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10 ILCS 5/14-3.2
10 ILCS 5/14-4
10 ILCS 5/14-4.1
10 ILCS 5/14-4.5
10 ILCS 5/14-5
10 ILCS 5/14-5.1
10 ILCS 5/14-5.2
10 ILCS 5/14-6
10 ILCS 5/14-7
10 ILCS 5/14-8
10 ILCS 5/14-9
10 ILCS 5/15-1
10 ILCS 5/15-2
10 ILCS 5/15-3
10 ILCS 5/15-4
10 ILCS 5/15-6
10 ILCS 5/16-1
10 ILCS 5/16-3 · (a) The names of all candidates to be voted for in each election district or precinct shall be printed on one ballot, except as is provided in Sections 16-6, 16-6.1, and 21-1.01 of this Code and except as otherwise provided in this Code with respect to the odd year regular elections and the emergency referenda. The lettering of candidate names on a ballot shall be in both capital and lowercase letters in conformance with standard English language guidelines, unless compliance is not feasible due to the election system utilized by the election authority. All nominations of any political party shall be placed under the party appellation or title of such party as designated in the certificates of nomination or petitions. The names of all independent candidates shall be printed upon the ballot in a column or columns under the heading "independent" arranged under the names or titles of the respective offices for which such independent candidates shall have been nominated and so far as practicable, the name or names of any independent candidate or candidates for any office shall be printed upon the ballot opposite the name or names of any candidate or candidates for the same office contained in any party column or columns upon said ballot. The ballot shall contain no other names, except that in cases of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, the names of the candidates for President and Vice-President may be added to the party designation and words calculated to aid the voter in his choice of candidates may be added, such as "Vote for one" or "Vote for not more than three". If no candidate or candidates file for an office and if no person or persons file a declaration as a write-in candidate for that office, then below the title of that office the election authority instead shall print "No Candidate". When an electronic voting system is used which utilizes a ballot label booklet, the candidates and questions shall appear on the pages of such booklet in the order provided by this Code; and, in any case where candidates for an office appear on a page which does not contain the name of any candidate for another office, and where less than 50% of the page is utilized, the name of no candidate shall be printed on the lowest 25% of such page. On the back or outside of the ballot, so as to appear when folded, shall be printed the words "Official Ballot", followed by the designation of the polling place for which the ballot is prepared, the date of the election and a facsimile of the signature of the election authority who has caused the ballots to be printed. The ballots shall be of plain white paper, through which the printing or writing cannot be read. However, ballots for use at the nonpartisan and consolidated elections may be printed on different color paper, except blue paper, whenever necessary or desirable to facilitate distinguishing between ballots for different political subdivisions. In the case of nonpartisan elections for officers of a political subdivision, unless the statute or an ordinance adopted pursuant to Article VII of the Constitution providing the form of government therefor requires otherwise, the column listing such nonpartisan candidates shall be printed with no appellation or circle at its head. The party appellation or title, or the word "independent" at the head of any column provided for independent candidates, shall be printed in letters not less than one-fourth of an inch in height and a circle one-half inch in diameter shall be printed at the beginning of the line in which such appellation or title is printed, provided, however, that no such circle shall be printed at the head of any column or columns provided for such independent candidates. The names of candidates shall be printed in letters not less than one-eighth nor more than one-fourth of an inch in height, and at the beginning of each line in which a name of a candidate is printed a square shall be printed, the sides of which shall be not less than one-fourth of an inch in length. However, the names of the candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor on the same ticket shall be printed within a bracket and a single square shall be printed in front of the bracket. The list of candidates of the several parties and any such list of independent candidates shall be placed in separate columns on the ballot in such order as the election authorities charged with the printing of the ballots shall decide; provided, that the names of the candidates of the several political parties, certified by the State Board of Elections to the several county clerks shall be printed by the county clerk of the proper county on the official ballot in the order certified by the State Board of Elections. Any county clerk refusing, neglecting or failing to print on the official ballot the names of candidates of the several political parties in the order certified by the State Board of Elections, and any county clerk who prints or causes to be printed upon the official ballot the name of a candidate, for an office to be filled by the Electors of the entire State, whose name has not been duly certified to him upon a certificate signed by the State Board of Elections shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.
