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State of New Jersey 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 TO REGULATE 
 
 ELECTIONS 
 
 (Revision of 1898) 
 APPROVED APRIL 4th, 1898 
 
 With the Amendments Thereof, and Other 
 Acts Concerning Elections 
 
 AND THE 
 
 CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISION CONCERNING THE 
 RIGHTS OF SUFFRAGE, INCLUDING INSTRUC- 
 TIONS relative to duties of 
 
 OFFICERS AND VOTERS. 
 
 Compiled and Printed under the Direction of the 
 Secretary of State 
 
 UNION HILL, N. J. 
 Dispatch Printing Company 
 
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 Registration Days. 
 
 Municipalities,, 5,000 and Less Inhabitants. 
 
 First Registration Day, September 8, 1914. 
 
 *Second Registration Day, September 22, 1914. 
 
 Third Registration Day, . .October 27, 1914. 
 
 Municipalities Exceeding 5,000 Inhabitants. 
 
 First Registration Day, September 8, 1914. 
 
 *Second Registration Day, September 22, 1914. 
 
 Third Registration Day, October 20, 1914. 
 
 *Also Primary Election Day. 
 
 General Election Day, November 3, 914. 
 
Chronological Index 
 
 Of Duties Relating to the Primary and General Elections. 
 
 April 20th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date the governing body of any municipality shall have 
 changed or leadjusted the election districts. Section 306. 
 
 May Ist, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date the chairman of each county committee shall transmit 
 in writing to the State Civil Service Commission a list of the names whom said 
 chairman recommends for appointment in the several election districts in said 
 county. Section jog. 
 
 All petitions endorsing a candidate for election officers must be filed with the 
 Civil Service Commission on or before this date. Section 30Q. 
 
 June, 1914— 
 
 The chairman of the State committee of each of the two largest political par- 
 ties may nominate two citizens in each county as members of the county board 
 of election. Section 13. 
 
 July, 1914— 
 
 Two members of the county board of elections shall be commissioned during 
 this month, for each county, by the Governor. Section 13. 
 
 July Ist, 1914— 
 
 On or before this date the chairman of the county or city committee shall 
 file with the municipal clerks the number of committeemen to be elected. 
 Section 245. 
 
 August 1st, 1914 — 
 
 The term of office of all members of the county board of elections, commis- 
 sioned in July, 1914, will begin August 1st, 1914. The term of office of two 
 expires August ist, 191 5, and two August ist, 191 6. Section 13. 
 
 August 1st to 10th, 1914 — 
 
 At ten o'clock A. M. on the first Tuesday of August or on such other day as 
 they may agree on, within the first ten days of August, the county board of 
 elections shall meet at the court house or other place and organize. Section 14. 
 Before entering upon the performance of their duties, they shall take and sub- 
 scribe an official oath or affirmation and forward it to the county clerk. 
 Section 16. 
 
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August Ist to September Ist, 1914 — 
 
 Between these dates, in every year wherein electors of President and Vice- 
 President, members of the House of Representatives, a Governor, or Senator 
 for any county, or any of them, are to be elected, the Secretary of State shall 
 deliver to the clerk of every county wherein such election is to be held, a notice 
 slating that such officer or officers are to be elected at the ensuing election ; the 
 clerk of such county shall, within fifteen days after the receipt of the notice, 
 deliver a certified copy of such notice to each township and municipal clerk in 
 his county. Section 5. Between the same dates in every county wherein a 
 sheriff, coroner, clerk, register of deeds or surrogate is to be elected, the county 
 clerk shall deliver a notice to each township and municipal clerk in his county 
 that such officer cr officers will be elected. Section 6. 
 
 August 8th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date the Secretary of State shall provide proper and suffi- 
 cient canvassing-books, poll-books, identification statements, registry-books, copies 
 of the election laws then in force, a pamphlet of instructions for election officers 
 and voters, blanks for the official oaths and for election returns for the proper 
 carrying into effect of the provisions of this act, and furnish a sufficient supply 
 of the same to the clerks of the different counties of this State, for use in such 
 counties, at least thirty days before the same shall be required for use ; and 
 the said county clerks shall cause the same to be delivered to the different 
 boards of registry and election in their respective counties at such times and 
 in such quantities as will enable the provisions of this act to be fully carried out. 
 Sections 61, 349 and 353- 
 
 August 8th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date the Secretary of State shall furnish to the county clerk 
 of each county having one or more municipalities of five thousand inhabitants, 
 identification statements for vise in the registration of voters on election day. 
 Sections 349 and 355- 
 
 August 15th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date the State Civil Service Commission shall hold county 
 examinations for position as member of the boards of registry and election. 
 Said Commission shall give five days' notice to applicants of the time and place 
 of holding such examination. Section 310. 
 
 August 20th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date the State Civil Service Commission shall certify results 
 of examinations to the Judge or Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of such 
 county. Section 310. 
 
 August 24th, lgl4 — 
 
 On or before this date petitions endorsing candidates for Member of House 
 of Representatives (in districts comprising more than one county) shall be filed 
 with the Secretary of State. Section 343. 
 
 August 25th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date the county board of election shall select from the 
 
eligible list certified to the Judge or Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, the 
 members of the board of registry and election. Section 311. 
 
 Augrust 27tii, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date candidates for Member of the House of Representatives 
 to be voted for at primary election, shall designate committee to receive and 
 disburse campaign funds. Section 379. 
 
 August 28th, 1914 — 
 
 Petitions for nomination for Members of State Senate and General Assembly, 
 and County offices, under the provisions of the direct primary act, must be 
 filed with the county clerk on or before this date. Sections 290 and 442. 
 
 On or before this date petitions endorsing candidates for Member of House 
 of Representatives (in districts wholly within single county) shall be filed with 
 county clerk. Section 343. 
 
 On or before this date the Secretary of State shall certify to the county clerk 
 the names of candidates for Member of House of Representatives. Section 343. 
 
 September Ist, 1914 
 
 On this dale, the boards of registry and election in all municipalities shall 
 meet for organization, and at such meeting shall elect one of its members as 
 judge, who shall be chairman of said board, and another of its members as 
 inspector. Section 19. 
 
 September 2nd, 1914 — 
 
 *0n or before this date, petitions endorsing the candidates to be voted for 
 at the primary election within a single municipality, and for Members of Board 
 of Chosen Freeholders to be voted for in two or more municipalities, must be 
 filed with the municipal clerk. Sections 243, 292, 300 and 347. 
 
 On or before this date, the county clerks shall certify the names of candidates 
 for county offices and for Members of House of Representatives to the municipal 
 clerks. Sections 290, 345 and 425. 
 
 On or before this date, the township and municipal clerks shall have procured 
 suitable rooms in which to make the registry of voters and to hold a primary 
 and general election, and immediately on procuring rooms, such clerk shall 
 notify the respective registry and poll clerks or boards of registry and election 
 of the location of such rooms. Section 230. 
 
 *0n or before this date, candidates for county offices and Members of the 
 House of Representatives (in districts wholly within a single county) to be 
 voted. for at primary election, shall designate committee to receive and disburse 
 campaign funds. Section 379. 
 
 Sept<smber 7th, 1914 — 
 
 *0n or before this date, candidates to be voted for at primary election, within 
 a single municipality, shall designate committee to receive and disburse campaign 
 funds. Section 379. 
 
 Vacancies occurring in the membership of the committee appointed to disburse 
 campaign funds shall be filled on or before this dzit.Section 379. 
 
 On or before this date, declinations by candidates for county offices must be 
 filed with the municipal clerk. Section 258. 
 
 Should any person endorsed in any petition, as a candidate to be voted for 
 
at any primary election, die or decline to stand as such candidate, by a writing 
 filed with the municipal or township clerk on or before this date, the vacancy 
 shall be filled within three days by a majority of the persons who signed the 
 petition in and by which the person so declining was endorsed, signing and 
 filing with the municipal or township clerk a new petition, which petition shall 
 be verified by three of the signers. Section 258. 
 
 September 8th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, the municipal clerks shall cause notice to be published, 
 setting forth that the board of registry and election, in and for each election 
 district, in all municipalities, will meet for the purpose of making a registration 
 of voters, and that a primary election will be held on the day and between the 
 hours and at the places provided in this act. Section 7. 
 
 On or before this date, the municipal clerks shall have delivered ballot books, 
 primary books to the members of the board of registry and election. Section 333. 
 The first registry day in cities, townships, borough and villages having a popu- 
 lation exceeding five thousand, shall be held on this date. Sections 21 and 333- 
 In municipalities having a population of five thousand or less, the board of 
 registry and election shall meet and make the registry by a house to house 
 canvass. Sections 23 and 335. If the ballot book of any district has been lost 
 or destroyed, the members shall make up the primary registry from the names 
 on the primary books of the two political parties of the last previous primary, 
 together with the names of the voters filed with them by affidavits. Section 333. 
 See also Section 7, 
 
 September 10th, 1914 — 
 
 Vacancies among candidates at primary election must be filled on or before 
 this date. Section 238. 
 
 The house to house canvass made in municipalities of 5,000 and less shall be 
 completed on or before this date. Section- 23. 
 
 September 11th, 191- 
 
 On this date the county board of election shall sit for the purpose of revising 
 and correcting the primary registry list. Section 336. 
 
 September 12th, 1914— 
 
 On or before this date, affidavits must be delivered by the chairman of the 
 board of elections to the county board of election. Sections 32, 35 and 333. 
 
 September 12th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, the poll clerks in each election district shall give 
 notice of the time and place of the primary election by five or more advertise- 
 ments posted at conspicuous places in the district. Section 252. 
 
 September 12th, 1914 — 
 
 Registry list in municipalities of five thousand or less open for inspection. 
 Section 335. 
 
September 15th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, the municipal clerk shall furnish to the board of reg- 
 istry and election a sulTicient number of ofiicial sample primary ballots, envelopes, 
 etc. Section ^34. 
 
 September 16th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before 12 o'clock of this date, it shall be the duty of the board to 
 prepare and deposit, in the post-office, stamped envelopes containing a copy of 
 the primary ballot, etc. Section 334. 
 
 September 19th, 1914 
 
 On or before this date, the clerks of all towns, townships, boroughs, cities 
 or other municipalities shall certify, under their hands and seals, and forward 
 to the clerk of the county in which such municipality is located, a statement 
 designating the town, township, borough or city or other municipal offices which 
 are to be filled at such general election, and the number of persons to be voted 
 for each office. Secfiov 286. 
 
 September 21st, 1914 — 
 
 On this date the municipal clerk shall deliver (at his office) to the clerks of 
 the board of registry and election the ballots and ballot boxes. Section 251. 
 
 September 22nd, 19! 
 
 PRIMARY ELECTION— Polls open from seven A. M. to nine P. M. Section 
 337- 
 
 The second registry day in all municipalities in this State shall be held on this 
 date. Section 337. Before opening the polls each member of the board of 
 registry and election shall take an official oath. Section 252. The appointed 
 agents to act as challengers before so acting shall file their appointment papers 
 with the board of registry and election. Section 264. Upon opening the election, 
 the election clerks shall deliver to the election boards the ballots and ballot 
 boxes, taking a receipt therefor. Section 251. 
 
 September 23rcl, 1914 — 
 
 On this date the clerks of the board of registry and election shall post cor- 
 rected list of names entered on registry, in some conspicuous place in said district. 
 Section 24. 
 
 September 24th, 1914 
 
 On or before this date, the State Committee shall issue a call for State con- 
 vention. Section 370. 
 
 September 26th, l9l4 — 
 
 On or before this date, claims on account of expenses incurred in conducting 
 primary election must be presented to the committee appointed to disburse 
 campaign funds, and be paid by such committee within fifteen days after the 
 completion of the official canvass. Section 385. 
 
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 September 27th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, candidates and committees appointed to receive and 
 disburse funds, must file a statement, under oath, showing the disbursement 
 of funds. Sections 380 and 3S1. 
 
 September 29th, 1914 — 
 
 On this date the State convention of each party shall be held at the City of 
 Trenton. Section 370. 
 
 The annual meeting of each county committee shall be held on this date. 
 Notice to be given by the respective chairmen thereof. Section 371. 
 
 Members of county committee take office on this date. Section 371. 
 
 October 2nd, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, any person nominated as a candidate, and who has 
 not filed a certificate consenting to stand as a candidate, shall file certificate of 
 acceptance with the county clerk. Section 301. 
 
 Any action under the corrupt practices act contesting any nomination at 
 primary election must be comm.enced on or before this date. Section 420. 
 
 October 5th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, all certificates and petitions naming candidates to be 
 voted for by all the voters of a single county, or more than a single political 
 division thereof, or where candidates for city offices are to be voted for upon 
 the county ticket, shall be filed with the county clerk. Section 42. 
 
 The above section has no relation to nominations made by convention or 
 nominations made at primary election. 
 
 October 3rd, 1914 — 
 
 Within these dates the township and municipal clerks shall post notices in 
 at least five of the most public places in each township and municipality, of 
 the time, place and purpose of the election and the office or offices to be filled 
 thereat. Section 7. 
 
 October 7th, 1914 — 
 
 Expenses incurred by committees appointed to receive and disburse campaign 
 funds, for primary election, shall be paid on or before this date. Section 385. 
 
 October 9th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date all certificates and petitions naming candidates for 
 office to be filled by voters of the entire State, or of any Congressional District, 
 or of any political division greater than a single county, shall be filed with the 
 Secretary of State. Section 42. 
 
 This section has no relation to nominations made by convention or at primary 
 election, 
 
 *0n or before this date, candidates to be voted for by the voters of a single, 
 or more than a single political division, shall designate committee to receive 
 and disburse campaign funds. Section 37^. 
 
October 19th, 1914— 
 
 On or before this date, the Secretary of State shall certify to county clerks 
 the names of candidates nominated by certificates or petitions filed in his office. 
 Section 43- 
 
 October 19th, 1914— 
 
 On or before this date, vacancies occurring by death, removal, resignation 
 or otherwise, the candidates for which are to be nominated by petition and 
 voted upon at primary election, which vacancy shall occur prior to the general 
 election, but subsequent to the last day for filing the appropriate petition, the 
 proper committee shall select candidates to fill said vacancy. Section S05- 
 
 Vacancies occurring in the mem.bership of the committee appointed to receive 
 and disburse campaign funds, for general election, shall be filled on or before 
 this date. Section 370. 
 
 October 20th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, the chairman of the county committee may petition 
 the Court of Common Pleas for the purpose of transporting voters from resi- 
 dence to polling place. Section 391. 
 
 October 20th, 1914 — 
 
 In cities, towns, townships, boroughs and villages exceeding five thousand 
 inhabitants, the third m.eeting of the boards of registry and election shall be 
 held on this date. Sections 22 and 348. 
 
 October 20th, 1914— 
 
 On or before this date, in municipalities of over five thousand, affidavits 
 of voters who by reason of illness or absence from the State are unable to 
 register personally, must be filed with the board of registry and election. 
 Section 349. 
 
 On this date a copy of the completed register made by each board of registry 
 and election, in municipalities exceeding five thousand inhabitant?, shall be 
 delivered by the chairman of the board of registry and election to the county 
 clerk. Section 3^:0. 
 
 October 21st, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, candidates for public office shall file declinations with 
 the officer with whom original certificates or petitions of nomination have been 
 filed. Sections 44 end 45. 
 
 October 24th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, the county clerk shall furnish the municipal cletks 
 a sufficient nimiber of sample ballots and one-cent stamped envelopes. . .S'^cf ton 
 364. 
 
 October 27th, 1914— 
 
 On or before this date, the municipal clerk shall deliver said ballots and en- 
 velopes to the members of the board of registry and election. Section 364- 
 On this date boards of registry and election, outside of cities, towns, town- 
 
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 ships, boroughs and villages, exceeding five thousand inhabitants, have their 
 final meeting, from i to 9 o'clock P. M., for the revision and correction of 
 registers. Section 24. 
 
 October 28th, 1914 — 
 
 On this date a copy of' the completed register made by each board of reg- 
 istry and election, in municipalities of five thousand or less, shall be delivered 
 by the chairman of the board of registry and election to the county board of 
 elections. Section 24. 
 
 October 28th, 1914 — ' 
 
 On or before 12 o'clock of this day. the members of the board of registry 
 and election shall deposit envelopes containing sample ballots in the post office. 
 Section 364. 
 
 October 29th, 1914— 
 
 On or before this date, the clerk designated by chairman of board of reg- 
 istry and election (niunicipalities of 5,000 and less) shall file copy of additional 
 list of names, added to register on October 27, 1914, with municipal clerks. 
 Section 24. 
 
 October 29th, 1914 — 
 
 On this date the judges of the board of registry and election, in municipalities 
 of five thousand inhabitants or less, shall deliver to the county boards of election 
 all affidavits made before them on the registering of voters, and take a receipt 
 from the county board for the same. Sections 32 and 33. 
 
 October 29th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, all official ballots shall be printed and in the possession 
 of the county or municipal clerk, v^here the same shall be subject to inspection 
 and examination by candidates and their agents. Section 33. 
 
 On or before this date- all papers appointing agents or challengers shall be 
 filed with the county board of elections, who shall thereupon issue to such agents 
 or challengers the permits prescribed by law. Section 63. 
 
 October 29th and October Slst, 1914 — 
 
 On these dates the county board of elections shall sit, at their office, from 
 8 o'clock A. M. imtil 5 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of adding names to and 
 erasing names from the register of voters. Sections 23 and 30. 
 
 October 29th, 1914 — 
 
 County clerks to certify to Secretary of State names and addresses of nominees 
 for Legislature. Section 42. 
 
 October Slst, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, county clerks shall provide ballots for municipal clerks, 
 etc. Section 54. 
 
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 November 2nd, 1914 
 
 On this date the county board of elections shall deliver to the county clerk, 
 at or before 8 o'clock in the forenoon, all the copies of the registers which were 
 in their possession on the Saturday next preceding said general election. Sec- 
 tion 28 T. 
 
 On or before this date, the township or municipal clerks shall have fitted up 
 the election rooms with booths, etc. Section 78. 
 
 On this date the county board of elections may meet to fill any vacancies 
 existing in any of the boards of registry and election. Section 19. 
 
 On this date it shall be the duty of the justices of the Supreme Court, 
 assigned to hold the Circuit Court, and the judge of the Court of Common 
 Pleas in each of the several counties of this State, or one of said judges, to 
 sit and hold a court of common pleas at the court house in their respective 
 counties to revise and correct the registry of election. Section 279. 
 
 On this date the municipal clerk shall deliver, at his office, ballot boxes, ballots, 
 &c., received from county clerk. Section 54. 
 
 November 3rd, 1914 — (Election Day) — 
 
 On this date it shall be the duty of the justice of the Supreme Court, assigned 
 to hold the Circuit Court, and the judge of the Court of Common Pleas in each 
 of the several counties of this State, or one of said judges, to sit and hold a 
 court of common pleas at the court house in their respective counties to inquire 
 into the legality of persons registered. Section 280. 
 
 Polls open from 6 o'clock A. M. to 7 o'clock P. M. Section 4. Ballots shall 
 be delivered by the clerks of election to the board of registry and election. 
 Section 54. Agents or challengers shall file their permits with the board of 
 registry and election. Section 63. Tlie board shall supply each booth with black 
 lead pencils. Section 70. After the polls are closed and the canvass of votes 
 completed all ballots which have been cast, whether estimated and canvassed 
 or rejected, and the poll-list (in municipalities of less than five thousand inhab- 
 itants) and tally papers shall be placed in the ballot-box, which shall be locked 
 and sealed and delivered to the proper custodian thereof. Section 99. 
 
 November 4th, 1914 — 
 
 On this date the checked register used at the general election shall be filed 
 with the county clerk and the ballot-box keys deposited with said county clerk. 
 Section 67. 
 
 November 7 th, 1914 — 
 
 Persons furnishing transportation to voters shall file with the Court of Common 
 Pleas a voucher setting forth the number of voters transported, etc. Section 392. 
 
 November 9th, 1914 — 
 
 The county board of elections will meet on this date, at 12 o'clock noon, at 
 the court house of the county, to discharge their duties as a county board of 
 canvassers. Sections 103 and 117. 
 
 November 13th, 1914 — 
 
 Claims for expenses incurred in the conducting of the general election must 
 be presented on or before this date. Section 385. 
 
 Applications for recount shall be made on or before this date. Section 159, 
 
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 November 14th, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, the county clerks shall deliver certified copies of the 
 determination of the county canvassers to the persons elected. They shall also 
 transmit a copy of said determination to the Secretary of State. Section 114. 
 
 November 18th, 1914 — 
 
 Expenses incurred by comniittee appointed to receive and disburse campaign 
 funds, for general election, shall be paid on or before this date. Section 385. 
 
 November 23rd, 1914 — 
 
 On or before this date, the treasurer of the committee appointed^ to receive 
 campaign contributions shall file an itemized statemen^^ with the officer with 
 whom the original petition has been filed. Section 380. 
 
 November 24lh, 1914 — 
 
 On this date, at 2 o'clock P. M., the State Canvassers shall meet at Trenton, 
 N. T.. for the purpose of canvassing the votes given for Members of the House 
 of Representative?: and of determininj^ and declaring the person elected to the 
 said office. 
 
 December 3rd, 1914 — 
 
 Any action, under the corrupt practices act. contesting any election, must 
 be commenced on or before this date. Section 420. 
 
 *The corrupt practices act provides that all designations of camjiaign com 
 mittees shall be filed within five days after the filing of petitions of nomination. 
 The dates given in this index are the last possible dates for filing such desig- 
 nations when candidates filed their original petitions of nomination on the last 
 day permitted by law. 
 
An Act to Regulate Elections. 
 
 Revision of 1898. 
 
 Approved April 4th, 1898. 
 
 Be it enacted hy the Senate and General Assembly of 
 the State of Neiv Jersey: 
 
 Times and Places of Elections. 
 
 1. On the Tuesday next after the first Monday in No- 
 vember in each year, an election shall be held in each 
 county, to elect for such county such a number of per- 
 sons to be members' of the general assembly as such 
 county shall be entitled to elect; which election shall be 
 known as the general election. 
 
 2. All municipal, local or charter elections shall continue 
 to be held -on the days heretofore fixed or established by, 
 or pursuant to, any law of this state applicable thereto. 
 
 3. On the Tuesday next after the first Monday in No- 
 vember, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun- 
 dred, and in each fourth year thereafter, an election shall 
 be held to elect such a number of persons to be electors 
 cf president and vice-president of the United States as 
 this state shall be entitled to elect or appoint; each of 
 v/hom shall be a male citizen of the United States, of the 
 age of twenty-five years or upwards, and an inhabitant 
 cf this state, and shall have been a citizen of the United 
 States seven years next preceding such election. 
 
 4. In all elections the polls shall open at six o'clock in 
 the morning and close at seven o'clock in the evening, and 
 shall be kept open during the whole day of election, be- 
 
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 Date of 
 
 general 
 
 election. 
 
 Assembly mfen 
 elected. 
 
 Dates of local 
 elections. 
 
 Election of 
 presidential 
 electors. 
 
 Their 
 qualifications. 
 
 Time of 
 opening and 
 closing polls. 
 
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 Notice by 
 secretary of 
 state of 
 election of 
 certain 
 officers. 
 
 Notice by 
 county clerk. 
 
 KitJctlon of 
 sheriff and 
 other county 
 officers. 
 
 Notice by 
 county clerk. 
 
 Notice of 
 election by 
 municipal 
 clerk. 
 
 tween the hours aforesaid ; provided, the board of election 
 may adjourn such election from one o'clock until two 
 o'clock in the afternoon, or for such shorter time, between 
 those hours, as they shall see fit. 
 
 5. The secretary of state shall, between the first day of 
 August and the first day of September, in every year 
 wherein electors of president and vice-president of the 
 United States, members of the house of representatives, 
 a governor or senator for any county, or any of them, are 
 t' be elected, direct and cause to be delivered to the clerk 
 of the county, wherein any such election is to be held, a 
 notice stating that such officer or officers are to be elected 
 at the ensuing election ; and the clerk of such county shall, 
 within fifteen days after the receipt of the said notice^ 
 cause a copy of the same, certified under his hand to be 
 true and correct, to be delivered to the clerk of each town- 
 ship, city or other municipality in said county. 
 
 6. The sheriffs and coroners shall, be elected by the 
 people of their respective counties at the general election 
 once in every three years; and the clerks, registers of 
 deeds and .surrogates of counties shall be elected by the 
 people of their respective counties, at the general election, 
 once in every five years; and it shall be the duty of the 
 clerk of every county, between the first day of August 
 and the first day of September, immediately preceding the 
 expiration of the term of office of any such officer, to 
 direct and cause to be delivered to the clerk of each town- 
 ship, city or other municipality in said county, a notice 
 that such officer or officers, as the case may be, will be 
 chosen at the ensuing election. 
 
 7. The clerk of every township, city, or other munici- 
 pality, shall, at least eight days prior to and within thirty 
 days next preceding the day of election, put up, or cause 
 to be put up, an advertisement in at least five of the most 
 public places within such township, city or other munici- 
 pality, which advertisements shall make known the time, 
 place and purpose of holding such election, and any elec- 
 tion consolidated therewith, and the office or offices to be 
 filled thereat, and shall be signed by such clerk ; and shall, 
 
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 a.', least two weeks preceding the primary election, herein- 
 after provided for, cause a notice to be published in not 
 more than two of the newspapers of the county wherein 
 such municipality is situate, as said clerk shall select, set- 
 t:ng forth that the boards of registry and election in and 
 for each election district in such municipality will meet 
 for the purpose of making a registration of voters on the 
 days and between the hours hereinafter designated for 
 that purpose; and that a primary election * * * for 
 making nominations, 'i' * * y^[\\ 5^ \^q\^ q^ the day 
 and between the hours and at the places as provided in 
 this act; and making known the time, place and purpose 
 ot holding such general election, and any election consoli- 
 dated therewith, and the office or offices to be filled; said 
 notice shall be published in such newspaper "or newspa- 
 pers as will afford the widest possible information to all 
 voters, and shall be continued in such newspaper or news- 
 papers at least once, and not more than twice, in each 
 w^eek, up to and including the day before such election 
 day ; provided, that if there be a newspaper printed and 
 published in such municipality, said newspaper shall be 
 one of the newspapers so selected by the municipal clerk; 
 in cities having more than five thousand population, gaid 
 notice shall include, in the newspaper or newspapers se- 
 lected, a short description of the boundary lines of each 
 election district therein, and the place of meeting of the 
 board of registry and election; provided, that the part of 
 said notice relating to the primary election and the re- 
 spective meetings for registration of the boards of registry 
 and election shall be omitted after the holding of the same. 
 8. The clerk of every township, city or other munici- 
 pality shall, prior to the date of the first meeting of the 
 board of registry and election, procure for each election 
 district in his township, city or municipality, a suitable 
 room in which said board shall meet to make and revise 
 the register of voters, and also to hold the election; and 
 said clerk shall immediately notify said board of the loca- 
 tion of such room ; and if any such clerk shall omit to 
 prociire such room, then the meetings of such board and 
 
 Notice of 
 primary 
 election and 
 resgisti-ation. 
 
 Amended 
 P. L. 1910, 
 
 p. 473. 
 Supplemented 
 P. li. 1912. 
 
 Chapter 416. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Supplemented 
 by P. L. 
 1911, 294, 
 p. 295, 
 sec. 30. 
 
 Proviso, 
 
 Suitable 
 room in 
 which to 
 hold elec- 
 tion. 
 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1908, 
 p. 396.] 
 
i6 
 
 street 
 booth. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 such election shall be held at such place as a majority of 
 such board shall designate; if, in the judgment of said 
 clerk, it shall be inadvisable to hold the election in the 
 place designated for holding the meeting of the1)oard of 
 registry, then it shall be lawful for such clerk to designate 
 another place for holding such election, or to cause a 
 I'uilding to be constructed in the street outside the curb 
 Hue immediately in front of, or as near as possible to, the 
 place of meeting of such registry board, in which to hold 
 such election; provided, no election shall be held in any 
 building in which is located or maintained any inn or 
 tavern or saloon where intoxicating liquors are licensed 
 to be sold. 
 
 Election Districts. 
 
 9. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 276, sec. i. See 
 paragraph 306, post. 
 
 10. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 276, sec. i, 306 post. 
 
 11. Supplemented by P. L. 1911, p. 277, sec. 2, 307 post. 
 
 12. Supplemented by P. L. 1911, p. 277, sec. 2, 307 post. 
 
 County Boards of Election. 
 
 County 
 boards of 
 election ; 
 how com- 
 posed. 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1905, 
 p. 502.] 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 13. There shall be in every county a county board of 
 elections, to consist of four persons, to be commissioned 
 by the governor in the month of July in each year, and 
 who shall be legal voters within the counties for which 
 they are respectively appointed ; the chairman of the state 
 c(^mmittee of each of the two political parties which at the 
 last preceding general election cast the largest and next 
 largest number of votes in the state for members of the 
 general assembly may, in the month of June, in writing, 
 i:ominate two citizens from each county, qualified as afore- 
 said, for members of the county board of elections in and 
 for such county; and if such nominations be made in said 
 month of June, the governor shall commission such ap- 
 pointees ; provided, that two of such members shall be 
 appointed for the term of one year from the first day of 
 
August next, and the remaining members shall be ap- 
 ].ointed for the term of two years from the first day of 
 August next: and thereafter one member of such board ^^.^^ai ap- 
 
 . ... pomtment 
 
 shall be appointed annually by each of said chairmen, in 
 the same manner, in the month of July, and shall continue 
 in office for two years from the first day of August next 
 after their appointment; in case of the death or disability Vacancies, 
 of any member of said boards, the governor shall be forth- 
 with notified thereof by the chairman or secretary of said 
 board; the governor shall cause notice of such death or 
 disability to be given to the chairman of the state com- 
 mittee who appointed such member; and such chairman 
 shall, within six days thereafter, appoint a successor, who 
 shall thereupon be commissioned by the governor; all ap- 
 pointments to fill any vacancies occurring in said boards 
 shall be for the unexpired term only; if, in any case, if chairmen 
 Cither of said chairmen shall fail to send a list of appoint- point, then 
 ments to the governor within the time aforesaid, the so^emor. 
 governor shall make such appointments of his own selec- 
 tion from the citizens of the county in which such vacancy 
 shall occur; said county boards of election shall be pro- suitable 
 \ ided bv the board of freeholders of the respective coun- quarters 
 
 ^ provided. 
 
 ties with a suitable office and furniture, in the court house 
 
 of the county for which they are respectively appointed. 
 
 cr in a building as near as possible adjacent thereto; the 
 
 terms of all members of the county boards of elections, as 
 
 now constituted, shall cease and determine on the first 
 
 day of August next. 
 
 14. Said county boards of election shall, at ten o'clock Organization 
 
 in the forenoon, on the first Tuesday in August, or on such boards of 
 
 other day as they may agree on within the first ten days f^mended 
 
 of Ausfust, in each vear, meet at the court house, or other P- • l. 1905, 
 
 ' . . . . .p. 503.] 
 
 place provided as aforesaid, in their respective counties 
 
 and organize by electing one of their number to be chair- 
 man and one to be secretary ; but the chairman and secre- 
 tary shall not be the appointees of the same chairman ; in 
 case of a failure to elect such chairman for three ballots 
 or viva voce votes, then the oldest (in years) of such 
 board shall be the chairman thereof; and on failure to 
 
i8 
 
 elect such secretary for three ballots or viva voce votes, 
 the member of the board next oldest (in years) to the 
 chairman of such board; the chairman and secretary shall 
 not be the appointees of the same chairman. 
 
 District Boards of Registry and Election. 
 
 Boards of 
 registry and 
 election ; 
 their ap- 
 pointment. 
 
 Official oath 
 of members 
 of county 
 and district 
 boards. 
 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1899, 
 p. 165.] 
 
 Term of 
 board of 
 registry and 
 election. 
 Proviso. 
 
 15. The county board of election in each county shall 
 cause to be made a complete registry of all the legal voters 
 in their respective counties, and for that purpose shall 
 appoint for each election district in the county four persons, 
 legal voters and residents of such districts, to be the board 
 cf registry and election for such district; h< * * g^p- 
 plemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 277, etc. 
 
 See paragraph 308', post. 
 
 16. The members of said county boards of election and 
 also the members of said district boards of registry and 
 election shall, before entering upon the performance of 
 their duties, severally take and subscribe an oath or affir- 
 mation, in writing, before a duly qualified officer, faith- 
 fully and impartially to discharge all their duties as such 
 officers, to the best of their skill and ability; which oaths 
 or affirmations shall be forthwith forwarded to the county 
 clerk, and by him filed in his office, and after qualification 
 as aforesaid, any member of either of said boards may, at 
 any meeting thereof, administer any oath or affirmation 
 required or permitted to be taken by this act. 
 
 17. The terms of office of the members of the district 
 boards of registry and election shall begin on September 
 first; provided, hozvever, that in case of a vacancy occur- 
 ring in said board on the day of election, by reason of the 
 absence or disability of a member, except in case of re- 
 moval by order of the county board of elections, such 
 vacancy shall be immediately filled by the member of the 
 district board who was nominated by the same chairman 
 as the member whose place has become vacant; such ap- 
 pointment shall be immediately reported to the county 
 board of elections. 
 
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 i8. The district boards of registry and election shall 
 severally meet within the district for which they are ap- 
 pointed, at such place as shall be designated by the clerk 
 of the municipality, on the days hereinafter designated, 
 tor the purpose of making a registration of voters. 
 
 19. Each of said boards shall, on the seventh day next 
 preceding the first day of registration, meet together and 
 organize, and at such meeting shall elect one of its mem- 
 bers as judge, who shall be chairman of said board, and 
 another of its members as inspector; such judge and in- 
 spector shall be the nominees of different chairmen, and 
 the other two members of the board shall be clerks of 
 ejection, and shall perform all the duties required by law 
 of the clerks of registry and election; in case of failure 
 to elect a judge as herein provided, after balloting or vot- 
 ing three times, the member of the board oldest in years 
 shall become judge, and in case of failure to elect an in- 
 spector, after balloting or voting three times, the next 
 oldest member of the board in years shall become the in- 
 spector; provided, that both chairman and inspector shall 
 not be nominees of the same chairman. 
 
 20. Amended by Act of 1910, amending sec. 7. 
 
 Meetings of 
 district 
 boards, 
 where held. 
 
 Organization 
 of district 
 boards. 
 
 [Amended. 
 P. L. 1905, 
 p. 506.1 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Registration for the General Election in Municipalities 
 of Over Five Thousand Population. 
 
 21. The district boards of registry and election in all 
 districts in municipalities having by the next last preced- 
 ing census a population exceeding five thousand, shall 
 meet annually on the second Tuesday in September, at 
 one o'clock in the afternoon, and continue in session until 
 nine o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of registering 
 the names of all legal voters, residents of the election dis- 
 trict for which they are appointed; * * * supple- 
 mented by P. L. 191 1, p. 291, etc. Paragraph 333, post 
 
 22. The said district boards of registry and election in 
 the aforesaid municipality shall again meet in the same 
 place and at the same hour, finally on Tuesday two weeks 
 next preceding the general election, for the purpose of re- 
 
 S'upplemented 
 by P. L. 
 1911, p. 295, 
 sec. 30. 
 First 
 
 meeting for 
 registration 
 for general 
 election in 
 cities having 
 over 5,000 
 inhabitants. 
 Supplemented 
 by P. L. 
 1911, p. 295. 
 
 Third meet- 
 ing of 
 board of 
 registry. 
 
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 vising and correcting the register, and of adding thereto 
 the names of all persons entitled to the right of suffrage 
 in that election district at the next election, who shall ap- 
 pear in person before them and establish to the satisfaction 
 of the majority of the board that they are entitled to vote 
 in that election district at the next election therein. The 
 district board of registry and election shall erase from such 
 register the name of any person or persons, who after a 
 fair opportunity to be heard shall be shown by due proof 
 not to be entitled to vote in such election district. 
 
 Supplemental by P. L. 191 1, p. 291, etc., paragraphs 337, 
 S4S post. 
 
 Supplemented Registration for the General Election in Districts 
 1911, ' p. '295, Outside of Municipalities of Over Five 
 
 ^^"^^ ^^- Thousand Population. 
 
 Registration 23. The boards of registry and election in all election 
 
 yy canvass- , • • . , • 1 r • • ^ t,- ^ 
 
 ing in mu- Gistricts m the State, outside of municipaiities having a 
 under^^s 000 population exceeding five thousand, shall meet annually on 
 [Supple- the second Tuesday of September in each year, at ten 
 
 p. L. 1911, o'clock in the forenoon, and having first organized shall 
 For ^meaning pi'occed to ascertain, and truly and accurately enter in can- 
 of italics see vassing-books, to be provided for that purpose, the names 
 . and residences and street numbers, if any, of all legal 
 voters residing within their respective election districts 
 entitled to vote therein at the next election by making 
 actual inquiry at every dwelling-house or habitation, or of 
 the head of every family residing therein, and shall con- 
 tinue such enumeration of voters from day to day there- 
 after, on successive days, until the same be completed ; 
 Proviso. provided, that such enumeration shall terminate on or be- 
 
 fore the Friday next succeeding; the name of every such 
 voter, as aforesaid, whose place of abode shall be in any 
 family or habitation, or who may be casually or tempor- 
 arily absent therefrom when such enumeration is made, 
 shall be entered in said canvassing-books ; in making such 
 Board may enumeration the said boards of registry and election may 
 canl^a^sin divide their election districts into subdivisions, and any 
 
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 Register 
 made from 
 
 two of their number, designated by the chairman and 
 ii.spector, together and in company, may make the enu- 
 meration in such subdivisions; no name shall be entered 
 on such canvassing-books without the concurrence of both 
 of said members, or if said enumeration be made by the 
 entire board, without the concurrence of a majority there- 
 of ; on the fourth Tuesday of September next preceding 
 the general election said boards shall meet at the places 
 provided in this act for holding the primary election in 
 their respective election districts at seven o'clock in the 
 forenoon, and continue in session until nine o'clock in the 
 evening, at which time and places said boards shall hold 
 the primary elections as provided in this act and shall also 
 proceed to transcribe and make up from said canvassing- 
 books two lists or registers of the names arranged in booksf''^"^ 
 alphabetical order, together with the residences and street 
 numbers, if any, of all persons in their respective election 
 districts entitled to the right of suffrage therein at the 
 next election, or who shall personally appear before them 
 for that purpose, or who shall be shown to the satisfac- 
 tion of such board of registry and election by the affidavit 
 ii: writing of some voter in that election district to be a 
 k.'gal voter therein. (See P. L. 191 1, p. 294, sees. 30, 31, 
 32.) Paragraphs 335, 336, 337, post 
 
 24. When, on the day of their meeting:, as provided in ^'^o copies 
 
 I 1- • ,1 , r ■ ,1 ^^ registers 
 
 the next precedmg section, the board of registry and elec- to be posted, 
 tion shall have completed said two registers, they shall 
 certify on each of them and announce publicly the number 
 of names entered thereon; on the day succeeding such 
 meeting a correct list of the names entered on said regis- 
 ters, with residences and street numbers, if any, shall be 
 posted by each of said clerks, in hand-bill form, in some 
 conspicuous public place within such election district ; both 
 of said lists shall be certified by the board of registry and 
 election, or a majority thereof, to be correct copies of the 
 original registers; the said board of registry and election 
 shall also meet on Tuesday next preceding the general elec- 
 tion at the place of their former meeting, at the hour of 
 one o'clock in the afternoon, and remain in session until 
 
 Third 
 meeting. 
 
22 
 
 Najues 
 erased from 
 register. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Additional 
 iopy filed 
 with munic- 
 ipal clerk. 
 
 Disposition 
 'if the two 
 original 
 regiMers. 
 
 nine o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of revising 
 and correcting the original registers, of adding thereto the 
 names of all persons entitled to the right of suffrage in 
 that election district at the next election, who shall appear 
 in person before them or shall be shown by the written 
 affidavit of some voter in such election district to be a 
 legal voter therein, and of erasing therefrom the name of 
 any person, who, after a fair opportunity to be heard, 
 shall be shown not to be entitled to vote therein ; provided, 
 that no name shall be entered on said registers or either of 
 them from said canvassing books, or stricken therefrom, 
 without the concurrence of a majority of all the members 
 of said boards of registry and election; upon the comple- 
 tion of said registers the said board of registry and elec- 
 tion shall publicly announce and certify on each register 
 the number of names entered thereon, and one of said 
 clerks, to be designated by the chairman of said board of 
 registry and election, shall prepare an additional copy of 
 the names, residences and street numbers, if any, on such 
 completed register, which additional copy, after being 
 certified as aforesaid, shall be by said clerk, within two 
 days after said last-mentioned Tuesday, filed with the 
 clerk of the township, city or other municipality within 
 which such election district may be situate; on the day 
 succeeding the completion of said registers, one copy 
 thereof shall be delivered by the chairman of said board 
 t . the county board of elections to be filed by them, and 
 one copy shall be retained by him for use by the district 
 board on the day of election. 
 
 Meeting of the County Board of Elections Before the 
 General Election. 
 
 25. It shall be the duty of the several county boards of 
 
 Meetings of 
 county board 
 
 before gen- elections to sit at the office so provided for them on Thurs- 
 
 pi*qi plpctioH 
 
 day and on Saturday next preceding the day of the gen- 
 eral election, from eight o'clock in the forenoon till five 
 Procedure to o'clock in the afternoon of each of said days ; and in case 
 to*^iegtster. the name of any legal voter in any election district has been 
 
^z 
 
 improperly or inadvertently left off the registry list, he 
 may, on said days, apply in person to the county board of 
 elections for the purpose of having his name placed upon 
 the register; and the county board of elections, upon such 
 application to them, and upon proper evidence satisfying 
 them that such person is a legal voter entitled to vote at 
 any such election, may give their certificate to that effect, 
 and shall add his name to the proper register on file with 
 them ; such voter may present such certificate to the board 
 of registry and election of the district in which he is enti- 
 tled to vote, and said board shall receive and file said cer- 
 tificate and add his name to the register, provided said 
 board shall be satisfied that he is entitled to vote in said 
 district, and he shall thereupon be allowed to vote at said 
 election, and no name shall be added to the said register 
 after the last registry day preceding the day of election 
 except in the manner provided for in this section; pro- 
 vided, hozvever, that certificates of transfer may be issued 
 
 and shall be accepted in the cases hereinafter mentioned ; „ ^ 
 
 ^ Procedure to 
 
 said board may order erased from any register the name erase names 
 of any person who shall be shown to the satisfaction of 
 the board, for any cause, not to be entitled to vote at the 
 next election in the election district wherein he is regis- 
 tered ;/»ro7/{rfei/, that no name shall be ordered erased from 
 any such register in the absence of the person to be 
 affected thereby, unless it shall appear to the board by 
 affidavit 9f some qualified voter that notice has been given 
 such person, either personally or by leaving the same at 
 his assigned place of residence, with some person above 
 the age of fourteen years, at least two entire days before 
 such meeting of the board, that at such meeting applica- 
 tion would be made to have the name of such registered 
 person stricken from the register, on the grounds on which 
 said application would be based; when any name shall be 
 stricken from any register as aforesaid, a certificate of 
 such board, stating the name erased and the cause there- 
 for, and from what election district, shall be given to the 
 person applying to have such name erased, and such board 
 shall erase the name of such person from the register on 
 
 from register. 
 
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 file with them, and on the delivery of such certificate to 
 the board of registry, the name of such person shall be 
 erased by them from the register in their possession, and 
 his vote shall not be received if he presents the same. 
 
 ^^ppieinented Registration in Municipalities of Over Five Thousand 
 1911,, p. 2^. Population for Charter Election. 
 
 Meetings to 
 make or 
 revise 
 
 registers for 
 charter elec- 
 tions in cities 
 having over 
 5,000 
 
 inhabitants. 
 Supplemented 
 by P. L. 
 1911, p. 294, 
 &c. 
 
 Date of 
 meetings. 
 
 Two copies 
 to bo posted. 
 
 26. In each municipaHty of this state having a popula- 
 tion exceeding five thousand it shall be the duty of the 
 district boards of registry and election for all elections 
 other than general elections to make, alter or revise, as 
 the case may require, the register of voters within and for 
 the several election districts of such city; provided, hozv- 
 ever, that where the election districts have remained un- 
 changed it shall not be necessary for said boards to make 
 a new register of the voters for such election districts, but 
 only to revise and correct the register made for the last 
 general election; and for that purpose the said boards 
 shall meet at such places in their respective election dis- 
 tricts as shall be designated by the clerk of such city, on 
 Tuesday four weeks next preceding such election, and 
 finally on the Tuesday two weeks next preceding the 
 same; and meetings to begin at one o'clock in the after- 
 noon and to continue until nine o'clock in the evening, for 
 the purpose of revising and correcting the register and of 
 adding thereto the names of all persons entitled to the 
 right of sufifrage in that election district at the said elec- 
 tion, who shall appear in person before them and estab- 
 lish to the satisfaction of the majority of the board that 
 they are entitled to vote in that election district at said 
 election, or who shall be shown by he written affidavit of 
 a voter residing in the same election district to be so 
 entitled to vote; a separate affidavit shall be required for 
 each person so registered, which shall contain the address 
 of the affiant and shall be signed by him ; on the day suc- 
 ceeding such first meeting, each of the clerks rhall post, in 
 hand-bill form, in some conspicuous place in such election 
 district, a copy of the revised register; and on the day 
 
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 succeeding such second meeting, one copy thereof shall be 
 delivered by the chairman to the county board of elections 
 to be filed by them ; and one copy shall be retained by him 
 for use by the district board of election. 
 
 27. The county board of election shall deliver to the city 
 clerk of the city in which an election for municipal officers 
 or any special election is to be held, seven weeks at least 
 prior thereto, the copies of the registers filed with said 
 county board of elections at the previous general election, 
 to be by the said city clerk delivered to the district boards 
 cf registry and election, six weeks at least preceding any 
 such election. 
 
 28. It shall be the duty of the city clerk in each of the 
 said cities to give notice by publication in at least two of 
 the newspapers published in said city, of the time and 
 place of the meetings of the district boards of registry and 
 election, at least two weeks, once in each week before the 
 first day upon which such boards shall meet; in cities of 
 the first class the said notice shall include a short descrip- 
 tion of the boundary lines of each election district and 
 the location of the polling place therein. 
 
 Pis.p« sition 
 of two 
 original 
 registers. 
 
 Registers to 
 be delivered 
 by county 
 boards to 
 city clerk 
 for use of 
 district 
 boards. 
 
 City clerk 
 to publisli 
 notice of 
 registration. 
 
 Registration in all Other Municipalities for Charter and 
 Local Elections. 
 
 29. In all cities of this state having a population not ex- 
 ceeding five thousand and in all townships, towns, bor- 
 cughs and municipalities other than cities, there shall be 
 no new registration required for any election other than 
 the general election ; but the several boards of registry and 
 election shall procure and use in their respective districts 
 ot such election the copy of the register filed with the clerk 
 of the municipality within which such election district 
 may be situate; said boards shall meet on the Tuesday 
 next preceding such election, to revise and correct said 
 register in the manner hereinbefore provided for the revi- 
 sion of the registers in cities having a population exceed- 
 ing five thousand; and each election clerk of every dis- 
 trict shall cause at least three notices of the time and 
 
 Meetings 
 to revise 
 registers for 
 local elec- 
 tions in 
 districts 
 outside of 
 cities having 
 over 5,000 
 inhabitants. 
 [Amended. 
 P. L. 1901. 
 p. 257.] 
 
 Notices of 
 meeting. 
 
26 
 
 re^^ister^ place of such meeting to revise and correct said register, 
 
 delivered to to be conspicuously posted in public places within such 
 district, at least one week before such meeting; no copy 
 oi such revised and corrected register need be posted, but 
 a copy shall be filed with the county board of elections 
 within one day thereafter. 
 
 Meeting of County Boards of Election Before Charter 
 Elections. 
 
 coun*t''^board ^^' ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^"^^ ^^ ^^^ several county boards of 
 before elections to sit on Thursday and also on Saturday next pre- 
 
 locai ceding any township, municipal, charter, local or special 
 
 elections. election in their respective counties, for the purpose of 
 
 adding to the register the names of any legal voters en- 
 titled to vote at such election, and erasing therefrom the 
 name of any person not so entitled to vote; and such 
 county board shall proceed in all respects as is provided 
 for the revision by them of the register for the general 
 election. 
 County 31. Whenever the boundaries of any election district in 
 
 appoint *dis- ^^Y township, city or other municipality within this state 
 trict boards ghall have been changed or any new district created be- 
 
 for new or o j 
 
 altered tween the time of holding the general election and the time 
 
 of holding the next charter, local or special election, or 
 where the boundaries of any election district shall not be 
 the same as at the general election, it shall be the duty of 
 district ^^ the county board of elections, on being notified thereof, 
 boards. |.,, appoint a board of registry and election for such elec- 
 
 tion district, in the manner hereinbefore provided for the 
 appointment of district boards of registry and election ; 
 and such district board shall thereupon proceed to make 
 and revise a register of all the names of the legal voters in 
 such election district; such register shall be made and 
 revised so far as is practicable at the times and in the 
 manner hereinbefore provided for the making and revis- 
 ing of the register for the general election ; in all newly- 
 created municipalities, the registry for the first election 
 shall be made as herein directed, unless otherwise pro- 
 
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 vided by any general law relating to such newly-created 
 njunicipalities. 
 
 Proceedings Applicable to all Registrations. 
 
 ^2. The proceedings of every board of registry shall be 
 open to the public, and all persons entitled to the right of 
 suffrage in the election district shall be entitled to be freely 
 heard in relation to the revision and correction of the 
 registers ; whenever a voter shall be registered by afifidavit 
 a separate affidavit shall be required for each person so 
 registered, which shall contain the address of the affiant 
 and be signed by him ; such affidavits shall be preserved in 
 the custody of the member of the board of registry and 
 election acting as judge until the completion of the regis- 
 try; all such affidavits shall then be delivered by such 
 judge to the county board of elections, who shall give a 
 -receipt for the same, stating the number received; and 
 the said county board of elections shall preserve such 
 affidavits for six months after election, or until required 
 to produce the same by any court or tribunal authorized 
 to require their production as evidence in such court or 
 tribunal.* 
 
 33. No person, except as hereinafter provided, shall be 
 allowed to vote unless his name shall be found on the reg- 
 ister; and if any member or members of the board of 
 registry and election shall willfully refuse to enter in the 
 canvassing-books or upon the registers the name of any 
 person legally entitled to vote, or shall register the name 
 of any person contrary to the provisions of this act, or 
 on the day of election shall receive the vote of any person 
 whose name shall not appear on the revised and corrected 
 register, unless such name shall have been ordered added 
 thereto in the manner herein provided, such member or 
 members shall be punished, on conviction, by a fine not 
 
 Proceedings 
 of district 
 boards to be 
 public. 
 
 Registration 
 by affidavit. 
 
 Disposition 
 of affidavits 
 
 Who may 
 vote. 
 
 Penalty for 
 illegal regis- 
 tration, etc. 
 by board. 
 
 • Registration by affidavit prohibited in municipalities above 5,000 
 except for primary elections ; sec P. L. 1911, pages 292 and 306. Sec. 
 387 and 402. Post. 
 
28 
 
 False regis- 
 tration. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Registration 
 by affidavit. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Disposition 
 of affidavits. 
 
 Procedure 
 
 where 
 
 election 
 
 falls on 
 
 registration 
 
 day. 
 
 exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not 
 exceeding two years, or both, in the discretion of the court. 
 
 34. Any person who shall cause or procure his name to 
 be registered in more than one election district, or shall 
 cause or procure his name or that of any other person to 
 be registered, knowing that he or the person whose name 
 he has procured to be registered, is not entitled to vote in 
 the election district wherein said registry is made, at the 
 next election to be held therein, or who shall falsely per- 
 sonate any registered voter, shall be punished for each 
 offence by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or 
 imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both, 
 at the discretion of the court, (a) 
 
 35. Every board of registry and election shall place upon 
 said registers the name of any person who shall appear 
 before them and satisfy them by an affidavit in writing 
 that such person will, on the day of the next ensuing elec- 
 tion, be entitled, under the constitution and laws of this 
 state, to exercise the right of suffrage in that election dis- 
 trict ; and any person swearing falsely in any such affidavit 
 shall be guilty of perjury, and incur the penalty thereof ; 
 every such affidavit shall within two days be forwarded 
 to the county board of elections, to be by them kept as 
 provided in the thirty-second section of this act. 
 
 36. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 312. Paragraph 
 357. post 
 
 2,7. Whenever the time fixed by law for holding any 
 municipal, local or charter election falls upon the day fixed 
 by law for the meeting of the boards of registry to pre- 
 pare a register for the ensuing general election, such meet- 
 ing of the boards of registry shall be held upon the day 
 following such municipal, local or charter election. 
 
 (a) A (•onvlction cannot be sustained by this section solely upon 
 the fact that defendant procured the name of an unqualified voter 
 to be registered, but it must further appear that he knew when he 
 caused such registration to be made that the person so registered was 
 not entitled to vote at the next election. The significant word of the 
 section is '"knowing.'' State v. McBarron, 37 Vr. 680. 
 
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 Nomination by Convention, (b) 
 
 38. Any convention of delegates or nominating body of 
 a political party as hereinafter defined, and also individual 
 voters by petition, to the number and in the manner here- 
 inafter specified, may nominate candidates for public 
 office, whose names shall be printed, written or placed 
 upon the ballots as hereinafter provided and directed; a 
 *'convention of delegates" or ''nominating body of a po- 
 litical partj," within the meaning of this act, is an organ- 
 ized assemblage of delegates or voters, representing a 
 political party which, at the general election next preced- 
 ing the holding of such convention or nominating body, 
 polled for members of the general assembly at least two 
 per centum of the total vote cast in the state, county or 
 other division or district in and for which the nomination 
 is made. 
 
 39. All nominations made by any such convention of 
 delegates or nominating body shall be certified in a writ- 
 ten or printed, or partly written and partly printed, cer- 
 tificate of nomination, which shall contain the name of 
 each person nominated, his residence and post-office ad- 
 dress, the office for which he is named, and shall designate 
 in not more than three words the title or name of the party 
 cr principles which such convention or nominating body 
 represented; said certificate shall be signed by the presid- 
 ing officer and secretary of such convention or nominating 
 body, who shall add to their signatures their respective 
 places of residence and post-office addresses, and severally 
 make oath before an officer qualified to administer the 
 same, that the affiants were respectively such officers of 
 such convention or nominating body, and that said cer- 
 tificate and the statements therein contained are true as 
 they verily believe; and a certificate that such oath has 
 been taken shall be made and signed by the officer admin- 
 
 Nomination 
 
 of candidates 
 by conven- 
 tions, etc. 
 
 "Convention 
 of delegates" 
 and "nomi- 
 nating body 
 of a political 
 party" 
 defined. 
 
 Nominations 
 to be certified 
 and verified 
 by oath. 
 
 (b) The only candidates for office who may now be nominated in 
 convention by delegates are candidates for presidential electors and 
 candidates of parties easting at least two and less than five per centum 
 of the total vote of the county. 
 
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 istering the same and endorsed upon or attached to such 
 certificate of nomination, (a) 
 Names of aq. In case of a division in any party and claim by two 
 
 factions; ^ . . , j f j . ^ 
 
 how selected or more factions to the same party name or title, the sec- 
 is divid^od.''' rttary of state or the county or municipal clerk, as the 
 case may be, shall give the preference of name or title to 
 the convention of delegates or nominating body held at 
 the time and place designated in the call of the regularly- 
 constituted party authorities; and if the other faction 
 shall present no other party name or title, the secretary of 
 state or county or municipal clerk, as the case may require, 
 shall select a name or title and place the same at the head 
 ot the list of candidates of said faction on the ballot; if 
 two or more conventions be called by authorities or bodies 
 claiming to be the regularly-constituted authority or body 
 of any party, the secretary of state or county or municipal 
 clerk, as the case may require, shall select suitable names 
 or titles to distinguish the several factions, and the ballots 
 shall be printed accordingly. 
 
 Nominations by Petition. 
 
 N mination 4^* -^^^ides the nomination of candidates by a conven- 
 
 of candidates tion of delegates or nominating body of a political party, 
 as hereinbefore provided, candidates for public office may 
 also be nominated by "petition" in manner following: 
 Contents of Such petition shall be addressed to the secretary of state 
 petition. ^^^ ^j^^j^ ^^ ^^.^ county, city or other municipality, as may 
 
 be proper, and shall set forth the name or names and 
 places of residence and post-office addresses of the candi- 
 dates for the offices to be filled, the office for which each 
 candidate is named, and that such petitioners are legally 
 qualified to vote for such candidates; said petition may 
 also designate, in not more than three words, the title of 
 the party or principle which the candidates therein named 
 represent, and shall be signed by legally qualified voters 
 of this state, residing within the district or political divi- 
 
 (a) As to amending a defective certificate of nomination, see sec- 
 tion 235 post. 
 
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 sion in and for which the officer or officers nominated are Number of 
 
 sicTiiprs 
 
 to be elected, equal in number to at least two per centum required, 
 ct the entire vote cast for members of the general assem- 
 bly, at the last preceding general election in the state, 
 county, district or other political division in and for which 
 the nominations are made; provided, that when the nomi- 
 nation is for an office to be filled by the voters of the 
 entire state, eight hundred signatures in the aggregate 
 for each candidate nominated in said petition shall be 
 sufficient; provided, also, that no more than one hundred 
 signatures shall be required to any petition for any officers 
 to be elected, save only such as are to be voted for by the 
 voters of the state at large; in case of a first election to 
 be held in a newly-established election district, county, 
 city or other political division, the number of fifty signa- 
 tures to a petition shall be sufficient to nominate a candi- and address 
 date to be voted for only in such election district, county, 
 city or other political division; 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 sign one petition for each officer and no more, but 
 all the names need not be signed to one petition ; .before Petition to 
 any petition shall be filed as hereinafter provided, at least ^y VatL ^ 
 five of the voters signing the same shall make oath before 
 a duly-qualified officer that the said petition is made in 
 good faith, that the affiants verily believe all the signa- 
 tures thereto to be genuine and those of duly-qiialified 
 voters; and a certificate that such oath has been taken 
 shall be indorsed upon or annexed to the petition by the 
 officer before whom the same is made. (a) 
 
 Certificate of Nomination and Petition. 
 
 42. All certificates of nomination and all petitions nam- rp^jj^^ ^q^ 
 ing candidates for office to be filled by voters of the entire ^^^^^ certifl- 
 
 ° ... , . cates and 
 
 state, or of any congressional district, or of any political petitions, 
 division greater than a single county, shall be filed with 
 the secretary of state at least twenty-five days previous to 
 
 fa) As to amending a defective petition, see section 235 post. 
 
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 (Amended P. 
 1912, p. 766.) 
 
 Acceptance 
 by candi- 
 dates. 
 
 County 
 clerks to 
 certify post- 
 office ad- 
 dresses to 
 secretary of 
 state. 
 
 Names of 
 
 candidates 
 
 certified by 
 
 secretary of 
 
 state to 
 
 county 
 
 clerks. 
 
 r Amended, 
 
 P. Li. 1903, 
 
 p. 698.] 
 
 the election at which the candidates nominated are to be 
 voted for; all certificates and petitions naming candidates 
 to be voted for by all the voters of a single county or more 
 than a single political division thereof, or where candi- 
 dates for city offices are to be voted for upon the county 
 ticket, shall be filed with the clerks of the respective coun- 
 ties wherein the officers nominated are to be voted for at 
 least thirty days prior to such election; all other certifi- 
 cates and petitions shall be filed with the clerks of the 
 respective municipalities wherein the candidates nominated 
 are to be chosen at least twenty-five days" before the elec- 
 tion whereat they are to be voted for; all certificates and 
 petitions when filed shall be opened, under proper regula- 
 tion, for public inspection, and the same shall be preserved 
 for one year; candidates nominated for any office in any 
 certificate or petition shall manifest their acceptance of 
 such nomination by a written acceptance thereof, signed 
 by their own hand, upon or annexed to and filed with such 
 certificate or petition, or if the same person be named for 
 the same office in more than one petition annexed to one 
 of such petitions; the name of any candidate who shall fail 
 in such manner to signify his acceptance of the nomina- 
 tion shall not be printed upon the ballots; it shall be the 
 duty of the county clerks to certify to the secretary of 
 state, within five days prior to the general election, the 
 names, places of residence and post-office addresses of the 
 several candidates nominated for senator and members of 
 the general assembly, together with the title of the party 
 nominating said candidates, and whether by convention 
 or petition, with the dates of holding such convention and 
 of the filing of such certificates of nominations and 
 petitions. 
 
 43. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state at least 
 fifteen days before any election whereat any candidates 
 nominated in any certificate or petition filed with him is to 
 be voted for to make and certify, under his hand and seal 
 of office, and forward to the clerks of the several counties 
 of the state a statement of all the candidates nominated by 
 certificate or petitions filed in his office for whom voters 
 
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 within any such county may be by law entitled to vote at 
 
 such election; such statement, in addition to the names of 
 
 the candidates for president and vice-president of the 
 
 United States, if any such have been included in any such 
 
 certificate or petition filed with him, shall also contain the 
 
 names and residences of all other candidates, the offices 
 
 for which they are respectively nominated, and the names 
 
 of the parties by which or the political appellation under 
 
 which they are respectively nominated; candidates nomi- candWates!^ 
 
 nated by petition, without distinctive political appellation, 
 
 shall be certified as independent candidates. 
 
 44. Whenever any person nominated for public office by Procedure in 
 any of the modes in this act provided shall, at least thirteen declines, 
 days before the day of election, in a writing signed by him p'^^L^'^jgos 
 and duly acknowledged, notify the officer with whom the p- 699-3 
 original certificate of his nomination w^as filed that he de- 
 clines such nomination, the same shall be void, and his 
 
 name shall not be printed upon the ballots; the officer to 
 w^hom such notification is given shall forthwith inform, by 
 mail or otherwise, the chairman and secretary whose 
 names are attached to the original certificate of nomina- 
 tion, if the nomination was by certificate, that such nomi- 
 nation has been declined; or if the nomination was by 
 petition, then the officer to whom the notification or decli- 
 nation is given shall forthwith, by mail or otherwise, in- 
 form at least five of the persons who signed the petition 
 nominating such candidate that such nomination has been 
 declined. 
 
 45. Should any person so nominated' die before election Provision 
 day or decline the nomination as in this act provided, or vacancy^^ 
 shall anv certificate or petition of nomination be insufficient when nomi- 
 
 ^ nee dies, 
 
 CI inoperative, the vacancy or vacancies thus occasioned declines, etc. 
 may be filled in the manner required for original nomina- p. °J^° 1903, 
 tions; if the original nomination was made by a party p- ^^1 
 convention which had delegated to a committee the power 
 to fill vacancies, such committee may, upon the occurring 
 of such vacancies, proceed to fill the same; the chairman 
 and secretary of such committee shall thereupon make and 
 file with the proper officer a certificate setting forth the 
 
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 cause of the vacancy, the name of the person nominated, 
 the office for which he was nominated, the name of the 
 person for whom the new nominee is to be substituted, the 
 fact that the committee was authorized to fill vacancies, 
 and such further information as is required to be given in 
 any original certificate of nomination; the certificate so 
 made shall be executed and sworn to by the chairman and 
 secretary of such committee in the manner prescribed for 
 the original certificate of nomination, and shall, upon being 
 filed at least thirteen days before election, have the same 
 force and effect as an original certificate of nomination; 
 when such certificate shall be filed with the secretary of 
 state, he shall, in certifying the nominations to the various 
 county clerks, insert the name of the person who has thus 
 been nominated to fill a vacancy, and in the event that 
 he has already sent forward his certificate, he shall forth- 
 with certify to the clerks of the proper counties the name 
 and description of the person so nominated to fill a 
 vacancy, the office he is nominated for, the party or 
 political principle he represents, and the name of the per- 
 son for whom such nominee is substituted. 
 Objections to 46. All certificates of nomination which are in apparent 
 nomination, conformity with the provisions of this act shall be deemed 
 Umended^^ to be Valid, unless objection thereto shall be duly made in 
 p. L. 1903, writing and filed with the officer with whom the original 
 certificate was filed within two days after the filing of 
 said certificates; (a) in case such objection is made, notice 
 Notice. thereof signed by said clerk shall forthwith be mailed to 
 
 all candidates who may be affected thereby, addressed to 
 them at their respective places of residence as given in 
 said certificate of nomination ; the said officer with whom 
 the original certificate was filed shall in the first instance 
 pass upon the validity of such objection, unless an order 
 shall be made in the matter by a court of competent juris- 
 diction, and file his determination in writing in his office 
 at least thirteen days before the election, which determina- 
 tion shall be open for public inspection, and the justice of 
 
 Procedure. 
 
 (o) Where a certificate of nomination is in apparent c"onformity 
 with the provisions of this act, and no ol\iection in writing is filed, 
 the officer with whom the certificate is filed must treat it as valid. 
 H008 V. O'nonncll, .31 Vr. 3"i. 
 
