Illinois Administrative Code › Title 26 - ELECTIONS › Part 216 - REGISTRATION OF VOTERS › Section 216.60 - Forms

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) This Section
			 implements Sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of
			 1993 ( 42 U.S.C. Sections 1973gg-3, gg-4, gg-5 and gg-6) and the order of the
			 Circuit Court of Cook County entered May 1, 1996 in Or, et al., v. Edgar, et
			 al. 95 CO 246 and 95 CO 248 (Consolidated).
b) Township supervisors and county
			 commissioners in counties not under township organization shall, and the
			 Illinois Secretary of State and designated agencies of the State of Illinois
			 may, use the forms prescribed in Exhibits A, B, and C of this Part in taking
			 and transmitting the Voter Registration Applications of applicants who choose
			 to submit Voter Registration Applications, or in recording the decision of the
			 applicants who decline to submit Voter Registration Applications if such
			 agencies do not otherwise provide forms of their own design meeting the
			 requirements of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
c) Election authorities shall use the forms
			 prescribed in Exhibits D, E, F, G, and H in providing notice of decisions taken
			 with respect to Voter Registration Applications and Voter Registration
			 Cards.
d) The State Board of
			 Elections shall supply to each election authority a quantity of the National
			 Mail Voter Registration Booklets designed by the United States Federal Election
			 Commission on an as-needed basis. Each election authority shall make a copy of
			 the National Mail Voter Registration Booklet available to any person over 18
			 years of age in its jurisdiction who seeks to register to vote in another
			 state, or refer a request from such person for a National Mail Voter
			 Registration Booklet to the Illinois State Board of Elections in accord with
			 subsection (h) of this Section.
e)
			 Each election authority shall make a copy of the Illinois Voter Registration
			 Application available to any person over 18 years of age in its jurisdiction
			 who seeks to register to vote in Illinois. Each Voter Registration Application
			 supplied to an individual shall be accompanied by instructions for completing
			 the forms and returning it to the appropriate address. Such instructions may be
			 oral where the form is supplied by a designated agency to an
			 applicant.
f) Election authorities,
			 the Secretary of State, and designated agencies shall obtain the Illinois Voter
			 Registration Application for their own purposes and, in the case of election
			 authorities, in sufficient quantities for distribution to the public. Each
			 Voter Registration Application so produced shall conform to the measurements,
			 paper weight, color and layout, and shall reproduce verbatim the text set forth
			 in Exhibit A of this Part.
g) Voter
			 Registration Applications made available to the general public to be returned
			 by mail to the election authority shall be placed in holders or dispensers
			 bearing the uniform logo designed for the purpose by the State Board of
			 Elections. Control numbers assigned by the election authority may be added to
			 Voter Registration Applications distributed to the general public, but no such
			 control number shall be assigned to any Voter Registration Application supplied
			 by the election authority to a designated registration agency, a township
			 supervisor, or a county commissioner. Voter Registration Applications offered
			 to the general public to be returned by mail must bear the mailing address of
			 the election authority having jurisdiction over the place where the form
			 dispenser is located. Whenever an election authority receives a Voter
			 Registration Application for an applicant who does not reside in the election
			 authority's jurisdiction, the election authority shall forward, within three
			 days after its receipt, the Voter Registration Application to the election
			 authority for the place where the applicant resides. The election authority
			 shall include with the forwarding a transmittal notice of the kind identified
			 in Appendix C of this Part. The election authority receiving such a transmitted
			 application shall treat the application as if it had been originally filed with
			 the receiving election authority. The postmark on the application or date of
			 the application's receipt by the transmitting election authority shall
			 determine the voter's eligibility to vote in the next ensuing
			 election.
h) Election authorities
			 shall limit the number of the National Mail Voter Registration Booklets
			 supplied to an organization conducting a voter registration drive to 50.
			 Requests for the National Mail Voter Registration Booklet in quantities
			 exceeding 50 shall be referred to the State Board of Elections, which shall,
			 prior to filling the request, require the organization making such a request to
			 submit in writing a copy of its plan to distribute the booklets, including the
			 states in which the organization intends to distribute the booklet and the
			 quantities to be distributed in each state. The State Board of Elections shall
			 deny the request if such a written plan is not submitted, and shall substitute
			 the Voter Registration Application for any quantities of the National Mail
			 Voter Registration Booklet intended for distribution in Illinois. The State
			 Board of Elections shall charge the requesting party the actual cost of
			 reproducing the National Mail Voter Registration Booklet for any quantities
			 requested over 200.