nor cause the registration of any person except upon his |
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| personal
application before me.
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| ...............................
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| (Signature of Deputy Registrar)"
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| This oath shall be administered by the county clerk, or by | 5 |
| one of his
deputies, or by any person qualified to take | 6 |
| acknowledgement of deeds and
shall immediately thereafter be | 7 |
| filed with the county clerk.
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| Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section, | 9 |
| except precinct
committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms, | 10 |
| commencing on December 1 following
the general election of each | 11 |
| even-numbered year, except that the terms of
the initial | 12 |
| appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
| 13 |
| general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen shall | 14 |
| be for
2-year terms commencing on the date of the county | 15 |
| convention following the
general primary at which they were | 16 |
| elected. The county clerk shall issue a
certificate of | 17 |
| appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
his | 18 |
| office for public inspection a list of the names of all | 19 |
| appointees.
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| (b) The county clerk shall be responsible for training all | 21 |
| deputy registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), at | 22 |
| times and locations reasonably
convenient for both the county | 23 |
| clerk and such appointees. The county clerk
shall be | 24 |
| responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy | 25 |
| registrars
appointed pursuant to subsection (a). Deputy | 26 |
| registrars appointed under
subsection (a) shall be subject to | 27 |
| removal for cause.
| 28 |
| (c) Completed registration materials under the control of | 29 |
| deputy registrars,
appointed pursuant to subsection (a), shall | 30 |
| be returned to the proper election
authority within 7 days, | 31 |
| except that completed registration materials
received by the | 32 |
| deputy registrars during the period between the 35th and
28th | 33 |
| day preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
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| registrars to
the proper election authority within 48 hours | 35 |
| after receipt thereof. The
completed registration materials | 36 |
| received by the deputy registrars on the
28th day preceding an |
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| election shall be returned by the deputy
registrars within 24 | 2 |
| hours after receipt thereof.
Unused materials shall be returned | 3 |
| by deputy
registrars appointed pursuant to paragraph 4 of | 4 |
| subsection (a), not later
than the next working day following | 5 |
| the close of registration.
| 6 |
| (d) The county clerk or board of election commissioners, as | 7 |
| the case may
be, must provide any additional forms requested by | 8 |
| any deputy registrar
regardless of the number of unaccounted | 9 |
| registration forms the deputy registrar
may have in his or her | 10 |
| possession.
| 11 |
| (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any electioneering | 12 |
| or the promotion
of any cause during the performance of his or | 13 |
| her duties.
| 14 |
| (f) The county clerk shall not be criminally or civilly | 15 |
| liable for the
acts or omissions of any deputy registrar. Such | 16 |
| deputy registers shall not
be deemed to be employees of the | 17 |
| county clerk. A person, including a deputy registrar, who | 18 |
| copies, photocopies, or in any way retains information from a | 19 |
| voter registration application except as authorized or | 20 |
| required by State or federal law, rule, or regulation commits a | 21 |
| Class A misdemeanor. Information includes, but is not limited | 22 |
| to, personal information such as the applicant's name, address, | 23 |
| phone number, social security number, or driver's license | 24 |
| number.
| 25 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
| 26 |
| (10 ILCS 5/6-50.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.2)
| 27 |
| Sec. 6-50.2. (a) The board of election commissioners shall | 28 |
| appoint all
precinct committeepersons in the election | 29 |
| jurisdiction as deputy registrars
who may accept the | 30 |
| registration of any qualified resident of the election
| 31 |
| jurisdiction, except during the 27 days preceding an election.
| 32 |
| The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars a | 33 |
| reasonable
number of employees of the Secretary of State | 34 |
| located at driver's license
examination stations and | 35 |
| designated to the election authority by the
Secretary of State |
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| who may accept the registration of any qualified
residents of | 2 |
| the county at any such driver's license examination stations. | 3 |
| The
appointment of employees of the Secretary of State as | 4 |
| deputy registrars shall
be made in the manner provided in | 5 |
| Section 2-105 of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
| 6 |
| The board of election commissioners shall appoint each of | 7 |
| the following
named persons as deputy registrars upon the | 8 |
| written request of such persons:
| 9 |
| 1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person | 10 |
| designated by the chief
librarian, of any public library | 11 |
| situated within the election jurisdiction,
who may accept | 12 |
| the registrations of any qualified resident of the election
| 13 |
| jurisdiction, at such library.
