(10 ILCS 5/5‑1) (from Ch. 46, par. 5‑1) Sec. 5‑1. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful for any person residing in a county containing a population of 500,000 or more, to vote at any election, unless such person is at the time of such election a registered voter under the requirements of this Article 5 or is exempt under Section 5‑29.01 from registration. Provided, that this Article 5 shall not apply to electors residing in cities, villages, and incorporated towns in this State which have adopted or are operating under Article 6, 14 and 18 of this Act, or to electors voting pursuant to Article 20 of this Act. (Source: P.A. 80‑1469.) |
(10 ILCS 5/5‑2) (from Ch. 46, par. 5‑2) Sec. 5‑2. No person shall be entitled to be registered in and from any precinct unless such person shall by the date of the election next following have resided in the State and within the precinct 30 days and be otherwise qualified to vote at such election. Every applicant who shall be 18 years of age or over on the day of the next election shall be permitted to register, if otherwise qualified. To constitute residence under this Article 5 Article 3 is controlling. (Source: P.A. 81‑953.) |
(10 ILCS 5/5‑3) (from Ch. 46, par. 5‑3) Sec. 5‑3. The Board of County Commissioners shall appoint the place of registry in each precinct for any precinct registration under Section 5‑17 of this Article 5. Such place or places shall be in the most public, orderly and convenient portions thereof; and no building or part of a building shall be designated or used as a place of registry, in which spirituous or intoxicating liquor is sold. The County Clerk may demand of the Chief of Police of each city, village or incorporated town, or the Sheriff to furnish officers of the law to attend during the progress of any registration at any place or places of registration designated by the County Commissioners. Such officers of the law shall be furnished by the Chief of Police or Sheriff and shall be stationed in the place or places of registration in such manner as the County Clerk shall direct, and during such assignment shall be under the direction and control of the County Clerk. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 1200.) |
(10 ILCS 5/5‑4) (from Ch. 46, par. 5‑4) Sec. 5‑4. The County Clerk shall be ex‑officio the registration officer of such county and shall have full charge and control of the registration of voters within such county where this Article 5 is in effect. The clerk and a duly appointed deputy clerk of each city, village, incorporated town and township in which all or any part of the territory in which this Article 5 is in effect shall be deputy registration officers. (Source: P.A. 83‑1059.) |
(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 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 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. 92‑816, eff. 8‑21‑02.) |
(10 ILCS 5/5‑6) (from Ch. 46, par. 5‑6) Sec. 5‑6. Subject to the provisions of Section 5‑19 of this Article 5, in addition to the registration authorized at the offices of the County Clerk, city clerk, town clerk, incorporated town clerk and village clerk under Section 5‑5 of this Article 5, and that provided by Section 5‑17 of this Article 5, there shall be three days of re‑registration in each precinct as established by the Board of County Commissioners for county and township elections. The first of said three days of re‑registration shall be Friday, September 15, 1961; the second of said three days of re‑registration shall be Friday, October 13, 1961 and the third of said three days of re‑registration shall be Tuesday, March 13, 1962. On each of the said three days of re‑registration the registration places shall open at eight o'clock a. m. and remain open until nine o'clock p. m. It shall be the duty of the County Board to appoint the place of registry in each precinct and the provisions of Section 5‑3 of this Article 5 shall apply thereto. The re‑registration provided by this Article 5 shall constitute a permanent registration subject to revision and alteration in the manner hereinafter provided. All registrations shall be upon registration record cards provided by the County Clerk in accordance with the provisions of this Article 5. Immediately following the first day of precinct re‑registration in 1961, all permanent registration records compiled prior to September 15, 1961, shall be destroyed if no election contest is pending in which such records are material. (Source: Laws 1959, p. 1919.) |
(10 ILCS 5/5‑7.01) (from Ch. 46, par. 5‑7.01) Sec. 5‑7.01. If an applicant for registration reports a permanent physical disability which would require assistance in voting, the county clerk shall mark all his registration cards in the right margin on the front of the card with a band of ink running the full margin which shall be of contrast to, and easily distinguishable from, the color of the card. If an applicant for registration declares upon properly witnessed oath, with his signature or mark affixed, that he cannot read the English language and that he will require assistance in voting, all his registration cards shall be marked in a manner similar to the marking on the cards of a voter who requires assistance because of physical disability, except that the marking shall be of a different distinguishing color. Following each election the cards of any voter who has requested assistance as a disabled voter, and has stated that the disability is permanent, or who has received assistance because of inability to read the English language, shall be marked in the same manner. (Source: Laws 1967, p. 3524.) |
(10 ILCS 5/5‑7.02) (from Ch. 46, par. 5‑7.02) Sec. 5‑7.02. Upon the issuance of a disabled voter's identification card as provided in Section 19‑12.1, the county clerk shall cause the identification number of such card to be clearly noted on all the registration cards of such voter. (Source: P. A. 78‑320.) |
(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 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 day preceding an election to the election authority within 24 hours after receipt thereof. (Source: P.A. 91‑73, eff. 7‑9‑99; 92‑816, eff. 8‑21‑02.) |
(10 ILCS 5/5‑8) (from Ch. 46, par. 5‑8) Sec. 5‑8. The County Clerk shall supply Deputy Registrars, Officers of Registration and Judges of Registration with registration forms and shall fully instruct them in their duties. Each Deputy Registrar, Officer of Registration and Judge of Registration shall receipt to the County Clerk for all blank registration records issued to them, specifying therein the number of blanks received by them, and each Deputy Registrar, Officer of Registration and Judge of Registration shall be charged with such blanks until he returns them to the County Clerk. If for any cause a blank registration record card is mutilated or rendered unfit for use in making it out, or if a mistake therein has been made, such blank shall not be destroyed, but the word "mutilated" shall be written across the face of such blank, and such blank shall be returned to the County Clerk and shall be preserved in the same manner and for the same length of time as mutilated ballots. When each 1961 and 1962 precinct re‑registration shall have been completed, a Deputy Registrar or Judge of Registration shall return all registration record cards to the County Clerk whether such cards have been filled out, executed or whether they are unused, or whether they have been mutilated. A Deputy Registrar, or Judge of Registration for precinct registration shall make personal delivery of the registration records to the County Clerk, after the close of each precinct registration. Each Deputy Registrar and Judge of Registration shall certify the registration records in substantially the following form: "We, the undersigned Deputy Registrars and Judge of Registration in the County of .... in the State of Illinois, do swear (or affirm) that at the registration of electors on the .... day of .... there was registered by us in the said election precinct the names which appear on the registration records, and that the number of voters registered and qualified was and is the number ..... .... (Judge of Registration) .... (Deputy Registrar) .... (Deputy Registrar) Date ....." (Source: Laws 1959, p. 1919.) |
(10 ILCS 5/5‑9.1) (from Ch. 46, par. 5‑9.1) Sec. 5‑9.1. It is the duty of the county clerk to examine monthly the records deposited in his office pursuant to the Vital Records Act that relate to deaths in the county, to cancel the registration of any person who has died during the preceding month, and to cause the name of each such deceased person to be erased from the register of the precinct in which the deceased person was registered. (Source: P.A. 87‑895.) |
(10 ILCS 5/5‑10) (from Ch. 46, par. 5‑10) Sec. 5‑10. The two Deputy Registrars provided by this Article 5 for re‑registration in each precinct shall be the canvassers of the precinct for which they are appointed. The County Clerk shall furnish to each Deputy Registrar a blank book which shall be named "Verification List", each page of which shall be ruled into columns, and to be marked thus: | |||||||||||||||
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