Illinois Administrative Code › Title 26 - ELECTIONS › Part 216 - REGISTRATION OF VOTERS › Section 216.50 - Canceling Voter Registrations

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a)
			 This Section implements Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of
			 1993 ( 42 U.S.C Sections 1973gg-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) No
			 voter registration may be canceled without following the procedures and
			 providing the notice of suspension or cancellation required by Section 8(a)
			 through (d) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The Voter
			 Registration Application or the Voter Registration Card of an inactive voter
			 who has not voted in two consecutive general federal elections shall be
			 canceled at the completion of procedures set forth in Section 8(d) of the
			 National Voter Registration Act of 1993, provided that while such procedures
			 are pending, the voter has taken no action specified in the National Voter
			 Registration Act of 1993 to restore his or her name to active voter
			 status.
c) An election authority
			 shall cancel the Voter Registration Application or Voter Registration Card of a
			 voter upon receipt of a request in writing from the voter to do so. A written
			 acknowledgment by the voter that he or she has changed residence to a place
			 beyond the jurisdiction of the election authority or an attempt to register in
			 another jurisdiction shall be deemed a request to cancel the voter
			 registration.
d) A voter's
			 registration shall be canceled upon the election authority's receipt of:
1) a notice from the State Board of Elections
			 that the voter has been incarcerated in a United States correctional facility
			 by reason of conviction;
2) a
			 certified notice from the a state department of corrections or a sheriff of a
			 county in the United States that the voter has been incarcerated in a state or
			 county correctional facility, as the case may be, if:
A) the certified notice states on its face
			 that the incarceration is a result of a criminal conviction and the crime of
			 which the voter has been convicted, or
B) the certified notice is accompanied by a
			 certified judgment of conviction or equivalent document issued by the court in
			 which the conviction was obtained;
3) a certified copy of a judgment of
			 conviction from a court of record that the voter has been convicted of a crime
			 in which it was found that the voter lacked the requisite qualifications to be
			 a voter in Illinois either at the time of conviction or at the time application
			 was made to become a voter, whether or not the voter was incarcerated as a
			 result of such conviction;
4) a
			 certified copy of a final judgment order of a court of record or a certified
			 copy of the final determination of an administrative tribunal having
			 jurisdiction in which it was found that the voter lacked the requisite
			 qualifications to be a voter in Illinois either at the time of entry of the
			 judgment or determination, or at the time application was made to become a
			 voter; or
5) a certified copy of
			 the voter's death certificate or equivalent document issued by a department of
			 vital records, wherever situated.