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 ilie supreme court holding the circuit court in and for the 
 ounty in which any certificate of nomination shall be filed, 
 en the application or complaint, duly verified, of any can- 
 didate setting forth any invasion or threatened invasion 
 of his rights under the certificate of nomination filed with 
 any county or municipal clerk, is hereby empowered and 
 required to determine upon said application or complaint 
 in a summary way and make such order thereupon as will 
 protect and enforce the rights of such candidates, (t) 
 
 47. When electors for president and vice-president of Names oi 
 ^ ; , r 1 f 1 candidates 
 
 the United States are to be voted for, the names of the for president 
 
 candidates for president and vice-president, for whom the presided 
 
 electors named in any certificate or petition are nominated ™ay be 
 
 . . printed on 
 
 to vote, may be included in such certificate or petition ; and ballots. 
 V- hen so included the names of such presidential and vice- 
 presidential candidates, together with the party names and 
 political appellations, names of other candidates for any 
 offices, if any, designated in the certificate or petition, shall 
 be printed upon the ballot in the manner hereinafter di- 
 rected. 
 
 Official Ballots. 
 
 Supplemented 
 by P. L. 
 1911, p. 
 
 48. All Ballots cast at any election shall (except as here- sec' 61. 
 
 in otherwise provided ) be printed and distributed at public Ballots 
 expense, and no ballots shall be cast or counted at any aY^^^^wl 
 such election except such as are by this act provided for. 
 
 expense. 
 
 49. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 313, &c. ^ 
 
 50. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 313, &c. 
 
 51. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 313, &c. 
 
 52. Supplemented by P. L. 191 f, p. 313, &c. 
 
 See para- 
 graph 359, 
 etc.. Post. 
 
 53. All official ballots shall be printed and in possession 
 «jf the county or municipal clerk at least five days before 
 the election and subject to inspection and examination by 
 the candidates and their agents; if any mistake is discov- 
 
 When ballots 
 to be 
 ready for 
 inspection. 
 
 (h) Query. — Is not this section so imperfect with respect to the 
 power conferred upon the justice of the supreme court as to render 
 its provisions entirely nugatory? In r« f'rederick Kraft, 22 Nefg 
 .Irrf^fu Laic Journal .373. 
 
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 Error in 
 printing, how 
 ^wrrected. 
 
 I Amended, 
 P. L. 1910, 
 p. 118.1 
 [Supple- 
 mented by 
 P. L. 1911, 
 p. 319.1 
 
 Receipts for 
 same. 
 
 Delivery of 
 ballots, etc., 
 to clerks of 
 •election. 
 
 ered it shall be the duty of the county or municipal clerk 
 to correct the same without delay, by causing new ballots 
 tu be immediately printed in place of those found to be 
 hiaccurate or incomplete; and those found to be inaccu- 
 r?*te or incomplete shall be immediately destroyed; when- 
 ever it shall appear that any error or omission has occur- 
 red in the printing of the ballots by any county or mu- 
 nicipal clerk, any voter resident in the county or munici- 
 pality may present to a justice of the supreme court a 
 verified petition setting forth such error or omission; and 
 said justice being satisfied thereof, shall thereupon sum- 
 marily, by his order, require the county or municipal clerk 
 to correct such error or show cause before said justice, at 
 the shortest possible day, why such error should not be 
 corrected. 
 
 54. The county clerks of the several counties, not later 
 than three days prior to any election for which they are 
 required by this act to provide the ballots, shall cause to 
 be delivered, to the clerk of each township, city or other 
 municipality within their respective counties, the number 
 of ballots * * * hereinbefore required to be provided 
 for each election district within his township, city or mu- 
 nicipality at such election ; the same shall be sent in sealed 
 packages, one for each election district of said township, 
 city or other municipality, with marks or directions on the 
 outside of each clearly stating the election district for 
 which it is intended, together with the number of ballots 
 * * * inclosed; receipts for ballots * * * thus 
 delivered shall be given by the clerk receiving the same 
 and filed with the county clerk, who shall also keep a 
 record of the time when and the manner in which each of 
 said packages was sent; the said township or other clerk 
 shall, on the day preceding any such election (but on the 
 Saturday preceding, when such election occurs on a Mon- 
 day), deliver, at his office, to one of the clerks of each 
 election district within his township, city or other munici- 
 pality, the ballot box, the ballots * * * by him re- 
 ceived from the county clerk for such election district, and 
 take the receipt of such election clerk therefor, which last 
 
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 mentioned receipt the clerk of such township, city or 
 other municipahty shall file and preserve; said election 
 clerk shall, on the morning of election and before the proc- ^^^^jg^^^ 
 lamation of the opening of the polls, deliver the ballot box, morning, 
 the packages of ballots * * * by him received to the 
 election board of his election district, with the seals thereof 
 unbroken, and shall take a receipt therefor from said 
 election board, which receipt said election clerk shall care- 
 fully preserve for at least one year. In case of elections 
 within and for a single municipality of any county where, 
 under this act, the ballots * * * are required to be As to muni- 
 provided by the clerk of such municipality, the duties by elections, 
 this section imposed upon the county clerk with reference 
 to the delivery of the ballots * * * shall, the neces- 
 sary changes being made, devolve upon and be performed 
 by the clerk of such municipality. 
 
 55. If at any election the ballots to be furnished there- ^''''^^^^^ 
 for shall not be delivered at the time above mentioned^ official 
 01 if after delivery they shall be destroyed or stolen and are lost, 
 ether official ballots cannot be obtained in time for such orstSen. 
 election, the clerk of such township, city or other munici- supplemented 
 pality, or the board of election, as the case may require, Jln^'p^^a 
 shall cause other ballots to be prepared as nearly in the 
 form heretofore prescribed as practicable, but without the 
 indorsement on the top thereof ; and upon the receipt of 
 the ballots thus prepared from the clerk of such township, 
 city or other municipality, accompanied by a statement, 
 under oath, of the person preparing the same, that the 
 same have been so prepared and furnished because the 
 original ballots have so failed to be received or have been 
 destroyed or stolen, and that other official ballots could 
 not be obtained in time for such election, or where such 
 board of election has caused such unofficial ballots to be 
 prepared, the board of election shall cause the ballots so 
 substituted to be used at the election; if from any cause 
 neither the official ballot nor ballots otherwise prepared 
 as herein prescribed shall be ready for distribution at any 
 polling place, or if the supply of ballots shall be exhausted 
 before the polls are closed, unofficial ballots, made as 
 
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 Distinguish- 
 ing mark on 
 ballot 
 renders it 
 •void. 
 
 How voter 
 may alter 
 ballot. 
 (Supple- 
 mented by 
 P. L. 1911, 
 p. 319] 
 
 nearly as possible in the form of the official ballot, may 
 be used ; * * * the mode and manner of voting shall, 
 nevertheless, in all respects conform as nearly as possible 
 to the mode and manner of voting hereinafter prescribed. 
 
 56. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 318. 
 
 57. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 318. 
 
 See 
 
 paragraph 
 
 364. 
 
 58. If any ballpt voted at ^ny election shall have thereon, 
 either on its fape or back, jany mark, sign, designation or 
 device whatsoever, other than is permitted by this act, 
 whereby such, ballot can or may be identified or distin- 
 guished from other ballots cast at such election, such ballot 
 shall be absolutely void, and shall not be canvassed or 
 counted for any candidate named thereon. " ^" * (a) 
 
 59. Nothing in this act contained shall prevent any voter 
 "^ * * from writing or pasting thereon the name or 
 
 (a) The provision that if a ballot have on it a distinguishing mark 
 it shall be void, is not unconstitutional ; the objection that the voter 
 may thereby lose his vote by the fraud or neglect of those preparing 
 the ballot is not sound. Ransom v. Black, 25 Vr. 446. Fifty ballots 
 cast in the Third district of the Thirteenth ward of Newark had on 
 the back the designation "Eighth district, Thirteenth ward." Held, 
 that these ballots contained a designation by which they could and 
 might be distinguished from other ballots cast at the election, and 
 that they were properly rejected. Ulrich v. Freiensehner, 15 New 
 Jersey Law Journal 74. The provision of the above section that a 
 ballot which has upon it any distinguishing mark shall be void, over- 
 comes and supersedes the common law rule with regard to ascertaining 
 the intention of the voter by means of extraneous evidence in can- 
 vassing and counting the votes. Kearns v. Edicards, 17 Netc Jersey 
 Law Journal 51. Ballots cast in one voting precinct having an official 
 endorsement, indicating that they were prepared for another precinct, 
 should be rejected as marked ballots. Lippincott v. Felton, 32 Vr, 
 291. Where a person had written on certain ballots his own name 
 in a blank space under the printed words "Chosen Freeholder." it 
 was held that the question as to whether such ballots were invalid as 
 marked ballots "was one of fact for the circuit court in proceedings 
 under section 1'62. &c. Hackett v. Mayhew, 33 Vr. 481. The language 
 of the 5Sth section and that of the S5th section show a clear legis- 
 lative purpose to prevent a voter, or one acting for him, from placing 
 upon a ballot any mark, sign, designation or device by whicli such 
 ballot can be distinguished from any other ballot. But where a large 
 ■class of ballots used have the same accidental or intentional mark 
 or designation upon them, but for which mark or designation tiie 
 voter is in no way responsible, such a ballot is not within the inter- 
 <liction of the statute which makes a marked ballot void. It will not 
 be presumed to be the legislative intent that the vote of the citizen 
 shall be defeated by an act for which he was neither directly nor 
 indirectly responsible. In re Election of Long Branch Oommission, 
 N. J. Law Journal, April, 1902, p. llii. Official ballots furnished to 
 the electors by a municipal clerk under his construction of a statute 
 of uncertain meaning, and endorsed with a facsimile of his signature, 
 are not upon that account marked ballots. Bliss v. Wooley, 52 Atl. 
 Rep. 835. 
 
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 names of any person or persons for whom he desires to 
 vote for any office or offices; the ink or lead pencil to be 
 used in writing any name or names upon the ballots shall 
 be black in color, and the use of any other colored ink or 
 pencil shall invalidate the entire ballot ; and all pasters used 
 shall be printed with black ink on white paper only, and 
 the use of any other kind or style of pasters shall invali- 
 date the entire ballot. 
 
 Ballot-Boxes. 
 
 60. The board of chosen freeholders of each county 
 bhall provide and keep in good repair ballot-boxes for the 
 use of each election district, which boxes shall be made at 
 least one foot in depth, width and length measuring the 
 same on the exterior thereof; and when new boxes are 
 required may provide a ballot-box known as the "safety 
 ballot-box," of Camden, New^ Jersey ; no sum in excess of 
 twenty-five dollars shall be paid for each ballot box; said 
 ballot-box shall be so constructed as to have four glass 
 sides, supported by four upright columns, and no bolts, 
 screws or other attachments by which the box is held to- 
 gether shall be exposed on the outside; and the said 
 ballot-box shall be secured by three patent locks, no two 
 keys of which shall be olike ; and these locks in turn shall 
 be covered by an outer door, connected by a rod running to 
 a dial in front of the box, which is sealed and in full view 
 of the voter, so that each vote cast will be recorded in 
 figures plainly visible in the front of the box ; the said 
 board of chosen freeholders shall also provide a sufficient 
 number of additional boxes for the use of each election 
 district at the primary elections provided for in this act, 
 which additional boxes shall be at least one foot in depth, 
 width and length, measuring the same on the exterior 
 thereof, with four glass sides, and with an opening in the 
 top for the reception of the ballots. 
 
 See P. L. 191 1, p. 322. See paragraph 369, post. 
 
 Ballot-boxes, 
 by whom 
 provided, and 
 desicription 
 thereof. 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1903, 
 p. 627.] 
 
 Additional 
 boxes for 
 primary 
 elections. 
 
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 Election Blanks and Books. 
 
 Election 
 blanks, etc., 
 furnished by 
 secretary of 
 state. 
 
 Distributed 
 by secretary 
 of state. 
 
 Distributed 
 by county 
 clerks. 
 
 Election 
 blanks, etc., 
 furnished by 
 municipal 
 clerk for 
 local 
 elections. 
 
 6i. The secretary of state shall, at the expense of the 
 state, in all cases where the ballots are provided and fur- 
 nished by the county clerks for any election, provide proper 
 and sufficient canvassing-books, poll-books, register-books, 
 copies of the election laws then in force, pamphlet of in- 
 structions for election officers and voters, blanks for the 
 official oaths and for election returns for the proper carry- 
 ing into effect the provisions of this act, and furnish a 
 sufficient supply of the same to the clerks of the different 
 counties of the state, for use in such counties, at least 
 thirty days before the same shall be required for use ; and 
 the said county clerks shall cause the same to be delivered 
 to the different boards of registry and election in their 
 respective counties at such times and in such quantity as 
 v.nll enable the provisions of this act to be fully carried 
 out; * * H: 
 
 62. The clerk of every township, city and other munici- 
 pality shall provide and furnish for use at all local, mu- 
 nicipal and special elections, all necessary canvassing- 
 books, poll-books, registry-books, blanks for election re- 
 turns, and all other blanks and supplies necessary for the 
 proper carrying into effect the provisions of this act; and 
 So id clerk shall cause the same to be delivered to the boards 
 of registry and election in each election district, at his 
 office at such times as will enable the provisions of this 
 act to be fully carried out. 
 
 Challengers. 
 
 Agents or 
 challengers 
 at polls, 
 by whom 
 appointed. 
 
 63. The chairman of the county committee of any po- 
 litical party that has duly nominated any candidate for 
 public office to be voted for at any election by all the 
 voters within said county or said political division thereof 
 greater than a single municipality, or where the election 
 is within and for a single municipality only, or any sub- 
 division thereof, then the chairman of the committee of 
 the political party making such nomination within and for 
 
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 such single municipality, or such division thereof, may 
 appoint two agents for each election district in his county ^^^^"^^-^^ 
 or municipality, as the case may be; and any candidate p. lee.] 
 duly nominated by petition for any office, whose name may 
 appear upon the ballot to be used in any election, may 
 likewise appoint two agents for each district; provided, 
 however, that only two agents shall be allowed for each 
 election district to represent all the candidates nominated 
 in and by the same petition or group of petitioners; such ^. 
 agents shall be the authorized agents and challengers for powers, 
 tl eir respective parties and candidates, and shall be at 
 liberty to challenge the right to vote therein of any per- 
 son claiming such right; the appointment of agents shall How 
 be made in writing under the hand of the person making ^"^^^ 
 the appointment, and shall specify the names and resi- 
 dences of the agents and the election districts for which 
 they are severally appointed; such appointment papers 
 shall be filed with the county board of elections, five days 
 before the election, who shall thereupon issue, under their 
 hands, to the persons named in such appointment papers, Permits 
 permits for them to act as agents of their respective par- 
 ties or candidates at the election district specified; such 
 permits shall be filed by the persons named therein with 
 the board of election in the district named therein, as evi- 
 dence of their authority to be present in the polling place ; 
 and such permits may be issued and revoked and others 
 issued in their stead at any time up to and including the 
 day of election; provided, however, that when a permit 
 shall be revoked, the new permit in the place thereof shall 
 be issued upon the nomination of the same person or officer 
 upon whose nomination the original permit was issued; 
 said agents may be present inside the railed inclosure while Agents 
 
 , . , . t » present when 
 
 the votes cast at any election at which they were agents votes are 
 are being counted, and hear and see said ballots counted. counted. 
 
 Method of Conducting Elections. 
 
 64, The boards of registry and election shall, in their boards to 
 respective election districts, hold and conduct all general, eiTctkms.*" 
 
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 Custody of 
 ballot-box 
 keys during 
 election. 
 
 Proclamation 
 on opening 
 polls. 
 
 Exhibition 
 ballot-box. 
 
 Poll-book at 
 election, by 
 whom and 
 how kept. 
 [ Supple- 
 mented by 
 P. L. 1911, 
 p. 309.] 
 
 Register, 
 poll-book 
 and keys, 
 where 
 deposited. 
 
 Who may 
 vote. 
 
 municipal, local and special elections to be held through- 
 out the state. 
 
 65. At the opening of the election, each of the keys of 
 the locks of the ballot-box shall be taken by a different 
 member of the board, who shall keep the same until the 
 statement of the result of the election shall be made and 
 certified, as directed by this act, and who shall not during 
 that time suffer either of the other members of the board, 
 or any other person, on any pretense, to take or have the 
 same ; and in all cases in which the members of such board 
 are directed to lock the ballot-box, each of the locks 
 thereof shall be locked by the members of the board who 
 shall have the key belonging thereto, as directed by this act. 
 
 66. The boards of registry and election, before they re- 
 ceive any vote, shall make public proclamation of the open- 
 ing of the election, and of their readiness to receive the 
 votes of the voters; immediately before proceeding to re- 
 ceive the votes, such board shall, in an open and public 
 manner, exhibit the ballot-box, so that those present may 
 see that there is nothing contained therein, and thereupon 
 shut and lock the same, leaving open the aperture in the 
 lid thereof, and thereupon the election shall be opened. 
 
 dy. One of the members of the board acting as clerk 
 of election, to be designated by the judge, shall keep at 
 such election a poll-book, * ^ * such clerk shall write 
 a heading to the list of names so recorded in the following 
 or like form : ''Names of voters at an election held in the 
 
 district of , in the county of , on the 
 
 day of , in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 
 hundred and — — ^— , for " (naming the of- 
 fices to be filled), and filling up the blanks. in the form 
 above given to conform to the facts of the case. * * * 
 After the canvass of the votes the register so kept and 
 checked shall be filed by him with the clerk of the county, 
 and the poll-book shall be deposited in the ballot-box as 
 herein required, and the keys of each ballot-box deposited 
 with the county clerk. 
 
 68. Every person qualified to vote in any election shall 
 at any time after the opening of the same, except during 
 
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 any period for which the board of election shall have 
 adjourned, be at liberty to claim his right to vote therein 
 in such district, and such person shall claim such right in 
 person before such board ; and on such claim being made, 
 one of such board shall audibly and publicly announce 
 the name of the claimant ; and the ballot of such claimant 
 shall remain in his own hand until such board shall have 
 decided to receive the same. 
 
 69. Every person possessing the qualifications required 
 by the constitution, and being duly registered as required 
 by this act, shall be entitled to vote in the election district 
 in which he actually resides, and not elsewhere, (a) 
 
 70. No person who shall have a right to vote at :.ny 
 election shall be arrested by virtue of any civil process oa 
 the day on which such election shall be held. 
 
 71. No person shall be entitled to vote who shall have 
 been convicted of any crime which excludes him from ihe 
 right of suffrage under the constitution of this state, viz.. 
 blasphemy, treason, murder, piracy, arson, rape, sodomy, 
 <'r the infamous crime against nature committed with man- 
 k.md or with beast, polygamy, robbery, conspiracy, forgery. 
 Inrceny of above the value of six dollars, perjury or sub- 
 ornation of perjury, unless he shall have been pardoned or 
 rv stored by law to the right of suffrage ; if a person be 
 challenged as convicted of any of the above named crimes, 
 he shall be required to answer in relation to such alleged 
 conviction ; and if he shall admit that he has been so con- 
 victed, she shall not be permitted to vote unless he shall 
 make oath that he has been pardoned or restored by law 
 to the right of suffrage; but if he shall deny that he has 
 been so convicted, no proof of such conviction shall be 
 received, other than the duly authenticated record thereof, 
 except such proof as may be necessary to establish his 
 identity with the person named in such record, or may be 
 
 Where t» 
 vote. 
 
 Freedom 
 from arrest. 
 
 Who dis- 
 qualified l)T 
 reason of 
 crime. 
 
 Challenge 
 for crime. 
 
 {(i\ This soction will not be held to disfranchise voters who vote 
 :it a polling place selected and advertised by the proper officers as the 
 polling place of the district in which such voters reside, notwith- 
 <;tanding the place so selected, but at which the election is otherwise 
 lawfully held, is outside the territorial limits of the election district 
 for which It is provided, no fraud or other harm bein& snown. Otis 
 V. Lane, 54 Atl. Rep. 442. 
 
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 Penalty for 
 convicted 
 person 
 voting. 
 
 When 
 members 
 of district 
 board shall 
 challenge. 
 
 Challenge as 
 an alien. 
 
 adduced by him to rebut the evidence of identity produced 
 on behalf of the challenge; but if any person so convicted 
 shall vote at any such election, unless he shall have been 
 pardoned or restored by law to the right of suffrage, he 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction 
 thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two 
 hundred dollars, or imprisonment at hard labor not ex- 
 ceeding two years, or both. 
 
 'J2. The members of the boards of registry and election, 
 respectively, shall, at such election, challenge every person 
 who shall claim to have a right to vote therein, whom they 
 shall know, suspect or believe not to be qualified or entitled 
 to vote therein. 
 
 y^i' If any person shall be challenged, as not qualified or 
 entitled to vote, and the person challenging him shall 
 specify a ground for such challenge to be that the person 
 so challenged is an alien, the judge of election may forth- 
 with tender to him an oath or affirmation, in the following 
 form: 
 
 "You do swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that to 
 the best of your knowledge, information and belief, you 
 were born a citizen of the United States, and that you do 
 not owe allegiance to any foreign prince, potentate, state 
 or sovereignty;" and if the person so challenged shall re- 
 fuse to take the oath or affirmation so tendered to him, 
 he shall be deemed and taken to be an alien, unless he 
 shall produce at the time of claiming his vote, to such 
 board, a lawful certificate, issued out of and under the 
 seal of some court of record, having authority to admit 
 aliens to the rights of a citizen of the United States, show- 
 ing, in case the person producing the same shall claim to 
 be the person named therein, that he has been admitted 
 to the rights of a citizen of the United States, or, in case 
 the person producing the same shall claim to have derived 
 the rights of such citizen through the naturalization of his 
 parent, then that the person alleged to be such parent has 
 been admitted to the rights of such citizen ; and in the for- 
 mer case the said judge shall tender to the person so 
 challenged an oath or affirmation in the following form : 
 
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 "You do swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that you 
 are the person named in the certificate of naturalization 
 which you have produced to the board;" and in the latter 
 case, an oath or affirmation, in the following form : 
 
 "You do swear (or affirm, as the case may be), to the 
 best of your knowledge, information and belief, that the 
 person named in the certificate of naturalization which you 
 have produced to this board was your parent, and that you 
 were at the time of the naturalization of your parent under 
 the age of twenty-one years, and resident of the United 
 States;" and if the person so challenged shall in either 
 case, refuse to take the oath or affirmation so tendered to 
 him, he shall be deemed and taken to be an alien. 
 
 74. If any person shall be challenged, as not quahfied *■ 
 entitled to vote, the said judge may forthwith tender to 
 the person so challenged an oath or affirmation, in the 
 following form : 
 
 *'You do swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that you 
 are a citizen of the United States; that you have resided in 
 this state one year, and in this county five months next 
 before this election, and not elsewhere; that you are now 
 a resident in this election district ; that, as far as you know 
 and verily believe, you are twenty-one years of age, and in 
 all respects qualified to vote in this election, in this elec- 
 tion district, and that you have not voted elsewhere in this 
 election;" and if the person so challenged shall refuse to 
 take the oath or affimifition so tendered to him, he shall 
 • be deemed not to be qualified or entitled to vote. 
 
 75. The board of registry and election shall in no case 
 receive the vote of any person, unless they shall be satisfied 
 that such person is in all respects qualified and entitled 
 to vote ; and, for the purpose of satisfying themselves as to 
 the right of any person who shall claim a right to vote, 
 they shall have power to examine such person, and any 
 other person or persons, under oath or affirmation, touch- 
 ing such right, except as hereinbefore restricted; and if 
 any member of such board shall receive, or assent to 
 receive, the vote of any person challenged, without requir- 
 ing such person to take the oath or affirmation herein- 
 
 Form of 
 oath. 
 
 Challenge as 
 not qualifled 
 or entitled 
 to vote. 
 
 How board 
 may satisfy 
 themselves 
 regarding 
 one's right 
 to vote. 
 
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 Board to 
 question 
 challenged 
 person. 
 
 Proceedings 
 on adjourn- 
 ment before 
 close of 
 election. 
 
 Polling- 
 booths ; how 
 constructed 
 and 
 furnished. 
 
 before prescribed to be made upon such challenge, and 
 such person shall not be qualified and entitled to vote, 
 such member so receiving or assenting to receive such 
 vote shall be deemed and taken to have received the same 
 knowing it to be illegal. See P. L. 191 1, p. 311, sec. 49. 
 See paragraph 354, post. 
 
 76. Upon any question or challenge of a voter duly reg- 
 istered it shall be the duty of the board of registry and 
 election, and the privilege of all its members, to put all 
 such questions as are proper to determine the right of 
 ^uch voter to vote; and the question as to the admission 
 of this vote shall be put in the following form: "Shall 
 this voter's ballot be received by this board?" 
 
 yy. Whenever, before the close of the election, an ad- 
 journment shall be ordered by the said board, they shall 
 state in the poll-book, immediately after the last name 
 therein, in words, written at full length, the whole num- 
 ber of the names of the voters in the poll-book, to which 
 the members of such board shall sign their names; and 
 shall unlock and open the ballot-box, place and secure the 
 bar or bolt in the lid thereof, in such manner as to prevent 
 the insertion in the ballot-box of any ballot or other thing, 
 place therein the poll-book and shut and lock the same : 
 and when the period of adjournment shall have expired, 
 such board shall unlock and open the ballot-box, take 
 therefrom the poll-book, remove such bar or bolt, so as to 
 leave open the aperture in the Hd thereof, and shut and 
 lock the same; and during every such adjournment the 
 ballot-box shall remain in the possession and under the 
 care of one or more members of such board, to be ap- 
 pointed by such board for that purpose, who shall keep 
 the same, during such adjournment, in public view. 
 
 78. The clerks of the several townships, cities or other 
 nmnicipalities, charged with the duty of providing in each 
 election district a suitable room in which to hold the elec- 
 tion shall have constructed therein and ready for use before 
 each election day, booths or compartments with swinging 
 doors, so arranged that some part of the person of the 
 voters standing in said booths may be seen from the out- 
 
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 side of the booths when the door is closed; in which booths 
 voters shall prepare their ballots secretly and screened 
 from the observation of others; each booth shall contain a 
 counter or shelf suitably placed to enable voters to place 
 their ballots thereon while preparing the same for voting; 
 the number of such booths shall not be less than one for 
 every one hundred votes cast at the next preceding gen- 
 eral election held in such district, and not less than two 
 such booths shall be provided in any polling place; said 
 booths shall be erected within a railed inclosure separating 
 the same from the remainder of the room; not more than 
 one person, except as hereinafter provided, shall be per- 
 mitted to enter or be in the same booth at one time; the 
 said booths shall be so arranged and constructed that all 
 the officers conducting the election can see whether more 
 than one person enters or is in any booth at the same time ; 
 each booth shall be kept provided by said election board 
 with (a) sufficient * * * lead pencils; the ballot- Location of 
 boxes at every polling-place shall be within said railed in- 
 closure, and so placed that the voter may deliver his ballot 
 to the election officers after emerging from the booth, be- 
 fore leaving the railed inclosure within which the booths 
 and ballot-boxes are placed ; such railed inclosure shall be 
 provided with a single entrance, by which the voters shall 
 enter, and a single exit by which they shall leave the same ; 
 said booths shall be at all hours well and sufficiently lighted 
 to enable voters to read and prepare their ballots with who allowed 
 ease ; except as in this act otherwise provided, no person j^cjosure. 
 shall be allowed within said railed inclosure while the elec- 
 tion is in progress, other than the election officers and 
 voters entering the same for the purpose of preparing 
 their ballots and voting at such election ; but not more 
 than two of such voters in excess of the total number of 
 booths shall be allowed within such railed inclosure at one 
 time; and no person shall be allowed or permitted to be i^n^pomn^^^*^ 
 present in the polline-room outside such railed inclosure ^'^om outside 
 
 1 . f r , 1 . . fn of inclosure. 
 
 during the progress of the election, except the officers con- 
 nected with the election, the several candidates, the duly- 
 authorized agents of, the candidates of political parties. 
 
48 • 
 
 Who may 
 vote after 
 hour for 
 closing polls. 
 
 such voters as are present for the purpose of voting, and 
 such officers as may be duly detailed to be present, pur- 
 suant to this act, for preserving the peace or enforcing the 
 provisions hereof; after the hour fixed for closing the 
 polls no voter shall be admitted within the railed inclosure, 
 but voters already within such inclosure shall be per- 
 mitted to prepare and cast their ballots; the arrangement 
 of such polling-place shall, as to said railed inclosure, and 
 the entrance thereto and exit therefrom, and the location 
 of the booths and ballot-box within such inclosure, be sub- 
 stantially as shown in and by Schedule A, and forming a 
 part hereof. 
 
 SCHEDULE A. 
 
 Plan for 
 polling-room. 
 
 Polling-room. 
 
 Compartments. 
 
 Entrance. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 Ballot-box. 
 
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 8o. Immediately on enterino: said railed inclosure, and voter sup- 
 
 , plied with 
 
 before entering any booth, each voter shall be furnished by one ballot 
 the inspector of election, to be stationed in close proximity 
 to the entrance of said railed inclosure, with one * * * 
 of the official ballots provided for said election. * * * 
 
 8i. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 321, sec. 6^. See 
 paragraph 369, post. 
 
 82. When any legal voter shall apply to the board of Proceedings 
 
 JO ... . when voter 8 
 
 registry and election in the district in which he resides, name is 
 and shall find that his name upon the registry list is already checked off. 
 cliecked as having voted, it shall be lawful for the board 
 of registry and election to receive his vote, upon due proof 
 to them that he is a lawful voter in such district and has 
 not voted in said election. 
 
 83. The boards of election of every election district shall of peace and 
 preserve the peace and maintain good order in their respec- a^^he ^poUs. 
 tive polling-places, during the progress of all elections and 
 
 the counting of the votes cast thereat, and to that end each 
 member of every election board, during the progress of any 
 election and the counting and canvassing of the votes, shall 
 be and hereby is invested and charged with all the powers 
 and duties of constables of this state in criminal matters; 
 said election boards, or any two members of them, may, by 
 writing under their hands whenever in their opinion it 
 sliall be necessary so to do, request the municipal authori- 
 ties of any municipality within which their election district 
 is situate, or the body or officer having charge and direc- 
 tion of the police force in such municipality, to detail one 
 or more policemen to assist in preserving the peace and 
 good order in and about such polling-place, which request 
 shall forthwith be complied with as far as possible by the 
 body or officer to whom the same is made. 
 
 84. No member of any board of registry and election Members of 
 shall be elected to any office to be filled at the election in eligible to 
 which he shall serve; and if any such member shall be f^^^^ 
 voted for in any such election, the person or persons, to the 
 number to be elected therein, who shall, by law, be qualified 
 
 for the office or offices to be filled at such election, for 
 whom the greatest number of votes shall have been given 
 
so 
 
 therein, other than such member, shall be deemed and 
 taken to be elected, and the votes which shall be given to 
 such member shall be .deemed and taken to be null and 
 void. 
 
 Local or Charter Elections in Townships and Munici- 
 palities Other than Cities. 
 
 Act to applj' 
 to all general 
 and city 
 elections. 
 
 Provisions 
 as to local 
 elections — 
 townships, 
 boroughs, 
 etc. 
 
 Booths to be 
 provided. 
 
 No official 
 ballots re- 
 quired, but 
 furnished 
 by candi- 
 dates. 
 
 85. The provisions of this act relating to the nomination 
 of candidates and the use of official ballots * * »;= 
 shall apply to all general elections throughout this state 
 and to the charter, local or special elections in all of the' 
 cities of this state, but shall not apply to any township, 
 local or municipal election in any township, town (o), 
 borough or other municipality of this state; but every 
 township, local or municipal election in any township, town, 
 be rough or municipality, other than cities, shall be held 
 and conducted in the following manner : The clerk of 
 every such township, town, borough or other municipality 
 shall, before election day, arrange the room by him pro- 
 vided for such election with booths, and railings, in all 
 respects as is required in and by this act ; the ballots to be 
 used at such elections shall not be official, but shall be fur- 
 nished or provided by candidates or other interested par- 
 ties; such ballots shall be printed with black ink on plain 
 white paper, after the manner and style hereinbefore pro- 
 vided ; it shall and may be lawful for any voter at such elec- 
 tion to erase from his ballot any name or names thereon 
 printed, and to write or paste thereon the name or names of 
 any person or persons for whim he may desire to rote for 
 any office ; the ink or lead pencil to be used in writing any 
 name or names upon the ballots to be black in color, and 
 the use of any other colored ink or pencil shall invalidate 
 the entire ballot ; all pasters shall be printed with black ink 
 on white paper, and the use of any other kind or style of 
 
 (a) By an amendment the provisions of the act do now apply to 
 the charter, local, municipal and special elections in all of the cities 
 and towns of this state and in all other municipalities of this state 
 having a population of more than 8.000 inhabitants according to tne 
 last state or federal census. See sec. 234 post. 
 
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 paster shall invalidate the entire ballot; * * * it 
 shall be lawful for any candidate or other person at any 
 such election to deliver to the board of registry and elec- 
 tion the ballots of any party or faction having candidates 
 to be voted for at such election ; which ballots so supplied, 
 the board of registry and election shall receive and cause 
 to be furnished to each voter ; * * * if on the face or 
 back of any ballot * * * there shall be any mark, sign, 
 designation or device whatsoever, other than is permitted ^^"^^^^ 
 by this act, whereby such ballot * * * can or may be renders 
 identified or distinguished from any other ballot * * * ' ' 
 used at such election, the ballot * * * shall be abso- 
 lutely void and not counted for any candidate named 
 thereon; (a) the conduct of such election, the manner of Ballots, how 
 voting, and of counting and canvassing the votes cast, shall ^^^ 
 conform in all respects to the provisions of this act regu- 
 lating the general election, and shall be subject to all the 
 restrictions, conditions and penalties applicable thereto. 
 
 Distlnguisb- 
 ing mark on 
 
 or 
 envelope 
 
 canvassed, 
 
 Canvassing the Vote. 
 
 86. In all elections held pursuant to this act before pro- statement m 
 
 ^ . poll-box at 
 
 ceeding to estimate and canvass the votes which shall have close of 
 been received the clerk of the board of election keeping ^° '°^ 
 the poll-book shall state therein, immediately after the last 
 name, in words written at full length, the whole number of 
 the names of the voters in the poll-book, in the following 
 or like form : "The whole number of the names of the per- 
 sons whose votes have been received during this election 
 
 is ," filling up the blank to conform to the fact ; and 
 
 the members of such board shall sign their names thereto. 
 
 87. Such board shall thereupon unlock and open the Ballots, bow 
 ballot-box ;=«=** the ballots shall then be taken 
 singly and separately therefrom by the judge of election, 
 * * * and while each ballot shall remain in his hands, 
 he shall audibly and publicly read the same; and be- 
 fore taking another ballot from the box shall deliver the 
 
 counted and 
 strung. 
 
 (fl) For authorities as to what ballots shall be deemed marked, 
 &c., sc' note (a) to section 58 mnie. 
 
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 Clerks to 
 keep tally- 
 sheet. 
 
 Board to cast 
 up votes. 
 
 Signing 
 returns, ex- 
 amination 
 of tally- 
 sheets, and 
 announce- 
 ment of 
 result. 
 
 ballot Open * * * to the inspector, to be examined 
 and numbered; the inspector shall take and examine the 
 same; and thereupon if he shall be satisfied that the same 
 has been correctly read, write on the back thereof the num- 
 ber of such ballot from one onward, in the order in which 
 the same shall have been taken from the box; * * * 
 the inspector shall string the * * * ballot as one ticket 
 in the order in which the same shall be taken from the box 
 and numbered, by means of a needle and twine to be pro- 
 vided for that purpose. 
 
 8S. The clerks of such board, under the inspection and 
 direction of such board, shall each make a list of the 
 names of all persons for whom one or more votes shall 
 have been given, designating the office which such person 
 shall be voted for; and as each ballot shall be read he shall 
 write the figure "i" opposite the name of each person 
 whose name shall be contained therein, as designated for 
 any office; when all the votes which shall have been re- 
 ceived shall have been read, examined, numbered and 
 strung, as above directed, such board shall carefully and 
 truly cast up the votes given for each person for any office 
 to be filled at such election. 
 
 89. No member of any board of registry and election 
 shall sign any returns of election until after the comple- 
 tion of the counting of votes, and his personal examina- 
 tion of the tally-sheets to determine the results ; the count- 
 ing of the votes shall commence immediately upon the 
 closing of the polls on the day of election ; the board shall 
 proceed to read and count the votes received, and shall 
 complete the same without delay and without adjourn- 
 ment, and after completing the same shall audibly and 
 publicly announce the result thereof, particularly specify- 
 ing the whole number of the voters in the poll-book, the 
 name of each person for whom any vote shall have been 
 given for any office to be filled by such election, and the 
 number of votes given for each person for the office des- 
 ignated for him by said votes ; the counting of all ballots 
 at any election shall be open and public, but not to the 
 extent that the number present shall hinder, delay or in- 
 
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 cunvenience the election officers in counting the ballots 
 and ascertaining the result. 
 
 90. The decision of a majority of the board of registry Majority to 
 md election on any question shall be deemed and taken to q^gsttons. 
 iif? the decision of such board, and final; and if any mem- 
 ber, of such board shall dissent from any decision of the 
 
 .'tme, and shall desire to protect himself from the conse- ^^''^^^^"^^ 
 cjuences which may result from such decision, it shall be 
 lawful for such member to record his dissent, in cases 
 1 elating to registration, in the register, and in all other 
 cases, in the poll-book of such election, signing his name 
 to such record with his own hand, and unless he shall do 
 sc, he shall be deemed and taken to have assented to the 
 i^ecision so made. 
 
 91. If, in canvassing and estimating the votes, the num- ^vhat bauots 
 her of ballots shall be found to exceed the number of the ^^«"y ^°^^ 
 names of the voters in the poll-book, then the ballots which 
 
 shall remain in the box, after canvassing and estimating 
 as many ballots as there are such names, shall be deemed 
 and taken to be null and of no effect; * * * if any 
 ballot shall be wholly blank, then and in every such case 
 such ballots shall be deemed and taken to be null and of no . 
 effect; and in every case in which a ballot shall be de- 
 clared null and of no effect, the same shall not be can- 
 vassed, estimated or numbered,* * * * and the said 
 * " * ballot shall then be strung in the same manner 
 in which the other * * * ballots are directed to be 
 strung, but on a different twine. See P. L., p. 321, sec. 
 62. See paragraph 367, post. 
 
 92. If, in canvassing and estimating the votes, any ballot j^^g^^ ballots 
 or ballots shall be found to contain more names for any partially 
 office than there are persons to be elected to fill such office, 
 
 then in every such case the ballot or ballots shall be 
 deemed and taken to be null and of no effect, so far as 
 respects the office for which there are more names than 
 there are persons to be elected to fill such office, and no 
 further. 
 
 93. At every election the person or persons, to the num- ^^©f* votes, 
 her to be elected therein, who shall by law be qualified for f^fficient 
 
 ■^ ^ t© elect. 
 
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 Equal vote 
 renders 
 office 
 vacant. 
 
 the office or offices to be filled at such election, and for 
 whom the greatest number of votes shall have been given 
 therein for such office or offices, shall be deemed and taken 
 to be elected to such office or offices ; and whenever an 
 equal number of votes shall have been given to two or 
 more persons to fill any office for which they shall by law 
 be qualified, the said office shall be deemed and taken to 
 be vacant. 
 
 Statement of Result of Election. 
 
 Detennina- 
 tion of 
 result of 
 election, 
 f Amended, 
 P. L. 1905, 
 p. 507.] 
 
 Returns 
 canvassed 
 next day. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Huplicate 
 statements of 
 result to be 
 made in state 
 and count.v 
 electtons. 
 
 94. In every township or municipality (other than 
 cities) containing but one election district, the members of 
 the district board of election conducting any township, 
 local or charter election therein shall, upon the close of 
 the election, ascertain and determine what officers have 
 been elected, sums of money voted, or propositions adopted, 
 and the result of the election in all other particulars ; in 
 every township or municipality containing more than one 
 election district the members of the district boards of 
 election conducting any such election shall meet on the 
 day after holding the same, at the hour of two o'clock in 
 the afternoon, at the polling place in the district in which 
 the township or municipal clerk may reside, and when so 
 met shall ascertain and determine in like manner the result 
 of said election in said township or municipality ; provided, 
 that when such township or • municipality contains more 
 than two election districts, two members only from the 
 board of election of each district, to be designated by the 
 board, shall meet in like manner and ascertain the result 
 of said election as above provided ; such determination 
 shall be written out and signed by the election officers 
 making the same, and forthwith delivered to and filed by 
 the township or municipal clerk. 
 
 95. In all elections which shall ])e held for state and 
 county officers, the board 'of registry and election shall 
 make duplicate statements of the result thereof, and cer- 
 tificates to the same, in the following or like form : 
 
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 Form of Statement. 
 
 A statement of the result of an election held in the Form of 
 
 . , statement. 
 
 election district of the of m the 
 
 -, on the 
 
 day of November, in the 
 
 county of — 
 
 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and , 
 
 for a member of the senate, members of the general assem- 
 bly, a sheriff and three coroners, for said county; (or as 
 the case may be.) 
 
 The whole number of names on the register list of p°^L°^i9i2, 
 signature copy book is . 
 
 The whole number of names on the poll-book is 
 
 The whole number of ballots rejected is — . 
 
 For members of the senate. 
 
 p. 637. 
 
 
 received 
 
 votes 
 
 
 received 
 
 votes 
 
 For members 
 
 of the general assembly, 
 
 
 
 received 
 
 votes 
 
 
 received 
 
 votes 
 
 For sheriff. 
 
 
 
 
 received 
 
 votes 
 
 
 received 
 
 votes 
 
 For coroners. 
 
 
 
 
 received 
 
 votes 
 
 
 received 
 
 votes 
 
 We do certify that the foregoing is a true, full and cor- 
 rect statement of the result of the election above mentioned, 
 and that the same exhibits the whole number of the names 
 on the poll-book and of the ballots rejected, the name of 
 each person for whom any vote or votes were given for 
 any office designated for him in "such vote or votes, and 
 the number of votes given for each person for the office 
 or offices as designated for him. 
 
 In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands, 
 
 this day of November, in the year of our Lord 
 
 one thousand nine hundred and 
 
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 Board of Registry 
 and Election y 
 
 Form of 
 statements 
 in other 
 elections. 
 
 Statements 
 of result to 
 be filed with 
 proper 
 officers. 
 Amended, 
 P. L. 1911, 
 p. 723. 
 
 Making under each head a Hst of the names of all the per- 
 sons for whom any vote or votes were given for the office 
 or offices designated therein; and stating opposite to the 
 same, in words written at full length, the number of votes 
 given for each person for such office or offices, and filling 
 up all other blanks in the form above given to conform to 
 the facts of the case; and in every other election, the 
 board of registry and election shall make statements of 
 the result -thereof, and certificates to the same, in a form 
 similar to that above given, as far as the nature of such 
 election will admit. 
 
 96. The judge of election, or such one of their number 
 as the board of registry and election shall designate, shall, 
 within two days next after election, personally deliver or 
 safely transmit one of said statements of the result of 
 such election to the clerk of the county, who shall forth- 
 with file the same ; and whenever an election shall be held 
 for senator, members of assembly or for any county, 
 township, city or other municipal officers, such judge or 
 member designated shall, at the same time and with the 
 ballot-boxes, as hereinafter provided, personally deliver or 
 safely transmit the other of said statements to the clerk 
 of the township, city or municipality wherein such election 
 is held, who shall forthwith file the same; but whenever 
 an election shall be held for member of the house of repre- 
 sentatives or for electors of president and vice-president, 
 or for governor, separate statements of the result of such 
 election for representative, electors or governor shall be 
 made and certified by said board, and such judge or mem- 
 ber so designated shall within two days next after such 
 election personallv deliver or safely transmit one of said 
 statements to tj:j clerk of the county, and shall inclose, 
 seal up and transmit the other statement to the secretary 
 of state by mail, directing the same in the following man- 
 
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 ner: "To the secretary of state of New Jersey, Trenton, 
 New Jersey," and the secretary of state on receiving such 
 statement shall forthwith file the same in his office. 
 
 97. If any member of a board of registry and election 
 who shall have been appointed by such board to deliver or 
 tiansmit the statement of the result of such election shall 
 neglect or fail to deliver or safely transmit the same 
 within the time herein required, such member shall forfeit 
 and pay to the county collector of such county, for the 
 use of the county, the sum of one hundred dollars, to be 
 sued for and recovered by such collector, with costs, in 
 any court of competent jurisdiction ; and it shall be the 
 duty of the clerk of the county to certify to the county^ 
 collector the names of all members so failing to deliver or 
 transmit such statement; and the said county collector 
 shall forthwith institute proceedings ' to recover said 
 penalty. 
 
 98. If any election officer shall fail to deliver or trans- 
 mit the statements of the result of any election to the per- 
 son or place, and within the time herein required, any 
 member of the county board of elections may apply to any 
 justice of the supreme court for an order to compel the 
 immediate delivery of said statements, and the said justice, 
 upon presentation of the facts which satisfy him that the 
 said election officer has failed to deliver or transmit the 
 same as herein required, may make an order requiring the 
 immediate delivery thereof by said officer, and in case of 
 failure on the part of said officer to produce the same 
 within twenty-four hours after being serv^ed with such 
 order, the said officer shall be deemed and considered in 
 contempt of court, and shall be punished accordingly. 
 
 Penalty for 
 failure to 
 transmit or 
 deliver 
 statement. 
 
 Delivery of 
 statement 
 may be 
 ordered by- 
 justice of 
 the supreme 
 court. 
 
 Disposal of Ballot-Boxes. 
 
 99. As soon as the election shall be finished, all ballots Ballots, poii- 
 which have been cast, whether the same have been esti- pTac^^n" 
 mated and canvassed or rejected for any cause, the poll- ^'^"«*-^«^- 
 list and tally-papers * * * shall be carefully collected 
 and deposited in the ballot-box ; and such ballot-box, after 
 
58 
 
 Dispositiou being locked and bound with tape and sealed, shall, in all 
 
 of ballot- . . ^ . , . , . ,. ^ , . ; ' , 
 
 boxes in cities in this state, be immediately taken in charge by the 
 
 ^'*'^^- two clerks of election, and by them forthwith carried to 
 
 the office of the city clerk of the city in which such elec- 
 tion may be held, by the most direct route, and without 
 delay, and said clerks shall not stop at any place between 
 the polls and the city clerk's office; the clerk of such city 
 shall attend at his said office on election day, or appoint 
 one of the clerks in his office to act for him, and keep his 
 office open from the time the polls shall be closed until 
 all the ballot-boxes used at the various polls in said city 
 at such election shall have been delivered at his office ; 
 ^ the clerk of such city or his subordinate whom he may 
 have appointed to act in his stead shall enter in a book to 
 be kept for that purpose, the exact time when each ballot- 
 box may be delivered at said office, the district whence it 
 was brought, names of the clerks delivering it, and the 
 name of the police officer or other witness who may ac- 
 company them, and such other particulars as he may deem 
 important; said book shall be filed in the office of the city 
 clerk ; in all townships and municipalities other than cities, 
 such ballot-box shall remain in the township or other 
 municipality, under the care and in the custody of the 
 clerk thereof, to whom it shall be forthwith delivered by 
 the clerks of election in the manner above directed. 
 
 See paragraph 366, post, for disposition of unused bal- 
 lots and coupons. 
 
 100. Every city, township or other municipal clerk to 
 of boxes and v.hom said ballot-boxes shall be delivered, shall thereupon 
 keep the same, with th^ir contents, but shall not have the 
 keys thereof in his possession until required for the next 
 ensuing election, and shall not open or permit to be taken 
 or opened any ballot-box deposited as aforesaid for the 
 space of three months after the same has been so deposited, 
 except when he shall be called upon by some court or 
 ether tribunal authorized to try the merits of such election, 
 or to take testimony regarding the same; and after such 
 trial or investigation, it shall be the duty of the clerk to 
 have said box or boxes returned to his custody ; provided. 
 
 Disposition 
 in town- 
 ships, etc. 
 
 Preservation 
 
59 
 
 that when any election is required to be held for any 
 purpose within the time that said ballot-boxes are required 
 to remain in the custody of said clerk, it shall be lawful 
 for the judge of the circuit court of the county, upon appli- 
 cation of the city council, township committee or govern- 
 ing body of any municipality, to direct the contents thereof 
 to be removed and carefully preserved, and the said ballot- 
 boxes to be used at such election. 
 
 TOi. Any person who shall willfully obstruct or interfere Penalty for 
 with the clerk or clerks on the way from the polls to the J^^^ derls 
 office of the city clerk, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. J^^*°f^ ^^^ 
 and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not clerk's 
 exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment at 
 hard labor for anv term not exceedins^ two vears. or both. 
 
 Board of County Canvassers. 
 
 102. For all general and special elections in this state, 
 and for all local or municipal elections in the several cities 
 of this state, the county board of elections in each county 
 shall hereafter be and act as a board of county canvassers ; 
 the clerk of the county shall be the clerk of the said board. 
 
 103. Such board shall meet on the ^londay next after 
 any such election, at twelve o'clock noon, at the court 
 house of such county, at w^hich tim^ and place the clerk of 
 such county shall attend and bring with him the statements 
 of the result of such election which have been filed in his 
 oflice. 
 
 104. If the clerk of such county shall be absent at such 
 meeting, at the time appointed therefor, the board shall 
 forthwith proceed to appoint a fit person to be the clerk 
 of such board, who shall obtain such statements from the 
 office of said clerk, and before proceeding to canvass and 
 estimate the votes the chairman of the board shall admin- 
 ister to the clerk thereof, and the clerk thereof shall take 
 an oath or affirmation in the following form : 
 
 "You do swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that you 
 v.ill faithfully execute the duties of clerk of this board 
 according to law." 
 
 ISoard of 
 county 
 c-anvassers. 
 who to be. 
 
 Time of 
 meeting. 
 [A mended. 
 P. L. 1903, 
 p. 701.] 
 
 Appointment 
 of clerk if 
 county clerk 
 be absent. 
 
 Oath of 
 clerk. 
 
6o 
 
 When board 
 may adjourn 
 
 Proceedings 
 to obtain 
 missing 
 statements. 
 
 Protection 
 of state- 
 ments 
 during 
 adjournment. 
 
 Board to 
 canvass 
 votes and 
 make two 
 statements 
 of result. 
 
 ^105. If on the day appointed for the meeting of such 
 board, a major part of such board shall not attend at the 
 court house of such county at the hour of twelve o'clock, 
 noon, or if at that time the statements of the result of 
 such election from every election district in such county 
 shall not be produced, the members of the board then 
 present shall adjourn to some convenient hour on the next 
 diiy; and at the hour to which such adjournment shall have 
 been ordered, the member or members then present may 
 proceed as hereinafter directed, or may again adjourn for 
 a period not exceeding three days, at which time the mem- 
 ber or members then present shall proceed as hereinafte? 
 directed. 
 
 106. If at the time fixed for the meeting of such board 
 the statements from every election district have not been 
 filed with the clerk of the county, then such clerk shall 
 forthwith, by a special messenger or otherwise, at the ex- 
 pense of such county, obtain such statement or statements 
 as shall be lacking, in time to be produced to such board 
 at their next meeting, and for this purpose either the 
 statements directed to be filed with the county clerk or the 
 statements directed to be filed with the clerk of any town- 
 ship, city or municipality wherein such election was held, 
 or a copy certified by the secretary of state, of the state- 
 ments transmitted to him, shall be sufficient ; and the clerk 
 of such board shall lay before such board, at their subse- 
 quent meeting, all such statements and certified copies as 
 lie shall have obtained as above directed. 
 
 107. Whenever any board of county canvassers shall 
 find it necessary to adjourn, as herein provided, all state- 
 ments of the result of an election which shall have been 
 delivered to such board, or to any member thereof, shall, 
 in the presence of such board, and before it shall adjourn, 
 be securely inclosed and sealed and delivered to the county 
 clerk for safe-keeping until the next meeting of such 
 board. 
 
 108. The members of said county board of canvassers 
 shall proceed to examine the statements and copies of 
 statements which shall be produced before them and shall 
 
6i 
 
 canvass and determine the votes cast at such election ; and 
 shall forthwith make two statements of the result of such 
 election; each of which statements shall contain the name 
 of each election district, the number of names of the 
 voters on the poll-books of each election district, and of 
 the ballots rejected, and the whole number of such names 
 and rejected ballots in all of said election districts; the 
 number of votes given in each election district for each 
 person for whom any vote or votes shall have been given 
 for any office to be filled by such election, mentioning the 
 office for which each person shall have been designated 
 and the name of such person (which numbers of names 
 and numbers of votes given, and of ballots rejected, may 
 be in figures), and the whole number of votes which shall 
 have been given for each person for any such office, men- 
 tioning the office for which each person shall have been 
 designated, and the name of such person (which numbers 
 of votes and the names of persons and election districts 
 shall be in words, written at full length), and each of such 
 statements shall be certified to be true and correct by a to be 
 certificate which shall be appended to the same, signed by ^^''^'^^ 
 the members of such board making such canvass. 
 
 109. The statement and certificate shall be in the fol- 
 lowing, or like form : 
 
 *'A statement of the result of an election held in the Form of 
 
 c(amty of , on the day of November, in the ^^*^^^^** 
 
 year of our Lord one thousand hundred and , ^^"^^^lli^, 
 
 tc elect a member of the senate, members of the general p- ^39.] 
 assembly, a sheriflf and coroners of said county [naming 
 the officers as the case may be], made by the board of 
 county canvassers of said countv : 
 
62 
 
 Form of 
 certificate 
 appended to 
 statement. 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 a 
 
 m 
 a 
 
 o 
 > 
 
 II 
 
 Names of persons voted for and 
 the offices designated for each. 
 
 Names of election districts 
 and the number of vote? 
 given for each person in 
 each district. 
 
 o 
 §1 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 2 "^ 
 
 
 
 Kj 
 
 5 
 
 Tor meml>er of senate- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 For member of assemblj' 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 For coroners ... 
 
 
 Whole number of names on the.. 
 
 
 Registry List or Signature. . . . 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Copy Booli 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Number of names on the poll-booli 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 of each district 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Number of ballots rejected 
 
 
 I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, full and 
 correct statement of the result of the election above men- 
 tioned, as the same is exhibited by the statements produced 
 and laid before the board of county canvassers according 
 to law, and that the same exhibits the number of the names 
 ot the voters in the poll-books of the election districts, 
 respectively, and of the ballots rejected,- the whole number 
 o/ the names of the voters in the poll-books of the several 
 election districts, the name of each person for whom any 
 vote or votes were given, the number of votes given for 
 each person in each election district, and the whole num- 
 ber of votes given for each person for each ofifice desig- 
 nated for him, as they appear by the statements so pro- 
 duced and laid before the said board. In witness whereof. 
 I have hereunto set my hand, this — day of .. 
 
 in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 
 hundred and 
 
 Disposition 
 
 of 
 
 statements. 
 
 Chairman of the board of canvassers. 
 Attest : , Clerk." 
 
 And the blanks in the form above given shall be filled up 
 
 to conform to the facts of the case. 
 
 no. Such board shall deliver one of the said statements 
 
 to the clerk of the county, who shall fort-hwith file the 
 
Board to 
 determine 
 
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 same ; and in case of an election held for members of the 
 house of representatives, or for electors of president and 
 vice-president, or for governor, or for senator, members 
 of assembly, or for any county officers, the chairman of 
 such board shall inclose and seal up the other statement 
 and deliver or safely transmit the same so inclosed and 
 sealed up, to the secretary of state at Trenton, so that he 
 shall receive the same within three days next after the 
 meeting of such board ; and the secretary .of state shall 
 forthwith file the same ; and in case of any municipal elec- 
 tion in any city of this state the chairman of such board 
 shall forthwith deliver or safely transmit such other state- 
 ment to the clerk of such city, who shall file the same. 
 
 111. The board of county canvassers, in case of an elec- 
 tion for a member of the senate, members of the general who are 
 assembly, or for any county or city officer or officers, shall legislators, 
 proceed to determine the person or persons who shall, by ci^/J^officers 
 the greatest number of votes, have been duly elected to 
 
 the office or offices for which he or they shall have been 
 designated; and thereupon such board shall make a state- 
 ment of their determination, certified to be true and correct, 
 by a certificate appended to the same, and signed by the 
 chairman of such board, in the presence of the clerk of 
 such board; and the clerk of such board shall attest the 
 signing of the same by such chairman, by signing his name 
 thereto; and the statement of such determination, and the 
 certificate thereto, shall be annexed to the statement of 
 the result of the election, and shall be delivered therewith 
 to the clerk of the county and filed in his office; in case 
 of any election for any city officer or officers, another copy 
 01 such determination, as to such officer or officers, shall 
 be made, signed and attested in manner aforesaid and 
 forthwith filed with the clerk of such city. 
 
 112. The statement of the determination of such board statement 
 shall be in the following or like form : ^ion."™'"^' 
 
 "A statement of the determination of the board of county 
 canvassers relative to an election held in the county of 
 
 on the day of November, in the year of our 
 
 Lx)rd one thousand hundred and , for the 
 
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 Form of 
 statement In 
 special 
 elections. 
 
 In certain 
 cases board 
 to make 
 statement 
 and de- 
 termination. 
 
 In other 
 cases to make 
 statement 
 only. 
 
 County 
 clerk to 
 deliver 
 certified 
 copies of de- 
 termination 
 to persons 
 elected. 
 
 election of a member of the senate, members of the gen- 
 eral assembly of this state, and a sheriff and coroners for 
 said county (naming the officers, as the case may be). 
 
 The said board do determine that at the said election, 
 
 was duly elected a member of the senate of this 
 
 state ; were duly elected members of the general 
 
 assembly ; was duly elected sheriff, and were 
 
 duly elected coroners for said county (as the case may be). 
 
 1 do certify that the foregoing is a true, full and correct 
 statement of the determination of the board of canvassers 
 therein mentioned. 
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 
 
 day of November, in the year of our Lord one 
 
 thousand hundred and . 
 
 Chairman of the board of canvassers. 
 
 Attest: , Clerk." 
 
 And in case of a special election to fill a vacancy or 
 vacancies, the statement of the determination of such 
 board, and the certificate thereof, shall be in a form sim- 
 ilar to that above given, as far as the nature of the case 
 will admit. 
 
 113. The board of county canvassers in the case of an 
 election for a member of the senate, members of the gen- 
 eral assembly, county or municipal officers, or any of 
 them, shall make a statement of the result thereof, and 
 their determination as to the person or persons who shall 
 be elected therein; and in all other cases shall make only 
 a statement of the result of the election in such county 
 upon the statements and copies of statements which shall 
 be produced and laid before the board, as directed in this 
 act. 
 
 1 14. The clerk of such county, in the case of an election 
 for senator, members of the assembly, or any county officer, 
 shall make as many copies of the statement of the deter- 
 mination of such board, and the certificate appended 
 tl.ereto, as may be necessary, and shall certify such copies 
 to be true, full and correct, by a certificate appended to 
 each of them, and shall sign his name thereto, and affix 
 thereto the seal of the county, and shall without delay 
 
6s 
 
 deliver one of the same to each person who shall be so 
 elected and shall inclose, seal up and transmit another 
 copy of the same to the secretary of state at Trenton, 
 within five days next after the meeting of such board; and 
 the said secretary shall file the same in his office, 
 
 115. The senate and general assembly shall convene and Certified 
 hold their sessions in the state house, at Trenton; and in facirev"™ 
 the organization of each house the certified copies of the gfe^tion^of 
 aforesaid statements of the determination of such board senators and 
 shall be deemed and taken to be prima facie evidence of 
 
 the right of the persons therein mentioned to seats in the 
 houses, respectively, to which they shall have been so de- 
 termined to be elected. 
 
 116. All the statements and copies of statements which Statements 
 shall be produced and laid before such board shall, by such produced 
 board, be delivered to the clerk of such county, and shall to be filed m 
 be by him filed in his office. ciTrk's office. 
 
 117. All the proceedings of such boards shall be open 
 
 111- 11. -ri . ^ . Proceedings 
 
 and public, and a decision of the major part of the mem- of board 
 
 bers thereof, who shall be present at such meeting thereof, ma'joSt^ to 
 
 shall be deemed and taken to be the decision of such board ; decide, 
 
 and if any member shall dissent from a decision of the ^. 
 
 ",,,,. Dissent may 
 
 board, and shall desire to protect himself against any con- be filed with 
 sequences which may result from such decision, he shall *^"°*^ ^^^^^ 
 state his dissent in writing, and deliver the same to the 
 clerk of such county, who shall file the same in his office. 
 
 Board of State Canvassers. 
 
 118. In case of any election for one or more members Secretary of 
 of the house of representatives, or for electors of president obUln**^ 
 and vice-president, or for governor, if it shall so happen ^atemfnts. 
 that the secretary of state shall not, on or before the 
 
 seventh day after the time appointed for the meeting of 
 the board of canvassers in the several counties, have re- 
 ceived the statements of the result of such election in 
 every county, which are hereinbefore directed to be deliv- 
 ered or transmitted to him by the chairman of such board, 
 such secretary shall forthwith, by a special messenger or 
 
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 Duty of 
 secretary of 
 state as to 
 defective 
 statements. 
 
 Statements 
 to be laid 
 before state 
 board of 
 canvassers. 
 
 State board 
 of canvass- 
 ers, how 
 consisted and 
 wben to meet. 
 
 Their 
 duty. 
 
 otherwise, obtain such statement or statements as are lack- 
 ing; and for this purpose a copy of the statement directed 
 to be filed with the clerk of the county, certified by such 
 clerk, shall be sufficient; and whenever and so soon as 
 such secretary shall receive or obtain any statement of 
 the. result of such election, in any county, in the manner 
 hereinbefore provided for, he shall ascertain whether or 
 not such statement includes the statement of the result of 
 such election in every election district of such county; and 
 if it shall appear to him that the statement of the result 
 of such election in any election district is not exhibited by 
 or included in the statement of the result of such election, 
 in such county, he shall forthwith ascertain whether or not 
 a copy of such lacking statement has been received in his 
 office ; and if it shall appear to him that such copy has not 
 been so received, he shall forthwith, by special messenger 
 or otherwise, obtain a copy of the statement directed to 
 be filed with the clerk of such county, certified by such 
 cierk, which shall be sufficient; and such secretary shall, on 
 the twenty-first day next after the day of such election, 
 pioduce and lay before the board of state canvassers all 
 such statements and copies as shall relate to such election, 
 which shall have been received or obtained by him as 
 hereinbefore provided for. 
 
 1 19. The governor shall attend at Trenton on the twenty- 
 first day next after the day of election, and summon to 
 attend him on that day four or more of the members of 
 the senate, provided said members of the senate shall 
 represent each political party, for the purpose of canvass- 
 ing and estimating the votes given for each person for 
 v/hom any vote or votes shall have been given for one or 
 more members of the house of representatives, or for 
 electors of president and vice-president, or for governor, 
 and of determining and declaring the person or persons 
 who shall, by the greatest number of votes, have been 
 duly elected to such office or offices ; and such members of 
 the senate as shall be summoned shall attend at Trenton 
 on that day for that purpose ; they shall meet in the cham- 
 ber of the senate, or some other convenient place at Tren- 
 
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 ton, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, and shall 
 constitute a board of state canvassers: and the governor who to b^ 
 
 ^ chairman > 
 
 shall be the chairman thereof, and the secretary of state and eierk. 
 shall be the clerk thereof. 
 
 1 20. The chairman of such board shall administer to ^^^^ ^^ 
 each member thereof, and each member thereof shall take, members of 
 an oath or affirmation in the following form : 
 
 "You do swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that you 
 will faithfully and impartially execute the duties of a mem- 
 ber of this board according to law ;" and thereupon one of 
 the members of such board, to be appointed by such board 
 for that purpose, shall administer to the chairman thereof 
 an oath or affirmation in the same form as that which shall 
 have been taken by the other members. 
 
 121. If the secretary of state shalKbe absent from such ^^ absence of 
 
 -^ , secretary of 
 
 meeting at the time appointed therefor, such board shall state a clerk 
 
 forthwith, after the oaths or affirmations shall have been ^pointed. 
 
 administered and taken, proceed to appoint a fit person to 
 
 be the clerk of such board; and before proceeding to 
 
 canvass and estimate the votes, the chairman of such board 
 
 shall administer to the clerk thereof, and such clerk shall 
 
 t?.ke, an oath or affirmation in the following form : 
 
 "You do swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that you ^j^J^^ °^ 
 will faithfully execute the duties of clerk of this board.'' 
 
 122. Such board shall consist of at least five persons, Vacancies iu 
 
 . . ^ state boards 
 
 mcludmg the chairman thereof; and if a number of the how filled. ;:• 
 members of the senate, who shall have been summoned as 
 members of such board, sufficient to constitute such board, 
 shall not attend the meeting thereof, it shall be the duty 
 of the governor to summon as miembers of siich board, as 
 many fit persons, who shall possess the qualifications re- 
 quired for members of the senate, as shall be necessary 
 to complete the number required to constitute such board. 
 
