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Public Act 92-0816
HB5647 Enrolled LRB9213181JMmb
AN ACT concerning elections.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
Sections 4-6, 4-6.2, 4-6.3, 4-8, 4-8.03, 4-10, 4-16, 5-5,
5-7, 5-7.03, 5-16.2, 5-16.3, 6-29, 6-35, 6-35.03, 6-43, 6-50,
6-50.2, and 6-50.3 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/4-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-6)
Sec. 4-6. For the purpose of registering voters under
this Article in addition to the method provided for precinct
registration under Section 4-7, the office of the county
clerk shall be open every day, except Saturday, Sunday, and
legal holidays, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. On Saturdays the
hours of registration shall be from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon,
and such additional hours as the county clerk may designate.
If, however, the county board otherwise duly regulates and
fixes the hours of opening and closing of all county offices
at the county seat of any county, such regulation shall
control and supersede the hours herein specified. There shall
be no registration at the office of the county clerk or at
the office of municipal and township or road district clerks
serving as deputy registrars during the 27 28 days preceding
any regular or special election at which the cards provided
in this Article are used, or until the 2nd day following such
regular or special election; provided, that if by reason of
the proximity of any such elections to one another the effect
of this provision would be to close registrations for all or
any part of the 10 days immediately prior to such 27 28 day
period, the county clerk shall accept, solely for use in the
subsequent and not in any intervening election, registrations
and transfers of registration within the period from the 27th
28th to the 38th days, both inclusive, prior to such
subsequent election; provided, further that at the office of
such clerks registration shall be permitted on the 28th day
preceding the election in November of even-numbered years in
any county in which such day is not designated as a day of
precinct registration. In any election called for the
submission of the revision or alteration of, or the
amendments to the Constitution, submitted by a Constitutional
Convention, the final day for registration at the office of
the election authority charged with the printing of the
ballot of this election shall be the 15th day prior to the
date of election.
Any qualified person residing within the county or any
portion thereof subject to this Article may register or
re-register with the county clerk.
Each county clerk shall appoint one or more registration
or re-registration teams for the purpose of accepting the
registration or re-registration of any voter who files an
affidavit that he is physically unable to appear at any
appointed place of registration or re-registration. Each team
shall consist of one member of each political party having
the highest and second highest number of registered voters in
the county. The county clerk shall designate a team to visit
each disabled person and shall accept the registration or
re-registration of each such person as if he had applied for
registration or re-registration at the office of the county
clerk.
As used in this Article, "deputy registrars" and
"registration officers" mean any person authorized to accept
registrations of electors under this Article.
(Source: P.A. 83-1059.)
(10 ILCS 5/4-6.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.2)
Sec. 4-6.2. (a) The county clerk shall appoint all
municipal and township or road district clerks or their duly
authorized deputies as deputy registrars who may accept the
registration of all qualified residents of their respective
municipalities, townships and road districts. A deputy
registrar serving as such by virtue of his status as a
municipal clerk, or a duly authorized deputy of a municipal
clerk, of a municipality the territory of which lies in more
than one county may accept the registration of any qualified
resident of the municipality, regardless of which county the
resident, municipal clerk or the duly authorized deputy of
the municipal clerk lives in.
The county clerk shall appoint all precinct
committeepersons in the county as deputy registrars who may
accept the registration of any qualified resident of the
county, except during the 27 28 days preceding an election.
The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars
a reasonable number of employees of the Secretary of State
located at driver's license examination stations and
designated to the election authority by the Secretary of
State who may accept the registration of any qualified
residents of the county at any such driver's license
examination stations. The appointment of employees of the
Secretary of State as deputy registrars shall be made in the
manner provided in Section 2-105 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code.
The county clerk shall appoint each of the following
named persons as deputy registrars upon the written request
of such persons:
1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person
designated by the chief librarian, of any public library
situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
the registrations of any qualified resident of the
county, at such library.
2. The principal, or a qualified person designated
by the principal, of any high school, elementary school,
or vocational school situated within the election
jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
qualified resident of the county, at such school. The
county clerk shall notify every principal and
vice-principal of each high school, elementary school,
and vocational school situated within the election
jurisdiction of their eligibility to serve as deputy
registrars and offer training courses for service as
deputy registrars at conveniently located facilities at
least 4 months prior to every election.
3. The president, or a qualified person designated
by the president, of any university, college, community
college, academy or other institution of learning
situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
the registrations of any resident of the county, at such
university, college, community college, academy or
institution.
4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona
fide labor organization, or a reasonable number of
qualified members designated by such official, who may
accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
county.
5. A duly elected or appointed official of a
bonafide State civic organization, as defined and
determined by rule of the State Board of Elections, or
qualified members designated by such official, who may
accept the registration of any qualified resident of the
county. In determining the number of deputy registrars
that shall be appointed, the county clerk shall consider
the population of the jurisdiction, the size of the
organization, the geographic size of the jurisdiction,
convenience for the public, the existing number of deputy
registrars in the jurisdiction and their location, the
registration activities of the organization and the need
to appoint deputy registrars to assist and facilitate the
registration of non-English speaking individuals. In no
event shall a county clerk fix an arbitrary number
applicable to every civic organization requesting
appointment of its members as deputy registrars. The
State Board of Elections shall by rule provide for
certification of bonafide State civic organizations. Such
appointments shall be made for a period not to exceed 2
years, terminating on the first business day of the month
following the month of the general election, and shall be
valid for all periods of voter registration as provided
by this Code during the terms of such appointments.
6. The Director of the Illinois Department of
Public Aid, or a reasonable number of employees
designated by the Director and located at public aid
offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
resident of the county at any such public aid office.
7. The Director of the Illinois Department of
Employment Security, or a reasonable number of employees
designated by the Director and located at unemployment
offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
resident of the county at any such unemployment office.
8. The president of any corporation as defined by
the Business Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable
number of employees designated by such president, who may
accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
county.
If the request to be appointed as deputy registrar is
denied, the county clerk shall, within 10 days after the date
the request is submitted, provide the affected individual or
organization with written notice setting forth the specific
reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the request to be
appointed as deputy registrar.
The county clerk may appoint as many additional deputy
registrars as he considers necessary. The county clerk shall
appoint such additional deputy registrars in such manner that
the convenience of the public is served, giving due
consideration to both population concentration and area.
Some of the additional deputy registrars shall be selected so
that there are an equal number from each of the 2 major
political parties in the election jurisdiction. The county
clerk, in appointing an additional deputy registrar, shall
make the appointment from a list of applicants submitted by
the Chairman of the County Central Committee of the
applicant's political party. A Chairman of a County Central
Committee shall submit a list of applicants to the county
clerk by November 30 of each year. The county clerk may
require a Chairman of a County Central Committee to furnish a
supplemental list of applicants.
Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time
other than the 27 28 day period preceding an election. All
persons appointed as deputy registrars shall be registered
voters within the county and shall take and subscribe to the
following oath or affirmation:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that
I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the
Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will
faithfully discharge the duties of the office of deputy
registrar to the best of my ability and that I will register
no person nor cause the registration of any person except
upon his personal application before me.
............................
(Signature Deputy Registrar)"
This oath shall be administered by the county clerk, or
by one of his deputies, or by any person qualified to take
acknowledgement of deeds and shall immediately thereafter be
filed with the county clerk.
Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section,
except precinct committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms,
commencing on December 1 following the general election of
each even-numbered year; except that the terms of the initial
appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen shall
be for 2-year terms commencing on the date of the county
convention following the general primary at which they were
elected. The county clerk shall issue a certificate of
appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
his office for public inspection a list of the names of all
appointees.
(b) The county clerk shall be responsible for training
all deputy registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a),
at times and locations reasonably convenient for both the
county clerk and such appointees. The county clerk shall be
responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy
registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a). Deputy
registrars appointed under subsection (a) shall be subject to
removal for cause.
(c) Completed registration materials under the control
of deputy registrars, appointed pursuant to subsection (a),
shall be returned to the proper election authority within 7
days, except that completed registration materials received
by the deputy registrars during the period between the 35th
and 28th 29th day preceding an election shall be returned by
the deputy registrars to the proper election authority within
48 hours after receipt thereof. The completed registration
materials received by the deputy registrars on the 28th 29th
day preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
registrars within 24 hours after receipt thereof. Unused
materials shall be returned by deputy registrars appointed
pursuant to paragraph 4 of subsection (a), not later than the
next working day following the close of registration.
(d) The county clerk shall not be required to provide
additional forms to any deputy registrar having more than 200
registration forms unaccounted for during the preceding 12
month period.
(e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any
electioneering or the promotion of any cause during the
performance of his or her duties.
(f) The county clerk shall not be criminally or civilly
liable for the acts or omissions of any deputy registrar.
Such deputy registrars shall not be deemed to be employees of
the county clerk.
(Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
(10 ILCS 5/4-6.3) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-6.3)
Sec. 4-6.3. The county clerk may establish a temporary
place of registration for such times and at such locations
within the county as the county clerk may select. However,
no temporary place of registration may be in operation during
the 27 28 days preceding an election. Notice of the time and
place of registration under this Section shall be published
by the county clerk in a newspaper having a general
circulation in the county not less than 3 nor more than 15
days before the holding of such registration.
