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90_SB0470

      10 ILCS 5/16-4.1          from Ch. 46, par. 16-4.1
      10 ILCS 5/17-11           from Ch. 46, par. 17-11
      10 ILCS 5/17-19.3 new
      10 ILCS 5/17-21           from Ch. 46, par. 17-21
      10 ILCS 5/18-9            from Ch. 46, par. 18-9
      10 ILCS 5/22-15.1         from Ch. 46, par. 22-15.1
      10 ILCS 5/24-1            from Ch. 46, par. 24-1
      10 ILCS 5/24A-5.1         from Ch. 46, par. 24A-5.1
      10 ILCS 5/24A-6           from Ch. 46, par. 24A-6
      10 ILCS 5/24A-15          from Ch. 46, par. 24A-15
      10 ILCS 5/24A-16          from Ch. 46, par. 24A-16
      10 ILCS 5/24B-5.1
      10 ILCS 5/24B-6
      10 ILCS 5/24B-15
      10 ILCS 5/24B-16
      10 ILCS 5/1-7 rep.
          Amends the Election Code to allow straight  party  voting
      in Illinois.  Effective January 1, 1999.
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 1        AN  ACT  to  amend the Election Code by changing Sections
 2    16-4.1, 17-11, 17-21, 18-9, 22-15.1,  24-1,  24A-1,  24A-5.1,
 3    24A-6,  24A-15,  24A-16,  24B-5.1,  24B-6, 24B-15 and 24B-16,
 4    adding Section 17-19.3, and repealing Section 1-7.
 5        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 6    represented in the General Assembly:
 7        Section  5.   The  Election  Code  is amended by changing
 8    Sections 16-4.1, 17-11, 17-21, 18-9, 22-15.1, 24-1,  24A-5.1,
 9    24A-6, 24A-15, 24A-16, 24B-5.1, 24B-6, 24B-15, and 24B-16 and
10    adding Section 17-19.3 as follows:
11        (10 ILCS 5/16-4.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 16-4.1)
12        Sec.   16-4.1.    Ballots   -   Form  -  Nonpartisan  and
13    Consolidated Elections.  This Section shall apply only to the
14    nonpartisan election, the consolidated primary election,  and
15    the  consolidated  election,  except  as  otherwise expressly
16    provided herein.
17        The ballot for the nomination or election of officers  of
18    each  political  subdivision  shall  be considered a separate
19    ballot, and candidates for  such  offices  shall  be  grouped
20    together.   Where  paper  ballots  are  used,  the  names  of
21    candidates  for  nomination  or  election  to  more  than one
22    political subdivision may be contained on  a  common  ballot,
23    provided  that  such  ballot  clearly indicates and separates
24    each political subdivision from which such officers are to be
25    nominated or elected. In the case of  partisan  elections  of
26    officers,  a  separate  party circle shall be included at the
27    head  of  the  portion  of  the  ballot  for  each  political
28    subdivision for which candidates of  political  parties  have
29    been  nominated.   When  an  electronic voting system is used
30    which utilizes a ballot label booklet, the party circles  for
31    straight  party  voting  shall  be on the same ballot page on
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 1    which are listed the candidates for the political subdivision
 2    election for which that party circle applies.
 3        At  the  nonpartisan  election,  the  ballot  for  school
 4    district offices  shall  precede  the  ballot  for  community
 5    college  district offices, and thereafter the ballot order of
 6    the political subdivision officers to be elected shall be  as
 7    determined  by the election authority.  In the case of school
 8    districts other than community consolidated school districts,
 9    the ballot for non-high school district offices shall precede
10    the ballot for high school district offices.
11        At the  consolidated  primary  and  at  the  consolidated
12    election,  the ballot for nomination or election of municipal
13    officers shall precede the ballot for township officers.   At
14    the consolidated election, following the ballot for municipal
15    and  township  offices shall be the ballots for park district
16    and library district offices, following which  shall  be  the
17    ballots  for other political subdivision offices in the order
18    determined by the election authority.
19        The election  authority,  in  determining  the  order  of
20    ballot  placement for offices of political subdivisions whose
21    ballot placement is not specified in this Section, shall give
22    due regard to the clarity of the ballot presentation  to  the
23    voters,  cost and administrative ease, and the requirement to
24    provide separate ballot formats within precincts in which the
25    electors are not entitled to vote for  the  same  offices  or
26    propositions.   At  the  request  of  a political subdivision
27    which extends into more than one election  jurisdiction,  the
28    election authority shall endeavor to coordinate placement and
29    color  of  the  ballot  for  such  subdivision with the other
30    election authorities responsible for  preparing  ballots  for
31    such   subdivision  election.   The  election  authority  may
32    conduct a lottery to determine the order of ballot  placement
33    of  political  subdivision  ballots  where  such order is not
34    specified in this Section.  Such  lottery  may  be  conducted
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 1    jointly by two or more election authorities.
 2    (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
 3        (10 ILCS 5/17-11) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-11)
 4        Sec.  17-11.  On  receipt  of  his ballot the voter shall
 5    forthwith, and without leaving  the  inclosed  space,  retire
 6    alone  to  one  of  the  voting  booths so provided and shall
 7    prepare his ballot by making in  the  appropriate  margin  or
 8    place  a  cross (X) opposite the name of the candidate of his
 9    choice for each office to be filled, or  by  writing  in  the
10    name  of the candidate of his choice in a blank space on said
11    ticket, making a cross (X) opposite thereto; and in case of a
12    question submitted to the vote of the people,  by  making  in
13    the  appropriate  margin  or  place  a  cross (X) against the
14    answer he desires to give. A cross (X) in the square in front
15    of the bracket enclosing the names of a  team  of  candidates
16    for  Governor  and Lieutenant Governor counts as one vote for
17    each of such candidates. If the voter desires to vote for all
18    of  the  candidates  of  one  political  party  or  group  of
19    petitioners, he may place the mark at the  appropriate  place
20    preceding  the  appellation or title under which the names of
21    the candidates of the  party  or  group  of  petitioners  are
22    printed,  and  the  ballot so marked shall be counted as cast
23    for all of the candidates named under that title.   Provided,
24    further, that the voter may place the mark at the appropriate
25    place  preceding  the  appellation  or  title of one party or
26    group of petitioners and may also mark,  at  the  appropriate
27    place  preceding  the name or names of one or more candidates
28    printed under the appellation or title of some other party or
29    group of petitioners, and a ballot so marked shall be counted
30    as cost for all the candidates named under the appellation or
31    title which has been so marked, except as to the officers  as
32    to  which he has placed a mark preceding the name or names of
33    some other candidate or candidates printed under the title of
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 1    some other party or group of petitioners, and as to  such  it
 2    shall  be  counted  as  cast  for the candidate or candidates
 3    preceding whose name or names the mark may have been  placed.