 123. The secretary of state shall thereupon produce and ^. 
 
 1 1 r 1 1 1 11 f f S'ecretary of 
 
 lay before such board all statements and copies relating state to 
 to such election which he shall have received or obtained ; statements 
 and such board shall then forthwith proceed to make a ?^^^^® ^*^*® 
 
 board. 
 
 statement of the result of such election in the state ; which 
 statement shall contain the whole number of the names 
 
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 state board 
 to make and 
 certify 
 
 statement of 
 result. 
 
 To deter- 
 mine and 
 certify 
 who are 
 elected. 
 
 of the voters in all the poll-books in the state, the names 
 of all the persons for whom any vote or votes shall have 
 been given for any office or offices to be filled at such 
 election, and the whole number of the votes which shall 
 have been given to each person for any such office or 
 offices, mentioning the office or offices for which each 
 person shall have been designated, and shall contain the 
 name of each county, the number of names in the poll- 
 books in the counties respectively, the number of votes 
 given for each person in each county for any such office 
 or offices ; and in such statement the name of each person 
 for whom any vote or votes shall have been given, the 
 whole number of votes given for each person, and the 
 name of each county, shall be in words written at full 
 length ; and the whole number of the names of the voters 
 in all the poll-books in the state, the number of the names 
 in the poll-books in the counties respectively, and the 
 number of votes given for each person in each county, 
 may be in figures, and such statement shall be certified to 
 be true and correct, by a certificate appended to the same ; 
 and the chairman of such board shall sign his name 
 thereto, in the presence of the clerk of the board, and 
 such clerk shall attest the signing of the same by such 
 chairman by signing his name thereto; and the statement 
 and certificate appended thereto shall be in a form similar 
 to that hereinbefore prescribed for the board of county 
 canvassers, as far as the nature of such election will 
 admit ; and when the statement and certificate above men- 
 tioned shall have been made and subscribed, such board 
 shall proceed to determine the person or persons who 
 shall, by the greatest number of votes, have been duly 
 elected to the office or offices for which he or they shall 
 have been designated; and thereupon such board shall 
 make a statement of their determination; and such state- 
 ment shall be certified to be true and correct by a certifi- 
 cate which shall be appended to the same; and the chair- 
 man of such board shall sign his name thereto, in the pres- 
 ence of the clerk thereof, and such clerk shall attest the 
 signing of the same by such chairman by signing his 
 
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 name thereto; and the statement of such determination, 
 
 and the certificate appended thereto, shall be in a form 
 
 similar to that hereinbefore prescribed for the board of 
 
 county canvassers, as far as the nature of such election 
 
 will admit, and shall be annexed to the statement of the 
 
 result of such election; and both of such statements and ,^ateinont3 
 
 certificates shall forthwith be delivered to the secretary etp.^ to be 
 
 of state, who shall file the same in his office. 
 
 124. The clerk or member of the board of election of pissing 
 
 . . . . statements. 
 
 any election district, the clerk or the chairman of the to be 
 board of canvassers of any county, or any other person meienges. 
 who shall be in possession of any statement, or copy 
 ol any statement, which shall have been made and sub- 
 scribed under, the provisions of this act, shall forthwith, 
 en application by any messenger who shall have been dis- 
 patched for the same by the secretary of state, deliver to 
 such messenger such statement or copy; and the member 
 of the board of election of any election district, or any 
 clerk or other person who shall be in possession of any 
 statement, or copy of any statement, which shall have been 
 made and subscribed under the provisions of this act, shall 
 forthwith, on application by any messenger who shall have 
 been dispatched for the same by the clerk of such county, 
 deliver to such messenger such statement or copy and such commS?^^^ 
 messenger, in either case, shall be commissioned as such in Jrt^ing ^^ 
 writing, under the hand and official seal of the officer by 
 whom he shall have been dispatched, and shall exhibit his 
 commission to the person to whom he shall apply for such 
 statement or copy; and when he shall have obtained such 
 statement or copy shall forthwith deliver the same to the 
 officer who shall have dispatched him. 
 
 125. If the secretary of state shall neglect to produce sta[e^may°^ 
 and lay before such board any such statement or copy ■■« ^"°*- 
 
 . "^ ^-^ moned to 
 
 received or obtamed by him, or shall withhold any such produce 
 statement or copy, the chairman of such board shall forth- 
 with summon such secretary to appear and produce and 
 lay before the board such statement or copy, and thereupon 
 such secretary shall forthwith produce and lay the same 
 before such board. 
 
 ^tatemrents. 
 
70 
 
 Statement 
 of result by 
 state board, 
 how made. 
 
 Offi(|ial 
 nqtlflcatiou 
 of election 
 by secretary 
 of state. 
 
 All state- 
 ments filed 
 in ofiice of 
 secretary 
 of state. 
 
 Proceedings 
 of state 
 board to be 
 public. 
 
 Dissent may 
 be filed. 
 
 Certification 
 of election 
 of members 
 of the 
 house of 
 represent- 
 atives. 
 
 126. Such board shall make the statement of the result 
 of such election in the state, and their determination as to 
 the person or persons who shall have been elected therein 
 upon the statements of the result of such election, or the 
 copies of such statements which shall have been made by 
 the board of county canvassers in the several counties, 
 and laid before such board ; provided, that if it shall appear, 
 by any such statement from any county, that the state- 
 ment of the result of such election in any election district 
 of such county is not exhibited by or included in such 
 statement, such board shall give full force and effect to 
 the statement of the result of such election in such dic- 
 trict, or the copy of such statement, which shall be laid 
 before such board by the secretary of state as is herein- 
 before directed. 
 
 127. The secretary of state shall make as many copies of 
 the statement of the determination of such board, and the 
 certificate thereto, as there shall be persons thereby de- 
 clared to be elected; and shall certify such copies to be 
 true, full and correct, by a certificate appended to each, 
 and shall sign his name thereto and affix thereto the seal 
 of the state, and shall without delay, deliver one of the 
 same to each of the persons who shall be so elected. 
 
 128. All the statements and copies of statements which 
 shall have been produced and laid before such board shall 
 be delivered to the secretary of state, and be by him filed 
 in his office. 
 
 129. The proceedings of such board shall be open and 
 public, and the decision of a majority of the members 
 thereof shall be deemed and taken to be the decision 
 thereof; and if any member shall dissent from such deci- 
 sion, and shall desire to protect himself against any conse- 
 quences which may result therefrom, he shall state his 
 dissent in writing, and deliver the same to the secretary of 
 state, who shall file the same in his office. 
 
 130. In case of an election for one or more members of 
 the house of representatives, the secretary of state shall 
 prepare a general certificate of the election of such mem- 
 ber or members, and lay the same before the governor, 
 
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 who shall sign his name thereto, in the presence of such 
 secretary; and such secretary shall attest the signing of 
 the name by the governor by signing his name thereto, 
 and shall thereupon affix the seal of the state thereto, and 
 transmit the same forthwith to the clerk of the house of 
 representatives, if they shall then be in session, and if 
 not in session, then at their first meeting; and in case of 
 an election for electors of president and vice-president of 
 the United States, such secretary shall prepare a general 
 cfirtificate of the election of such electors, and lay the 
 same before the governor, who shall sign his name thereto, 
 in the presence of such secretary; and such secretary 
 shall attest the signing of the same by the governor, by 
 signing his name thereto, and shall thereupon affix the 
 seal of the state thereto, and deliver the same, to the 
 president of the college of electors of this state, on the 
 day and at the time and place appointed for the meeting 
 of such college. 
 
 Of the 
 election of 
 presidential 
 electors. 
 
 The Electoral College. 
 
 131. The electors of president and vice-president shall Meeting of 
 convene at the state house at Trenton, on the day appointed fS^^^^^ 
 by congress for that purpose, at the hour of three o'clock electors. 
 
 in the afternoon of that day, and constitute an electoral 
 college ; and, after choosing a president and secretary from 
 their own body, shall proceed to perform the duties re- 
 quired of ithem by the constitution and laws of the United 
 States. 
 
 132. When any vacancy shall happen in the college of vacancy in 
 electors of this state or when any elector shall fail to at- coUege, 
 tend, by the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon of the ^^"^ ^"^'^• 
 day fixed by the congress of the United States for the 
 meeting of the college of electors, at the place of holding 
 
 such meeting, those of the said electors who shall be assem- 
 bled at the said hour and place shall immediately after 
 that hour proceed to fill, by a majority of votes, all such 
 vacancies in the electoral college; provided, that if the 
 members of the electoral college shall have been nominated 
 
legislature. 
 
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 and elected as representing different political parties, any 
 vacancy occurring shall be filled by the elector or electors 
 representing the same political party as the absent elector ; 
 
 ^ and if there shall be no elector present representing the 
 same political party as the absent elector, then such 
 
 . vacancy shall be filled by a majority of the electors pres- 
 ent, who shall choose some person of the political party 
 which the absent elector represents. 
 
 Elections to Fill Vacancies. 
 
 Filling of 
 
 vacancies^ in j^^. Whenever any vacancy shall happen in the rep- 
 resentation of any county in the senate or general assem- 
 bly, the house in which such vacancy happens shall direct 
 a writ of election for supplying the same, unless such house 
 shall be of the opinion that the services of a person in the 
 office then vacant will not be required during the unex- 
 pired period of the legislative year; but if such vacancy 
 happens during the recess of the legislature, or after the 
 annual election, and not less than fifteen 3ays before the 
 commencement of the legislative year (or a shorter time 
 before such commencement, if the board of chosen free- 
 holders make the requirement hereafter mentioned), it 
 shall be the duty of the governor forthwith to issue a writ 
 of election to fill the said vacancy, unless he shall be of 
 opinion that the services of a person in the office then 
 vacant will not be required during the legislative year, or 
 the residue thereof; but the neglect of the governor to 
 issue a writ for filling such vacancy shall not preclude the 
 house in which such vacancy may have happened from 
 causing the same to be filled, if they judge it advisable; 
 provided, that if the board of chosen freeholders of such 
 county shall signify in writing to the governor, in case 
 such vacancy occurs during the recess of the legislature, 
 or after the annual election, and before the commence- 
 ment of the legislative year, or to such house, when in 
 session, the desire of such board that the vacancy shall 
 be filled, then such house, or the governor, as the case 
 may be, shall forthwith, after such signification, issue such 
 v/rit. 
 
134- If any person who shall be elected a member of the 
 senate or general assembly of this state shall neglect or 
 refuse, for ten days next after the commencement of the 
 session of such house, to take his seat therein, or to send 
 to such house a satisfactory excuse, or shall, during any 
 session of such house, be absent unremittingly for ten days 
 (unless expressly excused by such house from attendance 
 thereon), or shall remove from and cease to be a resident 
 of the state, or of the county for which he may have been 
 elected, his office shall be deemed vacant. 
 
 135. Whenever any vacancy or vacancies shall happen 
 in the representation of this state in the house of repre- 
 sentatives, it shall be the duty of the governor forthwith 
 to issue a writ of election to fill such vacancy or vacancies, 
 unless the term of service for which the person or persons 
 whose office or offices shall become vacant will expire 
 within two months next after the happening of such va- 
 cancy or vacancies. 
 
 136. Every writ of election which shall be issued under 
 the provisions of this act shall be of the nature of a proc- 
 lamation, and be signed by the governor, or by the presi- 
 dent of the senate, or the speaker of the house of assem- 
 bly, as the case may be, and shall specify the cause and 
 purpose of such election, the name of the officer in whose 
 office the vacancy has occurred, the day on which a special 
 primary election shall be held, which shall be not less than 
 thirty-one nor more than forty days following the date of 
 such proclamation, and the day on which the special elec- 
 tion shall be held, which shall be not less than fourteen 
 nor more than twenty days following the day of the spe- 
 cial primary election. 
 
 137. Every such writ shall, by the officer issuing the 
 same, be delivered forthwith to the secretary of state, who 
 shall forthwith affix thereto the seal of this state, and 
 file the same in his office ; and in case such vacancy or 
 vacancies shall have happened in the representation of any 
 county, in the senate or assembly, he shall make, or cause 
 to be made, a copy of such writ, certify the same to be 
 true and correct under his hand, and cause such copy thus 
 
 What 
 
 constitutes 
 a vacancy in 
 senate of 
 general 
 assembly. 
 
 Vacancy in 
 liouse of rep- 
 resenta- 
 tives, 
 how filled. 
 
 Nature and 
 form of 
 writ of 
 election to 
 fill vacancy. 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1913, 
 p. — .] 
 
 Duties of 
 secretary of 
 state as to 
 writ of 
 election. 
 
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 Duty of 
 county clerk 
 as to writ 
 of election. 
 
 Vacancy in 
 county oflace, 
 how filled. 
 
 Special 
 elections, 
 how 
 conducted. 
 
 certified to be delivered to the clerk of such county, and 
 in case such vacancy or vacancies shall have happened in 
 the representation of this state in the house of represen- 
 tatives, he shall cause as many copies of such writ to be 
 made as there shall be counties or parts of counties in 
 such vacant congressional district or districts, certify each 
 of the same to be true and correct under his hand, and 
 cause one of such copies to be delivered to the clerk of 
 each of said counties. 
 
 138. The clerk of each of said counties shall, forthwith 
 after the receipt of any such copy, cause the same to be 
 published at least once a week, until the time of such elec- 
 tion, in at least four of the newspapers which shd^l be 
 printed or published in such county ; and if such election 
 shall be held to fill a vacancy or vacancies in the repre- 
 sentation of such county in the senate or assembly, such 
 publication shall be made at the expense of such county ; 
 and if such election shall be held to fill a vacancy or 
 vacancies in the house of representatives, such publication 
 shall be made at the expense of this state. 
 
 139. Any vacancy happening in the office of sheriff, 
 coroner, clerk, register or surrogate of any county, shall 
 be supplied at the general election next succeeding the hap- 
 pening thereof, unless such vacancy shall happen within 
 fifteen days next preceding such election, in which case 
 such vacancy shall be supplied at the second succeeding 
 general election. 
 
 140. Every special election shall be conducted by the 
 same election officers and in the same manner as the gen- 
 eral election is or may be conducted ; nominations shall be 
 made for the offices to be filled at such special election in 
 the manner herein provided for the nomination for such 
 offices at the general election, and the register used at the 
 election next preceding such special election shall be used 
 thereat, subject to revision and correction in the same 
 manner as is herein provided for the revision and correc- 
 tion of the register at charter or local elections, with such 
 modifications, if any, as to the times of meeting of the 
 
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 registry boards, as the county board of elections may deem 
 necessary. 
 
 Contested Elections for Governor. 
 
 141. Any person intending to contest the election of contested 
 governor, shall, within thirty days next after such election, election of 
 give notice in writing to the person whose election he in- 
 tends to contest, stating sucli intention, and setting forth 
 
 the facts, charges and specifications upon which he means 
 to rely; which notice shall be delivered to such person, 
 or be left open at his usual place of residence, with a 
 member of the family over the age of fourteen years. 
 
 142. The said contestant shall address and cause to Petition to 
 
 . . , . , be delivered 
 
 be delivered to the president of the senate as soon as that to president 
 body shall be organized by the election of a president, a ^^ senate, 
 petition in writing, setting forth that the said petitioner 
 intends to contest the said election of governor, and the 
 facts, charges and specifications upon* which he means to 
 rely, and praying that a joint committee of the two houses 
 of the legislature may be appointed to try the same ; which 
 petition shall be accompanied by the affidavit of the peti- 
 tioner that the facts, matters and things in said petition 
 contained are true, as he verily believes; and shall be also 
 accompanied by due proof that the notice mentioned in 
 the preceding section has been given as is therein directed. 
 
 143. Upon the receipt of such petition, verification and President 
 proof, the said president shall immediately give informa- notify both 
 tion thereof to both houses of the legislature, who shall, fegisSture. 
 on a day and hour to be agreed upon between them, not 
 exceeding ten days from the delivery of such petition, 
 convene in the senate chamber, and proceed to appoint 
 
 such committee. 
 
 144. The president of the senate shall preside at such Selection 
 
 7 '^ of names 
 
 meeting ; the names of the members of each house shall be for joint 
 called over, and thereupon the names of the members of 
 the senate present shall be written on distinct pieces of 
 paper, as nearly similar as may be, and each rolled up and 
 put into a box by the clerk of the assembly, and after being 
 
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 Process of 
 perfecting 
 joint 
 committee. 
 
 Oath. 
 
 shaken and intermixed, shall be placed on the president's 
 table ; and the secretary of the senate shall then draw from 
 the said box the papers so rolled up, and deliver them 
 singly to the speaker of the house of assembly, who shall 
 open and read them aloud as he receives them, and deliver 
 them singly to the president of the senate, who shall place 
 them open on the table; and the clerk of the house shall 
 take down the names as they are so called in writing, until 
 the number of ten names be drawn, when the drawing 
 shall cease ; the names of all the members of the house of 
 assembly who are present shall then, in like manner, be 
 vrritten on similar distinct pieces of paper, and each rolled 
 up and put into a box by the secretary of the senate, and 
 after being shaken and intermixed, shall be placed on the 
 president's table; and the clerk of the house shall then 
 draw from the said box the papers so rolled up, and deliver 
 them singly to the president of the senate, who shall open 
 and read them aloud as he receives them, and deliver them 
 singly to the speaks of the house, who shall place them 
 open on the table, and the secretary of the senate shall 
 take down the names as they are so called, in writing, 
 until the number of twenty-nine names shall be drawn, 
 when the drawing shall cease. 
 
 145. When the names of ten members of the senate and 
 twenty-nine members of the house of assembly shall have 
 been so drawn, a list of the members so selected shall be 
 given to each of the parties, or their counsel, who shall 
 immediately withdraw to some adjoining room, with a 
 clerk or member appointed by the joint vote of the mem- 
 bers present, where they shall proceed alternately to strike 
 oflf the names upon the said list, the contestant striking 
 first, until the number shall be reduced to four members 
 of the senate and nine members of the house of assembly ; 
 and within one hour from the time of so withdrawing, 
 shall deliver to the president of the senate the names of 
 the said thirteen members remaining on the list, who shall 
 constitute a committee to try the matter in controversy, 
 and shall respectively take an oath or affirmation, to be 
 administered by the president of the senate, to try the 
 
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 matter of the petition, and to give true judgment thereon 
 according to evidence; and the time and place for the 
 meeting of the select committee so appointed shall then 
 be directed by the joint vote of the members of both 
 houses, which shall be within twenty-four hours of the 
 appointment. 
 
 146. As soon as the list shall have been delivered to the 
 parties aforesaid, the clerk of the house of assembly shall 
 proceed to draw out, one by one,' the names of the remain- 
 ing members of the senate and deliver them singly to the 
 speaker of the house, who shall unfold and read them 
 aloud; and then the secretary of the senate shall in like 
 manner draw out the names of the remaining members of 
 the house of assembly and deliver them singly to the presi- 
 dent of the senate, who shall unfold and read them aloud ; 
 and if any unfairness or mistake shall be discovered 
 therein, then the whole proceeding shall be set aside, and 
 the business be renewed in manner and form as herein- 
 before directed. 
 
 147. The committee so chosen shall, on the first meet- 
 ing, elect a chairman from among themselves, and some 
 competent person as clerk, and in case of the sickness, 
 death, resignation or inability to act of either, may choose 
 another in his place ; and in case of the refusal or inability 
 of any member of the committee so chosen to act, the com- 
 mittee shall, by a majority of votes, fill such vacancy by 
 choosing a member to supply his place, if he be a senator, 
 from the senate; if a member of the assembly, from the 
 house of assembly; provided, that no member who was 
 stricken from the list of names drawn shall be eligible to 
 be chosen; and provided, that such vacancy shall be filled 
 before the committee shall have entered upon the hearing 
 of the case. 
 
 148. The said committee shall sit from day to day, Sun- 
 days excepted, and attend exclusively to the business be- 
 fore them until they shall have finally decided the case. 
 
 149. The said committee shall have power to send for 
 persons, papers and records, to examine all witnesses who 
 may come before them, upon oath or affirmation, to be ad- 
 
 Balance of 
 names 
 drawn and 
 mistakes • 
 corrected. 
 
 Organiza- 
 tion of 
 committee. 
 
 Sessions 
 continued 
 from day 
 to day. 
 
 Power of 
 committee. 
 
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 Ltetermina- 
 tion of 
 committee to 
 be recorded 
 on journal 
 of senate 
 and house. 
 
 Proceedings 
 public. 
 
 Witness fees, 
 clerk's com- 
 pensation, 
 expenses. 
 
 ministered by the chairman; and any person guilty of 
 'taking a false oath or affirmation before them, or of pro- 
 curing another to do so, shall, upon conviction, be liable 
 tc the same punishment as persons convicted of perjury 
 are liable to by law; the committee may require the pro- 
 duction of ballot-boxes with their contents, and may 
 examine and recount, if necessary, the ballots cast in any 
 district or districts. 
 
 150. All determinations of the said committee shall be 
 by a majority of votes; as soon as the said committee 
 shall have determined whether the election or return re- 
 ferred to them is legal and valid, or the contrary, and who, 
 if anyone, is duly elected to the said office of governor, 
 the chairman shall make two reports thereof in writing, 
 one of which he shall deliver to the president of the senate 
 and the other to the speaker of the house of assembly 
 which reports shall be entered on the journal of the respec- 
 tive houses, and shall be final and conclusive, and the 
 person adjudged to be elected shall be entitled to the office; 
 and if no one shall be adjudged to be elected, then the 
 office shall be declared vacant. 
 
 151. The proceedings of the committee shall be con- 
 ducted publicly; the parties shall be at liberty to appear 
 before them in person, or by counsel, and examine and 
 cross-examine the witnesses produced, and be heard upon 
 the questions- that arise in the case. 
 
 152. Witnesses attending by order of the committee 
 shall have the same fees as are allowed at law ; the clerk 
 of the committee shall be allowed compensation at the rate 
 of ten dollars per diem, but no fees ; and all expenses in- 
 curred shall be taxed by the committee and paid by the 
 treasurer on the certificate of the chairman. 
 
 Contested Elections for Members of the Legislature and 
 Congress. 
 
 Notice of 153. If any person shall intend to contest the right of 
 
 eSon ""ot any person who shall have been declared to be duly elected 
 
 legislator or member of the senate, a member of the general assembly 
 
 congressman. 
 
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 or a member of the house of representatives of the United 
 States, to a seat in the house of which he shall have been 
 declared to be elected a member, the person intending shall, 
 within thirty days next after the day of such election, give 
 r.otice in writing of such intention to the person whose seat 
 he shall intend to contest; which notice shall be delivered 
 to such person, or shall be left open at his usual place of 
 residence, with one of the family above the age of four- 
 teen years, and such notice shall particularly set forth the 
 ground or grounds on which such seat will be contested. 
 
 154. The judges of the court of common pleas, the com- ^^'}^ ^^^ 
 missioners to take bail and affidavits in the supreme court, testimony 
 
 pTi/i issiip 
 
 and the mast "s in chancery, respectively, shall have power, f^jubpoenas 
 
 and are hereby required at any time, on application to nesseT^" 
 
 them by any person who shall intend to contest the right 
 
 to a seat as above mentioned, or whose right to a seat 
 
 shall be contested, to issue a subpoena or subpoenas to any 
 
 person or persons whose testimony the person so applying 
 
 shall be desirous to take, and to appoint some time, not 
 
 less than ten nor more than twenty days after such appli- ^l^^l to^be 
 
 cation shall be made to him, and some place for the exami- fl^ed for 
 
 examining 
 
 nation of such person or persons ; provided, that no officer witnesses. 
 shall issue any such subpoena or appoint such time, unless 
 He shall be satisfied that such notice has been given as is 
 directed in the preceding section of this act. 
 
 155. When such time and place shall have been ap- time^and 
 pointed, the person who shall have made such application examination 
 shall forthwith give at least eight days' notice of such time to be given, 
 and place, and of the name of the officer who is to take 
 
 the testimony, to the opposite party ; which notice shall be 
 in writing, and shall contain the name or names of the 
 witness or witnesses intended to be examined, and shall 
 be given in the same manner as the notice of contest of 
 such election hereinbefore mentioned is directed to be 
 given. 
 
 156. At the time and place which shall have been so ap- how taken.' 
 pointed, the officer appointing them shall attend and take 
 
 the deposition or depositions of such person or persons as 
 
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 shall appear before him; which deposition or depositions 
 shall be taken in writing, and shall be signed by the per- 
 son or persons, respectively, who shall be examined; pro- 
 7.'ided, that such officer shall not proceed to take the testi- 
 m.ony of any person unless he shall be satisfied that such 
 notice has been given, as is hereinbefore directed, and 
 that he shall take the testimony of no other person than 
 such as shall be mentioned in such notice ; and that no tes- 
 timony shall be taken which shall not relate to some ground 
 of contest specified in the notice which shall have been 
 given, as is hereinbefore directed. 
 
 Depositions, 
 how disposed 
 of. 
 
 157. The officer who shall take any such deposition or 
 depositions shall certify the same under his hand and shall 
 inclose, seal up and transmit or deliver the same, in case 
 the intended contest shall relate to a seat in the senate, to 
 the president of that body ; in case it shall relate to a seat 
 in the general assembly, then to the speaker of that body, 
 and in case it shall relate to a seat in the house of repre- 
 sentatives of the United States, then to the speaker of 
 that body. 
 
 Penalty for 
 not obeying 
 subpoena. 
 
 Proceedings 
 on attach- 
 ment for 
 contempt. 
 
 158. It shall be the duty of every person upon whom .a 
 subpoena, issued under and by virtue of this act, shall have 
 been served, and to whom the lawful fees shall have been 
 paid or tendered, to obey the command of such subpoena, 
 under the penalty of fifty dollars, to be sued for and re- 
 covered, with costs, in an action of debt, before any court 
 of competent jurisdiction, by the person on whose -appli- 
 cation such subpoena shall have been issued; proznded, 
 that no person shall in any case be required to attend any 
 such examination as a witness out of the county in which 
 he resides ; and if any person duly subpoenaed as afore- 
 said shall neglect or refuse to obey the command of such 
 subpoena, it shall be lawful for any justice of the supreme 
 court or judge of the court of common pleas, on due proof 
 by affidavit of the service of a subpoena on such witness, 
 and of the payment of his legal fees, and of his refusal or 
 
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 neglect to obey the command of said subpoena as afore- 
 said, to issue an attachment against such person to bring 
 him before said justice or judge; and the said justice or 
 judge shall have power to proceed against said witness as 
 for a contempt of said court. 
 
 Recount of Votes. 
 
 159. Whenever any candidate at any election shall have (.g^^^jj^^^gg 
 1 eason to believe that an error has been made by any board may apply 
 
 , J for recount. 
 
 of elections or of canvassers m countmg the vote or de- 
 claring the vote of such election, or whenever any citizen 
 shall have reason to believe that an error has been made 
 by any board of elections or of canvassers in counting the 
 vote or declaring the result of any election upon any refer- 
 endum or question submitted to the electors, whereby the 
 result of such election has been changed, such candidate 
 or such citizen may, within ten days, after such election, 
 apply to any Justice of the Supreme Court, who shall be p^^J^^^^i^gog^ 
 authorized to order and cause, upon such terms as he may p- ^i-l 
 deem proper, a recount of the whole or such part of the 
 \otes as he may determine, to be publicly made under his 
 direction by the county board of elections, after due notice 
 by such candidate to the parties interested of the time and 
 place of such recount ; and. if it shall appear upon such if error 
 recount that an error has been made sufficient to change ^^g^f® 
 the result of such election, then such Justice in case of justice to 
 candidates shall revoke the certificates of election already certificate 
 issued to any person, and shall issue in its place another ^^^ ^^^^ 
 certificate in favor of the party who shall be found to 
 have received a majority of the votes cast at such election ; 
 and in case of referendums or questions shall make a cer- jjj ^ase of 
 tificate that the result of such election be corrected ; which referendum, 
 certificates shall supersede all others and entitle the holder 
 thereof to the same rights and privileges as if said cer- 
 tificates had been originally issued by the canvassing board ; 
 said Justice shall have power to decide all disputed ques- 
 
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 Applica- 
 tion. 
 
 Proviso, 
 
 New cer- 
 tificate to be 
 filed and 
 certified, 
 copies made, 
 etc. 
 
 Expenses of 
 recount, how 
 provided for. 
 
 tions which the board shall fail to decide by a majority 
 vote thereof, (a) 
 
 159b. The foregoing provisions shall apply to any elec- 
 tion held upon any referendum or question at the last gen- 
 eral election ; provided, application shall be made for such 
 recount v\rithin thirty days after the passage of this act. 
 
 160. Whenever any such certificate shall be issued by 
 any justice of' the supreme' court, the same shall be filed 
 with the clerk of the county or municipality in and for 
 vvhich such election was held; and such clerk shall make 
 and certify, under his hand and official seal, a copy thereof, 
 and shall without delay deliver such copy to the person 
 who shall be so declared elected; and in case of an election 
 for senator, members of the assembly or any county ofii- 
 cers, the county clerk shall within five days thereafter 
 transmit to the secretary of state at Trenton another copy 
 of such certificate, signed by him and attested by his 
 official seal. 
 
 161. Any applicant for such recount upon applying 
 therefor shall deposit with the county clerk such sum as 
 such justice shall order as security for the payment of the 
 expenses of such recount, or if such justice shall so order, 
 shall file with the county clerk a bond to the incumbent, 
 v/ith two or more sureties, to be approved by such justice, 
 in such sum as he may require, conditioned tO pay all costs 
 and expenses in case the original count be confirmed, or 
 the result of such recount is not sufficient to change the 
 result; the said justice shall fix and determine the amount 
 of compensation to be paid for making such recount of 
 
 (a) Application was madfe to Justice Dixon for a recount of ballots 
 cast in Passaic county for slieriflf. At the time of the application 
 John W. Sturr had heen declared elected, and had received nis com- 
 mission from the Governor. Justice Dixon held that it was too late 
 to order a recount: that the certificate of election issued by the board 
 of election had been superseded by the Governor's commission, and 
 that while, under the authority of the above section, a justice of the 
 supreme court may. in a proper case, revoke a certificate of election, 
 that power can be exercised only before the certificate of election 
 becomes thus superseded. See New Jersey Laio Journal, January, 1901, 
 p. 411. Under the 150th section, reason to believe that an error suffi- 
 cient to change the result of the election has been made, and prob- 
 able grounds of such belief are all that are necessary to give .luris- 
 diction to the justice. In re Election of Register of Essex County, 
 12 Ncic Jrr.^ri/ 7, aw Journal 271. 
 
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 the ballots, and the costs and expenses thereof; and if it 
 shall appear that an error sufficient to change the result 
 has been made, then the expenses of such recount shall be 
 paid by the county or municipality in and for which such 
 election was held, upon the warrant of said justice, the 
 same as other election expenses are paid; but if no error 
 shall appear sufficient to change such result, then the ex- 
 penses of such recount shall be paid by the party making 
 the application. 
 
 Contested Elections for County, Township, City or 
 Other Municipal Offices. 
 
 162. The several circuit courts of this state shall have in'^'^on^'e^tTd 
 jurisdiction to hear and determine all cases in which the election 
 
 1 • r rr rr caseS f OF 
 
 election of any officer or officers ot any county, city, bor- county and 
 or.gh, village, township or other municipality may be con- ^^e"^^ 
 tested, and for that purpose the said courts shall always be 
 open ; such contest shall be commenced by filing a petition 
 therefor within thirty days after any such election shall 
 be held. (a) 
 
 ffl) Section 162. giving jurisdiction to circuit courts to hear and 
 determioe contested elections, does not repeal a city charter provision 
 that the city council sliall be the sole judge of the election, returns 
 and qualifications of its own members. Henry v. Camden, 13 Vroom 
 335. But see In re The Recount of the Thirteenth Ward Votes of 
 yen ark, 13 Xeic Jersey Laic Journal 10. The power of revision given 
 to circuit courts by this section can be exercised only with reference 
 to the grounds of contest enumerated in the act. In such procedure 
 the constitutionality of the law cannot be adjudged. BiUingham v. 
 Mount, 14 Vroom 470. Section 162 confers upon the circuit court 
 jurisdiction in cases of contested elections for city officers. McCoy v. 
 Boyle, 22 Vroom 53. Justices of the peace are county officers within 
 the meaning of this section. Gage v. Clark, 22 Vroom 97. The pro- 
 vision in section 162 and the following sections relating to the trial 
 before the circuit courts of contested election cases, is not unconsti- 
 tutional, .^'uch trials are conclusive only for the time being, and do 
 not prevent a retrial on quo warranto. The act does not give the 
 right to a trial by jury. Conger v. Conrery, 23 Vroom 417, 444. As 
 to the admission in evidence of the ballot-box and its contents, and 
 the admission of the testimony of an expert on the workings of a 
 ballot-box, see Convery v. Conger, 24 Vroom 469, 65S and 663. In 
 the petition presented under sections 162 to 177, the particular cir- 
 cumstances of the case must be set forth in such manner as will 
 enable the court to see that the case is within the statute and will 
 enable the incumbent properly to prepare for his aetence. It is not 
 enough to show that illegal votes were received in greater number 
 than the plurality returned for the incumbent : there must also be 
 shown circumstances rendering probable, prima facie, a conclusion 
 that these illegal votes were cast for the incumbent. Lehlhach v. 
 
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 Grounds of 
 contest. 
 
 Fraud, etc. 
 
 Ineligibility. 
 
 Conviction 
 of certain 
 crimes. 
 
 163. Such election may be contested upon one or more 
 of the following grounds, viz. : 
 
 I. Malconduct, fraud or corruption on the part of the 
 members of the board of election in any election district, 
 or of any members of the board of county canvassers, 
 sufficient to change the result ; 
 
 II. When the incumbent was not eligible to the office at 
 the time of the election ; 
 
 III. When the incumbent had been duly convicted before 
 such election of anv crime which would render him incom- 
 
 Haynes, 25 Vroom 77 ; and see, also, Lippincott v. Fclton, 32 Vr. 
 291. A petition for a recount of an election for fraud in one district 
 will not autiiorize the court to try the question of fraud in another 
 district. If the answer sets up new matter constituting a distinct 
 charge to be investigated by the court, it must be in writing, in detail, 
 
 and under oath. The petition must be under oath and in detail, 
 and must be endorsed (or signed) by fifteen electors, and duly veri- 
 fied. It must give the names of those whose votes were improperly 
 rejected, if known, and if not known, such fact must be alleged. 
 Burroughs v. Brunning, 9 New Jersey Laic Journal 110. There is a 
 difference between the requisites of a petition under section 159 ante 
 and section 162 above. Under section 159, reason to believe, and 
 probable grounds of belief, are all that are necessary to give juris- 
 diction to the court ; under section 162, it is only upon certain speci- 
 fied grounds that relief can be had. which grounds are set forth in 
 section 163. In re Glection of Register of Essex Comity 12 New 
 Jersey Law Journal 271. In a contested election case under section 
 162 and the succeeding sections, the admission by the incumbents of 
 the facts stated generally in the petition is- not sufficient basis for 
 a final judgment. The aflidavit annexed to the petition must show 
 means of knowledge in the affiant of the facts sworn to, and must 
 state particular facts and not mere belief. The dismissal of one 
 petition is not a bar to the filing of other petitions by the same con- 
 testant. Gieary v. Kendall, 13 Neiv Jersey Law Journal 134. See, 
 also, Gieary v. Kendall, 24 Vr. 130. The oath or affirmation required 
 by section 166 should be made by persons cognizant of the particnilar 
 circumstances alleged in the petition, and should attest the truth of 
 those allegations. Johnson v. Allen, 26 Vr. 400. A judgment of the 
 supreme court rendered on an appeal taken to the supreme court from 
 the judgment of any circuit court in a contested election case, cannot 
 be reviewed by tlie court of errors and appeals on a writ of error. 
 See General Statutes, p. 1394, section 24, and O'Brien y. Benny, 29 
 Vr. 189. The incumbent is not bound to file any answer to the con- 
 testant's petition. Lippincott v. Felton, 32 Vr. 291. The petition 
 must be verified not only as to the grounds and circunistances of the 
 contest, but also as to the fact that at least fifteen of the petitioners 
 are qualified voters as required by the one hundred and sixty-sixth 
 .section. Smith v. Smith, 41 Atl. Rep. 753. It is not necessary that 
 the petition shall set fortli the reason for rejecting ballots by the 
 canvassers, and in the affidavit verifying the petition the particulars 
 of the case need not be set forth. Hackett v. Mayhcw, 33 Vr. 481. 
 At an election for village trustee four of the ballots counted for Ira 
 A. Kip, Jr.. read respectively, "Ira A. Kipp," "I. Kip, Jr.," "Ira A. 
 Kip," and "Kipp," and it was held that they were erroneously counted 
 for Ira A. Kip, Jr. Weeks v. Kip, 35 Vr. 61. 
 
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 petent to exercise the right of suffrage, and the incumbent 
 had not been pardoned at the time of the election; 
 
 IV. When the incumbent had given or offered to any 
 elector or any member of a board of election, clerk or 
 canvasser, any bribe or reward, in money, property or 
 thing of value, for the purpose of procuring his election ; 
 
 V. When illegal votes have been received, or legal votes 
 rejected at the polls sufficient to change the result; 
 
 VI. For any error in any board of canvassers in count- 
 ing the votes or declaring the result of the election, if such 
 error would change the result; 
 
 ' VII. For any other cause which shows that another was 
 the person legally elected. (a) 
 
 164. The term "incumbent" in this act means the person 
 whom the canvassers declare elected; but in case of a tie 
 vote either party may contest the election, in which case 
 the term "incumbent" means the person having an equal 
 number of votes with the contestant. 
 
 165. When the misconduct complained of is on the part 
 of the members of the board of election in any election 
 district, it shall not be held sufficient to set aside the elec- 
 tion, unless the rejection of the vote of such district 
 would change the result as to that office. 
 
 166. The contestant shall file a petition in writing signed 
 by himself and at least fifteen qualified electors of the 
 county, township or municipality in and for which such 
 election was held, as the case may be, setting forth one or 
 more of the causes specified and the particular circum- 
 stances of the case, duly verified by the oaths or affirma- 
 tions of at least two of said petitioners, which shall be 
 filed with the clerk of said court, together with a bond to 
 the incumbent, with two or more sureties, to be approved 
 by the justice holding such circuit, in the penal sum of five 
 hundred dollars, conditioned to pay all costs in case the 
 election be confirmed, or the petition be dismissed or the 
 prosecution fail. 
 
 Bribery. 
 
 Illegal 
 voting, etc. 
 
 Error in 
 canvassing. 
 
 Other 
 causes. 
 
 Definition of 
 "incumbent" 
 
 Effect of 
 misconduct 
 of board of 
 election. 
 
 Contestant 
 to file 
 petition and 
 bond. 
 
 (a) As to the sufficiency of a petition filed under the authority of 
 this clause, see Oroth v. Schlemm, 23 Netc Jersey Late Journal 238. 
 
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 Contents of 
 petition. 
 
 Time 
 appointed 
 for hearine. 
 
 Trial at 
 appointed 
 time unless 
 adjourned. 
 
 'Proceedings 
 as in action 
 at law. 
 
 Attendance 
 of witnesises 
 and produc- 
 tion of 
 ballots, etc., 
 compulsory.. 
 
 Witness 
 compelled to 
 testify as to 
 his qualifi- 
 cation to 
 vote, etc. 
 
 167. When the reception of illegal or the rejection of 
 legal voters is alleged as a cause of contest, the names of 
 the persons who so voted, or whose votes were rejected, 
 Vvith the election district where they voted, or offered to 
 vote, shall be set forth in the petition, if known ; the court 
 shall appoint a suitable time for hearing such complaint, 
 not more than thirty nor less than fifteen days thereafter; 
 and the contestant shall cause a notice of such trial, with a 
 copy of the contestant's petition, to be served on the in- 
 cumbent at least ten days before the day set for trial. 
 
 168. The trial shall proceed at the time appointed unless 
 postponed for good cause shown by either party by affi- 
 davit, the terms of which postponement shall be in the 
 discretion of the court; provided, the court may, for its 
 own necessity or convenience, adjourn to such time, not 
 more than thirty days thereafter, as it may see fit, of 
 which adjournment the parties interested shall take notice. 
 
 169. The proceedings shall be similar to those in an 
 action at law so far as practicable, but shall be under the 
 control and direction of the court, which shall hear and 
 determine the matter without a jury, with power to order 
 any amendments in the petition or proceedings as to form, 
 and to allow adjournments to any time not more than 
 thirty days thereafter for the benefit of either party, on 
 such terms as shall seem reasonable to the court, the 
 grounds for such adjournment being shown by affidavit. 
 
 170. The said court shall have authority and power to 
 compel the attendance of any officer of such election, and 
 of any other person capable of testifying concerning the 
 same, and also to compel the production of all ballot-boxes, 
 books, papers, tally lists, ballots and other documents 
 which may be required at such hearing; the style, form 
 and manner of service of process and papers, and the fees 
 of officers and witnesses, shall be the same as in the circuit 
 court in other cases, as far as the nature of the case admits. 
 
 171. The court may require any person called as a wit- 
 ness who voted at such election, to answer touching his 
 qualification as a voter, and if the court, from his examina- 
 tion, or otherwise, is satisfied that he was not a qualified 
 
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 \oter in the election district where he voted, then the court 
 can compel him to answer for whom he voted; and if the 
 witness answers such questions no part of his testimony 
 on the trial shall be used against him in any criminal pro- 
 ceeding. 
 
 172. The contestant and incumbent shall be liable to the 
 officers and witnesses for the costs made by them, respec- 
 tively ; but if the election be confirmed, or the petition dis- 
 missed, or the prosecution fail, judgment shall be rendered 
 against the contestant for costs; and if the judgment be 
 against the incumbent, or the election be set aside, then he 
 shall pay the costs at the discretion of the court ; and after 
 the entry of the judgment of the court the costs may be 
 collected by attachment or otherwise. 
 
 173. The court shall pronounce judgment whether the 
 incumbent or any contestant was duly elected, and the per- 
 son so declared elected will be entitled to his certificate ; if 
 the judgment be against the incumbent, and he has already 
 received the certificate of election, the judgment shall annul 
 it; if the court find that no person was duly elected, the 
 judgment shall be that the election be set aside. 
 
 174. When either the contestant or incumbent shall be 
 in possession of the office, by holding over or otherwise, 
 the court shall, if the judgment be against the party in 
 possession of the office, and in favor of his antagonist, 
 issue an order to carry into effect its judgment, which 
 order shall be under the seal of the court, and shall com- 
 mand the sheriff of the county to put the successful party 
 into possession of the office without delay, and to deliver 
 to him all books, papers and effects belonging to the same. 
 
 175. The party against whom judgment is rendered may 
 appeal for error of law only, within twenty days, to the 
 supreme court, (a) but such appeal shall not supersede 
 the execution of the judgment of the court, unless the 
 
 Liability 
 for costs. 
 
 Judgment 
 given by 
 court. 
 
 Successful 
 party to bo 
 put into 
 possession 
 of office. 
 
 Appeal 
 may be 
 taken to 
 supreme 
 court. 
 
 (a) At a township election fourteen ballots were cast, on which 
 a person had written his own name as a candidate in a blank space 
 under the words "Chosen Freeholder." Held, that the question whether 
 these ballots were invalid as marked ballots was one of fact for the 
 circuit court, in proceedings under section 162, and that the decision 
 •of that court thereon could not be reviewed on appeal to Supreme 
 Court. Hackett v Mayheir, 33 TY. 481. 
 
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 Appeal 
 to have 
 precedence 
 on calendar. 
 
 If appeal be 
 affirmed, 
 judgment of 
 circuit 
 court to be 
 enforced. 
 
 party so appealing shall become bound to the other party 
 by recognizance, as provided in the thirteenth section of 
 the act entitled "An act respecting writs of error" (Revi- 
 sion), approved March twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred 
 and seventy-four; provided, the amount of such recogniz- 
 ance §hall be fixed by the judge who presided at the trial, 
 and shall be at Jeast double the probable compensation of 
 such officer for six months. 
 
 176. Such appeal shall take precedence over all other 
 causes upon the calendar, and shall be set down for hear- 
 ing, and determined upon the first day of the term, unless 
 otherwise ordered by the court for its convenience; pro- 
 vided, that the appellant shall give ten days' notice of argu- 
 ment, unless the judgment of the circuit court shall not 
 have been given in time to notice such appeal for trial on 
 the first day of the term, in which case the same may be 
 noticed for any other day in the term, and shall have the 
 same precedence on such other day. 
 
 177. If, upon appeal, the judgment be affirmed, the 
 judge who presided at the trial, or in his absence or 
 inability to act, any justice of the supreme court, shall 
 order the judgment of said circuit court to be enforced, 
 if the party against whom judgment is rendered is in 
 possession of the office; and the proceedings on the re- 
 cognizance shall be as provided for in other cases in said 
 supreme court. 
 
 Compensation of Election Officers and Expenses of 
 Election. 
 
 Compensa- 
 tion to 
 countj' and 
 municipal 
 clerks. 
 
 178. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 283, sees. lo-ii. 
 See sec. 37, post. 
 
 179. For the duties and services imposed upon and re- 
 quired of them by this act, the county clerks of the several 
 counties and the clerks of the dififererit cities, townships 
 and other municipalities, shall be paid out of the county 
 funds of their respective counties, or .the funds of their 
 respective municipalities, as the case may be, a fair and 
 reasonable compensation, to be ascertained and determined, 
 
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 in the cases of the county clerks, by the boards of chosen 
 freeholders of their respective counties, and in case of said 
 municipal clerks, by the governing bodies of their respec- 
 tive cities, townships or municipalities. 
 
 1 80. All costs, charges and expenses incurred by the 
 county and municipal clerks in carrying out the provisions 
 cf this act * * ♦ including the charges and expenses 
 incurred for rooms for polling places and fitting up and 
 arranging the same, the compensation of the district boards 
 of registry and election and all other expenses 'incurred by 
 any officer or person duly authorized in carrying out the 
 provisions of this act, shall be regarded as election ex- 
 penses and shall be paid in the case of the general election 
 or any special election held in and for the w^hole county, by 
 the respective counties, and in case of all other elections 
 by the respective municipalities in and for which they are 
 held, in the same manner as other county and municipal 
 expenses are paid; but all bills before being paid shall be 
 itemized and verified by the oath of the claimant and 
 audited and approved by the clerk of the county, township, 
 city or municipaHty w^ho contracted the bill charged for; 
 provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed 
 as permitting compensation to any election agent or chal- 
 lenger; and the board of freeholders in each county shall 
 include in their annual tax levy a sum sufficient to pay all 
 the election expenses, and a reasonable compensation for 
 the services of the county board of elections, the amount 
 oi which shall be determined by the board of chosen free- 
 holders ; provided, also, that the member of said county 
 board of elections who shall be the secretary thereof, may 
 receive an additional compensation not exceeding oi^e-third 
 cf the compensation of the individual members of said 
 board, except in counties of the first class, where there 
 shall be a clerk of said board who shall receive such com- 
 pensation as shall be fixed by said board of freeholders; 
 provided, that the expense of the advertising and publica- 
 tion prescribed by section seven of this act shall be charge- 
 able to and paid by the respective townships, cities or other 
 municipalities whose clerks shall cause the prescribed ad- 
 
 Provision 
 for expenses 
 incurred by 
 county and 
 municipal 
 clerks and 
 other 
 officers. 
 
 See sec. 10 
 post. 
 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1910, 
 p. 474.] 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
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 vertising and publicatioi), and the board or body having 
 charge of th^ finances pf the respective townships, cities 
 or other municipaHties shall include in their annual tax 
 levy a sum sufficient to pay the expense of said prescribed 
 advertising and publication. 
 
 Congressional Districts. 
 
 Election of 
 representa- 
 tives. 
 
 i8i. [This section is wholly superseded by P. L. 1912, 
 chap. 411, contained in section 239, post.'] 
 
 182. Each of sajd districts shall elect one person to 
 represent this state in the house of representatives of the 
 United States, which election shall be held on the Tuesday 
 next after the first Monday in November, in the year one 
 thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and on the Tues- 
 day next after the first Monday in November in each sec- 
 ond year thereafter. 
 
 Miscellaneous. 
 
 Qualifica- 
 tions of 
 representa- 
 tives and 
 presidential 
 electors. 
 
 What offices 
 are incom- 
 patible. 
 
 183. No person shall be elected a member of the house 
 of representatives, or an elector of president and vice- 
 president, who shall hold any office of trust or profit under 
 the United States ; and no person shall be elected to the 
 office of such elector who shall hold the office of senator 
 or member of the house of representatives of the United 
 States. 
 
 184. No person shall hold at the same time more than 
 one of the following offices : Elector of president and vice- 
 president of the United States, member of the house of 
 representatives of the United States, member of the senate 
 or of the general assembly of this state, county clerk, regis- 
 ter, surrogate, sheriff or coroner; and if any person who 
 shall have been elected or appointed to any such office 
 shall, during the term for which he shall have been elected 
 or appointed, be elected or appointed to another of such 
 offices, and shall accept the same, such acceptance shall be 
 deemed to make vacant the office to which he shall have 
 been previously elected or appointed; and if any person 
 
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 shall, at any election, be elected to two or more of such 
 offices, he shall accept but one of the same, and the other 
 or others shall be deemed vacant. 
 
 1 85. When by the provisions of any statute the decision 
 of any question has been or shall be submitted to the deci- 
 sion of a majority of the legal voters of this state or of any 
 
 nbdivision thereof ; or when the approval of. a majority 
 or" the legal voters of this state or of any subdivision 
 thereof is required in any statute before such statute takes 
 effect or before any prescribed action or proceeding under 
 such statute shall be valid and lawful, it is hereby declared 
 that the intent and meaning in any such statute of the 
 w ords ''legal voters" are persons entitled to vote, and who 
 do vote, at the time and in the manner prescribed in and 
 by such statute upon the question or proposition sub- 
 mitted ; and that for the purpose of ascertaining what is a 
 majority of the legal voters of any district defined in such 
 statute, upon the proposition therein directed to be sub- 
 mitted, the persons who do not vote at such election shall 
 not be. estimated, counted or considered for the purpose of 
 ascertaining what is a majority of the legal voters in such 
 district, with respect to the proposition submitted; such 
 votes shall be estimated and canvassed, and the result 
 thereof determined by the several boards of election and 
 boards of canvassers in the same manner as the results of 
 ether elections are estimated, canvassed and determined. 
 
 186. The board of election in each election district, the 
 board of county canvassers in each county, and the board 
 of state canvassers shall, respectively, possess full power 
 and authority to maintain regularity and order, and to 
 enforce obedience to their lawful commands during their 
 sessions respectively; and if any person shall refuse to 
 obey the lawful command of any such board, or by dis- 
 orderly conduct in their hearing or presence shall interrupt 
 or disturb their proceedings, they may by an order in 
 writing, signed by the chairman and attested by the clerk 
 of such board, commit the person so offending to the com- 
 mon jail of the county in which they shall have met, for a 
 period not exceeding three days, and such order shall be 
 
 Who are 
 intended 
 by "legal 
 voters" in 
 questions 
 submitted 
 for decision. 
 
 Police 
 power of 
 state, 
 
 county and 
 district 
 boards. 
 
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 executed by any sheriff or constable to whom the same 
 shall be delivered; or if a sheriff or constable shall not be 
 present or shall refuse to act, by any other person who 
 shall be deputed by such board in writing, and the keeper 
 of such jail shall receive the person so committed, and 
 safely keep him for such time as shall be mentioned in 
 the commitment. 
 
 Betting, etc., 1 87. No person shall make, lay or deposit any bet, 
 unlawful. wager or stake, to be decided by the result of any election, 
 by the election or defeat of one or more persons at any 
 election, or by any contingency connected with or growing 
 out of any election; and all contracts for or on account of 
 any money, property or thing in action so bet, wagered or 
 staked shall be void ; and any person who shall pay, deliver 
 . or deposit any money, property or thing in action upon the 
 event of any bet, wager or stake prohibited by this section, 
 may sue for and recover the same of the winner or win- 
 ners, or person or persons, to whom the same, or any 
 part thereof, shall have been paid or delivered, or with 
 whom the same, or any part thereof, shall have been de- 
 posited, whether he or they shall have been a stakeholder 
 or stakeholders, or other person or persons, whether or 
 not the same shall have been paid over by such stake- 
 holder, or whether or not such bet, wager or stake shall 
 have been lost. 
 
 Crimes and Penalties. 
 
 Penalty for 188. If any person shall be guilty of willful and corrupt 
 falsely. false Swearing or affirming, or by any means shall willfully 
 
 and corruptly suborn or procure any person to swear or 
 affirm falsely, in taking^ any oath, affirmation or deposi- 
 tion prescribed or authorized by this act, he shall be 
 deemed and taken to be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, 
 on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not ex- 
 ceeding eight hundred dollars or imprisonment at hard 
 labor not exceeding seven years, or both, at the discretion 
 of the court, and be deemed and taken to be an incompe- 
 
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 tent witness thereafter for any purpose within this state, 
 until such time as he shall have been pardoned. 
 
 189. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, c. 188, sec. 31. See 
 paragraph 409, post. 
 
 190. If any person shall rob or plunder any ballot-box, Penalty for 
 cr unlawfully and by stealth or violence take the same or bauot-boxes, 
 remove therefrom any ballot * * * qj- other paper, ^*^- 
 
 or exchange, alter or destroy any ballot * * * or 
 other paper contained therein, or if any person other than 
 the clerk of any county or the secretary of state, shall 
 willfully and corruptly suppress, withhold, mutilate, de- 
 stroy, alter or change any return, stattment or certificate, 
 or any copy thereof, which shall have been made in pur- 
 suance of this act, and delivered to him to be filed, or 
 which shall have been entrusted or delivered to him to 
 be delivered or transmitted to any other person or persons 
 in pursuance of this act, every such person, his aiders, pro- 
 curers and abettors, shall be deemed and taken to be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by 
 imprisonment at hard labor for any term not exceeding 
 two years, or both. 
 
 191. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, c, 188, sec. 31. See 
 paragraph 409, post. 
 
 192. In addition to the penalties provided by law for the Penalty for 
 unlawful sale or offer to sell or exposure for sale of any l^^^^^ qq 
 spirituous, vinous, malt or intoxicating liquors on any election day. 
 election day, every person so offending, for every offense, 
 
 shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, to be 
 sued for and recovered in an action of debt in any court 
 having jurisdiction of that amount, by any citizen of this 
 state, resident in the county where such offense shall be 
 committed, one-half of which penalty shall, when col- 
 lected, be paid to the county collector of said county where 
 said offense is committed for the benefit of said county, 
 and the other half to the person who shall prosecute for 
 the same. 
 
 o • . . 1 . . . ,. Penalty for 
 
 193. Spirituous, vinous, malt or intoxicating liquors having 
 shall not be brought by any person into the poUing place pomng ^piac-e. 
 
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 Duty of 
 peace 
 
 officers re- 
 garding sale 
 of liquor on 
 election day. 
 
 Penalty for 
 destroying 
 certificate of 
 nomination, 
 etc. 
 
 Penalty for 
 hindering 
 voters, 
 destroying 
 ballots, etc. 
 
 on the day of election, or on any day of registry during 
 the hours that the election or registration is in progress, 
 nor during the counting or canvassing of the votes ; any 
 violation of the provisions of this section shall be a misde- 
 meanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred 
 dollars or imprisonment not exceeding two months, or both. 
 
 194. It shall be the duty of all sheriffs, under-sheriffs, 
 police officers and constables, on any election day, during 
 the hours of election, to arrest without warrant all persons 
 who shall be found by them in the actual violation of any 
 law prohibiting the sale, or offer to sell or exposure for 
 sale, of any spirituous, vinous, malt or intoxicating liquors 
 on any election day, and take such person when arrested 
 before some recorder, police justice or justice of the peace 
 of the county in which such arrest shall be made, to be, 
 dealt with by him according to law ; and it shall be the fur- 
 ther duty of such sheriffs, under-sheriffs, police officers 
 and constables, to effectually close up all places where they 
 shall have good reason to believe any spirituous, vinous or 
 malt liquors, ale, beer or cider, are being sold or oft'ered or 
 exposed for sale or given away, and keep the same effectu- 
 ally closed up till after such election. 
 
 195. No person shall falsely make, or make oath to, or 
 fiaudulently deface or fraudulently destroy any certificate 
 of nomination or petition, or any part thereof, or file, or 
 receive for filing, any certificate of nomination or petition, 
 knowing the same or any part thereof to be falsely made, 
 or suppress any certificate of nomination or petition which 
 has been duly filed, or any part thereof, or forge or falsely 
 make the official indorsement of any ballot; * '^' * 
 every person violating any of the provisions of this section 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- 
 tion thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not 
 more than five years. 
 
 196. No person shall, during the election, with intent to 
 hinder or delay said election, or to hinder or delay any 
 voter in the preparation of his ballot, remove or destroy 
 any of the ballots or pencils placed in the booths or com- 
 
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 partments for the purpose of enabling the voter to pre- 
 pare his ballot; * * * any person willfully violating 
 any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty 
 of a rrrfsdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be pun- 
 ished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and im- 
 IiriKonment until such fine and the costs of the conviction' 
 afe paid. 
 
 197. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, chap. 188, sec. 31. 
 See paragraph 409, post, 
 
 198. No person shall, within the polling-room, show his 
 ballot after it is prepared for voting to any person in such 
 a way as to reveal the contents, nor shall any person within 
 the polling-place or within a hundred feet thereof solicit 
 the voter to show the same ; no voter, at any election where 
 official ballots are used, shall knowingly vote or offer to 
 vote any ballot except an official ballot * * * as by 
 this act required, nor shall any voter at any election where 
 official ballots are not used, vote or ofifer to vote any ballot ; 
 * * * any person violating any of the foregoing provi- 
 sions of this section shall incur a penalty of twenty-five 
 dollars for each offense, to be recovered by action of tort, 
 before any court of competent jurisdiction, by any person 
 who bona fide shall first bring suit therefor ; no voter shall 
 place or permit to be placed any mark upon the face or 
 back of his ballot ^ * * by which the ballot * * * 
 may afterwards be identified by any other person as the 
 one voted by him ; whoever shall violate this last-mentioned 
 provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine 
 not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not 
 exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. 
 
 199. If any printer employed by any county or munici- 
 pal clerk to print the official ballots * * * fQj. such 
 clerk, or any person engaged in printing the same, shall 
 appropriate to himself or give or deliver or knowingly per- 
 mit to be taken any of said ballots * * * by any other 
 person than such county or municipal clerk or his duly 
 authorized agent, or shall print or cause to be printed any 
 official ballot ''' * * in any other form than that pre- 
 
 Penalty upon 
 voter for 
 revealing 
 contents of 
 his ballot. 
 
 For not 
 using 
 official 
 ballots. 
 
 For marking 
 ballot. 
 
 Penalty for 
 violation of 
 duty by 
 printer. 
 
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 Penalty for 
 
 marking 
 
 ballots. 
 
 Penalty if 
 member of 
 board re- 
 veals how 
 any person 
 has voted. 
 
 scribed by such county or municipal clerk, or with any 
 other names thereon, or with the names spelled or the 
 names or printing thereon arranged in any other way than 
 that authorized and directed by this act, such person so 
 offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con- 
 viction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 
 one thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding five 
 years, at the discretion of the court. 
 
 200. If any person shall write, paste or otherwise place 
 upon any official ballot * * * ^ny mark, sign or de- 
 vice of any kind as a distinguishing mark whereby to indi- 
 cate to any member of any election board or other person 
 how any voter has voted at any election, or if any person 
 shall induce or attempt to induce any voter to write, paste 
 or otherwise place on his ballot * ^k * ^j^y mark, 
 sign or device of any kind, as a distinguishing mark by 
 which to indicate to any member of any election board or 
 other person how such voter has voted, or shall enter into 
 or attempt to form any agreement or conspiracy with any 
 other person to induce or attempt to induce voters or any 
 voter to so place any distinguishing mark, sign or device 
 on his ballot, ^ * * whether or not said act be com- 
 mitted, or attempted to be committed, such person or per- 
 sons so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 being thereof convicted, shall be punished by fine not ex- 
 ceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceed- 
 ing one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. 
 
 201. If any member of any board of election have knowl- 
 edge how any person has voted and shall reveal such 
 knowledge to any other person, or shall fraudulently or 
 corruptly disclose what other candidates were voted for 
 en any ballot bearing a name not printed thereon, or 
 fraudulently or corruptly give any information concerning 
 the appearance of any ballot * * * voted, such per- 
 son so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on 
 conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceed- 
 ing two thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding 
 five years. 
 
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 202. If any person shall, directly or indirectly, by him- 
 self or by any other person in his behalf, give, lend or agree 
 to give or lend, or shall offer, promise or promise to pro- 
 cure, or endeavor to procure, any money or other valuable 
 consideration or thing to or for any voter, or to or for any 
 person, in order to induce any voter to vote or refrain 
 from registering for any election, or shall corruptly do or 
 commit any of the acts in this section mentioned on account 
 of any such voter having voted or refrained from voting 
 at an election, or registered or refrained from registering 
 at an election, such person so offending shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine and imprisonment, or both, at the discre- 
 tion of the court, the fine not to exceed two thousand dol- 
 lars, and the imprisonment not to exceed five years. 
 
 203. Any person who shall directly or indirectly, by 
 himself or by any other person in his behalf, give or pro- 
 cure, or agree to give or procure or offer or promise to 
 procure, or endeavor to procure any office, place or em- 
 ployment to or for any voter, or to or for any person on 
 behalf of such voter, or to or for any other person, in 
 order to induce such voter to vote or refrain from voting, 
 or to register or refrain from registering, or shall cor- 
 ruptly do any act as aforesaid on account of any voter 
 having voted or refrained from voting, or having regis- 
 tered or refrained from registering for any election, shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted, 
 shall be punished by fine not exceeding two thousand dol- 
 lars, or imprisonment not exceeding five years, at the dis- 
 cretion of the court. 
 
 204. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, chap. 188, sec. 25 (i). 
 Paragraph 403, post. 
 
 205. Any voter who shall directly or indirectly, by him- 
 self, or by any other person on his behalf, receive, agree 
 or contract for any money, gift, loan or valuable consid- 
 eration, office, place or employment for himself or for any 
 other person for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refrain- 
 ing or agreeing to refrain from voting at any election, or 
 for registering or agreeing to register, or for refraining or 
 
 Penalty for 
 inducing 
 person to 
 vote or re- 
 frain from 
 registering 
 by promise 
 of reward. 
 
 Penalty for 
 promise of 
 employ- 
 ment, etc., 
 
 to a voter. 
 Penalty for 
 agreeing to 
 receive 
 money, em- 
 ployment, 
 etc. 
 
9S 
 
 Penalty for 
 influencing 
 an employe 
 by threat, 
 etG. 
 
 Penalty for 
 obstructing 
 polling 
 place. 
 
 for agreeing to refrain from registering for any election, 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof con- 
 victed, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thou- 
 sand dollars, or imprisonment for not longer than one 
 year, at the discretion of the court. 
 
 206. Any employer of any workmen, or any agent, su- 
 perintendent or overseer of any company or corporation 
 employing workmen, or any person whosoever, who shall 
 directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person 
 in his behalf or by his direction, make use of or threaten 
 to make use of any force, violence or restraint, or inflict 
 cr threaten to inflict by himself or by any other person 
 any injury, damage, harm, or loss against any person or 
 persons in his employ, in order to induce or compel such 
 employe or employes to vote or refrain from voting for 
 any particular candidate or candidates at any election, or 
 on account of such employe or employes having voted or 
 refrained from voting for any particular candidate or can- 
 didates at any election, or who shall, by any sort of duress, 
 constraint or improper influence or by any fraudulent or 
 improper device, contrivance or scheme, impede, hinder 
 or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any voter 
 at any election, or shall thereby compel, induce or prevail 
 upon any voter to vote for or against any particular can- 
 didate or candidates at any election, shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and, being thereof convicted, shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or 
 imprisonment not exceeding five years, or both, at the 
 discretion of the court before which conviction is had. 
 
 207. If any person shall on election day obstruct the 
 entrance to any polling-place, or shall obstruct or interfere 
 v/ith any voter, or do any electioneering within any polling 
 place, or publicly within one hundred feet of any polling 
 place, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, 
 upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not 
 exceeding fifty dollars. 
 
 208. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 319, sec. 61. See 
 paragraph 366, post. 
 
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 20Q. Any person who shall remove, destroy or mutilate Penalty for 
 
 ^ J f^ ' -' removing 
 
 any registry list or copy thereof, or who shall before such registry Ust, 
 
 election closes, remove, destroy or mutilate any list of 
 
 voters posted in accordance with this act, shall be guilty 
 
 of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished, on conviction 
 
 thereof, by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars 
 
 or imprisonment for not more than two years. 
 
 210. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, chap. 188, sec. 21. 
 See paragraph 399, post. 
 
