Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 Elections: Article 17 - Conduct of Elections and Making Returns

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-1
  The polls shall be opened at the hour of 6:00 a.m. and continued open until 7:00 p.m. of the same day, at which time...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-2
  Upon opening the polls one of the judges of election shall make proclamation of the same, and at least 30 minutes before the closing...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-3
  (a) Before voting begins, the ballot box shall be publicly opened and exhibited, and the judges shall see that no ballot is in such...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-4
  Each of 2 judges of the election shall keep a poll list, which shall contain a column headed "number", and another headed "names of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-5
  The manner of voting shall be by ballot. The ballot shall be printed or written, or partly printed and partly written, and shall be,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-6
  The names of all candidates for which the elector intends to vote shall be written or printed upon the same ballot, and the office...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-7
  The judges of election of their respective election precincts or election districts shall have charge of the ballots and furnish them to the voter...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-8
  The county clerk shall provide in each polling place, so designated or provided a sufficient number of booths, which shall be provided with such supplies...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-9
  Any person desiring to vote shall give his name and, if required to do so, his residence to the judges of election, one of whom...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-10
  (a) Whenever, at any election, in any precinct, any person offering to vote is not personally known to the judges of election to have the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-11
  On receipt of his ballot the voter shall forthwith, and without leaving the inclosed space, retire alone, or accompanied by children as provided in Section...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-12
  The ballot shall be folded by the voter and delivered to one of the judges of election; and if the judge be satisfied, that...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-13
  (a) In the case of an emergency, as determined by the State Board of Elections, or if the Board determines that all potential polling...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-14
  Any voter who declares upon oath, properly witnessed and with his or her signature or mark affixed, that he or she requires assistance to vote...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-15
  Any person entitled to vote at a general or special election or at any election at which propositions are submitted to a popular vote in...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-16
  If the voter marks more candidates than there are persons to be elected to an office, or if for any reason it is impossible...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-16.1
  Write-in votes shall be counted only for persons who have filed notarized declarations of intent to be write-in candidates with the proper election authority or...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-17
  After the opening of the polls no adjournment shall be had nor shall any recess be taken, until all the votes cast at such...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-18
  Immediately upon closing the polls the judges shall proceed to canvass the votes polled. They shall first count the whole number of ballots in...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-18.1
  Wherever the judicial retention ballot to be used in any general election contains the names of more than 15 judges on a separate paper...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-19
  (Repealed). (Source: P.A. 77-1762. Repealed by P.A. 89-700, eff. 1-17-97.)
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-19.2
  Where a vacancy in nomination is filled pursuant to Section 7-61 or Section 10-11, the absentee votes cast for the original candidate on the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-20
  When the canvass of the ballots has been completed, the tally judges shall announce to the judges the total number of votes received by...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-21
  When the votes shall have been examined and counted, the judges shall set down on a sheet or return form to be supplied to them,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-22
  The judges of election shall make the tally sheet and certificate of results in triplicate. If, however, the number of established political parties, as defined...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-22.1
  Whenever a substitute judge is designated pursuant to Section 13-7 or Section 14-6 of this Act, the remaining judges shall sign a certificate setting...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-23
  Pollwatchers in a general election shall be authorized in the following manner: (1) Each established political party shall be entitled to appoint two pollwatchers per...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-24
  All elections in cities, villages and incorporated towns which may have heretofore adopted or may hereafter adopt Article 6 of this Act shall be...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-25
  The days upon which the general elections for members of the House of Representatives of this State shall hereafter be held shall be holidays,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-26
  During the hours of election or a primary in any election precinct, or during the canvass of votes or of making returns thereof, no...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-27
  The sale of liquor on national, State and local election days is governed by Section 6-14 of "An Act relating to alcoholic liquors", approved...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-28
  No person shall, prior to an election or primary, knowingly destroy or deface any list of candidates posted in accordance with the provisions of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-29
  (a) No judge of election, pollwatcher, or other person shall, at any primary or election, do any electioneering or soliciting of votes or engage in...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-30
  Except as provided herein, each county shall provide for and pay the costs and expenses of all elections within the county other than within...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-32
  (1) The following shall be added together to determine the total costs and expenses of an emergency referendum or special election not conducted at...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-33
  Each election authority shall render a bill to the State Board of Elections for the increase in compensation provided in Public Acts 81-850 and...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-43
  Voting. (a) If the election authority has adopted the use of Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology voting equipment pursuant to Article 24B of this Code,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 17-100
  Definition of a vote. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, for the purpose of this Article, a person casts a valid vote on a...

Last modified: February 18, 2015