Illinois
Ballot Security
What Politicians Say
After experimenting with no-excuse mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic, Illinois made it permanent in 2021.
The elections overhaul also required the mail ballots sent without postage be accepted, allowed local elections administrators to set up ballot drop boxes and provided funding to buy them.
The law made other changes to make voting easier, allowing curbside voting where people can fill out a ballot in their car, making the 2022 Election Day a state holiday and setting up voting centers where any local-area resident can cast a ballot.
Ease of Voting
Other laws passed in 2021 require state prison officials to give felons leaving prison voter registration forms and expand an automatic voter registration program to include the Department of Corrections.
Ballot Security
A 2022 law allows disabled voters disabled voters to return ballots electronically, which the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine says is “fundamentally insecure.”
How Politicians Responded to the 2020 Election
Two of Illinois’ five Republican US representatives objected to the certification of Biden electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Two also signed an amicus brief supporting a Texas lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to intervene in the election.