10 ILCS 5/4-9

(10 ILCS 5/4-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-9)

Sec. 4-9.

The county clerk shall fully instruct the registration officers
and deputy registration officers in their duties.  Each registration officer
and deputy registration officer shall receipt to the county clerk for all
blank registration record cards issued to him, specifying therein the
number of the blanks received by him, and each registration officer and
deputy registration officer shall be charged with such blanks until he
returns them to the county clerk.  If for any cause a blank registration
record card is mutilated or rendered unfit for use in making it out, or if
a mistake thereon has been made, such blank shall not be destroyed, but the
word "mutilated" shall be written across the face of such card, and the
card shall be returned to the county clerk and be preserved in the same
manner and for the same length of time as mutilated ballots.  When each 1969
and 1970 precinct re-registration has been completed, each registration
officer shall certify the registration records in substantially the
following form:

"We, the undersigned registration officers or deputy registration officers
in the County of .... in the State of Illinois, do swear (or affirm) that at
the registration of electors on (insert date)
there was registered by us in the said election precinct the names which
appear on the registration records, and that the number of voters registered
and qualified was and is the number of ....

......................

Registration officers.

Date ................"

After completion of each 1969 and 1970 precinct re-registration each of
the officers of registration for such precinct shall place all registration
cards received by him, regardless of whether such cards have been unused,
filled out, executed or mutilated, in an envelope to be provided for that
purpose by the county clerk and shall seal such envelope with an official
wax impression seal and sign his name across the face of such envelope.
The judge of registration for such precinct shall include in the envelope
sealed by him the certification of the registration records hereinabove
required.  The judge of registration for such precinct shall within 24 hours
after the close of re-registration make personal delivery of all envelopes
containing the re-registration cards for such precinct to the county clerk.

Other precinct registrations shall be certified and returned in the same
manner.

(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)