 4    Before  leaving  the  voting  booth  the voter shall fold his
 5    ballot in such manner as to conceal  the  marks  thereon.  He
 6    shall  then  vote  forthwith  in  the manner herein provided,
 7    except that the number corresponding to  the  number  of  the
 8    voter  on the poll books shall not be indorsed on the back of
 9    his ballot. He shall mark  and  deliver  his  ballot  without
10    undue delay, and shall quit said inclosed space as soon as he
11    has voted. No voter shall be allowed to occupy a voting booth
12    already  occupied by another, nor remain within said inclosed
13    space more than ten minutes, nor to  occupy  a  voting  booth
14    more  than five minutes in case all of said voting booths are
15    in use and other voters waiting to occupy the same. No  voter
16    not  an  election  officer,  shall,  after  having  voted, be
17    allowed to re-enter said inclosed space during said election.
18    No person shall take or remove any ballot  from  the  polling
19    place  before  the  close of the poll. No voter shall vote or
20    offer to vote any ballot except such as he has received  from
21    the  judges  of  election in charge of the ballots. Any voter
22    who shall, by accident or mistake, spoil his ballot, may,  on
23    returning  said  spoiled  ballot,  receive  another  in place
24    thereof only after the word "spoiled" has been written in ink
25    diagonally across the entire face of the ballot  returned  by
26    the voter.
27        Where  voting  machines  or electronic voting systems are
28    used, the provisions of  this  section  may  be  modified  as
29    required   or  authorized  by  Article  24  or  Article  24A,
30    whichever is applicable.
31    (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
32        (10 ILCS 5/17-19.3 new)
33        Sec. 17-19.3.  At all general and special elections  held
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 1    in  this  State,  where the law shall provide that the judges
 2    shall tally the votes received by candidates at such election
 3    it shall not be necessary for the judges of the  election  to
 4    mark  upon  the  tally sheets kept by them, separate marks or
 5    tallies for each vote received by  the  candidates  upon  the
 6    ballots containing the same names, commonly known and in this
 7    Act  designated  as  "straight tickets".  But when the judges
 8    shall have counted and announced to the  judges  keeping  the
 9    tally, as near as may be as now or hereafter provided by law,
10    the  number  of votes received by each set of candidates upon
11    the "straight tickets", the tally judges shall set the number
12    of votes down, in figures  opposite  or  directly  below  the
13    names  of  the  respective  candidates,  in  a column or line
14    provided for that purpose upon the tally sheets: which column
15    or line shall read "number  of  straight  votes".   The  same
16    column  shall  be  used  for  the candidates for Governor and
17    Lieutenant Governor running on the same ticket.   The  judges
18    shall  then  proceed to count and announce the votes received
19    by each candidate  upon  all  ballots  other  than  "straight
20    tickets", including all ballots known as "split tickets", and
21    all  ballots  known  as  "scratched  tickets",  and the tally
22    judges shall proceed to tally the same upon the tally sheets,
23    and  to  compare  and  announce  the  result  therof;   which
24    counting,  announcing,  and  tallying  shall  be conducted as
25    herein otherwise provided.  The tally judges shall set  down,
26    in figures, the number of votes received by each candidate on
27    ballots  other than "straight tickets", as so ascertained and
28    announced, in an adjoining column or line provided  for  that
29    purpose  upon the tally sheets, immediately opposite or below
30    the name of each candidate which line shall read  "Number  of
31    other  votes".   The  judges  keeping  the  tally  shall then
32    proceed to add together the number of votes received by  each
33    candidate,  as  shown  in  the  column or line containing the
34    straight votes and the number as shown in the column or  line
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 1    containing  the votes other than straight votes; which result
 2    will  show  the  total  number  of  votes  received  by  each
 3    candidate; and after comparing their results and finding that
 4    the same agree and are correct, they shall set down the same,
 5    in figures, in an adjoining column or line provided upon  the
 6    tally  sheets  for  that  purpose,  which  shall  be directly
 7    opposite or below the line for recording the votes  on  split
 8    and scratched ballots and shall read "candidates total vote".
 9    Whereupon  one  of  the tally judges shall announce in a loud
10    voice to the other judges the total number of votes  received
11    by and counted for each candidate.
12        Nothing  in  this Section contained shall be construed to
13    authorize or permit the  canvassing,  counting,  or  tallying
14    ballots  with  any  less  degree of strictness than otherwise
15    required by law; the  intention  of  this  Section  being  to
16    dispense  with  the individual tally marks only so far as the
17    so-called "straight tickets" are  concerned;  and  all  other
18    operating   of   tallying,   counting   and  canvassing,  and
19    announcing the votes shall proceed  as  near  as  may  be  in
20    accordance  with  the  other  provisions  of this Act.  Tally
21    sheets and certificates may be prepared in book  form  or  in
22    accordion folds.
23        This  Section shall apply to all elections for members of
24    the General Assembly except as specified in Section 17-19.1.
25    (Source:  P.A.  77-1762.  Repealed  by  P.A.   89-700,   eff.
26    1-17-97.)
27        (10 ILCS 5/17-21) (from Ch. 46, par. 17-21)
28        Sec.  17-21.  When the votes shall have been examined and
29    counted, the judges shall set down on a sheet or return  form
30    to  be  supplied to them, the name of every person voted for,
31    written or printed at full length, the office for which  such
32    person received such votes, and the number he did receive and
33    such  additional  information as is necessary to complete, as
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 1    nearly as  circumstances  will  admit,  the  following  form,
 2    to-wit:
 3                   TALLY SHEET AND CERTIFICATE OF
 4                               RESULTS
 5        We  do  hereby  certify that at the .... election held in
 6    the precinct hereinafter (general or  special)  specified  on
 7    the  ....  day of ...., in the year of our Lord, one thousand
 8    nine hundred and ...., a total of .... voters  requested  and
 9    received ballots and we do further certify:
10        Number of blank ballots delivered to us ....
11        Number of absentee ballots delivered to us ....
12        Total number of ballots delivered to us ....
13        Number of blank and spoiled ballots returned.
14        (1)  Total number of ballots cast (in box)....
15        ....  Straight Republican ballots cast
16        ....  Straight Democratic ballots cast
17        ....  Straight ballots of other parties cast
18        ....  Split ballots cast
19        ....    Defective  and  Objected  To  ballots  sealed  in
20    envelope
21        (2)  .... Total number of ballots cast (in box)
22                      Line (2) equals line (1)
23        We further  certify  that  each  of  the  candidates  for
24    representative in the General Assembly received the number of
25    votes ascribed to him on the separate tally sheet.
