Full Text of SB1371 98th General Assembly
SB1371 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2013 and 2014 SB1371 Introduced 2/5/2013, by Sen. Terry Link SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 10 ILCS 5/4-50 | | 10 ILCS 5/5-50 | | 10 ILCS 5/6-100 | |
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that the grace period for voter registration before primary and general elections shall close the day before the election (now the third day before the election).
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning elections.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing | 5 | | Sections 4-50, 5-50, and 6-100 as follows: | 6 | | (10 ILCS 5/4-50) | 7 | | Sec. 4-50. Grace period. Notwithstanding any other | 8 | | provision of this
Code to the contrary, each election authority | 9 | | shall
establish procedures for the registration of voters and | 10 | | for change of address during the period from the close of
| 11 | | registration for a primary or election and until the 3rd day | 12 | | before the
primary or election. During this grace period, an | 13 | | unregistered qualified
elector may
register to vote, and a | 14 | | registered voter may submit a change of address form, in person | 15 | | in the office of the election
authority or at a voter | 16 | | registration location specifically designated for this
purpose | 17 | | by the election authority. The election authority shall
| 18 | | register that individual, or change a registered voter's | 19 | | address, in the same manner as otherwise provided by this | 20 | | Article for registration and change of address. | 21 | | If a voter who registers or changes address during this | 22 | | grace period wishes to vote at the first election or primary | 23 | | occurring after the grace period, he or she must do so by grace |
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| 1 | | period voting, either in person in the office of the election | 2 | | authority or at a location specifically designated for this | 3 | | purpose by the election authority, or by mail, at the | 4 | | discretion of the election authority. Grace period voting shall | 5 | | be in a manner substantially similar to voting under Article | 6 | | 19. | 7 | | Within one day after a voter casts a grace period ballot, | 8 | | the election authority shall transmit the voter's name, street | 9 | | address, and precinct, ward, township, and district numbers, as | 10 | | the case may be, to the State Board of Elections, which shall | 11 | | maintain those names and that information in an electronic | 12 | | format on its website, arranged by county and accessible to | 13 | | State and local political committees. The name of each person | 14 | | issued a grace period ballot shall also be placed on the | 15 | | appropriate precinct list of persons to whom absentee and early | 16 | | ballots have been issued, for use as provided in Sections 17-9 | 17 | | and 18-5. | 18 | | A person who casts a grace period ballot shall not be | 19 | | permitted to revoke that ballot and vote another ballot with | 20 | | respect to that primary or election. Ballots cast by persons | 21 | | who register or change address during the grace period must be | 22 | | transmitted to and counted at the election authority's central | 23 | | ballot counting location and shall not be transmitted to and | 24 | | counted at precinct polling places.
The grace period ballots | 25 | | determined to be valid shall be added to the vote totals for | 26 | | the precincts for which they were cast in the order in which |
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| 1 | | the ballots were opened.
