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91_HB2052 LRB9103712MWgc 1 AN ACT to amend the Election Code by changing Section 2 14-1. 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 14-1 as follows: 7 (10 ILCS 5/14-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 14-1) 8 Sec. 14-1. Selection of judges of election. The board 9 of election commissioners established or existing under 10 Article 6 shall, at the time and in the manner provided in 11 Section 14-3.1, select and choose 5 electors, men or women, 12 as judges of election for each precinct in thesuchcity, 13 village or incorporated town. 14 Where neither voting machines nor electronic, mechanical 15 or electric voting systems are used, the board of election 16 commissioners may, for any precinct with respect to which the 17 board considers thatsuchaction necessary or desirable in 18 view of the number of voters, and shall for general elections 19 for any precinct containing more than 600 registered voters, 20 appoint in addition to the 5 judges of election a team of 5 21 tally judges. In thosesuchprecincts the judges of election 22 shall preside over the election during the hours the polls 23 are open, and the tally judges, with the assistance of the 24 holdover judges designated pursuant to Section 14-5.2, shall 25 count the vote after the closing of the polls. The tally 26 judges shall possess the same qualifications and shall be 27 appointed in the same manner and with the same division 28 between political parties as is provided for judges of 29 election. The foregoing provisions relating to the 30 appointment of tally judges are inapplicable in counties with 31 a population of 1,000,000 or more. -2- LRB9103712MWgc 1 To qualify as judges the electors must: 2 (1) be citizens of the United States; 3 (2) be of good repute and character; 4 (3) be able to speak, read and write the English 5 language; 6 (4) be skilled in the 4 fundamental rules of arithmetic; 7 (5) be of good understanding and capable; 8 (6) not be candidates for any office at the election and 9 not be elected committeemen; 10 (7) reside and be entitled to vote in the precinct in 11 which they are selected to serve, except that in each 12 precinct not more than one judge of each party may be 13 appointed from outside thesuchprecinct. Any judge so 14 appointed to serve in any precinct in which he or she is not 15 entitled to vote must be entitled to vote elsewhere within 16 the county thatwhichencompasses the precinct in which the 17suchjudge is appointed and thesuchjudge must otherwise 18 meet the qualifications of this Section. 19 The board of election commissioners may select 2 20 additional judges of election, one from each of the major 21 political parties, for each 200 voters in excess of 600 in 22 any precinct having more than 600 voters as authorized by 23 Section 11--3. These additional judges must meet the 24 qualifications prescribed in this Section. 25 (Source: P.A. 80-779.)