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contest of election shall be pending at such time in which such ballots may be required as evidence, the same shall not be disposed of or sold until after such contest is finally determined.

APPROVED June 22, 1917.

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AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns of this State," approved June 19, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, as subsequently amended, by amending section 7 of Article II, sections 5, 11, 17, 18, 21 and 27 of Article III, section 6 of Article IV, sections 5 and 6 of Article VII, and by repealing sections 19, 20, 22, 23 and 24 of Article III thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns of this State," approved June 19, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending section 7 of Article II, sections 5, 11, 17, 18, 21 and 27 of Article III, section 6 of Article IV, and sections 5 and 6 of Article VII, to read as inserted herein, and by repealing sections 19, 20, 22, 23 and 24 of Article III.

ARTICLE II.

§ 7. It shall be the duty of said board of commissioners, within two (2) months after its first organization, to divide said city, village or incorporated town into election precincts, which shall contain as nearly as practicable four hundred (400) qualified voters, and in making such division and establishing such precincts such board shall take as a basis the poll books, or the number of votes cast at the previous pres

idential election. Within ninety (90) days after each presidential election, such board shall revise and rearrange such precincts on the basis of the votes cast at such election, making such precincts to contain, as near as practicable, four hundred (400) actual voters; but at any time and in all instances where the vote cast at any precinct, at any election, equals six hundred (600) there must be a rearrangement so as to reduce the vote to the standard of four hundred (400) as near as may be. The precincts in each ward, village or incorporated town shall be numbered from one upwards, consecutively.

ARTICLE III.

§ 5. Said board of registry shall, by noon of the second day following such registry, hang up the register, which shall be known as the public register, at the place of registration, which shall be accessible to the public during all business hours and the other two registers shall be returned to the board of election commissioners within the time aforesaid. Any voter of the ward, village or town shall be permitted to be present at the place of registration in said ward and shall have the right to challenge any applicant who applies to be registered. And when challenged such applicant must make oath and sign an affidavit in writing as follows:

"I do solemnly swear that I am a citizen of the United States, am ..years of age, and that I have resided in the State of Illinois

for the period of....

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in the city of.

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street, in said precinct, for the period of... that I last registered in said city for the.

of....

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.election .street, and

that I have never been convicted of any crime (or if convicted, state the time and when pardoned by the Governor of any State.)"

This affidavit shall be signed and sworn to before one of such board of registry, and it shall be preserved and returned to the office of said election commissioners immediately. If said board of registry shall deem such affidavit sufficient, and if the board is convinced that such person is a qualified voter, then he must be admitted to such register as qualified. Blank affidavits of the character aforesaid shall be sent out to the judges of all the precincts, and the judges of election shall furnish the same on demand and administer the oath without criticism. If any judge of election, poll clerk or other person, when such applicant has been challenged, shall designate such person upon any of the registers as a qualified voter before he has made and filed with the board of registry the affidavit of the character aforesaid, such judge of election, poll clerk or other person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten (10) days nor more than sixty (60) days, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

And any person claiming to be an elector of any election precinct. in such city and who, upon application, is denied the right to be registered as a qualified voter in such precinct, may make and sign an application in writing, under oath, to said board of election commissioners in substance in the following form:

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and that said board refused to register me as a qualified voter in said precinct, that I reside in said precinct, am a duly qualified voter and entitled to vote in said precinct at the next election."

All such applications shall be presented to the board of election commissioners by the applicant, in person, between the hours of nine o'clock a. m. and five o'clock p. m. on Tuesday or Wednesday of the second week prior to the week in which such election is to be held.

Immediately following the first day of registration and up to and until noon of the day before the second day of registration, any voter who shall make affidavit before the board of election commissioners or its clerk authorized to administer oaths, that he was unable to go to his polling place on the first day of registration and that he expects to be, by reason of absence from the city or sickness, unable to go to the polls on the second day of registration, may file with such board an application for registration. Such affidavit shall be in the following form:

“I, ...

legal voter in the...

do solemnly swear that I am a .precinct of the.........ward in the city of Illinois, and that by reason of ..

I was unable to be present at the polling place in said precinct on the last day of registration, and will, by reason of...

be unable to be present on the next day of registration.