| 2 | | (Source: P.A. 96-441, eff. 1-1-10; 97-766, eff. 7-6-12.) | 3 | | (10 ILCS 5/5-50) | 4 | | Sec. 5-50. Grace period. Notwithstanding any other | 5 | | provision of this
Code to the contrary, each election authority | 6 | | shall
establish procedures for the registration of voters and | 7 | | for change of address during the period from the close of
| 8 | | registration for a primary or election and until the 3rd day | 9 | | before the
primary or election. During this grace period, an | 10 | | unregistered qualified
elector may
register to vote, and a | 11 | | registered voter may submit a change of address form, in person | 12 | | in the office of the election
authority or at a voter | 13 | | registration location specifically designated for this
purpose | 14 | | by the election authority. The election authority shall
| 15 | | register that individual, or change a registered voter's | 16 | | address, in the same manner as otherwise provided by this | 17 | | Article for registration and change of address. | 18 | | If a voter who registers or changes address during this | 19 | | grace period wishes to vote at the first election or primary | 20 | | occurring after the grace period, he or she must do so by grace | 21 | | period voting, either in person in the office of the election | 22 | | authority or at a location specifically designated for this | 23 | | purpose by the election authority, or by mail, at the | 24 | | discretion of the election authority. Grace period voting shall | 25 | | be in a manner substantially similar to voting under Article |
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| 1 | | 19. | 2 | | Within one day after a voter casts a grace period ballot, | 3 | | the election authority shall transmit the voter's name, street | 4 | | address, and precinct, ward, township, and district numbers, as | 5 | | the case may be, to the State Board of Elections, which shall | 6 | | maintain those names and that information in an electronic | 7 | | format on its website, arranged by county and accessible to | 8 | | State and local political committees. The name of each person | 9 | | issued a grace period ballot shall also be placed on the | 10 | | appropriate precinct list of persons to whom absentee and early | 11 | | ballots have been issued, for use as provided in Sections 17-9 | 12 | | and 18-5. | 13 | | A person who casts a grace period ballot shall not be | 14 | | permitted to revoke that ballot and vote another ballot with | 15 | | respect to that primary or election. Ballots cast by persons | 16 | | who register or change address during the grace period must be | 17 | | transmitted to and counted at the election authority's central | 18 | | ballot counting location and shall not be transmitted to and | 19 | | counted at precinct polling places. The grace period ballots | 20 | | determined to be valid shall be added to the vote totals for | 21 | | the precincts for which they were cast in the order in which | 22 | | the ballots were opened.
| 23 | | (Source: P.A. 96-441, eff. 1-1-10; 97-766, eff. 7-6-12.) | 24 | | (10 ILCS 5/6-100) | 25 | | Sec. 6-100. Grace period. Notwithstanding any other |
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| 1 | | provision of this
Code to the contrary, each election authority | 2 | | shall
establish procedures for the registration of voters and | 3 | | for change of address during the period from the close of
| 4 | | registration for a primary or election and until the 3rd day | 5 | | before the
primary or election. During this grace period, an | 6 | | unregistered qualified
elector may
register to vote, and a | 7 | | registered voter may submit a change of address form, in person | 8 | | in the office of the election
authority or at a voter | 9 | | registration location specifically designated for this
purpose | 10 | | by the election authority. The election authority shall
| 11 | | register that individual, or change a registered voter's | 12 | | address, in the same manner as otherwise provided by this | 13 | | Article for registration and change of address. | 14 | | If a voter who registers or changes address during this | 15 | | grace period wishes to vote at the first election or primary | 16 | | occurring after the grace period, he or she must do so by grace | 17 | | period voting, either in person in the office of the election | 18 | | authority or at a location specifically designated for this | 19 | | purpose by the election authority, or by mail, at the | 20 | | discretion of the election authority. Grace period voting shall | 21 | | be in a manner substantially similar to voting under Article | 22 | | 19. | 23 | | Within one day after a voter casts a grace period ballot, | 24 | | the election authority shall transmit the voter's name, street | 25 | | address, and precinct, ward, township, and district numbers, as | 26 | | the case may be, to the State Board of Elections, which shall |
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| 1 | | maintain those names and that information in an electronic | 2 | | format on its website, arranged by county and accessible to | 3 | | State and local political committees. The name of each person | 4 | | issued a grace period ballot shall also be placed on the | 5 | | appropriate precinct list of persons to whom absentee and early | 6 | | ballots have been issued, for use as provided in Sections 17-9 | 7 | | and 18-5. | 8 | | A person who casts a grace period ballot shall not be | 9 | | permitted to revoke that ballot and vote another ballot with | 10 | | respect to that primary or election. Ballots cast by persons | 11 | | who register or change address during the grace period must be | 12 | | transmitted to and counted at the election authority's central | 13 | | ballot counting location and shall not be transmitted to and | 14 | | counted at precinct polling places. The grace period ballots | 15 | | determined to be valid shall be added to the vote totals for | 16 | | the precincts for which they were cast in the order in which | 17 | | the ballots were opened.
| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 96-441, eff. 1-1-10; 97-766, eff. 7-6-12.)
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