Temporary places of registration shall be established so
that the areas of concentration of population or use by the
public are served, whether by facilities provided in places
of private business or in public buildings or in mobile
units. Areas which may be designated as temporary places of
registration include, but are not limited to, facilities
licensed or certified pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act,
Soldiers' and Sailors' Homes, shopping centers, business
districts, public buildings and county fairs.
Temporary places of registration shall be available to
the public not less than 2 hours per year for each 1,000
population or fraction thereof in the county.
All temporary places of registration shall be manned by
deputy county clerks or deputy registrars appointed pursuant
to Section 4-6.2.
(Source: P.A. 86-820; 86-873; 86-1028.)
(10 ILCS 5/4-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-8)
Sec. 4-8. The county clerk shall provide a sufficient
number of blank forms for the registration of electors, which
shall be known as registration record cards and which shall
consist of loose leaf sheets or cards, of suitable size to
contain in plain writing and figures the data hereinafter
required thereon or shall consist of computer cards of
suitable nature to contain the data required thereon. The
registration record cards, which shall include an affidavit
of registration as hereinafter provided, shall be executed in
duplicate.
The registration record card shall contain the following
and such other information as the county clerk may think it
proper to require for the identification of the applicant for
registration:
Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and
first or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the
initial for such middle name, if any.
Sex.
Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or
other location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit
or room number, if any, and in the case of a mobile home the
lot number, and such additional clear and definite
description as may be necessary to determine the exact
location of the dwelling of the applicant. Where the location
cannot be determined by street and number, then the section,
congressional township and range number may be used, or such
other description as may be necessary, including post-office
mailing address. In the case of a homeless individual, the
individual's voting residence that is his or her mailing
address shall be included on his or her registration record
card.
Term of residence in the State of Illinois and precinct.
This information shall be furnished by the applicant stating
the place or places where he resided and the dates during
which he resided in such place or places during the year next
preceding the date of the next ensuing election.
Nativity. The state or country in which the applicant
was born.
Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place, and date of
naturalization.
Date of application for registration, i.e., the day,
month and year when applicant presented himself for
registration.
Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time
of registration, which would require assistance in voting.
The county and state in which the applicant was last
registered.
Signature of voter. The applicant, after the
registration and in the presence of a deputy registrar or
other officer of registration shall be required to sign his
or her name in ink to the affidavit on both the original and
duplicate registration record cards.
Signature of deputy registrar or officer of registration.
In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may
affix his mark to the affidavit. In such case the officer
empowered to give the registration oath shall write a
detailed description of the applicant in the space provided
on the back or at the bottom of the card or sheet; and shall
ask the following questions and record the answers thereto:
Father's first name.
Mother's first name.
From what address did the applicant last register?
Reason for inability to sign name.
Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit
in substantially the following form:
AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
STATE OF ILLINOIS
COUNTY OF .......
I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
United States; that on the date of the next election I shall
have resided in the State of Illinois and in the election
precinct in which I reside 30 days and that I intend that
this location shall be my residence; that I am fully
qualified to vote, and that the above statements are true.
..............................
(His or her signature or mark)
Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
..................................
Signature of registration officer.
(To be signed in presence of registrant.)
Space shall be provided upon the face of each
registration record card for the notation of the voting
record of the person registered thereon.
Each registration record card shall be numbered according
to precincts, and may be serially or otherwise marked for
identification in such manner as the county clerk may
determine.
The registration cards shall be deemed public records and
shall be open to inspection during regular business hours,
except during the 27 28 days immediately preceding any
election. On written request of any candidate or objector or
any person intending to object to a petition, the election
authority shall extend its hours for inspection of
registration cards and other records of the election
authority during the period beginning with the filing of
petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or 28-3 and
continuing through the termination of electoral board
hearings on any objections to petitions containing signatures
of registered voters in the jurisdiction of the election
authority. The extension shall be for a period of hours
sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
the records but the election authority is not required to
extend its hours beyond the period beginning at its normal
opening for business and ending at midnight. If the business
hours are so extended, the election authority shall post a
public notice of such extended hours. Registration record
cards may also be inspected, upon approval of the officer in
charge of the cards, during the 27 28 days immediately
preceding any election. Registration record cards shall also
be open to inspection by certified judges and poll watchers
and challengers at the polling place on election day, but
only to the extent necessary to determine the question of the
right of a person to vote or to serve as a judge of election.
At no time shall poll watchers or challengers be allowed to
physically handle the registration record cards.
Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or
other electronic data processing information containing voter
registration information shall be furnished by the county
clerk within 10 days after December 15 and May 15 each year
and within 10 days after each registration period is closed
to the State Board of Elections in a form prescribed by the
Board. For the purposes of this Section, a registration
period is closed 27 28 days before the date of any regular or
special election. Registration information shall include, but
not be limited to, the following information: name, sex,
residence, telephone number, if any, age, party affiliation,
if applicable, precinct, ward, township, county, and
representative, legislative and congressional districts. In
the event of noncompliance, the State Board of Elections is
directed to obtain compliance forthwith with this
nondiscretionary duty of the election authority by
instituting legal proceedings in the circuit court of the
county in which the election authority maintains the
registration information. The costs of furnishing updated
copies of tapes or discs shall be paid at a rate of $.00034
per name of registered voters in the election jurisdiction,
but not less than $50 per tape or disc and shall be paid from
appropriations made to the State Board of Elections for
reimbursement to the election authority for such purpose. The
Board shall furnish copies of such tapes, discs, other
electronic data or compilations thereof to state political
committees registered pursuant to the Illinois Campaign
Finance Act or the Federal Election Campaign Act at their
request and at a reasonable cost. Copies of the tapes, discs
or other electronic data shall be furnished by the county
clerk to local political committees at their request and at a
reasonable cost. Reasonable cost of the tapes, discs, et
cetera for this purpose would be the cost of duplication plus
15% for administration. The individual representing a
political committee requesting copies of such tapes shall
make a sworn affidavit that the information shall be used
only for bona fide political purposes, including by or for
candidates for office or incumbent office holders. Such
tapes, discs or other electronic data shall not be used under
any circumstances by any political committee or individuals
for purposes of commercial solicitation or other business
purposes. If such tapes contain information on county
residents related to the operations of county government in
addition to registration information, that information shall
not be used under any circumstances for commercial
solicitation or other business purposes. The prohibition in
this Section against using the computer tapes or computer
discs or other electronic data processing information
containing voter registration information for purposes of
commercial solicitation or other business purposes shall be
prospective only from the effective date of this amended Act
of 1979. Any person who violates this provision shall be
guilty of a Class 4 felony.
The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October
1, 1987, such regulations as may be necessary to ensure
uniformity throughout the State in electronic data processing
of voter registration information. The regulations shall
include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
uniform medium, communications protocol and file structure to
be employed by the election authorities of this State in the
electronic data processing of voter registration information.
Each election authority utilizing electronic data processing
of voter registration information shall comply with such
regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
If the applicant for registration was last registered in
another county within this State, he shall also sign a
certificate authorizing cancellation of the former
registration. The certificate shall be in substantially the
following form:
To the County Clerk of.... County, Illinois. (or)
To the Election Commission of the City of ...., Illinois.
This is to certify that I am registered in your (county)
(city) and that my residence was ............................
Having moved out of your (county) (city), I hereby authorize
you to cancel said registration in your office.
Dated at ...., Illinois, on (insert date).
.................................
(Signature of Voter)
Attest: ................, County Clerk, .............
County, Illinois.
The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately
by the County Clerk to the County Clerk (or election
commission as the case may be) where the applicant was
formerly registered. Receipt of such certificate shall be
full authority for cancellation of any previous registration.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 92-465, eff. 1-1-02.)
(10 ILCS 5/4-8.03) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-8.03)
Sec. 4-8.03. The State Board of Elections shall design a
registration record card which, except as otherwise provided
in this Section, shall be used in triplicate by all election
authorities in the State, except those election authorities
adopting a computer-based voter registration file authorized
under Section 4-33. The Board shall prescribe the form and
specifications, including but not limited to the weight of
paper, color and print of such cards. Such cards shall
contain boxes or spaces for the information required under
Sections 4-8 and 4-21 of this Code; provided, that such cards
shall also contain a box or space for the applicant's social
security number, which shall be required to the extent
allowed by law but in no case shall the applicant provide
fewer than the last 4 digits of the social security number,
and a box for the applicant's telephone number, if available.
Except for those election authorities adopting a
computer-based voter registration file authorized under
Section 4-33, the original and duplicate cards shall
respectively constitute the master file and precinct binder
registration records of the voter. A copy shall be given to
the applicant upon completion of his or her registration or
completed transfer of registration.
Whenever a voter moves to another precinct within the
same election jurisdiction or to another election
jurisdiction in the State, such voter may transfer his or her
registration by presenting his or her copy to the election
authority or a deputy registrar. If such voter is not in
possession of or has lost his or her copy, he or she may
effect a transfer of registration by executing an Affidavit
of Cancellation of Previous Registration.