26        We  further  certify  that  each  candidate  received the
27    number of votes set forth opposite his name  or  in  the  box
28    containing  his name on the tally sheet contained in the page
29    or pages immediately following our signatures.
30        The undersigned actually served as judges and counted the
31    ballots at the election on the .... day of .... in  the  ....
32    precinct  of the (1) *township of ...., or (2) *City of ....,
33    or (3) *.... ward in the city of  ....  and  the  polls  were
34    opened at 6:00 A.M. and closed at 7:00 P.M. Certified by us.
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 1                   *Fill in either (1), (2) or (3)
 2             A B, ....(Address)
 3             C D, ....(Address)
 4             E F, ....(Address)
 5             G H, ....(Address)
 6             I J, ....(Address)
 7        Each  tally  sheet  shall  be in substantially one of the
 8    following forms:
 9    -------------------------------------------------------------
10                         Number   Number
11                           of       of    Candidate's
12    Name of Candidates  Straight  Split      Total
13    office     Names     Votes    Votes      Vote     5  10 15 20
14    -------------------------------------------------------------
15    United  John Smith     60       17        77            11
16    States
17    Senator
18    -------------------------------------------------------------
19    -------------------------------------------------------------
20                        Names of candidates
21    Name of               and total vote
22    office                  for each                  5  10 15 20
23    -------------------------------------------------------------
24    For United  John Smith
25    States      No. of straight votes .....
26    Senator     No. of other votes .....
27            Total Vote..................
28    -------------------------------------------------------------
29    (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
30        (10 ILCS 5/18-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 18-9)
31        Sec. 18-9.  The judges of election shall first count  the
32    whole  number  of ballots in the box. If the ballots shall be
33    found to exceed the number of applications for  ballot,  they
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 1    shall  reject  the  ballots, if any, found folded inside of a
 2    ballot. And if the ballots and the  applications  for  ballot
 3    still  do  not agree after such rejection,  the ballots shall
 4    be replaced in the box and the box closed  and  well  shaken,
 5    and  again  opened; and one of the judges shall publicly draw
 6    out  so many ballots unopened  as  shall  be  equal  to  such
 7    excess.   Such  excess  ballots  shall  be marked "Excess-Not
 8    Counted" and signed by a  majority of  judges  and  shall  be
 9    placed  in  the "After 6:00 p.m. Defective Ballots Envelope".
10    The number of excess ballots shall be noted  in  the  remarks
11    section  of  the  Certificate  of  Results.  "Excess" ballots
12    shall not be counted in the  total  of  "defective"  ballots.
13    And  the  ballots   and applications for ballot being made to
14    agree in this way, the judges  shall  proceed  to  count  the
15    votes  in  the  following  manner:  The judges shall open the
16    ballots  and  place  those  which  contain  the  same   names
17    together,  so  that  the  several  kinds shall be in separate
18    piles or on separate files. Each of the judges shall  examine
19    the  separate  files which are, or are supposed to be, alike,
20    and exclude from such files any which may have a name  or  an
21    erasure,  or in any manner shall be different from the others
22    of such file. One of the judges shall then take one  file  of
23    the  kind  of ballots which contain the same names, and count
24    them by tens, carefully examining each name on  each  of  the
25    ballots. Such judge shall then pass the ten ballots aforesaid
26    to the judge sitting next to him, who shall count them in the
27    same  manner,  who shall then pass them to a third judge, who
28    shall also count them in the  same  manner.  Then  the  third
29    judge  shall  call  the names of the persons named in the ten
30    ballots, and the offices for which they are designated, and 2
31    of the judges, who did not assist in the counting shall tally
32    ten  votes  for  each  of  such  persons,  except  as  herein
33    otherwise provided. When the judges shall have  gone  through
34    such  file  of  ballots, containing the same names, and shall
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 1    count them by tens in the same way, and shall call the  names
 2    of  the persons named in the ballots and the office for which
 3    they are designated, the tally judges shall tally  the  votes
 4    by tens for each of such persons in the same manner as in the
 5    first  instance.  When  the  counting of each file of ballots
 6    which contain the same names shall be  completed,  the  tally
 7    judges shall compare their tallies together and ascertain the
 8    total  number  of ballots of that kind so canvassed; and when
 9    they agree upon the number, one of them shall announce it  in
10    a  loud  voice  to  the  other  judges. The judges shall then
11    canvass the other kinds of ballots which do  not  correspond,
12    those  containing  names  partly from one kind of ballots and
13    partly from another, being those  from which the name of  the
14    person  proper  to  be  voted  for  on  such ballots has been
15    omitted or erased, usually called "scratched  tickets".  They
16    shall  be  canvassed  separately by one of the judges sitting
17    between 2 other judges, which judge shall call each  name  to
18    the  tally  judges and the office for which it is designated,
19    and the other judges looking at the ballot at the same  time,
20    and  the  tally judges making tally of the same. When all the
21    ballots have been canvassed in this manner, the tally  judges
22    shall compare their tallies together, and ascertain the total
23    number  of  votes  received  by  each candidate and when they
24    agree upon the numbers one of them shall announce in  a  loud
25    voice  to  the  judges  the  number of votes received by each
26    candidate on each of the  kinds  of  ballots  containing  his
27    name,  the  number  received  by him on the split and scratch
28    tickets, and the total number of votes received by him.   The
29    provisions  of  Section 17-19.3 Article 17 shall apply to the
30    tallying of votes on straight tickets.
31        The votes for the  offices  of  Governor  and  Lieutenant
32    Governor shall be counted and tallied jointly.
33        Where  voting  machines  or electronic voting systems are
34    used, the provisions of  this  section  may  be  modified  as
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 1    required   or  authorized  by  Article  24  or  Article  24A,
 2    whichever is applicable.
 3    (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
 4        (10 ILCS 5/22-15.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 22-15.1)
 5        Sec. 22-15.1.  (a) Within 60 days following  the  canvass
 6    of  the  general  election within each election jurisdiction,
 7    the election  authority  shall  prepare,  in  typewritten  or
 8    legible computer-generated form, a report of the abstracts of
 9    votes  by  precinct  for  all offices and questions of public
10    policy in connection with which votes were  cast  within  the
11    election  jurisdiction  at  the general election.  The report
12    shall include the total number of ballots  cast  within  each
13    precinct,  and  the  total number of registered voters within
14    each precinct and, in those election jurisdictions  in  which
15    electronic  voting  systems  are  used,  the  total number of
16    straight party ballots cast at  the  general  election.   The
17    election  authority shall provide a copy of the report to the
18    chairman of the county central committee of each  established
19    political  party  in  the  county  within  which the election
20    jurisdiction is contained, and shall make a reasonable number
21    of copies of the report available  for  distribution  to  the
22    public.
