New Jersey Revised Statutes Title 19 - Elections

• Section 19:1-1 - As Used In This Title.
  19:1-1. As used in this Title: "Election" means the procedure whereby the electors of this State or any political subdivision thereof elect persons to...
• Section 19:1-2 - Title Applicable To Commission Governed Municipalities
  This title shall apply to elections held in municipalities under the provisions of subtitle 4 of the title Municipalities and Counties (s. 40:70-1 et...
• Section 19:1-3 - Title Applicable To Charter Elections
  This title shall apply to elections authorized by charter to be held in certain municipalities only in so far as the provisions hereof are...
• Section 19:1-4 - Title Applicable To Referendum Procedure
  Except as in this title otherwise provided, the provisions for the election of public and party offices shall also apply to the determination of...
• Section 19:2-1 - Primary Elections For Delegates, Alternates, General, Special Elections.
  19:2-1. Primary elections for delegates and alternates to national conventions of political parties and for the general election shall be held in each year...
• Section 19:2-3 - General And Special Elections
  The general election shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in each year. Special elections shall be held...
• Section 19:3-1 - Public Offices, Party Offices And Public Questions Classified
  Public offices and party offices and public questions shall be divided and classified as follows: a. Those offices voted for and public questions voted...
• Section 19:3-2 - Filling Of Public Offices, Vacancies; Public Questions; Exceptions
  19:3-2. All elective public offices in this State or any of its political subdivisions, except such as are provided by law to be filled...
• Section 19:3-2.1 - Election To Office Of Lieutenant Governor, Certification.
  1. a. Pursuant to Article V, Section I, paragraph 4 of the Constitution of the State of New Jersey, a candidate for election to...
• Section 19:3-3 - Election Of Delegates, Alternates At Primary Election.
  19:3-3. Delegates and alternates to the national conventions of the political parties shall be elected at the primary election to be held on the...
• Section 19:3-4 - Basis Of Election To Office
  At every election the person or persons, to the number to be elected therein, who shall by law be qualified for the office or...
• Section 19:3-5 - Incompatible Offices, Prohibition; Qualifications For Certain Elected Offices.
  19:3-5. No person shall hold at the same time more than one of the following offices: elector of President and Vice-President of the United...
• Section 19:3-5.1 - Prohibition On Accepting Nomination By Petition For More Than One Office
  No person may accept a nomination by petition in the manner provided by R.S. 19:13-8 or consent to the acceptance of a nomination in...
• Section 19:3-5.2 - Holding Simultaneously More Than One Elective Public Office Prohibited;
  3. a. For elective public office other than as provided in R.S.19:3-5 or N.J.S.40A:9-4, a person elected to public office in this State shall...
• Section 19:3-6 - Form Of Public Question; When Question Deemed Approved; "Legal Voters" Defined
  Any public question voted upon at an election shall be presented in simple language that can be easily understood by the voter. The printed...
• Section 19:3-7 - Office Forfeited By Nonfiling Of Statement Or Filing Of False Statement
  If any candidate for nomination for or election to any public office or party position, or his campaign manager, shall fail to file any...
• Section 19:3-9 - Circumstances Under Which Office Not Void
  When upon the trial of any action or proceedings instituted under this Title for the purpose of securing a determination that any nomination for...
• Section 19:3-10 - Name Not Printed On Ballot; Next Highest Name Printed
  If it shall be determined in a manner hereinafter provided, that the nomination for an office of a successful candidate at any primary election...
• Section 19:3-11 - No Certificate Of Election To Candidate Elected
  If such determination shall not have been made ten days prior to the election at which the candidates at such primary election are to...
• Section 19:3-12 - Delivered Certificate Of Election Void
  If such determination shall have been made after the delivery of the certificate of election to such candidate, the certificate shall be null and...
• Section 19:3-13 - Candidate Inducted Into Office; Proceedings For Vacation Of Office
  If such determination shall not have been made until after such candidate has been inducted into office, then upon a certified copy of the...
• Section 19:3-14 - No Certificate Of Election Delivered
  If it shall be determined, in the manner hereinafter provided, that the election to an office of a candidate at any election is null...
• Section 19:3-15 - Delivered Certificate Of Election Void
  If such determination shall have been made after the delivery of the certificate of election to such candidate, the certificate shall be null and...
• Section 19:3-16 - Candidate Inducted Into Office; Proceedings For Vacation Of Office
  If such determination shall not have been made until after such candidate shall have been inducted into office, then upon a certified copy of...
• Section 19:3-17 - No Certificate Of Election Delivered
  If it shall be determined in the manner hereinafter provided, that the election of a person to a party office is null and void,...
• Section 19:3-18 - Delivered Certificate Of Election Void
  If such determination shall have been made after the delivery of the certificate of election to such candidate, the certificate shall be null and...
• Section 19:3-19 - Surrender By Delegates To National Convention Of Certificate Voided
  In the case of a delegate-at-large or district delegate to any national convention, whose election shall have been declared null and void under this...
• Section 19:3-20 - Candidate Whose Nomination Or Election Annulled Ineligible To Fill Vacancies
  A candidate nominated for or elected to an office, whose nomination or election has been annulled and set aside for any reason mentioned in...
• Section 19:3-21 - Candidate Removed From Office Ineligible To Fill Vacancies; Exception
  A candidate or other person removed from or deprived of his office for any offense mentioned in this title shall not, during the period...
• Section 19:3-22 - Appointments Null And Void
  An appointment to an office made in violation of or contrary to the provisions of section 19:3-20 or section 19:3-21 of this title shall...
• Section 19:3-23 - Vacation Of Office When Nomination Or Election Void
  When the nomination or election of a person to public office within this State or any of its political subdivisions shall have been declared...
• Section 19:3-24 - Right To Seek Recovery Of Office Unabridged
  Nothing in this Title contained shall abridge any right which a claimant to any office might otherwise have to institute a proceeding in lieu...
• Section 19:3-25 - What Constitutes Vacancy
  When a person shall remove or be removed from office because his nomination or election thereto has been declared null and void, such office...
• Section 19:3-26 - Vacancies In United States Senate; Election To Fill; Temporary Appointment By Governor.
  19:3-26. If a vacancy shall happen in the representation of this State in the United States senate, it shall be filled at the general...
• Section 19:3-27 - Vacancies In United States House Of Representatives; Election To Fill
  When a vacancy shall happen in the representation of this state in the United States house of representatives, it shall be the duty of...
• Section 19:3-29 - Other Vacancies; Election To Fill.
  19:3-29. A vacancy happening in a public office other than that of United States Senator, Member of Congress, State Senator, or member of the...
• Section 19:4-1 - Constitutional Qualifications; Persons Not Having Right Of Suffrage; Right To Register.
  19:4-1. Except as provided in R.S.19:4-2 and R.S.19:4-3, every person possessing the qualifications required by Article II, paragraph 3, of the Constitution of the...
• Section 19:4-4 - Arrest Under Civil Process On Election Day
  No person who shall have a right to vote at any election shall be arrested by virtue of any civil process on the day...
• Section 19:4-4.1 - Voters Having More Than One Place Of Residence; Authority To File Statement
  Any person entitled to vote in this State and who has more than 1 place of residence, may file a statement pursuant to this...
• Section 19:4-4.2 - Form And Contents Of Statement
  The statement shall be in writing, in such form as the Secretary of State may prescribe from time to time, and shall be sworn...
• Section 19:4-4.3 - Statement To Be Furnished By And Filed With Election Official Having Jurisdiction Of Indicated Domicile
  The statement shall be furnished by and filed with the election official whose jurisdiction embraces the indicated domicile of the affiant and with whom...
• Section 19:4-4.4 - Filing Like Statement On Subsequent Change Of Domicile
  Any person who files a statement under section 3 of this act shall be required, as a condition to any subsequent change of domicile...
• Section 19:4-4.5 - Statement As Prima Facie Evidence Of Domicile; Right To Register In Voting District
  A statement satisfying the requirements of sections 2 or 4 of this act shall be prima facie evidence that the place of residence in...
• Section 19:4-4.6 - Act As Remedial; Construction
  This act shall be deemed remedial and shall be construed in such manner as to assist the affiant to establish his lawful right to...
• Section 19:4-4.7 - False Oath, Affirmation, Fourth Degree Crime.
  7.Any person who shall make false oath or affirmation to any statement under this act, or who shall make any false statement therein, shall...
• Section 19:4-10 - Geographical Composition
  As nearly as practicable, each election district shall be composed of contiguous and compact areas having clearly definable boundaries and shall be contained wholly...
• Section 19:4-11 - District With One Voting Machine Or Four Electronic System Voting Devices; Accommodation For Person With Disabilities; Number Of Voters.
  2. a. Subject to the provisions of law as to redistricting, each election district in which only one voting machine or four electronic system...
• Section 19:4-12 - Districts With More Voters; Allotment Of Voting Machines Devices; Appointment Of Additional Members Of District Board.
  3.Except as provided pursuant to subsection b. of section 2 of P.L.1976, c.83 (C.19:4-11), each district in which two voting machines or five electronic...
• Section 19:4-13 - Readjustment Of Boundaries For Correct Number Of Voters
  When in any two consecutive general elections in an election district more than 750 or less than 250 votes shall have been cast, the...
• Section 19:4-14 - Revision Or Readjustment Of Boundaries At Option Of County Board
  Where it appears that serious inconveniences have been caused the voters by the size or shape of an election district, or that certain districts...
• Section 19:4-15 - Division Of Election District, Timing.
  6. a. No county board shall make division of an election district in any year in the period commencing 75 days before the primary...
• Section 19:4-16 - Maps And Descriptions; Filing; Public Inspection; Rules And Regulations
  The county board shall cause to have prepared and shall maintain an up-to-date suitable map of the county and of each constituent municipality clearly...
• Section 19:4-17 - Secretary Of State As Liaison With Bureau Of Census
  The Secretary of State shall serve as the State liaison with the Bureau of the Census, United States Department of Commerce, on matters relating...
• Section 19:5-1 - Powers Of And Restrictions Upon Political Parties; Party Columns On Official Ballot
  A political party may nominate candidates for public office at primary elections provided for in this Title, elect committees for the party within the...
• Section 19:5-2 - Membership And Organization Of Municipal Committees.
  19:5-2. The members of the municipal committees of political parties shall consist of the elected members of the county committee resident in the respective...
• Section 19:5-2.1 - Access To Financial Records Of Municipal Committees; Request By Persons Elected To Membership In Committee
  In the time intervening between a primary election at which the members of a municipal committee of a political party are elected and the...
• Section 19:5-3 - Membership And Organization Of County Committees; Vacancies; Certification Of Unit Of Representation And Number Of Election Districts.
  19:5-3. The members of the county committees of political parties shall be elected at the primary for the general election in the manner provided...
• Section 19:5-3.1 - Access To Financial Records Of County Committees; Request By Persons Elected To Membership In Committee
  In the time intervening between a primary election at which the members of a county committee of a political party are elected and the...
• Section 19:5-3.2 - Adoption Of Constitution, Bylaws By County Committee, Posting On Internet Website.
  3.The members of the county committee of a political party shall adopt a constitution and bylaws, ensuring fundamental fairness and the rights of the...
• Section 19:5-4 - Membership And Organization Of State Committees; Vacancies; National Committee Members.
  19:5-4. The members of the State committee of each of the political parties shall be elected at the primary for the general election of...
• Section 19:5-4a - Access To Financial Records Of State Committee; Request By Persons Elected To Committee
  In the time intervening between a primary election at which the members of a State committee of a political party are elected and the...
• Section 19:5-4.1 - Apportionment Of Members Different From Apportionment Under Which Current Members Elected; Adoption Of Bylaws; Election Of New Members
  a. The State committee of any political party may adopt bylaws prescribing the apportionment of members of said committee different from the method under...
• Section 19:5-4.2 - Inadequacy Of Time To Give Notice; Filling Of Additional Memberships On State Committee
  In the event that notice of the additional members of the State committee to be elected from the county can not be given within...
• Section 19:5-5 - Maintenance Of Party Organization
  Any State committee, county committee or municipal committee of any political party may receive and disburse moneys for the general purposes of maintaining such...
• Section 19:5-6 - Annual Convention; Members; Time And Place, Platform; Resolutions And Public Hearings
  There shall be held in each year in which all members of the General Assembly are to be elected, a State convention of each...
• Section 19:6-1 - Membership
  The district boards in each election district shall consist of four members, except that where electronic voting systems are in use any election district...
• Section 19:6-2 - Application For Membership On District Board; Qualifications.
  19:6-2. a. The following persons may apply in writing to the county board, on a form prepared and furnished by the county board, for...
• Section 19:6-3 - Appointment Of District Board Members By County Board, Assignment Judge Of Superior Court.
  19:6-3. a. (1) The county board shall, on or before April 1, appoint the members of the district boards in the manner prescribed by...
• Section 19:6-4 - Removal Of Members
  19:6-4. A judge of the Superior Court or the county board shall have power to dismiss any member of a district board from such...
• Section 19:6-5 - Removal Of District Board Member; Filing Of Vacancies
  19:6-5. Any member of a district board in an election district may be summarily removed from office, with or without cause, and vacancies filled,...
• Section 19:6-6 - Board May Function Notwithstanding Vacancies
  If there shall be a vacancy in the membership of any district board the remaining members shall function until the vacancy be filled.
• Section 19:6-7 - Assignment Of Members To Election Districts
  Any person selected as a member of a district board may be assigned by the county board to any election district, or transferred from...
• Section 19:6-8 - Term Of Office; Notification Of Appointment
  The terms of office of the members of the district boards shall be for 1 year, or until their successors are appointed, and shall...
• Section 19:6-9 - Attendance Of Members
  Every person so assigned shall attend at the times and places now or hereafter fixed by law or by the county board for the...
• Section 19:6-9.1 - Conduct Of Election May Be Divided Into Two Shifts
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Title to the contrary, in any election the county board may direct that responsibility for the conduct of...
• Section 19:6-10 - Meeting, Organization Of District Board.
  19:6-10. Each district board shall, on or before the second Tuesday next preceding the primary election, meet and organize by the election of one...
• Section 19:6-11 - Oath Of Office Of Members; Power To Administer Oaths
  Each member of the district board shall before entering upon the performance of his duties take and subscribe an oath or affirmation in writing...
• Section 19:6-12 - Member Becoming Candidate
  19:6-12. The office of a member of a district board in an election district shall be deemed vacant upon such member becoming a candidate...
• Section 19:6-13 - Vacancies; Filling
  A vacancy arising in a district board otherwise than by expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner...
• Section 19:6-14 - Boards For Changed Or New Election Districts; Appointment
  When the boundaries of an election district in a municipality shall have been changed or a new district created between the time of holding...
• Section 19:6-15 - Constabulary Powers Of Members; Police Assistance
  The district boards of every election district shall preserve the peace and maintain good order in their respective polling places, during the progress of...
• Section 19:6-15.1 - Uniforms And Exposed Weapons Forbidden; Penalty
  2. No person who is employed as a police officer, either full-time or part-time, by the State or an instrumentality thereof, or by a...
• Section 19:6-16 - Police Assigned To District Boards In Municipalities
  19:6-16. The commission, committee, board or official having charge of the police department in any municipality may assign one or more police officers to...
• Section 19:6-17 - Membership; Political Affiliations; Eligibility; Vacancies; Clerk; Other Employees; Civil Service; Compensation
  The county board shall consist of 4 persons, who shall be legal voters of the counties for which they are respectively appointed. Two members...
• Section 19:6-18 - Nomination For Member Of County Board; Certification, Appointment, Term.
  19:6-18. During the 30-day period immediately preceding February 15 in each year, the chairman and vice-chairlady of each county committee and the State committeeman...
• Section 19:6-19 - Filling Vacancies
  If a vacancy arises in any county board from any cause other than expiration of the term, the secretary of the county board, within...
• Section 19:6-20 - Appointments By Governor In Absence Of Nomination
  If any nomination is not made and certified in writing to the Governor within the time specified, the Governor shall make such appointments of...
• Section 19:6-21 - Board Office; Equipment; Supplies
  The county boards shall be provided by the board of chosen freeholders of the respective counties with a suitable office or offices, furniture and...
• Section 19:6-21.1 - Preparation Of Annual Budget Request By County Board Of Elections.
  11.A county board of elections shall prepare the annual budget request for the office of county board of elections pursuant to the requirements of...
• Section 19:6-22 - Organization Of County Board Of Elections.
  19:6-22. a. (1) The county boards shall, at 10 a.m., on the second Tuesday in March, or on such other day as they may...
• Section 19:6-23 - Oath Of Office Of Members; Power To Administer Oaths
  Each member of the county board shall, before entering upon the performance of his duties, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, in writing,...
• Section 19:6-24 - Powers And Duties Of Board Delegated To Clerk
  Wherever under the provisions of this Title any powers or duties are given or conferred upon the county boards in counties of the first...
• Section 19:6-25 - Sitting On General Election Days Required.
  19:6-25. The county boards in each of the counties shall sit on the day of the general election at the office of the county...
• Section 19:6-26 - County Boards Of Elections As; Clerk
  For the purposes of this title, the county board in each county shall be and act as a board of county canvassers for such...
• Section 19:6-27 - Board Of State Canvassers
  19:6-27. The Board of State Canvassers shall consist of five persons, including the chairman, who shall be the Governor of this State. In the...
• Section 19:6-28 - Proceedings Open And Public
  All the proceedings of the district boards, county boards, boards of county canvassers and board of state canvassers shall be open and public.
• Section 19:6-29 - Majority Necessary For Decisions; Dissents
  A decision of the major part of the members thereof, who shall be present at a meeting, shall be deemed to be the decision...
• Section 19:6-30 - Maintenance Of Order, Powers
  19:6-30. The district board in each election district, the county board, and the clerk thereof, the board of county canvassers and the board of...
• Section 19:7-1 - Appointment Of Challengers
  19:7-1. a. The chairman of the county committee of any political party that has duly nominated any candidate for public office to be voted...
• Section 19:7-2 - Appointment Of Challengers.
  19:7-2. A candidate who has filed a petition for an office to be voted for at the primary election, and a candidate for an...
• Section 19:7-3 - Filing Of Appointment, Application For Challengers
  19:7-3. The appointment of or application for challengers shall be filed with the county board not later than the second Tuesday preceding any election....
• Section 19:7-4 - Permits Issued To Challengers, Revocation
  19:7-4. The county board shall thereupon issue, under the hands of its members, to the persons named in such appointment papers, or application, permits...
• Section 19:7-5 - Powers
  Such challengers shall be the authorized challengers for their respective political parties and candidates or for the proponents or opponents of a public question....
• Section 19:7-6 - Badge
  Every such challenger shall at any election wear a badge, to be furnished by the county board, which shall show to any person the...
• Section 19:7-6.1 - Limitation On Number Of Challengers Present In Polling Place
  1. Unless express permission be given by the district board, not more than one challenger appointed for a party, candidate, or on a public...
• Section 19:8-1 - Location
  For the purpose of this title a polling place or room shall be within a building wherein a district board is directed as hereinafter...
• Section 19:8-2 - Suggested List Of Available Places, Selection.
  19:8-2. The clerk of every municipality, on or before April 1 shall certify to the county board of every county wherein such municipality is...
• Section 19:8-3 - Schoolhouses And Public Buildings; Other Locations; Certification Of Expenses.
  19:8-3. The county board may select the schoolhouse or schoolhouses, public building or public buildings as the polling places in any municipality in the...
• Section 19:8-3.1 - Accessibility Of Polling Places.
  1.Each polling place selected by the county board of elections for use in any election shall be accessible to individuals with disabilities and the...
• Section 19:8-3.2 - Inaccessible Polling Place; Alternate Place, Mail-in Ballot.
  2.The Secretary of State shall establish, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the rules and regulations necessary to...
• Section 19:8-3.3 - Polling Places, Compliance With Federal Ada.
  3.The Attorney General shall be responsible for ensuring that each polling place is in compliance with the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990"...
• Section 19:8-3.4 - Report Of Inaccessible Polling Places, Ada Guidelines.
  4.No later than May 15 of every other year, beginning with May 15 next following the enactment of P.L.2005, c.146, each Voting Accessibility Advisory...
• Section 19:8-3.5 - Review And Compliance.
  5.No later than July 1st of each year, beginning with July 1 next following the enactment of P.L.2005, c.146, the Attorney General shall review...
• Section 19:8-3.6 - Report To Federal Authorities
  6. No later than December 31st of each even-numbered year, the Secretary of State shall report to the Federal Election Commission, in the manner...
• Section 19:8-3.7 - Voting Accessibility Advisory Committee In Each County.
  11. a. The county executive in each county in which that office is established, or the governing body of the county in any other...
• Section 19:8-3.8 - "Polling Place Accessibility Fund"; Use.
  10. a. There shall be established in the Department of Law and Public Safety a non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Polling Place...
• Section 19:8-4 - Certification Of List Of Polling Places.
  19:8-4. The county board before May 15 of each year shall certify a list of polling places so selected to the sheriff and to...
• Section 19:8-5 - Display Of American Flag
  An American flag, approximately 3 feet by 5 feet in size, shall be displayed at the outside entrance of each polling place in this...
• Section 19:8-5.1 - Sign Identifying Polling Place, Hours.
  1. For seven days before the day of any election, each county board of elections may cause to be displayed a sign outside of...
• Section 19:8-6 - Proper Equipment And Voter Instructions At Polling Places
  19:8-6. The county boards in counties of the first class and the municipal clerks in counties other than counties of the first class shall...
• Section 19:8-7 - Booths; Size; Doors Or Curtains; Shelf
  The booths shall be sufficiently large to enable the voter to conveniently prepare his ballot as provided for and shall have swinging doors or...
• Section 19:8-8 - Number Of Booths
  In municipalities having permanent registration the number of booths in each election district shall not be less than one for every one hundred persons...
