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   The State Board of Elections is authorized to prescribe standard forms
   for voter registration and elections, and to supervise, coordinate, and
   adopt regulations governing the work of local electoral boards,
   registrars, and officers of election. The Department of Elections is
   authorized to establish and maintain a statewide automated voter
   registration system to include procedures for ascertaining current
   addresses of registrants; to require cancellation of records for
   registrants no longer qualified; to provide electronic application for
   voter registration and absentee ballots; and to provide electronic
   delivery of absentee ballots to eligible military and overseas voters.

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