In the case of a transfer of registration to a new
election jurisdiction, the election authority shall transmit
the voter's copy or such affidavit to the election authority
of the voter's former election jurisdiction, which shall
immediately cause the transmission of the voter's previous
registration card to the voter's new election authority. No
transfer of registration to a new election jurisdiction shall
be complete until the voter's old election authority receives
notification.
Deputy registrars shall return all copies of registration
record cards or Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous
Registration to the election authority within 7 working days
after the receipt thereof, except that such copies or
Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous Registration received
by the deputy registrars between the 35th and 28th 29th day
preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
registrars to the election authority within 48 hours after
receipt. The deputy registrars shall return the copies or
Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous Registration received
by them on the 28th 29th day preceding an election to the
election authority within 24 hours after receipt thereof.
(Source: P.A. 91-73, eff. 7-9-99.)
(10 ILCS 5/4-10) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-10)
Sec. 4-10. Except as herein provided, no person shall be
registered, unless he applies in person to a registration
officer, answers such relevant questions as may be asked of
him by the registration officer, and executes the affidavit
of registration. The registration officer shall require the
applicant to furnish two forms of identification, and except
in the case of a homeless individual, one of which must
include his or her residence address. These forms of
identification shall include, but not be limited to, any of
the following: driver's license, social security card, public
aid identification card, utility bill, employee or student
identification card, credit card, or a civic, union or
professional association membership card. The registration
officer shall require a homeless individual to furnish
evidence of his or her use of the mailing address stated.
This use may be demonstrated by a piece of mail addressed to
that individual and received at that address or by a
statement from a person authorizing use of the mailing
address. The registration officer shall require each
applicant for registration to read or have read to him the
affidavit of registration before permitting him to execute
the affidavit.
One of the registration officers or a deputy registration
officer, county clerk, or clerk in the office of the county
clerk, shall administer to all persons who shall personally
apply to register the following oath or affirmation:
"You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you will fully
and truly answer all such questions as shall be put to you
touching your name, place of residence, place of birth, your
qualifications as an elector and your right as such to
register and vote under the laws of the State of Illinois."
The registration officer shall satisfy himself that each
applicant for registration is qualified to register before
registering him. If the registration officer has reason to
believe that the applicant is a resident of a Soldiers' and
Sailors' Home or any facility which is licensed or certified
pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act, the following question
shall be put, "When you entered the home which is your
present address, was it your bona fide intention to become a
resident thereof?" Any voter of a township, city, village or
incorporated town in which such applicant resides, shall be
permitted to be present at the place of any precinct
registration and shall have the right to challenge any
applicant who applies to be registered.
In case the officer is not satisfied that the applicant
is qualified he shall forthwith notify such applicant in
writing to appear before the county clerk to complete his
registration. Upon the card of such applicant shall be
written the word "incomplete" and no such applicant shall be
permitted to vote unless such registration is satisfactorily
completed as hereinafter provided. No registration shall be
taken and marked as incomplete if information to complete it
can be furnished on the date of the original application.
Any person claiming to be an elector in any election
precinct and whose registration card is marked "Incomplete"
may make and sign an application in writing, under oath, to
the county clerk in substance in the following form:
"I do solemnly swear that I, ...., did on (insert date)
make application to the board of registry of the ....
precinct of the township of .... (or to the county clerk of
.... county) and that said board or clerk refused to complete
my registration as a qualified voter in said precinct. That
I reside in said precinct, that I intend to reside in said
precinct, and am a duly qualified voter of said precinct and
am entitled to be registered to vote in said precinct at the
next election.
(Signature of applicant) ............................."
All such applications shall be presented to the county
clerk or to his duly authorized representative by the
applicant, in person between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00
p.m. on any day after the days on which the 1969 and 1970
precinct re-registrations are held but not on any day within
27 28 days preceding the ensuing general election and
thereafter for the registration provided in Section 4-7 all
such applications shall be presented to the county clerk or
his duly authorized representative by the applicant in person
between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on any day prior
to 27 28 days preceding the ensuing general election. Such
application shall be heard by the county clerk or his duly
authorized representative at the time the application is
presented. If the applicant for registration has registered
with the county clerk, such application may be presented to
and heard by the county clerk or by his duly authorized
representative upon the dates specified above or at any time
prior thereto designated by the county clerk.
Any otherwise qualified person who is absent from his
county of residence either due to business of the United
States or because he is temporarily outside the territorial
limits of the United States may become registered by mailing
an application to the county clerk within the periods of
registration provided for in this Article, or by simultaneous
application for absentee registration and absentee ballot as
provided in Article 20 of this Code.
Upon receipt of such application the county clerk shall
immediately mail an affidavit of registration in duplicate,
which affidavit shall contain the following and such other
information as the State Board of Elections may think it
proper to require for the identification of the applicant:
Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and
first or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the
initial for such middle name, if any.
Sex.
Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue or
other location of the dwelling, and such additional clear and
definite description as may be necessary to determine the
exact location of the dwelling of the applicant. Where the
location cannot be determined by street and number, then the
Section, congressional township and range number may be used,
or such other information as may be necessary, including post
office mailing address.
Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the
precinct.
Nativity. The State or country in which the applicant
was born.
Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place and date of
naturalization.
Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
Out of State address of ..........................
AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
State of ...........)
)ss
County of ..........)
I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
United States; that on the day of the next election I shall
have resided in the State of Illinois and in the election
precinct 30 days; that I am fully qualified to vote, that I
am not registered to vote anywhere else in the United States,
that I intend to remain a resident of the State of Illinois
and of the election precinct, that I intend to return to the
State of Illinois, and that the above statements are true.
..............................
(His or her signature or mark)
Subscribed and sworn to before me, an officer qualified
to administer oaths, on (insert date).
........................................
Signature of officer administering oath.
Upon receipt of the executed duplicate affidavit of
Registration, the county clerk shall transfer the information
contained thereon to duplicate Registration Cards provided
for in Section 4-8 of this Article and shall attach thereto a
copy of each of the duplicate affidavit of registration and
thereafter such registration card and affidavit shall
constitute the registration of such person the same as if he
had applied for registration in person.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
(10 ILCS 5/4-16) (from Ch. 46, par. 4-16)
Sec. 4-16. Any registered voter who changes his residence
from one address to another within the same county wherein
this Article is in effect, may have his registration
transferred to his new address by making and signing an
application for change of residence address upon a form to be
provided by the county clerk. Such application must be made
to the office of the county clerk and may be made either in
person or by mail. In case the person is unable to sign his
name, the county clerk shall require him to execute the
application in the presence of the county clerk or of his
properly authorized representative, by his mark, and if
satisfied of the identity of the person, the county clerk
shall make the transfer.
Upon receipt of the application, the county clerk, or one
of his employees deputized to take registrations shall cause
the signature of the voter and the data appearing upon the
application to be compared with the signature and data on the
registration record card, and if it appears that the
applicant is the same person as the person previously
registered under that name the transfer shall be made.
No transfers of registration under the provisions of this
Section shall be made during the 27 28 days preceding any
election at which such voter would be entitled to vote. When
a removal of a registered voter takes place from one address
to another within the same precinct within a period during
which a transfer of registration cannot be made before any
election or primary, he shall be entitled to vote upon
presenting the judges of election his affidavit substantially
in the form prescribed in Section 17-10 of this Act of a
change of residence address within the precinct on a date
therein specified.
The county clerk may obtain information from utility
companies, city, village, incorporated town and township
records, the post office, or from other sources, regarding
the removal of registered voters, and may treat such
information, and information procured from his death and
marriage records on file in his office, as an application to
erase from the register any name concerning which he may so
have information that the voter is no longer qualified to
vote under the name, or from the address from which
registered, and give notice thereof in the manner provided by
Section 4--12 of this Article, and notify voters who have
changed their address that a transfer of registration may be
made in the manner provided in this Section enclosing a form
therefor.
If any person be registered by error in a precinct other
than that in which he resides, the county clerk may transfer
his registration to the proper precinct, and if the error is
or may be on the part of the registration officials, and is
disclosed too late before an election or primary to mail the
certificate required by Section 4--15, such certificate may
be personally delivered to the voter and he may vote thereon
as therein provided, but such certificates so issued shall be
specially listed with the reason for the issuance thereof.
Where a revision or rearrangement of precincts is made by
the county board, the county clerk shall immediately transfer
to the proper precinct the registration of any voter affected
by such revision or rearrangement of the precinct; make the
proper notations on the registration cards of a voter
affected by the revision or rearrangement and shall issue
revised certificates to each registrant of such change.
Any registered voter who changes his or her name by
marriage or otherwise shall be required to register anew and
authorize the cancellation of the previous registration; but
if the voter still resides in the same precinct and if the
change of name takes place within a period during which a
transfer of registration cannot be made, preceding any
election or primary, the elector may, if otherwise qualified,
vote upon making an affidavit substantially in the form
prescribed in Section 17-10 of this Act.
The precinct election officials shall report to the
county clerk the names and addresses of all persons who have
changed their addresses and voted, which shall be treated as
an application to change address accordingly, and the names
and addresses of all persons otherwise voting by affidavit as
in this Section provided, which shall be treated as an
application to erase under Section 4--12 hereof.
