Illinois State Board of Elections

State Board of Elections
Board overview
JurisdictionIllinois
Board executive
  • Steve Sandvoss, Executive Director
Key document
Websitewww.elections.il.gov

The State Board of Elections (SBE) is an independent agency of the U.S. state of Illinois.[1] The SBE, as an acronym, refers both to the eight-member bipartisan board of directors and to the agency that it oversees. The members of the SBE, who are appointed by the Governor of Illinois, in turn appoint an executive director who is responsible for the day-to-day management of the agency. The agency is headquartered in the state capital of Springfield, with a second headquarters in Chicago.[2]

In August 2016, the FBI announced that an SBE database containing electoral roll information had been breached by foreign hacker, possibly from Russia. Officials were still investigating whether the hacker was able to change any information in the database. A similar attack was made on a voter database in Arizona.[3]

  1. ^ 10 ILCS 5
  2. ^ "Illinois State Board of Elections". Archived from the original on 2019-06-21. Retrieved 2015-08-03.
  3. ^ Bruer, Wesley; Perez, Evan (30 August 2016). "Officials: Hackers breach election systems in Illinois, Arizona". CNN.com. Turner Broadcasting System. Retrieved 27 October 2016.