23        (b)  Within  60  days  after  the  effective date of this
24    amendatory  Act  of  1985,  each  election  authority   shall
25    prepare, in typewritten or legible computer-generated form, a
26    report  of the type required by subsection (a) concerning the
27    general election  of  1984.   The  election  authority  shall
28    provide  a  copy  of the report to the chairman of the county
29    central committee of each established political party in  the
30    county  in  which the election jurisdiction is contained, and
31    shall make a  reasonable  number  of  copies  of  the  report
32    available for distribution to the public.
33        (c)  An  election authority may charge a fee to reimburse
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 1    the actual cost of duplicating each copy of a report provided
 2    pursuant to subsection (a) or (b).
 3    (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
 4        (10 ILCS 5/24-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 24-1)
 5        Sec. 24-1. The election authority  in  all  jurisdictions
 6    when  voting  machines  are  used  shall, except as otherwise
 7    provided in this Code, provide a  voting  machine  or  voting
 8    machines for any or all of the election precincts or election
 9    districts,  as  the  case  may  be,  for  which  the election
10    authority is by law charged with the duty  of  conducting  an
11    election   or   elections.   A  voting  machine  or  machines
12    sufficient in number to provide a machine for each 400 voters
13    or  fraction  thereof  shall  be  supplied  for  use  at  all
14    elections. However, no such voting  machine  shall  be  used,
15    purchased,  or  adopted  until  the  board  of voting machine
16    commissioners  hereinafter  provided  for,  or   a   majority
17    thereof,  shall  have made and filed a report certifying that
18    they have examined such machine; that it affords each elector
19    an opportunity to vote in absolute secrecy; that  it  enables
20    each  elector  to  vote  a  straight  party  tickets, that it
21    enables each elector to vote a ticket selected in  part  from
22    the  nominees  of one party, and in part from the nominees of
23    any or all  other  parties,  and  in  part  from  independent
24    nominees  printed  in  the  columns  of candidates for public
25    office, and in part of persons not in nomination by any party
26    or upon any independent ticket; that it enables each  elector
27    to vote a written or printed ballot of his own selection, for
28    any  person  for  any  office for whom he may desire to vote;
29    that it enables each elector to vote for all  candidates  for
30    whom he is entitled to vote, and prevents him from voting for
31    any  candidate  for  any  office more than once, unless he is
32    lawfully  entitled  to  cast  more  than  one  vote  for  one
33    candidate, and in that event permits him to cast only as many
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 1    votes for that candidate as he is by  law  entitled,  and  no
 2    more;  that it prevents the elector from voting for more than
 3    one person  for  the  same  office,  unless  he  is  lawfully
 4    entitled  to  vote  for more than one person therefor, and in
 5    that event permits him to vote for as many persons  for  that
 6    office  as  he is by law entitled, and no more; and that such
 7    machine will register correctly by means  of  exact  counters
 8    every  vote cast for the regular tickets thereon; and has the
 9    capacity to contain the  tickets  of  at  least  5  political
10    parties  with  the  names  of  all  the  candidates  thereon,
11    together  with  all propositions in the form provided by law,
12    where such form is prescribed, and where no such provision is
13    made for the form thereof, then in brief form, not to  exceed
14    75  words;  that  all  votes cast on the machine on a regular
15    ballot or ballots shall be registered; that  voters  may,  by
16    means  of  irregular ballots or otherwise vote for any person
17    for any office,  although  such  person  may  not  have  been
18    nominated  by  any  party and his name may not appear on such
19    machine; that when a vote is cast for any person for any such
20    office, when his name does not appear  on  the  machine,  the
21    elector cannot vote for any other name on the machine for the
22    same  office;  that  each  elector  can,  understandingly and
23    within the  period  of  4  minutes  cast  his  vote  for  all
24    candidates  of his choice; that the machine is so constructed
25    that the candidates for presidential electors  of  any  party
26    can  be  voted  for  only  by  voting  for  the  ballot label
27    containing a bracket  within  which  are  the  names  of  the
28    candidates  for  President and Vice-President of the party or
29    group; that the machine is provided with a lock or  locks  by
30    the  use  of  which any movement of the voting or registering
31    mechanism is  absolutely  prevented  so  that  it  cannot  be
32    tampered  with  or  manipulated  for  any  purpose;  that the
33    machine is susceptible of being closed during the progress of
34    the voting so that no person can see or know  the  number  of
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 1    votes  registered  for  any  candidate;  that each elector is
 2    permitted to vote for or against any question, proposition or
 3    amendment upon which he is entitled to vote, and is prevented
 4    from voting for  or  against  any  question,  proposition  or
 5    amendment  upon  which  he  is not entitled to vote; that the
 6    machine is capable of adjustment by the  election  authority,
 7    so  as to permit the elector, at a party primary election, to
 8    vote only  for  the  candidates  seeking  nomination  by  the
 9    political  party  in  which  primary  he is entitled to vote:
10    Provided, also that no such  machine  or  machines  shall  be
11    purchased,  unless the party or parties making the sale shall
12    guarantee in writing to keep the machine or machines in  good
13    working  order  for 5 years without additional cost and shall
14    give a sufficient bond conditioned to that effect.
15    (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
16        (10 ILCS 5/24A-5.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 24A-5.1)
17        Sec. 24A-5.1. For the instruction of voters  on  election
18    day,  the  election  official in charge of the election shall
19    provide  at  each   polling   place   one   instruction-model
20    electronic   voting   system   marking   device.   Each  such
21    instruction-model shall show the arrangement of  party  rows,
22    office  columns and questions. Such model shall be located at
23    a place which voters must pass to reach the official  marking
24    device used in the actual casting of votes.
25        Before  entering  the  voting  booth  each voter shall be
26    offered instruction in the operation of the marking device by
27    use of the instruction-model and the  voter  shall  be  given
28    ample  opportunity  to  operate  the  model  by  himself.  In
29    instructing  voters, no precinct official may show partiality
30    to any political party , and when instructing a voter on  how
31    to  vote  a  straight  ticket  for  one  political  party the
32    precinct official shall at the same time instruct  the  voter
33    how  to  vote a straight ticket for any other political party
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 1    that appears on the ballot label. The duties  of  instruction
 2    shall  be  discharged  by  a judge from each of the political
 3    parties represented  and  they  shall  alternate  serving  as
 4    instructor so that each judge shall serve a like time at such
 5    duties.  No  instructions  may  be  given after the voter has
 6    entered the voting booth.
