Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 Elections: Article 6 - Registration Of Electors In Certain Cities, Villages And Incorporated Towns

• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-1
  The provisions of this Article 6 (and of Articles 14 and 18 hereof) so far as they are the same as those of the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-2
  The electors of any city now existing in this state may adopt and become entitled to the benefits of this Article 6 and Articles...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-3
  The circuit court shall give at least 60 days notice of such election by publishing such notice in one or more newspapers published within...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-4
  At such election the ballots, so far as they relate to this act, shall be written or printed in the following form: "For city...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-5
  The ballot upon such proposition in the form aforesaid must be printed or written at the bottom of the ticket containing the names of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-10
  At the canvass of the ballots in any precinct in any city where such proposition has been submitted, it shall be the duty of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-11
  The returns must be canvassed in the same manner as any other referendum held in the municipality. (Source: P.A. 94-647, eff. 1-1-06.)
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-12
  No judge of election shall knowingly open, change, tear, mutilate, lose or conceal or knowingly cause or permit to be opened, changed, torn, mutilated,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-13
  No officer having possession of such returns, tallies or ballots, shall steal, counsel or assist in stealing, or shall change or mutilate any return...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-15
  Any village or incorporated town in this state may adopt this article 6 and articles 14 and 18 of this Act, in like manner,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-16
  After and from the time of the adoption of this Article and Articles 14 and 18 of this Act, as aforesaid, the provisions of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-17
  Whenever 1,000 of the legal voters in a city of 250,000 population or less where this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-18
  The ballots which shall be used for voting on the rejection of this Act shall be written or printed in the following form: --------------------------------------------------------------...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-19
  The election officials canvassing returns shall cause a statement of the result of such election on the rejection of this Article 6 and Articles...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-19.1
  Validation of rejection. When, prior to February 13, 1967, in any city with a population of 100,000 or less, a majority of the legal...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-19.5
  Rejection of Article by superseding county board of election commissioners. In addition to any other method of rejection provided in this Article, when a county...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-20
  Any village or incorporated town in this State having adopted this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of this Act may reject them...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-21
  In every city, village and incorporated town so adopting this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of this Act there shall be created...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-22
  Two of such commissioners at least shall always be selected from the 2 leading political parties of the state, one from each of such...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-23
  Such court may at any time, upon complaint made and cause shown satisfactory to it, after notice to such commissioner and an opportunity to...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-24
  Within 20 days after such first appointment shall be made, such commissioners shall organize as a board by electing one of their number as...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-25
  Said board shall have the right to employ an executive director who shall have charge of the office of said board and who shall...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-26
  The board of election commissioners shall make all necessary rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-27
  Every person having resided in the State and in election precinct 30 days next preceding any election therein and who shall be a citizen...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-28
  The first registration under this Article shall be that preceding the election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-30
  If any city, village or incorporated town adopts and becomes entitled to the benefits of this Article 6 and Articles 14 and 18 of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-31
  In addition to the registration authorized at the office of the Board of Election Commissioners, there shall be two days of registration in each...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-31.1
  For use in connection with referenda and the nonpartisan and consolidated elections, each election authority shall maintain permanent records of the boundaries of all...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-32
  The deputy registrars and judges of registration provided for by Section 6-30 of this Article shall be selected by the Board of Election Commissioners...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-34
  One of the deputy registrars, the judge of registration or an officer or clerk in the office of the board of election commissioners authorized...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-35.01
  If an applicant for registration reports a permanent physical disability which would require assistance in voting, the board of election commissioners shall mark all...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-35.02
  Upon the issuance of a disabled voter's identification card as provided in Section 19-12.1, the board of election commissioners shall cause the identification number...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-36
  The board of election commissioners shall supply deputy registrars and judges of registration with registration forms and shall fully instruct them in their duties....
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-37
  Except as otherwise provided for in Section 6-29 of this Article, no person shall be registered unless he applies in person to a registration officer,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-38
  The 2 deputy registrars provided by this Article 6 for registration in each precinct preceding the election to be held on the first Tuesday...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-39
  Upon the Wednesday and Thursday following the last day of registration, and upon the Wednesday and Thursday following the last day of precinct registration...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-40
  Where verification lists are furnished to the canvassers by the Board of Election Commissioners, immediately upon completion of the canvass, the canvassers, or one of...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-41
  The canvassers, or one of them, shall prepare a list of the names of the parties designated as aforesaid, and to whom such notice...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-42
  With respect to those who register at the office of the Board of Election Commissioners preceding the election to be held on the first...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-44
  Any voter or voters in the ward, village or incorporated town containing such precinct, and any precinct committeeman in the county, may, between the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-45
  A docket of all applications to said board of election commissioners, whether such application shall be made for the purpose of being registered or...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-46
  The circuit court of the county in which such city, village or incorporated town shall be located, shall, on Friday and Saturday of the...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-47
  In case said court shall refuse any such application, an order shall be entered accordingly on the Wednesday following the session of the court...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-48
  A supplemental list of all persons whose registration shall have been ordered restored or completed by order of the board of election commissioners or...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-49
  The registration hereinabove provided preceding the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1936, shall constitute a permanent registration, subject to revision and...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-49.1
  In municipalities of 500,000 or more inhabitants having a Board of Election Commissioners and in all cities, villages and incorporated towns under the jurisdiction...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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,...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 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...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-100
  Grace period. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code to the contrary, each election authority shall establish procedures for the registration of voters and for...
• Illinois Election Code. - 10 ILCS 5, Section 6-105
  First time voting. A person must vote for the first time in person and not by a mailed absentee ballot if the person registered to...

Last modified: February 18, 2015