 211. If proof be made before any justice of the peace^ investiga- 
 recorder or police justice of facts constituting probable pr^JJ,abie 
 cause for believing- that this act has been violated, and cause that 
 
 ° this act has 
 
 that any person or persons have knowledge of the circum- 
 stances connected therewith, it shall be the duty of said 
 justice or recorder to issue process of subpoena for the 
 appearance of such person or persons other than the 
 accused before him, to be examined touching the same; 
 provided, that the lawful expenses of such subpoena and 
 examination shall be paid by the applicant therefor, and 
 such evidence shall be filed with the clerk of the county, to 
 be used before the grand jury; and provided further, that Proviso 
 no such process of subpoena shall be issued or served nor 
 any such examination held, on the dav of election. 
 
 been 
 violated. 
 
 212. In addition to the penalties provided for violations i^sfran- 
 
 . . , . , chisement 
 
 oi any of the provisions of this act, the court imposing may be 
 such penalties may add thereto that such oflFender be a^peiTaity.^ 
 thenceforth disfranchised as a voter and disqualified to 
 hold any office of trust or profit within this state for such 
 length of time as such court may deem proper; (a) pro- 
 vided, nevertheless, that nothing in this act contained shall 
 be held or construed to in anywise absolve or relieve any 
 person or persons from any liability, penalty, prosecution, 
 indictment or punishment, for or on account of any viola- 
 tion of any law in force at the time of the passage of this 
 act. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 (a) This section is unconstitutional because it attempts to add to 
 the qualifications of voters as prescribed by the constitution. State 
 V. Garrigan, 35 'S . J. Law Journal, p.-106. 
 
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 On trial 
 
 of any 
 
 indictmeiit 
 
 witness 
 
 must 
 
 answer 
 
 questions 
 
 deemed 
 
 proper by 
 
 the court. 
 
 213. On the trial of any indictment against any person 
 or persons for violation of any of the provisions of this act, 
 all witnesses sworn on any such trial shall truly answer 
 all questions put to them which the court shall decide to 
 be proper and pertinent to the issue involved ; and no wit- 
 ness shall be excused from answering any such question on 
 the ground that to answer the same might or would in- 
 criminate him, or might or would tend to incriminate him ; 
 but no answer or answers made by any witness to any 
 such question shall be used or admitted in evidence in any 
 proceeding against said witness, except in case of a crim- 
 inal proceeding- for perjury in respect to his answers to 
 such questions. 
 
 Primary Elections. 
 
 Who may 
 vote at 
 primary 
 <;lections. 
 
 Penalty for 
 false voting 
 at primary. 
 
 214. No person not at the time entitled to vote, by the 
 laws of this state, at the special, general and local elections 
 held in this state, shall vote at any primary meeting or 
 caucus called, or held by any political party or political 
 organization of this state for the nomination or selection of 
 persons to be voted for at any such elections, nor shall 
 such person vote unless he is a legal resident of the political 
 "division in and for which such primary meeting or caucus 
 is held. 
 
 215. If any person not entitled to vote as aforesaid 
 shall vote or offer to vote at any such primary meeting 
 or caucus knowing or having reason to believe himself not 
 entitled to vote as aforesaid, or if any person or persons 
 shall counsel or procure anyone to vote as aforesaid, know- 
 ing or having reason to believe such voter not entitled so 
 to vote, or if any person having voted at any primary meet- 
 ing held by any political party or organization to nominate 
 candidates or to elect delegates to nominate candi- 
 dates, to be voted for at any election, shall vote or 
 offer to vote at the primary meeting held by any other 
 political party or organization held to nominate candidates 
 or to elect delegates to nominate candidates to be voted 
 for at the same election, such person or persons shall be 
 
lOI 
 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall 
 for each offense be punished by imprisonment at hard 
 labor for a term of not more than three months, or by a 
 fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or both, at 
 the option of the court. 
 
 216. This section repealed by P. L. 1903, page 628. See 
 paragraph 271, post. 
 
 217. If any judge, inspector, clerk or other officer of a Jaudufent^ 
 primary election as aforesaid shall presume to act in such a actions at 
 
 ^ -^ ^ primary. 
 
 capacity before taking and subscribing to the oath or affir- 
 mation required by this act, or shall willfully disregard or 
 violate the provisions of any rule duly made by the party 
 of which he is a member, and for whom he is acting, for 
 the government of the primary elections of the party, or 
 if any judge or inspector of any primary election as afore- 
 said shall knowingly reject the vote of any person entitled 
 to vote under the rules of the said party, or shall know- 
 iijgly receive the vote of any person or persons not quali- 
 fied as aforesaid, or if any judge, inspector, clerk or any 
 other officer of a primary election, as aforesaid, shall be 
 guilty of any willful fraud in the discharge of his duties, 
 1 y destroying or defacing ballots, adding ballots to the 
 poll, by false counting, by making false returns, or by any 
 act or thing whatsoever, the person or persons so offend- 
 ing shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon 
 conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five 
 hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one 
 year, or both, at the discretion of the court, (a) 
 
 218. If any person shall, directly or indirectly, give. Penalty for 
 
 rr • ^ • r bribery, etc.. 
 
 oiter or promise to give any sum or sums of money or any at election 
 valuable thing in action, victuals, drink or preferment or °^ delegates, 
 other considerations, by way of fee, reward, gift or gra- 
 tuity, or other valuable present or reward to obtain, pro- 
 cure or influence the opinion, behavior, vote or abstaining 
 from voting for the election of any delegate to any con- 
 vention of any political party of this state, to nominate 
 
 (a) This sertion does not apply to primaries for the selection of 
 delegates to conventions to nominate candidates, but only to primaries 
 held for the purpose of nominating candidates for state, city ana 
 county officers. Woodruff v. State, 25 N. J. L. J. ai6. 
 
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 I 02 
 
 any candidate or candidates for member of the legislature 
 of this state, for any member of congress of the United 
 States, for electors for President and Vice-President of the 
 United States, for governor of this state, or for any candi- 
 date for any office in any county, city, town, township or 
 borough in this state ; or if any person being a delegate to 
 any polPitical convention to nominate candidates for any of 
 the the offices named in this act, shall, directly or indirectly, 
 ask for, accept, receive or take any sum or sums of money, 
 or other valuable consideration by way of fee, reward, gift 
 or gratuity, or other valuable consideration for the giving 
 or refusing to give his vote at any such convention, all 
 and every of such persons so offering, asking or receiving 
 the same, in either case aforesaid, shall be deemed and 
 taken to be guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction there- 
 of shall be punished by a fine or imprisonment, or both, at 
 the discretion of the court; said fine not to exceed five 
 hundred dollars, nor such imprisonment six months. 
 
 Penalty for 21Q, Whoever shall, directlv or indirectly, eive, furnish, 
 
 bribery at f rr • ' . . 
 
 election. supply, offer or promise, or procure to be given, furnished, 
 
 supplied, offered or promised, to any person or persons, 
 any money, service, preferment or valuable thing with the 
 intent that such money or valuable thing, or any other 
 money, service, preferment or valuable thing shall be 
 given, offered, promised or used, by any person or per- 
 sons, by way of fee, reward, gift or gratuity, for giving 
 or refusing to give any vote or votes of any citizen of this 
 state, at any election of any public officer, state, county or 
 municipal, to be held therein, or of any member of con- 
 gress of the United States, of electors for president and 
 vice-president of the United States, or at any election of 
 any delegate or delegates to any political convention to be 
 held for the nomination of any of the officers aforesaid, 
 or by way of gift, gratuity or reward, for giving or with- 
 holding the vote or votes of any delegate or delegates at 
 any such conventions, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine or 
 imprisonment, or both; such fine not to exceed the sum 
 
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 of ten thousand dollars, and such imprisonment not to 
 exceed the term of one year. 
 
 Of Elections by Soldiers and Sailors Absent from the 
 State in Time of War. 
 
 220. Whenever in time of war any of the qualified elec- 
 tors of this state shall be in the actual military service of 
 this state, or of the United States, in the army or navy 
 thereof, by the authority of this state, or under a requisi- 
 tion from the president of the United States, and as such 
 shall be absent from the election districts in which they 
 reside, on the days appointed by law for holding any gen- 
 eral, special or local election within this state, or within 
 any congressional district, county, city, borough, town, 
 township or municipality therein, such electors shall be 
 entitled, at such times, to exercise the right of suffrage in 
 their several districts in the manner and form hereinafter 
 prescribed. 
 
 221. Such absent elector shall by an instrument in writ- 
 ing, executed by him not more than sixty days previous to 
 any general or special election to be held in this state, 
 authorize and empower any elector of the election district 
 in which the said absent elector shall reside, on the day 
 of said election, to cast for him his vote or ballot, in the 
 manner prescribed in this act, for all officers for whom he 
 would have a right to vote if he were present at such elec- 
 tion; said instrument shall be signed by such absent elec- 
 tor, attested by two subscribing witnesses, and sworn (or 
 affirmed) to before any field officer, captain, adjutant or 
 commander of any regiment, company, battalion or de- 
 tachment, or of any vessel or naval station to which the 
 said absent elector may belong or be attached, and such 
 officers are hereby duly authorized to administer oaths and 
 affirmations for the purposes specified in this act, and they 
 shall attach to their signatures their official designations. 
 
 222. The said absent elector shall make and subscribe 
 an affidavit in the form or of the effect following: 
 
 'T, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a 
 
 Right of 
 soldiers an«1 
 sailors to 
 vote. 
 
 Absent 
 elector to 
 designate 
 certain 
 voter to act 
 for him. 
 
 Form of 
 affidavit. 
 
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 Ha Hot 
 prepared 
 and sent to 
 designated 
 voter. 
 
 Contents of 
 instrument. 
 
 citizen of the United States, that I am now of the age of 
 twenty-one years, that I have been (or will have been) a 
 resident of the state of New Jersey for one year, and of 
 
 the county of for five months next preceding the 
 
 election to be held on the day of eighteen 
 
 hundred and , and that I am now a resident of the 
 
 ward of the city (or town) of 
 
 and that I 
 
 am (or will be) in all respects qualified to vote in said city 
 (or town) at said election, and until said election intend to 
 be a resident thereof; and I do further swear that I am 
 in the actual military service of the state of New Jersey 
 (or of the United States), in the army (or navy) thereof, 
 
 and that I am a member of company of the 
 
 regiment (describing the organization or vessel to which 
 he belongs), now at or near , in the state (or terri- 
 tory or country) of . Sworn to and subscribed be- 
 fore me this day of , anno domini eighteen 
 
 hundred and ." 
 
 223. The said absent elector in the service as aforesaid 
 shall prepare and fold the ballot he designs to cast at such 
 election, and inclose the same, together \vith the instrument 
 hereinbefore described, in an envelope, duly sealed, having 
 on the outside thereof, either written or printed, the affi- 
 davit prescribed in the last preceding section of this act, 
 sworn to and subscribed as therein required; the said 
 envelope, prepared as aforesaid, shall be inclosed by him 
 in another envelope, marked "soldier's (or sailor's) vote,'' 
 sealed and directed to the elector empowered by the afore- 
 said instrument to cast the ballot of said absent elector, 
 and the said absent elector may then transmit the same to 
 the person to whom it is directed by mail or otherwise. 
 
 224. The aforesaid instrument shall be in the words or 
 of the e'ffect following, namely: 
 
 *T, A. B., a resident and elector of the ( ward of 
 
 the city (or township), or as the case may be) of , 
 
 in the county of , in the state of New Jersey, but 
 
 absent from my election district in the military service of 
 the state of New Jersey (or of the United States) and 
 now at , in the state of , in company , 
 
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 of the 
 
 regiment of 
 
 under command of 
 
 , do hereby authorize, empower and direct C. D., of 
 
 the election district above mentioned, to cast for me the 
 ballot herewith inclosed at the election, to be held in said 
 
 election district, on the day of , anno domini 
 
 eighteen hundred , in the^ manner provided by the 
 
 laws of the state of New Jersey." 
 
 225. The elector to whom such letter shall be directed Opening of 
 
 1 1 1 r 1 1 1 11 envelope and 
 
 may open the outer envelope thereof, but he shall not open casting of 
 the inner envelope; on the day of such election, and be- *^*^^°*- 
 tween the opening and the closing of the polls thereof he 
 shall deliver such inner envelope to the board of election 
 of the proper election district, and at the polls thereof, 
 and if the person whose name shall be signed to the affi- 
 davit on the outside of said envelope shall be determined 
 by the said board of election to be a duly-qualified voter 
 in such election district, said envelope shall be by the said 
 board publicly opened, and the vote or ballot therein con- 
 tained shall be duly deposited in the ballot-box prepared 
 to receive the ballots of voters, and the name of such ab- 
 sent elector shall be entered upon the poll-list, together 
 with the name of the person delivering the ballot at the 
 polls; no envelope containing a soldier's or sailor's ballot 
 shall be opened by the board of election unless the name 
 of the person signing the affidavit on the outside of said 
 envelope shall be found upon the registry list of the dis- 
 trict where such person claims to reside, or unless an 
 affidavit be made and subscribed by a voter of the district, 
 to the effect that he knows that said person whose vote 
 is so offered is a resident of said district; the ballots con- 
 tained in any such envelope which shall have been opened 
 or unsealed before the same shall have been delivered to 
 the board of election, shall not.be deposited in the ballot- 
 box, but shall be rejected. 
 
 226. The affidavits and instruments hereinbefore de- ah affida- 
 scribed, and all envelopes marked "soldier's or sailor's" preserred' 
 votes, not opened at such elections, shall be kept and filed 
 
 by the clerk of the election in the same manner and place 
 
io6 
 
 Postmaster 
 to take 
 receipt. 
 
 Oath made 
 when pre- 
 senting 
 ballot. 
 
 Penalty for 
 failure to 
 comply 
 with duties 
 required. 
 
 Penalty for 
 presentation 
 of false 
 ballot. 
 
 as poll-lists of such elections are required by law to be 
 filed and kept. 
 
 227. Any person who shall be entitled to receive any 
 letter or envelope marked as herein provided, before he 
 shall take away the same, shall sign and deliver to the post- 
 master or his deputy or clerk, a receipt therefor, which 
 receipt shall specify how many such letters or envelopes 
 he has received, and otherwise, as far as may be, specify 
 the particulars of the description thereof ; and any willful 
 omission to comply with the provisions of this section 
 shall be adjudged a misdemeanor, and any person con- 
 victed thereof shall be punished accordingly. 
 
 228. The person to whom any soldier's or sailor's ballot 
 shall be sent as herein provided, shall at the time of deliv- 
 ering the same to the board of election to be deposited in 
 the ballot-box, also present his oath or affirmation, in writ- 
 ing, setting forth that the ballot or ballots therewith pre- 
 sented have been received by him to deliver to said board 
 of election, and that he has not in any manner changed, 
 altered or opened the said ballot or ballots, or the inner 
 envelopes thereof, and that he believes the same have not 
 been changed, altered or opened by any other person. 
 
 229. Any member of any board of election, and any 
 elector to whom said ballot shall be sent, who shall will- 
 fully neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties re- 
 quired of him as aforesaid, or who shall in any manner 
 willfully violate or abuse any trust or duty hereby im- 
 posed, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon 
 conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more 
 than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the 
 county jail for a period not exceeding six months, or both. 
 
 230. Every person who shall deliver or present to the 
 board of election under this act, any false, forged, altered 
 or changed ballot, envelope or instrument of any such 
 enlisted elector, provided for by this act, knowing the 
 same to be so altered, forged or changed, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall 
 be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, 
 
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 cr by imprisonment at hard labor for any period not ex- 
 ceeding two years, or both. 
 
 231. Any officer of this state, or of the United States, 
 or any other person, who shall directly or indirectly con- 
 tiol, or attempt to control, any such enlisted elector as 
 aforesaid in the exercise of any of his rights under this 
 act, by menace, bribery, fear of punishment, hope of re- 
 ward, or any other corrupt or arbitrary measure or resort 
 v/hatever, or to annoy, injure or otherwise punish any such 
 absent elector for the manner in which he may have exer- 
 cised any such right, shall be deemed guilty of an offense 
 against the government and dignity of this state, which 
 shall be punished as a misdemeanor, and for which he may 
 be indicted and tried at any future time when he may be 
 found within the limits of this state, and upon conviction 
 he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand 
 dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor not exceeding 
 two years, or both. 
 
 232. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and 
 required to prepare and have printed, at the cost of this 
 slate, the necessary blank forms and envelopes required to 
 carry out the provisions of this act relative to the voting 
 of enlisted electors ; and shall cause the affidavits required 
 by this act to be printed in blank upon the proper envel- 
 opes to contain the instrument required by this act; and 
 shall at least one month previous to any general, special or 
 local election cause such blank forms and envelopes, and 
 copies of those sections of this act relating thereto, to be 
 forwarded to the several regiments from this state, in the 
 service of this state or of the United States in the field, 
 and to -the several hospitals, posts and naval stations, in 
 sufficient quantity to furnish one copy of each blank form, 
 envelope, and of the sections of this act required to be 
 printed as aforesaid, to each person in actual military 
 service of this state, or of the United States, in the army 
 or navy thereof, from this state, and absent therefrom; 
 provided, however, that such absent electors shall have the 
 right to vote as hereinabove provided without being re- 
 quired to use an official ballot or envelope. 
 
 Penalty for 
 influencing 
 enlisted 
 voter by 
 threat, etc. 
 
 Secretary 
 of state to 
 prepare 
 necessary 
 blanks, etc. 
 
io8 
 
 Repealer. 
 
 Official 
 ballots, etc.. 
 required 
 in local 
 elections 
 in towns and 
 certain 
 other mu- 
 nicipalities. 
 
 Correction 
 of defective 
 certificate, or 
 petition of 
 nomination 
 authorized. 
 
 233. The act entitled "An act to regulate elections," 
 approved April eighteenth, one thousand eight hundred and 
 seventy-six, and all acts amendatory thereof and supple- 
 mental thereto, and all acts and parts of acts, general and 
 special, inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed, 
 but this repealer shall not revive any act heretofore re- 
 pealed, and this act shall take" effect immediately; pro- 
 vided, that the members of any county board of elections 
 and members of any district board of registry and election, 
 in office, shall continue in office until the time or times 
 herein provided for the commencement of the term of 
 office of their successors. 
 
 Supplement of April i, 1902. P. L. 1902, p. 235. 
 
 234. Sec. I. All the provisions of the act to which this 
 act is a supplement, relating to the nomination of candi- 
 dates and to the use of official ballots, * * * shall 
 apply to the charter, local, municipal and special elections 
 in all of the towns of this state and in all other municipali- 
 ties of this state however designated or governed having 
 v.:ithin their territorial limits a population of more than 
 eight. thousand inhabitants, according to the last state or 
 federal census, in the same manner and to the like effect 
 as in and by said act the same are made applicable to the 
 charter, local or special elections in the cities of this state, 
 anything in said act to the contrary notwithstanding, (a) 
 
 Amendment of April 2, 1902. P. L. 1902, p. 257. 
 
 235. Sec. I. It shall be lawful for any candidate, the 
 certificate of whose nomination, or petition for whose 
 nomination, shall have been filed as required by the act 
 entitled "An act to regulate elections" [Revision of 1898], 
 approved April fourth, one thousand eight hundred and 
 ninety-eight, if such certificate or petition, or any affidavit 
 or affidavits thereto, be defective, to cause such certificate 
 or petition, and the affidavit or affidavits thereto, to be 
 amended in matters of substance or of form as may be 
 necessary, or such amendment or amendments may be 
 made by filing a new or 'substitute certificate or petition, 
 
 (a) This act enlarges and supersedes the supplement contained in 
 P. L. 1901, p. 324. See note (o) to section So ante. 
 
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 or affidavit or affidavits, and the same when so amended 
 shall be of the same effect as if originally filed in said 
 amended form ; provided^, however, that every amendment Proviso, 
 shall be made at least five days before the election. 
 
 236. Sec. 2. This act shall be liberally construed to pro- ^^^ ^^^ 
 tect the interest of candidates. construed. 
 
 Apportionment of Members of General Assembly. 
 
 An Act to apportion the members of the general assembly 
 among the several counties of this state. Approved 
 April 21, 1911. P. L. 191 1, p. 372. ,pp^,,.,,. 
 
 237. Sec. I. Hereafter the several counties of this state ^^"^^jg^s of 
 shall be entitled to elect as members of the general assem- general 
 
 . assembly 
 
 bly the number herem provided : amongst the 
 
 The county of Atlantic shall be entitled to elect two ^ounttis. 
 members ; 
 
 The county of Bergen shall be entitled to elect three 
 members ; 
 
 The count}^ of Burlington shall be entitled to elect one 
 member ; 
 
 The county of Camden shall be entitled to elect three 
 members ; 
 
 The county of Cape May shall be entitled to elect one 
 member ; 
 
 The county of Cumberland shall be entitled to elect one 
 member ; 
 
 The' county of Essex shall be entitled to elect twelve , 
 members ; 
 
 The county of Gloucester shall be entitled to elect one 
 member ; 
 
 The county of Hudson shall be entitled to elect twelve 
 members ; 
 
 The county of Hunterdon shall be entitled to elect one 
 member ; 
 
 The county of Mercer shall be entitled to elect three 
 members ; 
 
 The county of Middlesex shall be entitled to elect three 
 members : 
 
no 
 
 Interpreta- 
 tion of act. 
 
 The county of Monmouth shall be entitled to elect two 
 members ; 
 
 The county of Morris shall be entitled to elect two 
 members ; 
 
 The county of Ocean shall be entitled to elect one 
 member ; 
 
 The couihty of Passaic shall be entitled to elect five 
 members ; 
 
 The county of Salem shall be entitled to elect one 
 member; 
 
 The county of Somerset shall be entitled to elect one 
 member ; 
 
 The county of Sussex shall be entitled to elect one 
 member ; 
 
 The county of Union shall be entitled to elect three 
 members ; 
 
 The county of Warren shall be entitled to elect one 
 member. 
 
 238. Sec. 2. In the interpretation of this act all refer- 
 ences to counties shall be taken to refer to the counties as 
 they exist at the time of the passage of this act. 
 
 Congressional Districts. 
 
 Congres- 
 sional 
 districts 
 defined. 
 
 An Act to divide the State of New Jersey into districts for 
 the purpose of electing members of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives of the United States, and prescribing the 
 boundaries of such districts. Filed April 16, igi2. P. 
 L. 1912, chapter 411. 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and General' Assembly of 
 
 the State of New Jersey: 
 
 239. Sec. I. For the purpose of electing members of the 
 
 house of representatives of the United States to serve in 
 
 the sixty-third congress, and in each subsequent congress, 
 
 this state shall be divided "into twelve districts, as follows, 
 
 namely : 
 
 First. The counties of Camden, Gloucester and Salem 
 
 shall constitute and be called the first district ; 
 
 Second. The counties of Cape May, Cumberland, Atlan- 
 
Ill 
 
 tic and Burlington shall constitute and be called the second 
 district ; 
 
 Third. The counties of Middlesex, Monmouth and 
 Ocean shall constitute and be called the third district ; 
 
 Fourth. The counties of Hunterdon, Somerset and Mer- 
 cer shall constitute and be called the fourth district ; 
 
 Fifth. The counties of Union and Morris shall consti- 
 tute and be called the fifth district ; 
 
 Sixth. The counties of Bergen and Sussex and Warren 
 and the townships of Pompton and West Milford in the 
 county of Passaic, shall constitute and be called the sixth 
 district ; 
 
 Seventh. The county of Passaic, except the townships of 
 Pompton and West Milford in the said county, shall con- 
 stitute and be called the seventh district; 
 
 Eighth. The eighth, eleventh and fifteenth wards of the 
 city of Newark, the towns of Belleville, Bloomfield and 
 Nutley, all in the county of Essex, and the towns of Harri- 
 son and Kearny, the borough of East Newark, the seventh 
 ward of the city of Jersey City, and the city of Bayonne, 
 all in the county of Hudson, shall constitute and be called 
 the eighth district; 
 
 Ninth. The cities of East Orange and Orange, and the 
 first, third, sixth, seventh, thirteenth and fourteenth wards 
 cf the city of Newark, all in the county of Essex, shall 
 constitute and be called the ninth district; 
 
 Tenth. The second, fourth, fifth, ninth, tenth, twelfth 
 arid sixteenth wards of the city of Newark, the towns of 
 Irvington, Montclair and West Orange, the boroughs of 
 Caldwell, Essex Fells, Glen Ridge, North Caldwell, Rose- 
 land, Verona, West Caldwell, and the townships of Cald- 
 well, Cedar Grove, Livingston, Millburn, South Orange 
 and the village of South Orange, all in the county of Essex, 
 shall constitute and be called the tenth district; 
 
 Eleventh. The townships of Weehawken and North Ber- 
 gen, the towns of Guttenberg, West Hoboken, West New 
 York and Union and the borough of Secaucus, the city of 
 Hoboken, and the second ward in the city of Jersey City, 
 
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 Interpreta- 
 tion of act. 
 
 all in the county of Hudson, shall constitute and be called 
 the eleventh district. 
 
 Twelfth. The first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, 
 ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth wards of Jersey City, all 
 in the county of Hudson, shall constitute and be called the 
 tv/elfth district. 
 
 In the interpretation of this act all reference to counties, 
 cities, boroughs, townships, wards, election districts, and 
 other municipal divisions shall be taken to refer to such 
 municipal divisions as they existed on the first day of 
 January, A. D. nineteen hundred and twelve. 
 
 Primary Elections. 
 
 Selection of 
 delegates at 
 primaries. 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1906, 
 p. 503.] 
 
 For what 
 oflaces. 
 
 If candidate 
 in one ward 
 or township. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Supplement of April 14, 1903. P. L. 1903, p. 603. 
 
 240. Sec. I. In addition to the elections for filling pub- 
 lic offices that now are or hereafter may be held under the 
 laws of this State, there shall also be held primary elections 
 for the selection of delegates to conventions of political 
 parties, and for the nomination of candidates for certain 
 public offices, as hereinafter provided; all candidates of 
 political parties for the following offices, to wit: Presi- 
 dential electors, governor, members of congress, members 
 of the general assembly, members of the state senate, 
 county clerk, surrogate, register of deeds, sheriflf, county 
 supervisor, coroner, mayor^and for all elective offices in 
 the state and in the cities, towns or other municipalities in 
 this state to be voted for at the general election for mem- 
 bers of assembly by the voters of more than one ward or 
 township, shall be nominated at conventions composed of 
 delegates chosen at primary elections held pursuant to this 
 act ; all candidates of political parties for office to be vo{ed 
 for at the general election for members of Assembly by 
 the voters of a single ward or township shall be nominated 
 directly, without the intervention of delegates or conven- 
 tions at primary elections held pursuant to this act; pro- 
 vided, that in cases where a single ward or township shall 
 constitute an assembly district candidates for member of 
 the assembly from such district shall be nominated at con- 
 
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 ventions composed of delegates chosen at primary elections 
 held pursuant to this act. 
 
 241. Sec. 2. The general scheme and purpose of this g^^^j^.^ ^^*°" 
 act shall be as follows : The said primary elections shall mented by 
 
 PL 1911 
 
 hereafter be conducted at public expense; such primary p.' 276, 
 
 elections for all political parties shall be held at the same ^^^- ^^- ' 
 
 t'me and place ; the time shall be the second registry day, ^^^^ ^^^ 
 
 and the places shall be the places of holding the said regis- place, 
 try in the fall of each year; and said primary elections 
 shall be conducted by the boards of registry and election 
 
 in a manner hereinafter provided, from seven o'clock A. „ 
 
 ^ ' How con- 
 
 M. until nine o'clock P. M., and substantially as general ducted, 
 elections for members of Assembly are now conducted, 
 with official ballots, ballot-boxes, registry lists and polling 
 booths. * * * The clerk of the city, town, township. Primary 
 
 •^ ^' ballots. 
 
 borough or other municipality, as the case may be, shall 
 prepare the primary ballots of all political parties from the 
 petition filed in their respective offices as herein provided. 
 Not less than ten (except as hereinafter provided) voters 
 of any political party may file w4th the municipal clerk of 
 their municipality a petition endorsing: any member of Petition for 
 
 , . -. . f ,. , . , . . ^ candidates. 
 
 their political party a.s a candidate for the nomination of 
 said party to public office, where such nomination is to be 
 made at the primary election and requesting that the name 
 of the person so endorsed be printed upon the official pri- 
 mary ballot of such political party. The said municipal Official bai- 
 clerks shall prepare official ballots for each political party pared^b^y 
 for the said primary elections from the names of the per- ^"^j^^f ^^^ 
 sens so endorsed, arranging them alphabetically, or in 
 groups, as hereinafter provided. ****** jj^ 
 addition to the registry lists hereinbefore provided, there Party 
 shall also be kept two books or lists, one for each political books, 
 party, which shall be called and labeled Republican Pri- 
 mary Book, and Democratic Primary Book, or as the case 
 may be ; the board of registry and elections shall cause the 
 name of each voter at said primary to be written in ink, 
 in the primary book of the party in whose ballot-box his 
 vote is deposited. Each of these primary books shall be 
 signed by the members of the board of registry and elec- 
 
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 Voter's name 
 must appear 
 in previous 
 primary 
 book. 
 
 Primary 
 books open 
 to inspection. 
 
 Its cor- 
 rection. 
 
 Political 
 party and 
 convention 
 defined. 
 
 Prepara- 
 tion of 
 primary 
 ballots. 
 
 lions and delivered by said board to the clerk of the mu- 
 nicipality at the time of the delivery of the ballot-boxes; 
 said primary books shall be kept by said clerk until the 
 ensuing primary election, and then delivered by him to the 
 board of registry and elections for use at such ensuing 
 election. At any primary election the members of the 
 board conducting the primary election for each political 
 party shall refuse to receive the vote of any voter offering 
 to vote in the ballot-box of their political party, if the 
 name of such voter appears in the primary book of the 
 other political party as made up at the next previous pri- 
 mary election. [The said primary books shall be kept by 
 the municipal clerk subject to public inspection, and any 
 voter whose name appears therein may apply to the judge 
 holding the circuit court for his county, at any time prior to 
 the next primary election to have his name stricken from 
 said book; and said judge shall have power to hear said 
 application in a summary way, at such time and upon such 
 notice to such person as he may prescribe, and if satisfied 
 that the applying voter's nam.e has been improperly placed 
 on said primary book, said judge may make an order 
 directing the municipal clerk to erase said name from said 
 primary book, and said clerk shall thereupon erase the 
 same.] 
 
 242. Sec. 3. A political party within the meaning of 
 this act shall be a political party which at the election for 
 members of the general assembly next preceding the hold- 
 ing of any primary election held pursuant to this act polled 
 for members of the general assembly at least five per 
 centum of the total vote cast in the territorial district or 
 division in and for which the nominations are made or 
 delegates are chosen ; the word "convention" within the 
 meaning of this act shall be a "convention of delegates" or 
 "nominating body of a political party" as defined in sec- 
 tion thirty-eight of the act to which this act is a further 
 supplement. 
 
 243. Sec. 4. The official primary ballots to be used at 
 all primary elections held pursuant to this act shall be pre- 
 pared in the following manner, to wit : A number of voters, 
 
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 not less than the number hereinafter specified, who arc 
 members of the same poHtical party, may prepare and 
 sign, with their names, residences and postoffice addresses, 
 a petition addressed to the clerk of such municipality as 
 may be proper pursuant to the requirements of this act, 
 setting forth that the signers are qualified voters of the 
 township, borough, ward or election district, as the case 
 may be, in which they reside; that they are members of a 
 political party (naming the same), and that at the last 
 election for members of the general assembly preceding 
 the execution of said petition they voted for a majority 
 of the candidates whose names were printed in the first 
 place upon the ticket of such party, and that they intend to 
 affiliate with said party at the ensuing election; that they 
 endorse the person or persons named in their petition as 
 candidate or candidates for nomination for the office or 
 offices therein named, and that they request the said clerk 
 to print upon the official primary ballot of such political 
 party the name of the person or persons therein mentioned 
 as the candidate or candidates for such nomination, said 
 petition shall further state the residence and post-office 
 address of each person so endorsed, and shall certify that 
 the person or persons so endorsed is or are legally quali- 
 fied under the laws of this State to be nominated ; each of 
 the said petitions shall be verified by the oath or affirma- 
 tion of one or more of the signers thereof, taken and sub- 
 scribed before a person qualified under the laws of New 
 Jersey to administer an oath, to the effect that such peti- 
 tion is signed in their own proper handwriting by each of 
 the signers thereof; that such signers, are to the best of 
 their knowledge and belief of the affiant, legal voters of 
 the said township, borough, ward or election district, as 
 the case may be, as stated in said petition, belong to the 
 political party named in said petition, and that such peti- 
 tion is prepared and filed in absolute good faith for the 
 sole purpose of endorsing the person or persons therein 
 named, in order to secure his or their nomination or selec- 
 tion as stated in said petition; provided, that if the said 
 candidate or candidates for nomination for the office or 
 
 [Amended. 
 P. L. 1912, 
 p. 776.] 
 
 Petition ; 
 what to 
 contain. 
 
 Petition 
 verified. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
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 offices in said petition named, are to be voted for through- 
 out an entire township, borough, or ward then there must 
 be at least twenty-five signers to any such petition all of 
 whom must be resident of the said township, borough or 
 ward; and if said candidate or candidates for nomination 
 are to be voted for only in a single election district or in a 
 tcwnship, borough, or ward which contains but one elec- 
 tion district, then there must be at least ten signers to any 
 such petition, all of whom must be resident in the said elec- 
 Proviso. tion district; provided further, that the number of signers 
 
 to any such petition in any case need not exceed five per 
 centum in number of the total vote cast at the last election 
 for members of the general assembly in said township, 
 borough, ward or election district, as the case may be ; and 
 Proviso. provided further, that the signers to any single petition 
 
 shall not therein endorse or recommend more persons as 
 candidates for the position than are to be chosen at the 
 ensuing primary election in the township, borough, ward 
 or election district, as the case may be, in which the signers 
 to said petition reside, nor shall said signers endorse more 
 persons as candidates for nomination to office than are to 
 be elected in the township, borough, ward or election dis- 
 trict, as the case may be, in w^hich such signers reside; 
 said petitions shall be filed with the municipal clerk not 
 less than twenty days prior to said primary election. 
 Certificate of 244. Sec. 5. Accompanying said petition each person 
 ^o^accom-^ endorsed therein shall file a certificate, stating that he is 
 ^°'!^Z ^ qualified for the office mentioned in said petition; that he 
 
 petition and ^ . ^ . . 
 
 the form consents to stand as a candidate for nomination at the 
 
 ensuing primary election, and that if nominated, he agrees 
 
 to accept the nomination ; the name of any person endorsed 
 
 as aforesaid who shall fail to certify his consent and agree- 
 
 m.ent as aforesaid shall not be printed upon the ballots to 
 
 be used at such primary election. 
 C'ty and ^ - _ . . 
 
 county com- 245. Sec. 6. In any county m this state the county or 
 
 Sected at ^ity committee of any political party shall be hereafter 
 
 '^r^ti^o^ns elected at the primary elections herein provided for, and 
 
 [Amended, the members of such county or city committee shall be 
 
 p. 159.] ' elected by election districts at such primary elections in 
 
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 the manner provided in this act for the selection of party 
 candidates to be voted for by the voters of a single ward 
 01 township ; and the chairman of each county or city com- 
 mittee shall, on or before the first day of July in each 
 year, file with the clerks of the several municipalities the 
 number of committeemen to be elected to such county or 
 city committee in each year, as provided by the constitu- 
 tion or by-laws of such committee. 
 
 246. Sec. 7. Superseded by the General Act, Chapter 
 183, P. L. 191 1, and Chapter 416, P. L. 1912. 
 
 Democratic Primary Ticket. 
 
 247. Sec. 8. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 276, sec. 
 40. See paragraph 345, post. 
 
 248. Sec. 9. All ballots shall be printed on plain white 
 paper uniform in size and quality and type and of such 
 thickness that the printing thereon cannot be distinguished 
 from the back of the paper, and without any mark, device 
 or figure thereon except as in and by this act provided; 
 
 Ballots, how 
 printed. 
 
 249. Sec. 10. Said municipal clerk shall, prior to each Number of 
 
 1 . 1-1 , . . ballots 
 
 primary election, at the time and as herein directed, pro- furnished, 
 vide and furnish for each existing political party, mem- 
 bers of which have filed petitions as aforesaid, for the use 
 of the voters at such primary, for each election district 
 in his respective municipality, ballots of the kind and de- 
 scription aforesaid, equal to double the number of votes 
 c:ist by such political party at the then last preceding elec- 
 tion for members of the general assembly held in such 
 ejection district ; when an election district shall be divided 
 or the boundaries thereof changed, or a new district cre- 
 ated, the municipal clerk shall ascertain as nearly as may 
 be possible the number of voters in the new or re-arranged 
 or divided district, and provide therefor a sufficient num- 
 ber of ballots in the above proportion; no envelope shall 
 be used at the primary elections held pursuant to this act. 
 
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 Voting 
 places, 
 
 booths, etc., 
 to be pro- 
 vided by 
 municipal 
 clerks. 
 
 Black lead 
 pencils to be 
 furnished. 
 
 Delivery of 
 ballots and 
 boxes and 
 receipt for 
 same on 
 primary day. 
 
 Amended. 
 P. L. 1910, 
 p. 117. 
 
 Separate box 
 for each 
 party. 
 
 250. Sec. II. At least twenty days before any primary 
 election shall be held under the provisions of this act, the 
 clerks of the several municipalities of the state as may be 
 proper, pursuant to this act, shall provide for and secure 
 in each election district of their respective municipalities, 
 a suitable room in which to hold the registry and Uie said 
 primary election, and immediately on procuring said room, 
 such clerk shall notify the registry or poll clerk, or board 
 of registry and elections, of said voting district, that such 
 room has been procured; and it shall be the duty of the 
 clerk procuring such room to arrange the same for a 
 polling room, in the manner required by law for general 
 elections, and to have constructed therein and ready for 
 use before the primary elections, booths and compartments 
 of the kind, number and description as are or may be by 
 law required to be provided at the annual election for 
 members of the general assembly; black lead pencils shall 
 be provided and placed in said booths or compartments 
 for use by the voter in preparing his ballot to be voted, 
 and no other kind of pencil shall be used for such pur- 
 pose. 
 
 251. Sec. 12. The said municipal clerk shall, on the 
 morning of the day preceding any primary election where- 
 fore they are required by this act to provide ballots, cause 
 tc be delivered, at his office, to the clerks of the board of 
 registry and election of each election district within his 
 m.unicipality, the ballots and the ballot-boxes provided for 
 each election district, and to take a receipt of each elec- 
 tion clerk therefor, which last mentioned receipt the clerk 
 of such municipality shall file and preserve for the period 
 cf one year; said election clerks shall, on the morning of 
 the primary election, before proclamation of the opening 
 of the polls, deliver the ballot-boxes and the ballots by 
 them received to the election boards of their respective 
 election districts, with the seals thereof unbroken, and 
 shall take receipts therefor from said election board, 
 which said receipts said election clerks shall file with the 
 municipal clerk, and the same shall be preserved for one 
 year; said municipal clerk shall provide a separate ballot- 
 
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 Kind of box. 
 
 Charge of 
 ballot- 
 boxes. 
 
 box for each political party for each election district in 
 his respective municipality ; said ballot-boxes shall be each 
 composed of four glass sides, at least one foot wide and 
 one foot high, with a wood or metal bottom and top, and 
 v/ith an opening at the top through which the ballots shall 
 be inserted into the box ; any ballot-box which can legally 
 be used at any general election for members of general 
 assembly may be used at the primary elections held pur- 
 suant to this act. 
 
 252. Sec. 13. The two members of such board ap- 
 pointed from the political party which at the last preceding 
 general election cast the largest number of votes in their 
 county shall conduct the primary election of such party, 
 having sole charge of the ballot-boxes of said party, and 
 delivering, receiving and depositing the official ballots 
 voted by members of such party, and having the sole right 
 to challenge the voters offering to vote the ticket of such 
 party as in this act provided; and the members of said 
 board appointed from the political party casting the next 
 largest number of votes in said county at said election 
 shall, in like manner, conduct the primary election of such 
 political party. All of the members of said board of 
 registry and election shall conduct the primary election of 
 any other political party holding a primary election under 
 this act, and shall also ascertain and certify to the result 
 oi the primary election of all political parties holding pri- 
 mary elections under this act in the manner herein pro- 
 vided in section fifteen; provided, that before proceeding 
 with such election each of the four members of the board 
 of registry and election shall take and subscribe an oath 
 tc be administered by any duly qualified person, or by one 
 member of the board to the others, that they and each of 
 them will, to the best of his understanding and ability, 
 conduct such primary election honestly and in accordar cc 
 with law ; that they will challenge, in the manner pro- 
 vided in this act, the vote of any person offering to vote 
 ac such election whom they believe not entitled to vote 
 thereat, and that they will also challenge the vote of a-iy 
 person at such election offering to vote in the ballot-box ^^«J** *<> 
 
 All election 
 oflacers to 
 act. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Oath. 
 
I20 
 
 I'erjury. 
 
 Voter not to 
 vote in box 
 of other 
 party at 
 next 
 election. 
 
 Books open 
 to inspec- 
 tion. 
 
 Its correc- 
 tion. 
 
 Notice of 
 primaries. 
 
 Canvassing 
 the votes. 
 
 of one existing political party, whom they believe, or 
 have reason to believe to belong to another existing po- 
 litical party, and that they will refuse to receive the vote 
 of such person, in case such vote is challenged, until he 
 shall have taken an oath or affirmation, to be administered 
 by a member of the board in the form prescribed. (See 
 P. L. 191 1, p. 2y(}, sec. 32, paragraph 337, post.) 
 
 * * * if the person so challenged shall refuse to 
 take the oath or affirmation so tendered to him he shall be 
 deemed not to be quahfied or entitled to vote at such pri- 
 mary election. Any person making such oath or affirma- 
 tion falsely shall be guilty of perjury. Any voter who 
 shall be shown by the primary book hereinafter provided 
 to have voted in the ballot-box of one political party at 
 any primary election held under this act shall not be 
 allowed to vote in the ballot-box of any other political 
 party at the next thereafter succeeding primary election. 
 ^ ^ if. 'pj-^g g^j^^ primary books shall be kept by the 
 municipal clerk subject to public inspection, and any 
 voter whose name appears therein may apply to the judge 
 holding the circuit court for his county, at any time prior 
 to the next primary election, to have his name stricken 
 from said book ; and said judge shall have power, to hear 
 said application in a summary way, at such time and upon 
 such notice to such persons as he may prescribe, and if 
 satisfied that the applying voter's name has been improp- 
 erly placed on said primary book, said judge may make 
 an order directing the municipal clerk to erase said name 
 from said primary book, and said clerk shall thereupon 
 erase the same. * * * Notice of the time and place 
 of holding such primary elections shall be given by the 
 poll clerks by five or more advertisements posted at con- 
 spicuous places in the election district at least ten days 
 before such primary elections. 
 
 253. Sec. 14. * * * nothing herein shall prevent 
 any voter from voting for any person whose name is not 
 on his party ticket by writing the same thereon ; * * * 
 
 254. Sec. 15. At the close of the primary election, the 
 board of registry and election shall forthwith proceed to 
 
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 canvass and count the votes cast at such election, proceed- 
 ing in the manner indicated by the statement hereinafter 
 in this section provided for, and as nearly as may be in 
 the manner required by law; the said boards of election 
 shall at the conclusion of such canvass make up and sign a statement 
 
 ^ ° of election. 
 
 statement of the result of such election, which statement 
 tl.'ey shall as soon as may be transmit to the clerk of the 
 municipality within which the said primary election is 
 held; said statement shall in words at length show the 
 entire number of votes cast at such election, the whole 
 number of ballots rejected, the whole number of ballots 
 cast for each party as indicated by the party names at the 
 head of the respective party tickets, and the number of 
 votes received by each person as a candidate for nomina- 
 tion for office, or for the position of delegate ; such state- 
 ment shall be in the following or like form : 
 
 Statement of the result of a primary election held in Form of 
 the election district of the statement, 
 
 (municipality) in the county of and state 
 
 of New Jersey, on the day of 
 
 191 : . 
 
 At said election the total number 
 
 of votes cast was: 
 
 The total number of democratic ballots cast was : 
 The total number of republican ballots cast was : 
 The total number of citizens' reform ballots cast was : 
 The total number of democratic ballots rejected was : 
 
 The total number of republican ballots rejected was: 
 The total number of citizens' reform ballots rejected was : 
 For candidates of the democratic party for the position of 
 delegate to the democratic state convention : 
 
 John Doe received votes; 
 
 Richard Doe received votes ; 
 
 Thomas Jones received votes. 
 
 And in like form for all parties having candidates voted 
 for at such election. To such statement shall be added a 
 certificate in the following form: 
 
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 Certificate 
 added to 
 statement. 
 
 We certify the foregoing to be a true and correct state- 
 ment of the result of the primary elections held in such 
 district at the time above stated; that the same truly and 
 correctly exhibits the entire number of votes cast for each 
 political party at such election, the whole number of bal- 
 lots rejected and the number of said ballots rejected be- 
 longing to each party respectively; also the number of 
 votes received by any person to be a candidate of any 
 party for any office, or for the position of delegate 
 named on any ballot or ballots cast at such election. 
 
 In zvitness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands 
 this- day of , one thousand nine 
 
 hundred and 
 
 Board of 
 
 Registry and 
 
 Election. 
 
 Who elected 
 delegates. 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1906, 
 p. 509.] 
 
 Time and 
 place of 
 convention. 
 
 If tie vote. 
 
 255. Sec. 16. The persons receiving the highest number 
 of votes for the position of delegate to any convention, 
 (a) on any ticket of any political party at such primary 
 election, to the extent of the number of delegates which 
 the respective election districts are entitled to send to the 
 said convention, shall be the duly-elected delegates to such 
 convention, and said persons and no others shall be entitled 
 U sit in the said convention as delegates as aforesaid, sub- 
 ject to the right of the said convention to be the judge of 
 the qualifications of its own members in the case of a 
 contest. The time and place of holding such conventions 
 shall be determined by the State, * * * committee of 
 the respective political parties, but shall in all cases be 
 after the holding of the primary election as herein pro- 
 vided. In the event that by reason of tie voting more 
 Candidates shall receive a sufficient number of votes to 
 entitle them to be elected as delegates than the number of 
 delegates the election district is entitled to send to the 
 convention, the additional candidates so voted for shall be 
 considered as chosen delegates to said convention, but in 
 such convention they shall be entitled only to the appro- 
 
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 priate fraction of a vote; that is to say, if an election dis- 
 trict shall be entitled to send three delegates to a conven- 
 tion, and two candidates receive respectively the highest 
 and the next highest number of votes, and the three can- 
 didates receiving the next highest number of votes shall 
 each receive the same number of votes, the said three can- 
 didates shall also be elected delegates to the convention, 
 but shall be entitled to only one-third of a vote each 
 therein. The said municipal clerk shall deliver a certifi- 
 cate showing the result of said election to each of the per- 
 sons ascertained as aforesaid to be successful candidates, 
 which certificates shall be the credentials of the said dele- 
 gates at the ensuing conventions of the respective parties. 
 
 Credentials. 
 
 256. Sec. 17. The municipal clerk shall send to the Selection of 
 county clerk of his county a certificate showing the person wards and 
 in each political party receiving the highest number of townships, 
 votes for any office for which the candidate is to be voted 
 for at the general election only in a single ward or town- 
 ship, and such person shall be the candidate of his political 
 party at the ensuing election, and the county clerk shall 
 cause his name to be printed as such candidate upon the 
 official ballot of his party ; in the event of a failure to select 
 such candidate for any political party by reason of two or 
 more persons receiving the highest and the same number 
 of votes, the proper committee of the said political party 
 shall select from the said candidates one to be the party 
 candidate for the office in question, and file a statement 
 of such selection with the municipal clerk, and the person 
 so selected shall be the candidate of the party at the ensu- 
 ing election ; in the event of a failure of the said commit- vacancies, 
 tee to make such selection, the municipal clerk shall make 
 the selection from the persons receiving said highest and 
 the same number of votes ; in the event that any candidate 
 chosen at a primary election for any office, the candidates 
 for which are to be voted for only by the voters of a single 
 ward or township, shall die, or remove from the ward, 
 township or borough, or decline to run as a candidate, 
 before the ensuing election, the proper committee of the 
 
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 Correction 
 of errors 
 in ballots. 
 
 Vacancies 
 among candi- 
 dates at 
 primary 
 election. 
 Amended, 
 P. L. 1910, 
 p. 397. 
 Supple- 
 mented by 
 P. L. 1911, 
 p. 762. 
 f-'ee par post. 
 
 New petition. 
 
 Vacancies 
 among 
 delegates, 
 f Amended, 
 P. L. 1906, 
 p. 510.] 
 
 party to which the person so declinmg or dying belongs 
 shall have the power to fill said vacancy by filing a new 
 nomination with the proper municipal clerk; notice of the 
 selection as aforesaid shall be given by the municipal 
 clerk to the county clerk. 
 
 257. Sec. 18. Whenever it shall appear that any error 
 or omission has occurred in the printing of the ballots for 
 any primary election, by any municipal clerk, any voter 
 resident in any election district affected by such error or 
 omission may present to the justice of the supreme court 
 holding the circuit court in and for the county containing 
 said election district a verified statement setting forth such 
 error or omission, and such justice, being satisfied thereof, 
 shall thereupon summarily, by his order, require the mu- 
 nicipal clerk to correct such error and omission, or show 
 cause why such error and omission should not be 
 corrected. 
 
 258. Sec. 19. Should any person endorsed in any peti- 
 tion as a candidate to be voted for at any primary election, 
 die before such election, or in writing filed with the mu- 
 nicipal clerk fifteen days before the primary election, 
 decline to stand as a candidate, the vacancy or vacancies 
 thus caused shall be filled by a majority of the persons 
 signing the petition in and by which the person so dying 
 or declining was endorsed, filing within three days after 
 the occurrence of such vacancy wath the municipal clerk 
 y new petition, setting forth the name of the person declin- 
 ing or dying, the office for nomination to which or the 
 position of delegate for which he was endorsed, and the 
 name of the person to be substituted; the said petition 
 shall be verified by three of the signers; the said new 
 petition shall have the same force and effect as the orig- 
 inal petition, and the name of the person so substituted 
 shall be printed upon the ballots in the place and stead of 
 the person dying, or declining as aforesaid. 
 
 259. Sec. 20. In the event that any person so elected a 
 delegate as aforesaid to any convention shall, after such 
 election and before the meeting of such convention, die, 
 cr in writing addressed to the chairman of said convention 
 
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 shall decline to act as such delegate, his place as such dele- 
 gate shall be filled by a majority vote of the other dele- 
 gates selected from the election district in which the 
 person so dying or resigning was elected. 
 
 260. Sec. 21. No member of one political party shall 
 sign his name to any petition purporting to endorse any 
 person as a candidate for delegate to the convention of 
 another political party, or as a candidate for office of an- 
 other political party, nor shall any member of one political 
 party vote in the ballot-box used for the primary election 
 of another political party ; any person who, being a mem- 
 ber of one political party, ^hall sign his name to any peti- 
 tion endorsing any person as a candidate for delegate to 
 the convention of another existing political party, or as 
 a candidate for office of another political party, or any 
 person who, being a member of one political party, shall 
 vote in the ballot-box used for the primary election of 
 another political party, shall in each case be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a 
 fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned 
 not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the 
 court. 
 
 261. Sec. 22. If at any primary election the ballots for 
 any political party to be furnished therefor as hereinbefore 
 provided shall not be delivered at the time above men- 
 tioned, or after delivery they shall be destroyed or stolen, 
 and other official ballots cannot be obtained in time for 
 such primary election, it shall be the duty of such munici- 
 pal clerk, or the clerk of the board of election, as the case 
 may be, to cause other ballots to be printed as nearly in 
 the form prescribed by this act as practicable, but without 
 the endorsement on the top thereof, which ballots so sub- 
 stituted shall be used at such primary elections; if from 
 any cause neither the official ballot or ballots otherwise 
 prepared as hereinbefore described shall be ready for dis- 
 tribution at any polling place, or if the supply of ballots 
 for any political party shall be exhausted before the polls 
 are closed, unofficial ballots, made as nearly as possible in 
 the form of official ballots, shall be used ; where the use 
 
 Member of 
 one party not 
 to petition or 
 vote in box 
 of another. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 When ballots 
 not official 
 may be used. 
 
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 'lo what 
 elections 
 this act is 
 applicable. 
 
 Challengers. 
 (Amended, 
 P. L. 1908, 
 p. 185.] 
 
 Candidates 
 as chal- 
 lengers. 
 
 of official ballots is for any of the reasons aforesaid dis- 
 pensed with, the mode and manner of voting shall never- 
 theless in all respects conform as nearly as possible to 
 the directions and requirements of this act. 
 
 262. Sec. 2^. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 276, 
 paragraph 332, post. 
 
 263. Sec. 24. Nothing in this act contained shall apply 
 to or in anywise affect any election hereafter to be held 
 in this state upon any day other than the day of the general 
 election for members of the general assembly. 
 
 264. Sec. 25. The chairman of the county committee of 
 each political party in each county of the state may appoint 
 two agents for each election district in his county; such 
 agents shall be the authorized agents and challengers of 
 their respective parties at the primary elections held under 
 this act, and shall be at liberty to challenge the right of any 
 person to vote thereat; the appointment of agents may be 
 made in writing under the hand of the respective county 
 chairmen, and shall specify the names and residences of 
 the agents, and the election districts for which they are 
 severally appointed ; such appointment papers shall be filed 
 with the respective boards of election in the districts 
 named therein as evidence of the authority of such agents 
 to be present in the polling place; said agents may be 
 present inside the railed enclosure while the votes cast at 
 the primary are being cast and counted, and hear and see 
 said ballots counted (and every person whose name shall 
 be printed upon the official primary ballot shall also have 
 the rights and privileges of a challenger as hereinbefore 
 provided), and every person whose name shall be printed 
 upon the official primary ballot, and who is to be voted 
 for throughout the county, shall have the right to act as a 
 challenger, and also to appoint in writing two agents for 
 each election district in his county, and said agents shall 
 have the rights and privileges of an agent and challenger, 
 a? provided in this section. 
 
 265. Sec. 26. [This section amends section 15 ante, 
 which see.] 
 
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 266. Sec. 2'j. [This section amends section 20 ayitc, 
 which see.] 
 
 267. Sec. 28. [This section amends section 21 antCj 
 which see.] 
 
 268. Sec. 29. [This section amends section 23 ante, 
 which see.] 
 
 269. Sec. 30. [This section amends section 60 ante, 
 which see.] 
 
 270. Sec. 31. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, p. 276, Repealer, 
 sees. 10, II. Paragraphs 315 and 316, post. 
 
 271. Sec. 32. Section two hundred and sixteen (216) 
 of the act to which this act is a further supplement is 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 272. Sec. 3^. The following sections of the act to Sections of 
 
 ' *-'^ ° election law 
 
 which this act is a further supplement shall apply, as far applicable 
 as may be, to the primary elections held pursuant to this e?ec^ion?.^^ 
 act: sections thirty-three (33), thirty-four (34), thirty- 
 five (3S), thirty-six (36), forty-eight (48), fifty-three 
 (53), fifty-five ^(55), fifty-six ^56), fifty-seven (57), t'T'im 
 fifty-eight (58), fifty-nine (59), sixty-two (62), sixty- p- 635.] 
 three {^Z)^ sixty-five (65), sixty-six (66), sixty-eight 
 (68), to seventy-nine (79) (both inclusive), eighty-one 
 (81), eighty-two (82), eighty-three (83), eighty-four 
 (84), eighty-six (86) to ninety-two (92), (both inclu- 
 sive), ninety-eight (98), ninety-nine (99), one hundred 
 (100), one hundred and fifty-nine (159), one hundred 
 and sixty (160), one hundred and sixty-one (161), one 
 hundred and seventy-nine (179), one hundred and eighty 
 (180), one hundred and eighty-six (186), one hundred 
 and eighty-seven (187), one hundred and eighty-eight 
 (188). one hundred and ninety (190), one hundred and 
 ninety-one (191), one hundred and ninety-three (193) to 
 two hundred and thirteen (213) (both inclusive), two 
 hundred and fourteen (214), tw^o hundred and fifteen 
 (215), two hundred and seventeen (217), two hundred 
 and eighteen (218) and two hundred and nineteen (219). 
 
 273. Sec. 34. All acts and parts of acts which in any- Repealer, 
 wise conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby 
 repealed, and this act shall take effect immediately. 
 
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 Nomination 
 to fill 
 vacancy in 
 legislature. 
 
 Advertising 
 writ of 
 election 
 to fill 
 vacancy in 
 legislature. 
 
 Nomination 
 certified. 
 
 Registration. 
 
 Supplement of January 20, 1905. P. L. 1905, p. 11. 
 
 274. Sec. I. That whenever a writ of election shall be 
 issued by either the senate or house of general assembly 
 of the state of New Jersey for the purpose of filling vacan- 
 cies which shall arise from the death, resignation or other- 
 wise of any member of either of said bodies that the 
 political parties of the county to which such writ of elec- 
 tion shall be directed may nominate candidates for the 
 office in which such vacancy has occurred, in such manner 
 and under such regulations as shall be provided by the 
 county committee of the respective political parties. 
 
 Supplement of January 25, 1905. P. L. 1905, p. 12. 
 
 275. Sec. I. That whenever a writ of election shall be 
 issued by either the senate or house of general assembly 
 of the state of New Jersey for the purpose of filling vacan- 
 cies which shall arise from the death, resignation or other- 
 wise of any member of either of said bodies the advertising 
 of the writ of election in at least four newspapers, if so 
 many there be in said county, said advertising shall be 
 published as nearly as may be equally in newspapers of 
 the different political parties so as to afford the widest 
 possible information to all voters of every political party, 
 and shall be published as often as required by the writ 
 of election, shall constitute a sufficient notice of the hold- 
 ing of such election to the legal voters therein; the con- 
 vention or body making such nomination shall certify to 
 the clerk of the county the name of the person or persons 
 selected as a candidate under the hand of the presiding 
 officer of the convention or other body making such 
 nomination together with an acceptance of such nomina- 
 tion signed by the person selected as a candidate and such 
 certificate of nomination and acceptance shall be filed with 
 the clerk of the county six days before the time fixed by 
 the writ for the holding of such election ; the local boards 
 of registry and election shall meet at the place where such 
 election is to be held in the respective voting districts or 
 precincts, on the Friday preceding the day set for the 
 holding of such election, at one o'clock in the afternoon, 
 
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 and remain in session until eight o'clock in the evening 
 for the purpose of revising" and correcting the registers 
 of voters by adding thereto the names of persons entitled 
 to vote whose names do not appear thereon; the registers 
 of voters used at the last preceding election shall be used 
 at such special election; the clerk of the county in which 
 such election shall be called shall provide official ballots t,*^i"t/ 
 and envelopes of the same kind and under the same regu- 
 lations as provided for in the law to which this is a supple- 
 ment ; the local boards of registry and election shall make Returns, 
 return of the result of such election to the clerk of the 
 county board of registry and election within twenty-four 
 hours after holding such election ; the county board of 
 ngistry and election shall meet on the Thursday follow- 
 ing the holding of such election and shall canvass the vote 
 and certify the result to the clerk of the county, and the 
 clerk of the county shall within three days after such elec- 
 tion is held deliver a certificate of the determination of the 
 county board of registry and election and the certificate 
 appended thereto to the successful candidate and transmit 
 another copy of the same to the secretary of state at Tren- certificate 
 ton; the clerk of the county shall issue to the successful of election 
 candidate a certificate of election immediately after the 
 vote shall be canvassed by the county board of registry 
 and election; official ballots shall be supplied to parties 
 applying for them under the same conditions and regula- 
 tions as provided in the act to which this is a supplement; 
 except as herein approved, such special election shall be 
 conducted in the same manner and under the same condi- 
 tions, restrictions and penalties as general elections for 
 members of assembly. 
 
 276. Sec. 2. The members of the boards of registry of Compensa- 
 election shall each receive, ten dollars and no more for all 
 services rendered under the provisions of this act. 
 
 Supplement of April 6, 1905. P. L. 1905, p. 224. 
 
 277. Sec. I. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, chap. 188', 
 sec. 31, paragraph 409, post. 
 
I30 
 
 Penalty for 
 Illegal 
 registering, 
 voting, 
 assisting, 
 abetting or 
 acting at 
 election. 
 
 278. Sec. 2. Whoever shall solicit the registering of his 
 name on the registry list of any election district or pre- 
 cinct in this state, knowing that he is not a legal voter in 
 such district or precinct; whoever shall willfully counsel, 
 piocure, aid, advise, assist or abet in the registering of the 
 name of any other person on the registry list of any elec- 
 tion district or precinct, knowing such other person is 
 not entitled to vote therein; whoever at any election, 
 knowing that he is not a qualified voter, votes thereat ; 
 whoever at any election votes or attempts to vote more 
 than once on his own name; whoever at any election 
 votes or attempts to vote in more than one election dis- 
 trict or precinct; whoever at any election votes or at- 
 tempts to vote upon any other name than his own; who- 
 ever knowingly casts or attempts to cast more than one 
 ballot at one time of balloting; whoever at any election 
 counsels, procures, aids, advises, assists or abets any per- 
 son, knowing that he is not a qualified voter, to vote 
 thereat; whoever at any election counsels, procures, aids, 
 advises, assists or abets any pers'on in voting in more than 
 one election district or precfnct; whoever at any election 
 counsels, procures, aids, advises, assists or abets any per- 
 son to vote or to attempt to vote upon any name other 
 than his own, or knowingly casts or attempts to cast more 
 than one ballot at one time of voting; whoever at any 
 election in this state shall in any way willfully mark or 
 deface his ballot, or shall willfully counsel, procure, aid, 
 advise, assist or abet any person in the marking or defac- 
 ing of a ballot ; whoever at any election in this state shall 
 in any way counsel, procure, aid, advise, assist or abet any 
 official or person in any act which is contrary to the pro- 
 visions of this act or the act to which this is a supple- 
 ment; whoever at any election in this state shall in any 
 way willfully hinder or prevent a voter from casting his 
 legal vote, knowing such person to have a right to vote; 
 whoever shall willfully tamper with, injure, mutilate, 
 destroy or render unfit for use, any ballot-box * * * 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a 
 
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 fine of five hundred dollars or imprisonment in state 
 prison for the term of three years, or both. 
 
 Supplement of April 12, 1905. P. L. 1905, p. 262. 
 
 279. Sec. I. It shall be the duty of the justice of the re^^gt^^°Hst 
 supreme court assigned to hold the circuit court, and the ''5" *^® ^°"''*- 
 judge of the court of common pleas, in each of the several 
 
 counties of this state, or one of said judges, to sit and 
 hold a court of common pleas at the court house in their 
 respective counties on the Monday next preceding the 
 day of the general election for members of the general 
 assembly, from eight o'clock in the forenoon till five 
 o'clock in the afternoon, to revise and correct the registry 
 of election in the several election districts in such county, 
 and in case any legal voter in any election district has been 
 refused the right to register, or his name has been im- 
 properly or inadvertently left oflf the registry-list, he may, 
 on said day, apply in person, to said court for the purpose 
 of having his name placed upon the register ; and the said 
 court, upon such application and upon satisfactory evi- 
 dence that such person is a legal voter entitled to vote at 
 such election, may give a certificate under the seal of the 
 court to that eflfect, and the clerk of the court shall add 
 the name of such voter to the proper register on file with 
 him ; such voter may, upon the day of election, present 
 said certificate to the board of registry and election of the 
 district in which he is entitled to vote, and said board 
 shall receive and file said certificate and add his name to 
 the register, and he shall thereupon be allowed by said 
 election board to vote at said election. 
 
 280. Sec. 2. It shall also be the duty of said justice of 
 the supreme court and the said judge of the court of com- 
 mon pleas, or one of them, to sit and hold a court of com- 
 mon pleas at the court house in their respective counties 
 on the day of the general election for members of the 
 general assembly from eight o'clock in the forenoon till 
 seven o'clock in the evening, and in case the vote of any 
 person registered, in any election district, has been refused 
 or rejected by the district board of elections, in such dis- 
 trict, the said court shall, upon application, in person, by p^tits 
 
 Name 
 added. 
 
 Court in 
 session on 
 election day. 
 
132 
 
 Registers 
 delivered 
 to county 
 cJerk. 
 
 Summary 
 action of 
 court. 
 
 Duty of 
 sheriff. 
 
 When 
 
 edition 
 officer in 
 c.in tempt. 
 
 the person so refused or rejected, proceed, in a summary 
 way, to inquire whether such person is entitled to vote 
 in such election district; and if the court shall find that 
 such person is legally entitled to vote in said election dis- 
 trict, it shall issue a certificate, under its seal, to the board 
 of registry and election of the district in which such 
 person is entitled to vote, reciting that such person is 
 entitled to vote in such election district and shall deliver 
 such certificate to such person; such person may present 
 said certificate to the board of registry and election of 
 the district in which he is entitled to vote, and said board 
 shall receive and file said certificate, and thereupon he 
 shall be allowed to vote at such election. 
 