• Section 19:8-9 - Location Of Booths
  The booths shall be erected within the polling room or place and so arranged that all the officers conducting the election can see whether...
• Section 19:8-10 - Location Of Ballot Boxes In Polling Places
  The ballot boxes at every polling place shall be within the polling room or place, and so placed that the voter shall be able...
• Section 19:8-11 - By Whom Provided And Repaired
  The county board in counties of the first class and the board of chosen freeholders in counties other than counties of the first class...
• Section 19:8-12 - Size And Construction Of Boxes
  The boxes shall be at least one foot in depth, width, and length, measuring the same on the exterior thereof, and shall be constructed...
• Section 19:9-1 - "Election Supplies" Defined
  As used in this title the term "election supplies" shall be deemed to mean such blank books, blank forms, pamphlets and things other than...
• Section 19:9-2 - Preparation Of Information And Election Supplies.
  19:9-2. The Director of the Division of Elections shall prepare and distribute on or before April 1 in each year prior to the primary...
• Section 19:9-3 - Distribution Of Supplies By Secretary Of State
  Where such supplies to be prepared and distributed by the secretary of state shall be required in any county or municipality thereof he shall...
• Section 19:9-4 - Distribution Of Supplies By County Clerks
  Where such supplies prepared either by the secretary of state or the county clerk shall be required in a municipality the county clerk shall...
• Section 19:9-5 - Distribution Of Supplies By Municipal Clerks
  Where supplies are delivered by the county clerk or the county board to the municipal clerk for distribution, the municipal clerk shall deliver the...
• Section 19:10-1 - Custodial Officer To Preserve Two Years
  All petitions of nomination, affidavits attached thereto, acceptances, objections thereto and determinations of officers or courts relative to such objections and all other documents...
• Section 19:11-1 - Day For Filing Documents Or Performing Official Duties Falling On Sunday Or Legal Holiday
  Should the day for the filing of any petition, declination, resignation, instrument in writing or other paper or document required to be filed in...
• Section 19:12-1 - Certification As To Creation Of Political Party.
  19:12-1. The Secretary of State shall within thirty days after the completion of the canvass by the board of State canvassers, certify to each...
• Section 19:12-3 - County Clerk, Forwarding Of Notice Of Creation Of Political Party To Municipal Clerks.
  19:12-3. The clerk of each county shall immediately upon the receipt of the certificate from the Secretary of State setting forth that a political...
• Section 19:12-5 - Notice That Officers Will Be Chosen At General Election.
  19:12-5. The clerk of every county shall, not later than the 57th day preceding the primary election for the general election, immediately preceding the...
• Section 19:12-6 - Statement Designating Public Offices To Be Filled At Election.
  19:12-6. All municipal clerks, not later than the 57th day preceding the primary election for the general election, shall make and certify under their...
• Section 19:12-7 - Publication Of Notice Of Elections.
  19:12-7. a. The county board in each county shall cause to be published in a newspaper or newspapers which, singly or in combination, are...
• Section 19:12-7.1 - Posting Of Voter Information Notice By County Board Of Elections; Content And Form.
  1. a. A county board of elections shall have posted a voter information notice, which shall be referred to as a voter's bill of...
• Section 19:12-8 - Contents Of Notice
  The notice required by section 19:12-7 of this Title shall include the address of each polling place and the place and telephone number and...
• Section 19:12-9 - Publication Of Certain Election Procedures Required
  8. a. The county board in each county shall cause to be published in a daily newspaper of general circulation throughout the county, a...
• Section 19:12-10 - Public Notice Of Dates Relevant To Elections And Voters; Internet Sites.
  4. a. Subject to guidelines established by the Attorney General, each county board of elections shall provide public notice, at appropriate times during the...
• Section 19:13-1 - Direct Petition And Primary Election
  Candidates for all public offices to be voted for at the general election in this state or in any political division thereof, except electors...
• Section 19:13-2 - State Convention; Presidential And Vice Presidential Electors
  In presidential years the state conventions shall severally nominate for their respective parties such number of candidates for electors of president and vice president...
• Section 19:13-3 - To Whom Petition Addressed
  Direct nomination by petition for the general election shall be as follows: Petitions naming candidates for office to be filled by voters of the...
• Section 19:13-4 - Contents Of Petition
  19:13-4. Such petition shall set forth the names, places of residence and post-office addresses of the candidates for the offices to be filled, the...
• Section 19:13-5 - Signatures To Petition; Number.
  19:13-5. The petition shall be signed by legally qualified voters of this State residing within the district or political division in and for which...
• Section 19:13-6 - Signing Of Petition; Addresses
  Every voter signing a petition shall add to his signature his place of residence, post-office address and street number, if any. Such voter may...
• Section 19:13-7 - Certification Of Petition.
  19:13-7. Before any petition shall be filed as hereinafter provided, the person who circulates the petition, or a candidate who signs or circulates, or...
• Section 19:13-8 - Candidate Nominated By Petition, Conditions For Acceptance Of Nomination.
  19:13-8. A candidate nominated for an office in a petition shall manifest his acceptance of such nomination by a written acceptance thereof, signed by...
• Section 19:13-8.1 - Petitions Filed After Deadline; Ineligible Candidates.
  7.No petition for direct nomination, including a petition filed pursuant to R.S. 19:13-19, which, for any reason, is filed after the deadline established in...
• Section 19:13-9 - Filing Of Petitions, Time.
  19:13-9. All such petitions and acceptances thereof shall be filed with the officer or officers to whom they are addressed before 4:00 p.m. of...
• Section 19:13-10 - Objection To Petition
  Every petition of nomination in apparent conformity with the provisions of this Title shall be deemed to be valid, unless objection thereto be duly...
• Section 19:13-11 - Determination Of Validity Of Objections.
  19:13-11. The officer with whom the original petition was filed shall in the first instance pass upon the validity of such objection in a...
• Section 19:13-12 - Judicial Hearing.
  19:13-12. Any judge of the Superior Court, in the case of candidates to be voted for by the electors of the entire State or...
• Section 19:13-13 - Amendment Of Petitions; Time.
  19:13-13. A candidate whose petition of nomination, or any affidavit or affidavits thereto, is defective may cause such petition, or the affidavit or affidavits...
• Section 19:13-14 - Procedure; Highest Aggregate Of Votes To Determine Party Candidates
  The nomination of candidates for the general election by means of the primary election shall be carried out in the manner hereinafter provided, and...
• Section 19:13-14.1 - Primary Candidate For Municipal Office May Not Serve As Other Political Party Candidate In General Election.
  3.A person whose name appears on the ballot at a primary election for the general election as a candidate for nomination by a political...
• Section 19:13-15 - Presidential And Vice Presidential Electors; Certificate Of Nomination, Acceptance.
  19:13-15. In presidential years the State committee of a political party shall meet at the call of its chairman, within 1 week following the...
• Section 19:13-16 - Declined Nomination.
  19:13-16. When a person nominated as herein provided by direct petition or State convention for election to public office at the general election shall,...
• Section 19:13-17 - Notice Of Declination To Signers Of Petition Or Committees To Fill Vacancies
  The officer to whom the notification of declination is given shall forthwith, by mail or otherwise, inform at least 5 of the persons who...
• Section 19:13-18 - In General
  When a person so declines his nomination, or if a petition or certificate of nomination, or if any nomination, be insufficient or inoperative, or...
• Section 19:13-19 - Nomination Of Successor.
  19:13-19. If the candidate vacating the nomination was nominated directly by petition his successor shall be nominated in the same manner by direct petition,...
• Section 19:13-20 - Vacancy Procedure.
  19:13-20. In the event of a vacancy, howsoever caused, among candidates nominated at a primary election for the general election, which vacancy shall occur...
• Section 19:13-20.1 - Candidate Vacancy Not Filled
  If there is no candidate on the primary election ballot of a political party for nomination for election to a public office in the...
• Section 19:13-21 - Candidate For Presidential Elector.
  19:13-21. If the nomination vacated is that of a candidate for elector of the President and Vice-President of the United States, the vacancy shall...
• Section 19:13-22 - Secretary Of State; Statement To County Clerks Of Nominations, Vacancies.
  19:13-22. a. The Secretary of State, not later than eighty-six days before any election whereat any candidates nominated in any direct petition or primary...
• Section 19:13-23 - Secretary Of State To County Clerks Of Vacancy Nominations; Contents
  In the event of vacancies among the candidates whose petitions or certificate of nomination are on file with him, the Secretary of State in...
• Section 19:14-1 - Copy For Printer.
  19:14-1. Every county clerk shall have ready for the printer on or before the 50th day prior to the general election a copy of...
• Section 19:14-2 - Contents; Names Of Candidates; Public Questions
  There shall be a single or blanket form of ballot, upon which shall be printed the names of all the candidates of every party...
• Section 19:14-2.1 - Inclusion On General Election Ballot Of Candidate With Votes In Primary By Irregular Ballot Or Write-in Vote; Requirements
  The name of a person for whom votes are cast by irregular ballot or by write-in vote in a primary election to nominate candidates...
• Section 19:14-3 - Detachable Coupon; Printing Thereon
  Each ballot shall have at the top a detachable coupon the width of the ballot above a perforated line not less than two inches...
• Section 19:14-4 - Official General Election, School Election Ballot, Specification.
  19:14-4. In the center of the ballot immediately below the perforated line shall be printed in bold-faced type the words "Official general election ballot."...
• Section 19:14-5 - Printing Body Of Ballot
  From each end of such six-point diagram rule there shall be printed a four-point diagram rule extending at right angles and from such six-point...
• Section 19:14-6 - Column Designations; Accompanying Instructions.
  19:14-6. In each column, immediately below the six-point rule, shall be printed the proper word or words to designate the column, to be known...
• Section 19:14-7 - Printed Rulings On Ballot
  Below such six-point rule and parallel thereto, extending across the entire ballot from one four-point rule to the other, shall be printed two-point hair...
• Section 19:14-8 - Arrangement Of Ballots.
  19:14-8. In the columns of each of the political parties which made nominations at the next preceding primary election to the general election and...
• Section 19:14-8.1 - Ballots For Presidential Electors
  When Presidential Electors are to be elected, their names shall not be printed upon the ballot, either paper or voting machine, but in lieu...
• Section 19:14-9 - Duplicate Nominations For Same Office; Selection Of Column And Designation
  A candidate who receives more than one nomination for the same office, either from more than one political party or from more than one...
• Section 19:14-10 - Nominations By Petition.
  19:14-10. In the column or columns designated as nominations by petition, within the space between the two-point hair line rules, there shall be printed...
• Section 19:14-12 - Procedure For Determining Position On Ballot.
  19:14-12. The county clerk shall draw lots in his county to determine which columns the political parties which made nominations at the next preceding...
• Section 19:14-13 - Arrangement Of Public Questions
  All public questions to be voted upon by the voters of the entire State shall be placed first and shall be printed in the...
• Section 19:14-14 - Public Questions At Foot Of Ballot; Instructions To Voters
  Immediately below the six-point diagram rule to be printed in place of the last two-point hair line rule across the entire ballot, from one...
• Section 19:14-16 - Style Of Type, Rulings And Spacing.
  19:14-16. The words to be printed on the perforated coupon shall be printed in twelve-point bold-faced capital letters and the figures in eighteen and...
• Section 19:14-18 - Number Of Ballots On Hand
  Not later than noon of the fifth day preceding the general election the county clerk shall have printed and on hand in his office...
• Section 19:14-19 - Custody Of Printed Ballots
  The county clerk shall keep such ballots in his custody and be responsible therefor until they shall be delivered to the municipal clerks as...
• Section 19:14-20 - Correction Of Errors
  When it shall appear that an error or omission has occurred in the copy prepared by the county clerk for the printer or in...
• Section 19:14-21 - Preparation; Delivery Of Sample Ballots And Envelopes To Municipal Clerk Or Commissioner Of Registration.
  19:14-21. The county clerk shall cause samples of the official general election ballot to be printed in English, but for each election district within...
• Section 19:14-21.1 - Information Sent To Newly-registered Voters For General Election.
  1.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a voter who registers after the 29th day prior to a general election and...
• Section 19:14-22 - Form And Contents; Color Of Paper.
  19:14-22. The official general election sample ballots shall be as nearly as possible facsimiles of the official general election ballot to be voted at...
• Section 19:14-23 - Envelopes For Mailing Official General Election Sample Ballots
  The stamped envelopes shall be of sufficient size and have sufficient postage to enable the official general election sample ballots and anything else required...
• Section 19:14-24 - Delivery By Municipal Clerks To District Boards
  The municipal clerk to whom the sample ballots and stamped envelopes have been so delivered by the county clerk shall deliver the same at...
• Section 19:14-25 - Mailing By District Board Or Commissioner Of Registration; County Board Of Elections, Duties Of
  In counties not having a superintendent of elections where the county board of elections does not have the equipment or facilities to address and...
• Section 19:14-26 - Preservation Of Envelopes And Ballots Returned By Postmaster
  The county board, commissioner, or superintendent, as the case may be, shall preserve all envelopes and sample ballots which shall have been mailed by...
• Section 19:14-27 - Inclusion With Sample Ballot; Other Arrangements In Certain Counties
  Except as provided by section 19:14-33 of this Title, when any question or proposition shall be submitted to the people of the State at...
• Section 19:14-28 - Descriptive Marks In Case Of Amendments
  When an amendment to the constitution or to a statute is so mailed, such part thereof as is new and not contained in the...
• Section 19:14-29 - Relation To Statute Or Constitution Made Clear
  When a copy of an act of the legislature is required by section 19:14-27 of this title to be printed and mailed to each...
• Section 19:14-30 - Attorney General To Designate Information To Be Sent
  When under the provisions of this title it shall be necessary to mail to the voters any portion of the statute law of the...
• Section 19:14-31 - Summary Statement Sufficient
  The attorney general, in place of or in addition to designating any portion of the statute law or state constitution to be so printed...
• Section 19:14-32 - Printing And Delivery By Secretary Of State
  When by section 19:14-27 of this title copies of an act of the legislature or of a constitutional amendment are required to be printed...
• Section 19:14-33 - When Referendum Notices Unnecessary
  It shall not be necessary for the secretary of state, or any other official, to cause notice to be published of any state-wide proposition...
• Section 19:14-34 - County Clerks To Municipal Clerks; Packages Sealed; Record Of Delivery; Receipts
  The county clerks of the several counties, not later than three days prior to the general election shall cause to be delivered to the...
• Section 19:14-35 - Municipal Clerk To Member Of District Board; Delivery By Member Of Board To Board; Receipts
  The municipal clerk shall on the day preceding any such general election, deliver, at his office or in any other way that he sees...
• Section 19:15-1 - Supervision Of District Boards By County Board; District Boards To Hold And Conduct Elections
  The county board shall have supervision and direction of and authority over the district boards at all elections, including commission form of government elections...
• Section 19:15-2 - Operation Hours Of Polls; Members Present.
  19:15-2. The district boards shall open the polls for such election at 6:00 A.M. and close them at 8:00 P.M., and shall keep them...
• Section 19:15-3 - Lighting And Equipment Of Booths
  The board shall cause the booths of the polling places to be at all hours well and sufficiently lighted to enable voters to read...
• Section 19:15-4 - Official Ballots Only Used; Place Of Keeping And Distribution; No Envelopes
  The board shall permit no other ballots to be used at the general election except the ballots which are by this title provided for....
• Section 19:15-5 - Emergency Ballots; Preparation; Use
  If at any election the ballots to be furnished therefor shall not be delivered at the time above mentioned, or if after delivery they...
• Section 19:15-6 - Unofficial Ballots; Use Permitted
  If from any cause neither the official ballot nor ballots otherwise prepared as herein prescribed shall be ready for distribution at any polling place,...
• Section 19:15-8 - Persons Allowed In Polling Place; Simulated Voting.
  19:15-8. a. No person shall be allowed or permitted to be present in the polling place or polling room during the progress of the...
• Section 19:15-9 - Persons In Polling Place Allowed To Vote At Closing Of Polls
  After the hour fixed for closing the polls voters already within such place or room or in line shall be permitted to prepare and...
• Section 19:15-10 - Proclamation Of Opening Of Polls
  The district boards, before they receive any vote, shall make public proclamation of the opening of the election and of their readiness to receive...
• Section 19:15-11 - Distribution And Use Of Ballot Box Keys; Locking Ballot Boxes
  At the opening of the election each of the keys of the locks of the ballot box shall be taken by a different member...
• Section 19:15-12 - Ballot Box Shown To Be Empty; Locking
  Immediately before proceeding to receive the votes the board shall in an open and public manner exhibit the ballot box so that those present...
• Section 19:15-17 - Comparison Of Signatures Or Statements; Identifying Documentation.
  19:15-17. a. The comparison of signatures of a voter made upon registration and upon election day, and if the voter alleges his inability to...
• Section 19:15-18 - Voter Challenges
  19:15-18. The members of the district boards and any duly authorized challenger, respectively, shall at any election challenge every person who shall claim to...
• Section 19:15-18.1 - Challenged Voter May Establish Right To Vote
  2. a. Any voter whose name does not appear on a challenge list prepared by the superintendent of elections of the county but who...
• Section 19:15-18.2 - Grounds For Challenging Right To Vote Specified
  3. If a person whose name does not appear on a challenge list prepared by the superintendent of elections of the county is challenged...
• Section 19:15-18.3 - Challenged Voter May Appeal To Superior Court Judge.
  6.Any person whose name does not appear on a challenge list prepared by the superintendent of elections of the county but who is challenged...
• Section 19:15-19 - Challenge On Ground Of Conviction Of Crime; Questions And Answers
  If a person be challenged as convicted of a crime which bars him from exercising the right to vote, he shall be required to...
• Section 19:15-20 - Challenge On Ground Of Alienage; Evidence Of Citizenship
  If a person shall be challenged as not qualified or entitled to vote, and the person challenging him shall specify a ground for such...
• Section 19:15-21 - Challenge On Grounds Of Disqualification; Oath
  19:15-21. If a person shall be challenged as not qualified or entitled to vote, the judge may forthwith tender to him an oath or...
• Section 19:15-22 - Examination Of Challenged Voter
  Upon any question or challenge of a voter duly registered it shall be the duty of the board, and the privilege of all its...
• Section 19:15-23 - Questions Asked Persons Challenged In Municipalities Having Permanent Registration
  In municipalities having permanent registration, if a voter is challenged, the board shall ask him the questions which were asked him upon registration, the...
• Section 19:15-24 - Challenging Voter, Procedure, Violations By Members Of Board, Removal
  19:15-24. The district boards shall not give a ballot to any person unless they shall be satisfied that such person is in all respects...
• Section 19:15-25 - Ballot Given To Voter; Instructions
  In all municipalities after the district board shall have ascertained that a voter is properly registered and qualified to vote the inspector of election...
• Section 19:15-26 - Ballots Marked Secretly In Booth; Violation Disorderly Persons Offense.
  19:15-26. Every voter to whom a ballot is given shall thereupon retire into the polling booth. Not more than one voter, except as hereinafter...
• Section 19:15-27 - Voting
  19:15-27. To vote for any candidates whose names are printed in any column, the voter shall mark a cross x , plus + or...
• Section 19:15-28 - Voting For Personal Choice
  19:15-28. Nothing in this Title shall prevent any voter from writing or pasting under the proper title of office in the column designated personal...
• Section 19:15-29 - Ballot Spoiled By Voter; Procedure To Obtain Another
  Should any voter to whom any official ballot has been handed spoil or render the same unfit for use, he may return it and...
• Section 19:15-30 - Folding Ballot; Retention By Voter Until Received By Board
  Before leaving the booth the voter shall fold his ballot so that no part of the face of it shall be visible and so...
• Section 19:15-31 - Delivery Of Ballot By Voter To Board; Procedure Thereon
  He shall then hand the ballot with the coupon undetached to the member of the election board having charge of the ballot box, which...
• Section 19:15-32 - Ballot Deposited In Ballot Box By Member Of Board
  Thereupon the member of the board having charge of the ballot box, without displaying any part of the face of the ballot, shall remove...
• Section 19:15-33 - Ballot Box Filled
  When one ballot box is filled with ballots the board shall seal the same and provide another box.
• Section 19:15-34 - Time Limit For Challenging
  The right to challenge voters shall exist until the ballot shall have been deposited in the ballot box, and the procedure in case the...
• Section 19:16-2 - Votes Counted Publicly Without Adjournment
  The district board shall then proceed forthwith to count the votes for each candidate or proposition and shall complete such count without delay or...
• Section 19:16-3 - Counting Votes; Distinguishing Marks; Ballots Improperly Prepared
  In canvassing the ballots the district board shall count the votes as follows: a. If proper marks are made in the squares to the...
• Section 19:16-4 - Void Ballots; Distinguishing Marks
  In counting the ballots the board shall deem null and void all ballots which are wholly blank, or on which more names have been...
• Section 19:16-5 - Invalid Ballots Marked "Void," Numbering, Stringing
  19:16-5. In every case in which a ballot shall be declared invalid, the same shall not be canvassed or counted, but shall be marked...
• Section 19:16-6 - Majority Decision Of Board Final; Dissents Entered
  The decision of a majority of the district board on any question shall be deemed the decision of the board and final. If any...
• Section 19:16-7 - Reading, Stringing Of Ballots
  19:16-7. The board in the actual procedure of counting the ballots shall thereupon unlock and open the ballot box; the ballots shall then be...
• Section 19:16-8 - Tally Sheets; Entries; Disposition
  The clerks of the board, under its inspection and direction, shall each, upon a tally sheet provided for that purpose, make a list of...
• Section 19:16-9 - Casting Of Totals; Notation On Tally Sheets
  When all the votes which shall have been received shall have been read, examined, numbered and strung, as above directed, the board shall carefully...
• Section 19:16-10 - Public Announcement Of Results
  After completing the same the chairman of the board shall audibly and publicly announce the result thereof, particularly specifying the whole number of the...
• Section 19:17-1 - Statement Of Results
  After the district board shall have counted the ballots cast at such election it shall make quadruplicate statements of the result thereof in substantially...
• Section 19:17-2 - Certification Of Statement Of Result Of Count Of Votes; Form
  The district board shall then certify such statement in substantially the following form: "We do certify that the foregoing is a true, full and...
• Section 19:17-3 - Filing Of Statements.
  19:17-3. After the district board shall have made up and certified such statements, it shall at the same time and with the ballot boxes,...
• Section 19:17-5 - Failure To Deliver Proper Statements, Etc., Penalty
  19:17-5. If any district board neglects to give the following information on the statements of results: the total number of names on the signature...
• Section 19:18-1 - Election Records Placed In Ballot Box.
  19:18-1. As soon as the election shall be finished and the votes canvassed and the statements made and certified by the district board as...
• Section 19:18-2 - Ballot Boxes Delivered To Municipal Clerks
  The ballot box, after being locked and bound with tape and sealed, shall in all municipalities be immediately taken in charge by 2 members...
• Section 19:18-3 - Municipal Clerk's Office Open Until All Ballot Boxes Delivered; Record Of Times Of Delivery
  The clerk of the municipality shall attend at his office on election day, or appoint one of the clerks in his office to act...
• Section 19:18-4 - Preservation Of Ballot Boxes And Contents
  19:18-4. Every municipal clerk to whom the ballot boxes shall be delivered shall thereupon keep the same, with their contents, but shall not have...
• Section 19:18-5 - Register Of Voters In Municipalities Not Having Permanent Registration Filed With County Clerk
  Not later than noon of the day following the canvass of the votes cast at the general election the register of voters, kept and...
• Section 19:18-6 - Ballot Box Keys Deposited With County Clerk
  Not later than noon of the day following the canvass of the votes the keys of each ballot box shall be deposited by a...
• Section 19:18-7 - Preservation Of Records; Sale As Waste Paper
  All registry books and statements of results of elections required to be filed with the Secretary of State, the superintendent of elections, the county...
• Section 19:18-8 - Inspection Of Ballot Boxes, Books And Documents By Superior Court
  A judge of the Superior Court may at any time for satisfactory reasons shown, and when he deems it necessary, issue an order for...
• Section 19:19-1 - Time And Place Of Meeting; Tabulation By Clerk Of Statements Of District Boards And Combined Results
  The board of county canvassers of each county shall meet on the Monday next, after any such election, at 12 o'clock noon, at the...
• Section 19:19-2 - Absence Of County Clerk; Substitute
  If the clerk of the county shall be absent from the meeting at the time appointed therefor, the board shall forthwith proceed to appoint...
• Section 19:19-3 - Oath Of Substitute Clerk
  Before proceeding to canvass and estimate the votes the chairman of the board shall administer to the person appointed as clerk in the absence...
• Section 19:19-4 - Adjournment Of Meeting
  If on the day appointed for the meeting of such board, a major part thereof shall not attend at the courthouse of the county...
• Section 19:19-5 - Statements Obtained
  If such adjournment is occasioned by the fact that at the time fixed for the meeting of the board the statements from every election...
• Section 19:19-6 - Second Adjournment Of Meeting
  At the hour to which such adjournment shall have been ordered, the member or members present may proceed as hereinafter directed, or may again...
• Section 19:19-7 - Custody Of Statements During Adjournment
  When such board shall find it necessary to adjourn, as herein provided, all statements of the result of an election which shall have been...
• Section 19:19-8 - Canvass And Statement Of Result Of Election
  The members of the board shall proceed to examine the statements and copies of statements produced before them and shall canvass and determine the...
• Section 19:19-9 - Contents Of Statement Of Canvass; Certification
  Each of such statements shall contain the name of each election district, the number of names on the signature copy register or the register...
• Section 19:19-10 - Form Of Statement Of Canvass
  The statements shall be in substantially the following form: "A statement of the result of election held in the county of , on the...
• Section 19:19-11 - Form Of Certificate To Statement Of Canvass
  The certificate shall be in substantially the following form: "I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, full and correct statement of...
• Section 19:19-12 - Statements To County Clerk And Chairmen Of Republican And Democratic State Committees
  The board shall deliver one of the statements to the clerk of the county, who shall forthwith file the same, and one statement to...
• Section 19:19-13 - Other Statement Delivered To Secretary Of State
  The clerk of the board shall inclose and seal up the other statement and deliver or safely transmit the same so inclosed and sealed...
• Section 19:19-14 - Statements Of Results By District Boards Preserved
  All the statements made by the district boards and copies of such statements which shall be produced and laid before the board shall, by...
• Section 19:19-15 - Secretary Of State To Procure Missing Statements
  If the secretary of state shall not, on or before the seventh day after the time appointed for the meeting of the board of...
• Section 19:19-16 - Defective Statements Completed By Secretary Of State
  When and as soon as such secretary shall receive or obtain any statement of the result of such election, in any county, in the...
• Section 19:19-17 - Statements Delivered To Messenger Of Secretary Of State
  The district board, the clerk or the chairman of the board of canvassers of any county, or any other person who shall be in...
• Section 19:20-1 - Scope Of Authority
  The board of county canvassers, in case of officers voted for or public questions voted upon exclusively by the voters of a single county...
• Section 19:20-2 - Statement Of Determination
  The board in the case of an election for a member of the senate, members of the general assembly, or other officer elected or...
• Section 19:20-3 - Certification Of Statement; Form
  The board shall thereupon certify such statement to be true and correct, by a certificate appended to the same, and signed by the chairman...
• Section 19:20-4 - Statements And Certifications Filed With County Clerk
  One of the statements of such determination, and the certificate thereto, shall be annexed to one of the statements of the results of the...
• Section 19:20-5 - Certificates To Successful Candidates; Signing And Attestation
  The chairman of the board, in the case of an election for senator or members of the assembly, or for any officer voted for...
• Section 19:20-6 - Statement Of Result Of Canvass For Secretary Of State
  In the case of a state senator, member of the general assembly or any county officer, or any public questions to be voted upon...
• Section 19:20-7 - Certificate Prima Facie Evidence Of Legislator's Right To Seat
  In the organization of the senate and general assembly the certificates so issued by the board based upon such statements of its determination shall...
• Section 19:20-8 - Statements And Certificates Filed With Municipal Clerks
  The board in the case of officers elected or public questions approved or rejected by the voters of a municipality or part thereof shall...
• Section 19:20-9 - Certificates Issued To Successful Municipal Candidates; Signing And Attestation
  The chairman of the board, in the case of an election of officers of a municipality or part thereof, or public questions voted upon...
• Section 19:21-1 - Meeting Times.
  19:21-1. a. The Board of State Canvassers shall meet at Trenton as soon as practicable but no later than the 28th day after the...
• Section 19:21-2 - Substitute Members
  19:21-2. If a number of the members of the Legislature who shall have been summoned as members of the board sufficient to constitute it...
• Section 19:21-3 - Oath Of Members
  The chairman of the board shall administer, and each member thereof shall take, an oath or affirmation in the following form: "You do swear...
• Section 19:21-4 - Substitute Clerk Of The Board
  19:21-4. If the clerk of the board be absent from such meeting at the time appointed therefor, the chairman of the board shall forthwith,...
• Section 19:21-5 - Production Of Relevant Statements, Copies
  19:21-5. The Secretary of State or the secretary's designee shall thereupon produce and lay before the board all statements and copies relating to such...
• Section 19:21-6 - Statement And Certification Of Canvass
  The board shall forthwith canvass such statements and proceed to make a statement of the result of the election in the state; the statement...
• Section 19:21-7 - Form Of Statement And Certificate
  Such statement and certificate appended thereto shall be in a form similar to that hereinbefore prescribed for the board of county canvassers, as far...
• Section 19:22-1 - Statement Of Determination
  When such statement and certificate shall have been made and subscribed, the board shall proceed to determine the person or persons who shall, by...
• Section 19:22-2 - Basis Of Statement
  The board shall base the statement of the result of the canvass of such election in the state and its determination as to the...
• Section 19:22-3 - Certification And Signing Of Statement
  Such statement shall be certified to be true and correct by a certificate appended to same; and the chairman of the board shall sign...
• Section 19:22-4 - Form Of Statement And Certificate
  The statement of such determination and the certificate appended thereto shall be in a form similar to that hereinbefore prescribed for the board of...
• Section 19:22-5 - Statements Filed With Secretary Of State
  The statement of determination shall be annexed to the statement of the result of the canvass of such election; and both of the statements...
• Section 19:22-6 - Certificates To Successful Candidates By Secretary Of State
  The secretary of state shall issue a certificate to each successful candidate, based upon a statement of the determination of the board of state...
• Section 19:22-7 - Certificates Of Election Of United States Senators And Congressmen
  In case of an election for one or more members of the United States senate or of the house of representatives, the secretary of...
• Section 19:22-8 - Certificates Of Election Of Presidential, Vice Presidential Electors, Certifications As Elector Slate.
  19:22-8. In case of an election for electors of president and vice president of the United States: a.The secretary shall prepare a general certificate...
• Section 19:23-1 - Notice, State Committee To County Committee; County Committee To Municipal Clerks.
  19:23-1. The chairman of the State committee of a political party shall, on or before March 1 in the year when a Governor is...
• Section 19:23-5 - Party Candidates For Primary Nominated By Members Of Same Party By Petition
  Candidates to be voted for at the primary election for the general election shall be nominated exclusively by the members of the same political...
• Section 19:23-6 - Address Of Petitions
  Petitions nominating candidates to be voted for by the voters of a political party throughout the entire State or of any subdivisions thereof more...
• Section 19:23-7 - Signers; Certificates Of Candidates
  19:23-7. Each such petition shall set forth that the signers thereof are qualified voters of the State, congressional district, county, or county election district,...
• Section 19:23-8 - Numbers Of Signers To Petitions
  The petitions for candidates to be voted for by the voters of a political party throughout the entire State shall in the aggregate be...
• Section 19:23-10 - Single Or Several Petitions; Signing Rules And Regulations.
  19:23-10. Not all of the names of petitioners need be signed to a single petition, but any number of petitions of the same purport...
• Section 19:23-11 - Verification Of Petition.
  19:23-11. Such petitions shall be verified by the oath or affirmation by affidavit of the person who circulates each petition, including a candidate who...
• Section 19:23-12 - Committee On Vacancies.
  19:23-12. The signers to petitions for "Choice for President," delegates and alternates to national conventions, for Governor, United States Senator, member of the House...
• Section 19:23-13 - Vacancies Caused By Death Or Declining The Office; New Petition; Oath Of Allegiance
  Should any person indorsed in any petition as a candidate to be voted for at any primary election, except for the office of "Choice...
• Section 19:23-14 - Certification By Municipal Clerk.
  19:23-14. Petitions addressed to the Secretary of State, the county clerks, or the municipal clerks shall be filed with such officers, respectively, before 4:00...
• Section 19:23-15 - Acceptance, Statement By Candidates To Accompany Petitions.
  19:23-15. Accompanying the petition and attached thereto each person indorsed therein shall file a certificate, stating that he is qualified for the office mentioned...
• Section 19:23-16 - Person Nominated By Petition; Filing Of Certificate.
  19:23-16. Any person nominated at the primary by having his name written or pasted upon the primary ballot shall file a certificate stating that...
• Section 19:23-17 - Designation On Primary Ticket Of Policy Or Faction
  Any person indorsed as a candidate for nomination for any public office or party position whose name is to be voted for on the...
• Section 19:23-18 - Grouping Of Candidates
  Several candidates for nomination to the same office may in such petitions request that their names be grouped together, and that the common designation...
• Section 19:23-19 - Defective Petition; Notice To Candidates
  In case a petition of nomination shall be defective excepting as to the number of signatures, the officer with whom such petition has been...
• Section 19:23-20 - Amendment Of Defective Petition; Time For
  Such candidate shall be permitted to amend the petition either in form or in substance, but not to add signatures, so as to remedy...
• Section 19:23-21 - Certification By Secretary Of State.
  19:23-21. The Secretary of State shall certify the names of the persons indorsed in the petitions filed in his office to the clerks of...
• Section 19:23-22 - Certification By County Clerk.
  19:23-22. The county clerk shall certify all of the persons so certified to him by the Secretary of State and in addition the names...
• Section 19:23-22.1 - Certification By Municipal Clerks Of Nominees To County Clerks In Certain Counties
  In counties having a population of 700,000 or more inhabitants and in second class counties having a population of not less than 300,000 or...
• Section 19:23-22.4 - Printing Ballots In Counties
  In all counties the county clerk shall cause to be printed a sufficient number of official primary ballots and official primary sample ballots of...
• Section 19:23-22.5 - Cost Of Printing Ballots In Certain Counties
  In counties having a population of 700,000 or more inhabitants and in second class counties having a population of not less than 300,000 or...
• Section 19:23-23 - Separate Ballot For Each Party
  There shall be separate ballots for each political party. Such ballots shall be alike in form for all political parties.
• Section 19:23-24 - Primary Election Ballots; Position.
  19:23-24. The position which the candidates and bracketed groups of names of candidates for the primary for the general election shall have upon the...
• Section 19:23-25 - Make Up And Printing Ballot
  19:23-25. The ballots shall be made up and printed in substantially the following form: Each ballot shall have at the top a coupon at...
• Section 19:23-25.1 - Designation Or Slogan On Primary Ballots
  No designation or slogan shall be printed on any ballot to be used in the conduct of any primary election in connection with any...
• Section 19:23-26.1 - Primary Election For U. S. Senate And Governorship; Placement Of Names Of Candidates On Ballot
  In the case of a primary election for the nomination of a candidate for the office of United States Senator and in the case...
• Section 19:23-26.2 - Application Of Laws On Primary Election For General Election
  The provisions of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes which apply particularly to a primary election for the general election shall apply to this...
• Section 19:23-27 - Printing Of Ballots; Number; Cost Paid By Municipalities
  Not later than twelve o'clock noon of the Saturday preceding a primary for the general election each municipal clerk shall have had printed and...
• Section 19:23-28 - Style Of Ballot; Paper And Type
  The ballots shall be printed on plain white paper uniform in size, quality and type and of such thickness that the printing thereon cannot...
• Section 19:23-29 - Error In Ballots; Correction
  When it shall appear that any error or omission has occurred in the copy prepared by the municipal clerk for the printer or in...
• Section 19:23-30 - Number Of Ballots And Envelopes; Printing; Delivery; Cost Paid By Municipalities.
  19:23-30. a. In counties not having a superintendent of elections where the county board of elections does not have the equipment or facilities to...
• Section 19:23-30.1 - Information Sent To Newly-registered Voters For Primary Election.
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a voter who registers after the 29th day prior to a primary election and...
• Section 19:23-31 - Sample Ballot Facsimile Of Official Ballot
  The official primary sample ballot shall be, as nearly as possible, a facsimile of the official primary ballot to be voted at the primary...
• Section 19:23-32 - Words On Envelopes
  Each of such envelopes shall have printed on the face thereof, in large type, the words, "Official Primary Sample Ballot," and in smaller type,...
• Section 19:23-33 - Sample Ballots And Envelopes Furnished To District Boards Or Commissioner Of Registration.
  19:23-33. In counties not having a superintendent of elections where the county board of elections does not have the equipment or facilities to address...
• Section 19:23-34 - Mailing Sample Ballots
  Each of such district boards, in counties not having a superintendent of elections where the county board of elections does not have the equipment...
• Section 19:23-35 - Posting Sample Ballots
  In counties not having a superintendent of elections, where the county board of elections does not have the equipment or facilities to address and...
• Section 19:23-36 - Return Of Unused Sample Ballots And Envelopes
  In counties not having a superintendent of elections where the county board of elections does not have the equipment or facilities to mail sample...
• Section 19:23-37 - Public Display Of Returned Envelopes
  All the envelopes which shall have been mailed but not delivered to the addresses and shall have been returned to the superintendent, commissioner or...
• Section 19:23-38 - Municipal Clerk To Members Of District Boards; Receipt
  The municipal clerk shall on the day preceding the primary election cause to be delivered, at his office, to a member or members of...
• Section 19:23-39 - Members Of District Boards To Board; Receipts
  Such member or members shall on the morning of the primary election, before proclamation of the opening of the polls, deliver the ballot boxes...
• Section 19:23-40 - Primary Elections, Dates, Time.
  19:23-40. The primary election for the general election shall be held for all political parties upon the Tuesday next after the first Monday in...
• Section 19:23-41 - Officers In Charge
  All of the members of the district board shall conduct the primary election for all political parties holding primary elections under this title.
• Section 19:23-42 - Method Of Conducting Primary Elections.
  19:23-42. The primary election for the general election shall be conducted by the district boards substantially in the same manner as the general election,...
• Section 19:23-45 - Requirements For Voting In Primary Elections; Affiliation.
  19:23-45. No voter shall be allowed to vote at the primary election unless his name appears in the signature copy register. A voter who...
• Section 19:23-45.1 - Notice Of Requirements For Voting In Primary Elections, Publication.
  2. a. The county commissioner of registration in each of the several counties shall cause a notice to be published in each municipality of...
• Section 19:23-45.2 - Cost Of Publication; Payment By Counties
  The cost of the publishing of the notices required to be published by this act by the county commissioners of registration shall be paid...
• Section 19:23-45.3 - Rules And Regulations
  The Secretary of State shall promulgate such rules and regulations as he deems necessary to implement this act, including the procedures to be followed...
• Section 19:23-46 - Determination Of Right To Vote.
  19:23-46. Each voter offering to vote shall announce his name and the party primary in which he wishes to vote. The district board shall...
• Section 19:23-47 - Preparation And Casting Of Ballots
  Such voter shall thereupon prepare and cast his ballot in substantially the same manner as is herein provided for the preparation and casting of...
• Section 19:23-48 - Challenges; Procedure
  If a voter who desires to vote in the same political party box in which he voted at the next preceding primary election is...
• Section 19:23-49 - Counting Of Votes.
  19:23-49. At the close of the primary election for the general election each district board shall immediately proceed to count the votes cast at...
• Section 19:23-50 - Statements Of Result; Contents
  The district boards shall at the conclusion of the canvass make up and sign three statements of the result of such election. The statements...
• Section 19:23-51 - Form Of Statement
  Such statement shall be substantially in the following form: Statement of the result of a primary election held in the ward election district of...
• Section 19:23-52 - Certification Of Statement
  To such statement shall be added a certificate in the following form: We certify the foregoing to be a true and correct statement of...
• Section 19:23-53 - Statements Transmitted To Clerks And Superintendent Of Elections; Access To Office Of Municipal Clerk.
  19:23-53.The district board shall immediately deliver or transmit this statement to the clerks of the county and municipality within which such primary election was...
• Section 19:23-54 - Canvass Of Votes By Municipal Clerks; Certificates Of Election To County Committeemen
  The municipal clerk shall forthwith canvass the statements of the district board as far as they relate to the election of members of the...
• Section 19:23-55 - Canvass Of Votes By County Clerks; Statement
  The county clerks shall within 10 days canvass such statements relating to all officers and positions to be voted for by the voters of...
• Section 19:23-56 - Certificates Of Election Of Members Of State Committee
  The county clerk shall issue a certificate to the male or males receiving the highest number of votes among the male candidates for the...
• Section 19:23-57 - Canvass Of Votes By Secretary Of State; Certificates Of Election Issued
  The secretary of state shall forthwith canvass such statements of the county clerks and determine by the highest number of votes what persons have...
• Section 19:23-58 - Provisions Of Title Applicable.
  19:23-58. Any provisions of this title which pertain particularly to any election or to the general election shall apply to the primary election for...
• Section 19:24-1 - Notification Relative To Number Of Delegates, Alternates To Be Elected.
  19:24-1. In every year in which primary elections are to be held as herein provided for the election of delegates and alternates to the...
• Section 19:24-2 - Certification As To Number Of Delegates, Alternates To Be Elected.
  19:24-2. The Secretary of State shall, on or before March 20 of that year, certify to the county clerk and county board of each...
• Section 19:24-3 - Nomination By Petition
  Candidates for election as delegates or alternates to the national conventions of political parties shall be nominated by petition in the manner herein provided...
• Section 19:24-4 - National Convention Delegates.
  19:24-4. Not less than 100 members of each such political party may file with the Secretary of State at least 64 days prior to...
• Section 19:24-5 - Delegates Grouped; Choice For President Included In Petition
  Candidates for the position of delegates or alternates may be grouped together, if they so request in their petitions, and in any year of...
• Section 19:24-6 - Delegates And Alternates At Large; Election; Ballots
  For the purposes of electing delegates-at-large and alternates-at-large and district delegates and alternates to national conventions of the political parties in counties in which...
• Section 19:25-3 - Presidential Candidates.
  1.Not less than 1,000 voters of any political party may file a petition with the Secretary of State on or before the 64th day...
• Section 19:25-4 - Certification Of Names Indorsed.
  2.The Secretary of State shall certify the names so indorsed to the county clerk of each county not later than the 54th day before...
• Section 19:26-1 - Return Of Election Documents, Equipment.
  19:26-1. At the close of all primary elections held according to the provisions of this title, and after counting the ballots cast at such...
• Section 19:26-2 - Primary Books; Public Inspection; Removal Of Names
  19:26-2. The party primary poll books shall be subject to public inspection, and any voter whose name appears therein may apply to a judge...
• Section 19:27-1 - Nominations, Elections And Ascertainment And Certification Of Results As Provided For Primary And General Elections
  Except as herein otherwise provided candidates for public office to be voted for at any special election shall be nominated and the special election...
• Section 19:27-2 - New Register Not Required In Unchanged Election Districts
  In all cases where the boundaries of an election district shall have remained unchanged between one election and the time for preparing registers of...
• Section 19:27-3 - Nomination Of Candidates By Petition
  Candidates to be voted for at a special election shall be nominated exclusively by the members of the same political party by petition in...
• Section 19:27-4 - Writ Of Election
  19:27-4. When any vacancy happens in the representation of this State in the United States Senate or in the House of Representatives, the Governor...
• Section 19:27-5 - Proclamation
  19:27-5. Every writ of election issued under the provisions of this title shall be of the nature of a proclamation, and shall be signed...
• Section 19:27-6 - Congressional Vacancies.
  19:27-6. In the case of a vacancy in the representation of this State in the United States Senate or House of Representatives, the writ...
• Section 19:27-7 - Writs Delivered To Secretary Of State
  Every such writ shall, by the officer issuing the same, be delivered forthwith to the secretary of state, who shall forthwith affix the seal...
• Section 19:27-8 - Copies Of Writ
  19:27-8. In case such vacancy happens in the representation of this State in the United States Senate, the Secretary of State shall cause as...
• Section 19:27-9 - Publication Of Writ
  19:27-9. The county board of each of such counties shall forthwith after the receipt of a copy of such writ cause the same to...
• Section 19:27-10.1 - Vacancy In House Of Representatives Between Dates Preceding Primary And General Elections.
  1.When a vacancy, howsoever caused, happens in the representation of this State in the House of Representatives in any year later than the 70th...
• Section 19:27-11 - Filling Vacancies In County, Municipal Offices.
  19:27-11. In the event of any vacancy in any county or municipal office, except for the office of a member of the board of...
• Section 19:27-11.1 - Filling Of Vacancies In Legislature.
  7.When any vacancy happens in the Legislature otherwise than by expiration of term, it shall be filled by election for the unexpired term only...
• Section 19:27-11.2 - Interim Successor
  In the case of a vacancy occurring with respect to a member of the Senate or General Assembly who was elected as the candidate...
• Section 19:27-11.3 - Nomination From Floor
  Members of the political party's county committee or committees who are empowered to select a candidate for the vacated office shall only nominate a...
• Section 19:27-11.4 - Office Remaining Vacant
  In the case of a vacancy occurring with respect to a member of the Senate or General Assembly who was not elected as the...
• Section 19:27-12 - Notice Of Other Special Elections
  Notice of special elections other than those to fill vacancies in the United States senate, United States house of representatives, state senate or general...
• Section 19:27-13 - Make-up Of Registers Of Voters
  The registers of voters for such special elections shall be made up as herein provided with such modifications, if any, as to the time...
• Section 19:27-14 - Delivery Of Registers; Disposition After Election
  In each municipality in counties not having a superintendent of elections, the commissioner shall deliver to the clerk of the municipality in which the...
• Section 19:27a-1 - Short Title
  1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Uniform Recall Election Law." L.1995,c.105,s.1.
• Section 19:27a-2 - Power To Recall Elected Officials
  2. Pursuant to Article I, paragraph 2b. of the New Jersey Constitution, the people of this State shall have the power to recall, after...
• Section 19:27a-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act: "circulator" means an individual, whether paid or unpaid, who solicits signatures for a recall petition; "elected official" means any...
• Section 19:27a-4 - Recall; Vote Required, Service Of Term, Statements, Procedures
  4. a. An elected official shall be recalled from office upon the affirmative vote of a majority of those voting on the question of...
• Section 19:27a-5 - Recall Petition; Signatures Required
  5. A recall petition demanding that an election be held for the purpose of deciding whether an elected official shall be recalled from office...
• Section 19:27a-6 - Notice Of Intention; Filing.
  6.Prior to the collection of any signatures, the sponsors of a recall petition shall file a notice of intention with the appropriate recall election...
• Section 19:27a-7 - Review Of Notice Of Intention; Approval; Publication; Answer
  7. a. Upon receiving a notice of intention, the recall election official shall review it for compliance with the provisions of section 6 of...
• Section 19:27a-8 - Format Of Recall Petition; Requirements.
  8. a. No signature appearing on any document other than a recall petition prepared in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be...
• Section 19:27a-9 - Circulator Of Recall Petition.
  9. a. A circulator of a recall petition shall not be required to be a registered voter, but shall be voter eligible, which means...
• Section 19:27a-10 - Filing Of Petition By Recall Committee; Time
  10. a. A recall committee shall collect the required number of signatures and file a completed petition with the recall election official within the...
• Section 19:27a-11 - Review Of Petition By Recall Election Official
  11. All sections of a completed recall petition shall be filed with the recall election official at the same time. When a petition is...
• Section 19:27a-12 - Contesting Decisions Of Recall Officials
  12. The determination of the recall election official as to whether a recall petition is signed by a sufficient number of registered voters and...
• Section 19:27a-13 - Issuance Of Certificate As To Sufficiency Of Petition; Scheduling Of Recall Election; Notice.
  13. a. (1) If the recall election official determines that a petition contains the required number of signatures and otherwise complies with the provisions...
• Section 19:27a-14 - Recall Election, Conduct
  14. A recall election shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes which apply to all elections,...
• Section 19:27a-15 - Ballot Used At Recall Election; Filling Of Vacancy
  15. a. Whenever the elected official sought to be recalled is the Governor or a member of the Legislature, the question of whether or...
• Section 19:27a-16 - Results Of Recall Election
  16. a. If a majority of votes cast on the question of the recall of an elected official are in the affirmative, the term...
• Section 19:27a-17 - Recall Committee, Recall Defense Committee; Regulation Of Contributions; Reports
  17. a. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a recall committee shall be treated as a candidate committee for the purposes of "The...
• Section 19:27a-18 - Statutes Inoperative
  18. On the effective date of this act, sections 88 through 98 of P.L.1972, c.154 (C.40:41A-88 et seq.); sections 17-19 through 17-29 of P.L.1950,...
• Section 19:28-1 - Application For Recount.
  19:28-1. When any candidate at any election shall have reason to believe that an error has been made in counting the votes of that...
• Section 19:28-2 - Expenses Of Recount; Liability For; Deposit By Applicants
  Any applicant or group of applicants, as the case may be, for such recount, upon applying therefor, shall deposit with the county clerk or...
• Section 19:28-3 - Recount; Order And Proceedings
  Such judge shall be authorized to order upon such terms as he deems proper a recount of the votes as he may determine, to...
• Section 19:28-4 - Revocation Of Election Certificate; New Certificate
  If it appears upon such recount that an error has been made sufficient to change the result of such election, such judge in case...
• Section 19:28-5 - Order Filed
  19:28-5. When any such certificate shall be issued or revoked by order of the judge of the Superior Court, his order shall be filed...
• Section 19:28-6 - Copies Of Certificates Delivered To Successful Candidates
  The secretary of state, county or municipal clerk shall make and certify, under his hand and official seal, a copy thereof, and shall without...
• Section 19:28-7 - Copy Of Certificate Delivered To Secretary Of State In Certain Cases
  In case of an election for senator, members of the assembly or any county officers, the county clerk shall within five days thereafter transmit...
• Section 19:28-8 - Correction Of Errors In Referendum Recount
  In case of public questions such judge shall make an order that the result of such election be corrected. Amended by L.1953, c. 19,...
• Section 19:29-1 - Grounds Stated
  The nomination or election of any person to any public office or party position, or the approval or disapproval of any public proposition, may...
• Section 19:29-2 - Petition Filed With Clerk Of Superior Court; Contents; Verification; Bond To Incumbent
  In the case of an office or proposition voted for by the voters of the entire State or more than 1 county thereof, the...
• Section 19:29-3 - Filing Of Certain Petitions.
  19:29-3. The petition contesting any nomination to public office, election to party office or position or the proposal of any proposition shall be filed...
• Section 19:29-4 - Time For Trial; Notice
  The judge shall appoint a suitable time for hearing such complaint, not more than 30 nor less than 15 days after the filing of...
• Section 19:29-5 - Procedure At Trial
  The proceedings shall be similar to those in a civil action so far as practicable, but shall be under the control and direction of...
• Section 19:29-6 - Witnesses And Evidence
  The court may compel the attendance of any officer of such election and of any other person capable of testifying concerning the same, and...
• Section 19:29-7 - Witnesses Required To Testify
  The judge may require any person called as a witness who voted at such election to answer touching his qualification as a voter, and...
• Section 19:29-8 - Judgment; Misconduct By Members Of District Boards
  The judge shall pronounce judgment whether the incumbent or any contestant was duly elected, and the person so declared elected will be entitled to...
• Section 19:29-9 - Form And Effect Of Judgment
  If the judgment be against the incumbent, and he has already received a certificate of election, the judgment shall annul it. If the judge...
• Section 19:29-10 - Order Of Court Putting Successful Party In Office
  When either the contestant or incumbent shall be in possession of the office, by holding over or otherwise, the judge shall, if the judgment...
• Section 19:29-11 - Review
  The party against whom judgment is rendered may have it reviewed by the Appellate Division of the Superior Court on an appeal in lieu...
• Section 19:29-13 - Enforcement Of Judgment On Appeal
  The Appellate Division of the Superior Court in the appeal in lieu of prerogative writ shall enforce its judgment in such manner as may...
• Section 19:29-14 - Costs; Liability For
  The contestant and incumbent shall be liable to the officers and witnesses for the costs made by them, respectively. If the election be confirmed,...
• Section 19:31-1 - Registration Required To Vote
  19:31-1. No person shall be permitted to vote at any election unless such person shall have been registered in the manner hereinafter in this...
• Section 19:31-2 - Commissioner Of Registration.
  19:31-2. In all counties having a superintendent of elections, the superintendent of elections is hereby constituted the commissioner of registration and in all other...
• Section 19:31-3 - Registration Forms, Original And Duplicate; Contents
  19:31-3. a. The commissioner of registration in each county shall maintain one original and one duplicate registration form for the registration of each duly...
• Section 19:31-3.1 - Statewide Voter Information On Party Affiliation.
  1.If the commissioner of registration has maintained information in any form regarding a registrant's party affiliation, the commissioner shall be responsible for maintaining that...
• Section 19:31-3.2 - Voter Registration; Nondisclosure Of Street Address For Domestic Violence, Stalking Victims.
  1. a. A person who is (1) a victim of domestic violence who has obtained a permanent restraining order against a defendant pursuant to...
• Section 19:31-3.3 - Digitized Images Of Signatures, Use; Other Information.
  2.The commissioner may eliminate the use of the duplicate permanent registration binders and may authorize and direct the use at the polls in place...
• Section 19:31-5 - Persons Entitled To Register; Failure To Vote No Grounds For Removal.
  19:31-5. Each person, who is at least 17 years of age at the time he or she applies for registration, who resides in the...
• Section 19:31-6 - Registration Places, Time, Requirements.
  19:31-6. Any person qualified to vote in an election shall be entitled to vote in the election if the person shall have registered to...
• Section 19:31-6a - Chief State Election Official Designated, Secretary Of State.
  25.The Secretary of State is designated the chief State election official and shall be responsible for the coordination of this State's responsibilities pursuant to...
• Section 19:31-6.1 - Acceptance Of Applications For Registration During 20 Days Prior To Election, Ineligibility To Vote.
  1.Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Title to which this act is a supplement, any person authorized by law to accept applications for voter...
• Section 19:31-6.2 - Application Of Other Provisions To Persons Registered Under Act
  Except to the extent inconsistent herewith concerning the registration of voters, all other provisions shall be applicable to persons registered under the provisions of...
• Section 19:31-6.3 - Public Agency Defined; Completion, Submission Of Registration Forms.
  15. a. As used in this section, "public agency" shall mean: The Division of Worker's Compensation, the Division of Employment Services and the Division...
• Section 19:31-6.4 - Registration Forms, Contents, Availability; Duties Of Officials.
  16. a. The Secretary of State shall cause to be prepared and shall provide to each county commissioner of registration forms of size and...
• Section 19:31-6.4a - Rules, Regulations
  10. The Secretary of State may promulgate, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), rules and regulations to effectuate the...
• Section 19:31-6.4b - Penalty
  11. No State or county government employee shall be subject to any penalty, liability or disciplinary action for failure to fulfill any responsibility under...
• Section 19:31-6.5 - Acceptance Of Registration, Commissioner's Duties.
  17. a. Upon receipt of any completed registration form, the commissioner of registration shall review it, and if it is found to be in...
• Section 19:31-6.6 - Prevention Of Fraudulent Registration And Voting; Procedures
  For the purpose of preventing fraudulent registration and voting, the commissioner of registration in counties having a superintendent of elections, and the county board...
• Section 19:31-6.7 - Presidential Election; Door-to-door Canvassing
  19. a. On December 31 of every year in which a Presidential Election has been held, each county may certify to the Secretary of...
• Section 19:31-6.8 - Amount Of Reimbursement Of Counties For New Registrants
  The Secretary of State shall each year reimburse the counties $0.50 per new registrant, whether the registration was by mail or in person. L.1974,...
• Section 19:31-6.9 - Rules And Regulations
  To effectuate the purposes of this act and in addition to any other powers and duties provided in or by this act, the Secretary...
• Section 19:31-6.10 - Severability
  If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or other part of this act is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or...
• Section 19:31-6.11 - Voter Registration Agency Defined; Declination Forms, Contents.
  26. a. As used in this section, "voter registration agency" means: Any agency or office serving as a food stamp issuer, pursuant to P.L.1988,...
• Section 19:31-6.12 - Registration Of Persons In Armed Forces
  20. The Secretary of State is authorized, on behalf of this State, to enter into and to carry out an agreement with the Secretary...
• Section 19:31-6.13 - Commissioners Of Registration, Registration Assistance
  34. The commissioner of registration in each of the several counties shall make available at the office of the commissioner to each person appearing...
• Section 19:31-7 - Registration By Municipal Clerks.
  19:31-7. For the convenience of the voters the respective municipal clerks or their duly authorized clerk or clerks in all municipalities shall also be...
• Section 19:31-7.1 - Municipal Clerks, Registration Assistance
  35. The municipal clerk in each of the several municipalities of this State shall make available at the office of the clerk to each...
• Section 19:31-10 - Filing Of Registration Forms
  19:31-10. The original and duplicate registration forms when filled out shall be filed alphabetically by districts at the office of the commissioner in separate...
• Section 19:31-10.1 - Maintenance Of Original, Updated Voter Registration Forms.
  1.The commissioner of registration may eliminate use of original permanent registration binders, as provided for in R.S.19:31-10, and may maintain in a permanent and...
• Section 19:31-11 - Change Of Residence Notice.
  19:31-11. a. In all counties within the State, change of residence notices shall be made by a written request, signed by the registrant, forwarded...
• Section 19:31-12 - Errors In Registration Corrected
  When by error an eligible voter has been registered in a district other than the one in which he resides the commissioner shall cause...
• Section 19:31-13 - Change In Registration Due To Name Change.
  19:31-13. Whenever the registrant after his or her original registration shall change his or her name due to marriage, divorce, or by judgment of...
• Section 19:31-13.1 - Previous Registration In Another County; Notice; Transfer To Inactive File
  When a person appears to register in any county of this State, and in answer to the statement on the registration forms, to wit:...
• Section 19:31-13.2 - Eligibility To Vote In Primary After Change Of Declaration If 50 Days Before Primary.
  4.If, when submitting a voter registration form for any reason, a registrant declares thereon his or her political party affiliation and in so doing...
• Section 19:31-14 - New Or Altered Districts; Notice To Registrants And To Commissioner; Registrations Not Invalidated
  When a new district has been created or the boundaries of any district have been changed, the commissioner shall transfer the permanent registration forms...
• Section 19:31-15 - Removal Of Name From Statewide Voter Registration System; Change Of Residence; Confirmation.
  19:31-15. a. Upon receipt by the commissioner of registration of a county from a registered voter of that county of a request that the...
• Section 19:31-16 - Data On Eligible Voters' Deaths Filed By Health Officer.
  19:31-16. a. The health officer or other officer in charge of records of death in each municipality shall file with the commissioner of registration...
• Section 19:31-16.1 - Failure To Furnish Information On Deaths, Third Degree Crime
  32. a. Any State, county or municipal officer in charge of the records of death for the State, or a county or municipality thereof,...
• Section 19:31-16.2 - Provision Of List Of Eligible Voters' Deaths To Chairman Of County Committee
  33. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the State registrar of vital statistics shall provide to the chairman of the...
• Section 19:31-17 - Criminal Conviction Data; Use
  19:31-17. a. Once each month during the first five days thereof, the chief State election official shall notify the commissioner of registration of a...
• Section 19:31-18 - Registry Lists; Distribution; Contents.
  19:31-18. On or before the eighth day preceding any general election the commissioner shall certify and transmit to the county clerk a complete list...
• Section 19:31-18.1 - Registry Lists; Distribution; Availability, Use.
  2. a. The county clerk in all counties shall cause copies of the registry lists, certified and transmitted under R.S.19:31-18, to be printed, and...
• Section 19:31-18.3 - Filing Of Original Registry Lists
  The county clerk, after causing copies of such registry lists to be printed, shall file the original registry lists in his office and keep...
• Section 19:31-18.4 - Repeal
  Sections 19:30-1 and 19:30-2 of the Revised Statutes are repealed. L.1947, c. 347, p. 1138, s. 5.
• Section 19:31-19 - Correction Of Records By Commissioner.
  19:31-19. The commissioner shall transfer to the deleted file the permanent registration and record of voting forms of such persons as a judge of...
• Section 19:31-20 - Delivery Of Signature Copy Registers.
  19:31-20. On or before the eighth day preceding the primary election for the general election and the general election, respectively, the commissioner in counties...
• Section 19:31-21 - Use Of Signature Copy Registers On Election Day.
  19:31-21. A person whose name appears in the signature copy register and who upon applying for a ballot or voting authority shall have given...
• Section 19:31-22 - Return Of Signature Copy Registers, Inspection By Commissioner.
  19:31-22. Not later than noon of the day following the canvass of the votes cast at the primary election for the general election or...
• Section 19:31-23 - Record Of Voting; Maintenance Of Forms.
  19:31-23. Following each election the commissioner shall cause the record of voting as shown on the record of voting forms in the signature copy...
• Section 19:31-24 - General Registration Following Complete Loss, Failure Of Statewide Voter Registration System.
  19:31-24. In the event of the complete loss or failure of the Statewide voter registration system, the commissioner shall promptly provide for a general...
• Section 19:31-26 - Card Index File; Notations, Information.
  19:31-26. The commissioner may make and maintain a card index file showing on separate cards the full name, address, birth date, driver's license number,...
• Section 19:31-29 - Violations, Relief; Actions
  42. a. Any person who believes that he or she has been denied an opportunity to register to vote or to remain a registered...
• Section 19:31-30 - Rules, Regulations
  44. The Secretary of State shall promulgate, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as are...
• Section 19:31-31 - Establishment Of Single Statewide Voter Registration System.
  1. a. There shall be established in the Department of State a single Statewide voter registration system, as required pursuant to section 303 of...
• Section 19:31-32 - Replacement Of Existing Voter Registration Files.
  2. a. The Statewide voter registration system shall replace all other computer or electronic-based registry files of voters and other voter registration files established...
• Section 19:31-33 - Annual Report; Submission, Contents.
  3.Each year the Attorney General shall prepare and submit to the Governor and the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate,...
• Section 19:31-34 - Rules, Regulations.
  4.The Attorney General may promulgate rules and regulations, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), necessary to effectuate the purposes...
• Section 19:31a-7 - Signature Comparison Record And Duplicate Permanent Registration And Voting Form; Voter's Signature; Form Of Record
  The commissioner of registration shall have printed on the back of the duplicate permanent registration and voting form a signature comparison record, which record...
• Section 19:31a-8 - Signature Comparison Records; Identification Statements; Disability Certificates.
  2.Every person qualified to vote in any election shall at any time after the opening of the polls be at liberty to enter the...
• Section 19:31a-9 - Erroneous Record
  When any legal voter shall apply to the district board in the district in which he resides and shall find that his name upon...
• Section 19:31a-10 - Repeals
  Sections 19:15-7, 19:15-13, 19:15-14, 19:15-15, 19:15-16, 19:15-35 and 19:15-36 of the Revised Statutes and "An act concerning elections and supplementing Title 19 of the...
• Section 19:32-1 - Establishment Of Office; Appointment By Governor With Advice And Consent Of Senate; Salary; Vacancy.
  19:32-1. The office of superintendent of elections in counties of the first class in which such office has previously been established is continued, and...
• Section 19:32-1.1 - Counties Of First Class; Deputy Superintendent Of Elections; Appointment By Governor; Term; Vacancies
  The office of deputy superintendent of elections in counties of the first class is established. The office in each county shall be filled by...
• Section 19:32-1.2 - Powers And Duties
  The deputy superintendent of elections shall assist the superintendent of elections in the performance of his duties, shall serve as superintendent in his absence,...
• Section 19:32-2 - Appointment Of Staff; Civil Service; Salaries; Expenses.
  19:32-2. a. Except as provided in section 2 of P.L.1982, c.46 (C.19:32-1.2), each superintendent may appoint a chief deputy, a chief clerk, a secretary,...
• Section 19:32-3 - Municipal Expenses Payable By Municipalities
  All necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this title when certified to and approved by such superintendent in connection with an...
• Section 19:32-4 - Offices, Equipment And Supplies
  The board of chosen freeholders of the counties shall provide suitable room or rooms for the transaction of the business of such superintendent and...
• Section 19:32-4.1 - Complaint Forms Provided To Voters At Elections.
  9.On the day of every municipal, primary, general, special or annual school election the superintendent of elections in counties having a superintendent of elections...
• Section 19:32-5 - Investigations By Superintendents And Assistants; Neglect To Furnish Information Or Exhibit Records, Fourth Degree Crime.
  19:32-5. Such superintendents and their assistants, in order to enforce the laws of this State regarding the conduct of elections, shall investigate all complaints...
• Section 19:32-6 - Subpoenas; Power To Issue; Service; Failure To Testify; False Statements, Crime.
