Full Text of HB0400 94th General Assembly
HB0400 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006 HB0400
Introduced 1/25/2005, by Rep. Chapin Rose SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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10 ILCS 5/17-8 |
from Ch. 46, par. 17-8 |
10 ILCS 5/17-11 |
from Ch. 46, par. 17-11 |
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Amends the Election Code. Permits children under age 10 to accompany their parent or guardian into the voting booth if requested of the election officers and if the election officers determine that the children are not likely to disrupt or interfere with the voting process or influence the casting of a vote.
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A BILL FOR
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LRB094 06919 JAM 37031 b |
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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 17-8 and 17-11 as follows:
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| (10 ILCS 5/17-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-8)
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| Sec. 17-8. The county clerk shall provide in each polling
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| place, so designated or provided a sufficient number of booths, | 9 |
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shall be provided with such supplies and conveniences, | 10 |
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shelves, pens, penholders, ink, blotters and | 11 |
| pencils, as will enable the
voter to prepare his ballot for | 12 |
| voting, and in which voters may prepare
their ballots screened | 13 |
| from all observation as to the manner in which
they do so. They | 14 |
| shall be within plain view of election officers, and both
they | 15 |
| and the ballot boxes shall be within plain view of those within | 16 |
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proximity of the voting booths. Each of said booths shall | 17 |
| have 3 sides
enclosed, one
side in front, to be closed with a | 18 |
| curtain. Each side of each booth
shall be 6 feet 4 inches and | 19 |
| the curtain shall extend within 2 feet of
the floor, which | 20 |
| shall be closed while the voter is preparing his
ballot. Each | 21 |
| booth shall be at least 32 inches square and shall contain
a | 22 |
| shelf at least one foot wide, at a convenient height for | 23 |
| writing. No
person other than the election officers and the | 24 |
| challengers allowed by
law, and those admitted for the purpose | 25 |
| of voting as herein provided,
shall be permitted within the | 26 |
| proximity of the voting booths, (i)
except by authority of the
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| election officers to keep order and enforce the law and (ii) | 28 |
| except that one or more children under the age of 10 may | 29 |
| accompany their parent or guardian into the voting booth as | 30 |
| long as a request to do so is made to the election officers | 31 |
| and, in the sole discretion of the election officers, the child | 32 |
| or children are not likely to disrupt or interfere with the |
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| voting process or influence the casting of a vote . The number | 2 |
| of such
voting booths shall not be less than one to every 75 | 3 |
| voters or fraction
thereof who voted at the last preceding | 4 |
| election in the precinct. The
expense of providing booths and | 5 |
| other things required in
this Act shall be paid in the same | 6 |
| manner as other election expenses.
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| Where electronic voting systems are used, a booth with a
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| self-contained electronic voting device may be used. Each such | 9 |
| booth
shall have 3 sides enclosed and shall be equipped with a | 10 |
| curtain for
closing the front of the booth. The curtain must | 11 |
| extend to within 2
feet of the floor. Each side shall be of | 12 |
| such a height, in no event
less than 5 feet, one inch, as to | 13 |
| insure the secrecy of the voter. Each
booth shall be at least | 14 |
| 32 inches square, provided, however, that where
a booth is no | 15 |
| more than 23 inches wide and the sides of such booth
extend | 16 |
| from a point below the device to a height of 5 feet, one inch, | 17 |
| at
the front of the booth, and such booth insures that voters | 18 |
| may prepare
their ballots in secrecy, such booth may be used.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
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| (10 ILCS 5/17-11) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-11)
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| Sec. 17-11. On receipt of his ballot the voter shall | 22 |
| forthwith, and
without leaving the inclosed space, retire | 23 |
| alone , or accompanied by children as provided in Section 17-8, | 24 |
| to one of the voting
booths so provided and shall prepare his | 25 |
| ballot by making in the
appropriate margin or place a cross (X) | 26 |
| opposite the name of the
candidate of his choice for each | 27 |
| office to be filled, or by writing in
the name of the candidate | 28 |
| of his choice in a blank space on said ticket,
making a cross | 29 |
| (X) opposite thereto; and in case of a question submitted
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| the vote of the people, by making in the appropriate margin or | 31 |
| place
a cross (X) against the answer he desires to give. A | 32 |
| cross (X) in the
square in front of the bracket enclosing the | 33 |
| names of a team of
candidates for Governor and Lieutenant | 34 |
| Governor counts as one vote for
each of such candidates. Before | 35 |
| leaving the voting booth the voter shall fold
his
ballot in |
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| such manner as to conceal the marks thereon. He shall then
vote | 2 |
| forthwith in the manner herein provided, except that the number
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| corresponding to the number of the voter on the poll books | 4 |
| shall not be
indorsed on the back of his ballot. He shall mark | 5 |
| and deliver his ballot
without undue delay, and shall quit said | 6 |
| inclosed space as soon as he
has voted. No voter shall be | 7 |
| allowed to occupy a voting booth already
occupied by another, | 8 |
| nor remain within said inclosed space more than ten
minutes, | 9 |
| nor to occupy a voting booth more than five minutes in case all
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| of said voting booths are in use and other voters waiting to | 11 |
| occupy the
same. No voter not an election officer, shall, after | 12 |
| having voted, be
allowed to re-enter said inclosed space during | 13 |
| said election. No person
shall take or remove any ballot from | 14 |
| the polling place before the close
of the poll. No voter shall | 15 |
| vote or offer to vote any ballot except such
as he has received | 16 |
| from the judges of election in charge of the ballots.
Any voter | 17 |
| who shall, by accident or mistake, spoil his ballot, may, on
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| returning said spoiled ballot, receive another in place thereof | 19 |
| only after
the word "spoiled" has been written in ink | 20 |
| diagonally across the entire
face of the ballot returned by the | 21 |
| voter.
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| Where voting machines or electronic voting systems are | 23 |
| used, the
provisions of this section may be modified as | 24 |
| required or authorized by
Article 24 or Article 24A, whichever | 25 |
| is applicable.
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| (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
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