Illinois Administrative Code
Title 26 - ELECTIONS
Part 207 - MISCELLANEOUS
Section 207.140 - Certification of Signature Imaging Systems
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) A signature imaging system is a system of computer hardware and software which captures, stores and reproduces an image of a signature from an original document.
b) Except for those signature imaging systems in use by election authorities on November 15, 1996, no signature imaging system may be employed by an election authority unless it is first approved by the State Board of Elections (Board) upon the application of the election authority seeking to employ the system.
c) Each election authority applying to the Board for the certification of a signature imaging system shall make its application in writing and shall represent to the Board that the system it seeks to have certified complies with applicable statutes. Such representation shall be sufficient evidence of compliance for the Board to certify the system.
d) The Board shall, for good cause shown, decertify any system previously certified for use by election authorities.
e) The application, approval, and decertification process shall be in accord with those procedures set out in 26 Ill. Adm. Code 204, Approval of Voting Systems, except that:
The Board shall prescribe the form of the application and shall publish and make available to election authorities procedural operation criteria that meet the requirements of applicable statutes.
f) Signature imaging systems which are in actual use or under lease or purchase agreement by election authorities on November 15, 1996 shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of this Section.