  19:32-6 The superintendent shall have power to issue subpoenas for the purpose of investigating any complaint of violation of the election laws of the...
• Section 19:32-7 - Attendance At Elections; Admission To Polling Places
  The superintendent, his subordinates, or any person or persons designated by him, may attend at any election, any of whom shall be admitted at...
• Section 19:32-8 - Register Of Lodgers.
  19:32-8. When directed by the superintendent every landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper of a lodging house, inn or hotel, shall keep a register in...
• Section 19:32-9 - Card Records Of Persons Registered In Municipalities Not Having Permanent Registration
  The district board of each election district in municipalities not having permanent registration shall on each day of registration transfer to cards to be...
• Section 19:32-10 - Preparation Of Challenge Lists
  19:32-10. In respect to each general, primary, municipal and special election, the superintendent shall prepare for each election district in the county a challenge...
• Section 19:32-11 - Sealing, Preserving And Opening Ballot Boxes
  The superintendent, his chief deputy or assistants, shall have the power, when in his or their judgment it is deemed necessary at any election,...
• Section 19:32-12 - Interference With Sealing Of Ballot Boxes, Bags; Third Degree Crime.
  19:32-12. Any person preventing, hindering or interfering with the said superintendent or his chief deputy or assistants in sealing such ballot box or boxes...
• Section 19:32-13 - Destroying, Removing, Defacing Seal; Third Degree Crime.
  19:32-13. Any person who destroys, defaces or removes, or attempts to destroy, deface or remove, such a seal shall be guilty of a crime...
• Section 19:32-14 - When Powers Of Superintendents And Deputies Exercisable
  The powers herein granted may be exercised by the superintendent, his chief deputy or assistants, upon the completion of the counting and canvassing of...
• Section 19:32-21 - Police Powers Of Superintendents, Deputies And Assistants
  The superintendent and his chief deputy and assistants shall have and possess all the powers of constables, policemen and other peace officers.
• Section 19:32-22 - Arrests Without Warrant; Peace Officers Punishable For Failure To Assist
  The superintendent and his chief deputy and assistants are hereby authorized and empowered and without warrant, to arrest any person violating any provision of...
• Section 19:32-23 - Detention Of Persons Arrested
  Upon delivering the person so arrested to the officer in charge of the police station to which he is removed, such officer shall hold...
• Section 19:32-24 - Complaint Against Person Arrested; Hearing By Magistrate
  Upon delivering the person so arrested to the officer in charge of such police station the superintendent or his chief deputy and assistants, as...
• Section 19:32-25 - Removal Of Persons From Polling Places
  The superintendent, his chief deputy and assistants are hereby authorized and empowered to remove from any polling place or place where any election is...
• Section 19:32-26 - Office Of Superintendent Of Elections, Certain; Appointment; Salary; Term; Vacancies
  1. In any county of the second class and in any county of the fifth class, the governing body may establish, by ordinance or...
• Section 19:32-26.1 - Office Of Deputy Superintendent Of Elections, Certain; Appointment; Term; Vacancies; Salary
  1. The governing body of a county of the second class in which the office of superintendent of elections for the county has been...
• Section 19:32-26.2 - Duties, Powers Of Deputy Superintendent Of Elections
  2. A deputy superintendent of elections appointed pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1992, c.17 (C.19:32-26.1) shall assist the superintendent of elections in the performance...
• Section 19:32-26.3 - Pilot Program, Participation.
  1.There is established a pilot program to suspend the operations of the office of the superintendent of elections and the office of the deputy...
• Section 19:32-26.4 - Suspension Of Offices In Participating Counties.
  2. a. Upon the adoption of a resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, to commence participation in the pilot program by a participating county, the...
• Section 19:32-26.5 - Actions Prior To Expiration Of Suspension.
  3.Within 60 days prior to the expiration of the suspension provided for by section 2 of P.L.2013, c.17 (C.19:32-26.4), the governing body of a...
• Section 19:32-26.6 - Termination Of Suspension, Certain Circumstances.
  4.In the event that the governing body of a participating county fails to decide whether to adopt an ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, to...
• Section 19:32-26.7 - Re-establishment Of Offices; Requirements.
  5.Once the office of superintendent of elections and the office of the deputy superintendent has been abolished in a participating county pursuant to P.L.2013,...
• Section 19:32-26.8 - Appointment To Fill Office.
  6. a. An individual shall be appointed to fill the office of superintendent of elections, pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1947, c.167 (C.19:32-26) and...
• Section 19:32-26.9 - Preparation Of Annual Budget Request By County Superintendent Of Elections.
  5.A county superintendent of elections shall prepare the annual budget request for the office of the county superintendent of elections pursuant to the requirements...
• Section 19:32-27 - Appointment Of Deputy And Assistants, Salaries.
  2. a. Except as provided in section 2 of P.L.1992, c.17 (C.19:32-26.2), each superintendent may appoint a chief deputy, a clerk, a secretary and...
• Section 19:32-28 - Expenses Of Election Held In Municipality
  All necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this Title when certified to and approved by such superintendent in connection with an...
• Section 19:32-29 - Offices, Equipment And Supplies
  The board of chosen freeholders of such counties shall provide suitable room or rooms for the transaction of the business of such superintendent and...
• Section 19:32-30 - Investigations By Superintendents, Assistants; Neglect To Furnish Information Or Exhibit Records, Disorderly Person.
  5.Such superintendents and their assistants, in order to enforce the laws of this State regarding the conduct of elections, shall investigate all complaints relating...
• Section 19:32-31 - Subpoenas; Refusal To Obey; False Statements; Crime.
  6.The superintendent shall have power to issue subpoenas for the purpose of investigating any complaint of violation of the election laws of the State,...
• Section 19:32-32 - Attendance At Elections; Admission To Polling Places
  The superintendent, his subordinates, or any person or persons designated by him, may attend at any election, any of whom shall be admitted at...
• Section 19:32-33 - Register Of Guests And Lodgers In Lodging Houses, Inns And Hotels.
  8.When directed by the superintendent, every landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper of a lodging house, inn or hotel shall keep a register in which...
• Section 19:32-34 - Sealing, Preserving And Opening Ballot Boxes
  The superintendent, his chief deputy or assistants, shall have the power, when in his or their judgment it is deemed necessary at any election,...
• Section 19:32-35 - Interference With Sealing Ballot Boxes, Bags; Third Degree Crime.
  10. Any person preventing, hindering or interfering with the said superintendent or his chief deputy or assistants in sealing such ballot box or boxes...
• Section 19:32-36 - Destroying, Removing, Defacing Seals, Third Degree Crime.
  11. Any person who destroys, defaces or removes, or attempts to destroy, deface or remove, such a seal shall be guilty of a crime...
• Section 19:32-37 - Exercise Of Powers By Superintendent Or Assistants, When
  The powers herein granted may be exercised by the superintendent, his chief deputy or assistants, upon the completion of the counting and canvassing of...
• Section 19:32-44 - Superintendent And Assistants To Have Powers Of Peace Officers
  The superintendent and his chief deputy and assistants shall have and possess all the powers of constables, policemen and other peace officers. L.1947, c....
• Section 19:32-45 - Arrest Without Warrant; Aid Of Peace Officers In Taking Arrested Person To Police Station
  The superintendent and his chief deputy and assistants are hereby authorized and empowered and without warrant, to arrest any person violating any provision of...
• Section 19:32-46 - Detention Of Persons Arrested
  Upon delivering the person so arrested to the officer in charge of the police station to which he is removed, such officer shall hold...
• Section 19:32-47 - Complaint Against Person Arrested; Hearing By Magistrate
  Upon delivering the person so arrested to the officer in charge of such police station the superintendent or his chief deputy and assistants, as...
• Section 19:32-48 - Removal Of Persons From Polling Places
  The superintendent, his chief deputy and assistants are hereby authorized and empowered to remove from any polling place or place where any election is...
• Section 19:32-49 - Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent Constituted Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner Of Registration
  24. In addition to the foregoing, the superintendent of elections is constituted the commissioner of registration for the county and he shall, within the...
• Section 19:32-50 - Salaries And Expenses During Fiscal Year In Which Act Takes Effect
  If during the fiscal year in which this act becomes effective, the board of chosen freeholders of the county shall not have made provision...
• Section 19:32-51 - Transfer Of Employees Of County Board Of Elections
  All employees of the county board of elections of the county hereby are transferred to the office of superintendent of elections but the board...
• Section 19:32-52 - Appropriations For Salaries And Expenses
  In the event that said appropriations shall not be sufficient to provide full payment of the salaries and other expenses of the superintendent of...
• Section 19:32-53 - Voting Machines, Forms, Records, Etc. To Be Turned Over
  Upon the taking effect of such resolution the county board of elections of the county shall turn over to the superintendent of elections all...
• Section 19:33-1 - Procedure For Removing Names From Register.
  19:33-1. A judge of the Superior Court shall order stricken from the Statewide voter registration system and any other register the name of any...
• Section 19:34-1 - False Registration Or Transfer; Penalties.
  19:34-1. If any member of the district board shall willfully refuse to enter in the canvassing books or upon the registers the name of...
• Section 19:34-1.1 - Crimes; Election Official Defined.
  43. a. Any person, other than an election official, who: (1)knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten or coerce,...
• Section 19:34-2 - Offenses Concerning Nomination Certificates Or Petitions.
  19:34-2. No person shall falsely make, falsely make oath to, or fraudulently deface or fraudulently destroy any certificate of nomination or petition, or any...
• Section 19:34-3 - Ballots; Offenses Concerning Printing, Distribution, Possession And Forgery Thereof.
  19:34-3. If any printer employed by any county or municipal clerk to print official ballots, or any person engaged in printing the same, shall...
• Section 19:34-4 - Voting By Person Convicted Of Disenfranchising Crime.
  19:34-4. If a person convicted of a crime which disfranchises him shall vote at any election, unless he shall have been pardoned or restored...
• Section 19:34-5 - Interference With Conduct Of Election.
  19:34-5. No person shall, during an election, with intent to hinder or delay same, or to hinder or delay any voter in the preparation...
• Section 19:34-6 - Prohibited Actions In Polling Place On Election Day; Exception For Simulated Voting.
  19:34-6. a. If a person shall on election day tamper, deface or interfere with any polling booth or obstruct the entrance to any polling...
• Section 19:34-7 - Violation Of Ballot Regulations.
  19:34-7. No person shall within the polling room mark his ballot in a place other than in the polling booth or show his ballot,...
• Section 19:34-8 - Sample Ballot Not To Be Accepted
  No election officer shall accept from any voter and deposit in the ballot box any sample primary ballot.
• Section 19:34-9 - Prompting Voter.
  19:34-9. Any person who shall prompt a voter in answering any questions provided by this title shall be guilty of a disorderly persons offense....
• Section 19:34-10 - Identifying Or Distinguishing Marks On Ballots.
  19:34-10. If any person shall write, paste or otherwise place upon any official ballot any mark, sign or device of any kind as a...
• Section 19:34-11 - Fraudulent Voting; Interference With Election Or Canvass; Third Degree Crime.
  19:34-11. Every person not entitled to vote who fraudulently votes, and every person who votes more than once at any one election; or knowingly...
• Section 19:34-12 - Attempt To Cast Illegal Vote; Third Degree Crime.
  19:34-12. Every person not entitled to vote who fraudulently attempts to vote, or who being entitled to vote attempts to vote more than once...
• Section 19:34-13 - Attempts By Election Officers To Discover How Voter Voted; Third Degree Crime.
  19:34-13. Every inspector, judge or clerk of an election, who, previous to putting the ballot of an elector in the ballot box, attempts to...
• Section 19:34-14 - Member Of District Board Revealing Knowledge Of How Voter Voted.
  19:34-14. If a member of any district board has knowledge how any person has voted and shall reveal such knowledge to any other person,...
• Section 19:34-15 - Electioneering Within Or About Polling Place; Disorderly Persons Offense.
  19:34-15. If a person shall distribute or display any circular or printed matter or offer any suggestion or solicit any support for any candidate,...
• Section 19:34-16 - Removal, Destruction, Mutilation Of Registry, Voters' Lists.
  19:34-16. A person who shall remove, destroy or mutilate any registry list or copy thereof, or who before an election closes shall remove, destroy...
• Section 19:34-17 - Unlawfully Taking Ballot Box Or Removing Contents; Destroying Ballots; Willfully Suppressing Records.
  19:34-17. If a person shall rob or plunder any ballot box, or unlawfully and by stealth or violence take the same or remove therefrom...
• Section 19:34-18 - Interfering With Return Of Ballot Boxes.
  19:34-18. A person who shall willfully obstruct or interfere with the clerk or clerks on the way from the polls to the office of...
• Section 19:34-19 - Insignia At Polls.
  19:34-19. No person shall display, sell, give or provide any political badge, button or other insignia to be worn at or within one hundred...
• Section 19:34-20 - Soliciting Or Procuring Or Assisting Unlawful Registration And Other Violations Of Election Law.
  19:34-20. Whoever shall solicit the registering of his name on the registry list of any election district or precinct, knowing that he is not...
• Section 19:34-21 - Voting In Wrong Party Ballot Box.
  19:34-21. A person who being a member of one political party shall vote in the ballot box used for the primary election of another...
• Section 19:34-22 - False Voting At Primary.
  19:34-22. If a person not entitled to vote at any primary election as herein provided shall vote or offer to vote at such primary...
• Section 19:34-23 - Primary Election Officials Acting Before Taking Oath; Willfully Disregarding Or Violating Rules.
  19:34-23. If any judge, inspector, clerk or other officer of a primary election shall act in such capacity before taking and subscribing to the...
• Section 19:34-24 - Betting On Election
  No person shall make, lay or deposit any bet, wager or stake, to be decided by the result of any election, by the election...
• Section 19:34-25 - Bribery.
  19:34-25. a. If a person shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person in his behalf, give, lend or agree to...
• Section 19:34-26 - Perjury; Subornation Of Perjury.
  19:34-26. If a person shall be guilty of willful and corrupt false swearing or affirming, or by any means shall willfully and corruptly suborn...
• Section 19:34-27 - Improperly Influencing Or Intimidating Employees.
  19:34-27. An employer of any workman, or any agent, superintendent or overseer of any company or corporation employing workmen, or any person who shall...
• Section 19:34-28 - Threatening Or Intimidating Voters
  No person shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person in his behalf, make use of, or threaten to make use...
• Section 19:34-29 - Obstructing Or Interfering With Voter
  No person shall by abduction, duress or any forcible or fraudulent device or contrivance whatever, impede, prevent or otherwise interfere with the free exercise...
• Section 19:34-30 - Influencing Of Vote By Employer; Placards For Such Purpose
  No employer, in paying his employees the salary or wages due them, shall inclose their pay in "pay envelopes" upon which there is written...
• Section 19:34-31 - Violation By Person Or Corporation; Misdemeanor; Forfeiture Of Charter
  Sections 19:34-27 to 19:34-30 of this title shall apply to corporations as well as individuals, and any person or corporation violating the provisions thereof...
• Section 19:34-32 - Contributions By Insurance Corporations
  No insurance corporation or association doing business in this state shall, directly or indirectly, pay or use, or offer, consent or agree to pay...
• Section 19:34-33 - Contributions By State, County Or Municipal Committees
  No state, county or municipal committee or organization of any political party shall expend any money in aid of the candidacy of any candidate...
• Section 19:34-34 - Expenditures By Party Committee Or Organization Or Petitioners
  No such party committee or organization, nor any committee of any group of petitioners, nor any other person shall expend any money in aid...
• Section 19:34-35 - Other Contributions And Expenditures.
  19:34-35. Any person who shall expend, aid or assist in the expenditure of any such money for a purpose not authorized by this title,...
• Section 19:34-38 - Certain Expenditures Prohibited
  No person shall pay, lend or contribute, or offer or agree to pay, lend or contribute, any money or other valuable consideration to or...
• Section 19:34-39 - Other Expenditures Prohibited
  No person directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person: Inducing voters. a. Shall pay, lend or contribute, or offer or promise...
• Section 19:34-40 - Receipts For Certain Purposes Prohibited
  No person, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person: Voting or agreeing to vote. a. Shall receive, agree or contract for,...
• Section 19:34-41 - Payments And Bank Deposits In Name Of Another
  No person shall make any payment of his money, or of the money of any other person, in connection with any nomination or election...
• Section 19:34-42 - Demand Of Contributions By Office Holders From Other Office Holders
  No holder of a public office or position shall demand payment or contribution from another holder of a public office or position for the...
• Section 19:34-42.1 - Annual Notice
  The Secretary of State shall, during the week of the third Monday in January of every year, send written notification to each State employee...
• Section 19:34-42.2 - Violations; Penalty
  Section 1 of this act shall be subject to the penalty provisions of R.S. 19:34-35, but no penalty shall be imposed pursuant to any...
• Section 19:34-43 - Soliciting For Religious And Charitable Organizations
  No person shall demand, solicit, ask or invite any payment or contribution for any religious, charitable or other cause or organization supposed to be...
• Section 19:34-44 - Solicitation Of Candidates For Contributions
  No person shall demand, solicit, ask or invite any candidate for nomination or election to public office or party position to subscribe for the...
• Section 19:34-45 - Contributions By Certain Corporations.
  19:34-45. No corporation carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank, co-operative bank, trust, trustee, savings indemnity, safe deposit, insurance, railroad, street railway,...
• Section 19:34-46 - Disfranchisement As Additional Penalty
  In addition to any penalties provided for violation of any of the provisions of this title, the court imposing such penalty may add thereto...
• Section 19:34-47 - Second Offense; Punishment.
  19:34-47. A person who, having once been convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this title, shall again be convicted of...
• Section 19:34-48 - Neglect Of Duties.
  19:34-48. Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the provisions of any law of this State relating to elections who willfully...
• Section 19:34-49 - Abetting Violations Of Title.
  19:34-49. Any candidate who procures, aids, assists, counsels, advises or knowingly permits any person to violate this title shall be guilty of a crime...
• Section 19:34-50 - Committeemen Acting After Their Election Voided
  Any person chosen as member of the state committee, county committee, or any municipal committee of any political party who shall sit or perform...
• Section 19:34-51 - Failure Of Delegate To National Convention To Surrender Void Certificate
  Any delegate at large or district delegate to any national convention who shall fail to surrender such certificate of election forthwith after the same...
• Section 19:34-52 - Indorsement Of Candidate By Party Committee Before Primary
  No state, county or municipal committee of any political party shall prior to any primary election indorse the candidacy of any candidate for a...
• Section 19:34-53 - Failure To Supply Information.
  19:34-53. Any person who neglects or refuses to furnish any information required or authorized by this title or to exhibit the records, papers or...
• Section 19:34-54 - Failure To Obey Subpoena Or Refusal To Testify.
  19:34-54. Any person who shall omit, neglect or refuse to obey a subpoena attested in the name of the county clerk, municipal clerk, or...
• Section 19:34-55 - False Statements Under Oath.
  19:34-55. Any person who makes any false statement under oath before the county clerk, municipal clerk or county board shall be guilty of a...
• Section 19:34-56 - Disobedience Of Subpoena, Penalty
  19:34-56. Every person upon whom a subpoena issued under and by virtue of this Title shall have been served, and to whom the lawful...
• Section 19:34-57 - Subpoena To Issue, Expenses
  19:34-57. If proof be made before any judge of the Superior Court or municipal court of facts constituting probable cause for believing that this...
• Section 19:34-62 - Prosecutor Of Pleas To Present Violations To Grand Jury
  If the prosecutor of the pleas of the county shall be notified of any violation of any of the provisions of this title, he...
• Section 19:34-63 - Assistant For Prosecutor; Employment By Citizens
  Any citizen may employ an attorney to assist the prosecutor of the pleas to perform his duties under this title, and such attorney shall...
• Section 19:34-64 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Fair Campaign Practices Act." L.1975, c. 190, s. 1, eff. Aug. 16, 1975.
• Section 19:34-65 - Person Performing Function In Campaign Of Candidate For Purpose Of Impeding Campaign
  No person shall perform any function in the campaign of a candidate for public office or party position for the purpose of impeding the...
• Section 19:34-66 - Knowing Production, Transmittal Or Dissemination Of Mass Communication Which Appears To Originate From Or Be On Behalf Of Campaign Of Candidate For Purpose Of Impeding Campaign
  No person shall knowingly produce, transmit or disseminate any election advertisement, literature or other mass communication in any medium, including but not limited to...
• Section 19:34-67 - Payment Of Or Lending Money Or Other Valuable Consideration To Person To Induce Violation Of Act
  No person shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person acting in his behalf, knowingly give, lend, or agree, offer or...
• Section 19:34-68 - Violators; Disorderly Persons
  Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be a disorderly person. L.1975, c. 190, s. 5, eff. Aug....
• Section 19:36-1 - Time And Place Of Meeting.
  19:36-1. The electors of president and vice president shall convene at the State House at Trenton, or in another State building within the State...
• Section 19:36-2 - Vacancies; Filling.
  19:36-2. a. When a vacancy shall happen in the college of electors, or when an elector shall fail to attend, by the hour of...
• Section 19:36-3 - Organization, Performance Of Duties.
  19:36-3. After choosing a president and secretary from their own body, such electors shall proceed to perform the duties required of them by the...
• Section 19:36-4 - "Agreement Among The States To Elect The President By National Popular Vote."
  1.The State of New Jersey hereby enacts into law and enters into the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular...
• Section 19:37-1 - Referendum.
  19:37-1. When the governing body of any municipality or of any county desires to ascertain the sentiment of the legal voters of the municipality...
• Section 19:37-1.1 - Petition Of Voters.
  2.Whenever a governing body of a municipality has adopted an ordinance or resolution pursuant to section 19:37-1 of the Revised Statutes, upon the presentation...
