Section 5-601. Registration records; physically disabled voters

1. A
  physically disabled voter whose polling place is located in  a  building
  that  is  not accessible shall be entitled to vote in any other election
  district  whose  polling  place  is  located  in  a  building  which  is
  accessible,  provided  that  the  candidates and ballot proposals on the
  ballot in such other election district are the  same  as  those  on  the
  ballot in the election district in which such voter resides.
    2.  A written application by a disabled voter to have his registration
  record transferred to an  election  district  which  has  an  accessible
  polling  place  shall  be  valid  for  an  election  occurring more than
  fourteen days after it is received by the board of elections and, if the
  voter is  permanently  disabled,  for  all  subsequent  elections.  Such
  application  may specify the election district to which the voter wishes
  his registration records transferred.
    3. The board of  elections  shall  keep  all  such  applications  from
  permanently  disabled  voters  on  file  at its office.   Not later than
  twelve days before each election, the board shall transfer  the  records
  of  each  voter for whom it has such an application and who continues to
  be registered from the  address  on  such  application  to  an  election
  district  in  the  polling  place  specified in such application. If the
  application does not specify  such  an  election  district,  or  if  the
  election district so specified is not one to which such records properly
  may  be  transferred  for  such  election,  the board of elections shall
  transfer such record to the election district among those  to  which  it
  may  properly  be transferred for such election, which is located in the
  accessible polling place closest to the residence of the applicant.
    4. If such registration records are in the form of  registration  poll
  records,   the   board   of  elections,  before  transferring  any  such
  registration record, shall make a photocopy  thereof.  Such  photocopies
  shall  be  kept  on  file  in  the  offices  of  such board in case such
  registration poll record is lost.
    5. Upon removing such a registration poll record from a  poll  ledger,
  the  board  of  elections shall insert in such poll ledger, at the place
  where such registration poll record was filed, a form  giving  the  name
  and  address of the voter, stating that the registration poll record was
  moved pursuant to the provisions of this section and giving  the  number
  of  the  election  district  to  which such registration poll record was
  moved and the location of the polling place for such election district.
    6. If such registration records are  kept  in  the  form  of  computer
  generated  registration  lists,  the board of elections at the time such
  registration record is transferred, shall cause to  be  entered  on  the
  computer  generated  registration  at  the place where such registration
  record would have appeared, the  name  and  address  of  the  voter  but
  without  the  computer reproduced facsimile of the voter's signature and
  either a notation that such record was moved pursuant to the  provisions
  of  this  section  together  with the number of the election district to
  which such record was moved and the location of the  polling  place  for
  such  election  district  or  a notation stating where, in such computer
  generated registration list, such information is provided.
    7. Not later  than  ten  days  before  each  election,  the  board  of
  elections  shall mail to each voter who has made application pursuant to
  the provisions  of  this  section,  by  first  class  mail,  information
  specifying the number and location of the election district to which his
  records  have  been transferred or that there is no election district to
  which such records may properly be transferred which is  located  in  an
  accessible polling place.
    8.  If  the  board determines that there is no election district in an
  accessible polling place to which such voter's record  may  properly  be

  transferred for a particular election, it shall treat the application of
  such  voter  as  an application for an absentee ballot for such election
  and forthwith mail such absentee ballot to such voter at  his  residence
  address  together  with the notice required by subdivision seven of this
  section.
    9. The board of elections shall compile a list, arranged  by  election
  districts  of  residence, of the names and addresses of all voters whose
  registration records have been moved pursuant to the provisions of  this
  section   and  the  number  of  the  election  district  to  which  such
  registration record was moved. Not later than six days  before  election
  day, the board of elections shall send a copy of such list to the county
  chairman of each party. Such list shall be a public record at the office
  of such board of elections.
    10.  The  state  board of elections shall prescribe a standard form of
  application for use under this section and all forms necessary to  carry
  out the provisions of this section.