(10 ILCS 5/24B-14)
Sec. 24B-14. Damaged, defective, or unreadable ballots; duplicates. If any ballot is
damaged, defective, or cannot otherwise properly be counted by the
automatic Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology tabulating
equipment, a true duplicate copy shall be made of the
ballot in the presence of witnesses and substituted for the
original ballot. Likewise, a duplicate ballot shall not include the invalid votes appearing on the original ballot. All
duplicate ballots shall be clearly labeled "Duplicate", shall
bear a serial number which shall be registered on the damaged,
defective, or otherwise unreadable ballot, and shall be counted in lieu of the damaged,
defective, or otherwise unreadable ballot.
(Source: P.A. 102-819, eff. 5-13-22.)
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