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After making such affidavit, said board of election commissioners, or its clerk, shall administer to him the oath required of applicants for registration in section 3 hereof and shall require him to answer the same questions required in section 3 and shall receive his answers on a blank provided by said board for that purpose. Said questions, with the answers thereto, shall be upon the same blank and immediately following the oath as above provided for and shall be signed and certified to be correct by the applicant.

All such affidavits required in this section, together with the questions and answers certified to as above required in the office of the election board, shall be enclosed and sealed in envelopes by precincts and be delivered by them to the judges of the respective precincts, together with the registers on the day before the second day of registration and said judges during their session on said second day of registration, shall enter such names and answers in the registers in the same manner as though such persons were registering in person. Said affidavits, with the questions and answers, shall be returned to the office of the election board with the other returns.

In the event that a voter shall, by reason of illness or absence from the city, be unable to appear in person at the office of the board of election commissioners during the interval between the first and second days of registration, he may, upon application made by him or by another for him, to the board of election commissioners, be furnished a blank such as is provided for herein which may be executed by him before any clerk of court of record, and under its seal and returned to the board of election commissioners who shall cause such voter to be registered in the same manner as though he had appeared before said board in person: Provided, such application for registration is received by said board after the first day of registration and not later than noon of the day before the second day of registration.

§ 11. Any voter or voters in the ward, village or town containing such precinct may, between the hours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 6 p. m. of Monday and Tuesday of the week immediately preceding the week in which such election is to be held, make application in writing, before such board of election commissioners, to have any name upon such register of any precinct in the ward erased, which application shall be, in substance, in the words and figures following:

"I being a qualified voter, registered from No.... street in the..

or town) of....

..precinct of the.........ward of the city (village do hereby solemnly swear (or

affirm) that I have personal knowledge that...

registered from No.

qualified voter in the...

city (village or town) of.

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Such application shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant before any member of the board or the clerk thereof and filed with said board. Thereupon notice of such application, with a demand to appear before the board of election commissioners and show cause why his name shall not be erased from said register, shall be personally served upon such person or left at his place of residence, named in such register by a messenger of said board of commissioners, and, as to the manner and time of serving such notice, such messenger shall make affidavit; said messenger shall also make affidavit of the fact, in case he cannot find such person or his place of residence, and that he went to the place named on such register as his place of residence. Such notice shall be served at least one day before the time fixed for such party to show

cause.

Said commissioners shall also cause a like notice or demand to be sent by mail duly stamped and directed, to such person, to the address upon said register at least two days before the day fixed in said notice to show cause.

A like notice shall be served on the person or persons making the application to have the name upon such register erased to appear and show cause why said name shall be erased, said notice to set out the day and hour of such hearing. If the voter making such application fails to appear before said board at the time set for the hearing as fixed in the said notice or fails to show cause why the name upon such register shall be erased, the application may be dismissed by said board.

Any voter making such application or applications shall be privileged from arrest while presenting the name to the board of election commissioners, and whilst going to and returning from the board of election commissioners.

§ 17. At every election held in each city, village or incorporated town between the general registration above referred to, the registers of the last general registration with additions of names registered in the office of the board of election commissioners as hereinafter provided, shall be used.

From and after the November election in each even numbered year and until and including the thirtieth day of September in the next following even numbered year, the office of the board of election commissioners shall be open during business hours of each day, except Sundays and legal holidays, and excepting the twenty-eight (28) days immediately preceding any regular election, for the purpose of registering applicants for registration. Such applicants shall be put under oath by said board or its duly authorized clerk and shall answer the same questions as are required to be answered at general registrations in section 3 of this Article III, and such names and answers shall be entered by such board in the general registers under the proper headings in such registers. All such voters so registered and otherwise qualified shall be entitled to vote at all elections and primaries as if registered at the general registration as provided in this Act.

At least twenty days before the last day of registration in the office of the board of election commissioners as provided in section 17 of Article III hereof, such board shall cause to be published in each daily newspaper published in such city, a notice of the day and date when such registration shall cease.

If a voter remove from one place to another in the same precinct, such party must appear at the office of the board of election commissioners during the time specified above, and make oath as to such removal, and the register shall be corrected accordingly; and if not corrected, such person cannot vote: Provided, that any voter, making such removal within thirty days prior to any eléction or primary except the regular congressional elections, may make oath before the judges of such precinct, at the polling place on the day of election or primary, that he is the identical person whose name appears upon the register,

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