 281. Sec. 3. The county board of elections, in each of 
 the several counties of this state, shall deliver to the county 
 clerk, at or before eight o'clock in the forenoon, on the 
 Monday next preceding the general election, all the copies 
 of the registers which were in their possession on the 
 Saturday next preceding said general election, who shall 
 have the same in court for the use of the court while act- 
 ing under the authority conferred by this act ; said regis- 
 ters shall be returned by the said county clerk to the cus- 
 tody of the county board of elections on the day after the 
 election shall be held. 
 
 282. Sec. 4. In making investigations -under this act to 
 determine the right of any person or persons to vote or to 
 register, the court shall have power to act upon such appli- 
 cation or matter in a summary manner, and to issue sub- 
 poenas for the production of papers, or the appearance of 
 persons with like power, jurisdiction and authority as said 
 court would have in any civil cause pending therein ; the 
 sheriff of the county or a deputy duly appointed by him, 
 shall be authorized and required to serve all processes 
 issued out of the said court on any application pending 
 under this act, and he shall also be authorized and re- 
 quired to enforce any orders or proceedings made, entered 
 and directed to be executed by the said court. 
 
 283. Sec. 5. If any board of registry and election, or 
 any member thereof sliall fail. or refuse to comply with the 
 
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 order of the said court made in any proceeding taken 
 under this act, such failure or refusal to so comply may 
 be dealt with and punished as and for contempt of court. 
 
 284. Sec. 6, It shall be the duty of the county clerk, as Duty of 
 cierk of the court of common pleas, to attend upon the derk. 
 sessions of court required to be held under this act, either 
 
 in person or by deputy, at all times during the sitting 
 thereof, and to record and keep the minutes of the said 
 court in any matters arising under this act, and for such 
 service he shall be entitled to receive and be paid by the 
 county collector, for each day's attendance, the sum of 
 ten dollars. 
 
 285. Sec. 7. Each of the judges holding the court of ^ouT/^" 
 common pleas, as herein required, shall be entitled to re- '"dges 
 ceive the sum of twenty dollars for each day he shall be 
 personally present, pursuant to the provisions of this act, 
 
 in addition to the salary to which he is now entitled by 
 law, which sum shall be paid by the collector of the county 
 as other court expenses are paid. 
 
 Supplement of May 16, 1906. P. L. 1906, p. 497. 
 
 286. Sec. I. It shall be the duty of all town, township, ;,^-^^J^™7cioai 
 borough, city or other municipal clerk, at least forty-five c^erk of 
 days before any general or State election, to make and fiUed, 
 certify under their hands and seals of office and forward 
 
 to the clerk of the county in which such town, township, 
 borough, city or other municipality is located a statement 
 designating the town, township, borough, city or other 
 municipal offices which are to be filled at such election, 
 and the number of persons to be voted for each office. 
 
 287. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of offices to be 
 each county, in the preparation of official ballots under the on'^baiiot"^^'* 
 act to which this act is a supplement, to place on such 
 
 official ballots for each party or group of petitioners hav- 
 ing candidates to be voted for at any election the name or 
 title of each office to be filled at such election, whether 
 such party or group of petitioners shall have made any 
 nomination for such office or not. 
 
134 
 
 Schedule of 
 appropria- 
 tions on 
 primary 
 ballots. 
 
 Supplement of May 24, 1906. P. L. 1906, p. 657. 
 
 288. Sec. I. The members of any political party which 
 now is or may hereafter be entitled to nominate candi- 
 dates at the primary elections provided for in the act to 
 which this act is a supplement, in all municipalities where 
 tax levies and appropriations of money to be raised by tax 
 are fixed by vote of the people, in addition to nominating 
 delegates or candidates at such primary elections, may also 
 vote for a schedule of appropriations to be placed on the 
 party ticket at the ensuing election ; if the petitioners 
 nominating candidates for office or for delegates shall 
 include in their petition an endorsement of any proper 
 schedule of appropriations, accompanied with a prayer 
 that the schedule of appropriations be placed on the pri- 
 mary ballots, the clerk or other officer whose duty it may 
 be to prepare the primary ballots shall place thereon such 
 a schedule of appropriations according to the prayer of 
 such petition. The result of such primary election in the 
 premises shall be certified as in the case of candidates 
 nominated at said election. Nominations of candidates by 
 petition may also endorse a schedule of such appropria- 
 tions. The party ballot or party column of any voting 
 machine shall contain the schedule of appropriations as 
 determined by the voters at such primary election, as 
 prayed for in any such petition. 
 
 Direct 
 nomina- 
 tions at 
 primaries. 
 
 Supplement of Oct. 28, 1907. P. L. 1907, p. 697. 
 
 289. Sec. I. Hereafter all candidates of political par- 
 ties for the following offices, to wit, members of state 
 senate, members of general assembly, county clerk, sur- 
 rogate, register of deeds, sheriff, county supervisor, cor- 
 oner, mayor and for all elective offices of any county in 
 this state, to be voted for at the general election for mem- 
 bers of the general assembly, by the voters of any county 
 in the state, or of any political subdivision thereof shall be 
 nominated directly without the intervention of delegates 
 or conventions, at the primary elections held pursuant to 
 the act to which this act is a supplement, and the acts 
 amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. Supple- 
 
135 
 
 niented by P. L. 191 1, page 298, sec. 37, paragraph 396, 
 post. 
 
 290. Sec. 2. Not less than one hundred voters of any 
 poHtical party may file with the county clerk of their 
 county a petition or petitions endorsing any member or 
 members of their political party as a candidate or candi- 
 dates for the nomination of said party to any public office 
 of any county and requesting that the name of the person 
 or persons so endorsed be printed upon the official primary 
 ballot of such political party. The said petition or peti- 
 tions shall be signed in the manner and form provided for 
 the signing and filing of nominating petitions under the 
 act to which this act is a supplement, and shall have 
 attached thereto the affidavit and acceptance as required" 
 by said act. Said petition or petitions shall be filed with 
 the respective county clerks at least twenty-five days prior 
 to the time fixed by law for the holding of such primary 
 election, and the said county clerk shall certify all of said 
 nominations to the clerks of each municipality in his re- 
 spective county at least twenty days prior to the time fixed 
 by law for the holding of said primary elections, specify- 
 ing in said certificate the political party to which the person 
 or person so nominated belong, and said municipal clerks 
 shall each respectively prepare the official primary ballot 
 as required by the act to which this act is a supplement 
 and shall cause to be printed upon the respective tickets 
 for each political party under the name of the office or 
 offices to be filled, the names of all persons so certified 
 as nominated for the respective offices to be filled, in addi- 
 tion to the other names to be printed thereon as required 
 by law. * * * 
 
 291. Sec. 3. The board of registry and election in each 
 election district of every county in this state shall include 
 the results of such primary election as to the candidates 
 affected by this act in the statement which they are now 
 required by law to transmit to the municipal clerk, and 
 the said municipal clerk shall forthwith transmit the said 
 results to the county clerk, who shall forthwith canvass 
 said returns, and the person having in the aggregate the 
 
 Petition to 
 place names 
 on primary 
 ticket 
 
 Time for 
 filing. 
 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1910, 
 p. 249.] 
 Supple- 
 mented by 
 P. L. 1911, 
 chap. 367, 
 p. 762. 
 
 Ballot pre- 
 pared by 
 municipal 
 clerk. 
 
 Result of 
 primary 
 election filed 
 with county 
 clerk, who is 
 to canvas 
 returns. 
 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1908, 
 p. 413.] 
 
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 Names of 
 candidates 
 on ballots 
 
 Endorse- 
 ment by 
 petition to 
 place name 
 on primary 
 ticket. 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1908, 
 p. 413.] 
 
 Name on. 
 
 highest number of votes shall be the candidate of his 
 respective party for the office to be filled. In case more 
 than one person is to be elected to the same or similar 
 office, the persons having the highest number of votes to 
 the extent of the number of offices to be filled shall be 
 the candidates of their respective parties for the said 
 offices. In the event of a failure to select a candidate of 
 any political party for any office affected by this act, by 
 reason of two or more persons receiving the highest and 
 the same number of votes, the chairman of the county 
 committee of said political party shall select from said 
 candidates one to be the party candidate for the office in 
 question, and file a statement of such selection with the 
 county clerk, and the person so selected shall be the can- 
 didate of the party at the ensuing election. The county 
 clerk shall cause to be printed upon the official ballots 
 * * * to be used at the succeeding general election, 
 the names of the candidates nominated as aforesaid to fill 
 the respective offices. 
 
 292. Sec. 4. Not less than fifty voters of any political 
 party in any municipality of this state other than a county, 
 may file with the clerk of such municipality a petition 
 endorsing any member of their political party as a candi- 
 date for the nomination of said party to public office in 
 said municipality in accordance with and in the manner 
 provided by the act to which this is a supplement for the 
 endorsing of candidates for nomination in a single ward 
 or township, and such municipal clerk shall cause the 
 names of all persons so nominated to be printed upon the 
 official primary ballots of the respective political parties, 
 in the election districts, the voters of which are entitled 
 to vote for such candidate, and the result of said primary 
 election shall be transmitted to the municipal clerk, and 
 by him to the county clerk of said county in the manner 
 provided in the preceding section of this act, and the 
 person receiving the highest number of votes shall be the 
 candidate of his political party at the ensuing election, and 
 the county clerk shall cause his name to be printed as 
 such candidate upon the official ballot * * * to be 
 
n7 
 
 tor. 
 
 used in the election districts entitled to vote for said 
 office; provided, that nothing in this section contained i*'"oviso. 
 shall interfere with or alter the provisions of an act to 
 v^hich this act is a supplement, providing for the nomina- 
 tion of candidates for public office in a single borough, 
 ward or township. 
 
 293. Sec. 5. The provisions of this act shall be con- Construed 
 St rued in conjunction with the provisions of the act to 
 
 which this is a supplement and the several supplements Amended, 
 thereto and amendments thereof, and said acts shall apply p. 413. 
 to the nominations provided by this^act, except where in- 
 consistent therewith. 
 
 Supplement of October 28, 1907. P. L. 1907, p. 702. Kxpression of 
 
 294. Sec. I. In any year preceding the election by the primages for 
 legislature of a United States senator it shall be lawful, at ^' ^- ^^°^' 
 the primary election of any political party entitled to hold 
 an election under the provisions of the act to which this 
 act is a supplement, for the voters of such political party 
 ir this state to express, in the manner hereinafter provided, 
 the preference of said voters for United States senator. 
 
 295. Sec. 2. Not less than one thousand voters of such 
 political party may file with the secretary of state a peti- 
 tion or petitions in the form required for the nomination 
 of candidates to be voted for at a primary election by the 
 act to which this act is a supplement, except so far as the 
 same is modified by this act, endorsing any member of 
 their political party as a candidate for the endorsement of 
 said political party for United States senator. Said peti- 
 tion or petitions shall each be verified by the oath or affir- 
 mation of two or more of the signers thereof, taken and 
 subscribed before a person quaUfied under the laws -of 
 New Jersey to administer an oath, to the efifect that such 
 petition, to the best of the knowledge and belief of the 
 affiants, is signed in their proper handwriting by each of 
 the signers thereof; that such signers are, to the best of 
 the knowledge and belief of the affiants, legal voters of the 
 state, and belong to the political party named in said peti- 
 tion ; that the person named therein has the legal qualifica- 
 
 Nomination. 
 by petition 
 
 Verified 
 by oatli. 
 
138 
 
 Secretary of 
 state to 
 notify county 
 clerks. 
 
 Municipal 
 
 clerks 
 
 notified. 
 
 Voting and 
 canvassing. 
 
 Kach member 
 of legislature 
 notified by 
 ^ec^etary of 
 state. 
 
 I'loservatlon 
 of registers. 
 
 tions for the office of a United States senator; that such 
 petition is prepared and filed in absolute good faith for the 
 sole purpose of securing the endorsement of the person 
 therein named by the voters of said party for United States 
 senator. 
 
 Not less than twenty days prior to the holding of said 
 primary election the secretary of state shall transmit to the 
 county clerk of each county copies of said petition. The 
 county clerk shall, under his hand and seal, certify to each 
 municipal clerk in his county, not less than ten days prior 
 tc said primary election, the name or names of all persons 
 who have been endorsed by petitions transmitted to him 
 as aforesaid. The said municipal clerks, in preparing the 
 official ballot to be used at the said primary election for 
 the said political party, shall insert thereon the words 
 "Favored for United States Senator," and shall place 
 thereunder the names of all persons so certified to said 
 clerk, in alphabetical order. 
 
 296. Sec. 3. The voting, counting and canvassing of the 
 vote cast for such candidates shall be the same as is pro- 
 vided for the voting, counting and canvassing of votes 
 by the act to which this act is a supplement. Each munici- 
 pal clerk shall, within five days after the holding of such 
 election, certify the result of the election for endorsement 
 for United States senator to the county clerk of his county, 
 and the county clerk shall proceed to tjbulate the result, 
 so certified to him, and shall then certify the results to the 
 secretary of state, who in turn shall tabulate the results, 
 and, prior to the convening of the session of the legislature 
 at which the election for United States senator is to be 
 held, announce publicly the result, and certify, under his 
 hand and seal, a statement of the total votes received in the 
 state by each candidate for endorsement for United States 
 senator to each member of the senate and general assembly. 
 
 297. Supplemental by P. L. 191 1, p. 276, sec. 36, para- 
 graph 341, post. 
 
 Amendment of Apr. 27, 191 1, P. L. 191 1, p. 561, to 
 Supplement of Mch. 17, 1908, P. L. 1908, p. 30. 
 
 298. Sec. I. All registers of voters or register books 
 
139 
 
 which are required to be filed with the county clerks of the 
 various counties and the municipal clerks of the various 
 municipalities of this State, by and under the above-stated 
 act, shall be preserved by such county and municipal clerks, 
 respectively, for a period of five years after the holding of 
 the general election at which they were used, and there- 
 after shall be sold by such county and municipal clerks as 
 waste paper, the proceeds to be paid into the county and 
 mnuicipal treasuries respectively. 
 
 299. Sec. 2. This act shall also authorize the several 
 county and municipal clerks to sell all register books, or 
 registers of voters, which have been on file five years pre- 
 vious to the passage of this act, the proceeds to be paid 
 into the county and municipal treasury respectively. 
 
 Supplement of Apr. 13, 1908. P. L. 1908, p. 412. 
 
 (Amended 
 by P, L. 
 1911, p. 
 06I.) 
 
 £ale after 
 5 years. 
 
 Sale of old 
 registers. 
 
 (Amended by 
 P. L. 1911, 
 p. 561.) 
 
 300. Sec. I. In all cases where the voters of two or 
 more municipalities of this state vote jointly for the office 
 of chosen freeholder not less than three legal voters of any 
 political party in each municipality may file with the clerk 
 of their respective municipality a petition endorsing any 
 member of their political party as a candidate for the nomi- 
 nation of said party to the said office of chosen freeholder, 
 in the manner provided by the act to which this act is a 
 supplement for the endorsing of candidates for nomination 
 in a single ward or t^township. And such municipal clerk 
 shall cause the names of all persons so nominated to be 
 printed upon the official primary ballots of his municipality, 
 and the result of said primary election shall be transmitted 
 to the municipal clerk, and by the municipal clerk in each of 
 said municipalities to the county clerk of said county 
 in the manner provided in the act to which this act is a 
 supplement ; and the person receiving in the aggregate the 
 highest number of votes in the various municipalities en- 
 titled to vote for said office, shall be the candidate of his 
 political party at the ensuing election ; and the county clerk 
 shall cause his name to be printed as such candidate upon 
 the official ballot of his party to be used in the election 
 districts entitled to vote for said office. 
 
 Petition to 
 place names 
 for free- 
 holder on 
 Ijrimary 
 ticket. 
 
 Candidate 
 party at 
 ensuing 
 election. 
 
 of 
 
140 
 
 Acceptance 
 of nomina- 
 tion 
 
 accessary to 
 place name 
 on ballot. 
 
 Time for 
 
 filing 
 
 petition. 
 
 Ilepealer. 
 Payment of 
 expenses of 
 special 
 election. 
 
 Provision 
 for funds 
 
 May Issue 
 bonds. 
 
 Supplement of Mar. 23, 1910. P. L. 1910, p. 55. 
 
 301. Sec. I. If at any primary any person is nominated 
 as a candidate for office who before the holding of such 
 piimary had not filed a certificate consenting to stand as 
 a candidate if so nominated, the name of such candidate 
 shall not be printed on the official ballot unless the person 
 so nominated as a candidate shall, within ten days after 
 the holding of such primary, file in the office of the clerk 
 of the county within which said primary was held a cer- 
 tificate stating that he is qualified for the office and ac- 
 cepts such nomination. 
 
 Supplement of Apr. i, 1910. P. L. 1910, p. 120. 
 
 302. Sec. I. All petitions providing for the nomination 
 of candidates for public office in a single ward, * * ^f; 
 and all petitions endorsing the person or persons therein 
 named for the position of delegate or delegates to the en- 
 suing State * =!= =i^ convention * * * shall be filed 
 with the municipal clerk, * * * days prior to said 
 primary election. (See P. L. 191 1, p. 276, sec. 42, para- 
 graph 347, post., P. L. 19 1 2, 388. See paragraph 243, ante.) 
 
 Supplement of Apr. 4, 1910. P. L. 1910, p. 128. 
 
 303. Sec. I. All lawful expenses heretofore incurred 
 within the body of the county, in special elections held 
 throughout the State or throughout the body of any county 
 thereof, shall be paid by the board of chosen freeholders 
 of such county, unless otherwise provided by law. 
 
 304. Sec. 2. If no item of appropriation was inserted 
 iii any county tax budget for the payment of such ex- 
 penses, or if the item was exceeded, and such board of 
 freeholders has no funds available for the payment of the 
 same, then it shall be lawful for such board to place the 
 amount of such election expenses in the tax levy; and 
 such board may borrow, on temporary loan bonds, suf- 
 ficient moneys to pay such election expenses, said bonds 
 to be payable within one year from their date, to bear 
 interest at not exceeding five per centum per annum, pay- 
 able semi-annually, and shall be executed in the manner 
 that bonds of such county are usually executed, and shall 
 
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 be sold at either public or private sale for not less than par, 
 and the said board shall place in the tax levy next after 
 the issuance of such bonds an item of appropriation suf- 
 ficient to pay the principal and interest thereof as the 
 same mature. 
 
 Supplement of Apr. ii, igio. P. L. igio, p. 416. 
 
 ^os. Sec. I. In the event of a vacancy occurring by Filling 
 
 , , , . . , . . rr vacancies 
 
 aeath, removal, resignation, or otherwise, in any otnce, occurring 
 the candidates for which are required by law to be nomi- ^ly^To" '^'^ 
 anted by petition and voted upon at a primary election, petition and 
 which vacancy shall occur prior to the general election election, 
 but subsequent to the day fixed by law as the last day 
 for filing the appropriate petition, the county committee, 
 or the city or other municipal committee where the va- 
 Cr.ncy affects only such city or other municipality, of each 
 political party, is hereby authorized to select a candidate 
 for the office in question and file a statement of such selec- 
 tion with the clerk of such municipality as the candidate, 
 if elected, would serve or represent, and the person so se- 
 lected shall be the candidate of the party at the ensuing 
 general election; and the said selection shall be made by 
 such committee within five days after the vacancy shall 
 occur; provided, hozvcver, that such statement shall be Proviso, 
 filed not later than fifteen days prior to such general elec- 
 tion ; and provided farther, that notice of the selection as proviso 
 aforesaid shall be given by the municipal clerk to the 
 county clerk. 
 
 Supplement of Apr. 19, 191 1. P. L. 191 1, p. 276. 
 
 3c6. Sec. i. No election district within this State shall ^ll^^^l^ 
 contain more than four hundred voters, except in an elec- districts, 
 tion district wherein there may be located a home or in- 
 stitution wherein persons entitled to vote may reside, and 
 in any such district the number of voters shall be as near 
 four hundred as possible. Immediately after this act goes 
 into effect, the governing board or body in every city, bor- p^°5L°^m2 
 ough, town, township, village or other separate munici- p. 667.) 
 pality, shall examine the registry list of each election dis- 
 trict within any such city, borough, town, township, vil- 
 lage or other separate municipality, and if it shall appear 
 
142 
 
 Readjust- 
 ment of 
 district lines 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Municipal 
 
 clerks 
 
 notified. 
 
 Divisions 
 made. 
 
 Clerk to 
 obtain 
 registry 
 boxes from 
 county clerk. 
 
 Readjusted 
 boundaries 
 filed. 
 
 from such examination, or from other available sources of 
 information that there is therein any election district in 
 which over four hundred votes were cast at the last gen- 
 eial election, the said governing board or body shall im- 
 mediately readjust the boundary lines of the election dis- 
 tricts so that no election district shall contain over three 
 hundred and fifty registered voters. Whenever thereafter 
 at any general election, in any election district, over four 
 hundred votes shall have been cast, the said governing 
 board or body, as aforesaid, shall again readjust the boun- 
 dary lines of election districts and shall have power to con- 
 solidate any number of districts and resubdivide the same ; 
 provided, that in every division, change or readjustment 
 of the boundary lines of such election districts, the geo- 
 graphical compactness of each district shall be maintained 
 and the lines of such district shall not extend beyond the 
 boundary lines of the ward in the city, borough, town, 
 township or village in which such district is located. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, within 
 five days after the passage of this act, to send by mail 
 to the clerk of each municipality in this State a copy of 
 this section of this act. It shall be the duty of said clerk 
 to forthwith cause such copy to be laid before the said 
 governing board or body of such municipality; and said 
 board shall proceed to carry out the provisions of this sec- 
 tion of this act. It shall not be lawful for such board to 
 make division of any election district between the twen- 
 tieth day of April and the day of the general election in 
 any year. The clerk of any city, borough, town, township, 
 village or other separate municipality may make applica- 
 tion to the justice of the Supreme Court holding the circuit 
 court in his county, for an order directing the county clerk 
 of such county to transmit to such municipal clerk the 
 registry books of any election district in his municipality, 
 for the purpose of such redistricting, which order shall di- 
 rect the time within which such registry books shall be 
 returned to such county clerk. 
 
 307. Sec. 2. Whenever any readjustment of the boun- 
 daries of an election district has been made, the govern- 
 
143 
 
 ing board or body making such readjustment shall imme- 
 diately cause a description of the boundaries of such re- 
 adjusted district to be filed in the county clerk's office and 
 a duplicate thereof in the office of the clerk of the city, 
 borough, town, township, village, or other municipality. 
 For the purpose of the foregoing sections the term "elec- 
 tion district" shall be construed to mean the territory with- di^Jrfct"" 
 in which there is a single polling place for all voters defined, 
 therein. 
 
 II. 
 
 30S. Sec. 3. The members of the district boards of Appoint- 
 registry and election in each election district in this State election 
 shall hereafter be appointed in the manner hereinafter pre- <'®^^'^^- 
 scribed. 
 
 309. Sfx. 4. Two members of each board of registry two 
 and election shall be appointed from each of the two JJom^^each 
 political parties which at the last preceding general elec- political 
 tion cast the largest and next largest number of votes in 
 the State for members of the General Assembly. 
 
 The chairman of each county committee of said po- County 
 litical parties, shall, on or before the first day of June in send list to 
 the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and there- ^(^o^mlssior 
 after on the first day of May in each year, transmit in 
 writing to the State Civil Service Commission at Trenton, 
 a list of men of good moral character whom said chaimian 
 recommends for appointment in the several election dis- 
 tricts in his county. In said list said chaimian may recom- 
 mend more than the number of men who are entitled to 
 be appointed under this act. 
 
 Not less than five legal voters of this State, all of whom voters may 
 shall be members of one of the political parties aforesaid, have^names 
 and who reside in the same election district, may prepare ^jj^^i °iist 
 and sign with their names, residences and post-office ad- 
 dress, a petition addressed to the State Civil Service Com- 
 mission setting forth that the signers are qualified voters 
 of the election district in which they reside; that they are 
 members of a political party (naming the same), and that 
 at the last election for members of the General Assembly 
 
144 
 
 Additional 
 facts set 
 forth in 
 petition. 
 
 When peti- 
 tion filed. 
 
 preceding the execution of the said petition, at which they 
 voted, they voted for a majority of the candidates of said 
 party for National, State and county offices, and that they 
 intend to affiHate with said party at the ensuing election; 
 that they endorse the person named in their petition as 
 a candidate for member of the board of registry and elec- 
 tion of said party for the election district in which said 
 signers reside, that said person is a member of said party, 
 and that they request the said State Civil Service Com- 
 mission to examine the person so endorsed, and if found 
 qualified, to place the name of said person upon the eligi- 
 ble list of men qualified to be appointed to said position in 
 said election district; and said petition shall further state 
 the residence and post-office address of the person so en- 
 dorsed and shall certify that the person so endorsed is of 
 good moral character and is, in the judgment of the peti- 
 tioners, legally qualified under the laws of this State to 
 serve as an election officer in said district, and that he has 
 resided for the period of one year in the election district 
 in which he is endorsed for appointment or in any territory 
 of a readjusted district included in the new district; each 
 of the said petitions shall be verified by the oath or affirma- 
 tion of one or more of the signers thereof, taken and sub- 
 scribed before a person qualified under the laws of New 
 Jersey to administer an oath, to the effect that such peti- 
 tion is signed in their own proper handwriting by each of 
 the signers thereof; that said signers are to the best of 
 the knowledge and belief of the affiant^ legal voters of the 
 said election district as stated in said petition, and belong 
 to the political party named in said petition, and that said 
 petition is prepared and filed in absolute good faith for the 
 sole purpose of endorsing the person therein named in 
 order to secure his appointment as election officer as stated 
 in said petition. Said petition shall be filed with the State 
 Civil Service Commission on or before the first day of 
 June, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, and there- 
 after on or before the first day of May in each year. No 
 voter shall endorse more than one person for a member 
 of a board of registry and election. 
 
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 Accompanying said petition, each person endorsed ^^'^jj^^*® ^^ 
 therein shall file a certificate under oath stating that he to fitness 
 is qualified for the position of election officer as men- intention. 
 tioned in said petition, that he belongs to said political 
 party and at the last election for members of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly preceding the execution of said petition, 
 at which he voted, he voted for a majority of the candi- 
 dates of the said party nominated for national, State or 
 county officers, and he intends to affiliate with the said 
 party at the ensuing election ; that if he shall be appointed 
 to said position, he agrees to perform the duties thereof 
 for the term for which he shall be appointed. 
 
 310. Sec. 5. The said State Civil Service Commission Examina- 
 shall hold in each- county in this State a civil service ex- applicants, 
 amination for the purpose of passing upon the qualifica- 
 tions of said applicants for the position of members of the 
 boards of registry and election in the election district of 
 such county before the fifteenth day of August in each 
 year. The said commission shall give five days' notice 
 by mail to all the applicants from each county whose ap- 
 plications are filed with them as aforesaid, of the time 
 and place of holding the civil service examination in such 
 county. The said examination shall be held for the pur- tions to be 
 pose of determining that the said applicants for the said considered, 
 appointments shall possess the following qualifications: 
 the ability to distinguish readily the ordinary colors, such 
 as red, blue, black, green, white and yellow; such eye- 
 sight as will enable the applicant, with or without eye- 
 glasses, to read nonpareil type; the ability to read the 
 English language readily; the ability to add and subtract 
 figures correctly; the ability to write in a legible hand 
 with reasonable facility; a reasonable knowledge of the 
 duties required to be performed by them as election officers 
 under the election laws of the State ; health, which would 
 permit them to discharge their duties as such election offi- 
 cers ; and that each applicant shall be of good moral char- 
 acter and shall have resided in the election district in 
 which he makes application to be appointed, or in any ter- 
 ritory of a readjusted district included in the new district, 
 
146 
 
 for the term of at least one year, and that he is a legal 
 voter in such district. 
 List of sue- 'pj^g Civil Service Commission shall, as a result of said 
 
 cessful appli- 
 cants examination, on or before the twentieth day of August 
 
 in each year, certify to the judge or judges of the Court 
 of Common Pleas in each county and to the county boards 
 of elections therein, the applicants who pass such exam- 
 ination for members of the boards of registry and election 
 in each county. In such certificates the Commission shall 
 indicate to which political party the applicants belong, 
 naming the applicants of each party in each election dis- 
 Appropria. trict. The sum of ten thousand dollars shall be appro- 
 °°* priated annually for the expenses of the State Civil Service 
 
 Commission in carrying out the provisions of this act. 
 The said expenses shall be paid upon requisition upon the 
 financial officers of the State, signed by the said com- 
 mission and endorsed by the Governor. Such portion of 
 said sum of ten thousand dollars as it may not be necessary 
 to expend for the said purpose shall be returned to the 
 State Treasury. 
 Manner of 311. Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of each county board 
 
 eLction^ of elections, from the eligible list certified as aforesaid, 
 frora^ the ^^ ^^ before the twenty-fifth of August in each year, to 
 eligible list, select the members of the boards of registry and election 
 for said county in the manner following, to wit: Each 
 name so certified shall be written on a separate piece of 
 paper, together with the election district in which the 
 person so named shall reside, which pieces of paper shall 
 be separately folded so as to conceal the name and elec- 
 tion district of each person so certified ; the pieces of paper 
 containing the names of the members of the largest po- 
 litical party as aforesaid shall, in the presence of such 
 judge or judges, be put into a box for said party, and 
 those of the next largest political party deposited in a like 
 manner in a box to be used for that party. Before de- 
 positing the same, said slips shall be, by said judge or 
 judges, compared with the list certified as aforesaid by 
 said Civil Service Commission. Said pieces of paper 
 by^iot! when so folded shall be of the same size, color and shape 
 
147 
 
 as nearly as may be. After the said boxes shall be closed 
 and shaken in such a manner as to intermingle the pieces 
 of paper so placed therein, the county board of elections, 
 or some person appointed by such judge or judges for 
 that purpose, in the presence of the county boards of elec- 
 tion and of said judge or judges, shall, in an open and 
 public manner, draw out of said boxes, separately, as many 
 names as may be necessary to provide in each election 
 district four members of the board of registry and elec- 
 tion, being two members from each of said political par- 
 ties. 
 
 The names so drawn as aforesaid and transcribed by County 
 
 the county board of elections as they are read by the per- elections to 
 
 sons drawing them from the box, shall constitute the elec- H^sonl 
 
 tion officers as aforesaid, and it shall be the duty of the drawn to 
 
 . t J r 1 • . . district 
 
 county board of elections to appoint the persons so drawn boards, 
 as aforesaid as the members of the board of registry and 
 election in the respective districts for which they were 
 chosen, and to issue to each of them a proper certificate 
 of appointment. 
 The proceedings as aforesaid shall be under the direc- Proceedings 
 
 ,. P ^, . J . - - , ^ , under direc- 
 
 tion ot the judge or judges of the court of common pleas, tion of 
 
 who shall have full power and authority to conduct such ^^"''*' 
 
 proceedings in accordance with the intent and purpose of 
 
 this act and to provide for the correction of any mistakes 
 
 or errors in the method of doing and performing the same. 
 
 312. Sec. 7. If in any election district there are no ap- if no appii- 
 plicants on the eligible list of one or both of such political cancy, 'ap-^*' 
 parties, or if at any time, for any reason, a vacancy oc- J^u^^e™^"* ^^ 
 curs in any district, said judge or judges of the Court of 
 Common Pleas shall select a member for such vacancy 
 from the voters of the proper political party in said elec- 
 tion district, and certify the same to the said county board 
 of elections, which shall appoint the men so certified. 
 Such selection by said judge or judges of the court shall 
 be made without any civil service examination, but the 
 said judge or judges shall select said men in accordance 
 with the intent of this act, as hereinbefore provided. 
 
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 Term of 
 
 election 
 
 officers. 
 
 Period of 
 eligibility. 
 
 Right to 
 question ap- 
 pointments. 
 
 Prompt 
 decision. 
 
 Hearing a 
 vleterraina- 
 tion. 
 
 313. Sec. 8. The election officers thus appointed shall 
 hold office for the term of two years or until their suc- 
 cessors are appointed, unless sooner removed as herein- 
 after provided, but the term of one of the members of 
 the board of registry and election of each poHtical party 
 in each election district first appointed under this act shall 
 be for one year or until his successor is appointed. The 
 member whose term shall be one year shall be determined 
 by lot by the said judge or judges of the Court of Common 
 Pleas. Any person who has once passed the examination 
 herein provided shall be eligible for appointment for the 
 period of six years thereafter, without further examina- 
 tion; and upon his application to the Civil Service Com- 
 mission, stating that he has resided for the period of one 
 year in the election district in which he seeks appointment, 
 or any territory that is a portion thereof in case the same 
 has been redistricted, said commission shall certify his 
 name on the eligible list to the county board of elections, 
 and to the judge or judges aforesaid. 
 
 314. Sec. 9. Any voter who has reason to believe that 
 said appointments have not been made in accordance with 
 the provisions of this act, or that, for any reason, any 
 appointee is not qualified or is ineligible, may present a 
 petition to any judge assigned to hear cases in the Circuit 
 Court in and for said county or to any judge of the Court 
 of Common Pleas in said county, setting forth his reasons 
 and praying that such judge shall make an order requiring 
 and directing the county board of elections to cancel the 
 appointments complained of, and to make new appoint- 
 ments as requested in the said petition, or as may be de- 
 termined upon by said judge. Said judge, on the filing 
 of the said petition, shall adjudicate upon the same in a 
 summary way, upon such notice to the county board of 
 elections, and to the person or persons whose appointments 
 are complained of, as he may direct to be made. Upon the 
 hearing of the said application, such judge shall take such 
 testimony as he shall deem necessary to determine the 
 merits of the application, and shall render such judgment 
 
 as will carry out the intent, purpose and provisions of this 
 
149 
 
 act. Said judge shall have power after hearing, as afore- ^^^se may 
 said, to cancel the appointments of such members of the Xew appoint- 
 district boards of registry and elections, and to fill such "^^'^ ^" 
 vacancy from the voters of the election district wherein 
 such vacancy so arises. Upon the filing of such new ap- 
 pointments with the said county board of elections, the 
 persons therein named shall become members of the re- 
 spective boards of registry and election to which they are 
 appointed as aforesaid, for the unexpired term of the 
 members removed, and said county board shall issue to 
 them the proper certificate of appointment. 
 
 315. Sec. 10. The board or body having charge of the Expenses met 
 finances in each municipality shall provide for the ex- paimes! ^ 
 penses of carrying out this act in their municipaHty, except 
 
 as herein otherwise provided. 
 
 316. Sec. II. The compensation of each member of Compensa- 
 the boards of registry and election for all services per- election 
 formed by them under the provisions of this act and the ^<>^^^s- 
 act of which this act is a supplement, and the supple- 
 ments to and amendments of said act, shall be as follows: 
 
 For each registry day other than the primary registry when popu- 
 day, including the services in making the house-to-house ceeds 5,000. 
 canvass in municipalities having a population of less than 
 five thousand, eight dollars ; for the primary registry day, 
 including all services rendered in holding the primary elec- p^^^^gis 
 tion, except services in mailing the ballots, fifteen dollars ; p- '^^• 
 for mailing the primary and election sample ballots, four 
 dollars ; for all services on election day, including count- 
 ing of the votes and delivery of returns and ballot-box, 
 with contents, to the municipal clerk, fifteen dollars; for 
 services at any special election, ten dollars ; for all services 
 in holding the primary for selection of delegates to na- 
 tional conventions, including the making up of the regis- 
 try list and the mailing of sample ballots, fifteen dollars. 
 The same shall be in lieu of all other fees and paymenis 
 whatsoever. 
 
I50 
 
 III. 
 
 Delegates 
 to national 
 conventions 
 chosen at 
 primary. 
 
 Chairmen of 
 state com- 
 mittees to 
 notify sec- 
 retary of 
 state of 
 number of 
 delegates. 
 
 Secretary of 
 state to 
 certify 
 number 
 to county 
 clerk. 
 
 One hundred 
 voters may 
 petition to 
 place name 
 on party 
 ticket. 
 
 317. Sec. 12. All delegates and alternates to the na- 
 tional convention of the political parties before mentioned 
 in this State shall be chosen at primary elections as here- 
 inafter provided. 
 
 318. Sec. 13. The chairman of the State committee 
 of said political parties shall notify the Secretary of State, 
 on or before the fifteenth day of April in the year in 
 which a President of the United States is to be elected, 
 of the number of delegates at large, and the number of 
 alternates at large, to be elected to the next national con- 
 vention of his party, by the voters of the party through- 
 out the State ; and also the number of delegates and alter- 
 nates who are to be chosen to said national convention in 
 the respective congressional districts or other territorial 
 subdivisions of the State, as mentioned in said notification. 
 If the State chairman, or either of them, shall fail to file 
 such notice, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State 
 to ascertain the said facts from the call for said national 
 convention issued by the national or State committee of 
 said party. 
 
 319. Sec. 14. The Secretary of State shall, on or be- 
 fore the twentieth day of April in such year, certify to 
 the county clerk of each county in this State the number 
 of delegates and alternates at large to be chosen by each 
 party as aforesaid, and the number of delegates and al- 
 ternates to be chosen in each congressional district or other 
 territorial subdivision of the State composed in whole or 
 in part of the county of such county clerk. 
 
 320. Sec. 15. Not less than one hundred members of 
 either of said political parties may file with the Secretary 
 of State, on or before the first day of May in any year of 
 a presidential election, a petition requesting that the name 
 of the person therein endorsed shall be printed on the 
 primary ticket of their political party as candidate for 
 the position of delegate at large or alternate at large, to 
 be chosen by the party voters throughout the State to the 
 national convention of said party, or as a delegate or alter- 
 
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 nate to be chosen to said convention by the voters of any 
 congressional district or other territorial subdivision of 
 the State larger than a single county. The signers to the 
 petition for any delegate at large or alternate at large shall 
 be legal voters resident in the State; and the signers for 
 any delegate or alternate from any congressional district 
 or subdivision greater than a single county shall be voters 
 of such district or subdivision. The Secretary of State Secretary 
 
 of state to 
 
 shall, within five days thereafter, certify to each county certify such 
 clerk in this State said nominations for delegates and alter- county clerk, 
 nates at large, and the nominations for delegate or alter- 
 nate for any congressional district or other territorial sub- 
 divisions made up in part of the county of such county 
 clerk. 
 
 ^21. Sec. 1 6. Not less than one hundred votes of either retition to 
 
 . .. , ,, -ij' place name 
 
 of said political parties residents in any congressional dis- on district 
 trict, or other territorial subdivision of this State, situated *^^ ^*" 
 within a single county, entitled under the call of their 
 party to choose delegates and alternates to the said na- 
 tional convention of the party, may file with the county 
 clerk of their county on or before the first day of Mar in 
 any presidential year, a petition requesting that the name 
 of the person therein endorsed may be printed on the prim- 
 ary ticket of their party as a candidate for the position of 
 delegate or alternate for said district or subdivision. 
 
 ;^22. Sec. 17. Candidates for the position of delegates ndidates 
 or alternates may be grouped together, and they also may grouped, 
 have the name of the candidate for President whom they 
 favor placed opposite their individual names, or opposite 
 such groups, if they so request in their petitions, under the 
 caption "Choice for President." The said petitions shall 
 be as near as may be in the form now required by law in pg^^^Son. 
 the case of petitions for the nomination of delegates to 
 State conventions of political parties in this State. 
 
 323. Sec. iS. Each county clerk shall forward, on or 
 before the eighth day of May, to the clerk of each mu- ^le^ks^to 
 nicipalitv in his county a statement of the persons whose forward 
 
 ^ ' -^ . . 1 /■ 1 names to 
 
 names are to be printed on the primary ticket of each party municipal 
 
 clerks. 
 
152 
 
 Municipal 
 clerks to 
 have printed 
 official 
 primary 
 tickets. 
 
 as candidates for the position of delegates and alternates, 
 filed with or certified to him as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 324. Sec. 19. Said municipal clerk shall cause to be 
 printed official primary tickets for each political party 
 containing the names of the persons for whom the party 
 voters in his municipality are entitled to vote as candi- 
 dates as aforesaid for the positions of delegates and al- 
 ternates to the national convention of such party. The 
 form of said ballot shall be as near as may be the form 
 authorized in section forty of this act. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Municipal 
 clerks to de- 
 liver to 
 clerks of 
 election 
 supplies 
 necessary for 
 primary. 
 
 Also ballots 
 and boxes. 
 
 Polling 
 places. 
 
 Primary to 
 choose dole- 
 gates to na- 
 tional con- 
 ventions. 
 
 325. Sec. 20. Each of said municipal clerks shall de- 
 liver to the clerk of each board of registry and election 
 in his municipality, at the office of the municipal clerk, on 
 or before Tuesday preceding the day of the primary as 
 hereinafter provided, the poll book and the primary book 
 made up in such election districts at the last preceding 
 general and primary elections respectively, and the books 
 and forms for writing down the names of voters, making 
 out returns and the affidavits filed with him, and gen- 
 erally such things as such clerks are now required by law 
 to furnish said boards for use at the annual primary elec- 
 tion in September of each year, taking receipts therefor 
 from said election clerk, and said election clerk shall de- 
 liver the same to the board of registry and election of 
 which he is clerk in time for use at said primary election. 
 On or before the day of the primary said municipal clerk 
 shall also deliver to such board, at his office, the ballots 
 and ballot-boxes for each party. Said municipal clerks 
 shall also procure the places for holding the primary elec- 
 tions herein provided for, which shall be as near as may 
 be the same places used for the primary and general elec- 
 ^tions held in the fall of each year. 
 
 326. Sec. 21. Said primary elections for the choice of 
 said delegates and alternates of both political parties shall 
 be held on the fourth Tuesday of May in each presiden- 
 tial year, from one to nine P. M. Said primary elections 
 
153 
 
 shall be conducted by the members of the boards of regis- 
 try and election, as near as may be in the manner now 
 required by law for the conduct of the annual primary 
 elections in September of each year; and the provisions 
 of this act and of the act to which this act is a supplement, 
 and of the acts amendatory thereof and supplemental 
 thereto, shall apply as far as may be to the primary elec- 
 tion held under this act, except as herein otherwise pro- 
 vided. 
 
 327. Sec. 22, Every voter whose name shall appear on ^^^ entitled 
 
 . ^^ to vote for 
 
 the poll book of the last preceding general election in the delegates to 
 election district in which he offers to vote, or who has ven\°ons *^°" 
 been registered by affidavit as hereinafter provided, shall 
 be entitled to vote in the primary of his political party 
 held under this act for the election of delegates and alter- 
 nates to national conventions. No person shall be allowed 
 to vote at said primary unless his name appears on said 
 poll book, or unless he has been registered by affidavit as 
 hereinafter provided; nor shall any voter be allowed to 
 vote in the primary of one political party if his name ap- 
 pears in the primary book of the other political party as 
 made up at the last preceding primary election in said elec- 
 tion district. 
 
 328'. Sec. 23. Any voter qualified to vote at the general by^mda^ft 
 election in this State, who did not vote at the general with 
 election preceding any primary election to be held under clerk, 
 this act for the selection of delegates to national conven- 
 tions, may register for said primary election, 'and be en- 
 titled to vote thereat, by filing with the municipal clerk 
 of his municipality, at least ten days prior to the day of 
 the primary an affidavit in the form now required by law 
 for registering voters for any general election. From How primary 
 said poll books and affidavits, and from said primar>' made. 
 books, the board of registry and election shall make up a 
 primary registr}- list for said primary elections, with the 
 letter "R" or the letter "D" opposite the names of those 
 voters whose names appear in said primary books, re- 
 spectively; and from said lists shall determine the right 
 of each voter offering to vote at said primary. It shall 
 
154 
 
 Sample 
 ballots and 
 envelopes 
 distributed. 
 
 Mailed to 
 each voter 
 
 Receipts 
 required. 
 
 Statement 
 on envelopes. 
 
 Character of 
 sample pri- 
 mary ballot. 
 
 Samples 
 posted. 
 
 be the duty of the municipal clerk in each municipality in 
 the State to furnish to each board of registry and elec- 
 tion in his municipality, at his office, on or before the Tues- 
 day preceding said primary election for the selection of 
 delegates to the national conventions, a sufficient number 
 of official sample primary ballots of each party, and a suf- 
 ficient number of one-cent stamped envelopes, to enable 
 the said board to mail one copy of the sample primary bal- 
 lot of each party to each voter who has registered for said 
 primary election; and it shall be the duty of each of said 
 boards to prepare and deposit in the post office, on or be- 
 fore twelve o'clock on Wednesday preceding the said 
 primary day, said stam|>ed envelopes containing a copy of 
 the sample primary ballot of each political party addressed 
 to each voter whose name appears in the said registry list 
 for said primary. Each of said boards shall give to the 
 municipal clerk a receipt for said sample ballots and en- 
 velopes, signed by one of their members, and shall return 
 to said clerk the unused sample ballots and stamped en- 
 velopes, with a written statement signed by all of the mem- 
 bers of said board, to the effect that the remainder of said 
 sample ballots and envelopes were actually mailed or posted 
 as provided in this act. Each of said envelopes shall have 
 printed on the face thereof in large type the words ''Sam- 
 ple Primary Ballot" and in small type the words "If not 
 
 delivered in two days return to " (city or 
 
 town clerk), and said returned envelopes shall be retained 
 by the municipal clerk for thirty days open to public in- 
 spection. Said sample ballots so mailed shall not be voted. 
 
 329. Sec. 24. The said sample primary ballots shall be 
 as nearly as possible a facsimile of the official ballot to 
 be voted at the said primary election, and shall be printed 
 on paper different in color from the official primary bal- 
 lot, so that the same may be readily distinguished from 
 the official primary ballot. The sample ballot shall' have 
 printed at the top in large type the words, "This sample 
 ballot is an exact copy of the ballot to be used on primary 
 day. This ballot cannot be voted." 
 
 The clerk of tht board of registry and election shall 
 
155 
 
 also post such sample primary ballot in the polling place 
 and five other public places in his district. 
 
 It shall be unlawful for any election officer to accept 
 from any voter and deposit in the ballot-box any sample 
 primary ballot. 
 
 Not to be 
 voted. 
 
 330. Sec. 25. Each board of registry and election shall 
 count and canvass the returns of said primary election at 
 the close thereof, and forthwith deliver said returns, boxes, 
 poll books of the preceding general election, affidavits, 
 primary books, and list of voters voting in each primary, 
 to the municipal clerk. Said clerk shall forthwith cer- 
 tify to the county clerk the result of the returns so filed 
 with him. The county clerk shall ascertain from said 
 certificates the persons who have received the highest 
 number of votes for delegates and alternates to the na- 
 tinonal convention of each party, in the territorial division 
 situated wholly within said county, and shall issue to such 
 persons a certificate certifying to the fact of their selec- 
 tion as aforesaid. Said county clerk shall also forthwith 
 forward to the Secretary of State a statement showing the 
 number of votes cast for each candidate for delegate or 
 alternate to be chosen by the voters of each party through- 
 out the State, or from the congressional or other terri- 
 torial district larger than a single county, of which said 
 county is a part. The Secretary of State shall forthwith 
 ascertain from said statements the persons in each party 
 who have received the highest number of votes for dele- 
 gates at large, alternates at large, and delegates and alter- 
 nates chosen in each congressional or other territorial dis- 
 trict larger than a single county ; and shall forthwith issue 
 to each of such persons a certificate certifying that said 
 persons have been duly chosen as such delegates and alter- 
 nates respectively. The persons receiving such certificates 
 from the Secretary of State, or any of the county clerks, 
 shall be deemed to be chosen at said primary election as 
 such delegates and alternates, respectively. 
 
 Canvassing, 
 returns, dis- 
 position of 
 books, etc. 
 
 Certificates 
 of election 
 by county 
 clerlis. 
 
 County clerk 
 to forward 
 statement. 
 
 Secretary of 
 state to issue 
 certificate of 
 election to 
 delegates to 
 convention. 
 
iS6 
 
 V. 
 
 Candidate 
 
 for 
 
 president 
 may have 
 name placed 
 on primary 
 ticket by 
 t'otition. 
 
 Petitioning. 
 
 Secretary of 
 state to cer- 
 tify to 
 county clerls 
 and he to 
 municipal 
 clerk. 
 
 Preference 
 indicated. 
 
 Canvass and 
 certifications. 
 
 331. Sfx; 26. It shall be lawful for not less than one 
 thousand voters of any political party in this State to file 
 a petition with the Secretary of State, on or before the 
 first day of April in any year in which a President of the 
 United States is to be chosen, requesting that the name 
 of the person endorsed in said petition as a candidate 
 of the said party for the office of the President of the 
 United States shall be printed upon the official primary 
 ballot of said party for the then ensuing election for dele- 
 gates to the national convention of said party. Said peti- 
 tion shall be in the form required by law for the endorse- 
 ment of a candidate for United States Senator, but it shall 
 not be necessary to have the consent of such candidate for 
 President endorsed on said petition ; all of the names need 
 not be signed to the same original petition, but copies 
 thereof may be made to which signatures may be attached, 
 but every petition shall have annexed the affidavit of one 
 or more of the signers that the other signers to the said 
 petition signed the same in good faith for the purposes 
 therein mentioned. The Secretary of State shall certify 
 the names so filed in his office to the county clerk of each 
 county on or before the twenty-fifth day of April, and such 
 county clerk shall forthwith certify the same to the mu- 
 nicipal clerk of each municipality in his county on or be- 
 fore the twenty-ninth day of April, and the said municipal 
 clerk shall cause said names so certified to be printed upon 
 the primary tickets of the respective political parties for 
 use at the then next ensuing primary election for the elec- 
 tion of delegates to the national convention of said par- 
 ties, under the heading "Choice for President." The 
 voters at such primary election may indicate their prefer- 
 ence among the candidates for President, whose names 
 thus appear upon the ticket, by marking a cross in the 
 square at the right thereof. The votes so cast for such 
 candidates for President shall be counted, canvassed and 
 returned to the municipal clerk by the board of registry 
 and elections, and shall be certified by such municipal clerk 
 
^\n noun ce- 
 ment. 
 
 forthwith to the county clerk, who in turn shall forthwith 
 certify them to the Secretary of State, and the Secretary 
 of State shall publicly announce the vote cast for each 
 candidate for President in each party, as shown by the 
 said returns so filed in his office. 
 
 In the event that anv candidate for nomination, who ^^ case of 
 
 , - - . . . 01 , . 1 o f declination. 
 
 is thus endorsed m a petition filed in the Secretary of 
 State's office, shall on or before the twenty-fifth day of 
 April decline in writing, filed in the office of the Secre- 
 tary of State, to have his name printed upon said pri- 
 mary ticket, the said Secretary of State shall not certify 
 the name of such candidate to the respective county clerks. 
 
 VI. 
 
 332, Sec. 2y. No person shall be entitled to vote at ^^^l ^^^ 
 any primary election held in September of each year, Primary, 
 pursuant to the act to which this act is a supplement, and 
 
 its supplements and amendments, unless his name, at the 
 time of voting, shall appear upon the poll-books used at 
 the preceding general election or upon the primary reg- 
 istry list made up as hereinafter provided; but any quali- 
 fied voter may register on said primary day for the en- 
 suing general election in the manner provided by law. 
 
 It is the intention of this act that in cities, towns, town- xwo registry 
 ships, boroughs and villages exceeding five thousand in- iJsts when 
 habitants there shall be two registry lists — a primary regis- exceeds 
 try list, and a general election registry list — and that the 
 primary registry list shall consist of the names on the 
 poll-book of the general election of the preceding year, 
 with the corrections and additions herein provided for, 
 and that the general election registry list shall be made 
 up as hereinafter provided. 
 
 333. Sec. 28. The first registry day in cities, towns. First regis- 
 townships, boroughs and villages having a population ex- 
 ceeding five thousand shall be held on the second Tues- 
 day of September in each year, and on said day the board 
 of registry and election, in each election district in such 
 municipalities, shall sit at the place and during the hours 
 
 try day. 
 
158 
 
 Make pri- 
 mary 
 register. 
 
 Names to be 
 placed on 
 registers. 
 
 Party 
 designation. 
 
 Procedure 
 when new 
 districts 
 have been 
 formed, 
 
 as required by law, for the purpose of preparing registry 
 lists of voters entitled to vote at the ensuing primary and 
 general elections. The said primary registry list shall be 
 made up by the said board as follows : the said board shall 
 place upon the said primary registry list the names of all 
 persons whose names appear upon the poll-book of their 
 election district as having voted in said election district at 
 the last preceding general election. Said names shall be 
 arranged according to streets, as now required for the 
 general election registry list. The municipal clerks shall 
 preserve, open to inspection, the poll-book and also the 
 primary books used in each election district in his munici- 
 pality in each year, and deliver the same at his office to the 
 respective boards of registry and election in time for use 
 on said registry day of the following year. Said clerks 
 shall deliver to each of said boards in his municipality a 
 suitable registry book for the primary registry. The said 
 district boards of registry and election shall also place 
 upon said primary registry list, and also upon the registry 
 list to be prepared for use at the general election, the names 
 of all voters who shall appear in person before said board 
 and register upon said first registry day; and shall also 
 place upon said primary registry lists (but not upon said 
 general election registry list) the names of all voters 
 presented to said board by affidavit, as now required by 
 law. Said boards shall place the letter "R" opposite such 
 of the names on the said primary registry lists as ap- 
 pear also in the said Republican primary book, and shall 
 place the letter "D" opposite such of said names as ap- 
 pear also in the said Democratic primary book. When- 
 ever it shall happen, by reason of the creation of new 
 election districts under this act, or for any other rea- 
 son, that there is no copy of the poll-book of the said 
 election district used at the general election of the pre- 
 vious year, or no copy of the primary book for such 
 election district, the municipal clerk shall furnish to the 
 said board of registry and elections, on or before said 
 first registry day, a list of names of voters in said elec- 
 tion district who voted therein at the last previous gen- 
 
159 
 
 eral election, and* also of those who voted therein at 
 the last previous primar}- election in each party primary, 
 which names shall be taken from the poll-book and the 
 primary book of the election district or districts of 
 which the new district formed a part; and from such 
 lists said board shall make up the primary registry list 
 as herein provided. If the poll-book of any election dis- in case 
 
 t , , , 1 • r 1 -1 poll-book 
 
 trict has been lost or destroyed at the time of the said missing, 
 first registry day, then the said board in said district 
 shall make up the primary registry list in said district 
 from the names checked as voting on the last registry 
 filed with the county clerk and from the names on the 
 primary books of the two poHtical parties of the last 
 previous primary, together with the names of voters filed 
 with them by affidavit, as herein provided. 
 
 334. Sfx. 2Q. The municipal clerk in each munici- Sample pri- 
 
 ^, . -^ '■ . niary ballots 
 
 pahty in this State shall furnish to each board of regis- and envei- 
 try and election in his municipaUty, at his office, on or furnished, 
 before Tuesday preceding the primary election in Sep- 
 tember in each year, a sufficient number of official sam- 
 ple primary ballots of each party, and a sufficient num- 
 ber of one-cent stamped envelopes, to enable the said 
 board to mail one copy of the sample primary ballot of 
 each party to aeeach voter who is registered for said pri- 
 mary election ; each of said boards shall prepare and de- 
 posit in the post-office on or before twelve o'clock noon on 
 Wednesday preceding the said primary day, said stamped when mailed, 
 envelopes containing a copy of the sample primary ballot 
 of each political party addressed to each voter whose name 
 appears in the said primary registry list. Each of said 
 boards shall give the municipal clerk a receipt for said Receipts 
 sample ballots and envelopes, signed by one of their mem- ^^^^ 
 bers, and shall return to said clerk the unused sample bal- 
 lots and stamped envelopes, with a sworn statement in 
 writing, signed by a majority of the members of said 
 board, to the effect that the remainder of said sample bal- 
 lots and envelopes were actually mailed or posted as pro- 
 vided in this act ; and the members of said boards failing 
 
i6o 
 
 Words on 
 envelopes. 
 
 Sample bal- 
 lots similar 
 to official 
 ballots. 
 
 Samples 
 posted. 
 
 Sample not 
 to be voted 
 
 to file such statement shall receive no compensation for the 
 service of mailing as aforesaid. 
 
 Each of said envelopes shall have printed on the face 
 thereof, in large type, the words, "Official Sample Primary 
 Ballot," and in smaller type the words, "If not delivered 
 
 in two days, return to " (city 
 
 or town clerk), and said returned envelopes shall be re- 
 tained by the municipal clerk for thirty days, open to pub- 
 lic inspection. Said sample ballots so mailed shall not be 
 voted. 
 
 The said sample ballots shall be, as nearly as possible, 
 a facsimile of the official ballot to be voted at the said pri- 
 mary election, and shall be printed on paper different in 
 color from the official ballot, so that the same may be 
 readily distinguished from the official ballot. The sample 
 ballot shall have printed at the top in large type the words : 
 "This sample ballot is an exact copy of the ballot to be 
 used on primary election day. This ballot cannot be voted." 
 
 The clerk of the board of registry and election shall also 
 post such sample ballot in the polling place in his district 
 and five other public places therein. 
 
 It shall be unlawful for any election officer to accept 
 from any voter and deposit in the ballot-box any sample 
 ballot. 
 
 VII. 
 
 When popu- 
 lation less 
 than 5,000 
 registry 
 made by 
 house 
 canvass. 
 
 335. Sec. 30. The board of registry and election in each 
 election district in municipalities containing five thousand 
 inhabitants or less shall first meet on the said first regis- 
 try day on the second Tuesday in September, and shall 
 make up the registry by a house-to-house canvass as now 
 provided by law, and said board shall, on the primary day 
 hereinafter fixed, use as a registry list for the said primary 
 the registry list for the general election which the said 
 boards are now required by law to prepare, and each of 
 said boards shal cause the said registry list to be made up 
 and open to inspection ten days prior to said primary day. 
 Said list shall contain the letters "R" and "D" to be in- 
 
i6i 
 
 serted therein in manner and form as hereinbefore pro- 
 vided. 
 
 The provisions of the act to which this act is a supple- 
 ment and its amendments and supplements, applying to 
 municipalities containing less than thirty thousand inhab- 
 itants, shall hereafter apply only to municipalities con- 
 taining five thousand inhabitants or less, except as in this 
 act otherwise provided. 
 
 336. Sec. 31. The county board of elections shall sit 
 on the Friday succeeding the first registry day, as here- 
 inafter defined, for the purpose of revising and correct- 
 ing the said primary registry list. The said county board 
 shall have the power to strike off the said primary registry 
 list the names of all persons who shall be shown, by evi- 
 dence satisfactory to the said board, not to be qualified to 
 vote at the said ensuing primary election. The county 
 board of elections shall transmit to the respective district 
 boards of registry and election a certificate or certificates 
 showing the corrections made by them, as hereinbefore 
 provided, in time for use upon the ensuing registry and 
 primary day. Any voter who is dissatisfied with the action 
 of the said county board of elections may apply to a judge 
 of the Court of Common Pleas in the said county by peti- 
 tion, stating the act complained of, and said judge may 
 hear such application in a summary way, and make such 
 order as may be just, which order shall be binding upon 
 said county and district boards of elections. 
 
 ^^y. Sec. 32. The second registry day in all municipali- 
 ties in this State shall be held upon the fourth Tuesday 
 of September in each year, and upon said registry day 
 the district boards of registry and election, in each elec- 
 tion district in the State, shall conduct the primary elec- 
 tions as provided by law from seven o'clock A. M. to 
 nine o'clock P. M. Each voter offering to vote shall an- 
 nounce his name and the party primary in which he wishes 
 to vote. The board of registry and election shall thereupon 
 ascertain by reference to the primary registry book re- 
 quired by this act, and if necessary by reference to the pri- 
 mary book or pll book of the preceding primary or gen- 
 
 Act • 
 
 applicable. 
 
 Revision of 
 register by 
 county 
 board. 
 
 District 
 boards noti- 
 fied of 
 changes. 
 
 Dissatisfied 
 voter may 
 apply to 
 court. 
 
 Second reg- 
 istry and pri- 
 mary elec- 
 tion day. 
 
 Manner of 
 voting. 
 
1 62 
 
 Oath if 
 challenged. 
 
 Transfer 
 certificates. 
 
 May register 
 at primary 
 for general 
 election. 
 
 Separate 
 registers for 
 general 
 election. 
 
 eral election, that said voter is registered as required bv 
 this act, and also that he did not vote in the primary of the 
 other political party at the last preceding primary ejection ; 
 in which event he shall be allowed to vote; but no voter 
 shall be allowed to vote at said primary unless his name 
 appears on the poll book of the previous general election, 
 or has been placed on said registry list prior to said pri- 
 mary day as hereinabove provided ; and no person shown 
 by said primary registry list, verified, when requested by 
 the voter, by reference to 'the preceding primary book, to 
 have voted in the primary of one political party at the last 
 preceding primary election, shall be allowed to vote in the 
 primary of the other political party. In case a voter is 
 challenged, he shall take an oath or affirmation, to be ad- 
 ministered by a member of the board, in the following 
 form: "You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you are a 
 
 member of the political 
 
 party (specifying the political party to which the affiant 
 claims to belong) ; that at the last election for members of 
 the General Assembly at which you voted }'ou voted for a 
 majority of the candidates of said party nominated for na- 
 tional, state and county offices, and that you intend to sup- 
 port the candidates of said party at the ensuing election." 
 Each board of registry and election in each election dis- 
 trict, in issuing transfer certificates to voters who formerly 
 lived in their districts, but who have between the last gen- 
 eral election and the said day of the holding of said pri- 
 mary removed to some other district, shall be governed 
 by the provisions of this act in relation to transfers for the 
 general election. Any voter not registered, or not wish- 
 ing to vote at the primary, may register for the ensuing 
 general election, but every voter voting at the primary shall 
 register for the ensuing general election in the manner 
 provided by this act. 
 
 338'. Sec. 33. The primary registry lists made up as 
 hereinbefore provided shall be used only for the primary 
 election, and each district board of registry and election 
 shall make up the registry list for the general election in 
 the manner provided by law, except that the first two days 
 
i63 
 
 of registry shall be as herein provided. The primary elec- 
 tions shall be held as provided by law, except as herein 
 provided. 
 
 339. Sec. 34. Sections thirty-three (33) and thirty-four orVaw^ 
 (34) of the act entitled "An act to regulate elections (Re- applicable, 
 vision of 1898)/' approved April fourth, one thousand 
 
 eight hundred and ninety-eight, shall apply, so far as may 
 be, to the registration and primary elections held pursuant 
 to this act. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 340. Sec. 35. Any person endorsed as a candidate for Endorsed 
 nomination for any public office, whose name is to be ntay ^^r^q^est 
 voted for on the primary ticket of any political party, party 
 
 • ' , . . , . . . designation. 
 
 may by endorsement on the petition of nomination in 
 which he is endorsed, request that the said clerk shall print 
 opposite his name on said primary ticket a designation, 
 in not more than six words, as named by him in said peti- 
 tion, for the purpose of indicating either any official act 
 or policy to which he is pledged or committed, or to dis- 
 tinguish him as belonging to a particular faction or wing 
 of his political party. On the filing of any such petition, 
 the said clerk shall cause the said designation to be printed 
 opposite the name of the said person upon the primar\' 
 ticket. If several candidates for nomination to the same 
 office shall in said petitions request that their names be 
 grouped together, and that the common designation to ^''^".^^^ 
 be named by them shall be printed opposite their said 
 names, the said clerk shall group the names of the said 
 persons in a bracket, and opposite the said bracket shall 
 print the said designation as aforesaid. If two candidates New name if 
 or groups shall select the same designation, the municipal selection 
 clerk shall notify the candidate or group whose petition '"^*^^- 
 was last filed, and said candidate or group shall select a 
 new designation. 
 
 341. Sec. 36. Each candidate for the nomination for the ^^^^^^legtsi^^- 
 office of State Senator or member of the General Assem- ture to make 
 bly, or for election to either of such offices, shall file with relative 
 
 his nominating petition, or at any time before the primary g^^nator.' 
 
First 
 statement. 
 
 Alternate 
 statement. 
 
 164 
 
 or general election, with the county clerk, one of the two 
 following statements : 
 
 Statement No. i. 
 I hereby state to the people of New Jersey, as well as 
 
 to the people of county, that during my term 
 
 of office I will vote for that candidate for United States 
 Senator in Congress who has received the highest number 
 of votes in my party in the State for that position at the 
 primary election next preceding the election of a Senator 
 in Congress. 
 
 (Signature of candidate.) 
 If a candidate shall be unwilling to sign the above state- 
 ment, then he shall sign and file the following statement: 
 
 Statement No. 2. 
 During my term of office I shall consider the vote of 
 the people for United States Senator in Congress as a 
 recommendation which I shall be at liberty to disregard 
 if the reason for doing so seems to me to be sufficient. 
 
 (Signature of candidate.) 
 Ever\^ blank petition for nomination officially prepared 
 shall contain the foregoing statements in blank. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Governor 
 and congress- 
 men 
 
 nominated 
 directly. 
 
 Petition to 
 place name 
 for governor 
 on official 
 primary- 
 ticket. 
 