 7        No precinct official, or person assisting a voter may  in
 8    any  manner  request,  suggest, or seek to persuade or induce
 9    any voter  to  cast  his  vote  for  any  particular  ticket,
10    candidate,    amendment,   question   or   proposition.   All
11    instructions shall be given by precinct officials in  such  a
12    manner  that  it  may  be  observed  by  other persons in the
13    polling place.
14    (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
15        (10 ILCS 5/24A-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 24A-6)
16        Sec. 24A-6. The ballot information, whether placed on the
17    ballot  or  on  the  marking  device,  shall,   as   far   as
18    practicable,  be  in  the  order  of arrangement provided for
19    paper  ballots,  except  that  such  information  may  be  in
20    vertical or horizontal rows,  or  in  a  number  of  separate
21    pages.  Ballots for all questions or propositions to be voted
22    on must be provided in the same manner and must  be  arranged
23    on  or  in  the  marking device or on the ballot sheet in the
24    places provided for such purposes.
25        When an electronic voting system utilizes a ballot  label
26    booklet  and  ballot  card,  ballots  for candidates, ballots
27    calling  for  a  constitutional  convention,   constitutional
28    amendment   ballots,    judicial  retention  ballots,  public
29    measures, and all propositions to be voted upon may be placed
30    on the electronic voting device by providing  in  the  ballot
31    booklet  separate  ballot  label  pages  or  series  of pages
32    distinguished by differing colors as provided below.  When an
33    electronic voting system utilizes  a  ballot  sheet,  ballots
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 1    calling   for  a  constitutional  convention,  constitutional
 2    amendment ballots and judicial  retention  ballots  shall  be
 3    placed on the ballot sheet by providing a separate portion of
 4    the  ballot sheet for each such kind of ballot which shall be
 5    printed in ink of a color distinct from the color of ink used
 6    in printing any other portion of the ballot  sheet.   Ballots
 7    for candidates, public measures and all other propositions to
 8    be  voted  upon  shall  be  placed  on  the  ballot  sheet by
 9    providing a separate portion of the  ballot  sheet  for  each
10    such  kind  of  ballot.  Below the name of the last candidate
11    listed for an office shall be printed a  line  on  which  the
12    name  of  a  candidate  may  be  written  by  the  voter, and
13    immediately to the  left  of  such  line  an  area  shall  be
14    provided  for  marking  a  vote  for such write-in candidate.
15    More than one amendment to the constitution may be placed  on
16    the  same  ballot  page  or  series  of  pages or on the same
17    portion of the ballot sheet, as  the  case  may  be.   Ballot
18    label  pages for constitutional conventions or constitutional
19    amendments shall be on paper of blue color and shall  precede
20    all  other  ballot  label  pages in the ballot label booklet.
21    More than one public measure or proposition may be placed  on
22    the  same ballot label page or series of pages or on the same
23    portion of the ballot sheet, as the case may be.   More  than
24    one  proposition  for  retention  of  judges in office may be
25    placed on the same ballot label page or series of pages or on
26    the same portion of the ballot sheet, as  the  case  may  be.
27    Ballot  label pages for candidates shall be on paper of white
28    color, except that in primary elections the ballot label page
29    or pages for the  candidates  of  each  respective  political
30    party  shall  be  of  the  color  designated  by the election
31    official in charge of the election for that political party's
32    candidates; provided that the ballot label pages or pages for
33    candidates  for  use  at  the  nonpartisan  and  consolidated
34    elections may be on paper of different colors,  except  blue,
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 1    whenever  necessary or desirable to facilitate distinguishing
 2    between  the  pages  for  different  political  subdivisions.
 3    Except as provided in  Section  16-4.1,  in  elections  where
 4    provision  is  made  for  straight  party voting by marking a
 5    party circle, the designation of the  political  parties  for
 6    straight party voting shall be on a separate page on which no
 7    names  of  candidates  shall appear, except no straight party
 8    circle shall  be  necessary  for  any  special  election  not
 9    conducted  on  a  regularly scheduled election day and called
10    for the purpose  of  filling  a  vacancy  in  the  office  of
11    representative  in  the United States Congress.  However, the
12    page shall be of the same color as the pages  containing  the
13    names  of  candidates for office.  On each succeeding page of
14    the candidate booklet, where the election  is  made  to  list
15    ballot  information vertically, the party affiliation of each
16    candidate or the word "independent" shall appear  immediately
17    to  the  left  of  the  candidate's  name,  and  the  name of
18    candidates for the same office  shall  be  listed  vertically
19    under  the  title  of that office. In the case of nonpartisan
20    elections for officers of political subdivisions, unless  the
21    statute  or  an  ordinance adopted pursuant to Article VII of
22    the Constitution requires  otherwise,  the  listing  of  such
23    nonpartisan   candidates  shall  not  include  any  party  or
24    "independent" designation. Ballot label  pages  for  judicial
25    retention  ballots  shall  be  on  paper  of green color, and
26    ballot  label  pages  for  all  public  measures  and   other
27    propositions  shall  be  on  paper of some other distinct and
28    different color. In  primary  elections,  a  separate  ballot
29    label  booklet, marking device and voting booth shall be used
30    for each political party holding a primary, with  the  ballot
31    label  booklet  arranged to include ballot label pages of the
32    candidates  of  the  party  and  public  measures  and  other
33    propositions to be voted upon  on  the  day  of  the  primary
34    election.   One  ballot  card  may  be used for recording the
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 1    voter's vote or choice on all such ballots, proposals, public
 2    measures or propositions,  and  such  ballot  card  shall  be
 3    arranged  so  as  to  record  the voter's vote or choice in a
 4    separate column or columns for  each  such  kind  of  ballot,
 5    proposal, public measure or proposition.
 6        If  the ballot label booklet includes both candidates for
 7    office and public measures or propositions to  be  voted  on,
 8    the  election official in charge of the election shall divide
 9    the pages by protruding tabs identifying the division of  the
10    pages,   and   printing   on   such   tabs  "Candidates"  and
11    "Propositions".
12        The ballot card and all of its  columns  and  the  ballot
13    card   envelope   shall   be  of  the  color  prescribed  for
14    candidate's ballots  at  the  general  or  primary  election,
15    whichever  is being held.  At an election where no candidates
16    are being nominated or elected, the ballot card, its columns,
17    and the ballot card envelope shall be of a  color  designated
18    by the election official in charge of the election.
19        The ballot cards, ballot card envelopes and ballot sheets
20    may,  at the discretion of the election authority, be printed
21    on white paper and then striped with the appropriate colors.
22        When ballot sheets are used, the various portions thereof
23    shall be arranged to conform to the foregoing format.
