Bill Text: IL SB1272 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Election Code. Requires the State Board of Elections, in conjunction with election authorities, to implement a secure, free access system available to voters by January 1, 2024. Provides that the system shall allow a voter to track receipt of the voter's vote by mail ballot and check the ballot's status with the election authority. Requires the election authority to make the system available to vote by mail voters from the first day that vote by mail ballots are accepted until 30 days after completion of the official canvass. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-10 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB1272 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB1272-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB1272 Introduced 2/3/2023, by Sen. Jil Tracy SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
10 ILCS 5/19-25 new
Amends the Election Code. Requires the State Board of Elections, in conjunction with election authorities, to implement a secure, free access system available to voters by January 1, 2024. Provides that the system shall allow a voter to track receipt of the voter's vote by mail ballot and check the ballot's status with the election authority. Requires the election authority to make the system available to vote by mail voters from the first day that vote by mail ballots are accepted until 30 days after completion of the official canvass. Effective immediately.
LRB103 24958 AWJ 51292 b
A BILL FOR
SB1272 LRB103 24958 AWJ 51292 b
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 adding Section
19-25 as follows:
(10 ILCS 5/19-25 new)
Sec. 19-25. Vote by mail tracking. In conjunction with
election authorities, the State Board of Elections shall
implement by January 1, 2024 a secure, free access system
available to voters in each election authority that allows
each vote by mail voter to:
(1) track the delivery and receipt of the voter's vote
by mail ballot by the election authority; and
(2) learn if the voter's vote by mail ballot was
accepted for counting and, if not, the reason why the
ballot was rejected.
For each election, the election authority shall make the
secure, free access system available to vote by mail voters
from the first day that vote by mail ballots are accepted until
30 days after completion of the official canvass.
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.