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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.

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