10 ILCS 5/16-4.1 · Ballots; Form; Consolidated Elections.
10 ILCS 5/16-5
10 ILCS 5/16-5.01
10 ILCS 5/16-6
10 ILCS 5/16-6.1
10 ILCS 5/16-7
10 ILCS 5/16-9
10 ILCS 5/16-10
10 ILCS 5/16-11
10 ILCS 5/17-1 · The polls shall be opened at the hour of 6:00 a.m.
10 ILCS 5/17-2
10 ILCS 5/17-3
10 ILCS 5/17-4
10 ILCS 5/17-5 · The manner of voting shall be by ballot.
10 ILCS 5/17-6
10 ILCS 5/17-7
10 ILCS 5/17-8
10 ILCS 5/17-9
10 ILCS 5/17-10
10 ILCS 5/17-11
10 ILCS 5/17-12 · The ballot shall be folded by the voter and delivered to one of the judges of election; and if the judge is 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 Article 4, 5, or 6) and shall immediately put the ballot into the ballot box.
10 ILCS 5/17-13
10 ILCS 5/17-13.5 · Curbside voting.
10 ILCS 5/17-14
10 ILCS 5/17-15
10 ILCS 5/17-16
10 ILCS 5/17-16.1
10 ILCS 5/17-17
10 ILCS 5/17-18
10 ILCS 5/17-18.1
10 ILCS 5/17-19
10 ILCS 5/17-19.2
10 ILCS 5/17-20
10 ILCS 5/17-21
10 ILCS 5/17-22
10 ILCS 5/17-22.1
10 ILCS 5/17-23
10 ILCS 5/17-24
10 ILCS 5/17-25
10 ILCS 5/17-26
10 ILCS 5/17-27
10 ILCS 5/17-28
10 ILCS 5/17-29
10 ILCS 5/17-30
10 ILCS 5/17-32
10 ILCS 5/17-33
10 ILCS 5/17-43
10 ILCS 5/17-100 · Definition of a vote.
10 ILCS 5/18-1
10 ILCS 5/18-2
10 ILCS 5/18-3
10 ILCS 5/18-4
10 ILCS 5/18-5
10 ILCS 5/18-5.1
10 ILCS 5/18-6
10 ILCS 5/18-7
10 ILCS 5/18-8
10 ILCS 5/18-9
10 ILCS 5/18-9.1
10 ILCS 5/18-9.2
10 ILCS 5/18-10
10 ILCS 5/18-11
10 ILCS 5/18-12
10 ILCS 5/18-13
10 ILCS 5/18-14
10 ILCS 5/18-15
10 ILCS 5/18-16
10 ILCS 5/18-18
10 ILCS 5/18-40
10 ILCS 5/18-100 · Definition of a vote.
10 ILCS 5/18A-2 · Application of Article.
10 ILCS 5/18A-5 · Provisional voting; general provisions.
10 ILCS 5/18A-10 · Sealing and transporting provisional ballots.
10 ILCS 5/18A-15 · Validating and counting provisional ballots.
10 ILCS 5/18A-20 · Provisional voting verification system.
10 ILCS 5/18A-218 · Interpretation of Article 18A.
10 ILCS 5/18A-218.10 · Definitions relating to provisional ballots.
10 ILCS 5/18A-218.20 · Counting procedures for provisional ballots cast in an incorrect precinct within the same election authority's jurisdiction.
10 ILCS 5/18A-218.30 · Counting procedures for provisional ballots cast in an incorrect precinct within a different election authority's jurisdiction.
10 ILCS 5/18A-218.40 · Follow-up procedures for provisional ballots.
10 ILCS 5/19-1
10 ILCS 5/19-2