(Source: P.A. 83-999.)
(10 ILCS 5/5-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-5)
Sec. 5-5. For the purpose of registering voters under
this Article 5, in addition to the method provided for
precinct registration under Sections 5-6 and 5-17 of this
Article 5, the office of the county clerk shall be open
between 9:00 a. m. and 5:00 p. m. on all days except
Saturday, Sunday and holidays, but there shall be no
registration at such office during the 35 days immediately
preceding any election required to be held under the law but
if no precinct registration is being conducted prior to any
election then registration may be taken in the office of the
county clerk up to and including the 28th 29th day prior to
an election. On Saturdays, the hours of registration shall be
from 9:00 a. m. to 12:00 p. m. noon. During such 35 or 27 28
day period, registration of electors of political
subdivisions wherein a regular, or special election is
required to be held shall cease and shall not be resumed for
the registration of electors of such political subdivisions
until the second day following the day of such election. In
any election called for the submission of the revision or
alteration of, or the amendments to the Constitution,
submitted by a Constitutional Convention, the final day for
registration at the office of the election authority charged
with the printing of the ballot of this election shall be the
15th day prior to the date of the election.
Each county clerk shall appoint one deputy for the
purpose of accepting the registration of any voter who files
an affidavit that he is physically unable to appear at any
appointed place of registration. The county clerk shall
designate a deputy to visit each disabled person and shall
accept the registration of each such person as if he had
applied for registration at the office of the county clerk.
The offices of city, village, incorporated town and town
clerks shall also be open for the purpose of registering
voters residing in the territory in which this Article is in
effect, and also, in the case of city, village and
incorporated town clerks, for the purpose of registering
voters residing in a portion of the city, village or
incorporated town not located within the county, on all days
on which the office of the county clerk is open for the
registration of voters of such cities, villages, incorporated
towns and townships.
(Source: P.A. 84-762.)
(10 ILCS 5/5-7) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-7)
Sec. 5-7. The county clerk shall provide a sufficient
number of blank forms for the registration of electors which
shall be known as registration record cards and which shall
consist of loose leaf sheets or cards, of suitable size to
contain in plain writing and figures the data hereinafter
required thereon or shall consist of computer cards of
suitable nature to contain the data required thereon. The
registration record cards, which shall include an affidavit
of registration as hereinafter provided, shall be executed in
duplicate.
The registration record card shall contain the following
and such other information as the county clerk may think it
proper to require for the identification of the applicant for
registration:
Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and
first or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the
initial for such middle name, if any.
Sex.
Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or
other location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit
or room number, if any, and in the case of a mobile home the
lot number, and such additional clear and definite
description as may be necessary to determine the exact
location of the dwelling of the applicant, including
post-office mailing address. In the case of a homeless
individual, the individual's voting residence that is his or
her mailing address shall be included on his or her
registration record card.
Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the
precinct. Which questions may be answered by the applicant
stating, in excess of 30 days in the State and in excess of
30 days in the precinct.
Nativity. The State or country in which the applicant
was born.
Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place and date of
naturalization.
Date of application for registration, i.e., the day,
month and year when applicant presented himself for
registration.
Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time
of registration, which would require assistance in voting.
The county and state in which the applicant was last
registered.
Signature of voter. The applicant, after the
registration and in the presence of a deputy registrar or
other officer of registration shall be required to sign his
or her name in ink to the affidavit on the original and
duplicate registration record card.
Signature of Deputy Registrar.
In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may
affix his mark to the affidavit. In such case the officer
empowered to give the registration oath shall write a
detailed description of the applicant in the space provided
at the bottom of the card or sheet; and shall ask the
following questions and record the answers thereto:
Father's first name .......................
Mother's first name .......................
From what address did you last register?
Reason for inability to sign name.
Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit
in substantially the following form:
AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
State of Illinois)
)ss
County of )
I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
United States; that on the date of the next election I shall
have resided in the State of Illinois and in the election
precinct in which I reside 30 days; that I am fully qualified
to vote. That I intend that this location shall be my
residence and that the above statements are true.
..............................
(His or her signature or mark)
Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
.........................................
Signature of Registration Officer.
(To be signed in presence of Registrant.)
Space shall be provided upon the face of each
registration record card for the notation of the voting
record of the person registered thereon.
Each registration record card shall be numbered according
to towns and precincts, wards, cities and villages, as the
case may be, and may be serially or otherwise marked for
identification in such manner as the county clerk may
determine.
The registration cards shall be deemed public records and
shall be open to inspection during regular business hours,
except during the 27 28 days immediately preceding any
election. On written request of any candidate or objector or
any person intending to object to a petition, the election
authority shall extend its hours for inspection of
registration cards and other records of the election
authority during the period beginning with the filing of
petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or 28-3 and
continuing through the termination of electoral board
hearings on any objections to petitions containing signatures
of registered voters in the jurisdiction of the election
authority. The extension shall be for a period of hours
sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
the records but the election authority is not required to
extend its hours beyond the period beginning at its normal
opening for business and ending at midnight. If the business
hours are so extended, the election authority shall post a
public notice of such extended hours. Registration record
cards may also be inspected, upon approval of the officer in
charge of the cards, during the 27 28 days immediately
preceding any election. Registration record cards shall also
be open to inspection by certified judges and poll watchers
and challengers at the polling place on election day, but
only to the extent necessary to determine the question of the
right of a person to vote or to serve as a judge of election.
At no time shall poll watchers or challengers be allowed to
physically handle the registration record cards.
Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or
other electronic data processing information containing voter
registration information shall be furnished by the county
clerk within 10 days after December 15 and May 15 each year
and within 10 days after each registration period is closed
to the State Board of Elections in a form prescribed by the
Board. For the purposes of this Section, a registration
period is closed 27 28 days before the date of any regular or
special election. Registration information shall include, but
not be limited to, the following information: name, sex,
residence, telephone number, if any, age, party affiliation,
if applicable, precinct, ward, township, county, and
representative, legislative and congressional districts. In
the event of noncompliance, the State Board of Elections is
directed to obtain compliance forthwith with this
nondiscretionary duty of the election authority by
instituting legal proceedings in the circuit court of the
county in which the election authority maintains the
registration information. The costs of furnishing updated
copies of tapes or discs shall be paid at a rate of $.00034
per name of registered voters in the election jurisdiction,
but not less than $50 per tape or disc and shall be paid from
appropriations made to the State Board of Elections for
reimbursement to the election authority for such purpose. The
Board shall furnish copies of such tapes, discs, other
electronic data or compilations thereof to state political
committees registered pursuant to the Illinois Campaign
Finance Act or the Federal Election Campaign Act at their
request and at a reasonable cost. Copies of the tapes, discs
or other electronic data shall be furnished by the county
clerk to local political committees at their request and at a
reasonable cost. Reasonable cost of the tapes, discs, et
cetera for this purpose would be the cost of duplication plus
15% for administration. The individual representing a
political committee requesting copies of such tapes shall
make a sworn affidavit that the information shall be used
only for bona fide political purposes, including by or for
candidates for office or incumbent office holders. Such
tapes, discs or other electronic data shall not be used under
any circumstances by any political committee or individuals
for purposes of commercial solicitation or other business
purposes. If such tapes contain information on county
residents related to the operations of county government in
addition to registration information, that information shall
not be used under any circumstances for commercial
solicitation or other business purposes. The prohibition in
this Section against using the computer tapes or computer
discs or other electronic data processing information
containing voter registration information for purposes of
commercial solicitation or other business purposes shall be
prospective only from the effective date of this amended Act
of 1979. Any person who violates this provision shall be
guilty of a Class 4 felony.
The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October
1, 1987, such regulations as may be necessary to ensure
uniformity throughout the State in electronic data processing
of voter registration information. The regulations shall
include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
uniform medium, communications protocol and file structure to
be employed by the election authorities of this State in the
electronic data processing of voter registration information.
Each election authority utilizing electronic data processing
of voter registration information shall comply with such
regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
If the applicant for registration was last registered in
another county within this State, he shall also sign a
certificate authorizing cancellation of the former
registration. The certificate shall be in substantially the
following form:
To the County Clerk of .... County, Illinois. To the Election
Commission of the City of ...., Illinois.
This is to certify that I am registered in your (county)
(city) and that my residence was .....
Having moved out of your (county) (city), I hereby
authorize you to cancel said registration in your office.
Dated at .... Illinois, on (insert date).
....................
(Signature of Voter)
Attest ......, County Clerk, ........ County, Illinois.
The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately
by the county clerk to the county clerk (or election
commission as the case may be) where the applicant was
formerly registered. Receipt of such certificate shall be
full authority for cancellation of any previous registration.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 92-465, eff. 1-1-02.)
