Illinois State Board of Elections

[1] The SBE, as an acronym, refers both to the eight-member bipartisan board of directors and to the agency that it oversees.

[2] In August 2016, the FBI announced that an SBE database containing electoral roll information had been breached by a 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.

In this capacity, it oversees the local election commissions, accepts nominating petitions and certificates of nomination, certifies the names of valid candidates for election, accepts and cross-checks the vote totals reported after Election Day, and accepts financial disclosures from the candidates' campaign committees.