24        Absentee ballots may consist of ballot cards,  envelopes,
25    paper  ballots or ballot sheets voted in person in the office
26    of the election official in charge of the election  or  voted
27    by  mail.   Where a ballot card is used for voting by mail it
28    must be accompanied by a punching tool or  other  appropriate
29    marking  device,  voter  instructions  and  a specimen ballot
30    showing the proper positions to vote on the  ballot  card  or
31    ballot  sheet  for  each  party,  candidate, proposal, public
32    measure or proposition, and in the case of a ballot card must
33    be mounted on a suitable material to receive the punched  out
34    chip.
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 1        Any  voter  who  spoils  his ballot or makes an error may
 2    return the ballot  to  the  judges  of  election  and  secure
 3    another.     However,  the  protruding  identifying  tab  for
 4    proposals for a constitutional convention  or  constitutional
 5    amendments   shall   have   printed  thereon  "Constitutional
 6    Ballot",  and  the  ballot  label  page  or  pages  for  such
 7    proposals shall precede the ballot label pages for candidates
 8    in the ballot label booklet.
 9    (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
10        (10 ILCS 5/24A-15) (from Ch. 46, par. 24A-15)
11        Sec.  24A-15.  The  precinct  return   printed   by   the
12    automatic  tabulating  equipment  shall include the number of
13    ballots cast, straight  party tickets,  and  votes  cast  for
14    each  candidate  and  proposition  and  shall  constitute the
15    official return of each precinct.  Every ballot on which  the
16    voter  has cast a vote for all candidates of one party and no
17    votes for  any  other  candidates  shall  be  reported  as  a
18    straight  party  ticket,  and  all  other  ballots  shall  be
19    reported  as  split  tickets.   In  addition  to the precinct
20    return, the election authority shall provide  the  number  of
21    applications  for  ballots  in  each  precinct,  the write-in
22    votes, the total number of ballots counted in  each  precinct
23    for each political subdivision and district and the number of
24    registered  voters  in  each  precinct. However, the election
25    authority shall check the totals shown by the precinct return
26    and, if there is an obvious discrepancy with respect  to  the
27    total  number  of  votes cast in any precinct, shall have the
28    ballots for such precinct retabulated to correct the  return.
29    The  procedures  for  retabulation  shall  apply prior to and
30    after the  proclamation  is  completed;  however,  after  the
31    proclamation of results, the election authority must obtain a
32    court  order  to  unseal  voted  ballots  except for election
33    contests  and   discovery   recounts.   In   those   election
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 1    jurisdictions  that  utilize  in-precinct counting equipment,
 2    the certificate of results, which has been  prepared  by  the
 3    judges  of  election  in  the polling place after the ballots
 4    have been tabulated, shall  be  the  document  used  for  the
 5    canvass  of  votes for such precinct.  Whenever a discrepancy
 6    exists during the canvass of  votes  between  the  unofficial
 7    results  and  the  certificate  of  results,  or  whenever  a
 8    discrepancy  exists  during  the canvass of votes between the
 9    certificate of results and the set of totals which  has  been
10    affixed  to such certificate of results, the ballots for such
11    precinct shall be retabulated to correct the return.   As  an
12    additional  part  of this check prior to the proclamation, in
13    those jurisdictions where in-precinct counting  equipment  is
14    utilized,  the  election authority shall retabulate the total
15    number of votes cast  in  5%  of  the  precincts  within  the
16    election jurisdiction.  The precincts to be retabulated shall
17    be  selected  after  election  day  on  a random basis by the
18    election authority, so that every precinct  in  the  election
19    jurisdiction  has  an  equal  mathematical  chance  of  being
20    selected.   The  State  Board  of  Elections  shall  design a
21    standard  and  scientific  random  method  of  selecting  the
22    precincts which are  to  be  retabulated,  and  the  election
23    authority  shall  be  required  to  utilize such method.  The
24    State Board of Elections,  the  State's  Attorney  and  other
25    appropriate  law enforcement agencies, the county chairman of
26    each  established  political  party   and   qualified   civic
27    organizations shall be given prior written notice of the time
28    and  place  of  such  random  selection  procedure and may be
29    represented at  such  procedure.    Such  retabulation  shall
30    consist  of  counting  the ballot cards which were originally
31    counted and shall not involve any determination as  to  which
32    ballot  cards  were,  in fact, properly counted.  The ballots
33    from the  precincts  selected  for  such  retabulation  shall
34    remain  at  all  times  under  the custody and control of the
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 1    election authority and shall be transported  and  retabulated
 2    by the designated staff of the election authority.
 3        As  part  of  such  retabulation,  the election authority
 4    shall test the computer program in  the  selected  precincts.
 5    Such test shall be conducted by processing a preaudited group
 6    of  ballots so punched so as to record a predetermined number
 7    of  valid  votes  for  each  candidate  and  on  each  public
 8    question, and shall include  for  each  office  one  or  more
 9    ballots  which  have votes in excess of the number allowed by
10    law in order to test the ability of the equipment  to  reject
11    such  votes.   If  any  error is detected, the cause therefor
12    shall be ascertained and corrected  and  an  errorless  count
13    shall  be made prior to the official canvass and proclamation
14    of election results.
15        The State Board of Elections, the  State's  Attorney  and
16    other   appropriate  law  enforcement  agencies,  the  county
17    chairman of each established political  party  and  qualified
18    civic  organizations  shall  be given prior written notice of
19    the  time  and  place  of  such  retabulation  and   may   be
20    represented at such retabulation.
21        The  results of this retabulation shall be treated in the
22    same manner and have the same effect as the  results  of  the
23    discovery procedures set forth in Section 22-9.1 of this Act.
24    Upon  completion  of the retabulation, the election authority
25    shall print a comparison of the results of  the  retabulation
26    with  the  original  precinct return printed by the automatic
27    tabulating equipment. Such comparison shall be done for  each
28    precinct and for each office voted upon within that precinct,
29    and the comparisons shall be open to the public.
30    (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
31        (10 ILCS 5/24A-16) (from Ch. 46, par. 24A-16)
32        Sec.  24A-16.  The State Board of Elections shall approve
33    all voting systems provided by this Article.
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 1        No voting system shall be approved unless it fulfills the
 2    following requirements:
 3        (1)  It enables a voter to vote in absolute secrecy;
 4        (2)  It enables a voter to vote a straight party  ticket;
 5    (Blank);
 6        (3)  It enables a voter to vote a ticket selected in part
 7    from the nominees of one party, and in part from the nominees
 8    of   any  or  all  parties,  and  in  part  from  independent
 9    candidates and in part of candidates whose names are  written
10    in by the voter;
11        (4)  It  enables  a  voter  to  vote a written or printed
12    ticket of his own selection for any person for any office for
13    whom he may desire to vote;
14        (5)  It will reject all votes for an  office  or  upon  a
15    proposition  when  the  voter  has  cast  more votes for such
16    office or upon such proposition than he is entitled to cast;
17        (6)  It will accommodate all propositions to be submitted
18    to the voters in the form provided by law or, where  no  such
19    form is provided, then in brief form, not to exceed 75 words.