| 14 |
| 2. The principal, or a qualified person designated by | 15 |
| the principal, of
any high school, elementary school, or | 16 |
| vocational school situated
within the election | 17 |
| jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
| 18 |
| resident of the election jurisdiction, at such school. The | 19 |
| board of election
commissioners shall notify every | 20 |
| principal and vice-principal of each high
school, | 21 |
| elementary school, and vocational school situated in the | 22 |
| election
jurisdiction of their eligibility to serve as | 23 |
| deputy registrars and offer
training courses for service as | 24 |
| deputy registrars at conveniently located
facilities at | 25 |
| least 4 months prior to every election.
| 26 |
| 3. The president, or a qualified person designated by | 27 |
| the president, of
any university, college, community | 28 |
| college, academy or other institution
of learning situated | 29 |
| within the election jurisdiction, who may accept the
| 30 |
| registrations of any resident of the election | 31 |
| jurisdiction, at such university,
college, community | 32 |
| college, academy or institution.
| 33 |
| 4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide | 34 |
| labor
organization, or a reasonable number of qualified | 35 |
| members designated
by such official, who may accept the | 36 |
| registrations of any qualified
resident of the election |
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| jurisdiction.
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| 5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona fide | 3 |
| State civic
organization, as defined and determined by rule | 4 |
| of the State Board of
Elections, or qualified members | 5 |
| designated by such official, who may accept
the | 6 |
| registration of any qualified resident of the election | 7 |
| jurisdiction.
In determining the number of deputy | 8 |
| registrars that shall be appointed,
the board of election | 9 |
| commissioners shall consider the population of the
| 10 |
| jurisdiction, the size of the organization, the geographic | 11 |
| size of the
jurisdiction, convenience for the public, the | 12 |
| existing number of deputy
registrars in the jurisdiction | 13 |
| and their location, the registration
activities of the | 14 |
| organization and the need to appoint deputy registrars to
| 15 |
| assist and facilitate the registration of non-English | 16 |
| speaking individuals.
In no event shall a board of election | 17 |
| commissioners fix an arbitrary
number applicable to every | 18 |
| civic organization requesting appointment of its
members | 19 |
| as deputy registrars. The State Board of Elections shall by | 20 |
| rule
provide for certification of bona fide State civic | 21 |
| organizations. Such
appointments shall be made for a period | 22 |
| not to exceed 2 years, terminating
on the first business | 23 |
| day of the month following the month of the general
| 24 |
| election, and shall be valid for all periods of voter | 25 |
| registration as
provided by this Code during the terms of | 26 |
| such appointments.
| 27 |
| 6. The Director of the Illinois Department of Public | 28 |
| Aid, or a
reasonable number of employees designated by the | 29 |
| Director and located at
public aid offices, who may accept | 30 |
| the registration of any qualified
resident of the election | 31 |
| jurisdiction at any such public aid office.
| 32 |
| 7. The Director of the Illinois Department of | 33 |
| Employment Security, or a
reasonable number of employees | 34 |
| designated by the Director and located at
unemployment | 35 |
| offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
| 36 |
| resident of the election jurisdiction at any such |
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| unemployment office.
If the request to be appointed as | 2 |
| deputy registrar is denied, the board
of election | 3 |
| commissioners shall, within 10 days after the date the | 4 |
| request
is submitted, provide the affected individual or | 5 |
| organization with written
notice setting forth the | 6 |
| specific reasons or criteria relied upon to deny
the | 7 |
| request to be appointed as deputy registrar.
| 8 |
| 8. The president of any corporation, as defined by the | 9 |
| Business
Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable number of | 10 |
| employees designated by
such president, who may accept the | 11 |
| registrations of any qualified resident
of the election | 12 |
| jurisdiction.
| 13 |
| The board of election commissioners may appoint as many | 14 |
| additional deputy
registrars as it considers necessary. The | 15 |
| board of election commissioners
shall appoint such additional | 16 |
| deputy registrars in such manner that the
convenience of the | 17 |
| public is served, giving due consideration to both
population | 18 |
| concentration and area. Some of the additional deputy
| 19 |
| registrars shall be selected so that there are an equal number | 20 |
| from
each of the 2 major political parties in the election | 21 |
| jurisdiction. The
board of election commissioners, in | 22 |
| appointing an additional deputy registrar,
shall make the | 23 |
| appointment from a list of applicants submitted by the Chairman
| 24 |
| of the County Central Committee of the applicant's political | 25 |
| party. A Chairman
of a County Central Committee shall submit a | 26 |
| list of applicants to the board
by November 30 of each year. | 27 |
| The board may require a Chairman of a County
Central Committee | 28 |
| to furnish a supplemental list of applicants.
