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By Dave Dahl
SPRINGFIELD – A bill to greater facilitate vote-by-mail – requiring the votes to count even when the ballots come postage due – has the stamp of approval of Democrats on an Illinois Senate committee.
“Let’s say (the mailed-in ballot) is thirteen cents short,” said the sponsor, State Sen. Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield). “Or, let’s say they’ve put no postage at all; they’ve just thrown it in. The election authority that receives that ballot, then, is going to pay.
“It’s going to be on them to make that payment.”
HB 1871 has passed the Senate Executive Committee.
Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected].