Chapter 10 — ELECTIONS

(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 registrat…

(10 ILCS 5/6-50.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-50.1) Sec. 6-50.1. In addition to registration at the office of the board of election commissioners, the board of election commissioners shall provide the following methods of registration: (1) The appointment of deputy registrars as provid…

(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 State, except during t…

(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. Notice of the time and place of registration at any such temporary place of …

(10 ILCS 5/6-51) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-51) Sec. 6-51. Prior to any election the board of election commissioners may, in the manner provided by this Section, designate convenient places in the city, village or incorporated town for the registration of voters. A list of such places …

(10 ILCS 5/6-52) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-52) Sec. 6-52. Registration under Sections 6-49.1, 6-50, 6-50.2, 6-50.3 and 6-51 of this Article shall be made in the manner provided by Sections 6-34, 6-35 and 6-37 of this Article. With respect to registrations at the office of the Board of…

(10 ILCS 5/6-53) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-53) Sec. 6-53. Any registered elector who changes his residence from one address number or place to another within the same precinct, city or village or incorporated town, may have his registration transferred to his new address by making and…

(10 ILCS 5/6-54) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-54) Sec. 6-54. 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; provided, however, that if the change of name takes plac…

(10 ILCS 5/6-55) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-55) Sec. 6-55. The board of election commissioners shall obtain the reports provided for by sections 6-61 and 6-62 of this Article and shall cancel the registration of criminals and of deceased persons whose names are reported to it. (Source:…

(10 ILCS 5/6-56) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-56) Sec. 6-56. Not more than 30 nor less than 28 days before any election under this Article, all owners, managers, administrators or operators of hotels, lodging houses, rooming houses, furnished apartments or facilities licensed or certifie…

(10 ILCS 5/6-57) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-57) Sec. 6-57. To each person who registers at the office of the board of election commissioners or at any place designated by such board under Section 6-51 of this Article, after the first registration under this Article, the board shall sen…

(10 ILCS 5/6-58) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-58) Sec. 6-58. Following each general election occurring in November of even numbered years, beginning in 1940, the board of election commissioners shall examine the registration records and shall send to every voter who has not voted during …

(10 ILCS 5/6-59) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-59) Sec. 6-59. The Board of Election Commissioners on its own initiative, or upon order of the circuit court, shall at all times have authority to conduct investigations and to make canvasses of the registered voters in any precinct or precin…

(10 ILCS 5/6-59.01) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-59.01) Sec. 6-59.01. Each registered voter lacking a permanent abode shall be canvassed by the board of election commissioners before each election. The canvass shall be by mail sent not later than 49 days preceding the election to the mai…

(10 ILCS 5/6-59.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-59.1) Sec. 6-59.1. The board of election commissioners and its appointed deputy registrars shall accept the registration of any qualified person residing in the county in which the municipality under the jurisdiction of such board is situat…

(10 ILCS 5/6-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-6) Sec. 6-6. The judges of such election shall canvass the ballots so cast for or against such proposition. They shall count in favor of said proposition all ballots, "For city election law" and they shall count against such proposition all ba…

(10 ILCS 5/6-60) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-60) Sec. 6-60. Immediately after the last registration day before any election, except as is otherwise provided in Section 6-43 of this Article, the board of election commissioners shall prepare and print precinct registers in the manner prov…

(10 ILCS 5/6-61) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-61) Sec. 6-61. It shall be the duty of the clerk of any court where parties are tried or convicted of penitentiary offenses in the county where such city, village or incorporated town is located, to furnish monthly to such board of commission…

(10 ILCS 5/6-62) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-62) Sec. 6-62. It shall be the duty of the person or officer having charge of the vital records of a city, village or incorporated town to furnish to the board of election commissioners, monthly, a report of the names and previous residences …

(10 ILCS 5/6-63) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-63) Sec. 6-63. It shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners to strike the names of all such criminals and of all such deceased persons from the registers of the precinct in which any such person is registered, noting opposite s…

(10 ILCS 5/6-64) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-64) Sec. 6-64. If either the original or duplicate registration card or both, of any elector, shall be lost, destroyed or mutilated in whole or in part, the board of election commissioners shall prepare two new registration cards, an original…

(10 ILCS 5/6-65) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-65) Sec. 6-65. The duplicate registration record cards shall remain permanently in the office of the Board of Election Commissioners; shall be filed alphabetically without regard to wards or precincts; and shall be known as the master file. T…

(10 ILCS 5/6-66) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-66) Sec. 6-66. Upon application to vote each registered elector shall sign his name or make his mark as the case may be, on a certificate substantially as follows: "CERTIFICATE OF REGISTERED VOTER City of ................. Ward .... Precinct …

(10 ILCS 5/6-67) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-67) Sec. 6-67. Upon application to vote at a primary election each registered elector shall sign his name or mark and write his address on a certificate substantially the same as that used in the general election except that it shall have a p…

(10 ILCS 5/6-67.01) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-67.01) Sec. 6-67.01. The provisions of this Article 6, so far as they require the registration of voters as a condition to their being allowed to vote shall not apply to persons otherwise entitled to vote, who are, at the time of the elect…

(10 ILCS 5/6-68) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-68) Sec. 6-68. All affidavits made before judges of election under the provisions of this Article or of Article 14 of this Act shall be immediately returned to the office of the board of election commissioners. Such affidavits, before being s…

(10 ILCS 5/6-69) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-69) Sec. 6-69. In the conduct of registrations subsequent to that first provided for under this Article, the board of election commissioners shall have authority to designate its officers and employees to take registrations at its office or a…