 342. Sec. 37. All candidates of political parties, as de- 
 fined in the act to which this act is a supplement, for the 
 office of Governor or Representative in Congress in this 
 State, shall be nominated directly without the interven- 
 tion of delegates or conventions at the primary elections 
 held in September pursuant to the act to which this act 
 is a supplement and the acts amendatory thereof and sup- 
 plementary thereto. Not less than one thousand voters 
 of any political party may file with the Secretary of State 
 of New Jersey a petition endorsing any member of their 
 political party as a candidate for nom.ination of said party 
 
i6s 
 
 to the office of Governor, and requesting that the name 
 of the person so endorsed be printed upon the official pri- 
 mary ballot of said party. 
 
 Not less than two hundred voters of any political party Placing 
 in any congressional district in this State comprising more congress^on 
 than one county, may file with the Secretary of State a ^'^"^t- 
 petition or petitions endorsing any member of their politi- 
 cal party as a candidate for the nomination of said party 
 to the position of Representative in Congress in said con- 
 gressional district, and requesting that the name of the 
 person so endorsed be printed upon the official primary 
 ballot of such political party. 
 
 343. Sec. 38. Said petitions shall be signed in the man- Form of 
 ner and form provided for the signing and filing of nomi- ^^ ^*^°°" 
 nation petitions in the act to which this act is a supple- 
 ment, and its supplements and amendments, and to said 
 petitions, or one of them, there shall be attached the ac- 
 ceptance of the person endorsed as required by said act. 
 Not all of the names of petitioners need be signed to a 
 single petition, but any number of petitions of the same 
 purport may be filed ; provided, in the aggregate the sig- proviso, 
 natures thereto endorsing any one person shall be the num- 
 ber required by this act; and provided, that to each peti- proviso, 
 tion there shall be annexed the affidavit of at least one of 
 the signers thereto, to the effect that the said petition was 
 signed in their own proper handwriting by all of the sign- 
 ers thereof. Said petition or petitions shall be filed with gecretary^^of 
 the Secretary of State at least thirty days prior to the state and 
 
 •^ ./ ^ r- certified to 
 
 time fixed by law for the holding of such primary election, county 
 The Secretary of State shall certify the names of the per- ^ ^^ '^' 
 sons so endorsed as candidates to the county clerks in the 
 counties comprising said congressional district at least 
 twenty-five days prior to the holding of said primary elec- 
 tion. 
 
 Not less than two hundred voters of any political party j^ (,.,3^ 
 in any congressional district laid out wholly within a congi-essionai 
 single county, may file with the clerk of said county a wholly in 
 petition or petitions for congressional nominations, made county 
 out as hereinbefore provided, twenty-five days prior to the ^J^^tifv**^ 
 
i66 
 
 Committee 
 to fill 
 vacancies. 
 
 Voters to 
 
 indicate 
 
 choice. 
 
 Results in- 
 cluded in 
 statements. 
 
 primary election. The county clerk in each county shall 
 certify all of the names endorsed for the office of Gov- 
 ernor and of Representative in Congress, filed with him 
 pursuant to this act, to the clerk of each municipality in 
 his county at least twenty days prior to the time fixed by 
 law for the holding of said primary election, specifying in 
 said certificate the political party to which the person or 
 persons so endorsed belong, and said municipal clerks shall 
 each respectively cause to be printed upon the respective 
 primary ballots for each political party, under the name of 
 ''Candidates for Governor," or ''Candidates for Congress," 
 the names of the persons so endorsed for said offices re- 
 spectively, in addition to the other names to be printed 
 thereon as required by law. 
 
 The signers to said petitions endorsing candidates for 
 Governor or Representative in Congress may name three 
 men in their petition as a committee on vacancies, which 
 committee shall have power in case of death or the per- 
 son endorsed as a candidate in said petition to file with the 
 Secretary of State, or county clerk (as the case may be), 
 not less than fifteen days prior to the primaries, a new 
 petition endorsing a person in the place of the one so 
 dying, which name shall forthwith be certified to the ap- 
 propriate municipal clerk. 
 
 344. Sec. 39. The party voters in each primary shall 
 indicate their choice for the candidates for said offices in 
 the manner provided by law, and the board of registry 
 and election in each election district, in every county in 
 this State, shall canvass the results of the said primary 
 election as to the nominations provided for in this act in 
 the manner provided by law, and shall include the re- 
 sults of such primary election as to the said candidates 
 in the statements which they are now required by law 
 to transmit to the municipal clerk, and the said municipal 
 clerk shall forthwith transmit the said results to the 
 county clerk. Where the congressional district is wholly 
 within the limits of a single county, the county clerk shall 
 canvass the returns as transmitted to him by the various 
 municipal clerks of his county, and the person having in 
 
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 the aggregate the highest number of votes for nomination 
 for the office of Representative in Congress in the con- 
 gressional district or districts comprised within said county, 
 shall be the candidate of his respective party for the said 
 office. Each county clerk shall certify to the Secretary of 
 State the results of said primary elections as to the office of 
 Governor. Each county clerk of a county which forms a 
 part of a congressinal district larger than a single county 
 shall certify to the Secretary of State the results of said 
 primary election as to the office of Representative in Con- 
 gress in his county ; and the Secretary of State shall forth- 
 with canvass the results so certified by the said couniy 
 clerks as to the office of Governor, an of Representative in 
 Congress in each of such congressional districts, and the 
 person receiving the highest number of votes for Governor 
 in each party throughout the State, as shown by said 
 returns, shall be the party candidate for Governor at the 
 ensuing general election, and the person receiving the high- 
 est number of votes within each congressional district shall 
 be the candidate for his political party for the office of 
 Representative in Congress from such district at the ensu- 
 ing general election ; and the Secretary of State shall forth- 
 with certify the names of the persons so ascertained to have 
 been nominated for Governor as aforesaid, to the county 
 clerk of each county. He shall also certify to each county- 
 clerk of a county which forms part of a congressional dis- 
 trict the name of the person so ascertained to have been 
 nominated as Representative in Congresss for the district 
 of which said county forms a part. The said county clerks 
 shall cause the names of the persons ascertained as afore- 
 said to be the party candidates for the office of Governor 
 and of Representative in Congress to be printed upon the 
 official ballots at the ensuing election as the candidate for 
 said office, under appropriate headings. In the event of 
 a failure to select any candidate for Governor or for Con- 
 gress by reason of two or more persons receiving the high- 
 est and the same number of votes, the chairman of the 
 State committee of the said political party shall select one 
 of the said candidates to be the candidate of the party for 
 
 Returns cer- 
 tified to 
 ^secretary of 
 state. 
 
 Results 
 canvassed. 
 
 Party candi- 
 dates for 
 governor and 
 congress. 
 
 County clerk 
 to cause 
 names 
 printed on 
 official 
 ballots. 
 
 m 
 
 tie. 
 
 case ol 
 
i6S 
 
 the said office, and shall file a certificate to that effect with 
 the Secretary of State, or the appropriate county clerk, 
 and the person so selected shall be the party candidate 
 for the said office, and the Secretary of State, when such 
 certificate shall have been filed with him, shall forthwith 
 certify the names of the persons so ascertained to have 
 been nominated as aforesaid to the county clerk of each 
 county, who shall cause such name to be printed as afore- 
 said on the official ballots. 
 
 X. 
 
 Form of pri- 
 mary ballot. 
 
 Coupon. 
 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1912, 
 p. 665, 
 chap. 371.1 
 
 Certain 
 printed 
 directions. 
 
 Names ar- 
 ranged alpha- 
 betically. 
 
 345. Sec. 40. The ballots to be used at primary el^- 
 tions help pursuant to this act and to the act to which this 
 act is a supplement, and the supplements to and amend- 
 ments of said act, shall be made up and printed substan- 
 tially in the following form : 
 
 Each ballot shall have at the top thereof a coupon at 
 least two inches square extending above a perforated line. 
 The coupon shall be numbered for each of said political 
 parties, respectively, from one consecutively to the number 
 of ballots delivered and received by the election officers of 
 the respective polling places. Upon the coupon and above 
 the perforated line shall be the words ''To be torn off by 
 the judge of election. Fold to this line." Below the per- 
 forated line shall be printed the words "Democratic Pri- 
 mary Ticket," or "Republican Primary Ticket," or, as the 
 case may be, naming the proper political party, as provided 
 in this act ; next there shall be printed the name of the 
 municipality and number of the ward and election district 
 in which the ballot is to be voted, and the date of the pri- 
 mary election and the name of the municipal clerk, which 
 name shall be a facsimile of the signature of the said clerk. 
 Next shall be printed directions instructing the voter how 
 to indicate his choice for each office or position, and for 
 how many persons to vote, as for instance, "Mark a cross 
 X in the square at the left of the name of the person for 
 whom you wish to vote," "Vote for one," "Vote for two," 
 or a greater number, as the case may be. The names of 
 
169 
 
 all candidates for the same office shall be printed in alpha- 
 betical order under the several designations of the office 
 to be voted for, unless grouped as provided in section 
 thirty-five of this act. A single light-faced rule shall be 
 used to separate the different names in each group of can- 
 didates. A heavy-faced rule shall be used between each 
 group of candidates for different offices. The designation separa1:ed. 
 named by candidates in their petitions for nomination, as 
 provided by law, shall be printed in a second column in as 
 large type as the space will allow. At the left and opposite 
 the name of each candidate for office, or for the position 
 of delegate, shall be printed a square, at least one-quarter 
 of an inch square, in which the voter is to indicate his 
 choice. The following is an illustration of the said form 
 of ballot: 
 
170 
 
 Illustration. 
 
 To be torn off by the Judge of Election. 
 
 No. 75. 
 
 Fold to this line. 
 
 Democratic Primary Ticket. 
 
 City of Newark. Ward No. 5. Election District No. 
 
 4. September 22, 1909. John Doe, City Clerk. 
 
 Mark a cross X in the square at the left of 
 the name of the person for whom you wish to 
 vote. 
 
 For Governor. 
 
 Vote for one. 
 
 
 Thomas Jones. 
 
 
 Jacob Smith. 
 
 
 Henry Stone. 
 
 For Mayor, 
 
 Vote for one. 
 
 
 Edward Hall. 
 
 for Commission Charter 
 
 
 George Jackson. 
 
 Cleveland Democrat. 
 
 
 Peter Randall. 
 
 For United States Senator. Vote for one. 
 
 
 Charles Blackstone. 
 
 
 William Kent. 
 
 using so much of said form as may be applicable to the 
 current primary election and extending the same to pro- 
 vide for cases not therein specified, and a like ballot shall 
 be printed for all other political parties. There shall be 
 no endorsement upon the back of any ballot. 
 
171 
 The distribution and use of official ballots at anv pri- p^^iai bai- 
 
 ' ^ lets confined 
 
 mary election shall be confined exclusively to the polling to poiung 
 room, as in this act directed. The board of registry and ^' ^^^' 
 election shall hand to each voter the ballot he is entitled to 
 cast. Should any voter to whom an official ballot has been 
 handed spoil or render the same unfit for use, he shall re- 
 turn the one so spoiled or unfit for use and obtain another 
 from the board of registry and election, but no more than 
 two official ballots shall be furnished to any voter, except 
 at the discretion of said board. 
 
 346. Sec. 41. At the said primary election each voter As to mark- 
 shall indicate his choice for the candidates for nomination, ^^^ 
 
 by making a mark in the square opposite the name of the 
 candidate for whom he wishes to vote for each office or 
 position, to the extent of the number of candidates to be 
 nominated for said office or position. If a voter marks his 
 ballot for more candidates for any office or position than 
 are to be selected therefor, said ballot shall not be void 
 as to the candidate for any other office or position for 
 which it is properly marked. The method of voting shall Method of 
 be that hereinafter provided for the general election, so far primary^ 
 as may be, but the primary registry list shall be used in- 
 stead of the poll-book and the number of the ballot given 
 to each voter shall be marked in front of his name on the 
 primary list. The board of registry and election shall pre- ^^^^^^^ p^ri. 
 serve all primary ballots returned by a voter as spoiled or oiary ballots, 
 unfit for use, and said board shall keep a record of all such 
 ballots and shall place them on the string with the coupons. 
 Said coupons and all spoiled and unused ballots shall be 
 placed inside the ballot-boxes and delivered with the ballot- 
 boxes to the municipal clerk. 
 
 The said ballots shall be canvassed, counted and returned canvassing, 
 as provided by law, except as in this act otherwise pro- 
 vided. 
 
 347. Sec. 42 All petitions endorsing candidates for Filing names 
 nominations on the primary ticket of any party to be *^ primlrr^ 
 voted for within a single municipalitv must be filed with ballots in 
 
 single mu- 
 
 the proper municipal clerk twenty days before the day of nicipaiity. 
 the primar}' ; and it shall be the duty of such clerk to 
 
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 forthwith notify any candidate so endorsed, whose peti- 
 tion for nomination is defective, setting forth the nature 
 of such defect, and the date when the ballots will be 
 printed, and such candidate shall be permitted to amend 
 such petition either in form or in substance, so as to remedy 
 such defect, at any time prior to the printing of such 
 ballots. 
 
 XL 
 
 Personal 
 registration 
 in municipal- 
 ities over 
 5,000. 
 
 Third regis- 
 trj' day. 
 
 Arrange- 
 ment of 
 registry 
 book. 
 
 Entry of 
 names ; de- 
 tails as to 
 residence, 
 age, employ- 
 ment, etc. 
 
 348. Sec. 43. In cities, towns, townships, boroughs, 
 and villages exceeding five thousand inhabitants, no per- 
 son shall be allowed to vote at any general election un- 
 less he shall first have registered personally or by affidavit 
 as required by this act. No registration by affidavit for the 
 general election, except as hereinafter provided shall here- 
 after be allowed in such municipalities, and the third reg- 
 istering day therein shall be on Tuesday two weeks next 
 preceding the general election. 
 
 349. Sec. 44. In all cities, towns, townships, boroughs 
 and villages containing a population exceeding five thou- 
 sand, the registry list or book shall be arranged in col- 
 umns, and the leaves thereof shall be indexed from A to 
 Z. In the first column of such register there shall be 
 entered, at the time of the completion of the registration 
 on the last day of registration, a number opposite the name 
 of each person so enrolled, beginning wath *'one" opposite 
 the first name entered in the page index A, and continu- 
 ing in numerical order to and including the last name en- 
 tered upon the last page of such register. On each day of 
 registration there shall be entered in the second column 
 thereof the surname of such persons in the alphabetical 
 order of the first letter thereof, on the page bearing the in- 
 dex letter of such surname, and in the third column the 
 Christian name or names of such persons respectively. In 
 the fourth column shall be entered the residence number 
 or other designation, and in the fifth column the name of 
 the street or avenue of such residence, or a brief descrip- 
 tion of the locality thereof. In the sixth column shall be 
 
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 entered the number of the floor or room occupied by the 
 voter at the residence given by him, and in the seventh 
 column shall be entered the full name of the householder, 
 tenant, subtenant or apartment-lessee with whom the voter 
 resides, and in the eighth column shall be entered his age, 
 in the ninth shall be entered his length of residence by 
 years in this State, and in the tenth column shall be entered 
 the country of his nativity, which shall mean the country, 
 State or province of the voter's birth, irrespective of his 
 former political allegiance. In the eleventh column shall 
 be entered the name of the municipality from which such 
 person last registered or voted. In the twelfth column 
 shall be entered, if the voter is in business for himself or 
 with others, the name under which he is so in business, or, 
 if the voter is employed by some other person, the name 
 of his present employer. If he is not in business and has 
 no employment, the word "none" shall be entered, together 
 with the name under which he was last in business or the 
 name of his last employer, if any. In the thirteenth col- 
 umn shall be entered the street and number, or if it has no 
 street number, a brief description of the location of the 
 place, if any, where he is so in business or employed, or, 
 if unemployed, the place, if any, where he was last in busi- 
 ness or employed. The fourteenth column shall be reserved 
 for the signature of the voter at the time of registration, 
 or in case the voter alleges his inability to write, for en- 
 tering therein the number of the "identification statement," 
 made by such voter as hereinafter provided, or, if the 
 voter has registered by affidavit, for the entry and number 
 of such affidavit as hereinafter required in such case. 
 Above each horizontal line in the said fourteenth column 
 shall be printed the words "the foregoing statements are 
 true," and the voter shall, at the time of registration, (un- 
 less he register by affidavit as hereinafter provided), sign 
 his name by his own hand and without assistance, using 
 an indelible pencil or ink, below such words on the hori- 
 zontal line in a register of voters, which register shall be 
 known as the "signature copy." Said signature copy shall 
 be other than a public copy, and shall be used at the polls 
 
 •ignature. 
 
 Identifica- 
 tion 
 statement. 
 
 Signature 
 copy. 
 
1/4 
 
 If unable to 
 write, state- 
 meUt to be 
 prepared. 
 
 Identifica- 
 tion 
 
 statement 
 book. 
 
 Poll boolis. 
 etc., provided 
 by secretary 
 of state. 
 
 on election day. If the voter alleges his inability to sign 
 his name, one of the members of the board of registry and 
 election, in addition to taking down the information re- 
 quired to be written in the "signature copy" of the registry 
 book, shall read to the voter the following list of questions 
 from a book to be furnished said boards, and to be known 
 as ^'identification statements for registry day," and said 
 member shall write down in said book the answers of the 
 voter to the following questions: What is or was your 
 father's full name? What is or was your mother's full 
 name? Are you married or single? Where did you ac- 
 tually reside immediately prior to taking up your present 
 residence; state floor and character of premises? At the 
 bottom of each list of questions shall be printed the follow- 
 ing statement: "1 certify that I have read to the above- 
 named elector each of the foregoing questions, and that 
 I have truly recorded his answers as above to each of said 
 questions;" and said member who has made the above 
 record shall forthwith sign his name to said certificate and 
 date the same. The above questions shall be printed on 
 separate sheets of paper, which shall be furnished said 
 board bound together in book form, and numbered conse- 
 cutively, and the number corresponding to the number on 
 each sheet containing said list of questions shall be entered, 
 when the questions have been answered, in the fourteenth 
 column, in the register of voters in which the voters regis- 
 tering have signed their names. Said book of "identifica- 
 tion statements for registry day" shall be kept at all times 
 with the register in which the voters sign their names 
 as hereinbefore provided. The registration books as pro- 
 vided in this section, together with a sufficient number of 
 identification statements bound in book form, and the poll- 
 books as herein provided, and the forms of affidavit here- 
 inafter mentioned for persons unable to register personally, 
 shall be provided by the Secretary of State at the expense 
 of the State, and shall be furnished to each board of regis- 
 try and election in the same manner as the poll-books are 
 now furnished to said boards, except that the lines in the 
 registers and poll-books provided for in this section shall 
 
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 be one-half inch apart and each page of said registers and 
 poll-books shall in each case be consecutively numbered. 
 
 Any voter who is unable by reason of illness or absence 
 from the State to register personally may make and sign 
 an affidavit, on a form to be procured from a board of 
 registry and election, containing a statement of the reasons 
 for his inability to register in person and also the same 
 statements which a voter registering personally, is required 
 to make as hereinbefore provided. Said affidavit shall be 
 taken before some person legally authorized to take affi- 
 davits, and if taken outside of this State, shall be accom- 
 panied by a proper certificate showing the authority of the 
 person administering the oath to take affidavits. Such 
 affidavits shall be filed with the board of registry and elec- 
 tion of the district in which such voter is entitled to vote, 
 on or before the last registry day, and such board of regis- 
 try and election shall, on or before the last registry day 
 endorse upon said affidavit the number thereof, giving it a 
 number in the order of its receipt by said board, and shall 
 thereupon enter the name of such voter on the registry 
 list or book for the ensuing general election, together with 
 the statements, as contained in said affidavit, which the 
 voter would be required to make if registering personally, 
 and shall enter in the fourteenth column of said registry 
 list or book, instead of the signature of such voter, the 
 words, ''affdavit 'No. ," giving the number endorsed 
 on said affidavit. All such affidavits shall be kept by said 
 board of registry and election and used on election day 
 as hereinafter provided, and after election shall be placed 
 by said board inside the ballot-boxes and returned to the 
 municipal clerk therewith. Any person swearing falsely 
 in any such affidavit shall be guilty of perjury and incur 
 the penalty thereof. 
 
 350. Sec. 4^. Immediately after the close of the last Complete 
 
 , r . . . . . . ,. . ,. ^ registry list 
 
 day of registration in said municipalities exceeding five furnished 
 thousand inhabitants the said board of registry and elec- ^^^^^^ ^^'^''• 
 tion in each election district shall make and complete one 
 list of all persons registered in their district in the numeri- 
 cal order of the street numbers thereof, which shall be 
 
176 
 
 signed and be certified by said board, and delivered forth- 
 with to the county clerk. Said list shall be in the following 
 form: 
 
 Form 
 of list. 
 
 Grand Street. 
 
 Residence number 
 or other designation. 
 
 15 
 
 Name of Voter. 
 Smith, John M. 
 Jones, Charles M. 
 
 List printed 
 and supplied 
 boards of 
 election. 
 
 Police fur- 
 nished list ; 
 to investi- 
 gate. 
 
 Police 
 report. 
 
 List fur- 
 nished on 
 payment. 
 
 Poll-book. 
 
 The county clerk shall forthwith cause copies of said 
 registry lists to be printed in hand-bill form, and shall 
 furnish printed copies thereof to the respective boards of 
 registry and election, who shall publicly expose the same 
 for inspection as now required by law. Said county clerk 
 shall forthwith deHver to the chief of police of each of 
 said municipalities not less than five copies of the lists of 
 voters of each election district in such municipalities, who 
 shall cause an investigation to be made of the names of 
 the persons so appearing on said lists, to ascertain if the 
 said persons are residents of the houses from which they 
 are registered, and shall forthwith forward the various 
 reports of such investigation to the county board of elec- 
 lions, where they shall be kept open to public inspection, 
 and who shall make use of the same in revising and cor- 
 recting the registry, as now required by»law. Said county 
 clerk shall also furnish to any voter applying for the same 
 copies of said registry lists, charging therefor, as nearly 
 as may be, the cost of printing the same. 
 
 351. Sec. 46. The signature copy of the registry list 
 or book shall be kept by the board of registry and elec- 
 tion in such election district, and used on election day as 
 hereinafter provided. In all election districts in cities, 
 towns, townships, boroughs and villages containing a popu- 
 lation exceeding five thousand, each board of registry 
 and election shall have a poll-book for keeping the list 
 of voters voting or offering to vote thereat at the elec- 
 tion. Such book shall have six columns headed respec- 
 tively : ''Number of voter," "names of voters," "residence 
 
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 of voters," "signature or statement number of voter," "sig- 
 natures compared" and "remarks." Previous to each de- Action prior 
 livery of an official ballot by the ballot clerk to a voter, 
 the member of the board having charge of the poll-book 
 shall enter therein in the appropriate column the number 
 of the voter, in the successive order of the delivery of bal- 
 lots to voters, the names of the voter in the alphabetical 
 order of the first letter of his surname, his residence by 
 street and number, or if he has no street or number, a 
 brief description of the locality thereof. The column 
 headed "signature or statement number of voter" shall have 
 printed above each horizontal line the words "the fore- 
 going statements are true," and the voter shall, previous 
 to the receipt of an official ballot, sign his name by his 
 own hand and without assistance, using an indelible pencil ^^^ '^^™^- 
 or ink, below the said words in the poll-book. 
 
 After the voter shall have so signed, and before an signatures 
 official ballot shall be given to him, one of the members compared, 
 of the board of registry and election shall compare the 
 signature made in the poll-book with the signature there- 
 tofore made by the voter in the registration book on regis- 
 tration day, or if the voter has registered by affidavit in 
 the manner provided by section forty-four of this act, with 
 the signature made by the voter on such affidavit, and if 
 said signautre is the same, or sufficiently similar to the 
 signature written on registration day, or in such affidavit 
 as the case may be, as to identify it as being written by the 
 same- person who wrote the signature on registration day, 
 or on such affidavit, said member shall thereupon certify 
 that fact by writing his initials after such signature in 
 tthe column headed "signatures compared." 
 
 352. Sec. 47. If the voter on election dav alleges his Procedure if 
 
 . , ... ... ' Toter cannot 
 
 inability to so sign his name, then one of the members of sign name, 
 the board of registry and election shall read the same list 
 of questions to the voter as were required on registra- 
 tion day, both in the "signature copy" of the registry and 
 in the "identification statements for registry day," from 
 a book containing said questions to be provided for elec- 
 tion day, and to be known as "identification statements for 
 
178 
 
 Statement at 
 bottom of 
 questions. 
 
 Comparisons 
 and answers 
 made oenly. 
 
 If disagree- 
 ment, a 
 challenge. 
 
 Procedure 
 n case of 
 challenge. 
 
 election day," and said member shall write the answers 
 of the voter thereto. Each of these statements shall be 
 numbered, and a number corresponding to the number 
 on the statement's sheet shall be entered in the fourth 
 column opposite the name of the said voter answering the 
 questions. Each statement shall contain the same questions 
 as the voter was required to answer on registry day. The 
 questions answered on registration day shall not be 
 turned to or inspected until all the answers to said ques- 
 tions shall have been written down on election day by said 
 member of the board. Any person who shall prompt a 
 voter in answering any question provided in this section 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 At the bottom of each list of questions shall be printed 
 the following statement: "I certify that I have read to 
 the above-named voter each of the foregoing questions 
 and that I have duly recorded his answers as above to each 
 of said questions," and said member of the board who has 
 made the above record shall sign his name to said certifi- 
 cate and date the same, and note the time of day of mak- 
 ing such record. 
 
 353. Sec. 48'. The comparison of signatures of a voter 
 made on registration and election days, and a comparison 
 of the answers made by a voter on registration and elec- 
 tion days, or if the voter is registered by affidavit, then the 
 comparison of his signature and answers on election day 
 with his signature and statements in his affidavit, shall be 
 had in full view of the watchers, challengers or agents, 
 and the right to challenge voters shall exist until the ballot 
 shall have been deposited in the ballot-box. If the signa- 
 tures of the voters or the answers to the questions made 
 by the voter do not correspond, then it shall be the privilege 
 of the watchers and challengers to challenge, and the duty 
 of each member of the board of registry and elections to 
 challenge, unless some other authorized person shall chal- 
 lenge. 
 
 354. Sec. 49. In case a voter is challenged, the board 
 shall ask him the questions which they asked him on regis- 
 tration day, the answers to which appear on the' signature 
 
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 copy of the registry book if he has registered in person, 
 and if he has registered by affidavit, said board shall ask 
 him the same questions as are by this act required to be 
 asked of a voter who has registered personally, and if the 
 answers do not correspond a note of said fact shall be 
 entered in the column of the poll-book entitled "remarks." 
 The said board shall determine the right of such voter to 
 vote, after making use of, and giving due weight to, the 
 evidence afforded by his signature, if any, and the said 
 answers. 
 
 If a majority of the board shall decide against re- m^votT^'^ 
 ceiving such vote and the voter shall then take the oath 
 of affirmation now provided by law, the said board shall 
 thereupon receive his vote. It shall then be the duty of 
 such board of registry and election upon demand of a 
 member of the board or any other citizen, to forthwith 
 issue a warrant for the arrest of such voter and deliver the 
 same to a peace officer, who shall forthwith arrest such 
 voter. 
 
 355. Sec. 50. The Secretary of State, at least thirty to^^'irrest 
 days prior to time when they are needed for use, shall identification 
 furnish to the county clerk of each county having one or furnished by 
 more municipalities of over five thousand inhabitants for qi%^^ 
 each board of registry and elections in such municipali- 
 ties a sufficient number of said "identification statements 
 
 for election day," containing the questions hereinbefore 
 referred to, and the certificate herein required to be signed 
 at the bottom thereof, stitched or bound in book form, 
 and the proper books and lists to carry out the provisions 
 of this act concerning the registry of voters for the gen- 
 eral election, and the expense thereof shall be paid by the 
 State; and the county clerk shall deliver the same to the 
 proper boards of registry and election in time for use at 
 the registry and at the general election, respectively. 
 
 356. Sec. 51. It shall not be lawful for any district eiepTau^*" 
 board of registry and election in any city, town, town- thonged bj 
 ships, borough or village exceeding five thousand inhab- 
 itants in the State to execute or deliver to any voter any 
 
 paper in the nature of a transfer, purporting to authorize 
 
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 Procedure 
 to secure 
 transfer. 
 
 Amended 
 P. L. 1914, 
 p. 130. 
 
 the said voter to vote in any other election district than 
 that in which he is registered, as now provided by law, 
 except when authorized by the court as hereinafter pro- 
 vided. 
 
 357. Sec. 52. No person shall vote at any general elec- 
 tion in any election district other than the one in which he 
 is registered, unless he shall appear before either the justice 
 oi the Supreme Court holding the circuit court in said 
 county, or one of the judges of the Court of Common 
 Pleas of said county, or one of the judges assigned to hold 
 the circuit court of said county, at the court house, or at 
 such other place within said county as will be most con- 
 venient and accessible to the largest number of voters in 
 said county, as either the said justice or judge in his dis- 
 cretion shall determine, on or prior to the day of the 
 general election, and shall make proof to the satisfaction 
 of said justice or judge that he has moved from the elec- 
 tion district in which he has registered since the day on 
 which he did register, and that he has moved into another 
 district in said county, and shall obtain from said justice 
 or judge an order sealed with the seal of the county clerk, 
 directing the board of registry and election to place the 
 name of the said voter upon the registry of the said elec- 
 tion district; said order shall be shown to the board of 
 registry and election in which said voter is registered and 
 said board shall thereupon erase his name from said reg- 
 ister and issue a transfer as now provided by law, which 
 transfer and the order of the court shall be filed by the 
 voter with the board of registry and election in the elec- 
 tion district where said voter desires to vote, and said 
 board shall obey said order. 
 
 XII. 
 
 Blauket 
 ballot; 
 names of all 
 candidates 
 thereon. 
 
 358. Sec. 53. At the general election in the fall of each 
 year, instead of separate printed ballots for each political 
 party or group of petitioners having candidates to be voted 
 for at such election, there shall be a single or blanket form 
 of ballot, upon which shall be printed all the names of 
 
i8i 
 
 all tbe candidates of every party or group of petitioners 
 having candidates to be voted for at said election. 
 
 ^c;q Sec. q4. The names of candidates for the office Arrangememt 
 
 ODJ- ^ j-t of names. 
 
 cf representative in congress and for every state, county 
 
 and municipal office, except the names for presidential 
 
 electors, shall be arranged under the designation of the 
 
 office in alphabetical order, according to the surnames. 
 
 Blank spaces or Hnes shall be left at the end of the list 
 
 of candidates for each different office equal to the 
 
 number of persons to be elected to said office. Following ^^^^ted. 
 
 the name of each candidate upon the same line upon 
 
 the ballot shall be printed the name of the political party 
 
 or group of petitioners making the nomination. Any "prTsents**** 
 
 candidate receiving: the nomination of more than one po- more than 
 ... • 1 • /- 1 o^© party, 
 
 litical party or group of petitioners may, within hve days 
 
 after the time for making nominations expires, file with 
 the public official charged with the duty of printing the 
 ballots a notice directing such official in what order the 
 several nominations shall be added to his name upon the 
 official ballot, and said directions shall be followed by the 
 said officer. If such candidate shall fail to make such 
 directions as aforesaid, then said officer shall add said 
 nominations or political designations to the name of such 
 candidate in such order as said officer shall determine. 
 On the same line, and to the left of the name of each 
 candidate there shall be provided a square, or space not square, 
 less than one-quarter of an inch square, in which the voter 
 may designate by a cross his choice of said candidates. 
 Upon the said ballot shall be printed such directions as 
 will aid the voter, as for example: "Mark a cross X ^^ the 
 square at the left of the name of the person for whom you 
 desire to vote," "Vote for one," "Vote for two," and the 
 like. 
 
 360. Sec. 55. The names of candidates for presi- presidential 
 dential electors shall be arranged in groups as presented grouped™ 
 in the several certificates of nominations or petitions. 
 Said groups shall be arranged in the order of the congres- 
 sional district in which the elector resides. . 
 
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 ^niames 
 and party 
 printed above 
 electors. 
 
 Names 
 grouped. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 I'roviso. 
 
 Official 
 ballots. 
 Quantity, 
 
 Style of type 
 
 The surnames of the candidates of each poHtical party 
 for the offices of President and Vice-President, with the 
 political designation thereof at the right of the surnames, 
 shall be placed in one line above the group of candidates 
 of such party for electors. A sufficient square, not less 
 than three-eighths of an inch square, in which the voter 
 may designate by a cross his choice for electors shall be 
 provided at the left of the surnames of the candidates for 
 President and Vice-President. 
 
 The names of candidates for any office for which more 
 than one are to be elected shall be arranged in groups as 
 presented in the several certificates of nominations or peti- 
 tions ; provided, however, that any candidate receiving the 
 nominations of more than one political party or group of 
 petitioners may file with the public official charged with 
 the duty of printing the ballots, a notice directing the said 
 official in what group of candidates he desires his name to 
 appear; and provided that such candidate's name shall 
 appear but once and shall not appear as a nominee of a 
 party, or group of petitioners, except such party or group 
 of petitioners as have nominated him; and provided, that 
 said notice be filed within five days after the time for filing 
 nominations expires. The names in each group shall be ar- 
 ranged in the alphabetical order of the surnames, and the 
 groups shall be arranged in like manner in the alphabetical 
 order of the surnames at the head of each group. 
 
 361. Sec. 56. The official ballot shall be furnished at 
 the election places as now provided by law. There shall 
 be furnished to each board of registry and election twice 
 as many official ballots for use of the voters in the poll- 
 ing places on election day as there are voters registered 
 in said election district. The names of all candidates shall 
 be printed in capital letters in ten-point type, and the desig- 
 nation with capital and small letters of the same type ; ex- 
 cept that where there is more than one designation to a 
 candidate the type may be smaller. If in case a candidate's 
 name and party designation printed in full in ten-point type 
 will overrun the space of three and three-quarters inches 
 
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 as provided in this section, the party designation may be 
 abbreviated. 
 
 The names of the presidential electors shall be printed "^^p® '°^ 
 
 / \ ■ 1 f t t names of 
 
 in ten (lo) pomt type and the space between each name electors, 
 shall not exceed one-eighth of an inch, and if said names 
 occupy more space than one line, the space between the 
 lines shall not exceed one-eighth of an inch. In front and 
 as^ainst the space or square, which the voter uses to indi- Border 
 
 , . 1 . r ,. t ,. , , , r , and rules. 
 
 cate his choice of candidates, extending the length of each 
 column shall be a full-face border not less than a quarter 
 of an inch in width. A single light-face rule shall be used 
 to separate the members of each group of candidates, ex- 
 cept presidential electors, each group of presidential elec- 
 tors, surnames of candidates for President and Vice-Presi- 
 dent of the United States and their party designations shall 
 be separated by a heav>^-faced rule into parties. 
 
 A heavy-faced rule shall be used between each group 
 of candidates for different offices. Each line upon which 
 the name of the candidate and his political designation is 
 printed shall be three and three-quarters inches in length, 
 including the square for marking. The margin or border Margin. 
 of the paper outside of the printing on the ballot shall not 
 exceed one-half inch. The names on said ballot shall be 
 arranged so that said ballot may be as nearly as possible 
 square in form. 
 
 The space or square in which the voter places cross X Voters' 
 
 square. 
 
 to indicate his choice of candidates shall be an independ- 
 ent space or square printed from heav}^-faced rule and shall 
 be independent of all other rule or lines on the ballot. 
 
 362. Sec. 57. Each ballot shall have at the top thereof Numbered 
 a perforated coupon the width of the ballot above the per- ^°top. 
 forated line. The coupon shall be numbered from one 
 consecutively to the number of ballots delivered to and 
 received by the election officers of the respective polling 
 places. Upon the coupon and above the perforated line 
 shall be the words: "Ballot No. (number in figures)." 
 "To be torn off by the judge of elections." "Fold to this 
 line." Below the perforated line shall be printed the words : 
 "Official Ballot , city, town, &c., of , 
 
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 Ward , Election District No ; No- 
 vember 19 John Doe, County Clerk." The blank 
 
 spaces shall be filled in with the name of the proper city 
 or other municipality, and the ward and district numbers, 
 baiiot^^ ^^^ t^^ name of the county clerk shall be a facsimile of his 
 
 signature. The face of the official ballot shall be substan- 
 tially in the following form : 
 
BALLOt JS'O. 23. 
 
 To Be Torn Off by the Jddgb of Election. 
 Fold to This Line. 
 
 (Perforated line.) '"'^ 
 
 OFPICIAIi BALLOT. 
 f'^^ *'^- ff'^rdAo Election District No November Sth. 1912 John Doe, County Clhi. 
 
 \ To Vote for All the Electors of - 
 
 XAny Party, Mark a Cross -X in the 
 Square at the Left of the Surnames 
 of the Candidates, for President and 
 Vice-President fop. Whom You Desire 
 TO Vote. 
 
 To Vote for Part of the Electors op 
 Any Party, Mark a Cross x in the 
 Square at the Left op the Name of 
 Each Elector for Whom You Desire 
 TO Vote. VOTE FOR FOURTEEN 
 ELECTORS. 
 
 XTo Vote for a Person. Mark a Cross 
 X in the Square at the Left of thb 
 Name of the Person foe Whom You 
 Desire to Vote. 
 
 Congressman. 
 
 Vote for One. 
 
 President and Vice-President. 
 OF THE United States. 
 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 
 a 
 
 D 
 
 REPUBLICAN. 
 Tapt and Murphy. 
 ELECTORS. 
 Griffith W. Lewis 
 William T. Read 
 Robert E. Hand 
 Isaac T. Nichols 
 Austen Colgate 
 George W. F, Gaunt 
 Harry D.. Leavitt 
 John D. Prince 
 William W. Smalley 
 Carlton B. Pierce 
 
 □ William Hughes=Democrat. 
 
 □ Thomas F. McCran=Republican 
 
 D 
 
 Senator. 
 
 Vote for One. 
 
 □ John Hinchlifpe=Democrat 
 
 Q John D. Prince=Republican 
 
 D 
 
 Member of Assembly. Vote for Five. 
 
 Q Wesley Chamberlain==Democrat . . . 
 
 Q James J. CaowLEY=DEMoqRAT 
 
 D 
 
 D 
 D 
 
 a 
 
 D 
 
 n 
 n 
 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 D 
 
 DEMOCRAT. 
 Wilson and Underwood. 
 ELECTORS. 
 James A. C. Johnson 
 James F. Fielder 
 William C. Gebhardt 
 John W. Slocum 
 Richard Fitzherbert 
 George C. Low 
 J. Warren Davis ' 
 
 Thomas Barber 
 Jacob C. Price 
 
 To Vote for a Person, Mark a Cross 
 X IN the Square at the Left op the 
 Name of the Person for Whom You 
 Desire to Vote. 
 
 Governor, 
 
 Vote for Onex \ 
 
 □ Walter E. Edge=Republican. 
 
 Q George S. Silzer=Democrat. 
 
 D 
 
 Q Harry Joelson=Democrat 
 
 Q Charles P. Lynch=Democrat 
 
 Q Thomas F. Morgan =Dem(jcrat 
 
 □ Randall B. Lewis=Republican 
 
 Q James Parker=Republican 
 
 □ Leonard Pikaart=Republican . . . . . 
 
 □ Garret H. Vermuelen=Republican 
 
 □ William W. Watson=Repdblican. . 
 
 D 
 
 Sheriff. 
 
 Vote fob One. 
 
 □ John BURHANfi=DEMOCRAT 
 
 □ Amos H. Radclipfe^tRepdblican 
 
 D 
 
 Mayor. 
 
 Vote for One. 
 
 □ Aug. A. Fisher=Repcblican 
 
 □ Andrew F. McBride=Democrat 
 
 a 
 
 Justice of Peace. Vote for One. 
 
 □ Charles R. Bacon=:Republican 
 
 □ William K, DEVEREAUx=DEMocnAT. 
 
 a 
 
 Constable. 
 
 Vote t^r One. 
 
 □ John Rancier=Republigai!I 
 
 □ Frank P. Van Noort=Democrat 
 
 5 
 
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 Blank spaces 
 filled. 
 
 Arrangement 
 of questions 
 to be 
 voted on. 
 
 All Spaces except the spaces where the voter is to mark 
 the ballot or to write or paste a name thereon, shall be 
 printed in with scroll or filing, to guide the voter against 
 marking in the wrong place. 
 
 363. Sec, 58. Whenever any question or proposition is 
 to be submitted to the people of the State, or any sub- 
 division thereof, at any primary or general election, such 
 question or proposition shall be printed upon the ballot^ 
 underneath the names of the candidates, with appropriate 
 instructions to the voter, in the following form : 
 
 If you favor the proposition printed below, make an 
 X mark in the square opposite the word "yes;" if you 
 are opposed thereto, make an X mark in the square op- 
 posite the word "No." 
 
 Shall an act providing for a Commis- 
 sion form of government for Newark 
 be adopted ? 
 
 Yes. 
 
 No. 
 
 A8 to mark- 
 ing and 
 counting. 
 
 Sample ballot 
 mailed each 
 voter. 
 
 Amended 
 P. L. 1914, 
 p. 194. 
 
 If the voter makes an X mark in black ink or black 
 pencil in the square opposite the word "yes," it shall be 
 counted as a vote in favor of said proposition or ques- 
 tion. If the voter shall make an X mark in black ink or 
 black pencil in the square opposite the word "No" it shall 
 be counted as a vote against such proposition or question, 
 and in case no mark shall be made after the word either 
 "Yes" or "No" it shall not be counted as a vote either for 
 or against such proposition. 
 
 364. Sec. 59. Each county clerl< shall at least ten days 
 preceding the general election day or such day as may 
 hereafter be fixed by law for the holding of a special elec- 
 tion throughout the county furnish to the municipal clerk 
 of each municipality in his county a sufficient number of 
 the proper official sample ballots and a sufficient number of 
 one-cent stamped envelopes to enable each of the boards 
 of registry and election in said county to mail one copy of 
 the said official sample ballot to each voter who is regis- 
 
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 tered in its district for said election, and said municipal 
 clerk shall deliver the same at his office, on or before the 
 Tuesday preceding the general election, or special election, 
 to the clerk of each board of registry and election in the 
 manner in which said municipal clerk is now required to 
 deliver ballots for the general election ; and it shall be the 
 duty of each of said boards to prepare and deposit in the 
 post office, on or before twelve o'clock on Wednesday pre- 
 ceding the election day, a properly stamped envelope con- 
 taining a copy of said official sample ballot, and addressed 
 to each registered voter in the district of said board at the 
 address shown on the registry. Each envelope shall have 
 printed on the face thereof the words: "Sample Official '^ords on 
 
 ^ ^ envelope. 
 
 Ballot" in large type, and in small type the words : "if not 
 delivered in two days, return to , County Clerk, 
 
 Court House, ," and said clerk shall preserve 
 
 the same if returned to him, for the space of thirty days, 
 open to public inspection. The ballots so mailed may not 
 be voted. 
 
 The said sample ballots shall be as nealv as possible style of 
 a facsimile of the official ballot to be voted at the said ballot, 
 election, and shall be printed on paper different in color 
 from the official ballot. The following words shall be 
 printed in large type at the top of the sample ballot : "This 
 ballot cannot be votdd. It is a sample copy of the official 
 ballot used on election day." The clerk of the board of posted^ 
 registry and election shall also post such sample ballots 
 in the polling place in his district and in at least five other 
 public places therein. 
 
 It shall be unlawful for any election officer to accept sample not 
 from any voter and deposit in the ballot-box any sample ^^ ^^ voted, 
 ballot. 
 
 The distribution and use of official ballots at any pri- official bai- 
 mary, general or other election shall be confined exclusively ^^^y "n^^pou- 
 to the polling room in the manner herein directed. The ^^s room, 
 board of registry and election shall hand to each voter 
 one official ballot as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Should any voter to whom any official ballot has been unusable 
 handed, spoil or render the same unfit for use, he may returifed. 
 
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 Receipts and 
 accounting 
 for ballots 
 and 
 envelopes. 
 
 return the one so spoiled or unfit for use and obtain an- 
 other from the board of election, but no more than two 
 official ballots shall be furnished to any voter, except at 
 the discretion of said board. The board of registry and 
 election shall preserve all ballots returned by a voter as 
 spoiled or unfit for use and keep a record thereof and 
 place them on a string with the coupons. 
 
 The county clerk shall cause the sample ballots herein 
 provided for to be printed in time for use as aforesaid. 
 
 365. Sec. 60. Each board of registry and election shall 
 receipt, by the signature of one of their members, to the 
 municipal clerk for all ballots and stamped envelopes de- 
 livered to them by the municipal clerk, and shall return 
 to said clerk all ballots and envelopes not mailed or posted 
 by them, with a sworn statement in writing signed by a 
 majority of said board that all the remainder of said bal- 
 lots and envelopes had been mailed, and no member of 
 any board which does not make such return shall receive 
 the compensation provided herein for said mailing service. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Method of 
 voting. 
 
 Handed 
 
 ballot 
 
 folded. 
 
 366. Sec. 61. The following method of voting shall be 
 observed: Each voter shall first give his full name and 
 address to the member of the election board having charge 
 of the poll-book, and in municipalities requiring personal 
 registration shall sign his name therein, and said"member 
 of said election board, having ascertained that said voter 
 is registered as a qualified voter shall place in front of 
 each name as they appear the consecutive poll number of 
 each voter. Thereupon the member of the board having 
 charge of the ballots shall hand to the voter one official 
 ballot, numbered to correspond with the poll number of the 
 voter, allowing for spoiled ballots, if any, and at the same 
 time shall call off said ballot number to the member having 
 charge of the poll book, who shall make certain that the 
 ballot number and poll number agree, allowing for spoiled 
 ■ ballots if any. The officer having charge of the ballots 
 shall fold the ballot before handing it to the voter, so that 
 
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 no part of the face of the ballot is observable, and leaving 
 the face of the coupon exposed. No ballots shall be kept 
 in the booth. The voter shall thereupon retire into the 
 polling booth, unless physically unable to do so; he shall 
 indicate his choice among the candidates for the offices 
 in question by marking a cross X in black ink or black 
 pencil opposite the name of each candidate for whom he 
 desires to vote in the space or square indicated upon the 
 ballot for that purpose, or by writing or pasting the name 
 of any other person and making a cross in the square at 
 the left. The voter may vote for an entire group of can- 
 didates for Presidential electors by making a cross in the 
 space or square at the left of the surnames of the candi- 
 dates for President and Vice-President for whom he de- 
 sires to vote. If a voter does not desire to vote for all the 
 Presidential electors of the same party, he must not mark 
 a cross X in the space or square at the left of the sur- 
 names of the candidates for President and Vice-President, 
 he must mark a cross X in the space or square at the left 
 of the name of each candidate for Presidential elector 
 for whom he desires to vote. If a voter mark a cross X 
 in the space or square at the left of the surname of any 
 candidates for President or Vice-President of the United 
 States and also mark a cross X in some of the spaces or 
 squares at the left of the name of candidates for Presiden- 
 tial electors, not exceeding the number to be elected, it 
 shall count as a vote for all the candidates for Presidential 
 electors nominated by the party represented by said candi- 
 dates for President and Vice-President of the United 
 States. 
 
 Before leaving the booth the voter shall fold his ballot, 
 so that no part of the face of the ballot shall be visible, 
 and so as to display the face of the numbered coupon, and 
 shall hand the ballot with the coupon undetached, to the 
 member of the election board having charge of the ballot- 
 box, which member shall call off the number of the ballot 
 and the name of the voter. If the name and number agree 
 with the record in the poll-book, the election officer having 
 charge of the poll-book shall so announce and place a 
 
 rPepa ration 
 of ballot 
 by voter. 
 
 Voting for 
 
 presidential 
 
 electors. 
 
 Procedure 
 after leaving 
 booth with 
 ballot. 
 
190 
 
 Depositing 
 ballot. 
 
 No ballots 
 eutside polls. 
 
 No envelopes. 
 
 Coupons 
 spoiled and 
 unused bal- 
 lots, dispo- 
 sition. 
 
 Tote can- 
 vassed at 
 close of polls. 
 
 Voter's 
 assistant. 
 
 check mark opposite the poll number to indicate that the 
 person shown thereon as receiving the ballot has voted; 
 the member of the board having charge of the registry 
 list shall check the name of the voter thereon, and write 
 in front thereof the number of such voter's ballot, and 
 thereupon the member of the board having charge of the 
 ballot-box, without displaying any part of the face of the 
 ballot and shall remove the coupon from the top of the 
 ballot and place the ballot in the box and the coupon on 
 a file string. The member of the board having charge of 
 the ballot-box shall keep the ballot in full view of the voter 
 and the other election officers until it is deposited, and the 
 voter may take hold thereof, with the member of the board 
 having charge of the ballot-box, until it is actually de- 
 posited. No official ballots (other than official sample bal- 
 lots) shall be distributed outside the polling place. When 
 one ballot-box is filled with ballots the board shall seal the 
 the same and provide another. No envelope shall be used 
 for enclosing the ballots on election day. Said coupons 
 and all spoiled and unused ballots shall be placed inside the 
 ballot-boxes and returned to the municipal clerk therewith. 
 
 2fiy. Sec. 62. At the close of the polls the board of regis- 
 try and election shall proceed to canvass the vote substan- 
 tially as now required by law, counting the votes for each 
 candidate in accordance with the marks made upon the 
 ballot as hereinbefore provided. If a voter marks more 
 names than there are persons to be elected to an office, or 
 his choice cannot be determined, his ballot shall not be 
 counted for such office, but shall be counted for such other 
 offices as are properly marked. Ballots cast but not counted 
 shall be marked "defective" on the outside thereof, and 
 shall be preserved like other ballots. 
 
 368. Sec. 63. At any primary or general election any 
 person who declares under oath and establishes to the 
 satisfaction of a majority of all the members of the board 
 of registry and election that he is unable to read the Eng- 
 lish language, or that by reason of blindness or other 
 physical disability he is unable to mark his ballot without 
 assistance, may have the assistance of one or more mem- 
 
Expense. 
 
 191 
 
 bers of such board, to be assigned by the board, in pre- 
 paring his ballot. Such member or members of such board of ^5a[foV°* 
 shall retire with such voter to the booth and assist him in 
 the preparation of his ballot and folding the same. The 
 clerk of the board of registry and election shall make a 
 memorandum on the poll-book of every instance when an 
 oath was administered to a voter as herein provided, stat- 
 ing briefly what facts were sworn to and the name of the 
 member or members of the board who aided such voter. 
 All members of the board of registry and election shall 
 have the right to witness the preparation of the ballot of 
 any such voter, but no other person shall be allowed to 
 assist such voter in marking his ballot or to witness the 
 marking of the same. No member of such board shall re- 
 veal the name of any person for whom such voter has 
 voted, or anything that took place while such voter was 
 being assisted. 
 
 369. Sec. 64. The board, body or officer now charged 
 with the duty of defraying the expenses of conducting 
 the primary and general elections in this State, shall pay 
 any additional expense and compensation made neces- 
 sary by or provided for in this act. The board of free- Baiiot-boxe« 
 holders of each county shall cause the ballot-boxes used 
 at general and primary elections to be fitted for the re- 
 ception of the ballot herein provided for by enlarging the 
 aperture in the top thereof so that such aperture shall 
 measure three (3) inches by half an inch, and by re- 
 moving any stamping or any marking devices. If said Provide 
 board shall determine that said existing ballot-boxes will boxes, 
 be insufficient to properly receive all ballots to be voted 
 in its respective election districts, it shall provide addi- 
 tional boxes constructed with wooden tops and bottoms 
 and wooden frames and glass sides. Each box shall be 
 provided with a top that will cover the aperture and be ^" 
 held in place by not less than three (3) locks, which shall 
 require three (3) separate keys to open, and not more Locks 
 than one key shall be allowed to any one member of the ^^^ ^^^®' 
 board. It shall be the duty of the board, body or official, 
 whose duty it is to provide polling booths, to provide booths Booths. 
 
192 
 
 Lights. 
 
 sufficiently large to enable the voter to conveniently pre- 
 pare the ballots herein provided for, and to cause said 
 booths to be sufficiently lighted to enable the voter to read 
 and mark his ballot. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Annual state 
 concentions ; 
 how com- 
 posed. 
 
 When held. 
 
 Call. 
 
 Platform. 
 
 State com- 
 mittee ; 
 membership 
 and how 
 chosen. 
 
 370. Sec. 64. There shall be held in each year a State 
 convention of each of the political parties aforesaid. The 
 said State convention of each party shall be made up of 
 the following members: First, the party candidates who 
 have been nominated at the party primaries in September 
 immediately preceding the convention for the office of 
 member of Assembly or State Senator in each county of 
 the State ; second, the candidate of the party for Governor 
 nominated at the said primaries in the year in which a 
 Governor is elected, and in each year in which no Gov- 
 ernor is elected, the Governor of the State shall be a mem- 
 ber of the convention of the political party to which he 
 belongs ; third, members of the State Senate belonging to 
 said party who are holding office at the time of the hold- 
 ing of the said State convention and whose successors are 
 not to be chosen at the ensuing general election; fourth, 
 members of the State committee chosen as hereinafter pro- 
 vided. The said convention of each party shall be held at 
 the city of Trenton on the Tuesday following the holding 
 of the primary election in each year. The place and the 
 hour at which the convention shall meet shall be fixed by 
 call of the existing State committee, to be issued at least 
 five days prior to said date of meeting. If no call is issued 
 by the State committee, any person qualified to sit in said 
 convention may issue a call. Said convention of each party 
 shall have power to adopt and promulgate a party platform 
 for said party, and to transact such other business as may 
 properly come before it. 
 
 At the September primaries of the year wherein a Gov- 
 ernor is to be elected, a member of the State committee 
 of each of said political parties shall be elected in each 
 county. The petition endorsing each candidate in each 
 
193 
 
 party for this position, shall be made up and filed as now 
 provided by law in the case of petitions endorsing candi- 
 dates for nomination for members of the Assembly and 
 the name shall be printed upon the party primary ballot 
 and the votes shall be cast, counted, canvassed and re- 
 turned in the same manner as in case of candidates for 
 nomination for member of Assembly, and the county clerk 
 shall issue a certificate to the person receiving the highest 
 number of votes for this position in each party at the pri- 
 mary as shown by the returns in his office. Members of 
 the State committee shall serve for three years or until 
 their successors are elected. Said State committee shall 
 choose its chairman and the member or members of the chairman, 
 national committee of their political party. 
 
 XV. 
 
 371. Sec. 66. The members of the county committee County com- 
 
 , r 1 mittee and 
 
 of each of the political parties, hereafter elected, shall take chairman, 
 office on the first Tuesday following their election, on 
 which day the temis of all members of such committee 
 heretofore elected shall terminate. The annual meeting 
 of each county committee shall be held on the first Tues- 
 day after the fourth Tuesday in September in each year, 
 at an hour and place to be designated in a notice to be 
 given by the respective chairman thereof, at which annual 
 meeting the members of each committee shall elect one of 
 their members as chairman to hold office for one year, or 
 until his successor is elected. Such chairman shall preside 
 at all meetings of his committee and shall perform all du- 
 ties required of him by law and the constitution and by- 
 laws of such committee. 
 
 372. Sec. 67. The municipal clerk shall issue a cer- ^^I'^^^^^^t""^ 
 tificate of election to each person shown by the returns county com- 
 filed in his office to have been elected as a member of the 
 
 county committee of either political party in his munici- 
 pality. Said committee shall have power to adopt a con- 
 stitution and by-laws for its proper government. 
 
194 
 XVI. 
 
 Unauthorized 
 persons not 
 to print or 
 have ballots. 
 
 Official ballot 
 not taken 
 from polling 
 room. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Present 
 methods 
 applicable. 
 
 Relation of 
 sections 
 of act. 
 
 Repealer. 
 
 Committee 
 to receive 
 and expend 
 campaign 
 funds. 
 
 Number. 
 
 ;^y7,. Sec. 68. No person not authorized by the proper 
 officers shall print or make any official or sample ballot 
 provided for in this act, or on or prior to election day 
 have in his possession an official ballot, without being such 
 person as is authorized by this act to have charge or pos- 
 session thereof. 
 
 No person shall on any pretext carry any official ballot 
 from the polling room on primary or election day, except 
 such persons as may by this act be authorized so to do. 
 
 374. Sec* 69. Any person or persons who shall will- 
 fully violate any provision of this act, or who shall do 
 any act herein prohibited, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 375. Sec. 70. If in this act no method is prescribed for 
 carrying into effect any provision thereof, the method for 
 so doing shall be the same as provided in the act to which 
 this is a supplement, or its supplements and amendments so 
 far as may be, for any proceeding of similar or like nature. 
 
 376. Sec. 71. Each section of this act and every part 
 of each section are hereby declared to be independent sec- 
 tions and parts of sections, and the holding of any section 
 or part thereof to be void, ineffective or unconstitutional 
 for any cause shall not affect the other sections or parts 
 thereof. 
 
 Ti^yy. Sec. y2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent here- 
 with are hereby repealed. 
 
 378'. Sec. 73. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved April 19, 191 1. 
 
 A Supplement of Apr. 20, 191 1, P. L. igii, p. 329. 
 
 379. Sec. I. Hereafter any person endorsed in any pe- 
 tition as a candidate for nomination by any political party 
 at any primary election, or for election as a member of a 
 party committee, or delegate to a national convention, or 
 any person nominated by petition for any elective office, at 
 the time of filing such petition, or within five days there- 
 after, shall file with the officer authorized by law to re- 
 ceive and file such petition, the names of not less than 
 one, or more than five, persons selected to receive, ex- 
 
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 pend, audit and disburse all moneys contributed, donated, 
 subscribed, or in anywise furnished or raised for the pur- 
 pose of aiding or promoting the nomination or election of 
 such candidate, together with the written acceptance and 
 consent of such persons to act as such committee ; pro- 
 vided, that any candidate may, if he sees fit to do so, de- 
 clare himself as the person chosen for such purpose, or 
 may, either in the first instance, or within five days after 
 he has received any party nomination, designate the county 
 or State committee of his party for such purpose, in which 
 event the maximum number hereinbefore stated shall not 
 apply. Such person or persons, or committee, may act con- 
 jointly for any number of candidates. They shall appoint 
 one of their number to act as treasurer, who shall receive 
 and disburse all moneys received by said committee. He 
 shall keep detailed accounts of all receipts, payments and 
 liabilities. Failure to make such declaration of appoint- 
 ment or selection by any candidate shall operate as a re- 
 fusal to accept such nomination. The said committee shall 
 have the exclusive custody of all moneys contributed, do- 
 nated, subscribed, or in anywise furnished for or on be- 
 half of the candidates or political party represented by said 
 committee, and shall disburse the same on proper vouchers. 
 If, for any cause, a vacancy shall occur in the membership 
 of said committee prior to the fifteenth day before the day 
 of holding a primary or general election, the vacancy must 
 be filled by the authority making original appointment. 
 Xo vacancy by resignation from said committee, or by 
 refusal to act thereon, shall occur after the fifteenth day 
 before the day of holding of said election, and until the 
 said committee shall have completed and discharged all 
 the duties required of them by this act. If any vacancy 
 be created by death or legal disability, subsequent to the 
 fifteenth day before the day of holding an election, such 
 vacancy shall not be filled, and the remaining members 
 shall discharge and complete the duties required of said 
 committee as if such vacancy had not been created. No 
 candidate for nomination or election shall expend any 
 monev, directlv or indirectlv, in aid of his nomination or 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Joint action. 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Accounts, 
 etc. 
 
 Candidate 
 must make 
 selection. 
 
 Committee to 
 have sole 
 charge of 
 moneys. 
 
 Vacancies. 
 
 .\I1 expendi- 
 tures by 
 committee. 
 
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 Itemized 
 statement 
 filed showing 
 every receipt 
 and ex- 
 penditure. 
 
 Sworn 
 statement. 
 
 Filed and 
 open to 
 inspection. 
 
 Each candi- 
 date to file 
 statement of 
 personal 
 contribu- 
 tions. 
 
 election, except by contributing to the committee desig- 
 nated by him as aforesaid. Any person who shall act as 
 his own committee shall be governed by the provisions of 
 this act relting to committees designated by candidates. 
 
 380. Sec. 2. Within five days after any primary elec- 
 tion, and within twenty day after any general election, 
 provided, an itemized statement, showing in detail all the 
 moneys contributed, donated, subscribed, or in anywise 
 furnished or received, to the use of the political party, 
 organized assemblage or body, or any or all the can- 
 didates for public office or electors, or for nomination, com- 
 ing under the control of such committee, or into their cus- 
 tody, directly or indirectly, together with the name of 
 each contributor, donor, subscriber, or source from which 
 such moneys were derived, and an itemized statement of 
 all money expended in sums over five dollars; such state- 
 ment shall give the names of the various persons to whom 
 such moneys were paid, the specific nature of each item, 
 by whom the service was performed, and the purpose for 
 which it was expended. There shall be attached to such 
 statement an affidavit, subscribed and sworn to by the 
 treasurer of said committee, setting forth in substance that 
 the statement thus made is in all respects true, and that 
 the same is a full anr detailed statement of all moneys, se- 
 curities, or equivalents for moneys, coming under the con- 
 trol or in the custody of said committee and by them 
 expended, directly or indirectly. Such statement shall be 
 filed in the same office in which is filed t-he certificate of 
 their selection as such committee, and shall become a pub- 
 lic document and open to inspection by any citizen. 
 
 381. Sec. 3. Every candidate who is voted for at any 
 primary or general election held within the State shall, 
 within five days after any primary election, and within 
 twenty days after any general election, file, as herein- 
 after provided, a statement under oath, showing all moneys 
 paid, loaned, contributed or otherwise furnished by him 
 to said committee in aid of his election or nomination. 
 Such statement shall give the names of the various per- 
 sons, if any, who paid, loaned, contributed, or otherwise 
 
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 furnished any moneys to said candidate in aid of his elec- 
 tion or nomination. There shall be attached to such state- 
 merit an affidavit, subscribed and sworn to by such candi- 
 date, which must be substantially in the following form: popm ^f 
 
 State of New Jersey, county of , ss. statement. 
 
 I give (give name), having been a candidate for 
 
 , at the (primary or general) election held 
 
 in the county, city and county, city or other division, State 
 
 of New Jersey, on the .... day of , 19. . ., do 
 
 solemnly swear that I have paid the sum of $ 
 
 to (naming the committee desig- 
 nated by him), for my expenses at the said eleition, 
 and no more, and that, except as aforesaid, I have not, 
 nor, to the best of my knowledge and belief, has any per- 
 son, committee, club, society or association, on my behalf, 
 directly or indirectly, made any payment, or given, prom- 
 ised or offered any reward, office, employment or vaul- 
 able consideration, or incurred any liability on account of 
 or in respect of the conduct or management of the said 
 election, except such moneys as may have been paid to or 
 expended by the said committee designated by me. 
 
 382. Sec. 4. If any candidate seeks to avoid the re- Disclaiming 
 
 rGSDonsi" 
 
 sponsibility of any payment made by any other person in biiity. 
 his behalf, of which he has knowledge, he shall set forth 
 such payment and disclaim responsibility therefor. 
 
 383. Sec. c;. Candidates for office, or for nomination ^"i^ere 
 
 ^ ^ -J ' statements 
 
 for office, to be filled by the voters of the State, or of any filed, 
 political division thereof greater than a county, shall file 
 their statements in the office of the Secretary of State, p. ^. 1912, 
 Candidates for all other offices shall file their statements ^'^^p- '*^^-^ 
 in the same office in which is filed the certificate of the 
 committee of their selection. The statement and affidavit 
 of a committee or candidate shall, after being filed, become 
 a public record, and open at all times to public inspection. 
 
 384. Sec. 6. Any candidate who shall refuse or neglect penalties, 
 to file, or who makes a false statement of moneys re- 
 ceived or expended, as prescribed by section three of tfiis 
 
 act, shall, in addition to the punishment for such offense 
 prescribed by the laws of this State, forfeit any office to 
 
I9S 
 
 No certificate 
 to issue if 
 statement 
 not filed. 
 
 Office not to 
 be yielded to 
 defaulting 
 candidate. 
 
 Time for 
 
 presenting 
 
 claims 
 
 against 
 
 committee. 
 
 All expenses 
 paid within 
 fifteen days. 
 
 Payment of 
 claims after 
 time limit. 
 
 which he may have been elected at the election with refer- 
 ence to which the statement is required to be made. If 
 a candidate elected to a public office or party position re- 
 fuses or neglects to file the statement prescribed by sec- 
 tion three of this act, no certificate of election shall be 
 issued to him ; neither shall any official bond presented or 
 offered by him be approved, and the incumbent of the 
 office, unless he is himself a defaulting candidate, must 
 not surrender or deliver up said office, but shall continue 
 to discharge the duties and shall receive the emoluments 
 thereof until his successor is legally chosen. If the can- 
 didate refusing or neglecting to file the statement, or mak- 
 ing a false statement of moneys received or expended, is 
 the incumbent of an office of profit or trust under the laws 
 of this State, except in the event of a constitutional pri- 
 vision to the contrary, in addition to the punishment pre- 
 scribed by the laws of this State for such refusal or neg- 
 lect, or for making such false statement, he shall be de- 
 prived of his office, and shall also forfeit any office to 
 which he may have been elected at the election in refer- 
 ence to which the statement is required to be made. 
 