(10 ILCS 5/5-7.03) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-7.03)
Sec. 5-7.03. The State Board of Elections shall design a
registration record card which, except as otherwise provided
in this Section, shall be used in triplicate by all election
authorities in the State, except those election authorities
adopting a computer-based voter registration file authorized
under Section 5-43. The Board shall prescribe the form and
specifications, including but not limited to the weight of
paper, color and print of such cards. Such cards shall
contain boxes or spaces for the information required under
Sections 5-7 and 5-28.1 of this Code; provided, that such
cards shall also contain a box or space for the applicant's
social security number, which shall be required to the extent
allowed by law but in no case shall the applicant provide
fewer than the last 4 digits of the social security number,
and a box for the applicant's telephone number, if available.
Except for those election authorities adopting a
computer-based voter registration file authorized under
Section 5-43, the original and duplicate cards shall
respectively constitute the master file and precinct binder
registration records of the voter. A copy shall be given to
the applicant upon completion of his or her registration or
completed transfer of registration.
Whenever a voter moves to another precinct within the
same election jurisdiction or to another election
jurisdiction in the State, such voter may transfer his or her
registration by presenting his or her copy to the election
authority or a deputy registrar. If such voter is not in
possession of or has lost his or her copy, he or she may
effect a transfer of registration by executing an Affidavit
of Cancellation of Previous Registration. In the case of a
transfer of registration to a new election jurisdiction, the
election authority shall transmit the voter's copy or such
affidavit to the election authority of the voter's former
election jurisdiction, which shall immediately cause the
transmission of the voter's previous registration card to the
voter's new election authority. No transfer of registration
to a new election jurisdiction shall be complete until the
voter's old election authority receives notification.
Deputy registrars shall return all copies of registration
record cards or Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous
Registration to the election authority within 7 working days
after the receipt thereof, except that such copies or
Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous Registration received
by the deputy registrars between the 35th and 28th 29th day
preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
registrars to the election authority within 48 hours after
receipt. The deputy registrars shall return the copies or
Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous Registration received
by them on the 28th 29th day preceding an election to the
election authority within 24 hours after receipt thereof.
(Source: P.A. 91-73, eff. 7-9-99.)
(10 ILCS 5/5-16.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.2)
Sec. 5-16.2. (a) The county clerk shall appoint all
municipal and township clerks or their duly authorized
deputies as deputy registrars who may accept the registration
of all qualified residents of their respective counties. A
deputy registrar serving as such by virtue of his status as a
municipal clerk, or a duly authorized deputy of a municipal
clerk, of a municipality the territory of which lies in more
than one county may accept the registration of any qualified
resident of any county in which the municipality is located,
regardless of which county the resident, municipal clerk or
the duly authorized deputy of the municipal clerk lives in.
The county clerk shall appoint all precinct
committeepersons in the county as deputy registrars who may
accept the registration of any qualified resident of the
county, except during the 27 28 days preceding an election.
The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars
a reasonable number of employees of the Secretary of State
located at driver's license examination stations and
designated to the election authority by the Secretary of
State who may accept the registration of any qualified
residents of the county at any such driver's license
examination stations. The appointment of employees of the
Secretary of State as deputy registrars shall be made in the
manner provided in Section 2-105 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code.
The county clerk shall appoint each of the following
named persons as deputy registrars upon the written request
of such persons:
1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person
designated by the chief librarian, of any public library
situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
the registrations of any qualified resident of the
county, at such library.
2. The principal, or a qualified person designated
by the principal, of any high school, elementary school,
or vocational school situated within the election
jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
resident of the county, at such school. The county clerk
shall notify every principal and vice-principal of each
high school, elementary school, and vocational school
situated within the election jurisdiction of their
eligibility to serve as deputy registrars and offer
training courses for service as deputy registrars at
conveniently located facilities at least 4 months prior
to every election.
3. The president, or a qualified person designated
by the president, of any university, college, community
college, academy or other institution of learning
situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
the registrations of any resident of the county, at such
university, college, community college, academy or
institution.
4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona
fide labor organization, or a reasonable number of
qualified members designated by such official, who may
accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
county.
5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona
fide State civic organization, as defined and determined
by rule of the State Board of Elections, or qualified
members designated by such official, who may accept the
registration of any qualified resident of the county. In
determining the number of deputy registrars that shall be
appointed, the county clerk shall consider the population
of the jurisdiction, the size of the organization, the
geographic size of the jurisdiction, convenience for the
public, the existing number of deputy registrars in the
jurisdiction and their location, the registration
activities of the organization and the need to appoint
deputy registrars to assist and facilitate the
registration of non-English speaking individuals. In no
event shall a county clerk fix an arbitrary number
applicable to every civic organization requesting
appointment of its members as deputy registrars. The
State Board of Elections shall by rule provide for
certification of bona fide State civic organizations.
Such appointments shall be made for a period not to
exceed 2 years, terminating on the first business day of
the month following the month of the general election,
and shall be valid for all periods of voter registration
as provided by this Code during the terms of such
appointments.
6. The Director of the Illinois Department of
Public Aid, or a reasonable number of employees
designated by the Director and located at public aid
offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
resident of the county at any such public aid office.
7. The Director of the Illinois Department of
Employment Security, or a reasonable number of employees
designated by the Director and located at unemployment
offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
resident of the county at any such unemployment office.
8. The president of any corporation as defined by
the Business Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable
number of employees designated by such president, who may
accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
county.
If the request to be appointed as deputy registrar is
denied, the county clerk shall, within 10 days after the date
the request is submitted, provide the affected individual or
organization with written notice setting forth the specific
reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the request to be
appointed as deputy registrar.
The county clerk may appoint as many additional deputy
registrars as he considers necessary. The county clerk shall
appoint such additional deputy registrars in such manner that
the convenience of the public is served, giving due
consideration to both population concentration and area.
Some of the additional deputy registrars shall be selected so
that there are an equal number from each of the 2 major
political parties in the election jurisdiction. The county
clerk, in appointing an additional deputy registrar, shall
make the appointment from a list of applicants submitted by
the Chairman of the County Central Committee of the
applicant's political party. A Chairman of a County Central
Committee shall submit a list of applicants to the county
clerk by November 30 of each year. The county clerk may
require a Chairman of a County Central Committee to furnish a
supplemental list of applicants.
Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time
other than the 27 28 day period preceding an election. All
persons appointed as deputy registrars shall be registered
voters within the county and shall take and subscribe to the
following oath or affirmation:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that
I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the
Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will
faithfully discharge the duties of the office of deputy
registrar to the best of my ability and that I will register
no person nor cause the registration of any person except
upon his personal application before me.
...............................
(Signature of Deputy Registrar)"
This oath shall be administered by the county clerk, or
by one of his deputies, or by any person qualified to take
acknowledgement of deeds and shall immediately thereafter be
filed with the county clerk.
Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section,
except precinct committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms,
commencing on December 1 following the general election of
each even-numbered year, except that the terms of the initial
appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen
shall be for 2-year terms commencing on the date of the
county convention following the general primary at which they
were elected. The county clerk shall issue a certificate of
appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
his office for public inspection a list of the names of all
appointees.
(b) The county clerk shall be responsible for training
all deputy registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a),
at times and locations reasonably convenient for both the
county clerk and such appointees. The county clerk shall be
responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy
registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a). Deputy
registrars appointed under subsection (a) shall be subject to
removal for cause.
(c) Completed registration materials under the control
of deputy registrars, appointed pursuant to subsection (a),
shall be returned to the proper election authority within 7
days, except that completed registration materials received
by the deputy registrars during the period between the 35th
and 28th 29th day preceding an election shall be returned by
the deputy registrars to the proper election authority within
48 hours after receipt thereof. The completed registration
materials received by the deputy registrars on the 28th 29th
day preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
registrars within 24 hours after receipt thereof. Unused
materials shall be returned by deputy registrars appointed
pursuant to paragraph 4 of subsection (a), not later than the
next working day following the close of registration.
(d) The county clerk shall not be required to provide
additional forms to any deputy registrar having more than 200
registration forms unaccounted for during the preceding 12
month period.
(e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any
electioneering or the promotion of any cause during the
performance of his or her duties.
(f) The county clerk shall not be criminally or civilly
liable for the acts or omissions of any deputy registrar.
Such deputy registers shall not be deemed to be employees of
the county clerk.
(Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
(10 ILCS 5/5-16.3) (from Ch. 46, par. 5-16.3)
Sec. 5-16.3. The county clerk may establish temporary
places of registration for such times and at such locations
within the county as the county clerk may select. However,
no temporary place of registration may be in operation during
the 27 28 days preceding an election. Notice of time and
place of registration at any such temporary place of
registration under this Section shall be published by the
county clerk in a newspaper having a general circulation in
the county not less than 3 nor more than 15 days before the
holding of such registration.
Temporary places of registration shall be established so
that the areas of concentration of population or use by the
public are served, whether by facilities provided in places
of private business or in public buildings or in mobile
units. Areas which may be designated as temporary places of
registration include, but are not limited to, facilities
licensed or certified pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act,
Soldiers' and Sailors' Homes, shopping centers, business
districts, public buildings and county fairs.
Temporary places of registration shall be available to
the public not less than 2 hours per year for each 1,000
population or fraction thereof in the county.
All temporary places of registration shall be manned by
deputy county clerks or deputy registrars appointed pursuant
to Section 5-16.2.