(10 ILCS 5/6-7) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-7) Sec. 6-7. Such canvass shall be made by such judges in the following manner: Before the name or names of any candidate on any ballot shall be canvassed, one of the judges, two sitting on either side of him and observing the canvass, shall s…

(10 ILCS 5/6-70) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-70) Sec. 6-70. Such election commissioners and the executive director of the Board of Election Commissioners shall be paid by the county. In counties having a population of 500,000 or more, the city first adopting the provisions of this Act s…

(10 ILCS 5/6-71) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-71) Sec. 6-71. In the cities, villages and incorporated towns in counties having a population of 500,000 or more, which are operating under this Article, the compensation of deputy registrars and judges of registration provided for the first …

(10 ILCS 5/6-72) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-72) Sec. 6-72. Whenever this article (together with articles 14 and 18 of this Act) is adopted by any village or incorporated town, all its and their provisions shall be applicable and operative, except as in this article or in articles 14 an…

(10 ILCS 5/6-73) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-73) Sec. 6-73. Whenever any city, village or incorporated town may adopt this Article (together with Articles 14 and 18 of this Act), and which city, village or incorporated town shall lie within any county in which another city shall have pr…

(10 ILCS 5/6-74) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-74) Sec. 6-74. The returns of the judges of election of such village or incorporated town, mentioned in the last section, in case of a village or town election for any officer of such village or town, shall be made to the same officer as othe…

(10 ILCS 5/6-75) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-75) Sec. 6-75. The returns of the judges of election of such village or incorporated towns, in case of all other elections therein, shall be made to the same officers, as required by this Article or by Articles 14 or 18 of this Act, of return…

(10 ILCS 5/6-76) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-76) Sec. 6-76. All oaths in writing provided for in this Article or in Articles 14 or 18 of this Act, must have a jurat, or certificate of the officer taking the same, attached and signed by him, and said election commissioners and said judge…

(10 ILCS 5/6-77) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-77) Sec. 6-77. For the purpose of this Article the term "election" shall also include primary elections held in such city, village or incorporated town. (Source: Laws 1957, p. 2373.)

(10 ILCS 5/6-78) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-78) Sec. 6-78. During the hours of registration or revision of registration no person shall bring, take, order or send into, or shall attempt to bring, take or send into any place of registration or revision of registration, any distilled or …

(10 ILCS 5/6-79) Sec. 6-79. Computerization of voter records. (a) The State Board of Elections shall design a registration record card that, except as otherwise provided in this Section, shall be used in duplicate by all election authorities in the State adopting a computer-based…

(10 ILCS 5/6-8) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-8) Sec. 6-8. If no tally sheet shall be furnished to the judges of any precinct relating to such proposition, the tally judges shall use any piece of paper containing the headings written out by either of them: "For city election law", and "Ag…

(10 ILCS 5/6-9) (from Ch. 46, par. 6-9) Sec. 6-9. After ascertaining and announcing the result as aforesaid, such judges shall make, fill up and sign duplicate returns or statements of the votes cast for and against such proposition as aforesaid, in the form found in Section 6-3 …

(10 ILCS 5/6A-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 6A-1) Sec. 6A-1. (a) Any county in which there is no city, village or incorporated town with a board of election commissioners may establish a county board of election commissioners either (1) by ordinance of the county board or (2) by vote of …

(10 ILCS 5/6A-2) (from Ch. 46, par. 6A-2) Sec. 6A-2. Submission to voters. (a) Whenever registered voters in a county described in subsection (a) of Section 6A-1, numbering at least 1,000 or 1/8 of the number voting at the last preceding general election in the county, whichever …

(10 ILCS 5/6A-3) (from Ch. 46, par. 6A-3) Sec. 6A-3. Commissioners; filling vacancies. (a) If the county board adopts an ordinance providing for the establishment of a county board of election commissioners, or if a majority of the votes cast on a proposition submitted in accorda…

(10 ILCS 5/6A-4) (from Ch. 46, par. 6A-4) Sec. 6A-4. Transfer of records. Upon the opening of an office of a county board of election commissioners, the county clerk and any municipal board of election commissioners in the county shall turn over to such county board all registry …

(10 ILCS 5/6A-5) (from Ch. 46, par. 6A-5) Sec. 6A-5. The provisions of Articles 6, 14 and 18 of this Act relating to boards of election commissioners in cities, villages and incorporated towns shall, insofar as they can be made applicable, apply to and govern county boards of ele…

(10 ILCS 5/6A-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 6A-6) Sec. 6A-6. Any references in this Act to the county clerk or the county board with respect to the registration of voters, filing of petitions, certification of candidates, preparation of ballots, establishment of election precincts, desig…

(10 ILCS 5/6A-7) (from Ch. 46, par. 6A-7) Sec. 6A-7. Dissolution. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), any county which has established a board of election commissioners may subsequently vote to dissolve such board in the same manner as provided in Article 6 for cities, vill…

(10 ILCS 5/7-1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-1) Sec. 7-1. Application of Article. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Article, the nomination of all candidates for all elective State, congressional, judicial, and county officers, State's Attorneys (whether elected from a single coun…

(10 ILCS 5/7-10) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-10) Sec. 7-10. Form of petition for nomination. The name of no candidate for nomination, or State central committeeperson, or township committeeperson, or precinct committeeperson, or ward committeeperson or candidate for delegate or alternat…

(10 ILCS 5/7-10.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 7-10.1) Sec. 7-10.1. Each petition or certificate of nomination shall include as a part thereof, a statement for each of the candidates filing, or in whose behalf the petition or certificate of nomination is filed, said statement shall be sub…