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90_SB0231
10 ILCS 5/19-2 from Ch. 46, par. 19-2
Amends the Election Code. Allows electors (in certain
circumstances) to apply to the county clerk or the Board of
Election Commissioners for an absentee ballot by mail not
more than 40 nor less than 7 days (now 5 days) before the
election. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Section
2 19-2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
6 Section 19-2 as follows:
7 (10 ILCS 5/19-2) (from Ch. 46, par. 19-2)
8 Sec. 19-2. Any elector as defined in Section 19-1
9 expecting to be absent from the county of his residence or
10 any such elector who because of being appointed a judge of
11 election in a precinct other than the precinct in which he
12 resides or who because of physical incapacity or the tenets
13 of his religion in the observance of a religious holiday or
14 who because of election duties for the office of an Election
15 Authority, the State Board of Elections, or a law enforcement
16 agency will be unable to be present at the polls on the day
17 of such election may by mail, not more than 40 nor less than
18 7 5 days prior to the date of such election, or by personal
19 delivery not more than 40 nor less than one day prior to the
20 date of such election, make application to the county clerk
21 or to the Board of Election Commissioners for an official
22 ballot for the voter's precinct to be voted at such election.
23 (Source: P.A. 84-808.)
24 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
25 becoming law.