 385. Sec. 7. Every claim payable by the committee se- 
 lected under the provisions of section one of this act, 
 on account of or in respect of any expense incurred in the 
 conduct and management of an election held within this 
 State, or on behalf of the candidates of the political party, 
 organized assemblage or body, which such committee rep- 
 resents, must be presented to the committee within four 
 days after the primary election, and ten days after the 
 general election, and if not so presented the same shall 
 not be paid, and no action shall be commenced or main- 
 tained thereon, and all expenses incurred as aforesaid shall 
 be paid within fifteen days after the completion of such 
 official canvass, and not otherwise. Any person who makes 
 a payment in contravention of this act is guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor. 
 
 386. Sec. S. The judge of the Court of Common Pleas 
 in the county wherein such statement is filed, or is re- 
 quired to be filed, may, on the application of either the 
 
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 committee or a creditor thereof, allow any claim to be 
 presented and paid after the time limited by this act and 
 a statement of any sum so paid, with a certificate of its 
 allowance, shall forthwith, after payment, be filed by the 
 committee in the same office as the original statement of 
 the committee. If the committee, upon such application, 
 shall show to the satisfaction of said judge that any 
 error or false recital in such statement or affidavit, or 
 that the failure to make such statement or affidavit, or 
 to present, w^ithin the designated time, a claim other- 
 wise just and proper, has been occasioned by the ab- 
 sence or illness of such candidate, or by the absence, ill- 
 ness or death of one or more members of such committee, 
 or by the misconduct of any person other than such appli- 
 cant, or by inadvertence or excusable neglect, or of any 
 reasonable cause of a like nature, and not by reason of 
 any want of good faith on the part of the applicant, the 
 judge may, after such notice of the application as the 
 judge shall require, and on the production of such evidence 
 of the facts stated in the application as shall be satisfac- 
 tory to such judge, by order, allow such statement and affi- 
 davit to be filed, or such error or false recital therein to 
 be corrected, or such claim to be paid, as the judge seems 
 just; and such order shall relieve the applicant from any 
 liability or consequences under this act in respect of the 
 matters excused by the order. If the application is made 
 by a creditor, the judge may, under like conditions and 
 upon a like showing, order the claim to be paid, and the 
 creditor shall also be entitled to his costs. The claims of 
 one or more creditors may be united in such application, 
 but the amount and specific nature of each claim must 
 be fully stated. 
 
 387. Sec. 9. Every bill, placard, poster, pamphlet ad- 
 vertisement or other printed matter having reference to 
 an election, or to any candidate, shall bear upon the face 
 thereof the name and address of the person or commit- 
 tee causing the same to be published, and no payment 
 therefor shall be made or allowed unless such address is 
 so printed. 
 
 Court must 
 be satisfied 
 that no in- 
 tentional 
 misconduct 
 shown. 
 
 All publica- 
 tions to show 
 author. 
 
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 Use of 
 
 money to 
 secure 
 election to 
 oflSce pro- 
 hibited. 
 
 Money tbat 
 candidate is 
 allowed to 
 evxpend. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Explanation. 
 
 Expenses 
 forbidden, 
 
 [Amended, 
 P. L. 1912, 
 chap. 401.] 
 
 3S8. Sec. 10. No money shall hereafter be paid or any 
 expense authorized or incurred by or on behalf of any 
 candidate for nomination at any primary, or for election 
 to any party position, for election to any office at any 
 general election, or any political party or organization, 
 for any purpose prohibited by the provisions of this act. 
 
 389. Sec. II. No money shall be paid or expense au- 
 thorized or incurred by any candidate for nomination or 
 election to any office or party position, to be paid by him 
 in excess of the following sums: At any primary elec- 
 tion, twenty-five hundred dollars by a candidate for nomi- 
 nation for Governor; fifteen hundred dollars by a candi- 
 date for nomination for Congress; five hundred dollars 
 by a candidate for nomination for any county office, in- 
 cluding members of the Senate; two hundred dollars by 
 a candidate for nomination for the General Assembly; 
 two hundred and fifty dollars by a candidate for nomi- 
 nation for any municipal office; provided hoivever, that 
 any candidate for nomination may expend in his campaign 
 for nomination a sum not exceeding twenty-five per 
 centum of one year's salary of the office for which he is 
 a candidate for nomination. Candidates nominated at the 
 primary election, or nominated by petition, may expend 
 not in excess of like sums in their campaign for election ; 
 provided, that nothing herein contained shall authorize per- 
 sonal expenditure by any such candidate, but the sums 
 herein mentioned may be contributed to the designated 
 committee, and expended by them in the manner herein 
 provided. 
 
 390. Sec. 12. For the purposes of this act, the expenses 
 or contributions of any ascendant, or descendant, brother, 
 sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece of any candidate, or of 
 any fellow official of a corporation, shall be considered as 
 the expenses or contributions of the candidate. 
 
 391. Sec. 13. No money shall be spent, and no expense 
 authorized or incurred on behalf of any candidate for 
 nomination to any office, or on behalf of any candidate for 
 any office or party position, or on behalf of any political 
 
20I 
 
 party or organization, for either of the following pur- 
 poses : 
 
 (a) The hiring of any vehicle for the transportation fg^|°i|g 
 of voters to or from the polls ; 
 
 (b) The hiring: of any watchers, agents or challengers Hiring 
 
 , ^ ^ , . . . watchers. 
 
 for any work on election day. 
 
 Promded, that each political party or organization may Party or- 
 employ not exceeding two persons on election day to act ^aV employ 
 as challengers or agents in each polling place as now pro- watchers, 
 vided by law; such challenger and agent shall on said 
 election day wear a badge which shall show to any other 
 person the political party or candidate for whom such chal- 
 lenger or agent is acting; said badges shall be furnished 
 by the county board of elections. 
 
 And provided further that the chairman of the county Transporta- 
 committee or other organization of any political party tio° p^ voters 
 which has nominated candidates to be voted for at any unable to go 
 general election, may petition the judge of the Court of general^ ^ 
 Common Pleas of said county at least fourteen days prior election, 
 to the day of the general election, setting forth that cer- 
 tain voters described in said petition reside at a distance 
 of at least two miles from the polling place at which, under 
 the law, they are entitled to vote on election day, or are 
 aged or infirm, and that said voters do not, nor does any of 
 them, possess any vehicle or other means of transportation 
 from their places of residence to the said polling place, 
 and no trolley line is available as hereinafter stated, and 
 requesting that the said judge shall order the expenses of 
 the transportation of the said voters on election day from 
 their homes to their polling place and return to be paid by 
 the board of freeholders of said county, upon vouchers as 
 hereinafter provided. 
 
 And provided further, that nothing in this act anywhere Volunteers 
 shall be construed to in any way limit the right of any vol- ^^ voters, 
 unteer acting without compensation to transport any voter 
 properly registered to or from any polling place where he 
 may be legally entitled to cast his vote. 
 
 Court may 
 
 392. Sec. 14. If the said judge shall be satisfied that order trans- 
 the public interests require the transportation of the said fu^*shed. 
 
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 Presentation 
 of bills, with 
 vouchers and 
 affidavits 
 annexed. 
 
 Bills paid by 
 freeholders. 
 
 Candidate 
 may apply 
 for order for 
 transporta- 
 tion to 
 primary. 
 
 All expenses 
 and pay- 
 ments 
 
 made through 
 committee ; 
 otherwise 
 void. 
 
 voters, he may make an order authorizing the petitioner 
 to employ such number of conveyances, at rates of com- 
 pensation to be fixed in the said order, and the amount so 
 authorized shall be paid by the county board of freeholders, 
 upon vouchers as hereinafter provided. Each person who 
 shall furnish a vehicle or conveyance under the order of 
 the said judge, shall file with the said judge within four 
 days after the day of election, a voucher or bill setting 
 forth the number of voters transported in his said vehicle, 
 and the time consumed in such transportation. The owner 
 or operator of said vehicle or conveyance shall make oath 
 or affirmation to the truth' of the facts set out in the said 
 voucher. Annexed to said . voucher or bill shall be the 
 affidavit of each person claimed to have been transported 
 by the person presenting the said voucher or bill ; said affi- 
 davit shall state the place of the residence of said voter, 
 and shall set forth that the place of said residence is more 
 than two miles from the polling place at which said voter 
 voted, and that said voter did not own any horse and 
 wagon or motor vehicle on said day of election, and that 
 there was no trolley line running within half a mile of the 
 residence of the said voter upon which he could be trans- 
 ported to within half a mile of the said polling place. If 
 the said judge of said court shall approve of the said 
 voucher, the same shall be paid by the county board of 
 freeholders. 
 
 393. Sec. 15. Any person endorsed as a candidate for 
 the nomination of any political party to public office in 
 any county, may make application to a judge of the Court 
 of Common Pleas for an order for the transportation of 
 voters at any primary election upon the same terms and 
 conditions as are herein provided for the transportation of 
 voters at any general election. 
 
 394. Sec. 16. No payment of money shall be made and 
 no expense shall be incurred by any person in aid of or 
 for or on behalf of any candidate, or on account of or in 
 respect of the conduct or management of an election held 
 within this State, except by the committee selected under 
 the provisions of section one of this act. All expenses 
 
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 shall be paid only from the fund in the custody of the 
 said committee so selected as required by this act. Any 
 contract for the payment of money, or any expense in- 
 curred, contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be 
 absolutely void. 
 
 395. Sec. 17. No person or candidate for nomination Forbidden 
 or for election to a public office or party position shall 
 pay, lend, or contribute, or offer, or agree to pay, lend 
 or contribute, any money or other valuable consideration, 
 to or for any person, either for — 
 
 ( 1 ) The doing or procuring to be done of any act for- Acts con- 
 bidden to be done by the laws of this State relating to election 
 primary or general elections ; or, ^^^'^• 
 
 (2) The commission of any crime or offense against Crime 
 the elective franchise, or the encouragement or assistance elective 
 of a person in the commission of a crime or offense against ^''^^^^^s^- 
 the elective franchise, or aiding or assisting any person 
 charged with the commission of a crime against the elec- 
 tive franchise to evade arrest or to escape conviction and 
 punishment for such crime or oft'ense ; or, 
 
 (3) Providing wholly or in part for the expense of Colonizing, 
 boarding, lodging or maintaining a person at any place 
 
 or domicile in any election precinct or ward or district, 
 with the purpose of securing the vote of such person for 
 himself, or any other person, at an election held within 
 the State ; or. 
 
 (4) The hiring or employment of a person to take or Hindering 
 maintain a place in, or to otherwise obstruct or hinder, ^°^^^^- 
 or to prevent the forming of the line of voters awaiting 
 
 their opportunity or time to enter the polling place or elec- 
 tion booth of J any election precinct; or, 
 
 (5) In consideration of any person withdrawing as withdrawal 
 
 a candidate for public office or Presidential elector, at ^^ candidate, 
 any election held within this State ; or, 
 
 (6) For any purpose in contravention of the provisions Against 
 of this act ; or, ^^^^ a^*- 
 
 (7) Making any payment after the time limited by Making pay- 
 this act, unless the same is authorized as provided by this timViimit^ 
 act: or unless it be in satisfaction of a judgment obtained 
 
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 Name of 
 giver must 
 be entered. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Forbidden to 
 contribute. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Soliciting for 
 churches, 
 etc., for- 
 bidden. 
 
 Subscrip- 
 tions, sup- 
 port of 
 clubs, etc., 
 prohibited. 
 
 against him, whether before, during or after an election, 
 in respect of or on account of such election, or who re- 
 fuses or neglects to file the statement prescribed by sec- 
 tion three of this act, or who makes or files a false state- 
 ment thereof, or who is guilty of any crime against the 
 elective franchise, or any offense which is punishable by 
 fine or imprisonment, or both, under the provisions of this 
 act. 
 
 396. Sec. 18. No person shall make any payment of 
 his own money, or of the money of any other person, in 
 connection with any nomination or election in any other 
 name than that of the person who really supplies such 
 money, nor shall any person knowingly receive such 
 money, or thing of value, and enter it into his accounts 
 in any other name than the name of the person who 
 really supplies the same; provided, that the money re- 
 ceived from the treasurer of any political organization 
 may be so entered. 
 
 397. Sec. 19. No holder of any public office or position 
 not filled by the voters or benevolent order or association 
 thereof shall contribute to the nomination or the election 
 of any person to public office or party position ; provided, 
 that this prohibition shall not apply to any person hold- 
 ing an appointive office or position the term of which is 
 fixed by law. No person shall invite, demand or accept 
 payment or contribution from such persons for campaign 
 purposes. 
 
 398. Sec^ 20. No person shall demand, solicit, ask or 
 invite any payment or contribution for any religious, 
 charitable or other cause or organization supposed to be 
 primarily for the public good, from any candidate for 
 nomination or election. 
 
 399. Sec. 21. No person shall demand, solicit, ask or 
 invite any candidate for nomination or for public office or 
 party position to subscribe for the support of any club or 
 organization, or to buy tickets to any entertainment or 
 ball, or to pay for space in any book, program, periodi- 
 cal or publication. This shall not apply to the solicita- 
 tion of any business advertising in periodicals in which 
 
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 the candidate was a reeoilar advertiser prior to his candi- ^^^^^ ^"^i- 
 
 '^ ^ \ ^ ness ana 
 
 dacy, nor to ordinary business advertising, nor to the church con- 
 regular payments to any organization, religious, charit- ^ot meant, 
 able or otherwise, of which he was a member, or to 
 which he was a contributor, for more than six months 
 before his candidacy, nor to any ordinary contributions 
 at church services. 
 
 400. Sec. 22. No corporation or person, trustee or corporation 
 trustees owning or holding the majority of stock of a tions for- 
 corporation, carrying on the business of a bank, savings bidden, 
 bank, co-operative bank, trust, trustee, savings indemnity, 
 
 safe deposit, insurance, rail, street railway, telephone, 
 telegraph, gas, electric light, heat, power, canal or aque- 
 duct company, or any company having the right to con- 
 demn land, or to exercise franchises in public ways 
 granted by the State, county, city or town, shall pay or 
 contribute any money or value in order to aid or pro- 
 mote the nomination or election of any person, or in order 
 to aid or promote the interests, success or defeat of any 
 political party. 
 
 401. Sec. 23. No person, party or organization shall Attendance 
 pay any person for loss or damage due to attendance at paid for. 
 the polls at any primary or general election, or any regis- 
 try thereof, or for the purpose of such registration. 
 
 402. Sec 24. No person shall sell, give or provide any Badges fur- 
 political badge, button or other insignia to be worn at ^o^^ty board 
 or about the polls on any primary or general election day, <>* elections. 
 except the badge furnished by the county board of elec- 
 tions are herein provided. 
 
 403. Sec. 25. It shall be unlawful for anv person, di- Unlawful 
 
 « .,.,,,. ,- , ,', contribu- 
 
 rectly or mdirectly, by himself or through any other per- tions: 
 son — 
 
 (i) To pay, lend, or contribute, or offer or promise To cause 
 to pay, lend or contribute, any money or other valuable vote or re- 
 consideration to or for any voter, or to or for any ^^^n^.^^^™ 
 other person, to induce such voter to vote or refrain 
 from voting at any election, or to induce any voter to 
 vote or refrain from voting at such election for any par- 
 ticular person or persons, or to induce such voter to come 
 
 voting. 
 
2o6 
 
 To promise 
 employment. 
 
 To induce 
 votes. 
 
 To procure 
 votes. 
 
 To furnish 
 funds for 
 bribery. 
 
 To furnish 
 money for 
 board and 
 lodging. 
 
 To assist in 
 
 evading 
 
 arrest. 
 
 to the polls or remain away from the polls at such elec- 
 tion, or on account of such voter having voted or re- 
 frained from voting or having voted or refrained from 
 voting for any particular person, or having come to the 
 polls or remained away from the polls at' such election. 
 
 (2) To give, ofifer, or promise any office, place or em- 
 ployment, or to promise to procure, or endeavor to pro- 
 cure, any office, place or employment to or for any 
 voter, or to or for any other person, in order to induce 
 such voter to vote or refrain from voting at any elec- 
 tion, or to induce any voter to vote or refrain from vot- 
 ing at such election for any particular person or persons. 
 
 (3) To make any gift, loan, promise, offer, procure- 
 ment or agreement, as aforesaid, to, for or with any 
 person, in order to induce such person to procure, or 
 endeavor to procure, the election of any person, or the 
 vote of any voter at any election. 
 
 (4) To procure, or engage, promise, or endeavor to 
 procure, in consequence of any such gift, loan, ofifer, 
 promise, procurement or agreement, the election of any 
 person, or the vote of any voter at such election. 
 
 (5) To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any 
 money or other valuable thing, to or for the use of any 
 other person, with the intent that the same, or any part 
 thereof, shall be used in bribery at any election ; or to 
 knowingly pay, or cause to be paid, any money or other 
 valuable thing to any person in discharge or repayment 
 of any money, wholly or in part, expended in bribery at 
 any election. 
 
 (6) To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money 
 or other valuable thing to or for the use of any other 
 person, with the intent that the same, or any part thereof, 
 shall be used for boarding, lodging or maintaining a 
 person at any place or domicile in any election precinct, 
 or ward, or district, with intent to secure the vote of such 
 person, or to induce such person to,' vote for any particu- 
 lar person or perons at any election. 
 
 (7) To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money 
 or other valuable thing to or for the use of any other 
 
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 person, with the intent that the same, or any part thereof, 
 shall be used to aid or assist any person to evade arrest 
 who is charged with the commission of a crime against 
 the elective franchise, for which, if the person were con- 
 victed, the punishment would be imprisonment in the State 
 Prison. 
 
 (8) To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money 
 or other valuable thing to or for the use of,, any other 
 person, in consideration of being selected or endorsed as 
 the candidate of any convention, organized assemblage 
 of delegates, or other body, representing, or claiming to 
 represent, a political party or principle, or any club, so- 
 ciety or association, for a public office, or in considera- 
 vtion of the selection or endorsement of any other per- 
 son as a candidate for a public office, or in consideration 
 of any member of a convention, club, society or associa- 
 tion, having voted to select or endorse any person as a 
 candidate for a public office. 
 
 (9) To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money 
 or other valuable thing to or for the use of any other 
 person, in consideration of a person withdrawing as a 
 candidate for public office. 
 
 404. Sec. 26. It shall be unlawful for any person, di- 
 rectly or indirectly, by himself or through any other 
 person : 
 
 (i) To receive, agree or contract for, before or dur- 
 ing an election, any money, gift, loan or other valu- 
 able consideration, office, place or employment, for him- 
 self or any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, 
 or for coming or agreeing to come to the polls, or for 
 refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting, or for 
 voting or agreeing to vote, or refraining or agreeing to 
 refrain from voting for any particular person or persons 
 at any election. 
 
 (2) To receive any money or other valuable thing dur- 
 ing or after an election, on account of himself, or any 
 other person, having voted or refrained from voting for 
 any particular person or perons at such election, or on 
 account of himself, or any other person, having come to 
 
 To pay for 
 endorsement 
 by delegates, 
 associations, 
 etc. 
 
 To secure 
 withdrawals. 
 
 Unlawful 
 acts : 
 
 To receive 
 money, 
 position, etc. 
 
 To vote or 
 refrain from 
 voting for 
 considera- 
 tion. 
 
2o8- 
 
 To receive 
 consideration 
 to secure 
 delegates or 
 endorse- 
 ment. 
 
 False regis- 
 tration in 
 person. 
 
 Causing 
 
 others 
 
 to register 
 
 falsely. 
 
 Fraudulent 
 voting, stuff- 
 ing ballot- 
 box, destroy- 
 ing records, 
 etc., a mis- 
 demeanor. 
 
 the polls or remained away from the polls at such election, 
 or on account of having induced any other person to vote 
 or refrain from voting, or to vote or refrain from voting 
 for any. particular person or persons, or to come to or re- 
 main away from the polls at such election. 
 
 (3) To receive any money or other valuable thing, be- 
 fore, during or after election, on account of himself or 
 any other person having voted to secure the election or 
 indorsement of any other person as the nominee or candi- 
 date of any convention, organized assemblage of dele- 
 gates, or other body, representing, or claiming to repre- 
 sent, a political party or principle, or any club, society or 
 association, or on account of himself or any other person 
 having aided in securing the selection or indorsement of 
 any other person as a nominee or candidate as aforesaid. 
 
 405. Sec. 27. No person shall willfully cause, procure 
 or allow himself to be registered in any registration list, 
 knowing himself not to be entitled to such registration. 
 
 406. Sec. 28. No person shall willfully cause, procure 
 or allow any other person to be registered in any regis- 
 tration list, knowing such person not to be entitled to such 
 registration. 
 
 407. Sec. 29. Every person not entitled to vote, who 
 fraudently votes, and every person who votes more than 
 once at any one election; or knowingly hands in two or 
 more tickets folded together; or changes any ballot after 
 the same has been deposited in the ballot-box; or adds, 
 or attempts to add, any ballot to those legally polled at 
 any election, either by fraudulently introducing the same 
 into the ballot-box before or after the ballots therein have 
 been counted, or adds to or mixes with, or attempts to 
 add to or mix with, the ballots lawfully polled, other bal- 
 lots, while the same are being counted or canvassed, or 
 at any other time, with intent to change the result of such 
 election ; or carries away or destroys, or attempts to carry 
 away or destroy, any poll list, or ballots, or ballot-box, for 
 the purpose of breaking up or invalidating such election; 
 or willfully detains, mutilates or destroys any election re- 
 turns; or in any manner so interferes with the officers 
 
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 holding such election, or conducting such canvass, or with 
 the voters lawfully exercising their rights of voting at 
 such election, as to prevent such election or canvass from 
 being fairly had and lawfully conducted, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor. 
 
 408. Sec. 30. Every person not entitled to vote, who uiegai 
 fraudulently attempts to vote, or who, being entitled to 
 vote, attempts to vote more than once at any election, or 
 who personates, or attempts to personate, a person legally imperson- 
 entitled to vote, shall be guilty of a misdemenaor. ^ ^°^' 
 
 409. Sec. 31. Every person charged with the perform- Penalty for 
 
 election 
 oflScers. 
 
 ance of any duty under the provisions of any law of this ^^^^^^^^ 
 
 State relating to elections, who willfully neglects or re- 
 fuses to perform it, or who, in his official capacity, know- 
 ingly and fraudulently acts in contravention or violation 
 of any of the provisions of such laws, shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor. 
 
 410. Sec. 32. A person offending against any provision As to testi- 
 
 ,. - . . . . - monv of 
 
 of this act IS a competent witness against another person offenders, 
 so offending, and may be compelled to attend and testify 
 upon any trial, hearing, proceeding or lawful investiga- 
 tion or judicial proceeding, in the same manner as any 
 other person. But the testimony so given shall not be 
 used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, 
 against the person so testifying. A person so testifying 
 shall not thereafter be liable to indictment or presentment 
 by information, nor to prosecution or punishment for the 
 offense with reference to which his testimony was given, 
 and may plead or prove the giving of testimony accord- 
 ingly in bar of such indictment, information or prosecu- 
 tion. 
 
 411. Sec. 33. It shall be unlawful for any candidate Betting, 
 for public office, before or during an election, to make 
 
 any bet or wager with a voter, or take a share or interest 
 in, or in any manner become, a party to such bet or 
 wager, or provide or agree to provide any money to be 
 used by another in making such bet or wager, upon any 
 event or contingency whatever. Nor shall it be lawful 
 for any person, directly or indirectly, to make a bet or 
 
2IO 
 
 Penalty for 
 Hot filing 
 statement. 
 
 Penalty for 
 treasurer of 
 committee. 
 
 Threats, 
 
 Abduction, 
 
 Interference, 
 
 etc. 
 
 Pay 
 
 envelopes 
 not to bear 
 political ex- 
 pressions. 
 
 wager with a voter, depending upon the result of any 
 election, with the intent thereby to procure the challenge 
 of such voter, or to prevent him from voting at such elec- 
 tion. 
 
 412. Sec. 34. Every candidate who refuses or neg- 
 lects to file a statement, as prescribed in section three of 
 this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 413. Sec. 35. Every treasurer of a committee selected 
 under the provisions of section one of this act, who re- 
 fuses or neglects to file a statement, as prescribed by sec- 
 tion two of this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 414. Sec. 36 It shall be unlawful for any person, di- 
 rectly or indirectly, by himself or any other person in his 
 behalf, to make use of, or threaten to make use of, any 
 force, violence or restraint, or to inflict or threaten the 
 infliction, by himself or through any other person, of any 
 injury, damage, harm or loss, or in any manner to prac- 
 tice intimidation, upon or against any person, in order to 
 induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from 
 voting at any election, or to vote or refrain from voting 
 for any particular person or persons at any election, or 
 on account of such person or persons at any election, or 
 on account of such person having voted or refrained from 
 voting at any election. And it shall be unlawful for any 
 person, by abduction, duress, or any forcible or fraudu- 
 lent device or contrivance whatever, to impede, prevent 
 or otherwise interfere with the free exercise of the elec- 
 tive franchise by any voter; or to compel, induce or pre- 
 vail upon any voter either to give or refrain from giving 
 his vote at any election, or to give or refrain from giving 
 his vote for any particular person or persons at any elec- 
 tion. It shall not be lawful for any employer, in pay- 
 ing his employes the salary or wages due them, to inclose 
 their pay in "pay envelopes" upon which there is writ- 
 ten or printed the name of any candidate or any political 
 mottoes, devices or arguments, containing threats, ex- 
 press or implied, intended or calculated to influence the 
 political opinions or actions of such employes. Nor shall 
 it be lawful for any employer, within ninety days of an 
 
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 election, to put up or otherwise exhibit in his factory, p^n^j^f, 
 workshop or other establishment or place where his work- hand-Miis 
 men or employes may be working, any hand-bill or pla- threats in 
 card containing any threat, notice or information that in lactones. 
 case any particular ticket of a political party, or organiza- 
 tion, or candidate shall be elected, work in his place or 
 establishment will cease, in whole or in part, or his place 
 or establishment be closed up, or the salaries or wages 
 of his workmen or employes be reduced, or other threats, 
 express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the 
 political opinions or actions of his workmen or employes. Penalty. 
 This section shall apply to corporations as well as indi- 
 viduals, and any person or corporation violating the pro- fo^^f^rfeit^"^ 
 visions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, and any charter, 
 corporation violating this section shall forfeit its charter. 
 
 415. Sec. 37. Every inspector, judge or clerk of an Penalty for 
 
 elect ion 
 
 election, who, previous to putting the ballot of an elector officers to 
 in the ballot-box, attempts to find out any name on such ^J^^^ ^vofer's 
 ballot, or who opens or suffers the folded ballot of any baiiot 
 elector which has been handed in to be opened or ex- 
 amined previous to putting the same in the ballot-box, or 
 who makes or places any mark or device on any folded 
 ballot with the view to ascertain the name of any person 
 for whom the elector has voted, or who, without the con- 
 sent of the elector, discloses the name of any person which 
 such inspector, judge or clerk has fraudulently or illegally 
 discovered to have been voted for by such elector, shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 416. Sec. 38. If the prosecutor of the pleas of the Duty of 
 county shall be notified by any officer or other person fnquire into° 
 of any violation of any of the provisions of this act, it violations, 
 shall be his duty forthwith to diligently inquire into the 
 
 facts of such violation, and if there is reasonable ground 
 for instituting a prosecution, it shall be the duty of such 
 prosecutor of the pleas to present the said charge with 
 all the evidence which he can procure, to the grand jury 
 of such county. If any prosecutor of the pleas shall fail 
 or refuse to faithfully perform any duty imposed upon 
 him by this act, he shall be deemed guilty of a misde- 
 
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 Prosecutions 
 
 Citizens 
 may assist 
 prosecutor. 
 
 Dismissal of 
 actions. 
 
 meanor, and on conviction thereof shall forfeit his office. 
 It shall be the duty of the prosecutor of the pleas, un- 
 der the penalty of forfeiture of his office, to prosecute 
 any and all persons guilty of any violation of the pro- 
 visions of this act, the penalty of which is fine or im- 
 prisonment, or both, or removal from office. Any citizen 
 may employ an attorney to assist the prosecutor of the 
 pleas to perform his duties under this act, and such attor- 
 ney shall be recognized by the prosecutor of the pleas and 
 the court as associate counsel in the proceeding; and no 
 prosecution, action or proceeding shall be dismissed with- 
 out notice to, or against the objection of, such associate 
 counsel until the reasons of the prosecutor of the pleas 
 for such dismissal, together with the objections thereto 
 of said associate counsel, shall have been filed in writing, 
 argued by counsel, and fully considered by the court, 
 with such limitation as to the time of filing such reasons 
 and objections as the court may impose. 
 
 Penalties. 
 
 Forfeiture 
 of office. 
 
 417. Sec. 39. Any person or candidate who shall. vio- 
 late any provision of this act shall be guilty of a misde- 
 meanor; and any such candidate shall, in addition to the 
 punishment prescribed by law, forgeit any office to which 
 he may have been elected at the election in reference to 
 which such crime or offense was committed; and if the 
 candidate so offending is the incumbent of an office of 
 profit or trust under the laws of this State, he shall there- 
 by forfeit this office. Any candidate who procures, aids, 
 assists, counsels, or advises the payment of any money 
 or other valuable thing by or on behalf of a committee 
 selected under the provisions of section one of this act, 
 and such payment is made for any purpose which, if the 
 money was expended by the candidate, would work a for- 
 feiture of the office to which he has been elected, such 
 payment shall be deemed to have been made by such can- 
 didate, and he shall forfeit any office to which he may 
 have been elected at the election in reference to which 
 such payment was made by or on behalf of such com- 
 mittee. 
 
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 41 8. Sec, 40. Any twenty-five voters of the State, or Contested 
 
 , . elections 
 
 of any political division thereof, may contest the right of 
 any person to nomination, position or office for which 
 said voters had the right to vote, on the ground of de- 
 liberate, serious and material violation of the provisions 
 of this act or of any other provisions of the law relating 
 to nominations and elections. Any defeated candidate 
 for said nomination, position or office may make said 
 contest. Said procedure shall be commenced by petition 
 filed in the circuit court of the county, in which the can- 
 didate whose election is contested resides, and the con- 
 test shall be carried on according to the provisions of 
 section one hundred and sixty-two of the act to which 
 this act is a supplement. 
 
 In case of contest over nominations, the court shall Court to 
 pronounce whether the incumbent or contestant was duly 
 nominated, and the person so declared nominated shall 
 have his name printed on the official ballots. 
 
 419. Sec. 41. When upon the trial of any action or court to 
 proceedings under this act it shall appear from the evi- mitigatLg 
 dence that the offense complained of was not committed circum- 
 
 , stances. 
 
 by the candidate, or with his knowledge or consent, or 
 was committed without his sanction or connivance, and 
 that all reasonable means were taken by such candidate 
 at such election, or were taken by or on behalf of the 
 candidate, or that the offenses complained of were trivial, 
 unimportant or limited in character, and that in all re- 
 spects his candidacy and election were free from all of- 
 fensive, or illegal acts, or that any act or omission of 
 any candidate complained of arose from accidental mis- 
 calculation or from some other reasonable cause of like 
 nature, and in any case did not arise from any want of 
 good faith, and under the circumstances it seems to the 
 court to be unjust that the candidate shall forfeit his 
 nomination, position or office, then the nomination or 
 election of such candidate shall not by reason of such 
 offense complained of to be void, nor shall the candi- 
 date be removed from nor deprived of his nomination, 
 position or office. 
 
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 lime for 
 begiBnlng 
 contests. 
 
 Proceedings 
 against cor- 
 porations. 
 
 Judgment. 
 
 Candidates 
 set aside 
 not to fill 
 vacancies. 
 
 420. Sec. 42. Any action under this act contesting any 
 nomination or election must be commenced within ten 
 days after the day of the primary, or thirty days after a 
 general election, unless the ground of action is discovered 
 from the statements filed under this act, in which event 
 the action must be commenced within ten or thirty days 
 after such discovery, respectively. Any action to annul 
 any nomination or election of any person for office men- 
 tioned in this act, must be filed in the circuit court of the 
 county in which the person resides whose right to the 
 nomination, position or office is contested. 
 
 421. Sec. 43. Any corporation organized under the 
 laws of this State, or doing business therein, may be 
 brought into the circuit court on the ground of the de- 
 liberate, serious and material violation of this act by pro- 
 ceedings begun and continued in substantially the same 
 form as is required in the case of contesting the nomi- 
 nation or election of any candidate for public office un- 
 der this act. The petition shall be filed in the circuit 
 court of the county in which the corporation has its 
 principal office, or in which the violation of this act is 
 averred to have occurred. 
 
 If judgment shall be rendered in such proceedings 
 against the corporation, and it shall be found to have 
 violated the said act, judgment shall be awarded against 
 the said corporation in the amount of not exceeding ten 
 thousand dollars, or the said court may forfeit the char- 
 ter of said company, if it is a company organized under 
 the laws of this State. 
 
 422. Sec. 44. A candidate elected to an office, and 
 whose election thereto has been annulled and set aside 
 for any offense mentioned in this act, shall not, during 
 the period fixed by law as the term of such office, be 
 appointed to fill any vacancy which may occur in such 
 office. A candidate or other person who is removed from 
 or deprived of his office for any offense mentioned in this 
 act, shall not, during the period remaining as the un- 
 expired term of such office, or during the period fixed by 
 law as the next ensuing term of such office, be appointed 
 
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 tc fill .any vacancy which may occur in such office. 
 Any appointment to an office made in violation of or con- 
 trary to the provisions of this section shall be void. 
 
 423. Sec. 45. In event that any provisions or para- constitu- 
 
 u 7 r xu- . 1- 11 t. ^- 1 • . tionality of 
 
 graph or part of this act shall be questioned in any court sections, 
 and shall be held to be invalid, the remainder of the act 
 shall not be invalidated, but shall remain in full force 
 and effect. 
 
 Supplement, May 2, 191 1, P. L. 191 1, p. 762. 
 
 424. Sec. I. No vacancy on any primary ticked caused 
 by the death of any candidate endorsed in any petition, 
 or by a declination in writing by any candidate so en- 
 dorsed, shall be filled unless the said vacancy occurs at 
 least fifteen days before the primary election. 
 
 425. Sec. 2. All petitions endorsing any person or per- 
 sons as candidates for nomination of any political tparty 
 to any public office of any county, including members of 
 the General Assembly and State Senate, shall be filed 
 with the county clerk ^of such county at least twenty- 
 five days prior to the time fixed by law for the holding 
 of such primary election, and the said county clerk shall 
 certify all of said nominations to the clerk of each mu- 
 nicipality in his county at least twenty days prior to the 
 time fixed by law for the holding of said primary election. 
 
 Supplement of Mar. 13, 1912, P. L. 1912, p. 100. 
 
 426. Sec. I. The American flag shall be displayed in riag dis- 
 each polling place in this State by the boards of regis- Pj^^f^^ ** 
 try and election during the hours when said i boards are place. 
 
 in session. 
 
 427. Sec. 2. The board, body or officer now charged ,^^ ^^ ^ 
 with the duty of defraying the expenses of conducting furnish flag, 
 the primary and elections shall furnish said flag, which 
 
 shall be approximately three feet by /five feet in size. 
 
 Supplement of Mar. 28, 1912, P. L. 1912, p. 425. 
 
 42S'. Sec. I. Any male person who has attained the ^^ ^^^^ ^f 
 aee of twenty-one years and has a legal residence in the federal gov- 
 
 -, ..-..^T 1,- i-r^ u ernment may 
 
 State of New Jersey, but is now, or hereafter may be register by 
 living out of the State, in the employ of the United affidavit. 
 States Government, and ^who has the right to and de- 
 
2l6 
 
 Candidates 
 or commit- 
 tees who fail 
 to file 
 statements 
 may apply 
 for exten- 
 sion- 
 
 sires to exercise the right of franchise, shall have the 
 right to be registered by affidavit for any primary and 
 general, State or municipal election, in the city, borough, 
 town or township, wherein he has a legal residence, pro- 
 vided such affidavit shall properly answer ;the same ques- 
 tions required to be answered in the case of personal 
 registration. Election officers shall accept such affidavit, 
 if received by mail or by proxy, prior /to or on the day 
 of the last registration for any such election, and place 
 the said person's name on the registry list, provided, it 
 is accompanied by / a certificate from the department or 
 bureau where such person is employed, certifying that the 
 applicant for the right of franchise, is a legal resident 
 of the. State of New Jersey, and is credited to this State 
 on the records of the office where employed. 
 
 Supplement of Apr. i6, 19 12, p. 849. 
 
 429. Sec. I. Any candidate for office, or the cam- 
 paign committee of such candidate, or either of them, 
 who may have ; heretofore failed or neglected to file the 
 statement and report required by the act to which this is 
 a supplement, within the time required by said act, may 
 apply to the judge of the Court^of Common Pleas of the 
 county in which said candidate resided at the time of 
 the said election, for permission to file the statement and 
 report aforesaid, and said t judge shall thereupon inquire 
 into the reasons for the failure to file such statement and 
 report, and if it shall appear to him, by affidavit or other- 
 wise, that the said candidate or campaign committee of 
 such candidate has complied with the provisions of the 
 act to which this is a supplement, except as to the filing 
 of such statement and report within \the time required 
 by said act, he may thereupon make an order permitting 
 such candidate and campaign committee to file such state- 
 ment and report within a time j to be fixed by said order 
 not more than ten days from the date thereof; and upon 
 the filing of said statement and report in the office, or 
 offices, and in ^the form as now provided by said act, the 
 said candidate shall be entitled to assume the office to 
 which he may have been elected at such election, and 
 
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 shall be restored to any office of profit i or trust under the 
 laws of this State which may have been forfeited by him 
 by reason of the failure to file such statement and report 
 within (the time required by said act. 
 
 Supplement of May 13, 1912, P. L. 1912, p. 927. 
 
 430. Sfx. I. In the year in which a President of the 
 .United States is to be elected, the State oonventions 
 which are now required to meet on the Tuesday follow- 
 ing the primary election in each year, shall severally 
 nominate for their respective parties, suich number of 
 candidates for electors of President and Vice-President 
 of the United States as ithis State shall be entitled to 
 elect or appoint. Such nominations shall be certified in 
 the manner provided by the act to which this is a supple- 
 ment, and all subsequent proceedings itherein shall be in 
 conformity wath the various provisions of said act and 
 the supplements thereto, so far as the same are applicable. 
 The names of the candidates for President .and Vice- 
 President for whom such electors are to vote may be 
 included in the certificate. Said conventions may ap- 
 point a committee to whom shall /be delegated the power 
 to fill any vacancies occasioned by any cause. The candi- 
 dates for electors shall be amenable to chapter 188, laws 
 of 191 1. The State committee of itheir party may be 
 their agent for the purposes mentioned in the first sec- 
 tion of said act, or they may designate such other agent 
 or agents as they see fit and such agent or agents shall 
 comply with all requirements of said chapter 1S8, laws 
 of 1911. 
 
 CHAPTER 206. 
 
 A Supplement to ,an act entitled "An act for the pun- 
 ishment of crimes (Revision of 1898)," approved June 
 fourteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
 the State of New ^ Jersey : 
 
 431. Sec. I. Any person who shall, directly or indi- Bribery at 
 rectlv, bv himself or by anv other person in his behalf, election a 
 
 ' ' tJlsdtuaean vr 
 
2l8 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Contributing 
 witti view to 
 bribery a 
 misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Receiving 
 rewards or 
 promises a 
 misdemeanor. 
 
 Penalty, 
 disfran- 
 chisement. 
 
 give, lend, or agree to give or lend, jor procure, or agree 
 to procure or offer or promise to procure, or endeavor to 
 procure, any money or other valuable consideration or 
 thing, or any office, place or employment to or for any 
 voter, or to or for any person, in order to induce such 
 voter to vote or refrain from registering or voting at 
 any election, or shall corruptly \do or commit any of the 
 acts in this section mentioned, on account of any voter 
 having voted or refrained from voting, or having reg- 
 istered or refrained from registering for any election, 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 
 thereof shall be sentenced to disfranchisement for a pe- 
 riod of five years from the ^date of conviction. 
 
 432. Sec. 2. Any person who shall give, advance or 
 pay, or cause to be given, advanced or paid, any money 
 or other valuable thing to any , person, or to the use of 
 any other person, with the intent that such money or 
 other valuable thing, or any part thereof, shall be ex- 
 pended, or used for bribery .of voters, or for any other 
 unlawful purpose at any election, or who shall know- 
 ingly pay, or cause to be paid, any money to any person 
 wholly or in part expended in bribery of a voter or voters 
 at any election, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on 
 conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to disfranchisement 
 for five years from the date of conviction. 
 
 433. Sec. 3. Any person who shall, directly or indi- 
 rectly, by himself, or by any other person on his behalf, 
 receive, agree or contract for any money, gift, loan or 
 valuable consideration, office, place or employment for 
 himself or for any other person for voting or agreeing 
 to vote, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from 
 voting at any election, or for registering or agreeing to 
 register, or for refraining or for agreeing to refrain from 
 registering for any election, shall be guilty of a misde- 
 meanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to 
 disfranchisement for a period of five years from the date 
 of conviction. 
 
 434. Sec. 4. Supplemented by P. L. 191 1, .chap. 188', 
 sec. 36, paragraph 468, post. 
 
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 435- ^EC. 5. Any person who, having once been con- Penalty for 
 victed of a violation of any of ,the provisions of this act, offense, 
 shall again be convicted of a violation of any of the pro- 
 visions of this act, whether such conviction be for the 
 same offense or not, shall, on such second conviction, be 
 sentenced to disfranchsement and to pay a fine not ex- 
 seeding one thousand dollars, or to imprisonment for a 
 term not exceeding five years, or ,both, at the discretion 
 of the court, (a) 
 
 436. Sec. 6. No person shall be excused from attend- Compulsory 
 ing and testifying, or producing any books, papers or 
 other documents before any court on any indictment for 
 violation of any of the provisions of this act, upon the 
 ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, 
 documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to 
 convict him of a crime or to subject him to a penalty or 
 forfeiture, but no person shall be prosecuted or sub- 
 jected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of 
 any transaction, matter or thing concerning which he incriminat- 
 may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or, other- testimony 
 wise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be re- °gajn"t^^ 
 ceived against him upon any criminal proceeding or witness, 
 action. 
 
 ,437. Sec. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with Repealer, 
 the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby re- 
 pealed. 
 
 CHAPTER 208. 
 
 An Act to define the crime of bribery and to provide for 
 the punishment thereof. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
 the State of New Jersey : 
 
 43S. Sec. I. Any person ,who shall do any act herein- 
 after prohibited shall be deemed guilty of the crime of 
 bribery and shall be punished therefor as hereinafter pro- 
 vided. 
 
 (a) Query. — Is not this section unconstitutional under tne declilon 
 in 8tate v. OarriganT 35 N. J. Late Journal, p. 106. 
 
 Bribery. 
 
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 No contri- 
 butions or 
 promises. 
 
 Entertain- 
 ment. 
 
 Clubs. 
 
 Ijiterature. 
 
 Proviso ; 
 paid adver- 
 tisements. 
 
 Not accept 
 gift. * 
 
 Penalty for 
 violations. 
 
 439. Sec. 2. No person shall give or agree to give for 
 the purpose of promoting or procuring the election of a 
 candidate for public office, or for the purpose of promot- 
 ing or procuring the nomination of any person as ^a can- 
 didate for public office, any money or any valuable thing 
 to be used for any of the purposes hereinafter enumer- 
 ated. I 
 
 (a) To provide or give or to pay, wholly or in part, 
 the expense of giving or providing any meat, drink, en- 
 tertainment or provision to or for any (person for the pur- 
 pose of influencing that person or any other person to 
 give or refrain from giving his vote at any election, or 
 on account of ^ any such person or any other person hav- 
 ing voted or refrained from voting. 
 
 (b) To provide for the payment of rent for or for the 
 purpose of providing and fitting up any clubroom for 
 social or recreative purposes, or providing for uniforms 
 for any organized club. 
 
 (c) To provide for the payment^ for the insertion in 
 any newspaper or magazine of any article tending to 
 influence any voter; provided, however^ that this prohi- 
 bition shall not be construed to prohibit the , insertion of 
 paid advertisements, which advertisements shall be indi- 
 cated by the words 'This advertisement has been paid 
 
 for by " (inserting the name of , the person 
 
 or persons paying for the same.) 
 
 440 Sec. ,3;. No (person shall accept any money or" 
 other valuable thing, the payment of which is prohibited 
 by this act. 
 
 441. Sec. 4. Any person found guilty of bribery as 
 hereinabove defined shall be guilty ,of a misdemeanor, 
 and upon conviction thereof shall, for the first oflfense be 
 disfranchised for a period of two years from the date of 
 such conviction, and for any subsequent offense shall be 
 perpetually disfranchised, and in addition thereto the 
 court in which such conviction is obtained, may, in its 
 discretion, in a case of a subsequent conviction, impose 
 upon the person so convicted, the punishment now pre- 
 scribed bv law for a misdemeanor. 
 
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 442. Sec. 5. No person called to testify in any pro- [°"\^g°**' 
 ceedings under -this act shall be liable to a criminal pros- mony 
 ecution, either under this act or otherwise, for any mat- against 
 ters or causes in respect to which he shall be examined, ^^^ness. 
 or to which his testimony shall relate, except to a prose- 
 cution for bribery committed in such testimony; nor shall 
 any person, when called to testify in any trial for a vio- 
 lation of this act, be privileged to refuse to answer any 
 questions which may be asked him, upon the ground that 
 the same will tend to degrade or incriminate him. 
 
 44^. Sec. 6. Nothing in this act contained shall be con- Construe- 
 
 ^^^ ^ tion of act. 
 
 strued to alter, modify, amend or repeal any statute of 
 this State imposing any penalty for any offenses in con- 
 nection with the holding of an election; provided, how- proviso. 
 ever, that this section shall not be construed to alter or 
 modify the provisions of section five of this act. 
 
 CHAPTER 34. 
 
 A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act for the 
 punishment of crimes (Revision of 1898)," approved 
 June fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. 
 Be it enacted hy the Senate and General Assembly of 
 the State of New Jersey: 
 
 444. No insurance corporation or association doing Political con- 
 business in this State shall, directly or indirectly, pay or insurance 
 use, or offer, consent or agree to pay or use, any money *^°™vj^,^it^d 
 or property for or in aid of any political party, commit- 
 tee, organization or corporation, or for or in aid of any 
 candidate for political office, or for nomination for such 
 office, or for any political purpose whatsoever, or for the 
 reimbursement or indemnification of any person for 
 money or property so used. x\ny officer, director, stock- violation a 
 
 , . . . . misdemeanor. 
 
 holder, attorney or agent of any corporation or associa- 
 tion which violates any of the provisions of this act, who 
 participates in, aids, abets, or advises or consents to any 
 such violation, and any person who solicits or knowingly 
 receives any money or property in violation of this act, 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
Witnesses 
 mnst testify. 
 
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 No person shall be excused from attending and testi- 
 fying, or producing any books, papers or other docu- 
 ments, before any court or magistrate upon any investi- 
 gation, proceeding or trial, for a violation of any of the 
 provisions of this act, upon the ground or for the reason 
 that the testimony or evidence, documentary or other- 
 wise, required of him may tend to incriminate or de- 
 grade him ; but no person shall be prosecuted or sub- 
 jected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of 
 any transact'ion, matter or thing concerning which he 
 may so testify or produce evidence, documentary or 
 otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall 
 be used against him upon any criminal investigation or 
 proceeding. 
 
 CHAPTER 65, LAWS OF 1914. 
 
 An Act to authorize the- Governor to make temporary ap- 
 pointments of Senators of the United States for this 
 State when vacancies occur otherwise than by the ex- 
 piration of their terms of office. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of 
 the State of New Jersey. 
 
 445. Sec. I. The Governor of this State hereby is au- 
 thorized and empowered to make temporary appointments 
 of Senators of the United States from this State when- 
 ever vacancies shall occur by reason of death, resignation 
 or for any cause other than the expiration of their terms; 
 and such appointees shall serve as such Senators until a 
 special election or general election shall have been held 
 pursuant to law, and the Board of State Canvassers can 
 deliver to their successors certificates of election. 
 
 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved March 26, 19 14. 
 
3^ 
 
 CHAPTER 197, LAWS OF 1914. 
 
 A Supplement to an act entitled "A supplement to an act 
 entitled "An act to regelate elections (Revision of 
 1898)/ approved April fourth, one thousand eight hun- 
 dred and ninety-eight55 which supplement was approved 
 April nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and eleven. 
 Be it enacted hy the Senate and General Assetnhly of 
 the State of Nezc Jersey : 
 
 446. Sec. I. Hereafter, whenever any question or pro- 
 position shall be submitted to the people of the State at 
 any primary, special or general election, there shall be 
 mailed to each registered voter in the .same envelope with 
 the sample ballot, and in the manner provided in the act 
 to which this is a supplement for the mailing of sample 
 ballots a printed copy of the act of the Legislature or con- 
 stitutional amendment which is so submitted. When the 
 act of the Legislature submitted is an amendment or sup- 
 plement to a statute of this State, there shall be printed 
 and mailed to each registered voter as hereinbefore pro- 
 vided, in addition to the copy of the act submitted, such 
 portion of the statute to which the same is an amendment 
 or supplement as shall be necessary to clearly disclose to 
 the voter the relation of the act submitted to the exist- 
 ing statute law. W^hen a constitutional amendment is sub- 
 mitted, there shall be printed and mailed to each regis- 
 tered voter as hereinbefore provided, in addition to the 
 copy of the constitutional amendments submitted, such 
 portion of the constitution as shall be necessary to clearly 
 disclose to the voter the relation of the amendment sub- 
 mitted to the existing constitution. Whenever, under the 
 provisions of this act, it shall be necessary to mail to the 
 voters any portion of the statute law of the State, or any 
 portion of the State constitution, it shall be the duty of 
 the Attorney-General to designate by writing filed with 
 the Secretary of State what portion of the statute law 
 or State constitution shall be so printed or mailed. The 
 Attorney-General, in place of or in addition to designat- 
 ing any portion of the statute law or State constitution to 
 
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 be so printed and mailed, may if he deem proper make a 
 summary statement of the existing law or constitutional 
 provisions upon the subject so far as necessary to inform 
 the voters of the effect which the adoption or rejection of 
 the question or proposition submitted to them will have 
 upon said statute law or State constitution, and the mail- 
 ing of such summary statement shall be a compliance with 
 the provisions of this act. Whenever an amendment to the 
 constitution or to a statute is mailed as aforesaid, such 
 part thereof as is new and is not contained in the then 
 existing constitution or statute shall be underscored, and 
 if any portion of the existing law or constitution is to be 
 omitted in the proposed amendment, such portion shall be 
 enclosed in brackets in the printed copies of the existing 
 law or constitution so mailed; and there shall be annexed 
 a note explaining the significance of the brackets and un- 
 derscoring. 
 
 447. The Secretary of State shall cause to be printed, 
 and at least ten days before any primary, special, or gen- 
 eral election at which any question or proposition is to 
 be submitted, shall deliver to each county clerk a number 
 of copies of the printed matter to be mailed as hereinbe- 
 fore required, at least twenty per centum greater than 
 the number of registered voters in the county. Each coun- 
 ty clerk shall notify the Secretary of State of the number 
 of copies required for his county. 
 
 448. The boards, bodies or officers now charged with 
 the duty of defraying the expenses of conducting primary, 
 special, and general elections shall pay any additional ex- 
 pense made necessary by or provided for in this act. 
 
 449. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 5. This act shall take efi-ect immediately. 
 
 Approved April 15, 1914- 
 
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 New Jersey Constitution. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 Right of Suffrage. 
 
 450. Sec. I. Every male citizen of the United States, 
 of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a 
 resident of this State one year, and of the county in which 
 he claims his vote five months, next before the election, 
 shall be entitled to vote for all officers that now are or 
 hereafter may be elective by the people; (a) provided, 
 that no person in the military, naval, or marine service 
 of the United States shall be considered a resident in this 
 state by being stationed in any garrison, barrack, or mili- 
 tary or naval place or station within this state; and no 
 pauper, idiot, insane person or person convicted of a 
 crime which now excludes him from being a witness, un- 
 less pardoned or restored by law to the right of suffrage, 
 shall enjoy the right of an elector; (&) and provided 
 further that in time of war no elector in the actual mili- 
 tary service of the state, or of the United States in the 
 army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by 
 reason of his absence from such election district ; and the 
 legislature shall have power to provide the manner in 
 which, and the time and place at which, such absent elec- 
 tors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their 
 
 (a) Tbe residence required to entitle a person to vote means his 
 fixed domicile or permanent home, and as not changed or altered hy 
 his occasional absence with or without his family. Cadicalader v. 
 Boicell, 3 Harrison 13S. 
 
 (6) The above constitutional provision was adopted m 1S44. At 
 that time the statute disqualifying witnesses provided "that no person 
 who shall be convicted of blasphemy, " treason, murder, piracy, arson, 
 rape, sodomy, or the infamous crime against nature, committed with 
 mankind or with beast, polygamy, robbery, conspiracy, forgery, or 
 larceny above the value of six dollars shall in any case be admitted 
 as a witness unless he or she be first pardoned ; and no person wno 
 shall be convicted of perlury. or of subornation of perjury, although 
 pardoned for the same, shall be admitted as a witness in any case." 
 
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 votes in the election districts in which they respectively 
 reside, (a) 
 
 451. Sec. 2. The legislature may pass laws to deprive 
 persons of the right of suffrage who shall be convicted of 
 bribery. 
 
 (a) Tho right to vote, secured by the constitution, can only be- 
 come operative by legislation ; and any reasonable legislative regula- 
 tion for the purpose of securing an enforced secrecy of the ballot is 
 not a deprivation of a right to vote. Hansom v. Black, 23 Vroom 
 446. School trustees are officers within this article of the constitu- 
 tion, so that, if they are made elective by the people, only male 
 citizens can vote for them. Kimhall v. Hindec, 28 Vroom 807. A 
 statute cannot confine the right to vote for road commissioners to the 
 freeholders of the district, nor extend it to females or to non-residents 
 of the district. Allison v. Blake, 28 Vroom G. An election held in 
 accordance with a statute which prohibits from voting a large class 
 of persons having a constitutional right to vote, does not confer a 
 legal title to the officx; upon the person elected. Allison v. Englewood, 
 2fl Vroom. 140. 
 
INDEX TO ELECTION LAW. 
 
 Acceptance of nomination required, section 301. 
 
 Adjournment of county canvassers, proceedings on, sections 105. 107. 
 election boards during election day, section 4. 
 
 not to be had after election until votes are counted, section 89. 
 proceedings on adjourning before close of election, section tt. 
 Affidavits for registration of voters to be filed, sections z^, 35- 
 to secure registry of voters, sections 23, 24, 26, 32, 35. 
 election board may take, section 16. 
 registration by, when not allowed, section 402. 
 registration by, sections 381, 382, 403, 485. 
 Agents allowed within railed inclosure, when, section 63. 
 appointment of, for polling places, section 63. 
 authority of, as challengers, section 63. 
 number of, section 63. 
 
 permits to, delivered to board of election, section 63. 
 permits to, issued by county boards of election, section 63. 
 primary elections section 264. 
 
 written appointments of, filed with county board, section (>z. 
 Alien, oath of person challenged as, section tz- 
 Alternate-at-large, how nominated., section 320. 
 petition, section 320. 
 
 number cf names required on petition, 320. 
 procedure, section 320. 
 
 how grouped on primary ticket, section 322. 
 how printed on primary ticket, section 322. 
 Amending certificates and petitions of nominations, section 235. 
 Annual general election, held when, section i. 
 
 in every city, town, borough, &c., held when, section 2. 
 Arrest, freedom from, on civil process on election day, section 70. 
 
 persons selling liquor- on election day, section 194. 
 Assemblyman, statement by, relative to U. S. Senator, section 341. 
 Assembly, general, see General Assembly. 
 
 Assistant to blind or disabled voter not to reveal for whom he voted, section 368. 
 Attorney general to designate printing of statutes for special election, section 446. 
 
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 B. 
 
 Ballot-boxes, poll-list, &c., deposited in, after election, section 99. 
 
 by whom furnished, sections 60, 369. 
 
 constructed how, sections 60, 369. 
 
 contents of, preserved how, section 100. 
 
 custody of, after election, sections 99, 100. 
 
 custody of, during adjournment on election day, section TT. 
 
 deposited where, in cities, section 99. 
 
 exhibited before receiving votes, section 66. 
 
 keys of, custody after election, sections dT, 369. 
 
 keys of, custody curing election, sect ons 65, 369. 
 
 located within rail inclosure, section 78. 
 
 penalty for obstructing officers carrying to city clerk's office, sec- 
 tion 10 1. 
 
 poll-book, deposited in, on adjournment before and after close of 
 election, sections dy, 77, 99. 
 
 primary elections, for, section 60. 
 
 provided and kept in repair by whom, sections 60, 369. 
 
 public view of, during adjournment, section 77. 
 
 record of receipt of, kept by city clerk, section 99. 
 
 robbing, penalty for, section 190. 
 
 Ballots, arrangement of names of candidates for president and vice-president, 
 section 360. 
 arrangement, when candidate voted for more than once, section 360. 
 black ink or pencil must be used in writing names on, sections 59, 85. 
 canvassed, how, see Canvass of votes. 
 considered void in part, when, section 92. 
 considered void totally, when, sections 58, 59, 85, 91, 92. 
 how counted as to questions or propositions, printed on, section 363. 
 county clerk to provide, when, section 364. 
 county clerk to prepare, section 287. 
 coupon on, section 362. 
 deficiency of, supplied how, section 55. 
 delivered to board of election, section 54. 
 delivered to clerk of election, section 54. 
 delivered to township or municipal clerks, section 54. 
 delivered in sealed packages, section 54. 
 
 deposited in box after board decides to receive them, sections 68, 76, 
 deposited in box with poll-list, &c., after election, section 99. 
 destruction of, proceedings in case of, section 55. 
 disposition of spoiled ballots, section 400. 
 distinguishing marks on, prohibited, section 85. 
 distr bution of, before election day, section 345. 
 effect of spoiled ballot, section 345. 
 error in printing, corrected how, sections 53, 257. 
 form of, section 362. 
 
 form of, when questioned to be voted on, section 2>^2>' 
 furnished to voter at election, section 366. 
 if unused to be returned, section ^65. 
 
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 Ballots, loss or destruction of, proceedings in case of, section 55. 
 marking ballot, section 363. 
 marks on, make it void, sections 58, 367. 
 method of voting, section 366. 
 mistakes in, correction of, section 53. 
 municipal clerk to provide, when, sections 328, 364. 
 names may be erased from, by voter, sections 59, 85. 
 names of candidates for president and vice-president may be printed on, 
 
 section 47. 
 names of candidates not accepting nomination not to be printed on, 
 
 section 42. 
 names of persons declining nomination not printed on, section 44. 
 notification by candidate of more than one party by order of designation, 
 
 section 359. 
 number of, provided by county or municipal clerk, section 361. 
 numbers on, section 366- 
 number furnshed, section 361. 
 numbering of, in counting votes, section 87. 
 number of ballots allowed to each voter, section 345. 
 offices to be filled, section 287. 
 official, when to be used, sections 85, 234. 
 pasters used on, description of, sections 59, 85. 
 penalty for altering or destroying, sections 190, 195. 
 penalty for altering indorsement on, section 195. 
 penalty for marking, section 198. 
 penalty for removing from booths, section 196. 
 penalty for showing within polling-room, section 198. 
 penalty for voting other than official, section 198. 
 plurality of, sufficient to elect, section 93. 
 preparation of, section 287. 
 primary, how voted, section 346. 
 primary, form of, sections 324, 345. 
 primary, to be supplied by municipal clerk to district boards, section 
 
 325- 
 printed at public expense, section 48. 
 printed five days before election, section 53. 
 proceedings when lost, destroyed or stolen, section 55. 
 provided at public expense, section 48. 
 provided how, for local elections, section 85. 
 
 questions or proposit'ons to be voted upon, printed on, section 363. 
 sample for voting on constitutional amendments, section 446. 
 sample, board of registry and election to mail sample ballots, sections 
 
 334, 364. 
 sample, county clerk to furnish, section 364. 
 sample, for national delegate convent on, form of, section 329. 
 sample for national delegate convention, by whom supplied, section 328. 
 sample, not to be voted, sections 334, 364. 
 sample, number of ballots each voter entitled to, section 418. 
 sample, record of, section 364. 
 sample, special elections, sections 364, 446. 
 sample, supplied by munic'pal clerk, section 334. 
 stamped envelope to be returned if unused, section 365. 
 
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 Ballots, to be receipted for by election board, section 365. 
 to be numbered, section 362. 
 to be furnished at election place, section 361. 
 township election, for, section 85. 
 unofficial, use of, at general elections, section 55. 
 unofficial, use of, at local elections, section 85. 
 use of, substituted for official, section 55. 
 
 use at local elections, inclosed in official envelopes, section 85. 
 used at local elections, pasters on, section 85. 
 used at local elections, void when, section 85. 
 used at local elections, written changes on, section 85. 
 void, general provisions concerning, sections 91, 92. 
 void if designated by any mark, sections 58, 85. 
 void if ink or pencil other than black be used in writing names on, 
 
 sections 59, 85. . 
 void if paster does not conform to law, sections 59, 85. 
 void, in part, section 92. 
 
 voter must receive, before entering booth or voting, sections 80, 420. 
 who may print, section 373. 
 when blanket or single, section 358. 
 
 when candidates' names, arranged alphabetically, section 359. 
 when party divided, section 40. 
 Bar-room, election not to be held in, section 8. 
 Betting on elections, prohibition of, section 187. 
 
 Blanks for election returns, &c., furnished by secretary of state, section 61. 
 Blind voter, ass'sted how, section 368. 
 Board of county canvassers, see County canvassers. 
 
 Board of election, addition of names to registry by, on affidavit, section 24, 
 adjournment of, on election day, sections 4, 77. 
 all elections, to conduct, section 64. 
 alphabetical registers, to make, section 23. 
 announce publicly results of election, section 89. 
 appointment of, sections 308, 311. 
 
 appointment of, in new or altered districts, section 31. 
 ballot of voter whose name has been checked, when received 
 
 by, section 82. 
 ballot-boxes in cities transmitted to the city clerk by, section 99. 
 ballot-boxes in townships, &c., where kept, section 99. 
 canvass of returns national delegates' primary, section 330. 
 canvass of votes by, sections 86 to 93, 275, 367, 421. 
 certificate of removal given by, section ^^7. 
 certify returns to county clerk, section 330 
 challenge of voters by, section 72. 
 
 checked register filed with county clerk by, section 67. 
 civil service commisson to examine applicants, section 310. 
 clerks of, who to be, section 19. 
 compensation of members of, section 316. 
 composed how, section 309. 
 
 copy of completed register filed with county board by, sec- 
 tion 24. 
 
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 Board of election, dates of meeting to make and revise registers, sections 21 to 
 24, 26 to 29, 37. 
 decision of majority is decision of, section 90. 
 decision of, to receive ballot necessary before depositing it in 
 
 box, sections 68, 76, 80. 
 dissent to decision of board by a member, section 90. 
 duty of, in new or altered districts, section 31. 
 duty of, on presentation of certificates of county board of 
 
 elections, section 25. 
 .duty of, when voter is challenged, sections 75, 76. 
 
 erasing names from register, section 24. 
 exhibition of ballot-box by, section 66. 
 hold and conduct all elections in this state, section 64. 
 how decide whether vote shall be received, section 76. 
 
 ineligible for any office, section 84. 
 judge and inspector of, who to be, section 19. 
 , may examine persons as to right to vote, section 75. 
 
 meet in cities having over 5.000 inhabitants, when, sections 
 21, 333- 
 
 meet in all other districts, when, sections 23, 335. 
 meeting places of, section 18. 
 members of, nominated by chairman of political parties, section 
 
 309- 
 names checked on register on election day, section 67. 
 names of. signed to poll-book, section 86. 
 names when stricken from register, section 25. 
 new municipalities, in, section 237. 
 
 nominat'ons for members of, section 309. 
 
 nominees for, his fitness ascertained, section 310. 
 oath administered to challenged voters by, section 75. 
 oath of members of. section 16. 
 oath administered by members of, section 16. 
 official ballots furnished to voter by, section 80. 
 organization of, section 19. 
 penalty for false registration by, section 33, 
 penalty for refusing to enter names on register, section 33. 
 penalty for receiving illegal votes, by, sections 33, 75. 
 place of meeting, section 18. 
 police power of, sections 83, 186. 
 poll-list, deposited in ballot-box by, section 99. 
 
 primary election, to canvass votes, section 344. 
 proceedings of, public, section 32. 
 
 proclamation by, on opening polls, section 66. 
 registers, copies, how disposed of, section 24. 
 
 registers, made how, sections 21 to 24, 335. 
 registry of voters by affidavits, sections 23, 24, 32, 35. 
 
 removal from office of member of. section 314. 
 
 request by, for detail of police force, section 83. 
 
 revision and correct'ons of registers, made how, section 333. 
 revision of register for local elections, sections 26 to 29. 
 room for its meetings, to select when, section 8. 
 