(Source: P.A. 86-873; 86-1028.)
(10 ILCS 5/6-29) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-29)
Sec. 6-29. For the purpose of registering voters under
this Article, the office of the Board of Election
Commissioners shall be open during ordinary business hours of
each week day, from 9 a.m. to 12 o'clock noon on the last
four Saturdays immediately preceding the end of the period of
registration preceding each election, and such other days and
such other times as the board may direct. During the 27 28
days immediately preceding any election there shall be no
registration of voters at the office of the Board of Election
Commissioners in cities, villages and incorporated towns of
fewer than 200,000 inhabitants. In cities, villages and
incorporated towns of 200,000 or more inhabitants, there
shall be no registration of voters at the office of the Board
of Election Commissioners during the 35 days immediately
preceding any election; provided, however, where no precinct
registration is being conducted prior to any election then
registration may be taken in the office of the Board up to
and including the 28th 29th day prior to such election. The
Board of Election Commissioners may set up and establish as
many branch offices for the purpose of taking registrations
as it may deem necessary, and the branch offices may be open
on any or all dates and hours during which registrations may
be taken in the main office. All officers and employees of
the Board of Election Commissioners who are authorized by
such board to take registrations under this Article shall be
considered officers of the circuit court, and shall be
subject to the same control as is provided by Section 14-5 of
this Act with respect to judges of election.
In any election called for the submission of the revision
or alteration of, or the amendments to the Constitution,
submitted by a Constitutional Convention, the final day for
registration at the office of the election authority charged
with the printing of the ballot of this election shall be the
15th day prior to the date of election.
The Board of Election Commissioners shall appoint one or
more registration teams, consisting of 2 of its employees for
each team, for the purpose of accepting the registration of
any voter who files an affidavit, within the period for
taking registrations provided for in this article, that he is
physically unable to appear at the office of the Board or at
any appointed place of registration. On the day or days when
a precinct registration is being conducted such teams shall
consist of one member from each of the 2 leading political
parties who are serving on the Precinct Registration Board.
Each team so designated shall visit each disabled person and
shall accept the registration of such person the same as if
he had applied for registration in person.
Any otherwise qualified person who is absent from his
county of residence due to business of the United States, or
who is temporarily residing outside the territorial limits of
the United States, may make application to become registered
by mail to the Board of Election Commissioners within the
periods for registration provided for in this Article or by
simultaneous application for absentee registration and
absentee ballot as provided in Article 20 of this Code.
Upon receipt of such application the Board of Election
Commissioners shall immediately mail an affidavit of
registration in duplicate, which affidavit shall contain the
following and such other information as the State Board of
Elections may think it proper to require for the
identification of the applicant:
Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and
first or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the
initial for such middle name, if any.
Sex.
Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue or
other location of the dwelling, and such additional clear and
definite description as may be necessary to determine the
exact location of the dwelling of the applicant. Where the
location cannot be determined by street and number, then the
section, congressional township and range number may be used,
or such other information as may be necessary, including post
office mailing address.
Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the
precinct.
Nativity. The state or country in which the applicant
was born.
Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place and date of
naturalization.
Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
Out of State address of ..................
AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
State of .........)
) ss.
County of ........)
I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
United States; that on the day of the next election I shall
have resided in the State of Illinois and in the election
precinct 30 days; that I am fully qualified to vote, that I
am not registered to vote anywhere else in the United States,
that I intend to remain a resident of the State of Illinois,
and of the election precinct, that I intend to return to the
State of Illinois, and that the above statements are true.
..............................
(His or her signature or mark)
Subscribed and sworn to before me, an officer qualified
to administer oaths, on (insert date).
........................................
Signature of officer administering oath.
Upon receipt of the executed duplicate affidavit of
Registration, the Board of Election Commissioners shall
transfer the information contained thereon to duplicate
Registration Cards provided for in Section 6-35 of this
Article and shall attach thereto a copy of each of the
duplicate affidavit of registration and thereafter such
registration card and affidavit shall constitute the
registration of such person the same as if he had applied for
registration in person.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
(10 ILCS 5/6-35) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-35)
Sec. 6-35. The Boards of Election Commissioners shall
provide a sufficient number of blank forms for the
registration of electors which shall be known as registration
record cards and which shall consist of loose leaf sheets or
cards, of suitable size to contain in plain writing and
figures the data hereinafter required thereon or shall
consist of computer cards of suitable nature to contain the
data required thereon. The registration record cards, which
shall include an affidavit of registration as hereinafter
provided, shall be executed in duplicate. The duplicate of
which may be a carbon copy of the original or a copy of the
original made by the use of other method or material used for
making simultaneous true copies or duplications.
The registration record card shall contain the following
and such other information as the Board of Election
Commissioners may think it proper to require for the
identification of the applicant for registration:
Name. The name of the applicant, giving surname and
first or Christian name in full, and the middle name or the
initial for such middle name, if any.
Sex.
Residence. The name and number of the street, avenue, or
other location of the dwelling, including the apartment, unit
or room number, if any, and in the case of a mobile home the
lot number, and such additional clear and definite
description as may be necessary to determine the exact
location of the dwelling of the applicant, including
post-office mailing address. In the case of a homeless
individual, the individual's voting residence that is his or
her mailing address shall be included on his or her
registration record card.
Term of residence in the State of Illinois and the
precinct.
Nativity. The state or country in which the applicant
was born.
Citizenship. Whether the applicant is native born or
naturalized. If naturalized, the court, place, and date of
naturalization.
Date of application for registration, i.e., the day,
month and year when the applicant presented himself for
registration.
Age. Date of birth, by month, day and year.
Physical disability of the applicant, if any, at the time
of registration, which would require assistance in voting.
The county and state in which the applicant was last
registered.
Signature of voter. The applicant, after registration
and in the presence of a deputy registrar or other officer of
registration shall be required to sign his or her name in ink
to the affidavit on both the original and the duplicate
registration record card.
Signature of deputy registrar.
In case applicant is unable to sign his name, he may
affix his mark to the affidavit. In such case the
registration officer shall write a detailed description of
the applicant in the space provided at the bottom of the card
or sheet; and shall ask the following questions and record
the answers thereto:
Father's first name .........................
Mother's first name .........................
From what address did you last register? ....
Reason for inability to sign name ...........
Each applicant for registration shall make an affidavit
in substantially the following form:
AFFIDAVIT OF REGISTRATION
State of Illinois )
)ss
County of ....... )
I hereby swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the
United States, that on the day of the next election I shall
have resided in the State of Illinois and in the election
precinct 30 days and that I intend that this location is my
residence; that I am fully qualified to vote, and that the
above statements are true.
..............................
(His or her signature or mark)
Subscribed and sworn to before me on (insert date).
......................................
Signature of registration officer
(to be signed in presence of registrant).
Space shall be provided upon the face of each
registration record card for the notation of the voting
record of the person registered thereon.
Each registration record card shall be numbered according
to wards or precincts, as the case may be, and may be
serially or otherwise marked for identification in such
manner as the Board of Election Commissioners may determine.
The registration cards shall be deemed public records and
shall be open to inspection during regular business hours,
except during the 27 28 days immediately preceding any
election. On written request of any candidate or objector or
any person intending to object to a petition, the election
authority shall extend its hours for inspection of
registration cards and other records of the election
authority during the period beginning with the filing of
petitions under Sections 7-10, 8-8, 10-6 or 28-3 and
continuing through the termination of electoral board
hearings on any objections to petitions containing signatures
of registered voters in the jurisdiction of the election
authority. The extension shall be for a period of hours
sufficient to allow adequate opportunity for examination of
the records but the election authority is not required to
extend its hours beyond the period beginning at its normal
opening for business and ending at midnight. If the business
hours are so extended, the election authority shall post a
public notice of such extended hours. Registration record
cards may also be inspected, upon approval of the officer in
charge of the cards, during the 27 28 days immediately
preceding any election. Registration record cards shall also
be open to inspection by certified judges and poll watchers
and challengers at the polling place on election day, but
only to the extent necessary to determine the question of the
right of a person to vote or to serve as a judge of
election. At no time shall poll watchers or challengers be
allowed to physically handle the registration record cards.
Updated copies of computer tapes or computer discs or
other electronic data processing information containing voter
registration information shall be furnished by the Board of
Election Commissioners within 10 days after December 15 and
May 15 each year and within 10 days after each registration
period is closed to the State Board of Elections in a form
prescribed by the State Board. For the purposes of this
Section, a registration period is closed 27 28 days before
the date of any regular or special election. Registration
information shall include, but not be limited to, the
following information: name, sex, residence, telephone
number, if any, age, party affiliation, if applicable,
precinct, ward, township, county, and representative,
legislative and congressional districts. In the event of
noncompliance, the State Board of Elections is directed to
obtain compliance forthwith with this nondiscretionary duty
of the election authority by instituting legal proceedings in
the circuit court of the county in which the election
authority maintains the registration information. The costs
of furnishing updated copies of tapes or discs shall be paid
at a rate of $.00034 per name of registered voters in the
election jurisdiction, but not less than $50 per tape or disc
and shall be paid from appropriations made to the State Board
of Elections for reimbursement to the election authority for
such purpose. The State Board shall furnish copies of such
tapes, discs, other electronic data or compilations thereof
to state political committees registered pursuant to the
Illinois Campaign Finance Act or the Federal Election
Campaign Act at their request and at a reasonable cost.
