(10 ILCS 5/14-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 14-6)
Sec. 14-6.
If, in any municipality operating under Article 6 of this
Act, any judge shall not be present after the expiration of 15 minutes
from the time to open the polls, or within 15 minutes from the time of
closing the polls in the case of a judge appointed to count the vote or
if any judge becomes ill or if any member of his immediate family
becomes ill such judge may be excused from further attendance, and the
judge or judges present shall fill the place of such absent judge,
always selecting a person of the same political party as the party absent.
One of the judges shall administer to such substitute the oath as
required of the judge originally appointed, and blank forms shall be
sent out by the commissioners for such purpose, which oath shall be
preserved and returned to the commissioners, and such appointee shall be
considered an officer of the circuit court, and subject to the same
punishment and penalties as any other judge. Whenever such regular judge
shall be present such substitute shall cease to act. No judge shall
knowingly absent himself from the polls on election day, without good
cause. No judge shall knowingly detain any register or poll book or
cause it not to be produced at the polling place at the opening of the
polls, or for not more than 15 minutes thereafter.
(Source: P.A. 80-704.)
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