• Section 19:37-2 - Question Placed On Ballot By County Clerk.
  19:37-2. If a copy of the ordinance or resolution certified by the clerk or secretary of the governing body of any such municipality or...
• Section 19:37-3 - Count And Canvass Of Votes
  The ballots so cast for or against such public question shall be counted and the result thereof returned by the election officers and a...
• Section 19:37-4 - Result Not Binding
  Such result shall not bind the governing body from which the ordinance or resolution emanated, nor be taken or construed as other than an...
• Section 19:37-5 - Ordinance Or Resolution Necessary
  The submission of a public question in the manner herein provided shall not become operative in any municipality or county until the governing body...
• Section 19:44a-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known and may be cited as "The New Jersey Campaign Contributions and Expenditures Reporting Act." L.1973, c. 83, s. 1,...
• Section 19:44a-2 - Declaration Of Policy
  2. It is hereby declared to be in the public interest and to be the policy of the State to limit political contributions and...
• Section 19:44a-2.1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Individuals Considering Candidacy For Public Office.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a.Accessible public disclosure of money and other things of value given to a candidate for public office by...
• Section 19:44a-3 - Definitions.
  3.As used in this act, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: a.(Deleted by amendment, P.L.1993, c.65.) b.(Deleted by amendment, P.L.1993, c.65.)...
• Section 19:44a-4 - Application Of Act
  The provisions of this act shall apply: a. (Deleted by amendment; P.L.1981, c. 151.) b. (Deleted by amendment; P.L. [1983], c. [579].) c. In...
• Section 19:44a-5 - Election Law Enforcement Commission; Creation; Members; Appointment; Qualifications; Term Of Office; Compensation; Allocation To Department Of Law And Public Safety; Independence
  There is hereby created a commission consisting of four members which shall be designated as the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission. The members...
• Section 19:44a-6 - Appointment Of Officers, Other Employees; Duties Of Elec.
  6. a. The commission shall appoint a full-time executive director, legal counsel and hearing officers, all of whom shall serve at the pleasure of...
• Section 19:44a-6.1 - Elec, Authority To Issue Certain Advisory Opinions.
  32. The Election Law Enforcement Commission shall have the authority to issue such advisory opinions that relate to candidates for the office of Lieutenant...
• Section 19:44a-7 - Spending Limits.
  7.The amount which may be spent in aid of the candidacy of any qualified candidate for Governor in a primary election shall not exceed...
• Section 19:44a-7.1 - Adjustment Of Limits.
  19. a. For the purpose of ensuring the continuing adequacy of the limits set by law upon contributions, expenditures and certain other amounts relating...
• Section 19:44a-7.2 - Adjustment Of Amounts For Offices Other Than Governor, Lieutenant Governor.
  22. a. Not later than December 1 of each year preceding any year in which a general election is to be held to fill...
• Section 19:44a-7.3 - Report Recommending Adjustments In Limits On Amount Of Contributions For Office Other Than Governor, Lieutenant Governor.
  2. a. No later than July 1 of each year preceding any year in which a general election is to be held to fill...
• Section 19:44a-8 - Contributions, Expenditures, Reports, Requirements.
  8. a. (1) Each political committee shall make a full cumulative report, upon a form prescribed by the Election Law Enforcement Commission, of all...
• Section 19:44a-8.1 - Submission Of Statement Of Registration By Committees
  21. a. Each political committee, as defined in subsection i. of section 3 of P.L.1973, c.83 (C.19:44A-3), which aids or promotes the nomination for...
• Section 19:44a-9 - Candidate, Joint Candidates Committees; Reports; Requirements.
  9. a. Unless already established, each candidate, as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection c. of section 3 of P.L.1973, c.83 (C.19:44A-3), shall, no...
• Section 19:44a-10 - Treasurers, Depositories; Requirements.
  10. Each political party committee shall, on or before July 1 in each year, designate a single organizational treasurer and an organizational depository and...
• Section 19:44a-10.1 - Establishment Of Legislative Leadership Committee
  16. a. The President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly and the Minority Leader of...
• Section 19:44a-11 - Procedures For Contributions, Expenditures; Requirements.
  11.No contribution of money or other thing of value, nor obligation therefor, including but not limited to contributions, loans or obligations of a candidate...
• Section 19:44a-11.2 - Permitted Use Of Contributions.
  17. a. All contributions received by a candidate, candidate committee, a joint candidates committee or a legislative leadership committee shall be used only for...
• Section 19:44a-11.3 - Contributions To Candidates, Limitations.
  18. a. No individual, other than an individual who is a candidate, no corporation of any kind organized and incorporated under the laws of...
• Section 19:44a-11.3a - Limitations On Receipt Of Contributions, Certain, Between County Committees; Violations, Penalties.
  13.In addition to any other applicable limit prescribed by law, between January 1 and June 30 of each year, a county committee of a...
• Section 19:44a-11.4 - Contributions To Political Party Leadership Committees; Limitations.
  19. a. (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, no individual, no corporation of any kind organized and incorporated under...
• Section 19:44a-11.5 - Contributions To Political And Continuing Political Committees; Limitations.
  20. a. No candidate who has established only a candidate committee, his campaign treasurer, deputy treasurer or candidate committee shall pay or make any...
• Section 19:44a-11.6 - Loans For Contributions; Limitations
  23. Any person, partnership, association, political committee or continuing political committee may make a loan or loans to any person, partnership, association, political committee...
• Section 19:44a-11.7 - Certain Payments, Check Required
  1. Any payment to any individual which is related to efforts by or on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political...
• Section 19:44a-11.8 - Additional Reporting Requirements On Currency Contributions.
  1. Any candidate, candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political committee, continuing political committee, political party committee, legislative leadership committee, or other person or group...
• Section 19:44a-11.9 - Political Contributions By Public Agencies Prohibited; Definition.
  1.A public agency shall not pay or make any contribution of money or other thing of value, whether out of public funds or any...
• Section 19:44a-12 - Records Of Contributions
  12. An organizational or campaign treasurer or deputy organizational or campaign treasurer of a candidate committee or joint candidates committee, a political committee, a...
• Section 19:44a-16 - Candidates' Reports Of Contributions And Expenditures.
  16. a. The campaign treasurer of each candidate committee and joint candidates committee shall make a full cumulative report, upon a form prescribed by...
• Section 19:44a-18 - Post-election Contributions, Expenditures, Testimonial Affairs Or Public Solicitations; Reports
  If any former candidate or any political committee or any person or association of persons in behalf of such political committee or former candidate...
• Section 19:44a-18.1 - Inaugural Fund-raising Event Limits.
  17. a. No person, candidate or political committee, otherwise eligible to make political contributions, shall make any contribution or contributions for the purpose of...
• Section 19:44a-19 - Public Solicitations.
  19. a. No person shall conduct any public solicitation as defined in this act except (1) upon written authorization of the campaign or organizational...
• Section 19:44a-19.1 - Candidates For Elective Public Office, Solicitations On Government Property; Prohibited, Certain Circumstances.
  1. a. For the purposes of this section, the terms "contribution", "candidate", "candidate committee", and "joint candidates committee", shall have the meanings prescribed for...
• Section 19:44a-19.2 - Definitions Relative To Professional Fund Raisers For Political Contributions; Registration Requirements.
  1. a. As used in this section: "candidate" means a candidate for nomination for election or election to the office of Governor or the...
• Section 19:44a-20 - Prohibited Contributions, Expenditures
  20. No contribution of money or other thing of value, nor obligation therefor, shall be made, and no expenditure of money or other thing...
• Section 19:44a-20.1 - Corporation, Labor Organization Contributions Through Employees, Prohibited; Penalties; Fourth Degree Crime.
  15. a. No corporation or labor organization of any kind shall provide to any of its officers, directors, attorneys, agents or other employees any...
• Section 19:44a-20.3 - Contributors To State Committee Of Presiding Officer's Political Party; Eligibility For Contracts In Legislative Branch.
  2.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary: a State agency in the Legislative Branch shall not enter into a contract having...
• Section 19:44a-20.4 - Contributors To County Committee Of Political Party Of Elective Officers; Eligibility For
  county contracts. 3.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary: a county, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, shall not enter into...
• Section 19:44a-20.5 - Contributors To Municipal Committee Of Political Party Of Elective Officers; Eligibility For Municipal Contracts.
  4.Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary: a municipality, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, shall not enter into a contract...
• Section 19:44a-20.6 - Certain Contributions Deemed As Contributions By Business Entity.
  5.When a business entity is a natural person, a contribution by that person's spouse or child, residing therewith, shall be deemed to be a...
• Section 19:44a-20.7 - Definitions Relative To Certain Campaign Contributions.
  6.As used in sections 2 through 12 of this act: "business entity" means any natural or legal person, business corporation, professional services corporation, limited...
• Section 19:44a-20.8 - Business Entity To Provide Written Certification, Elec Reports.
  7. a. Prior to awarding any contract, except a contract that is awarded pursuant to a fair and open process, a State agency in...
• Section 19:44a-20.9 - Repayment Of Contribution.
  8. If a business entity makes a contribution that would cause it to be ineligible to receive a public contract or, in the case...
• Section 19:44a-20.10 - Violations By Business Entities, Penalties.
  9.A business entity which is determined by the Election Law Enforcement Commission to have willfully and intentionally made a contribution or failed to reveal...
• Section 19:44a-20.11 - Penalty For Acceptance Of Unlawful Contribution.
  10.Any person who is determined by the Election Law Enforcement Commission to have willfully and intentionally accepted a contribution in violation of the provisions...
• Section 19:44a-20.12 - Construction Of Act Relative To Public Exigency.
  11.Nothing contained in this act shall be construed as prohibiting the awarding of a contract when the public exigency requires the immediate delivery of...
• Section 19:44a-20.13 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Certain Campaign Contributions By Business Entities.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: In our representative form of government, it is essential that individuals who are elected to public office have...
• Section 19:44a-20.14 - Contributors, Certain, Ineligibility To Enter Into Agreement With The State Or Its Authorities.
  2.The State or any of its purchasing agents or agencies or those of its independent authorities, as the case may be, shall not enter...
• Section 19:44a-20.15 - Certain Contributions Prohibited By Certain Contractors Of The State Or Its Authorities.
  3.No business entity which agrees to any contract or agreement with the State or any department or agency thereof or its independent authorities either...
• Section 19:44a-20.16 - "Contribution" Defined.
  4.For the purposes of this act, a "contribution" means a contribution reportable by the recipient under "The New Jersey Campaign Contributions and Expenditures Reporting...
• Section 19:44a-20.17 - "Business Entity" Defined.
  5.For the purposes of this act, a "business entity" means any natural or legal person, business corporation, professional services corporation, limited liability company, partnership,...
• Section 19:44a-20.18 - Report Of Contributions By Business Entities As Part Of State Procurement Process.
  6.Prior to awarding any contract or agreement to procure services or any material, supplies or equipment from, or for the acquisition, sale, or lease...
• Section 19:44a-20.19 - Written Certification By Business Entities Relative To Contributions.
  7.Prior to awarding any contract or agreement to procure services or any material, supplies or equipment from, or for the acquisition, sale, or lease...
• Section 19:44a-20.20 - Request For Reimbursement Of Contribution.
  8.If a business entity inadvertently makes a contribution that would otherwise bar it from receiving a contract or makes a contribution during the term...
• Section 19:44a-20.21 - Breach Of Terms Of Government Contract Concerning Contributions.
  9.It shall be a breach of the terms of the government contract for a business entity to: (i) make or solicit a contribution in...
• Section 19:44a-20.22 - Exception For Public Exigency.
  10.This act shall not prohibit the awarding of a contract when the public exigency requires the immediate delivery of goods or performance of services...
• Section 19:44a-20.23 - Applicability Of Act To State Agencies And Authorities.
  11.This act shall apply to all State agencies including any of the principal departments in the Executive Branch, and any division, board, bureau, office,...
• Section 19:44a-20.24 - Contract, Bid Applications And Specs To Describe Requirements Of Act.
  12.Every contract and bid application and specifications promulgated in connection therewith covered by this act shall contain a provision describing the requirements of this...
• Section 19:44a-20.25 - Inapplicability Of Act Under Federal Law Or Eminent Domain.
  13.The provisions of sections 1 through 12 of this act, P.L.2005, c.51, shall not: a. apply in circumstances when it is determined by the...
• Section 19:44a-20.26 - Submission Of List Of Political Contributions By Contractor To State, Local Agencies; Definitions.
  2. a. Not later than 10 days prior to entering into any contract having an anticipated value in excess of $17,500, except for a...
• Section 19:44a-20.27 - Annual Disclosure Statement By Business Entities Of Contributions Filed With Elec; Definitions; Enforcement.
  3. a. Any business entity making a contribution of money or any other thing of value, including an in-kind contribution, or pledge to make...
• Section 19:44a-21 - Criminal Penalties; Forfeiture Of Office
  21. a. Any person who purposely and with intent to conceal or misrepresent contributions given or received or expenditures made or incurred to aid...
• Section 19:44a-22 - Violations; Civil Penalties; Forfeiture.
  22. a. (1) Except as provided in subsection e. or f., any person, including any candidate, treasurer, candidate committee or joint candidates committee, political...
• Section 19:44a-22.1 - Summary Action By Candidate, Injunctive Relief
  24. If a political committee or continuing political committee, having been established or consisting of members or having received contributions in violation of this...
• Section 19:44a-22.2 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Campaign Advertisements
  1.The Legislature finds and declares that: a. in McIntyre v. Ohio, 63 U.S.L.W. 4279 (U.S. April 19, 1995) (No. 93-986), the United States Supreme...
• Section 19:44a-22.3 - Identification Of Source Of Financing Of Communications; Requirements; Enforcement.
  2. a. Whenever a candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political committee, continuing political committee, political party committee or legislative leadership committee, or any group...
• Section 19:44a-23 - Construction Of Act
  This act shall be construed liberally to effectuate the legislative intent and as complete and independent authority for the performance of each and every...
• Section 19:44a-24 - Supersedure Of Inconsistent Acts
  All acts and parts of acts, rules and regulations issued thereunder inconsistent in whole or in part with the provisions of this act are...
• Section 19:44a-25 - Severability
  If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or other part of this act is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or...
• Section 19:44a-26 - Repeals
  The following acts or parts of acts are repealed. a. R.S. 19:3-8, 19:34-36 and 19:34-37. b. Chapters 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44 of...
• Section 19:44a-27 - Public Policy.
  2.It is hereby declared to be a compelling public interest and to be the policy of this State that primary election campaigns for the...
• Section 19:44a-27.1 - Ineligibility Of Certain Candidates For Public Financing.
  1.Whenever an individual who formed, assisted in the formation of, or was involved in any way in the management of: an issue advocacy organization...
• Section 19:44a-27.2 - Rules, Regulations Concerning Disclosures And Organization
  2.The Election Law Enforcement Commission shall adopt rules and regulations: a. to enable an organization described in section 1 of P.L.2001, c.20 (C.19:44A-27.1) to...
• Section 19:44a-28 - Application Of Act.
  3.The provisions of this act shall apply to the general election campaign for the office of Governor to be held in November, 1977 and...
• Section 19:44a-29 - Contribution Limits, Gubernatorial Elections.
  4. a. Except in the case of a candidate, as provided in subsection g. of this section, no person, candidate committee or joint candidates...
• Section 19:44a-29.1 - Limits On Contributions, Expenditures.
  6.For the purpose of contribution and expenditure limits established pursuant to P.L.1973, c.83 (C.19:44A-1 et seq.), limits on contributions to and expenditures of the...
• Section 19:44a-30 - Appropriations For Fund For Election Campaign Expenses.
  5.The Legislature shall appropriate to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission out of the Gubernatorial Elections Fund established pursuant to N.J.S.54A:9-25.1 and available...
• Section 19:44a-32 - Primary And General Election Bank Accounts Of Candidates; Deposits; Expenditures; Nonliability Of Banks.
  7. a. Each candidate in the primary election to the office of Governor, shall, with the approval of the Election Law Enforcement Commission, create...
• Section 19:44a-33 - Public Funding.
  8. a. The campaign treasurer or deputy campaign treasurer of any qualified candidate for nomination for election to the office of Governor in a...
• Section 19:44a-33.1 - Substituted Candidates For Nomination For Governor, Eligibility As Qualified Candidate
  5.In the event that a certificate provided for in R.S.19:23-12 is filed for a candidate for nomination for election to the office of Governor,...
• Section 19:44a-34 - Separate Bank Accounts For Other Funds; Disposition Of Contributions Of Political Committees
  a. No contribution which must be or is intended by the contributor or the recipient to be refunded or repaid at any time, no...
• Section 19:44a-35 - Expenditures From Fund For Election Campaign Expenses; Rules And Regulations; Purposes; Return Of Unexpended Funds
  a. All expenditures from the fund for election campaign expenses shall be made pursuant to rules and regulations of the Election Law Enforcement Commission...
• Section 19:44a-36 - Funds Considered "Spend In Aid Of The Candidacy Of Any Candidate Or Candidates."
  11. Moneys received by any qualified candidate or candidates from the fund for election campaign expenses are to be considered "spent in aid of...
• Section 19:44a-37 - Statements From Gubernatorial Candidates; Printing And Mailing With Sample Ballot
  The Election Law Enforcement Commission shall, on or before the forty-fifth day prior to the date on which the general election is to be...
• Section 19:44a-38 - Rules And Regulations
  The Election Law Enforcement Commission may adopt such rules and regulations as may be required to implement the provisions of this act and to...
• Section 19:44a-40 - Violations; Misdemeanor; Forfeiture Of Office
  a. Any person who willfully and knowingly violates section 4, 9 or 10 of P.L.1974, c. 26 or section 17 of P.L.1980, c. 74...
• Section 19:44a-41 - Violations; Fines; Hearings; Assessment Of Penalty
  a. Any person who willfully and knowingly violates sections 4, 6, 9, 10 or 19 of this act shall in addition to any other...
• Section 19:44a-42 - Liberal Construction Of Act
  The provisions of this act shall be construed liberally and applied so as to promote the purposes expressed herein. L.1974, c. 26, s. 17,...
• Section 19:44a-43 - Severability
  If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or other part of this act is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or...
• Section 19:44a-44 - Borrowing By Candidates.
  19. Notwithstanding any provision of this act, any candidate in a primary election for the office of Governor, or his campaign treasurer or deputy...
• Section 19:44a-45 - Interactive Debates.
  9. a. In any year in which a primary election is to be held to nominate candidates for the office of Governor, there shall...
• Section 19:44a-46 - Number Of Debates; Timing, Sponsorship.
  10. a. The series of gubernatorial primary debates under subsection a. of section 9 of P.L.1989, c.4 (C.19:44A-45) shall consist of two debates. Each...
• Section 19:44a-47 - Repayment By Debate Non-participant.
  11. The Election Law Enforcement Commission shall have the power and duty, upon receipt of a complaint against a candidate for nomination for election...
• Section 19:44b-1 - Definitions.
  1. a. "Gift" means any money or thing of value received other than as income, and for which a consideration of equal or greater...
• Section 19:44b-2 - Financial Disclosure Statement; Filing And Certification.
  2. a. Every candidate for the office of Governor and every candidate for the Senate or General Assembly shall file and certify the correctness...
• Section 19:44b-3 - Forms; Preparation; Transmittal To Candidates.
  3.The commission shall prepare and transmit to each candidate for the office of Governor and the office of Lieutenant Governor and to each candidate...
• Section 19:44b-4 - Contents
  Financial disclosure statements shall include the sources of income received from sources other than the State during the preceding calendar year by the candidate...
• Section 19:44b-5 - Notice To Commission Of Candidates By Secretary Of State.
  5.Upon receipt from any person of a declaration of candidacy or a petition to appear on the ballot for election as Governor or as...
• Section 19:44b-6 - Willful And Knowledgeable Failure To File Or Filing False Statement; Penalty
  a. A candidate who willfully and knowingly fails or refuses to file a financial disclosure statement on a date prior to the election for...
• Section 19:44b-7 - Powers And Duties Of Commission
  It shall be the duty of the commission to investigate and conduct hearings with regard to possible violations and impose penalties, to issue subpenas...
• Section 19:44b-8 - Candidate With Responsibility For Filing Reports Or Documents; Failure To File Or Omission In Or Incorrect Statement; Penalty; Hearings; Enforcement
  a. Any candidate charged with the responsibility under the terms of this act for the filing of any reports or other documents required to...
• Section 19:44b-9 - Financial Disclosure Statements As Public Records
  Financial disclosure statements required to be filed pursuant to this act shall be public records. The commission shall make the statements available to any...
• Section 19:44b-10 - Use In Investigations And Production In Evidence
  A financial disclosure statement filed pursuant to this act may be used by the commission in the course of its investigation of any alleged...
• Section 19:45-1 - Payable By State And Political Subdivisions
  All general elections, special elections, municipal elections, primary elections for general elections and primary elections for delegates and alternates to national conventions held in...
• Section 19:45-1.1 - State To Pay All Expenses
  Notwithstanding the provisions in chapter 45 of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary, the State shall pay all expenses incurred by...
• Section 19:45-2 - Expenses Borne By State
  All costs, charges and expenses incurred by the State Board of Canvassers, Secretary of State or any other officer or official of the State...
• Section 19:45-3 - Expenditures By Attorney General To Prosecute Violations Of Title
  The attorney general is hereby authorized to expend annually, under the direction and with the approval of the governor, a sum not exceeding twenty-five...
• Section 19:45-4 - County's Expenses
  All costs, charges and expenses incurred by the county clerk, county board, commissioner, superintendent, or any other officer or official of a county in...
• Section 19:45-5 - Municipality's Expenses
  All costs, charges and expenses incurred by the municipal clerk or any other officer or official of a municipality in carrying out the provisions...
• Section 19:45-6 - Members Of District Boards; Compensation.
