Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24B-14 – Damaged, defective, or unreadable ballots; duplicates
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Terms Used In Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24B-14
- Ballot: means paper ballot sheets. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24B-2
- equipment: includes apparatus necessary to automatically examine and count votes as designated on ballots, and data processing machines which can be used for counting ballots and tabulating results. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24B-2
- Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology: means the capability to examine a ballot through electronic means and tabulate the votes at one or more counting places. See Illinois Compiled Statutes 10 ILCS 5/24B-2
If any ballot is damaged, defective, or cannot otherwise properly be counted by the automatic Precinct Tabulation Optical Scan Technology tabulating equipment, a true duplicate copy shall be made of the ballot in the presence of witnesses and substituted for the original ballot. Likewise, a duplicate ballot shall not include the invalid votes appearing on the original ballot. All duplicate ballots shall be clearly labeled “Duplicate”, shall bear a serial number which shall be registered on the damaged, defective, or otherwise unreadable ballot, and shall be counted in lieu of the damaged, defective, or otherwise unreadable ballot.