Copies of the tapes, discs or other electronic data shall be
furnished by the Board of Election Commissioners to local
political committees at their request and at a reasonable
cost. Reasonable cost of the tapes, discs, et cetera for
this purpose would be the cost of duplication plus 15% for
administration. The individual representing a political
committee requesting copies of such tapes shall make a sworn
affidavit that the information shall be used only for bona
fide political purposes, including by or for candidates for
office or incumbent office holders. Such tapes, discs or
other electronic data shall not be used under any
circumstances by any political committee or individuals for
purposes of commercial solicitation or other business
purposes. If such tapes contain information on county
residents related to the operations of county government in
addition to registration information, that information shall
not be used under any circumstances for commercial
solicitation or other business purposes. The prohibition in
this Section against using the computer tapes or computer
discs or other electronic data processing information
containing voter registration information for purposes of
commercial solicitation or other business purposes shall be
prospective only from the effective date of this amended Act
of 1979. Any person who violates this provision shall be
guilty of a Class 4 felony.
The State Board of Elections shall promulgate, by October
1, 1987, such regulations as may be necessary to ensure
uniformity throughout the State in electronic data processing
of voter registration information. The regulations shall
include, but need not be limited to, specifications for
uniform medium, communications protocol and file structure to
be employed by the election authorities of this State in the
electronic data processing of voter registration information.
Each election authority utilizing electronic data processing
of voter registration information shall comply with such
regulations on and after May 15, 1988.
If the applicant for registration was last registered in
another county within this State, he shall also sign a
certificate authorizing cancellation of the former
registration. The certificate shall be in substantially the
following form:
To the County Clerk of .... County, Illinois.
To the Election Commission of the City of ...., Illinois.
This is to certify that I am registered in your (county)
(city) and that my residence was ..... Having moved out of
your (county), (city), I hereby authorize you to cancel that
registration in your office.
Dated at ...., Illinois, on (insert date).
....................
(Signature of Voter)
Attest ...., Clerk, Election Commission of the City
of...., Illinois.
The cancellation certificate shall be mailed immediately
by the clerk of the Election Commission to the county clerk,
(or Election Commission as the case may be) where the
applicant was formerly registered. Receipt of such
certificate shall be full authority for cancellation of any
previous registration.
(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99; 92-465, eff. 1-1-02.)
(10 ILCS 5/6-35.03) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-35.03)
Sec. 6-35.03. The State Board of Elections shall design
a registration record card which, except as otherwise
provided in this Section, shall be used in triplicate by all
election authorities in the State, except those election
authorities adopting a computer-based voter registration file
authorized under Section 6-79. The Board shall prescribe the
form and specifications, including but not limited to the
weight of paper, color and print of such cards. Such cards
shall contain boxes or spaces for the information required
under Sections 6-31.1 and 6-35 of this Code; provided, that
such cards shall also contain a box or space for the
applicant's social security number, which shall be required
to the extent allowed by law but in no case shall the
applicant provide fewer than the last 4 digits of the social
security number, and a box for the applicant's telephone
number, if available.
Except for those election authorities adopting a
computer-based voter registration file authorized under
Section 6-79, the original and duplicate cards shall
respectively constitute the master file and precinct binder
registration records of the voter. A copy shall be given to
the applicant upon completion of his or her registration or
completed transfer of registration.
Whenever a voter moves to another precinct within the
same election jurisdiction or to another election
jurisdiction in the State, such voter may transfer his or her
registration by presenting his or her copy to the election
authority or a deputy registrar. If such voter is not in
possession of or has lost his or her copy, he or she may
effect a transfer of registration by executing an Affidavit
of Cancellation of Previous Registration.
In the case of a transfer of registration to a new
election jurisdiction, the election authority shall transmit
the voter's copy or such affidavit to the election authority
of the voter's former election jurisdiction, which shall
immediately cause the transmission of the voter's previous
registration card to the voter's new election authority. No
transfer of registration to a new election jurisdiction shall
be complete until the voter's old election authority receives
notification.
Deputy registrars shall return all copies of registration
record cards or Affidavits of Cancellation of Previous
Registration to the election authority within 7 working days
after the receipt thereof. Such copies or Affidavits of
Cancellation of Previous Registration received by the deputy
registrars between the 35th and 28th 29th day preceding an
election shall be returned by the deputy registrars within 48
hours after receipt thereof. Such copies or Affidavits of
Cancellation of Previous Registration received by the deputy
registrars on the 28th 29th day preceding an election shall
be returned by the deputy registrars to the election
authority within 24 hours after receipt thereof.
(Source: P.A. 91-73, eff. 7-9-99; 91-533, eff. 8-13-99.)
(10 ILCS 5/6-43) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-43)
Sec. 6-43. Immediately after the completion of the
revision by the Board of Election Commissioners, the board
shall cause copies to be made of all names upon the
registration record cards not marked or erased, with the
address, and shall have the same arranged according to the
streets, avenues, courts, or alleys, commencing with the
lowest number, and arranging the same in order according to
the street numbers, and shall then cause such precinct
register, upon such arrangement, to be printed in plain,
large type in sufficient numbers to meet all demands, and
upon application a copy of the same shall be given to any
person applying therefor. Provided, however, that in
municipalities having a population of more than 500,000 and
having a Board of Election Commissioners, as to all
elections, excepting any elections held for the purpose of
electing judges of the circuit courts, registrations for
which are made solely before the Board of Election
Commissioners, and where no general precinct registrations
were provided for or held within 27 28 days before the
election, the Board of Election Commissioners shall cause,
within 10 days after the last day of registration before such
board, copies to be made of all names of qualified electors
appearing upon each registration record card in like manner
as hereinabove provided, and upon application a copy of the
same shall be given to any person applying therefor:
Provided, further, that whenever an election is held within
90 days after a preceding election, or when any elections are
held for the purpose of electing judges of the circuit
courts, the printed list and the supplement thereto provided
for the last preceding election shall constitute the Printed
Precinct Register for the ensuing election, subject to such
changes as shall be made, if any, as herein provided, which
changes, if any, and the contents of any supplemental list,
insofar as the latter have not been changed pursuant to this
Act, shall be printed in a new supplemental list which shall
supplant the prior supplemental list and shall be delivered
to the judges of the respective precincts, with the printed
register and the certification, in the manner and at the time
provided in Sections 6-48 and 6-60 of this Article. Such list
shall have printed on the bottom thereof the facsimile
signatures of the members of the Board of Election
Commissioners certifying that the names on the list are the
names of all voters entitled to vote in the precinct
indicated on the top thereof. Such list shall be termed the
"Printed Precinct Register" and shall be prima facie evidence
that the electors whose names appear thereon are entitled to
vote. Provided that if, on order of the Board of Election
Commissioners a corrected or revised precinct register of
voters in a precinct or precincts is printed, such list or
lists shall have printed thereon the day and month of such
revision and shall be designated "Revised Precinct Register
of Voters."
Any elector whose name does not appear as a registered
voter on such printed precinct register, supplemental list or
any list provided for in this Article and whose name has not
been erased or withdrawn shall be entitled to vote as
hereinafter in this Article provided if his registration card
is in the master file. Such elector shall within 7 days after
the publication of such printed precinct register, file with
the Board of Election Commissioners an application stating
that he is a duly registered voter and that his registration
card is in the master file. The Board shall hold a hearing
upon such application within 2 days after the filing thereof
and shall announce its decision thereon within 3 days after
the hearing. If the name of such applicant appears upon the
registration card in the master file, the board shall issue
to such elector a certificate setting forth that his name
does so appear and certifying that he has the right to vote
at the next succeeding election. Such certificate shall be
issued in duplicate, one to be retained in the files of the
board, and the other to be issued to the elector.
The Board of Election Commissioners upon the issuance of
such certificate shall see that the name of such elector
appears upon the precinct registry list in the precinct.
(Source: Laws 1965, p. 3481.)
(10 ILCS 5/6-50) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-50)
Sec. 6-50. The office of the board of election
commissioners shall be open during ordinary business hours of
each week day, from 9 a.m. to 12 o'clock noon on the last
four Saturdays immediately preceding the end of the period of
registration preceding each election, and such other days and
such other times as the board may direct. There shall be no
registration at the office of the board of election
commissioners in cities, villages and incorporated towns of
fewer than 200,000 inhabitants during the 27 28 days
preceding any primary, regular or special election at which
the cards provided for in this article are used, or until the
second day following such primary, regular or special
election. In cities, villages and incorporated towns of
200,000 or more inhabitants, there shall be no registration
of voters at the office of the board of election
commissioners during the 35 days immediately preceding any
election; provided, however, where no precinct registration
is being conducted prior to any election then registration
may be taken in the office of the board up to and including
the 28th 29th day prior to such election. In any election
called for the submission of the revision or alteration of,
or the amendments to the Constitution, submitted by a
Constitutional Convention, the final day for registration at
the office of the election authority charged with the
printing of the ballot of this election shall be the 15th day
prior to the date of election.
