Bill Text: IL SB1517 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. In provisions concerning vote by mail ballots, removes the requirement that voters sign the exterior of the return envelope containing the ballot. Makes related changes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SB1517 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2017-SB1517-Introduced.html

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100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2017 and 2018 SB1517 Introduced 2/9/2017, by Sen. Pamela J. Althoff SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/19-6 from Ch. 46, par. 19-6
Amends the Election Code. In provisions concerning vote by mail ballots, removes the requirement that voters sign the exterior of the return envelope containing the ballot. Makes related changes.
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A BILL FOR
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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 Section
19-6 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/19-6) (from Ch. 46, par. 19-6)
Sec. 19-6. Such vote by mail voter shall make and subscribe
to the certifications provided for in the application and on
the return envelope for the ballot, and such ballot or ballots
shall be folded by such voter in the manner required to be
folded before depositing the same in the ballot box, and be
deposited in such envelope and the envelope securely sealed.
The voter shall then endorse his certificate upon the back of
the envelope and the envelope shall be mailed in person by such
voter, postage prepaid, to the election authority issuing the
ballot or, if more convenient, it may be delivered in person,
by either the voter or by any person authorized by the voter,
or by a company licensed as a motor carrier of property by the
Illinois Commerce Commission under the Illinois Commercial
Transportation Law, which is engaged in the business of making
deliveries. It shall be unlawful for any person not the voter
or a person authorized by the voter to take the ballot and
ballot envelope of a voter for deposit into the mail unless the

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ballot has been issued pursuant to application by a physically
incapacitated elector under Section 3-3 or a hospitalized voter
under Section 19-13, in which case any employee or person under
the direction of the facility in which the elector or voter is
located may deposit the ballot and ballot envelope into the
mail. If the voter authorized a person to deliver the ballot to
the election authority, the voter and the person authorized to
deliver the ballot shall complete the authorization printed on
the exterior envelope supplied by an election authority for the
return of the vote by mail ballot. The exterior of the envelope
supplied by an election authority for the return of the vote by
mail ballot shall include an authorization in substantially the
following form:
I ............ (voter) authorize ............... to take
the necessary steps to have this ballot delivered promptly to
the office of the election authority.
....................... ........................
Date Signature of voter
...............................................
Printed Name of Authorized Delivery Agent
...............................................
Signature of Authorized Delivery Agency

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...............................................
Date Delivered to the Election Authority
(Source: P.A. 98-1171, eff. 6-1-15.)