Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that extends ballot drop boxes and curbside voting.

Highlights:

• Requires the State Board of Elections to provide by rule, after at least 2 public hearings of the Board and in consultation with the election authorities, a Cyber Navigator Program to support the efforts of election authorities to defend against cyber breaches and detect and recover from cyber attacks (Sec. 1A-55).

• Authorizes any voter with a temporary or permanent disability who, because of structural features of the building in which the polling place is located, is unable to access or enter the polling place, may request that 2 judges of election of  opposite party affiliation to deliver a ballot to him or her at the point where he or she is unable to continue forward motion toward the polling place (Sec 17-13.b).

• Requires the voter to complete the entire voting process, including the application for ballot from which the judges of the election will compare the voter's signature with the signature on his or her registration record card in the precinct binder (Sec. 17-13.c).

• Authorizes election authorities to establish curb-side voting for individuals to cast a ballot during early voting or on election day. An election authority's curb-side voting program to designate at least 2 election judges from opposite parties per vehicle and the individual must have the option to mark the ballot without interference from the election judges (Sec. 17-13.d).

• Authorizes vote by mail voters to make and subscribe to the certifications provided for in the application and on the return envelope for the ballot, and such ballot or ballots shall be folded by such voter in the manner required to be folded before depositing the same in the ballot box, and be deposited in such envelope and the envelope securely sealed (Sec. 19-6).

• Authorizes election authorities to accept any vote by mail ballot returned, including ballots returned with insufficient or no postage. Election authorities may maintain one or more secure collection sites for the postage-free return of vote by mail ballots (Sec. 19-6).

• Prohibits any person not the voter or a person authorized by the voter to take the ballot and ballot envelope of a voter for deposit into the mail unless the ballot has been issued according to application by a physically incapacitated elector (Sec. 19-6).

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