  19:45-6. The compensation of each member of the district boards for all services performed by them under the provisions of this Title shall be...
• Section 19:45-6.1 - Voucher For Compensation
  A voucher for compensation for services rendered by members of any district board of elections in this State for performing any of the services...
• Section 19:45-6.2 - Reimbursement To County From State For Certain Costs.
  6.In accordance with the provisions of Art.VIII, Sec.II, par.5 of the Constitution, upon application for reimbursement by a county governing body to the Attorney...
• Section 19:45-7 - Members Of County Boards; Commissioner Of Registration; Compensation.
  19:45-7. The compensation of the members of the several county boards shall be no less than the minimum salary and no more than the...
• Section 19:45-8 - Compensation Of Judges Holding Court
  Each of the judges holding court, as herein required, shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty dollars for each day he shall...
• Section 19:45-9 - Compensation Of County And Municipal Clerks
  The boards of chosen freeholders in the several counties may pay the county clerks for extra duties and services imposed upon and performed by...
• Section 19:46-6 - New Jersey Redistricting Commission
  1. There is hereby established the New Jersey Redistricting Commission, which shall establish the Congressional districts for use in the decade of the 1990s....
• Section 19:46-7 - Membership Of Commission
  2. a. The commission shall consist of 13 members. The members of the commission shall be appointed with due consideration to geographic, ethnic and...
• Section 19:46-8 - Organizational Meeting; Quorum; Vacancies
  3. The commission shall meet to organize as soon as may be practicable after the appointment of the independent member but not later than...
• Section 19:46-9 - Certification Of Congressional Districts
  4. On or before March 20, 1992, or within three months after receipt by the Governor of the official statement by the Clerk of...
• Section 19:46-10 - Districting Standards
  5. a. The plan certified by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission for the establishment of Congressional districts shall provide for equality of population among...
• Section 19:46-11 - Meetings Of The Commission
  6. Meetings of the New Jersey Redistricting Commission shall be held at convenient times and locations. The commission shall hold at least three public...
• Section 19:46-12 - Use Of Districts
  7. The establishment of Congressional districts shall be used thereafter for the election of members of the House of Representatives and shall remain unaltered...
• Section 19:46-13 - Original And Exclusive Jurisdiction Of Supreme Court
  8. Notwithstanding any statute, rule or regulation to the contrary and except as otherwise required by the Constitution of the United States or by...
• Section 19:46-14 - Assistance To Commission
  9. The commission shall be entitled to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of such staff or employees of any...
• Section 19:47-1 - Words And Terms Defined.
  19:47-1. As used in this subtitle: "Ballot", except when reference is made to irregular ballots, means that portion of the ballot containing the name...
• Section 19:47-2 - Construction
  All provisions of law relating to elections shall apply to all elections where voting machines are used so far as the same may be...
• Section 19:48-1 - Voting Machines, Requirements.
  19:48-1. a. Any thoroughly tested and reliable voting machines may be adopted, rented, purchased or used, which shall be so constructed as to fulfill...
• Section 19:48-2 - Examination Of Voting Machines By Secretary Of State
  Any person or corporation owning or being interested in any voting machine may apply to the Secretary of State to examine such machine. Before...
• Section 19:48-3 - Adoption Of Voting Machines In Counties Other Than Counties Of First Class; Purchase Or Rental; Furnishing Voting Machines For Election Following Enactment; Competitive Bidding; Method Of Payment
  In all counties other than counties of the first class the board of chosen freeholders or the governing body of any municipality by a...
• Section 19:48-3.1 - State House Commission, Convening Of And Action By
  For the purpose of this act, a vote by the majority of the members of the State House Commission shall constitute valid action by...
• Section 19:48-3.2 - Authorized Ballots; Emergency, Provisional Ballots
  3.No ballots shall be prepared or used at any election in any election district under the provisions of this act other than such ballots...
• Section 19:48-3.3 - State House Commission To Provide Voting Machines In First And Second Class Counties
  In each county of the first class and each county of the second class in which voting machines of the type to meet the...
• Section 19:48-3.4 - Appropriation For Purchase Of Voting Machines
  There is hereby appropriated to the State House Commission the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000.00) for the purpose of purchasing...
• Section 19:48-3.5 - Purchase Of Voting Machines; Competitive Bids; Notice; Procedure
  The State House Commission shall purchase such voting machines of the type described in subtitle fifteen of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes, by...
• Section 19:48-3.6 - Purchase Of Voting Machines As Available
  If the State House Commission is unable to purchase sufficient voting machines to meet the requirements of this act, it shall purchase such number...
• Section 19:48-3.7 - Delivery Of Voting Machines Purchased
  All voting machines purchased by the State House Commission pursuant to this act shall be delivered to the superintendent of elections in counties having...
• Section 19:48-3.8 - Certification To Counties Of Voting Machines Purchased; Appropriations In Annual Budget
  As soon as any voting machines are purchased by the State House Commission and the determination is made as to the number to be...
• Section 19:48-3.9 - Payments By Counties Out Of First Tax Moneys
  In each county in which it is required by this act that an appropriation for the purposes of this act be included in the...
• Section 19:48-3.10 - Certification To Commissioner Of Local Government Of Moneys To Be Appropriated; Withholding Approval Of County Budget
  Whenever the State House Commission makes its certification to any county of money to be appropriated by said county pursuant to the provisions of...
• Section 19:48-3.11 - Use Of Voting Machines When Insufficient Number Delivered To Counties
  When voting machines are delivered to any county pursuant to the provisions of this act and they are insufficient to provide voting machines for...
• Section 19:48-3.12 - Convening Of State House Commission; Majority Vote
  For the purpose of this act, the State House Commission may be convened by any member thereof on ten days' notice, in writing, given...
• Section 19:48-3.13 - Ballots, Type Permitted
  11. No ballots other than ballots required for use in voting machines, emergency ballots for use if a voting machine fails to operate and...
• Section 19:48-3.14 - Enforcement Of Act By Attorney General
  If any provision of this act is not complied with, the Attorney-General, at the request of the State House Commission, shall forthwith proceed to...
• Section 19:48-3.15 - Definitions
  As used in this act-- "Municipal election" means an election to be held in and for a single municipality only, at regular intervals; "Pertinent...
• Section 19:48-3.16 - Purpose Of Act
  The purpose of this act is to provide a method of establishing a uniform system of voting, by voting machines in all election districts,...
• Section 19:48-3.17 - Renting Of Voting Machines
  In any case in which voting machines have been so installed for use in part of, but not in all of, the election districts...
• Section 19:48-3.18 - Agreements For Rental Of Voting Machines; Terms And Conditions
  Such superintendent of elections or such county board of elections, as the case may be, of the county in which such municipality is located,...
• Section 19:48-3.19 - Certification To Municipal Clerk Of Voting Machines Rented
  In the event such an agreement is made, such superintendent of elections or such county board of elections, as the case may be, shall,...
• Section 19:48-3.20 - Municipal Clerk's Duties On Receipt Of Certification
  Upon receipt of such certification, such municipal clerk shall proceed to prepare and furnish to such superintendent of elections or such county board of...
• Section 19:48-3.21 - Expenditures For Voting Machines Rented; Reimbursement Of County By Municipality
  Such superintendent of elections or such county board of elections, as the case may be, is hereby authorized to expend for the purpose of...
• Section 19:48-4 - Custody And Care Of Machines
  Voting machines, heretofore or hereafter installed in any manner provided by law, in any county not having a superintendent of elections, shall be placed,...
• Section 19:48-5 - Payment For Machines
  Any voting machines owned and in use by a municipality at the time of a county-wide installation at county expense may be taken over...
• Section 19:48-6 - Duties Of Officials Concerning Machines
  19:48-6. The county board of elections or the superintendent of elections or the municipal clerk, as the case may be, having custody of voting...
• Section 19:48-7 - Inoperative Voting Machines; Use Of Emergency Ballots; Statements.
  19:48-7. If any voting machine being used in any election district shall, during the time the polls are open, become damaged so as to...
• Section 19:48-8 - Rental Of Voting Machines To Associations, Clubs, Etc.; Terms
  The superintendent of elections of any county having a superintendent of elections or the county board of elections of any county not having a...
• Section 19:49-1 - Official Ballots Furnished
  Official ballots of the form and description set forth in this subtitle for use upon voting machines shall be prepared and furnished in the...
• Section 19:49-2 - Official Ballots.
  19:49-2. All official ballots shall be in black ink in type as large as space will reasonably permit; provided, however, that any public question...
• Section 19:49-2.1 - Repeal
  All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed insofar as they relate to counties of the first class where voting machines...
• Section 19:49-3 - Number Of Official Ballots To Be Furnished
  At least one week prior to any primary, local, or general election two sets of official ballots shall be provided for each voting machine,...
• Section 19:49-4 - Instruction Ballots; Sample Ballots; Preparation; Mailing; Posting
  a. (1) The officer or officers whose duty it may be under this subtitle to provide and furnish official ballots for any polling place...
• Section 19:49-5 - Irregular Ballots
  Ballots voted for any person whose name does not appear on the machine as a nominated candidate for office are herein referred to as...
• Section 19:50-1 - Instructional Sessions For District Board Members.
  19:50-1. a. Within 30 days before each election, the county board of elections shall cause new members of the district boards who are to...
• Section 19:50-2 - Instruction In Use Of Voting Machines; Availability.
  19:50-2. a. For the first four successive general elections after the adoption of a new type of voting machine in a county, the county...
• Section 19:50-3 - Voting Machine Model; Voter Assistance
  For instructing the voters on any election day there shall, so far as practicable, be provided by the county board of elections or the...
• Section 19:52-1 - Preparation Of Polling Places
  19:52-1. The district boards of each election district shall meet at the polling place three-quarters of an hour before the time set for opening...
• Section 19:52-2 - Location Of Voting Machines
  At all elections where voting machines may be used, the arrangement of the polling room shall be generally the same as is now provided...
• Section 19:52-2.1 - Voting Authorities; Use, Stringing.
  1.In all counties wherein voting machines are used the county board of elections shall furnish for use in each election district at any election,...
• Section 19:52-2.2 - Effective Date
  This act shall take effect July first, one thousand nine hundred and forty-four. L.1944, c. 213, p. 752, s. 2.
• Section 19:52-3 - Time Allowed A Voter
  19:52-3. Where a voter presents himself for the purpose of voting, the election officer shall follow the procedure as now required by this title...
• Section 19:52-4 - Blind Or Physically Disabled Voters
  The provisions of this title relating to the assistance to be given to blind or physically disabled voters shall apply also where voting machines...
• Section 19:52-5 - Locking, Sealing Of Voting Machine; Reading, Announcement Of Votes
  19:52-5. Immediately upon the close of the polls, the district election officers shall lock and seal the voting machine against further voting and open...
• Section 19:52-6 - Locking Machine; Rechecking; Cost; Deposit; Irregular Ballots, Disposition Of
  The district election officers shall, as soon as the count is completed and fully ascertained, as by this subtitle required, lock the counter compartment...
• Section 19:52-6.1 - Manner Of Rechecking Machines
  Whenever a judge of the Superior Court assigned to a county enters an order for the recheck of any voting machines the county board...
• Section 19:52-7 - Disposition Of Keys
  The keys of each voting machine shall be inclosed in an envelope to be supplied by the county board of elections or the superintendent...
• Section 19:53-1 - Unauthorized Possession Of Equipment, Tampering, Etc., Crime.
  19:53-1. Any unauthorized person found in possession of any such voting machine in use or to be used in any election, or keys thereof,...
• Section 19:53a-1 - Definitions
  As used in this act, unless otherwise specified: a. "Automatic tabulating equipment" includes apparatus which automatically examines and counts votes recorded on ballot cards,...
• Section 19:53a-2 - Use Of Electronic Voting Systems; Devices, Certain, Prohibited.
  2. a. The board of chosen freeholders of any county may adopt, acquire by purchase, lease, or otherwise, or abandon any electronic voting system...
• Section 19:53a-3 - Requirements Of Electronic Voting Systems.
  3.Every electronic voting system, consisting of a voting device in combination with automatic tabulating equipment, acquired or used in accordance with this act, shall:...
• Section 19:53a-3.1 - Reimbursement For Purchase, Retrofit Of Voting Machine To Produce Paper Record, Provision Suspended Until Certain Conditions Met.
  3.Unless federal funding is made available to pay for the purchase or retrofit of a voting machine to produce a voter-verified paper record as...
• Section 19:53a-4 - Approval
  No voting device shall be used in an election in this State unless in combination with automatic tabulating equipment used to count and tabulate...
• Section 19:53a-5 - Ballots; Labels, Form; Samples; Write-ins.
  5. a. Ballot labels shall be in plain clear type in black, of such size and arrangement as to fit the construction of the...
• Section 19:53a-6 - Preparation For Elections; Ballot Cards; Secrecy While Marking Ballot
  a. Prior to any election at which electronic voting devices are used the county board of elections shall have the voting devices prepared for...
• Section 19:53a-7 - Elections; Conduct, Report
  7. a. Thirty minutes before the opening of the polls the local district election officers shall arrive at the polling place, place the voting...
• Section 19:53a-8 - Counting Of Ballots; Testing Of Equipment
  8. a. Prior to the start of the count of the ballots, each county board of elections shall have the automatic tabulating equipment tested...
• Section 19:53a-9 - Absentee Votes, Permitted Methods.
  9. Absentee votes may be cast on paper ballots or ballot cards, or both methods may be used, provided that, following the effective date...
• Section 19:53a-10 - Effect Of Overvote Or Misvote
  Any overvote or misvote for one or more offices shall not invalidate the entire ballot. L.1973, c. 82, s. 10, eff. April 12, 1973.
• Section 19:53a-11 - Instruction Of Voters; Model Of Device
  For instructing the voters on any election day there shall, so far as practicable, be provided by the county board of elections or the...
• Section 19:53a-12 - Challengers
  Challengers may be appointed in the same manner as provided in R.S. 19:7-1 et seq., for each counting center set up in each county...
• Section 19:53a-13 - Application Of Title 19
  The provisions of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes except as herein modified shall be applicable to the use of electronic voting systems in...
• Section 19:53a-14 - Recount
  In case of a recount the ballot cards shall be recounted in the manner provided by section 8 of this act unless the court...
• Section 19:53a-15 - Tampering With Or Willfully Injuring Record Or Equipment Or Interference With Conduct Of Election; Penalty; Application Of Laws.
  15. a. Any person who before, during or after an election tampers with or willfully injures any voting device, ballot cards, or other records...
• Section 19:53b-1 - Emergency Ballot Box Packet, Packages; Preparation
  10. a. The county clerk or the municipal clerk, in the case of a municipal election, shall prepare an emergency ballot box packet which...
• Section 19:53b-2 - Distribution, Use Of Emergency Ballots
  11. a. The board shall not permit other emergency ballots to be used at an election except the emergency ballots which are provided for...
• Section 19:53b-3 - Voting With Emergency Ballots
  12. a. If for any cause a voting machine fails to operate, the district board shall use the supply of emergency ballots that are...
• Section 19:53b-4 - Use Of Emergency Ballot Box
  13. If it becomes necessary to use the emergency ballot box, and if the numbers on the green seal and the voting machine key...
• Section 19:53b-5 - Procedure For Voter Use Of Emergency Ballots
  14. After the district board ascertains that a voter is properly registered and qualified to vote, the member of the board charged with maintaining...
• Section 19:53b-6 - Emergency Ballots Marked Secretly; Violation.
  15. Every voter to whom an emergency ballot is given shall retire into the polling booth or to the designated voting area, as the...
• Section 19:53b-7 - Method Of Marking Ballot
  16. To vote for a candidate whose name is printed in any column, the voter shall mark a cross x, plus + or check...
• Section 19:53b-8 - Personal Choice Column Provided On Emergency Ballots
  17. Nothing in this amendatory and supplementary act, P.L.1992, c.3 (C.19:53B-1 et al.) shall prevent any voter from writing or pasting within the proper...
• Section 19:53b-9 - Spoiled Emergency Ballots
  18. If any voter to whom any official emergency ballot has been handed spoils or renders the same unfit for use, the voter shall...
• Section 19:53b-10 - Voted Emergency Ballot Placed In Sealed Envelope
  19. After voting the emergency ballot and before leaving the polling booth or the designated voting area, as the case may be, the voter...
• Section 19:53b-11 - Deposit Of Sealed Envelope In Emergency Ballot Box
  20. The voter shall hand the sealed envelope to the member of the election board having charge of the voting machine. The member shall...
• Section 19:53b-12 - Challenge Of Voter Using Emergency Ballot, Electronic Voting Machine.
  21.The right to challenge a voter who uses the emergency ballot shall exist until the emergency ballot is deposited in the emergency ballot box....
• Section 19:53b-13 - Canvassing Emergency Ballots
  22. In canvassing the emergency ballots, the district board shall count the votes as follows: a. If proper marks are made in the squares...
• Section 19:53b-14 - Void Emergency Ballots
  23. In counting the emergency ballots, the board shall deem void all emergency ballots which are wholly blank, or on which more names have...
• Section 19:53b-15 - Void Emergency Ballots Not Counted
  24. In every case in which an emergency ballot shall be declared invalid, the same, which shall be enclosed in a pre-punched single-hole plain...
• Section 19:53b-16 - Decision Of District Board Final, Dissension
  25. The decision of a majority of the district board on any question shall be deemed the decision of the board and final. If...
• Section 19:53b-17 - Reading Of Emergency Ballots
  26. The district board members, in the actual procedure of counting the emergency ballots, shall break the seal and open the emergency ballot box....
• Section 19:53b-18 - Tallying Of Votes
  27. a. The clerks of the board shall, upon the tally sheets provided for that purpose, make a list of the names of all...
• Section 19:53b-19 - Emergency Ballot Tally Added To Machine Tally
  28. When the machine tally is completed, the district board members shall record the results of the emergency ballot tally, if any ballots were...
• Section 19:53b-20 - Ballots Remain Sealed In Box For 15 Days; When Removable
  29. When district board members have processed both voted and non-voted emergency ballots, the ballots shall remain sealed within the box for a period...
• Section 19:53b-21 - List By District, Number Of Emergency Ballots Used.
  1.Within 15 calendar days after an election or three days after the certification of the results of that election, whichever occurs later, the county...
• Section 19:53c-1 - Preparation Of Provisional Ballots; Written Notices.
  7. a. (1) The county clerk or the municipal clerk, in the case of a municipal election, shall arrange for the preparation of a...
• Section 19:53c-2 - Procedures, Use Of Provisional Ballots
  8. a. The district board shall not permit other provisional ballots to be used at an election except those provisional ballots provided for by...
• Section 19:53c-3 - Procedure As To Voters Changing Residence Within The County, Certain Use Of Provisional, Mail-in Ballots.
  9.Whenever a voter enters a polling place to vote on the day of an election and the circumstance of that voter matches the circumstance...
• Section 19:53c-4 - Designated Area For Marking Provisional Ballot, Affirmation Statement
  10. The district board shall designate an area within the polling place, which may be a voting booth, for the voter to mark the...
• Section 19:53c-5 - Voters Given Provisional Ballot, Retire Into Designated Voting Area.
  11. Every voter to whom a provisional ballot and envelope with an affirmation statement is given shall retire into the designated voting area. Not...
• Section 19:53c-6 - Completion Of Affirmation Statement
  12. Prior to voting the provisional ballot or immediately thereafter, the voter shall complete the affirmation statement attached to the provisional ballot envelope. The...
• Section 19:53c-7 - Voting With Provisional Ballot.
  13.To vote for a candidate whose name is printed in any column, or to vote in favor of or against any public question printed...
• Section 19:53c-8 - Write-in Votes On Provisional Ballot Permitted
  14. Nothing in P.L.1999, c.232 (C.19:53C-1 et al.) shall prevent any voter from writing or pasting within the proper title of office in the...
• Section 19:53c-9 - Spoiled Provisional Ballot, Affirmation Statement; Procedure
  15. If any voter to whom a provisional ballot and envelope with an affirmation statement has been handed spoils or renders any of the...
• Section 19:53c-10 - Voted Provisional Ballot Placed In Envelope, Written Instructions.
  16. a. After voting the provisional ballot and completing the affirmation statement, and before leaving the polling booth or the designated voting area, as...
• Section 19:53c-11 - Inventory Of Provisional Ballots
  17. Immediately following the closing of the polls on the day of an election, the members of the district board shall inventory the provisional...
• Section 19:53c-12 - Transportation Of Provisional Ballot Bag
  18. Immediately following the sealing of the provisional ballot bag at a polling place on the day of any election, a member of the...
• Section 19:53c-13 - Opening Of Provisional Ballot Bag.
  19. When the office of the commissioner of registration receives a provisional ballot bag that has been found to be in good order, the...
• Section 19:53c-14 - Canvassing Provisional Ballots
  20. In canvassing the provisional ballots, the county board shall count the votes as follows: a.If proper marks are made in the squares provided...
• Section 19:53c-15 - Counting Provisional Ballots; Standards For Validity
  21. In counting the provisional ballots, the board shall deem void all provisional ballots which are wholly blank, or on which more names have...
• Section 19:53c-16 - Invalid Provisional Ballots
  22. In every case in which a provisional ballot shall be declared invalid, the ballot, which shall be enclosed in a envelope, shall not...
• Section 19:53c-17 - Votes Counted, Void Votes
  23. If, for any reason, a provisional ballot voter votes a ballot other than the ballot for the district in which the voter is...
• Section 19:53c-18 - Decision Of County Board Final
  24. The decision of a majority of the county board on any question concerning a provisional ballot matter shall be deemed the decision of...
• Section 19:53c-19 - Use Of Tally Sheets
  25. a. The clerk of the board shall, upon the tally sheets provided for that purpose, make a list of the names of all...
• Section 19:53c-20 - Votes Tallied
  26. Upon the receipt of a certified tally sheet from the county board, the county clerk shall add the votes contained thereon to the...