20        The  State  Board  of Elections is authorized to withdraw
21    its approval of a  voting  system  if  the  system  fails  to
22    fulfill the above requirements.
23        No vendor, person or other entity may sell, lease or loan
24    a  voting  system  or voting system component to any election
25    jurisdiction  unless  the  voting  system  or  voting  system
26    component is first approved by the State Board  of  Elections
27    pursuant to this Section.
28    (Source: P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
29        (10 ILCS 5/24B-5.1)
30        Sec.  24B-5.1.  Instruction of Voters; Instruction Model;
31    Partiality to Political Party; Manner of Instruction.  Before
32    entering  the  voting  booth  each  voter  shall  be  offered
33    instruction in the marking of the Precinct Tabulation Optical
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 1    Scan Technology ballot  sheet.   In  instructing  voters,  no
 2    precinct official may show partiality to any political party,
 3    and when instructing a voter on how to vote a straight ticket
 4    for  one  political  party the precinct official shall at the
 5    same time instruct the voter how to vote  a  straight  ticket
 6    for  any  other  political  party which appears on the ballot
 7    label.  The duties of instruction shall be  discharged  by  a
 8    judge from each of the political parties represented and they
 9    shall  alternate  serving  as  instructor  so that each judge
10    shall serve a like time at such duties.  No instructions  may
11    be given after the voter has entered the voting booth.
12        No  precinct official, or person assisting a voter may in
13    any manner request, suggest, or seek to  persuade  or  induce
14    any  voter to cast his or her vote for any particular ticket,
15    candidate,   amendment,   question   or   proposition.    All
16    instructions shall be given by precinct officials in a manner
17    that it may be observed  by  other  persons  in  the  polling
18    place.
19    (Source: P.A. 89-394, eff. 1-1-97; 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
20        (10 ILCS 5/24B-6)
21        Sec.  24B-6.  Ballot Information; Arrangement; Electronic
22    Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan  Technology  Voting  System;
23    Absentee  Ballots;  Spoiled Ballots.  The ballot information,
24    shall, as far as practicable, be in the order of  arrangement
25    provided  for  paper ballots, except that the information may
26    be in vertical or horizontal rows, or on a number of separate
27    pages.  Ballots for all questions or propositions to be voted
28    on should be  provided  in  a  similar  manner  and  must  be
29    arranged  on the ballot sheet in the places provided for such
30    purposes.  Ballots shall be of white  paper  unless  provided
31    otherwise  by  administrative  rule  of  the  State  Board of
32    Elections or otherwise specified.
33        All  propositions,   including   but   not   limited   to
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 1    propositions   calling   for   a  constitutional  convention,
 2    constitutional  amendment,  judicial  retention,  and  public
 3    measures to  be  voted  upon  shall  be  placed  on  separate
 4    portions  of  the  ballot  sheet by utilizing borders or grey
 5    screens.  Candidates shall be listed on a separate portion of
 6    the ballot sheet by utilizing borders or grey screens.  Below
 7    the name of the last candidate listed for an office shall  be
 8    printed  a  line or lines on which the name of a candidate or
 9    candidates may be written by the voter, and proximate to such
10    lines an area shall be provided for  marking  votes  for  the
11    write-in  candidate  or  candidates.  The  number of write-in
12    lines for an office shall equal the number of candidates  for
13    which  a  voter  may  vote.   More  than one amendment to the
14    constitution may be placed on the same portion of the  ballot
15    sheet.  Constitutional convention or constitutional amendment
16    propositions shall be printed on a separate  portion  of  the
17    ballot  sheet  and  designated  by  borders  or grey screens,
18    unless otherwise provided by administrative rule of the State
19    Board  of  Elections.    More  than  one  public  measure  or
20    proposition may be placed on the same portion of  the  ballot
21    sheet.   More than one proposition for retention of judges in
22    office may be placed on the same portion of the ballot sheet.
23    Names  of  candidates  shall  be  printed  in   black.    The
24    designation  of  the  political  parties  for  straight party
25    voting shall be in a special section of the ballot, except no
26    means by which a voter can cast a straight party  vote  shall
27    be  necessary  for  any  special  election not conducted on a
28    regularly scheduled election day and  called  for  filling  a
29    vacancy  in  the office of representative in the United State
30    Congress.  The party affiliation of  each  candidate  or  the
31    word "independent" shall appear near or under the candidate's
32    name,  and  the names of candidates for the same office shall
33    be listed vertically under the title of that office.  In  the
34    case  of  nonpartisan  elections  for  officers  of political
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 1    subdivisions, unless the  statute  or  an  ordinance  adopted
 2    pursuant   to   Article  VII  of  the  Constitution  requires
 3    otherwise, the listing of nonpartisan  candidates  shall  not
 4    include  any  party  or  "independent" designation.  Judicial
 5    retention ballots shall be  designated  by  borders  or  grey
 6    screens.    Ballots   for   all  public  measures  and  other
 7    propositions shall be designated by borders or grey  screens.
 8    In  primary  elections,  a separate ballot, shall be used for
 9    each political party  holding  a  primary,  with  the  ballot
10    arranged  to include names of the candidates of the party and
11    public measures and other propositions to be  voted  upon  on
12    the day of the primary election.
13        If  the  ballot  includes  both candidates for office and
14    public measures or propositions to be voted on, the  election
15    official in charge of the election shall divide the ballot in
16    sections  for  "Candidates"  and  "Propositions", or separate
17    ballots may be used.
18        Absentee ballots may consist of envelopes, paper  ballots
19    or  ballot  sheets  voted  in  person  in  the  office of the
20    election official in charge of the election or voted by mail.
21    Where a Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology ballot is
22    used for voting by mail  it  must  be  accompanied  by  voter
23    instructions.
24        Any  voter  who spoils his or her ballot, makes an error,
25    or  has  a  ballot  returned  by  the  automatic   tabulating
26    equipment may return the ballot to the judges of election and
27    get another ballot.
28    (Source: P.A. 89-394, eff. 1-1-97; 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
29        (10 ILCS 5/24B-15)
30        Sec.  24B-15.   Official  Return  of  Precinct;  Check of
31    Totals; Retabulation.  The precinct  return  printed  by  the
32    automatic   Precinct   Tabulation   Optical  Scan  Technology
33    tabulating equipment shall  include  the  number  of  ballots
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 1    cast,  straight    party  tickets,  and  votes  cast for each
 2    candidate and proposition and shall constitute  the  official
 3    return  of  each  precinct.   Every ballot on which the voter
 4    has cast a vote for all candidates of one party and no  votes
 5    for  any  other  candidates  shall  be reported as a straight
 6    party ticket, and all other  ballots  shall  be  reported  as
 7    split  tickets.   In  addition  to  the  precinct return, the
 8    election authority shall provide the number  of  applications
 9    for  ballots  in each precinct, the write-in votes, the total
10    number of ballots counted in each precinct for each political
11    subdivision and district and the number of registered  voters
12    in  each  precinct.    However,  the election authority shall
13    check the totals shown by the precinct return and,  if  there
14    is an obvious discrepancy regarding the total number of votes
15    cast  in  any  precinct,  shall  have  the  ballots  for that
16    precinct retabulated to correct the  return.  The  procedures
17    for   retabulation   shall  apply  prior  to  and  after  the
18    proclamation is completed; however, after the proclamation of
19    results, the election authority must obtain a court order  to
20    unseal   voted  ballots  except  for  election  contests  and
21    discovery recounts. In those election jurisdictions that  use
22    in-precinct  counting  equipment, the certificate of results,
23    which has been prepared by the  judges  of  election  in  the
24    polling place after the ballots have been tabulated, shall be
25    the document used for the canvass of votes for such precinct.
26    Whenever  a  discrepancy  exists  during the canvass of votes
27    between  the  unofficial  results  and  the  certificate   of
28    results,  or whenever a discrepancy exists during the canvass
29    of votes between the certificate of results and  the  set  of
30    totals  which has been affixed to the certificate of results,
31    the ballots for that precinct shall be retabulated to correct
32    the return.  As an additional part of this check prior to the
33    proclamation,  in  those  jurisdictions   where   in-precinct
34    counting  equipment  is  used,  the  election authority shall
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 1    retabulate the total number  of  votes  cast  in  5%  of  the
 2    precincts within the election jurisdiction.  The precincts to
 3    be  retabulated  shall  be  selected  after election day on a
 4    random  basis  by  the  election  authority,  so  that  every
 5    precinct  in  the  election   jurisdiction   has   an   equal
 6    mathematical  chance  of  being selected.  The State Board of
 7    Elections shall  design  a  standard  and  scientific  random
 8    method   of   selecting   the   precincts  which  are  to  be
 9    retabulated, and the election authority shall be required  to
10    use  that  method.  The State Board of Elections, the State's
11    Attorney and other appropriate law enforcement agencies,  the
12    county  chairman  of  each  established  political  party and
13    qualified civic organizations shall be  given  prior  written
14    notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  the  random  selection
15    procedure  and  may  be  represented  at  the procedure.  The
16    retabulation shall consist of counting the ballots which were
17    originally counted and shall not involve any determination of
18    which ballots were, in fact, properly counted.   The  ballots
19    from the precincts selected for the retabulation shall remain
20    at  all  times  under the custody and control of the election
21    authority and shall be transported  and  retabulated  by  the
22    designated staff of the election authority.
23        As part of the retabulation, the election authority shall
24    test  the  computer  program  in the selected precincts.  The
25    test shall be conducted by processing a preaudited  group  of
26    ballots  marked  to  record  a  predetermined number of valid
27    votes for each candidate and on  each  public  question,  and
28    shall  include for each office one or more ballots which have
29    votes in excess of the number allowed  by  law  to  test  the
30    ability  of the equipment to reject such votes.  If any error
31    is detected, the cause shall be determined and corrected, and
32    an errorless count  shall  be  made  prior  to  the  official
33    canvass and proclamation of election results.
34        The  State  Board  of Elections, the State's Attorney and
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 1    other  appropriate  law  enforcement  agencies,  the   county
 2    chairman  of  each  established political party and qualified
 3    civic organizations shall be given prior  written  notice  of
 4    the time and place of the retabulation and may be represented
 5    at the retabulation.
 6        The  results of this retabulation shall be treated in the
 7    same manner and have the same effect as the  results  of  the
 8    discovery  procedures  set  forth  in  Section 22-9.1 of this
 9    Code. Upon  completion  of  the  retabulation,  the  election
10    authority  shall  print  a  comparison  of the results of the
11    retabulation with the original precinct return printed by the
12    automatic tabulating equipment.  The comparison shall be done
13    for each precinct and for each office voted upon within  that
14    precinct,  and  the  comparisons shall be open to the public.
15    Upon completion of the retabulation,  the  returns  shall  be
16    open to the public.
17    (Source: P.A. 89-394, eff. 1-1-97; 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
18        (10 ILCS 5/24B-16)
19        Sec.  24B-16.   Approval  of  Precinct Tabulation Optical
20    Scan Technology Voting Systems; Requisites.  The State  Board
21    of  Elections  shall  approve all Precinct Tabulation Optical
22    Scan Technology voting systems provided by this Article.
23        No Precinct Tabulation  Optical  Scan  Technology  voting
24    system  shall  be  approved  unless it fulfills the following
25    requirements:
26             (a)  It enables a voter to vote in absolute secrecy;
27             (b)  It enables a voter to  vote  a  straight  party
28        ticket; (Blank);
29             (c)  It enables a voter to vote a ticket selected in
30        part from the nominees of one party, and in part from the
31        nominees  of  any  or  all  parties,  and  in  part  from
32        independent  candidates,  and in part of candidates whose
33        names are written in by the voter;
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 1             (d)  It enables a voter to vote a written or printed
 2        ticket of his or her own selection for any person for any
 3        office for whom he or she may desire to vote;
 4             (e)  It will reject all votes for an office or  upon
 5        a  proposition when the voter has cast more votes for the
 6        office or upon the proposition than he or she is entitled
 7        to cast; and
 8             (f)  It will  accommodate  all  propositions  to  be
 9        submitted  to  the voters in the form provided by law or,
10        where no form is provided, then in  brief  form,  not  to
11        exceed 75 words.
12        The  State  Board  of Elections is authorized to withdraw
13    its approval of a Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology
14    voting system if  the  system  fails  to  fulfill  the  above
15    requirements.
16        No vendor, person or other entity may sell, lease or loan
17    a   voting   system   or  Precinct  Tabulation  Optical  Scan
18    Technology  voting   system   component   to   any   election
19    jurisdiction  unless  the  voting  system  or  voting  system
20    component  is  first approved by the State Board of Elections
21    pursuant to this Section.
22    (Source: P.A. 89-394, eff. 1-1-97; 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
23        (10 ILCS 5/1-7 rep.)
24        Section  90.  Section  1-7  of  the  Election   Code   is
25    repealed.
26        Section  99.   Effective  date.  This Act takes effect on
27    January 1, 1999.

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