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10 ILCS 5/24B-8

(10 ILCS 5/24B-8)

Sec. 24B-8.

Preparation for Use; Comparison of Ballots; Operational Checks
of Automatic Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan
Technology Tabulating Equipment; Pollwatchers.  The county clerk
or board of election commissioners shall
cause the approved marking devices to be delivered to the polling
places.  Before the opening of the polls the judges of election
shall compare the ballots or displays on the marking device used with the
specimen ballots
furnished and see that the names, numbers and letters thereon
agree and shall certify thereto on forms provided by the county
clerk or board of election commissioners.

In addition, in those polling places where in-precinct
Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology counting equipment is
utilized, the judges of election shall make an operational check
of the automatic Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology
tabulating equipment before the opening of the polls.  The judges
of election shall ensure that the totals are all zeroes in the
count column on the Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology
unit.

Pollwatchers as provided by law shall be permitted to
closely observe the judges in these procedures and to
periodically inspect the Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan
Technology equipment when not in use by the voters.

(Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03.)