• Section 19:53c-21 - List By District, Number Of Provisional Ballots Used.
  2.Within 15 calendar days after an election or three days after the certification of the results of that election, whichever occurs later, the county...
• Section 19:57-27 - Ballots Not To Be Invalidated Because Of Omissions, Withdrawal Of Candidates.
  27. a. No absentee ballot shall be rejected or declared invalid because it does not contain all of the names of the candidates or...
• Section 19:58-1 - Short Title
  This act shall be known as and may be cited as the "Presidential Ballot Law (1964)." L.1964, c. 134, s. 1.
• Section 19:58-2 - Definitions
  As used in this act unless the context otherwise indicates the following terms shall have the following meaning: "Removed resident" means a person, who...
• Section 19:58-3 - Persons Entitled To Qualify And Vote For Presidential Electors
  Any removed resident shall be entitled to qualify and vote for electors for President and Vice-President of the United States in any Presidential Election...
• Section 19:58-4 - Certificate Of Disqualification Of Removed Resident; Authority For Determination
  Any certificate filed by an applicant for a Presidential ballot as to the disqualification of a removed resident, who does not reside in this...
• Section 19:58-5 - Obtaining Application Form For Presidential Ballot
  An application form for a Presidential ballot may be obtained from the clerk of the municipality, or the county clerk of the county, in...
• Section 19:58-6 - Preparation Of Application Forms For Presidential Ballots And Forms Of Affidavits Of Residence; Color Of Paper
  Application forms for Presidential ballots to be made by removed residents and forms of affidavits of residence shall be prepared by the county clerk...
• Section 19:58-8 - Application For Presidential Ballot By Removed Resident; Form And Contents
  An application for a Presidential ballot to be made by a removed resident shall be in substantially the following form: APPLICATION FOR PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT--...
• Section 19:58-9 - Time And Manner Of Application; Certificate Of Registration Officer In Election District In Which Removed Resident Resides
  Applications for Presidential ballots shall be made, as prescribed by this act, to the clerk of the county, in which the ballot is to...
• Section 19:58-10 - Form Of Presidential Ballot
  The county clerk shall prescribe the form of the Presidential ballots, which shall in all respects conform with the provisions of this act and...
• Section 19:58-11 - Duty Of County Clerk To Furnish Presidential Ballots, Inner And Outer Envelopes, And Directions; Payment Of Expenses
  Each county clerk shall cause to be printed a sufficient number of Presidential ballots for each Presidential election to be held in this State...
• Section 19:58-12 - List Of Applicants; Inspection
  Each county clerk, upon receipt of applications for Presidential ballots for removed residents shall make a list of them according to the municipalities of...
• Section 19:58-13 - Examination And Approval Of Qualifications Of Applicant; Investigations
  Upon receipt of any application for a Presidential ballot, the county clerk shall make an examination, from any available information, to determine whether or...
• Section 19:58-14 - Transfer Of Permanent Registration Forms Of Removed Residents
  The county clerk, upon receipt of an application for a Presidential ballot, based upon the applicant's removal from this State to another state, the...
• Section 19:58-15 - Delivery Of Ballots; Deadline For Applications
  Each county clerk shall deliver a Presidential ballot for use under this act, to each applicant, whose application therefor has been so approved, in...
• Section 19:58-16 - Forwarding Applications And Accompanying Certificates To County Board Of Elections; List Of Applications
  Each county clerk, after processing the applications for Presidential ballots, in the manner prescribed by this act, shall forward such applications, including those disapproved,...
• Section 19:58-17 - Directions To Be Sent With Ballots; Envelopes
  Each county clerk shall send, with each Presidential ballot, appropriate printed directions for the preparation and transmission of such ballot, together with an inner...
• Section 19:58-19 - Certificate; Form
  19. Upon the said margin of said flap on the inner envelope to be sent to a removed resident there shall be printed a...
• Section 19:58-20 - Certification Of Names And Addresses Of Recipients Of Ballots
  Each county clerk shall, from time to time, prior to each Presidential election, certify in writing, under oath, to the commissioner of registration of...
• Section 19:58-21 - Marking And Handling Of Presidential Ballots By Voters
  Any voter shall be entitled to mark any Presidential ballot, so forwarded to him, for voting at any election by indicating his choice of...
• Section 19:58-22 - Mailing Of Ballots To County Board Of Elections
  Said sealed outer envelope with the inner envelope and the ballot enclosed therein, shall then be mailed with sufficient postage to the county board...
• Section 19:58-23 - Completed Ballots; Handling By County Boards
  23. The county board of elections shall, promptly after receiving each Presidential ballot, remove the inner envelope, containing the ballot, from the outer envelope...
• Section 19:58-25 - Ballots Received Prior To Closing Of Polls Counted; Validity Of Ballots Notwithstanding Absence Of Voter's Name On Certificate
  All valid Presidential ballots received by the county boards prior to the time designated for the closing of the polls for each election shall...
• Section 19:58-26 - Person Receiving Presidential Ballot Not To Vote In Person
  No person who has applied for a Presidential ballot and to whom such a ballot has been either delivered in person or forwarded by...
• Section 19:58-27 - Death Of Voter
  Whenever it shall be made to appear by due proof to the county board that a voter who has marked and forwarded a Presidential...
• Section 19:58-28 - Canvass Of Presidential Ballots
  The inner envelopes containing the Presidential ballots shall be opened and the Presidential ballots shall be removed therefrom and counted, and the votes so...
• Section 19:58-29 - Marking Of Statewide Voter Registration System, Duplicate Voting Records.
  29. As soon as practicable after each election, the commissioner of registration shall cause to be marked the Statewide voter registration system and all...
• Section 19:58-30 - Ballots And Other Papers
  30. The county board of elections shall keep, for a period of one year, all of the affidavits of residence and applications for Presidential...
• Section 19:58-31 - Powers Of County Board, Clerk, Superintendent And Commissioner Over Voting By Presidential Ballot
  The county board of elections, the county clerk, the superintendent of elections and the commissioner of registration shall exercise the same powers over voting...
• Section 19:58-32 - Validity Of Election Not Affected By Irregularities
  No election shall be held to be invalid by reason of any irregularity or failure in the preparation or forwarding of any Presidential ballots...
• Section 19:58-33 - Violations Of Presidential Ballot Law, Penalties.
  33. Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of this act, or who, not being entitled to vote under this act, fraudulently...
• Section 19:59-1 - Short Title Amended.
  1.This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Overseas Residents Absentee Voting Law." L.1976, c.23, s.1; amended 2008, c.61, s.1.
• Section 19:59-2 - Definitions.
  2.As used in this act: a."United States" means each of the several states, the District of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa...
• Section 19:59-3 - Registration Of "Overseas Voter."
  3.Upon compliance with the provisions of this act, P.L.1976, c.23 (C.19:59-1 et seq.), any person meeting the qualifications of an "Overseas voter" may register...
• Section 19:59-4 - Request For Application; Qualification To Vote.
  4. a. Requests for an application to vote in an election as an overseas voter may be made by or on behalf of an...
• Section 19:59-5 - Application Form.
  5. a. An application for an overseas ballot shall be in substantially the following form: APPLICATION FOR AN OVERSEAS BALLOT I, the undersigned, certify...
• Section 19:59-6 - Approval; Lists; Inspection; Delivery To County Board.
  6.Each county clerk, upon receipt of an application for an overseas ballot, shall determine whether or not the applicant is qualified to vote such...
• Section 19:59-7 - Overseas Ballot; Form.
  7.The county clerk shall prescribe the form of the overseas ballot. L.1976, c.23, s.7; amended 2008, c.61, s.7.
• Section 19:59-8 - Instructions For Completion, Return Of Ballots; Notice.
  8. a. Each county clerk shall send by air mail, with each overseas ballot transmitted by such means, appropriate printed instructions for its completion...
• Section 19:59-8.1 - Processing Overseas Voter Requests Transmitted By Electronic Means.
  12.Whenever a county clerk receives a request by electronic means from an overseas voter that an overseas ballot be sent to that person by...
• Section 19:59-9 - Printing Of Certificate Upon Margin Of Flap Of Inner Envelope.
  9.Upon the margin of the flap of the inner envelope to be sent to an overseas voter shall be printed a certificate substantially as...
• Section 19:59-10 - Completion And Transmittal Of Ballot By Mail Or Electronic Means.
  10. a. For overseas ballots other than such ballots sent to the voter by electronic means, the procedure for completing the ballot shall be...
• Section 19:59-11 - Receiving And Handling Of Ballots.
  11. Upon receipt of each overseas ballot, other than a ballot which had been sent by electronic means to an overseas voter, the signature...
• Section 19:59-12 - Request For Overseas Ballot For All Elections During A Calendar Year.
  12. An overseas voter may request, on any application form used, an overseas ballot for all elections held during the calendar year in which...
• Section 19:59-13 - Rules And Regulations.
  13. To effectuate the purposes of this act, P.L.1976, c.23 (C.19:59-1 et seq.), and its administration, the Secretary of State is authorized to promulgate...
• Section 19:59-14 - Validity Of Voted Overseas Ballot Transmitted By Electronic Means.
  3.Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, a copy of a voted overseas ballot or of a voted federal write-in absentee ballot...
• Section 19:59-15 - Procedure Relative To Ballot Transmitted By Electronic Means.
  4. a. Immediately after a copy of the voted overseas ballot or federal write-in absentee ballot has been transmitted by electronic means to the...
• Section 19:59-16 - Information Provided To Overseas Voters.
  26.For the purpose of complying with the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, 42 U.S.C. s. 1973ff-1 et seq., the office of...
• Section 19:60-1 - School Elections, Adjustments, Ballots.
  1. a. Except as otherwise provided in this section, an annual school election shall be held in a type II district on the third...
• Section 19:60-1.1 - Procedure For Moving The Date Of School Elections.
  1. a. (1) The question of moving the date of a school district's annual school election to the first Tuesday after the first Monday...
• Section 19:60-1.2 - Moving Date Of Certain School District Annual School Election.
  1. a. Notwithstanding any other law or regulation to the contrary, a Type II district with a board of school estimate may move the...
• Section 19:60-2 - Special Elections; Days, Certain, Changes; Notice.
  2. a. Except as otherwise provided pursuant to subsection c. of this section, the board of education of a type II district may call...
• Section 19:60-3 - District Board Members To Perform Election Duties; Designation Of Polling Place, Voting Equipment.
  3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.19:6-1, for school elections held at times other than at the time of the general election the county...
• Section 19:60-4 - Submission Of Public Questions.
  4.The secretary of each board of education shall, not later than 10 o'clock a.m. of the 18th day preceding the annual April school election...
• Section 19:60-5 - Petition Of Nomination; Contents.
  5.Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S.19:13-4, each nominating petition for a candidate to be voted upon at a school election shall be addressed to the...
• Section 19:60-6 - Certificate Accompanying Nominating Petition
  6.Accompanying the nominating petition and to be filed therewith, there shall be a certificate signed by the person endorsed in the petition stating that:...
• Section 19:60-7 - Nomination Procedures; Withdrawal, Vacancy; Objections.
  7.Each candidate to be voted upon at a school election shall be nominated directly by petition, and the procedures for such nomination shall, to...
• Section 19:60-8 - Positions On Ballot Determined By Drawing.
  8.The county clerk shall conduct the ballot draw for candidates for school board member in those school districts that hold November elections, in accordance...
• Section 19:60-9 - Ballot, Form, Contents.
  9.The ballot for a school election shall be a single or blanket form of ballot, upon which shall be printed in bold-faced type the...
• Section 19:60-10 - Printing Of Sample Ballots
  10. The county clerk shall cause samples of the official school election ballot to be printed in the same manner as prescribed for the...
• Section 19:60-10.1 - Information Sent To Newly-registered Voters For School Election.
  3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a voter who registers after the 29th day prior to a school election...
• Section 19:60-11 - Use Of Poll List In Lieu Of Signature Copy Register.
  11.The district board of election shall, for any school election held at a time other than the time of the general election, utilize a...
• Section 19:60-12 - Expenses; Mandated Expenditures.
  12.All costs, charges and expenses, including the compensation of the members of the district boards and the compensation and expenses of the county board...
• Section 19:61-1 - Findings, Declarations Relative To Elections.
  1.The Legislature finds and declares: a.The "Help America Vote Act of 2002," Pub.L.107-252, was enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Bush...
• Section 19:61-2 - Short Title.
  2. This act shall be known and may be cited as "The Voting Opportunity and Technology Enhancement Act." L.2004,c.88,s.2.
• Section 19:61-3 - Federal Elections Assistance Fund.
  3.There is hereby established in the Department of the Treasury a special, nonlapsing fund to be known as the Federal Elections Assistance Fund. The...
• Section 19:61-4 - Free-access System For Information To Voters Using Provisional Ballot.
  4.The Attorney General shall establish a free-access system, such as a toll-free telephone number, an Internet website or any combination thereof, that any individual...
• Section 19:61-5 - Free-access System For Information To Voters Using Mail-in, Overseas Ballots.
  5.The Secretary of State shall establish a free-access system, such as a toll-free telephone number, an Internet website or any combination thereof, that any...
• Section 19:61-6 - Filing Of Complaint, Procedure In Division Of Elections, Alternative Procedure.
  6. a. After January 1, 2004, any individual who believes that there is, has been, or will be a violation of any provision of...
• Section 19:61-7 - Report On Certain Absentee Ballots In Federal Elections.
  7.No later than the 90th day following the day of each regularly scheduled general election of candidates for federal office, each county board of...
• Section 19:61-8 - Reports On Implementation Of "Help America Vote Act Of 2002."
  8.The Attorney General shall issue a report on the progress of the implementation of the federal "Help America Vote Act of 2002," Pub.L.107-252 (116...
• Section 19:61-9 - Audits Of Election Results.
  1. a. Notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, the Attorney General shall appoint each year an independent, professional audit team. It...
• Section 19:62-1 - Municipality With 500 Or Fewer Persons May Conduct Elections By Mail.
  1.Notwithstanding any other law, regulation or rule to the contrary, a municipality with a population of 500 or fewer persons, according to the latest...
• Section 19:62-2 - Election By Mail, Duties Of County Clerk.
  2.If an election by mail is authorized pursuant to section 1 of this act, P.L.2005, c.148 (C.19:62-1), the county clerk shall: a.publish, in advance...
• Section 19:62-3 - Election By Mail, Duties Of County Board Of Elections.
  3.If an election by mail is authorized pursuant to section 1 of this act, P.L.2005, c.148 (C.19:62-1), the county board of elections shall: a.consult...
• Section 19:62-4 - Election By Mail, Availability Of Voting Machine Accessible To Disabled Persons.
  4.If an election by mail is authorized pursuant to section 1 of this act, P.L.2005, c.148 (C. 19:62-1), the superintendent of elections or the...
• Section 19:62-5 - Replacement Ballot.
  5.A registered voter may obtain a replacement ballot if a ballot has not been received by that person, or if it has been destroyed,...
• Section 19:62-6 - Statement On Ballot.
  6.Each ballot obtained from the county clerk or the municipal clerk shall have printed or stamped on it the following statement: ANY PERSON WHO,...
• Section 19:62-7 - Ballots For Primary Election For General Election.
  7.For a primary election for the general election: a.the county clerk shall mail the ballot of a political party to each voter in the...
• Section 19:62-8 - Voter's Actions Prior To Transmittal Of Ballot.
  8.Prior to transmitting a ballot to the county board of elections, a registered voter shall mark it and place it in the inner envelope....
• Section 19:62-9 - Open Hours Of Office Of Municipal Clerk On Election Days.
  9.The office of the municipal clerk shall be open from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on the day of an election to provide replacement...
• Section 19:62-10 - Receipt Time Of Ballot For It To Be Counted, Counting.
  10. a. For a ballot to be counted, it shall be received by the county board of elections no later than the time established...
• Section 19:62-11 - Criteria For A Ballot To Be Counted.
  11. If received in a timely manner, a ballot shall be counted only if: a.the ballot is returned in the inner envelope and the...
• Section 19:62-12 - Challenging Of Voter, Ballot.
  12. Any ballot and any voter casting a ballot in an election held by mail may be challenged pursuant to rules and regulations adopted...
• Section 19:62-13 - Rules, Regulations.
  13. The Attorney General shall promulgate, pursuant to the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), such rules and regulations as may be...
• Section 19:63-1 - Short Title.
  1.This act shall be known as and may be cited as "The Vote By Mail Law." L.2009, c.79, s.1.
• Section 19:63-2 - Definitions Relative To Voting By Mail.
  2.As used in this act, unless otherwise indicated by the context: "Election," "general election," "primary election for the general election," "municipal election," "school election,"...
• Section 19:63-3 - Procedure For User Of Mail-in Ballot.
  3. a. A qualified voter shall be entitled to vote using a mail-in ballot in any election held in this State. b.Not less than...
• Section 19:63-4 - Application For Mail-in Ballot, Authorized Messenger.
  4. a. A qualified voter is entitled to apply for and obtain a mail-in ballot by authorized messenger, who shall be so designated over...
• Section 19:63-5 - Application For Mail-in Ballot To County Clerk.
  5.In the case of any election, the application for a mail-in ballot shall be made to the county clerk. The county clerk shall stamp...
• Section 19:63-6 - Publication Of Notice.
  6. a. The county clerk, in the case of any Statewide election, countywide election, or school election in a regional or other school district...
• Section 19:63-7 - Printing Of Mail-in Ballots.
  7. a. Each county clerk shall have printed sufficient mail-in ballots for each primary election for the general election, and for the general election....
• Section 19:63-7.1 - Production, Transmission Of Mail-in Ballots In Certain Circumstances.
  36. a. If in the year in which the Apportionment Commission establishes new legislative districts the production and transmission of mail-in ballots for the...
• Section 19:63-8 - Verification Of Voter's Signature For Issuance Of Mail-in Ballot.
  8.Upon receipt of a request for a mail-in ballot, the county clerk shall, with the cooperation of the commissioner of registration, cause the signature...
• Section 19:63-9 - Delivery Of Mail-in Ballots.
  9. a. Starting on or before the 45th day before the day an election is held, each county clerk shall forward mail-in ballots by...
• Section 19:63-10 - Forwarding Of Requests To County Board Of Elections, Lists Of Requests Kept.
  10. a. Each county clerk, after processing the applications for mail-in ballots requiring approval under section 8 of P.L.2009, c.79 (C.19:63-8) and furnishing the...
• Section 19:63-11 - Ballots Marked "Official Mail-in Ballot."
  11. a. Each mail-in ballot to be used at any election shall conform generally to the ballot to be used at the election in...
• Section 19:63-12 - Directions For Preparation, Transmission Of Mail-in Ballots.
  12.Each county clerk shall send, with each mail-in ballot, printed directions for the preparation and transmitting of the ballots as required by this act....
• Section 19:63-13 - Certificate Of Mail-in Voter.
  13. a. On the margin of the flap on the inner envelopes to be sent to mail-in voters there shall be printed a certificate...
• Section 19:63-14 - Certification By County Clerk.
  14. Each county clerk shall, from time to time and prior to each election, certify in writing under oath to the commissioner of registration...
• Section 19:63-15 - Marking Of Applicant's Record.
  15. The commissioner of registration upon receipt of the information from the county clerk required by section 14 of P.L.2009, c.79 (C.19:63-14) shall mark...
• Section 19:63-16 - Marking Of Mail-in Ballot By Voter; Delivery To Board Of Elections.
  16. a. A mail-in voter shall be entitled to mark any mail-in ballot forwarded to the voter for voting at any election by indicating...
• Section 19:63-17 - Actions Of County Board Of Elections Relative To Mail-in Ballot.
  17.The county board of elections shall, promptly after receiving each mail-in ballot, remove the inner envelope containing the ballot from the outer envelope and...
• Section 19:63-18 - Counting Of Mail-in Ballots.
  18. The county board of elections shall count all valid mail-in ballots received thereby prior to the time designated by current law for the...
• Section 19:63-19 - Mail-in Ballot Deemed Valid.
  19. No mail-in ballot shall be rejected or declared invalid because it does not contain all of the names of the candidates or all...
• Section 19:63-20 - Mail-in Voters, Certain, Not Permitted To Vote In Person.
  20. a. Any person who has applied for a mail-in ballot and has had the mail-in ballot either delivered in person or forwarded by...
• Section 19:63-21 - Rejection Of Ballot Mailed In By Voter Subsequently Deceased.
  21. Whenever the county board receives evidence that a mail-in voter who has marked and forwarded a mail-in ballot has died before the opening...
• Section 19:63-22 - Opening Of Mail-in Ballots.
  22.On the day of each election each county board of elections shall open in the presence of the commissioner of registration, or the designee...
• Section 19:63-23 - Marking In Voting Records To Show Mail-in Ballots Delivered.
  23.As soon as practicable after each election, the board of elections shall mark in the Statewide voter registration system and all duplicate voting records...
• Section 19:63-24 - Board Of Elections To Keep Voted Mail-in Ballots And Certifications For Two Years.
  24. The county board of elections shall keep, for two years, all of the requests and applications for mail-in ballots, all voted mail-in ballots,...
• Section 19:63-25 - Powers Exercised Over Mail-in Voting.
  25. The county board of elections, the county clerk, the superintendent of elections and the commissioner of registration shall exercise the same powers over...
• Section 19:63-26 - No Election Held Invalid Due To Mail-in Ballots.
  26. No election shall be held to be invalid due to any irregularity or failure in the preparation or forwarding of any mail-in ballots...
• Section 19:63-27 - Ballot Required To Be Sealed Before Delivery.
  27. No person shall take a mail-in ballot from a voter or other person having custody of it for the purpose of delivering it...
• Section 19:63-28 - Violations, Third Degree Crime; Penalties.
  28. a. Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of P.L.2009, c.79 (C.19:63-1 et al.), or who, not being entitled to vote...

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