| 29 |
| Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time | 30 |
| other than the 27
day period preceding an election. All persons | 31 |
| appointed as deputy
registrars shall be registered voters | 32 |
| within the election jurisdiction and
shall take and subscribe | 33 |
| to the following oath or affirmation:
| 34 |
| "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I | 35 |
| will support
the Constitution of the United States, and the | 36 |
| Constitution of the State
of Illinois, and that I will |
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| faithfully discharge the duties of the office
of registration | 2 |
| officer to the best of my ability and that I will register
no | 3 |
| person nor cause the registration of any person except upon his | 4 |
| personal
application before me.
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| (Signature of Registration Officer)"
| 7 |
| This oath shall be administered and certified to by one of | 8 |
| the commissioners
or by the executive director or by some | 9 |
| person designated by the board of
election commissioners, and | 10 |
| shall immediately thereafter be filed with the
board of | 11 |
| election commissioners. The members of the board of election
| 12 |
| commissioners and all persons authorized by them under the | 13 |
| provisions of
this Article to take registrations, after | 14 |
| themselves taking and subscribing
to the above oath, are | 15 |
| authorized to take or administer such oaths and
execute such | 16 |
| affidavits as are required by this Article.
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| Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section, | 18 |
| except precinct
committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms, | 19 |
| commencing on December 1 following
the general election of each | 20 |
| even-numbered year, except that the terms of
the initial | 21 |
| appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
| 22 |
| general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen shall | 23 |
| be for 2-year
terms commencing on the date of the county | 24 |
| convention following the general
primary at which they were | 25 |
| elected. The county clerk shall issue a
certificate of | 26 |
| appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
his | 27 |
| office for public inspection a list of the names of all | 28 |
| appointees.
| 29 |
| (b) The board of election commissioners shall be | 30 |
| responsible for training
all deputy registrars appointed | 31 |
| pursuant to subsection (a), at times and
locations reasonably | 32 |
| convenient for both the board of election commissioners
and | 33 |
| such appointees. The board of election commissioners shall be | 34 |
| responsible
for certifying and supervising all deputy | 35 |
| registrars appointed pursuant
to subsection (a). Deputy | 36 |
| registrars appointed under subsection (a) shall
be subject to |
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| removal for cause.
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| (c) Completed registration materials under the control of | 3 |
| deputy
registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a) shall be | 4 |
| returned to the
proper election authority within 7 days, except | 5 |
| that completed registration
materials received by the deputy | 6 |
| registrars during the period between the
35th and 28th day | 7 |
| preceding an election shall be returned by the
deputy
| 8 |
| registrars to the proper election authority within 48 hours | 9 |
| after receipt
thereof. The completed registration materials | 10 |
| received by the deputy
registrars on the 28th day preceding an | 11 |
| election shall be returned
by the
deputy registrars within 24 | 12 |
| hours after receipt thereof. Unused materials
shall be returned | 13 |
| by deputy registrars appointed pursuant to paragraph 4 of
| 14 |
| subsection (a), not later than the next working day following | 15 |
| the close of
registration.
| 16 |
| (d) The county clerk or board of election commissioners, as | 17 |
| the case may
be, must provide any additional forms requested by | 18 |
| any deputy registrar
regardless of the number of unaccounted | 19 |
| registration forms the deputy registrar
may have in his or her | 20 |
| possession.
| 21 |
| (e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any electioneering | 22 |
| or the promotion
of any cause during the performance of his or | 23 |
| her duties.
| 24 |
| (f) The board of election commissioners shall not be | 25 |
| criminally or
civilly liable for the acts or omissions of any | 26 |
| deputy registrar. Such
deputy registrars shall not be deemed to | 27 |
| be employees of the board of
election commissioners. A person, | 28 |
| including a deputy registrar, who copies, photocopies, or in | 29 |
| any way retains information from a voter registration | 30 |
| application except as authorized or required by State or | 31 |
| federal law, rule, or regulation commits a Class A misdemeanor. | 32 |
| Information includes, but is not limited to, personal | 33 |
| information such as the applicant's name, address, phone | 34 |
| number, social security number, or driver's license number.
| 35 |
| (Source: P.A. 92-816, eff. 8-21-02; 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)
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