Gov. Otto Kerner, Jr., today signed at the capital at Springfield a new bill, passed by the State Legislature, permitting voters to cast absentee ballots in elections falling on religious holidays observed by those voters.
Until now, Illinois voters could cast absentee ballots only if they planned to be absent from the city on an election day or were too ill to come in person to the polling place.
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