10 ILCS 5/17-12
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 10 - ELECTIONS|10 ILCS 5/ - Election Code.|Article 17 - Conduct of Elections and Making Returns

 (from Ch. 46, par. 17-12)Sec. 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 the person  offering the vote is a legal voter, the judges of election shall enter the  name of the voter, and his number, under the proper heading in the poll  books, (except as otherwise provided in Articles 4, 5 or 6) and shall  immediately put the ballot into the ballot box.The voter shall in like manner fold and deliver the separate blue ballot  or ballots pertaining to a proposal or proposals for constitutional  amendments or the calling of a constitutional convention, if such proposal  or proposals have been submitted to a vote of the people at such election  and shall also in like manner fold and deliver the separate representative  ballot provided for in Article 8A in cases where that Article is  applicable. The judge of election to whom the voter delivers his ballots  shall not accept the same unless all of the ballots given to the voter are  returned by him. If a voter delivers less than all of the ballots given to  him, the judge to whom the same are offered shall advise him in a voice  clearly audible to the other judges of election that the voter must return  the remainder of the ballots. The statement of the judge to the voter shall  clearly express the fact that the voter is not required to vote such  remaining ballots but that whether or not he votes them he must fold and  deliver them to the judge. In making such statement the judge of election  shall not indicate by word, gesture or intonation of voice that the  unreturned ballots shall be voted in any particular manner. No new voter  shall be permitted to enter the voting booth of a voter who has failed to  deliver the total number of ballots received by him until such voter has  returned to the voting booth pursuant to the judge's request and again quit  the booth with all of the ballots required to be returned by him. Upon  receipt of all such ballots the judges of election shall enter the name of  the voter, and his number, as above provided in this section, and the judge  to whom the ballots are delivered shall immediately put the ballots into  the ballot box but, in the case of an election for Representatives in the  General Assembly pursuant to Article 8A, the official representative ballot  shall be placed in the separate ballot box provided for such purpose. If  any voter who has failed to deliver all the ballots received by him refuses  to return to the voting booth after being advised by the judge of election  as herein provided, the judge shall inform the other judges of such  refusal, and thereupon the ballot or ballots returned to the judge shall be  deposited in the ballot box, the voter shall be permitted to depart from  the polling place, and a new voter shall be permitted to enter the voting  booth.No judge of election shall accept from any voter less than the full  number of ballots received by such voter without first advising the voter  in the manner above provided of the necessity of returning all of the  ballots, nor shall any judge advise such voter in a manner contrary to that  which is herein permitted, or in any other manner violate the provisions of  this section; provided that the acceptance by a judge of election of less  than the full number of ballots delivered to a voter who refuses to return  to the voting booth after being properly advised by the judge shall not be  a violation of this section.    (Source: Laws 1964, 1st S.S., p. 711.)