The Board of Election Commissioners shall appoint one or
more registration teams, each consisting of one member from
each of the 2 leading political parties, for the purpose of
accepting the registration of any voter who files an
affidavit, within the period for taking registrations
provided for in this Article, that he is physically unable to
appear at the office of the Board or at any appointed place
of registration. On the day or days when a precinct
registration is being conducted such teams shall consist of
one member from each of the 2 leading political parties who
are serving on the precinct registration board. Each team so
designated shall visit each disabled person and shall accept
the registration of such person the same as if he had applied
for registration in person.
The office of the board of election commissioners may be
designated as a place of registration under Section 6-51 of
this Article and, if so designated, may also be open for
purposes of registration on such day or days as may be
specified by the board of election commissioners under the
provisions of that Section.
(Source: P.A. 79-1134.)
(10 ILCS 5/6-50.2) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.2)
Sec. 6-50.2. (a) The board of election commissioners
shall appoint all precinct committeepersons in the election
jurisdiction as deputy registrars who may accept the
registration of any qualified resident of the election
jurisdiction, except during the 27 28 days preceding an
election.
The election authority shall appoint as deputy registrars
a reasonable number of employees of the Secretary of State
located at driver's license examination stations and
designated to the election authority by the Secretary of
State who may accept the registration of any qualified
residents of the county at any such driver's license
examination stations. The appointment of employees of the
Secretary of State as deputy registrars shall be made in the
manner provided in Section 2-105 of the Illinois Vehicle
Code.
The board of election commissioners shall appoint each of
the following named persons as deputy registrars upon the
written request of such persons:
1. The chief librarian, or a qualified person
designated by the chief librarian, of any public library
situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
the registrations of any qualified resident of the
election jurisdiction, at such library.
2. The principal, or a qualified person designated
by the principal, of any high school, elementary school,
or vocational school situated within the election
jurisdiction, who may accept the registrations of any
resident of the election jurisdiction, at such school.
The board of election commissioners shall notify every
principal and vice-principal of each high school,
elementary school, and vocational school situated in the
election jurisdiction of their eligibility to serve as
deputy registrars and offer training courses for service
as deputy registrars at conveniently located facilities
at least 4 months prior to every election.
3. The president, or a qualified person designated
by the president, of any university, college, community
college, academy or other institution of learning
situated within the election jurisdiction, who may accept
the registrations of any resident of the election
jurisdiction, at such university, college, community
college, academy or institution.
4. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona
fide labor organization, or a reasonable number of
qualified members designated by such official, who may
accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
election jurisdiction.
5. A duly elected or appointed official of a bona
fide State civic organization, as defined and determined
by rule of the State Board of Elections, or qualified
members designated by such official, who may accept the
registration of any qualified resident of the election
jurisdiction. In determining the number of deputy
registrars that shall be appointed, the board of election
commissioners shall consider the population of the
jurisdiction, the size of the organization, the
geographic size of the jurisdiction, convenience for the
public, the existing number of deputy registrars in the
jurisdiction and their location, the registration
activities of the organization and the need to appoint
deputy registrars to assist and facilitate the
registration of non-English speaking individuals. In no
event shall a board of election commissioners fix an
arbitrary number applicable to every civic organization
requesting appointment of its members as deputy
registrars. The State Board of Elections shall by rule
provide for certification of bona fide State civic
organizations. Such appointments shall be made for a
period not to exceed 2 years, terminating on the first
business day of the month following the month of the
general election, and shall be valid for all periods of
voter registration as provided by this Code during the
terms of such appointments.
6. The Director of the Illinois Department of
Public Aid, or a reasonable number of employees
designated by the Director and located at public aid
offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
resident of the election jurisdiction at any such public
aid office.
7. The Director of the Illinois Department of
Employment Security, or a reasonable number of employees
designated by the Director and located at unemployment
offices, who may accept the registration of any qualified
resident of the election jurisdiction at any such
unemployment office. If the request to be appointed as
deputy registrar is denied, the board of election
commissioners shall, within 10 days after the date the
request is submitted, provide the affected individual or
organization with written notice setting forth the
specific reasons or criteria relied upon to deny the
request to be appointed as deputy registrar.
8. The president of any corporation, as defined by
the Business Corporation Act of 1983, or a reasonable
number of employees designated by such president, who may
accept the registrations of any qualified resident of the
election jurisdiction.
The board of election commissioners may appoint as many
additional deputy registrars as it considers necessary. The
board of election commissioners shall appoint such additional
deputy registrars in such manner that the convenience of the
public is served, giving due consideration to both population
concentration and area. Some of the additional deputy
registrars shall be selected so that there are an equal
number from each of the 2 major political parties in the
election jurisdiction. The board of election commissioners,
in appointing an additional deputy registrar, shall make the
appointment from a list of applicants submitted by the
Chairman of the County Central Committee of the applicant's
political party. A Chairman of a County Central Committee
shall submit a list of applicants to the board by November 30
of each year. The board may require a Chairman of a County
Central Committee to furnish a supplemental list of
applicants.
Deputy registrars may accept registrations at any time
other than the 27 28 day period preceding an election. All
persons appointed as deputy registrars shall be registered
voters within the election jurisdiction and shall take and
subscribe to the following oath or affirmation:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that
I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the
Constitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will
faithfully discharge the duties of the office of registration
officer to the best of my ability and that I will register no
person nor cause the registration of any person except upon
his personal application before me.
....................................
(Signature of Registration Officer)"
This oath shall be administered and certified to by one
of the commissioners or by the executive director or by some
person designated by the board of election commissioners, and
shall immediately thereafter be filed with the board of
election commissioners. The members of the board of election
commissioners and all persons authorized by them under the
provisions of this Article to take registrations, after
themselves taking and subscribing to the above oath, are
authorized to take or administer such oaths and execute such
affidavits as are required by this Article.
Appointments of deputy registrars under this Section,
except precinct committeemen, shall be for 2-year terms,
commencing on December 1 following the general election of
each even-numbered year, except that the terms of the initial
appointments shall be until December 1st following the next
general election. Appointments of precinct committeemen shall
be for 2-year terms commencing on the date of the county
convention following the general primary at which they were
elected. The county clerk shall issue a certificate of
appointment to each deputy registrar, and shall maintain in
his office for public inspection a list of the names of all
appointees.
(b) The board of election commissioners shall be
responsible for training all deputy registrars appointed
pursuant to subsection (a), at times and locations reasonably
convenient for both the board of election commissioners and
such appointees. The board of election commissioners shall
be responsible for certifying and supervising all deputy
registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a). Deputy
registrars appointed under subsection (a) shall be subject to
removal for cause.
(c) Completed registration materials under the control
of deputy registrars appointed pursuant to subsection (a)
shall be returned to the proper election authority within 7
days, except that completed registration materials received
by the deputy registrars during the period between the 35th
and 28th 29th day preceding an election shall be returned by
the deputy registrars to the proper election authority within
48 hours after receipt thereof. The completed registration
materials received by the deputy registrars on the 28th 29th
day preceding an election shall be returned by the deputy
registrars within 24 hours after receipt thereof. Unused
materials shall be returned by deputy registrars appointed
pursuant to paragraph 4 of subsection (a), not later than the
next working day following the close of registration.
(d) The board of election commissioners shall not be
required to provide additional forms to any deputy registrar
having more than 200 registration forms unaccounted for
during the preceding 12 month period.
(e) No deputy registrar shall engage in any
electioneering or the promotion of any cause during the
performance of his or her duties.
(f) The board of election commissioners shall not be
criminally or civilly liable for the acts or omissions of any
deputy registrar. Such deputy registrars shall not be deemed
to be employees of the board of election commissioners.
(Source: P.A. 89-653, eff. 8-14-96.)
(10 ILCS 5/6-50.3) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.3)
Sec. 6-50.3. The board of election commissioners may
establish temporary places of registration for such times and
at such locations as the board may select. However, no
temporary place of registration may be in operation during
the 27 28 days preceding an election. Notice of the time and
place of registration at any such temporary place of
registration under this Section shall be published by the
board of election commissioners in a newspaper having a
general circulation in the city, village or incorporated town
not less than 3 nor more than 15 days before the holding of
such registration.
Temporary places of registration shall be established so
that the areas of concentration of population or use by the
public are served, whether by facilities provided in places
of private business or in public buildings or in mobile
units. Areas which may be designated as temporary places of
registration include, but are not limited to facilities
licensed or certified pursuant to the Nursing Home Care Act,
Soldiers' and Sailors' Homes, shopping centers, business
districts, public buildings and county fairs.
Temporary places of registration shall be available to
the public not less than 2 hours per year for each 1,000
population or fraction thereof in the county.
All temporary places of registration shall be manned by
employees of the board of election commissioners or deputy
registrars appointed pursuant to Section 6-50.2.
(Source: P.A. 86-820; 86-873; 86-1028.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.
Passed in the General Assembly June 02, 2002.
Approved August 21, 2002.
Effective August 21, 2002.
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