(10 ILCS 5/24-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 24-3)
Sec. 24-3.
The State Board of Elections shall appoint 2 mechanical experts to
examine voting machines. No member of the board nor their appointees shall
have any interest in any voting machine. Any person or corporation owning
or being interested in any voting machine may apply to said board to
examine such machine and report on its accuracy, efficiency, capacity and
safety. The experts shall examine the machine and make full report thereon
in the office of the State Board of Elections. They shall state in the
report whether or not the kind of machine so examined complies with the
requirements of this Article and can be safely used by voters at elections
under the conditions prescribed in this Article. If the report be in the
affirmative upon said questions, the machine shall be deemed approved by
the board and the machines of its kind may be adopted for use at elections
as herein provided. When the machine has been so approved any improvement
or change that does not impair its accuracy, efficiency, capacity or safety
shall not render necessary a re-examination or re-approval thereof. Any
form of voting machine not so approved cannot be used at any election. Each
of the 2 mechanical experts shall be entitled to $100 for his compensation
and expenses in making such examination and report, to be paid by the
person or corporation applying for such examination, which sum may be
demanded in advance of making the examination, and which shall be the sole
compensation to be received by any such expert. The board may, if it
consents to do so, go to any point in the state for the purpose of
examining a machine, but it shall not be compelled to make such examination
at any place other than the capital of the state; Provided, that each of
the 2 mechanical experts shall not receive and retain to exceed $1500 and
reasonable expenses in any one year, and all sums collected for such
examinations over and above said maximum salaries and reasonable expenses
shall be turned into the State Treasury.
(Source: P.A. 78-918.)
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