Full Text of HB1131 96th General Assembly
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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 20-2.3, 20-5, and 20-6 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/20-2.3) (from Ch. 46, par. 20-2.3)
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| Sec. 20-2.3. Members of the Armed Forces and their spouses | 8 |
| and dependents . Any member of the United
States Armed Forces | 9 |
| while on active duty, and his or her spouse and dependents, | 10 |
| otherwise qualified to vote, who
expects in the course of his | 11 |
| or her duties to be absent from the county in
which he or she | 12 |
| resides on the day of holding any election, in addition to any
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| other method of making application for an absentee ballot under | 14 |
| this
Article, may make application for an absentee ballot to | 15 |
| the election
authority having jurisdiction over his or her | 16 |
| precinct of residence by a
facsimile machine or electronic | 17 |
| transmission not less than 10 days before
the election.
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| Ballots under this Section shall be mailed by the election | 19 |
| authority in
the manner prescribed by Section 20-5 of this | 20 |
| Article and not otherwise.
Ballots voted under this Section | 21 |
| must be returned to the election authority
before the closing | 22 |
| of the polls on the day of election and must be counted at the | 23 |
| election authority's central ballot counting location.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-1000, eff. 7-3-06.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/20-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 20-5)
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| Sec. 20-5.
The election authority shall fold the ballot or | 4 |
| ballots in
the manner specified by the statute for folding | 5 |
| ballots prior to their
deposit in the ballot box and shall | 6 |
| enclose such ballot in an envelope
unsealed to be furnished by | 7 |
| it, which envelope shall bear upon the face
thereof the name, | 8 |
| official title and post office address of the election
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| authority, and upon the other side of such envelope there shall | 10 |
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printed a certification in substantially the following form:
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| "CERTIFICATION
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| I state that I am a resident/former resident of the ....... | 13 |
| precinct of
the city/village/township of ............, | 14 |
| (Designation to be made by
Election Authority) or of the .... | 15 |
| ward in the city of ...........
(Designation to be made by | 16 |
| Election Authority) residing at ................
in said | 17 |
| city/village/township in the county of ........... and State of
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| Illinois; that I am a
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| 1. ( ) member of the United States Service
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| 2. ( ) citizen of the United States temporarily residing | 21 |
| outside the
territorial limits of the United States
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| 3. ( ) nonresident civilian citizen
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| and desire to cast the enclosed ballot pursuant to Article 20 | 24 |
| of The Election
Code; that I am lawfully entitled to vote in | 25 |
| such precinct at the ...........
election to be held on |
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| ............
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| I further state that I marked the enclosed ballot in | 3 |
| secret.
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| Under penalties as provided by law pursuant to Article 29 | 5 |
| of The
Election Code, the undersigned certifies that the | 6 |
| statements set forth
in this certification are true and | 7 |
| correct.
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| ...............(Name)
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| .....................
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| (Service Address)"
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| .....................
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| .....................
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| .....................
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| If the ballot enclosed is to be voted at a primary | 15 |
| election, the
certification shall designate the name of the | 16 |
| political party with which
the voter is affiliated.
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| In addition to the above, the election authority shall | 18 |
| provide
printed slips giving full instructions regarding the | 19 |
| manner of completing
the forms and affidavits for absentee | 20 |
| registration or the manner of marking
and returning the ballot | 21 |
| in order that the same may be counted, and
shall furnish one of | 22 |
| the printed slips to each of the applicants at the
same time | 23 |
| the registration materials or ballot is delivered to him.
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| In addition to the above, if a ballot to be provided to an | 25 |
| elector
pursuant to this Section contains a public question | 26 |
| described in subsection
(b) of Section 28-6 and the territory |
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| concerning which the question is
to be submitted is not | 2 |
| described on the ballot due to the space limitations
of such | 3 |
| ballot, the election authority shall provide a printed copy of
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| a notice of the public question, which shall include a | 5 |
| description of the
territory in the manner required by Section | 6 |
| 16-7. The
notice shall be furnished to the elector at the same | 7 |
| time the ballot
is delivered to the elector.
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| The envelope in which such registration or such ballot is | 9 |
| mailed to the
voter as well as the envelope in which the | 10 |
| registration materials or the
ballot is returned by the voter | 11 |
| shall have
printed across the face thereof two parallel | 12 |
| horizontal red bars, each
one-quarter inch wide, extending from | 13 |
| one side of the envelope to the
other side, with an intervening | 14 |
| space of one-quarter inch, the top bar
to be one and | 15 |
| one-quarter inches from the top of the envelope, and with
the | 16 |
| words "Official Election Balloting Material-VIA AIR MAIL" | 17 |
| between the
bars. In the upper right corner of such envelope in | 18 |
| a box, there shall be
printed the words: "U.S. Postage Paid 42 | 19 |
| USC 1973". All printing
on the face of such envelopes shall be | 20 |
| in red, including an appropriate
inscription or blank in the | 21 |
| upper left corner of return address of sender.
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| The envelope in which the ballot is returned to the | 23 |
| election authority may be delivered (i) by mail, postage paid, | 24 |
| (ii) in person, by the spouse, parent, child, brother, or | 25 |
| sister of the voter, or (iii) by a company engaged in the | 26 |
| business of making deliveries of property and licensed as a |
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| motor carrier of property by the Illinois Commerce Commission | 2 |
| under the Illinois Commercial Transportation Law. | 3 |
| (Source: P.A. 84-1467.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/20-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 20-6)
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| Sec. 20-6.
Such absent voter shall make and subscribe to | 6 |
| the certifications
provided for in the application and on the | 7 |
| return envelope for the
ballot, and such ballot or ballots | 8 |
| shall then be folded by such voter in
the manner required to be | 9 |
| folded before depositing the same in the
ballot box, and be | 10 |
| deposited in such envelope and the envelope securely
sealed. | 11 |
| The envelope in which the ballot is returned to the election | 12 |
| authority may be delivered (i) by mail, postage paid, (ii) in | 13 |
| person, by the spouse, parent, child, brother, or sister of the | 14 |
| voter, or (iii) by a company engaged in the business of making | 15 |
| deliveries of property and licensed as a motor carrier of | 16 |
| property by the Illinois Commerce Commission under the Illinois | 17 |
| Commercial Transportation Law. Such envelope shall be mailed by | 18 |
| such voter, to the officer
issuing the ballot or, if more | 19 |
| convenient, it may be delivered in
person.
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| (Source: P.A. 81-155.)
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