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 Board of election shall not receive vote of person unless satisfied of his right 
 to vote, section 366. 
 shall sign poll-book, section 86. 
 
 statement of result of election made by, sections 94 to 98. 
 to mail sample ballots, section 334. 
 term of, sections 17, 313. 
 time of appointing, section 311. 
 time of meeting, sections 21. 2^, 335, 337, 340. 
 to hold primaries, section 241. 
 
 transmission of copy of statement of election to township or 
 municipal clerk, section 96. 
 , transmission of statement of election to secretary of state and 
 county clerk, section 96. 
 vacancy :n before election day, filled how, section 312, 
 vacancy in, election day, how filled, section 17. 
 what elections to hold, section 64. 
 Board of elections, see County board of elections. • 
 
 Board of registry and elections, see Board of election. 
 Board of state canvassers, see State canvassers. 
 Booths, see Election booths. 
 
 Borough elections, manner of conducting, sections 64. 85. 
 Boundary lines, section 306. 
 
 number of voters in, section 306. 
 
 creation and readjustment of new districts, section 306. 
 by whom new districts created, section 306. 
 when new districts created, section 306. 
 
 order by Justice of Supreme Court for registry books in, sectiois 
 306. 
 Bribery, penalty for, section 431. (See Penalty.) 
 
 C. 
 
 Campaign contributions by insurance companies prohibited, section 332. 
 Candidates, acceptance of nomination by, sections 42, 244. 
 
 certificates and petitions nominating, filed with whom, section 4a. 
 
 filling vacancies, sections 44, 45, 258, 305, 355. 
 
 form of petition nominating, section 41. 
 
 independent, who considered to be, section 43. 
 
 names of, certified by county clerk to secretary of state, section 4«. 
 
 names of, certified by secretary of state to county clerk, sections 
 
 43, 45- 
 nominated by petition, sections 41, 290, 295. 
 nominated by political party, section 38. 
 
 nomination of, when former candidate has died or declined, sec- 
 tion 45. 
 presidential and vice-presidential, included in certificate or petitioH 
 
 of nomination, section 47. 
 proceedings on declination of, sections 44, 45, 305. 
 Canvass of votes, made immediately after election, without adjournment, sectioas 
 89, 275, 346, 367. 
 manner of making, sections 86 to 93, 296, 346, 367. 
 open and public, to be, sections 89, 346, 367. 
 
Canvass of votes, proposition submitted to vote of people, section 363. 
 void ballots, secti6ns 58, 59, 85, 91, 92. 
 primary elections, section 254. 
 Canvassing-books, blanks, &c., provided by secretary of state, section 6x. 
 Certificate of nomination, deemed valid, when, section 46. 
 
 filed, when and where, sections 42, 45. 
 form of, sections 39, 85. 
 
 objections to, made when and how, section 46. 
 objections to, passed on, how, section 46. 
 open for public inspection, section 42. 
 vacancy, in case of, section 45. 
 Certificates and petitions of nominations, amended how, section 235. 
 
 filed when, section 42. 
 filed with whom, sections 42, 290, 293, 
 
 295. 
 open for inspection when, section 42. 
 preserved one year, section 42. 
 Chairman of state committee, duty when tie vote for governor or congressmaa, 
 
 section 344. 
 notification by secretary of state, section 372. 
 Challenge for crime, proven how, section 71. 
 
 generally, oath in case of, sections 74, 354. 
 of person as alien, section 73. 
 
 questions to be asked when voter challenged, section 354. 
 when signatures on poll-book and regstry-book differ, section jsg. 
 who may, sections 63, 72. 
 Challengers, see Agents. 
 
 Charter elections, blanks and books furnished by whom, section 62. 
 candidates for, nominated how, sections 85, 234. 
 canvassed by whom, section 102. 
 conducted by whom, section 64. 
 
 copies of register to be posted and filed, section 26. 
 county boards to meet when, section 30. 
 date of holding, section 2. 
 duties of county boards concerning, section 30. 
 held when, section 2. 
 in villages, section 238. 
 
 notice of registration to be published, how, sections 26, 29. 
 registry of votes for, sections 26, 29, 31, 37. 
 result of, ascertained how, section 94. 
 Chief of police, when registry list to be furnished to, section 350. 
 
 when to investigate registry I'sts, section 350. 
 Chosen freeholders, power of, to require vacancy in senate or general aascjaUf 
 
 to be filled, section 133. 
 Cities, charter elections in, when held, section 238. 
 
 charter elections in, how conducted^ section 238. 
 officers in, terms of, sections 239 to 248. 
 » vacancies in offices in, how filled, section 242. 
 
 City clerk, duty concerning ballot-boxes, section 99. 
 
 election blanks for local elections, to provide, section 62. 
 furnish ballots, when, sections 290, 292, 336. 
 
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 City clerk, may erect booths, &c., in street, section 8. 
 notice of election, to give, section 7. 
 
 notify board of election of location of polling-room, section 8. 
 procure room for registering voters, &c., section 8. 
 publish notice of meetings of district boards, section 28. 
 public description of boundary lines and location of polling place, 
 
 section 28. 
 record of names of persons delivering ballot-boxes, to keep, section 99. 
 record of time of receipt of ballot-boxes, to keep, section 99. 
 
 City office, contest in case of, see Contested elections. 
 
 Ciril service commission, applicants for members of district board of registry 
 and election, examined by, section 309. 
 certification of result of examination, section 310. 
 expenses of, and by whom paid, section 310. 
 nominations for board of election, to be submitted 
 
 to, sections 309, 310. 
 of what examinaitions shall consist, section 310. 
 qualifications for member of district board of registry 
 
 and election, section 310. 
 when examination held, section 310. 
 Clerks of election, copies of registers posted by, section 24. 
 
 copy of completed register filed with city, township or munici- 
 pal clerk by, section 24. 
 
 delivery of ballots and envelopes to board of election by, sec- 
 section 54. 
 duties of, on election day, section 67. 
 
 for local election, notice of revision of register given by, sec- 
 tion 29. 
 who to serve as, section 19. 
 Commission of messenger sent for missing statement of election, sections 106, 124. 
 Compensation of officers, sections 179, 316. 
 Congress, see House of Representatives. 
 
 contested election of members of, see Contested elections. 
 Congressional districts, creaton of, section 239. 
 
 representatives for, elected when, section 182. 
 represented how, section 182. 
 Constables, duty to arrest persons selling liquor on election day, section 194. 
 Contested elections, county and municipal officers in case of — 
 appeal to supreme court, section 175. 
 bond of contestant to incumbent, section 166. 
 circuit court, jurisdiction of, section 162. 
 commenced by petition, sections 162, 166. 
 contents of petition in, section 167. 
 costs of, who responsible for, section 172. 
 grounds of contest in, section 163. 
 judgment of court in, effect of, section 173. 
 ,_ judgment of court in, enforced how, section 174. 
 jurisdiction of circuit courts in, section 162. 
 jury trial in, not to be had, section 169. 
 
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 Contested elections, manner of proceed'ng in, section 169. 
 
 meaning of "incumbent" in, section 16. , 
 
 mode of enforcing judgment on appeal, section 177. 
 
 notice of trial of, section 167. 
 
 petition in, copy to be ser^-^ed, section 167. 
 
 petition of contestant in, sections 162, 166, 167. 
 
 power of court to compel witnesses in, section 170. 
 
 precedence of appeal in, section 176, 
 
 recognizance on appeal in, section 175. 
 
 time of trial in, sections 167, 168. 
 
 time within which appeal may be taken, section 175. 
 
 what misconduct will set aside election in, section 165. 
 
 twhat questions witness may be required to answer, section 
 171. 
 when petition in must be filed, section 162. 
 Governor, in case of — 
 committee to try. fees and expenses of, paid how, section 
 committee to try, mode of conducting proceedings by, sec- 
 tion 151. 
 committee to try, organization of, section 147. 
 committee to try, powers of, section 149. 
 committee to try, reports of, section 150. 
 committee to try, selection of, sections X44, i4S, 146. 
 H committee to try, vacancy in, filled how, section 147. 
 
 ^B' committee to try, when to meet, section 145. 
 
 ^B committee to try, when to sit, section 148, 
 
 y meeting of both houses of legislature in case of, section 143. 
 
 ■ notice of, sections 141, 143. 
 
 K oath of members of committee to try, section 145. 
 
 K petition in case of, section 142. 
 
 ^3 Legislature and congress, in case of — 
 
 attachment of witnesses for non-attendance, section 158. 
 
 depositions in, notice of taking to be given, section 155. 
 
 depositions in, transmitted to whom, section 157. 
 
 depositions in, how taken, sections 154, 156. 
 
 notice of intention to contest, section 153. 
 
 witnesses in, how subpoenaed, section 154. 
 
 witnesses in, penalty for non-attendance, section 158. 
 
 Contributions by insurance companies prohibited, section 444. 
 
 Convention of delegates, defined, sections 38, 242. 
 
 name or title of, in case of d'vision of party, section 40. 
 
 Convention, state, how composed, section 370. 
 
 when and where held, section 370. 
 
 who may call, section 370. 
 
 to nominate presidential electors, section 430. 
 
 Coroner, certain offices not to hold, section 184. 
 elected when, section 6. 
 term of, section 6. 
 vacancy in office of, filled how, section 139. 
 
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 Corrupt practices- 
 
 Abduction, unlawful to use to effect voting, section 414. 
 
 penalty for, section 414. 
 Aqueduct, company not to contribute, section 400. 
 
 advertising, when may be solicited, section 399. 
 
 arrest, money not to be furnished to avoid, in consequence ©f 
 
 crime against franchise, section 403. 
 attorney, when it may be lawful by citizens to assist prosecutor 
 of the pleas, section 416. 
 Badge, only that furnished by county board to be given, section 456. 
 Ballot, changing, penalty, section 407. 
 
 election officer not to disclose name of voter, section 415. 
 when election officer not to open, section 415. 
 Bank, not to contribute, section 400. 
 
 Benevolent order, contribution by member of, section 397. 
 Betting, candidate may not, on election, section 411. 
 
 voter may not, on election, section 411. 
 Board and lodging, not to be furnished to procure votes, section 403. 
 Bribery, funds not to be furnished for, section 403. 
 Campaign fund, who may not contribute, section 400, 
 
 received and expended by committee, section 379. 
 contribution to be by public officeholder, section 397. 
 contribution by member of benevolent association, sectiea 
 
 397. 
 contribution by holder of appointive office, section 397. 
 
 Candidate, when expenditure considered that of, section 390, 
 
 amount of expenditures that may be incurred, section 389. 
 not to furnish money for acts contrary to election laws, secti<>« 
 
 395. 
 not to furnish money for commission of crime against electire 
 
 franchise, section 395. 
 not to furnish money for colonizing, section 395. 
 not to furnish money for hindering voters, section 395. 
 not to furnish money for making payments after time Hmk, 
 
 section 395. 
 disclaimer by, of payment, section 382. 
 to file names of persons to receive, expend, audit and disbwree 
 
 money, section 379. 
 to appoint a treasurer, section 379. 
 may contest result of election, section 418, 
 penalty for failure to file statement, sections 384, 412. 
 penalty for false statement, section 384. 
 statement, where filed, section 383. 
 time extended, section 429. 
 
 when set aside, not to fill vacancy, section 422. 
 effect of appointment to fill vacancy, section 422. 
 
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 Candidate, penalty for procuring unlawful expenditure by campaign com- 
 mittee, section 417, 
 withdrawal of, money not to be paid to procure, section 403. 
 not to bet on election, section 411. 
 to file personal statement, section 381. 
 Corrupt practices — 
 
 Charitable, or religious organizations, solicitation by, for contribution, sec- 
 tion 398. 
 Club or organization, solicitation by, for contribution, section 399. 
 Colonizing, money not to be furnished for, section 395. 
 Committee appointed to receive and expend campagn funds, sections 379, 
 
 380. 
 Contribution to campaign fund, who may not contribute, section 400. 
 Contribution not to be made to restrain voting, section 403. 
 
 not to be made by co-operative bank, section 400. 
 not to be made by trust company, section 400. 
 not to be made by trustee, section 400. 
 not to be made by street railway company, section 400. 
 not to be made by telephone company, section 400. 
 not to be made by telegraph company, section 400. 
 not to be made by gas company, section 400. 
 not to be made by electric light company, section 400. 
 not to be made by heat and power company, section 400^ 
 not to be made by canal company, section 400. 
 not to be made by corporation, section 400. 
 Corporation, not to threaten or use force to effect voting, section 414. 
 penalty for, section 414. 
 action against for violation, section 421. 
 Delegate, money not to be paid for endorsement by, section 403. 
 
 not to receive money, etc., in consideration of endorsement, sec- 
 tion 404. 
 ETlection officer, neglect, penalty for, section 409. 
 
 not to open ballot nor disclose name of voter, section 415. 
 Election returns, changing or mutilating, penalty, section 407. 
 
 contest for violation, defense, sections 473, 418, 419. 
 Employer, not to threaten employe as to voting, section 468. 
 pay envelopes, section 414. 
 hand-bills, section 414. 
 Employment, not to be given to restrain voting, section 403. 
 Expenditure, when considered that of candidate, section 390. 
 amount allowed candidate, section 389. 
 
 for candidate, to be made only through committee, section 394, 
 when allowed for transportation, section 391. 
 for certain purposes prohibited, section 391. 
 Elxpenses, campaign, how disbursed, section 379. 
 committee to be appointed, section 379. 
 when paid, section 385. 
 how paid, section 385. 
 how claims for presented, section 385. 
 penalty for violation, section 385. 
 
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 Corrupt practices — 
 
 Force, unlawful to use to effect voting, section 414. 
 
 penalty for force, section 414. 
 Gift, not to be made to restrain voting, section 403. 
 Hand-bill, what may not contain, section 414. 
 Interference, unlawful to use to effect voting, section 414. 
 
 penalty for, section 414. 
 Judge of the court of common pleas, presentation of claims to, section 386. 
 when allowance for expenditure for transportation may be made, sec- 
 tions 391, 392. 
 proof of necessity of transportation, section 392. 
 Loan, not to be made to restrain voting, section 403. 
 Money, not to be used to secure election, section 388. 
 
 not to be received to affect vote, section 404. ] 
 
 not to be received to refrain from voting, section 404. ! 
 
 not to be received in consideration of endorsement by delegate, ^ 
 
 section 404. 
 not to be furnished by candidate for following purposes : 
 for acts contrary to election laws, section 395. 
 for commission of crime against elective franchise, section 395. 
 for colonizing, section 395. 
 for hindering voters, section 395. 
 for withdrawing candidate, section 395. 
 . for making payments after time limit, section 395. 
 Name of contributor to be given, section 396. 
 Pay envelopes, what not to be printed on, section 414. 
 Penalty, for failure of candidate to file statement, section 384. 
 
 for procuring unlawful payment by campaign committee, section 417. 
 Polls, attendance at not to be paid for, section 401. 
 
 Printed matter, to contain name of person causing publication, section 387. 
 Prosecutor of the pleas, when to prosecute violations, section 416. 
 
 penalty for failure to prosecute, section 416. • 
 when citizen may employ attorney to assist prose- . 
 cutor, section 416. '= 
 
 powers of associate counsel, section 416. 
 Public office, holder not to contribute to campaign fund, section 397. 
 Registration, false, person registered not to permit, section 405, 
 Repeating, penalty for, sections 408-409. 
 Restraint, unlawful to use to affect voting, section 414. 
 
 penalty for, section 414- 
 Savings banks, not to contribute, section 400. 
 Statement, by candidate, where filed, section 383. 
 
 by candidate, time for filing, how extended, section 429. 
 by other offices, where filed, section 383. 
 penalty for failure to file statement, section 384. 
 penalty for false statement, section 384. 
 penalty for failing to file by candidate, section 412. 
 penalty for failing to file by treasurer, section 413. 
 Statement of campaign expenses, filed by treasurer of committee, section 380. 
 
 filed by candidate, section 381. 
 Threats, unlawful to affect voting, section 414. 
 ■ penalty to affect voting, section 414- 
 
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 Corrupt practices — 
 
 Transportation, when furnished, 391. 
 
 by application to judge of common pleas, section 392. 
 proof of necessity of, sections 391-392. 
 Voter, not to bet on elections, section 411. 
 Voting, fraudulently, penalty, section 407. 
 Watchers, when may be employed, section 39 r. 
 Witness, who competent, section 419. 
 
 attendance may be compelled. 419. 
 immunity to, section 419. 
 Counting votes, see Canvass of votes. 
 County board of elections, appointment of, section 13. 
 
 appointment of boards of registry and election by, 
 
 section 31. 
 canvass of charter elections by, section 102. 
 clerk of, his compensation, section 180. 
 compensation of, section 180. 
 constituted how, section 13. 
 delivery of registry lists to city clerk by, sectioa 
 
 27. 
 delivery of registry lists to county clerk, sec- 
 tion 281. 
 meetings to add names to and erase names from 
 
 registers, sections 25, 336. 
 members of, nominated how, section 13. 
 new municipalities, duties in, section 237. 
 oath of members of, section 16. 
 oaths administered by members of, section 16. 
 office provided for, section 13. 
 organization of, section 14. 
 revision of registers by, sections 25, 30, 336. 
 term of members of, section 13. 
 time of appointment of, section 13. 
 to issue permits for agents or challengers, section 
 
 to select from eligible list members of district 
 
 board, section 310. 
 to sit as a county board of canvassers, section 102. 
 vacancy in, filled how, section 13. 
 voter may appeal from county board to judge of 
 common pleas, section 336. 
 County canvassers, adjournment of, section 105. 
 
 board of, constituted how, section 102. 
 county board of elections to be, section 102. 
 clerk of, in absence of county clerk, section 104. 
 clerk of, oath of, section 104. 
 clerk of, who shall be, sections 102, 104. 
 constituted how, section 102. 
 decision of majority, effect of, section 117. 
 — determination of, concerning persons elected to senate, 
 
 general assembly or county or city office, sections 1 1 1 
 to 113. 
 
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 County canvassers, determination of, filed where, section iii. 
 determination of, form for, section 112. 
 dissent of member of, made how, section 117. 
 form of certificate of determination by, section 112. 
 majority of members of, constitute board of, section 105. 
 meet when and where, section 103. 
 police, power of, section 186. 
 
 proceedings on adjournment of, sections 105, 107, 
 proceedings to be public, section 117. 
 statements by, filed with secretary of state and county and 
 
 city clerks, sections no, 275. 
 statements of result of election to be made by, sections 
 
 108, 109. 
 when and where to meet, section 103. 
 who to be, section 102. 
 
 County clerk, ballots provided by, sections 49, 291. 
 
 ballots, to deliver to township and municipal clerk, section 54. 
 
 certified copies of determination of county canvassers, to fur- 
 nish to persons elected, sect ons 114, 275. 
 certified copies of determination of county canvassers, to fur- 
 nish to secretary of state, sections 114, 275. 
 
 clerk of county canvassers, sections 102, 103. 
 
 compensation and fees of, how determined and paid, section 
 179. 
 
 copy of registry list to be filed with, section 350. 
 
 determination of county canvassers, to file, section in. 
 
 distribution of election blanks, &c., by, section 61. 
 
 elected when, section 6. 
 
 election blanks, &c., furnished to board of registry and election 
 by, sections 49, 51, 54, 61. 
 
 expenses of, paid by whom, section 180, 
 
 missing statements of election, to obtain, section 106. 
 
 nomination to certify to secretary of state, section 42. 
 
 notice of election of sheriff, coroners, county clerk, register and 
 surrogate, to give, section 6. 
 
 notice of election of electors, governors and senators, to give, 
 section 5. 
 
 notice of election to fill vacancy in the legislature or congress, 
 to give, section 138. 
 
 record of delivery of ballots to keep, section 54. 
 
 statements of election, to produce before county canvassers 
 sections 103, 106. 
 
 statements of elections, during adjournment of county can- 
 vassers, to keep, section 107. 
 
 to furnish sample ballots, section 364. 
 
 to attend sessions of court of common pleas, section 284. 
 
 to certify to secretary of state return of national delegates' 
 convention primary, section 330. 
 
 to certify candidates for governor and congressman, section 343. 
 
 to certify to secretary of state results of primary election for 
 governor and congressman, section 344. 
 
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 County clerk, vacancy in office of, filled when and how, section 323, 
 
 when to send to municipal clerks list of names on primary 
 
 ticket, section 323. 
 when to deliver identification statements to district board, sec- 
 tion 355. 
 County collector, to sue persons failing to transmit statement of election to 
 
 county clerk, section 97. 
 County committee, when to take office, section 371. 
 how elected, section 245. 
 
 annual meeting of, when held, section 371. 
 chairman of, duty to nominate members to district boards 
 
 of elections, section 309. 
 chairman of, how selected, section 371. 
 filling vacancies, section 305. 
 municipal clerk to issue certificate of election to each 
 
 member of, section zi^- 
 to appoint agents or challengers, section dT^. 
 County office, contest in case of, see Contested elections. 
 County registers, vacancy in office of, filled when and how, section 139. 
 Crime, when it disqualifies a voter, section 71. 
 Crimes, 188 to 213, 328, 431. (See also Penalties.) 
 
 D. 
 
 Declination of nomination, proceedings in case of, sections 44, 45. 
 Delegate at large, how nominated, section 320. 
 
 how grouped, section 322. 
 
 how printed on primary ticket, section 321. 
 
 number of names required on petition, section 320. 
 Delegates to convention, who may vote for, section 327. 
 
 registration by affidavit for, section 382, 327-328. 
 Direct nomination at primaries, section 289. 
 Disabled voters, assistance of, section 368. 
 Disfranchisement, bribery cause for, section 438. 
 Dissent of member of board of election, how made, section 90. 
 
 county canvassers, how made, section 117. 
 state canvassers, how made, section 129. 
 District delegates, how nominated, section 321. 
 
 form of petition, section 321. 
 
 how grouped on primary ticket, section 322. 
 District, see Election district. 
 
 E. 
 
 Election, annual, in every city, town, borough, etc., held when, section 2. 
 Election blanks, books, etc., furnished by secretary of state, section 61. 
 Election blanks, books, etc., furnished by municipal clerk for local municipal 
 
 special elections, section 62. 
 Election booths, expense of providing, how paid for, section 180. 
 
 furnished how, sections 78, 369. 
 
 lighted, to be, section 78. 
 
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 Election booths, local elections, for, section 85. 
 
 manner of constructing, sections 78, 79. 
 * may be erected in street, section 8. 
 
 number of, section 78, 
 
 one person only to enter at one time, section 78. 
 provided by township or municipal clerk, section 78. 
 provided for local elections, section 85. 
 railed inclosure to be about, section 78. 
 supply of lead pencils kept in, section 78. 
 Election districts, boundary lines of, to be filed, section 307. 
 creation and readjustment of, section 306. 
 defined, section 307. 
 
 new municipalities in, sections 22)7, 306. 
 number of voters in, section 306. 
 Election in new municipalities, see N ew municipalities. 
 Election law, printed copy of, furnished by secretary of state, section 61. 
 Election officers, ineligible to what offices, section 84. 
 Election, betting on, prohibited, section 187. 
 board of, see Boards of election. 
 contested, see Contested elections. 
 effect of tie vote at, section 93, 
 expense of, paid by whom, section 180. 
 general, held when, section i. 
 municipal, see Municipal elections. 
 newly-created ward, sections 237, 237-B. 
 not to be held where intoxicating liquors are sold, section 8. 
 Elections, notice of, given l)y secretary of state, county, township and munici- 
 pal clerks, sections 6, 7. 
 open and closed, when, section 4. 
 plurality of votes sufficient for, section 93. 
 prima facie evidence of election to legislature, section 115. 
 proclamation on opening, section 66. 
 returns of, signed by board of election, section 89. 
 result of, determined how. sections 94. iii. 
 result of, to be publicly announced, section 89. 
 rooms, see Polling-rooms. 
 statement of result of. section 95. (See also Statement of result of 
 
 election.) 
 who may vote at, sections 3^, 68. 
 who to conduct, section 64 : 
 writ of, see Writ of election. 
 Electioneering within one hundred feet of polling place, penalty for. section 
 
 207, 
 Electoral college, see Presidential electors. 
 Electors of president and vice-president, chosen when, section 3. 
 
 . persons in(j;ligible as, section 183. 
 qualifications of, section 3. 
 vacancy in electoral college, how 
 filled, section 132. 
 Electors of president and vice-president, when and where to meet, section 
 
 131, 
 nominated how, section 430, 
 
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 Erasing names from register, sections 24, 25. 
 
 Error in printing ballots, correction of, section 53. 
 
 Expenses of general and primary elections, how defrayed, sections 315, 369. 
 
 Factions in political parties, names for, how selected, section 40. 
 Fees of county and municipal clerks, section 179. 
 
 of members of boards of elections, sections 270, 316, 
 
 of officers, section 180. 
 
 on recount of votes for legislature, how fixed and paid, section 161. 
 Flag, displayed at polling places, section 426. 
 
 who to furnish, section 427. 
 Federal employees may register by affidavit, section 428. 
 
 G. 
 
 General assembly, appointment of members of, amongst counties, section 237. 
 
 election of members of, section i. 
 
 prima facie evidence of election of members of, section 115. 
 
 sessions of, held where, section 115. 
 
 vacancy in, created how, section 134. 
 
 vacancy in, filled how, section 133. 
 General election, held when, section i. 
 
 Governor, appointment of county boards of election by, section 13. 
 contested election of, see Contested elections. 
 notice of election of, section 5. 
 summon state canvassers when, section 119. 
 primary election of, when tie vote at, section 344. 
 how nominated, section 342. 
 form of- petition, section 343. 
 when filed, section 343. 
 
 number of voters to file petition, section 342. 
 to be certified to county clefk, section 343. 
 vacancies, procedure, how filed, section 343. 
 
 H. 
 
 Home or institution, effect of on size, of election district, section 306. 
 House. of representatives, certificate of election of, section 130. 
 
 county clerk to certify, section 343. 
 
 election of members of, section 182. 
 
 form of petition for nomination, section 343. 
 
 members of, elected from twelve districts, section 
 239. 
 
 congressman, how nominated, section 342. 
 
 persons ineligible as members of, section 183. 
 
 congressman,, primary election of. when tie vote at, 
 section 344. 
 
 vacancy in, filled how, sections 135, 343. 
 
344 
 
 I. 
 
 Identification statements, how made, section 349. 
 
 how kept, section 349. 
 
 when to be delivered to board of elections, section 
 355. 
 
 when to be delivered to county clerk, section 355. 
 Incompatible offices, section 184. 
 "Incumbent," meaning of, section 164. 
 
 Indictments, witnesses not excused from answering questions on trial of, sec- 
 tion 213. 
 Institution or home, effect of on size of election district, section 306. 
 Instructions, &c., provided by secretary of state, section 61. 
 Insurance companies, political contributions prohibited, section 444. 
 Intoxicating liquor. (See Penalty.) 
 
 Judge of circuit court, power to transfer voter to another district, section 411. 
 Judge of court of common pleas, compensation of, section 285. 
 
 power to review appointment to district 
 board, sections 310, 311. 
 
 power to fill vacancies, section 312. 
 
 right to appoint to district board, section 
 
 314- 
 power to transfer voter to another dis- 
 trict, section 357- 
 when may review action of county board 
 
 of elections, section 336. 
 petition to, in case of appointment to dis- 
 trict board, section 314. 
 procedure under the petition, section 314. 
 power to cancel appointments to district 
 board, section 314. 
 Justices of the supreme court, compensation of, section 285. 
 
 duty of county clerk, section 284. 
 
 petition to, in case of appointment to district 
 
 board, section 314. 
 procedure under petition, section 314- 
 power to cancel appointments to district 
 
 board, section 314. 
 power of, on recount of votes, sections 159 to 
 
 161. 
 power of, to order corrections of errors in 
 
 ballots, section 53- 
 power of, to hold court of common pleas on 
 day preceding election, section 279. 
 power of, to revise and correct registry list. 
 
 section 279. 
 power of, to hold court of common pleas on 
 election day, section 380. 
 
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 Justices of the supreme court, power of, to act in a summary manner, &c., sec- 
 tion 282. 
 punishment for failure to comply with or3er 
 
 of court, section 283. 
 right to appoint to district court, section 314. 
 when may apply for registry books, section 306. 
 
 K. 
 
 Keys of ballot-box, custody of, election, sections 67, 369. 
 
 custody of, during election, sections 65, 369. 
 deposited after election with county clerk, sections 67, 
 369. 
 
 "Legal voters" defined, section 185. 
 
 Legislature, certain offices not to be held by members of, section 184. 
 
 contested election of members of, see Contested elections. 
 
 evidence of right to seats in, section 115. 
 
 vacancy in, created how, section 134. 
 
 vacancy in, filled how, section 133. 
 Local elections, sections 85, 234. (See also Charter elections.) 
 
 M. 
 
 Missing statements of election obtained how, sections 106, 124. 
 Municipal clerk, ballot-boxes, to keep, section 99. 
 
 ballots provided by, when, section 364. 
 
 certify offices to be filled at general election, section 286. 
 
 compensation of, how determined and paid, section 179. 
 
 delivery of ballots to registry or poll clerks by, section 54. 
 
 election blanks for local elections, to provide, section 62. 
 
 expenses of, paid how, sections 180, 315. 
 
 notice of time, place and purpose of elections, to give, sec- 
 tion 7. 
 
 notify board of election of location of polling-room, sec- 
 tion 8. 
 
 offices to be filled, section 286. 
 
 municipal clerk, polling-rooms, to provide, section 8. 
 
 to file description of election district, section 307. 
 
 to furnish sample ballot, section 364. 
 
 to supply sample ballots, section 334. 
 
 what supplies to be furnished to district boards, section 325. 
 
 when to be furnished, section 325. 
 
 when names on primary ticket to be sent by county clerk, 
 section 323. 
 
 duty to print primary ballots, section 324. 
 
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 Municipal elections, conducted by whom, section 64. 
 offices to be filled, section 286. 
 provisions concerning, section 85. 
 time of holding, sections 2, 294. 
 see. also Neiv municipalities. 
 
 N. 
 
 Names of different factions of parties, determined how, section 40. 
 
 National convention, delegates to, how chosen, section 317. 
 
 New municipalities, provisions concerning first election in, sections 237 to 
 
 Newspapers, notice of registration and primary election, published in what. 
 
 sections 7, 28, 275. 
 Nominating body of political party, defined, sections 38, 242. 
 
 may appoint committee to fill vacancies, 
 
 section 45. 
 name or title, how to determine in case 
 of factions, section 40, 
 Nomination of candidates, by petition, sections 41, 290. 
 
 to fill vacancy in legislature, section 274. 
 
 by political party, section 38. 
 
 certificates or petitions of, filed when and where, 
 
 section 42 ; amended how, section 235. 
 certified how, sections 39, 41. 
 made by whom, sections 38, 41. 
 objections to certificates of, section 46. 
 vacancies created by death, &c., may be filled by 
 
 committee, sections 45, 355- 
 when required to be made by petition or certifi- 
 cate, sections 85, 234. 
 Nominations, certified by secretary of state to county clerk, sections 43, 45. 
 Nominee, name of, not printed on ballots if he decline, section 44. 
 
 proceedings on declination of, sections 44, 45. 
 Notice of elections, by whom given, sections 5 to 7. 
 
 Notice of election and registry, published in what newspapers, section 7. 
 Notice of application to erase name from register, section 25. 
 
 o. 
 
 Oaths, when challenged, sections 7Z, 74- 
 
 at primary elections, section 337. 
 
 of members of county and district election boards, section 16. 
 
 who may administer, section 16. 
 
 filed where, section 16. 
 Objections to certificates of nomination, section 46. 
 Office, vacancy in, resulting from tie vote, section 93. 
 
 who deemed elected to, section 93- 
 Official ballots, see Ballots. 
 Officers' fees, section 180. 
 Offices, incompatible, section 184. ' 
 
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 Packages of ballots, sealed and delivered how and when, section 54. 
 Pasters used on ballots, description of, sections 59, 85. 
 Paupers not entitled to vote, section 450. 
 
 Penalty, advancement or payment of money or other valuable thing for bri- 
 bery, section 278. 
 
 agreement to receive money or employment for voting or refraining 
 from voting or registering, sections 205, 278. 
 
 altering or destroying statement of determination of election, sec- 
 tions 190, 278. 
 
 ballot-box robbing, sections 190, 278. 
 
 ballots, destroying, &c., sections 190, 195, 278. 
 
 board of election signing false statement, section 278. 
 bribery, sections 219, 431. 
 
 bribing delegates, sections 218, 278. 
 
 bribing persons to vote or refrain from voting or registering, sec- 
 tions 202, 203, 431. 
 
 compulsory testimony, section 436. 
 
 conspiracy to induce voters to mark ballots, sections 200, 278. 
 
 county canvassers, unlawful acts of chairman or clerk of, section 278. 
 
 destroying registry list, sections 209, 278. 
 
 disfranchisement of voter; when, sections 212, 278. 
 
 electioneering within one hundred feet of polls, sections 207, 278. 
 
 employment, &c., promise of, to voter, sections 203, 278, 323, 438. 
 
 failure to transmit statement of election to county clerk, &c., sec- 
 tions 97, 2TJ 
 
 false registration of voters, sections 33, 34, 278. 
 
 false swearing, sections 188, 278. 
 
 falsely personating a registered voter, sections 34, 278. 
 
 falsely making or altering certificate of nomination or ballot, sec 
 tions 195, 278. 
 
 falsely swearing to affidavit of registration, sections 35, 278. 
 
 gift, loan or promise made to vote, section 438. 
 
 giving ballots to other than county or municipal clerks, by printer, 
 sections 199, 278. 
 
 inducing person to vote or refrain from voting or registering, sec- 
 tions 202, 278. 
 
 intimidating workmen or employes, sections 206, 278, 434, 435. 
 
 intoxicating liquor, duty or peace officers, sections 194, 278. 
 
 intoxicating liquor, having it in polling place, sections 193, 278. 
 
 intoxicating liquor, selling, sections 192, 278. 
 
 marking ballot, sections 198, 200, 278. 
 
 obstructing officer carrying ballot-box to city clerk, sections 10 1, 278. 
 
 obstructing voter, sections 207, 278. 
 
 primary meeting, illegal voting at, sections 215, 278. 
 
 printing ballots in form other than that prescribed by county or 
 municipal clerk, sections 199, 278. 
 
 receiving illegal votes, sections 33, 75, 278. 
 
 registry list, removing, sections 209, 278. 
 
 removing ballots or pencils from booths, sections 196, 278. 
 
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 Penalty, revealing how any person has voted, sections 201, 278. 
 robbing ballot-box, sections 190, 278. 
 showing ballot within polling-room, sections 198, 278. 
 soliciting money, &c., from candidates, section 278. 
 soliciting voter to show his ballot within one hundred feet of poll- 
 ing place, sections 198, 278. 
 / statement, of result of election, altering, section 190. 
 
 ( violation of duty by any public officer, section 278. 
 
 voting by persons convicted of crime, section 71. 
 voting by other than official ballot, sections 198, 278. 
 Permits to challengers or agents, section 63. 
 Petition of nomination, contents of, sections 41, 290, 292, 293. 
 
 filed, when and where, sections 42, 302, 343, 347, 425. 
 number of signers required, sections 41, 290, 292, 
 
 295, 300, 320, 340, 342. 
 open for public inspection, section 42, 
 verified by oath, section 41. 
 Police officers, appointment of, at elections, section 83. 
 detailed at elections, section 83. 
 
 duty to arrest persons selling liquor on election day, section 
 194. 
 Police power of board of election, county and state canvassers, sections 83. 
 Political contributions by insurance companies prohibited, section 444. 
 Poll-book, deposited in ballot-box after election, sections 67, 99. 
 
 deposited in ballot-box on adjournment before close of election, 
 
 section 77. 
 entry at foot of list of voters in, section 86. 
 entry at heading of list of voters in, section 67. 
 entry on adjournment before close of election, section 77. 
 kept by whom and how, sections 67, 351. 
 when to be compared with registry list, section 351. 
 Polling-rooms, arrangement of, sections 78, 79. 
 
 provided how and when, sections 8, 85, 325. 
 who allowed within, section 78. 
 Polls, public proclamation of opening to be made, section 66. 
 
 time during which they shall be kept open, section 4. 
 President, candidate for, how nominated, section 331. 
 form of petition, section 331. 
 number of petition, section 331. 
 when petition filed, section 331. 
 declination of candidate, section 331. 
 how voted, section 331. 
 Presidential and vice-presidential candidates may be included in certificate of 
 
 nomination, section 47. 
 Presidential electors, certificate of election of, section 130. 
 elected when, section 3. 
 nomination, how,^ section 430. 
 notice of election of, section 5. 
 persons eligible as, section 183. 
 qualifications of, section 3. 
 time and place of meeting of, section 131. 
 vacancy in office, how filled, section 132. 
 
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 Primary elections, appropriations on ballot, section 288. 
 
 ballot-boxes for, section 241. 
 
 ballot-boxes for, delivery to election officers, section 251. 
 
 ballot-boxes at, number of, section 251. 
 
 ballot-boxes at, how constructed, section 251. 
 ballots for, how prepared, sections 241, 248, 290, 291. 
 
 ballots for, number of, section 249. 
 
 ballots for, delivery to election officers, section 250. 
 
 how ballot voted, section 346. 
 
 ballots for, errors in, how corrected, section 257. 
 ' ballots, official, for, section 241. 
 
 ballots, unofficial, used at, section 261. 
 
 ballots, schedule of appropriation may be placed thereon, 
 section 288. 
 
 books open for inspection, section 252. 
 
 candidates at, acceptance of nomination, section 244. 
 
 candidate at, how nominated, sections 241, 290. 
 
 candidate for single ward of township, how selected, sec- 
 tion 256. 
 
 canvassing ballots at, sections 241, 254, 330. 
 
 challenges at, sections 241, 252. 
 
 challengers at, who may be, sections 252, 264. 
 
 city committee elected at, section 245. 
 
 clerk of municipality to provide booths, voting places, &c., 
 section 250. 
 
 clerk to deliver ballots, ballot-boxes, &c., section 251. 
 
 conducted at public expense, section 241. 
 
 conducted by whom, sections 241, 252, 329. 
 
 contested elections at convention how determined, section 
 255- 
 
 conventions, time and place of holding, section 255. 
 
 county clerk to give notice of preference of U. S. sena- 
 tor, section 295. 
 
 county committees, elected at, section 245. 
 
 delegates to conventions for, sections 240, 241. 
 
 delegates, who to be declared elected at, section 255. 
 
 designation of ticket, how made, section 340. 
 
 delegates, credentials of, section 255. 
 
 errors in ballots for, how corrected, section 257. 
 
 erasing names from, sections 24, 25. 
 
 expression of vote for U. S. seriator, sections 294, 295, 
 341- 
 
 first registry day, when held, section 333. 
 
 where held, section 333. 
 
 held for all parties at same time and place, section 241. 
 
 held when, sections 241, 252, 326. 
 
 how candidates may be grouped on ticket, section 340. 
 
 how defective petition remedied, section 347. 
 
 hours of election, section 337. 
 
 lists, how made, section 338. 
 
 manner of voting at, sections 241, 337. 
 
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 Primary elections, nomination of candidates for, sections 240, 241, 301, 33J, 
 
 425. 
 nomination, acceptance of, necessary to place name on 
 
 ballot, section 301. 
 notice of, given by poll clerks, section 252. 
 notification of candidate by county clerk when petition de- 
 fective, section 347. 
 
 oath in case of challenge at, sections 241, 252. 
 official oath of election officers, section 252. 
 official ballots for, section 241. 
 
 party registration of voters at, sections 241, 252, 268. 
 penalty for illegal voting at, section 215. 
 petition to place name on ticket, section 243. 
 petition nominating candidates and delegates, form of, sec- 
 tion 243. 
 petition nominating candidates and delegates, acceptance 
 
 of, section 244. 
 places for holding, section 241. 
 "political party" defined, section 242. 
 polling booths for, section 241. 
 
 preference for U. S. senator, sections 294, 298, 341. 
 qualifications to vote at, section 337. 
 receipts for ballots and ballot-boxes, section 251. 
 registration of voters at, sections 241, 252, 337, 
 registry lists for, sections 241, 333. 
 result filed with county clerk, sections 291, 295, 340. 
 returns canvassed by county clerk, sections 291, 295, 340. 
 schedule of appropriation on, section 288. 
 statement by state senator, section 341. 
 statements of results of, sections 241, 254, 270. 
 statements of candidates filed with county clerk, section 
 
 341. 
 unofficial ballots at, section 261. -^ 
 vacancy by death or declination, how filled, sections 256, 
 
 258, 259, 305. 
 voter at, who may be, sections 214, 241. 
 voter may vote for any persons not on party ticket, sec- 
 tion 253. 
 voter not to s'gn petitions for two parties, section 260. 
 voter not to vote in box of but one party, sections 252, 
 
 260. 
 when tie vote for governor at primary, section 344. 
 when tie vote for congressman at primary, section 344. 
 who may vote, section 332. 
 Probable violation of act, hov/ investigated, section 211. 
 Proclamation on opening election to be made, section 66. 
 Propositions or questions submitted to 'vote of people, canvassed how, sec- 
 tions 185, 417. 
 Propositions or questions submitted printed on official ballots, section 363. 
 
251 
 
 R. 
 
 Railed inclosure, ballot-boxes to be within, section 78. 
 
 constructed about election booths, section 78. 
 single enti-y and exit provided for, section 78. 
 who allowed within, sections 63, 78. 
 Recount of votes, sections 159 to 161. 
 Register of voters, addition to, on affidavit, section 24. 
 
 copies of, posted in each district, sections 24, 26. 
 copy of, filed with city, township or municipal clerk, sec- 
 tion 24. 
 copy of, filed with county board, sections 24, zd. 
 delivery of, to city clerk for charter election, section 2t. 
 disposition of checked register after election, section 67. 
 erasing names from, sections 24, 25. 
 filed after election, with county clerk, section dT. 
 for charter elections in cities having over 5,000 inhabit- 
 ants, section 26. 
 for local elections, correction of, by county board of elec- 
 tions, section 30. 
 for local elections, correction of, by election board, sec- 
 tion 29. 
 in cities having over 5,000 inhabitants, sections 2(i to 28. 
 
 kept by whom and how on election day, section 67. 
 manner of making, section 24. 
 
 no person to vote whose name is not on, section 33- 
 notice of, published in what newspaper, section 7. 
 preserved for five years, section 298. 
 revision and correction of, by county board of election, 
 
 section 25. 
 right of persons to be freely heard concerning, section z^. 
 to be sold as waste paper, section 299. 
 Register of deeds, elected when, section 6. 
 
 vacancy in office of, how filled, section 159. 
 Registry book, when kept, section 349. 
 form of, section 349. 
 signature by voter, section 349. 
 questions to be answered by voter, section 349. 
 when voter is unable to write, section 349. 
 certified by board of elections, section 349. 
 list to be printed, section 349. 
 questions to be printed, section 349. 
 identification statements, section 349. 
 preservation of, section 298. 
 Registry day, first, when held, sections 533, 335. 
 where held, section 333. 
 second, when held, section 337. 
 third, when, section 348. 
 Registry list, form of, section 350. 
 
 investigation of, by chief of police, section 350. 
 to be furnished chief of police, section 350. 
 
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 Registry list, to be furnished county clerk, section 350. 
 to be publicly exposed, section 350. 
 shall be two, section 332. 
 what shall contain, section 332. 
 when to be furnished any voter, section 350. 
 where kept, sections 350, 351. 
 Registration, for national delegate conventions, how made, sections 327, 328. 
 voting at primary shall register, section 337. \ 
 
 when required, section 348. 
 affidavit, section 348. 
 third registry day, when, section 348. 
 Registry, notice of, published in what newspapers, section 7. 
 Registry and election, boards of, see Boards of election. 
 Removal of voter, certificate in case of, sections 356, 357, 411, 
 Residence, length of, in election district of applicant for district board, sec- 
 tion 313. 
 Result of election, see Statement of result of election. 
 Rooms, polling, see Polling-rooms. 
 
 Secretary of state, certificate of election of representatives and presidential 
 electors, duty concerning, section 130. 
 certified copies of determination of state canvassers, to 
 
 give to persons elected, section 127. 
 copies of special election acts, to print, section 446, 447. 
 election blanks, to furnish, section 61. 
 may be summoned to produce papers before state can- 
 vassers, section 125. 
 messenger for missing statements of election, to commis- 
 sion and send, sections 118, 124. 
 missing statements of elections, to obtain, section 118. 
 nominations, to certify, to county clerks, sections 43, 
 
 45, 295. 
 notice of election of electors, congressmen, governor and 
 
 senator, to give, section 5. 
 papers to produce before state canvassers, sections 118, 
 
 123. 
 statements of result of election, to file, section 128. 
 when to canvass result of primary election, section 344. 
 when to deliver identification statements, section 355. 
 Senate, prima facie evidence of election of member of, what is, section 115. 
 sessions of, held where, section 115. 
 vacancy in, created how, section 134, 
 vacancy in, filled how, section 133. 
 Senator, notice of election of, section 5. 
 
 state, statement by, relative to U. S. senator, section 341. 
 Sheriff, certain offices not to hold, section 184. 
 
 duty of, to arrest persons selling liquor on election day, section 6. 
 
 term of, section 6. 
 
 vacancy in office of, how filled, section 139. 
 
 when elected, section 6. 
 
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 Soldiers and sailors, affidavit of, section 222. 
 
 affidavit of person authorized to cast ballot, section 228. 
 affidavit and envelope of, filed when, section 226. 
 ballot of, inclosed in envelope, section 223. 
 ballot of, transmitted to elector authorized to cast it, sec- 
 tion 223. 
 ballot of, when not deposited in ballot-box, section 225. 
 blanks for, prepared and forwarded by secretary of state, 
 
 section 232. 
 delivery of envelope and contents to election board, sec- 
 tion 225. 
 3uty of election board, section 225. 
 inner envelope inclosing ballot of, printing on, section 
 
 223. 
 instrument of authority to cast vote, form of, section 
 
 224. 
 instrument of authority to cast vote, inclosed in inner 
 
 envelope, section 223. 
 instrument of authority to cast vote, how verified, sec- 
 tion 221. 
 outer envelope, how marked, section 223, 
 outer envelope, opened by whom, section 225. 
 penalty for intimidating, section 231. 
 penalty for presenting false t»allot to board of election, 
 
 section 230. 
 penalty for violation of duty by board of election, sec- 
 tion 229. 
 postmaster to take receipts for envelopes delivered, sec- 
 tion 227. 
 right of, to vote, section 220. 
 
 vote of, may be cast by authorized elector, section 221. 
 Special elections, blanks and books furnished by whom, section 62. 
 
 when and how held and conducted, sections 140, 274, 275. 
 payment of expenses of, sections 303. 304- 
 State canvassers, appointment of, section 119. 
 
 basis of determination by, section 126. 
 chairman of, who to be, section 119- 
 
 chairman may summon secretary of state with papers, sec- 
 tion 125. 
 clerk of, who to be, section 119. 
 clerk of, in case of absence of secretary of state, section 
 
 121. 
 composed how, sections 119. 122. 
 
 copies of determination of, delivered to persons elected, sec- 
 tion 127. 
 determination of persons elected by, sections 133, 126. 
 dissent of members of, how made, section 129. 
 may summon secretary of state to produce papers, section 
 
 125. 
 meet when, section 119. 
 oath of clerk of, section 121. 
 oath of members of, section 120. 
 
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 State canvassers, police power of, section i86. 
 
 proceedings of, to be public, section 129. 
 statement of result of election, to make, sections 123, 126. 
 statement of determination, to make, sections 123, 126. 
 statements made by, filed with secretary of state, section 
 
 123. 
 statements laid before, when, section 123. 
 statements produced before, to be filed with secretary of 
 
 state, section 128. 
 vacancies in board of, filled how, section 122. 
 State committee, how chosen, section 370. 
 Statement of result of election, by board of election, form of, section 95. 
 
 by board of election, copy of transmitted to 
 
 township or city clerk, section 96, 
 by county canvassers, sections 108, 109. 
 by county canvassers, filed with county and 
 city clerk and secretary of state, section 
 no. 
 by county canvassers, form of, section 109. 
 by state canvassers, section 123. 
 county clerk to send for missing statements, 
 
 section io6. 
 custody of, during adjournment of county 
 canvassers, section 107. 
 delivery of, ordered by justice of supreme 
 
 court, section 98. 
 obtained how, vvhen not properly forwarded 
 to county clerk or secretary of state, sec- 
 tion 106. 
 penalty for altering or destroying, section 
 
 190. 
 penalty for failure to transmit, section 97. 
 produced before county canvassers filed with 
 
 county clerk, section 116. 
 secretary of state to send for, when, section 
 
 124. 
 transmitted to county clerk, section 96. 
 transmitted to secretary^ of state by board of 
 
 election, section 96. 
 transmitted to secretary of state by county 
 
 canvassers, section, no. 
 transmitted to township or municipal clerk, 
 section 96. 
 Street, erection of polling-room in, section 8. 
 Suffrage, right of, section 450. 
 
 Supplies, when to be furnished by municipal clerk, section 325. 
 Surrogates, elected when, section 6. 
 
 vacancy in office of, how fillr ], section 139. 
 
 T. 
 
 Tally papers deposited in ballot-box, section 99- 
 
 Tie vote, effect of, section 93. 
 
 Towns, manner of conducting elections, sections 64, 85. 234. 
 
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 Township clerk, ballot-boxes, to keep, section 99. 
 
 delivery of ballots and envelopes to election clerks by, sec- 
 tion 54. 
 election blanks for local elections, to provide, section 62. 
 envelopes furnished by, when, section 85. 
 expenses of, how paid, section 180. 
 fees of, section 179. 
 Township clerk, notice of time, place and purposes of all elections, to give, 
 section 7. 
 notify board of election of location of polling-room, sec- 
 tion 8. 
 polling-rooms, to provide, section 8. 
 Township elections, ballots for, provided how, section 85. 
 
 distinguishing marks on ballot or envelope prohibited, 
 
 section 85. 
 election booths, provided for, section 85. 
 envelopes for, provided how, section 85. 
 held and conducted by whom, section 64. 
 held where, section 85. 
 
 manner of conducting election, section 85. 
 nomination of candidates by petition or certificates not 
 
 required, sections 85, 234. 
 notice of meeting for revision of registers for, section 
 
 29. 
 registration of voters for, section 29. 
 revision and correction of register for, section 29. 
 resulut of, how ascertained, section 94. 
 suitable room provided for by township clerk, section 85. 
 unofficial ballots used at, section 85. 
 what provisions not applicable to, sections 85, 234. 
 Township office, contest in case of, see Contested elections. 
 Transfer, certificate of, to vote at primary, section 337. 
 
 when voters may transfer to another district, sections 356. 357. 
 
 u. 
 
 U. S. senator, preference for, sections 294, 297. 341. 
 vacancy, how filled, section 445. 
 
 Vacancy in board of registry and election, j51Ied how, sections 17, 312. 
 electoral college, filled how, section 132. 
 house of representatives, filled how, section 135. 
 candidate for governor and congressman, how filled, section 343. 
 legislature or congress, copies of writs of election to fill, deliv- 
 ered to county clerks, section 137. 
 legislature or congress, notice of election to fill, section 138. 
 nominations filled how, sections 45, 305. 
 office, caused by a tie vote, section 93. 
 
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 Vacancy in office of sheriff, coroner, county clerk, register or surrogate, filled 
 how, section 139. 
 on primary ticket, how filled, 424, 425. 
 senate or general assembly, created how, section 134. 
 senate or general assembly, filled how, section 133. 
 state board of canvassers, filled how, section 122. 
 U. S. Senator, how filled, section 445. 
 Villages, charter elections in, section 
 
 Voters, bl'ndness or physical disability, provision in case of, section 368. 
 certificate of transfer of, sections 356, 357. 
 disqualified by certain crimes, section 71. 
 
 freedom of, from arrest on civil process on election day, section 70. 
 legal, defined, section 185. 
 Voters may vote for any person not on party ticket by writing name on, 
 section 244. 
 must receive ballot from board of election and enter booth before 
 
 voting, sectionfj 80, 366. 
 must sign name at time of registration, section 349. 
 must state his residence, section 67. 
 must vote where, section 69. 
 name of, checked off on register, section dT. 
 name of, to be publicly announced on tendering vote, section 68. 
 persons unable to read and write to be assisted in preparation of 
 
 ballot, section 368. 
 procedure if unable to read and write, section 352. 
 right of, to be freely heard concerning registry, section 32. 
 right to vote though name has been checked on register, section 82, 
 who may exercise the right of, sections zZi 68, 450. 
 who may vote after hour for closing, section 78. 
 Voting, method of, section 366. 
 
 W. 
 
 Witnesses compelled to testify in bribery cases, though answers may crimi- 
 nate them, section 213. 
 Writ of election to fill vacancy, sections 274, 275. 
 
 duty of secretary of state as to, section 137- 
 
 filed where, section 137. 
 
 in house of representatives, section 135. 
 
 in legislature, section 133, 
 
 nature and contents of, section 136. 
 
 notice of, published how, section 138. 
 
INSTRUCTIONS 
 
 TO 
 
 OFFICERS AND VOTERS 
 
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Instructions Relative to the Duties of 
 Officers and Voters 
 
 (Text of Law to be Consulted in all Cases.) 
 
 1. DATES OF GENERAL AND PRIMARY ELECTIONS. 
 
 The general election is held annually on Tuesday next after the first Mon- 
 day in November. Sections i. General Primary Election on fourth Tuesday in 
 September. Section 337- 
 
 II. THE GOVERNOR. 
 
 The Gocernor shall commission two members of each county board of elec- 
 tion, annually, upon the nomination, if made within the month of June, of the 
 chairmen of the State committee of the two political parties. If the chairmen 
 fail to nominate, the Governor shall commission men of his own selection. The 
 appointment is made in the month of July of each year. Section 13. 
 
 In case of the death or disability of any member of a county board of regis- 
 tration, the Governor shall cause notice of such death or disability to be given 
 to the chairman of the proper political party. Section 13. 
 
 The Governor shall be chairman of the State board of canvassers. Section iiq. 
 (See State Canvassers.) 
 
 In case of contest of election of Governor, the matter is tried and determined 
 before a committee of the Senate and General Assembly. Sections 141 to 152. 
 
 The Governor shall be a member of State convention in each year when no 
 Governor is to be elected. Section 370. 
 
 Party's candidate for Governor shall be member of State convention. Sec- 
 tion 370. 
 
 III. THE SECRETARY OF STATE. 
 
 The Secretary of State, at least fifteen days before the election, shall make 
 and certify to the county clerks of the several counties a statement of all the 
 candidates nominated in any certificate or petition filed with him ; and also of 
 the names of the candidates for President and Vice-President of the United 
 States, if any such have been included, &c. Section 43. (See Form No. 4.) He 
 shall also certify to the county clerks the names of candidates nominated to fill 
 
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 vacancies. Section 45. Thirty days before primary election voters may file peti- 
 tion with Secretary of State for the purpose of nominating candidate for Gover- 
 nor ; at least one thousand petitioners necessary. Section S4-- Thirty days be- 
 fore primary election not less than two hundred voters may petition Secretary of 
 State to nominate member of Congress in any district not confined to a single 
 county. Sections 342 and 343. Secretary of State shall canvass result of primary 
 election to choose candidates for Governor and for members of Congress not 
 wholly within a single county, and shall certify such names to the clerk of each 
 county interested. Section 344. 
 
 The Secretary of State shall cause to be printed, and at least ten days before 
 any primary, special or general election at which any question or proposition is 
 to be submitted, shall deliver to each county clerk the necessary number of copies 
 of the printed matter designated by the Attorney-General. Sections 420 and 
 421. 
 
 IV. COUNTY CLERK. 
 
 The county clerk shall file in his office the official oaths or affirmations of the 
 county board of elections and of the boards of registry and elections. Section id- 
 He shall pass upon the validity of objections to certificates of nominations 
 ■filed with him, unless an order shall be made in the matter by a court. Section 
 46. He shall select name or title in case of party division, or when two or more 
 conventions of the same party claim to be regular. Section 40. When a candi- 
 date declines a nomination, the clerk shall notify the chairman and secretary 
 who signed the certificate, or five of the persons who signed the petition of nomi- 
 nation. Section 44. He shall, within five days before election, certify to the 
 Secretary of State all candidates for State Senate and General Assembly. Sec- 
 tion 42. (See Form No. 5.) 
 
 He shall deliver canvassing, poll, registry and instruction-books, blanks for 
 oaths and returns, &c., to the boards of registry and election. Section 61. 
 
 He shall have ballots in his possession at least five days before the election. 
 Section 53. 
 
 He shall not print on the ballots the name of any candidate who fails to accept 
 his nomination (Section 42) nor the name of any candidate who declines his 
 nomination. Section 44. He shall allow the ballots to be inspected and exam- 
 ined by candidates and their agents, and when mistakes are discovered shall cause 
 new ballots to be printed without delay and shall destroy inaccurate or incom- 
 plete ballots. Section 53. 
 
 The county clerk, within fifteen days after receiving from the Secretary of 
 State notice of the election of a State Senator, Governor, electors of President 
 and Vice-President, or members of the House of Representatives, shall cause a 
 certified copy of the notice to be delivered to the clerk of each township and 
 municipality in the county. Section 5. He shall also, between August ist and 
 September ist in each year, when a sheriff, coroner, county clerk, register of 
 deeds or surrogate is to be elected, cause to be delivered to each township and 
 municipal clerk in his county a notice of the election of such officer. Section 6. 
 (See Form No. 2.) 
 
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 He shall be clerk of the county board of canvassers. Section 102. Shall lay 
 before such board all statements of election received by him and obtain missing 
 statements by special messenger or otherwise. Sections 103, io6- Special mes- 
 sengers, when employed, shall be commissioned, in writing, and shall exhibit 
 their commissions to the persons to whom they shall apply for such statements. 
 Section 124. (See Form No. 25.) All statements produced and laid before the 
 county board of canvassers shall be filed by him. Section 116. He shall also file 
 the determination of such board {Section in), and shall deliver a copy of such 
 determination, certified under his hand and the county seal, to each person de- 
 clared to be elected as State Senator, Assemblyman, sheriff, coroner or other 
 county officer. Section 114. He shall also send a similar certified copy to the 
 Secretary of State within five days after the meeting of the board. Section 114, 
 He shall also file the certificate of any Justice of the Supreme Court made on a 
 recount of votes, and send a certified copy thereof to the Secretary of State with- 
 in five days, and deliver a like certified copy to the person declared elected. 
 Section 160. 
 
 Vacancies in the office of the county clerk are filled at the general election next 
 succeeding the happening thereof. Section 139. 
 
 The county clerk shall audit and approve itemized bills for costs, charges and 
 expenses. Section 180. 
 
 Twenty-five days before primary election, not less than two hundred voters, 
 in any Congressional district lying wholly within a single county, may file with 
 the county clerk a petition to nominate candidate for Congress lor primary elec- 
 tion. Section 343. County clerks shall canvass returns of primary election for 
 members of Congress in districts lying wholly within a single county. Section 
 344. County clerks shall transmit to Secretary of State the results of primary 
 election for Governor and for members of Congress lying in districts wholly 
 within a single county. Section 344. County clerks shall print the names cer- 
 tified to him by the Secretary of State as having been nominated for Governor 
 and for member of Congress, on the official ballot. Section 344. County clerks 
 shall, in all municipalities of more than five thousand population, forthwith cause 
 copies of registry lists to be printed and supply not less than five copies of such 
 lists to each election district and to the chief of police thereof, and shall also 
 furnish copies of such list to anyone applying for them, charging therefor. Sec- 
 tion 350. County clerks shall, ten days before election, furnish municipal clerks 
 with a sufficient number of sample ballots and stamped envelopes. Section 364. 
 
 V. TOWNSHIP, CITY AND MUNICIPAL CLERKS. 
 
 The clerk of every township, city or other municipality is required to put ad- 
 vertisements at least eight days prior to, and within thirty days next preceding, 
 the election, in at least five of the most public places within the township or 
 municipality, which advertisements shall make known the time, place and pur- 
 pose of holding the election, and the office or offices to be filled thereat, and shall 
 be signed by such clerk, (See Form No. 3.) He shall also cause notice to be 
 published, in not more than two of the newspapers in the county at least two 
 weeks preceding the primary election, a notice setting forth that the board of 
 registry and election, in and for each election district in such municipality, will 
 meet for the purpose of making a registration of voters ; and that the primary 
 
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 election of delegates to conventions of political parties, or for making nomina- 
 tions, will be held on the date, and between the hours and at the places pro- 
 vided in this act, also making known the time, place and purpose of holding the 
 general election. Section 7. 
 
 The township or municipal clerk shall file all statements of election delivered 
 to him by any board of election. Sections 94, 96. He shall also have the custody 
 of the ballot-boxes after election, but not of the keys thereto. Sections 67, 99. 
 In cities, each city clerk shall keep a record of the exact time of the delivery 
 to him of each ballot-box, and of the election officers and persons making the de- 
 livery. Section 99. He shall, in cities having over 5,000 inhabitants, also publish 
 notice of meetings of district boards to prepare registers for charter elections. 
 Section 28. 
 
 In township or municipal elections, the township or municipal clerk is required 
 to discharge the same duties as are devolved in other elections upon the county 
 clerk in the matters of selecting names for parties in cases of division, or two 
 or more conventions {Section 40) ; when a candidate declines a nomination (Sec- 
 tion 44) ; and in passing upon objections to certificates of nomination. Section 
 46. For such elections he shall also furnish at his office the necessary canvass- 
 ing-books, poll-books, registry-books and blanks. Section 62. 
 
 If the official ballots are not delivered at the time specified, or should be de- 
 stroyed or stolen, and other official ballots cannot be obtained in time, he shall 
 cause other ballots to be prepared, &c. Section 55. 
 
 He shall also provide, before the date of the first meeting of the board of regis- 
 try and election, a suitable room in each election district in which to make and 
 revise the register of voters and to hold the electjon, and give notice of the 
 location thereof to the board of election (Section 8 ; see Form No. 6) ; shall have 
 the booths or compartments, &c., constructed therein, as described, and shall pro- 
 vide the same with lights so that they may be kept at all hours well and suffi- 
 ciently lighted. Sections 78, 79. He may, if in his judgment it is best so to do, 
 cause booths to be erected in the street; but elections , shall not be held in any 
 bar-room. Section 8. 
 
 He shall, on the day preceding the election and on Saturday preceding when 
 tthe election is on Monday, deliver each sealed package of ballots received by 
 him from the county clerk, to one of the clerks of each election district in his 
 township or municipality for which the same has been prepared, and shall take 
 a receipt therefor. Section 54. 
 
 He shall also audit and approve itemized bills for costs, charges and expenses. 
 Sections 180, 315. 
 
 Said clerks shall preserve poll-books and primary books, and shall deliver the 
 same to district board of registry and election for use on registry day of the fol- 
 lowing year. Section 333. Said clerks shall deliver suitable registry books for 
 primary day. Section 333. They shall furnish sample ballots and stamped en- 
 velopes one week before prim.ary day. Section 334. Municipal clerks may be 
 requested by any candidate regularly nominated for primary election, to print not 
 more than six words on the primary ticket indicating any official policy he may 
 be pledged to. Section 340. They shall deliver to district board of registry and 
 election, sample ballots and stamped envelopes on or before Tuesday preceding 
 general election day. Section 364' 
 
 He shall furnish for each election district an American Flag to be displayed 
 during the hours when the boards of registry and election are in session. Sec- 
 tion 427. 
 
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 VI. GOVERNING BOARDS OF MUNICIPALITIES. 
 
 Governing boards of municipalities shall adjust boundary lines of election 
 districts and file descriptions. Sections 306, 307. 
 
 Board having charge of the finances of municipalities shall provide for the 
 expenses of carrying out the provisions of Chapter 183, Laws of 191 1 (Geran 
 act.) Section 315- 
 
 VII. CHAIRMAN OF STATE COMMITTEE. 
 
 The chairman of the State committee of each of the two largest political par- 
 ties may nominate two citizens in each county as members of the county board 
 of election. Section 13. 
 
 VIII. CHAIRMAN OF COUNTY POLITICAL COMMITTEES. 
 
 The chairman of each county committee of political parties entitled to nomi- 
 nate candidates at direct primaries, shall certify list of names, from which are 
 appointed members of the district board of registry and election, to the Civil 
 Service Commission on or before the first day of May. Section 309. 
 
 IX. COUNTY COMMITTEE. 
 
 Members of county committee of each political party are to be elected at the 
 primary election (Section 245) and shall take office on the first Tuesday follow- 
 ing their election. Section 371. 
 
 X. STATE COMMITTEE. 
 
 At the September primaries of the year, wherein a Governor is to be elected, 
 a member of the State committee of each political "party shall be elected in each 
 county. The term of office of said members shall be three years. Section 370. 
 
 XI. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. 
 
 It shall have charge of the examination of candidates for members of the dis- 
 trict board of registry and election. Sections 309 to 314 inclusive. 
 
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 XII. JUDGES OF COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. 
 
 Judge of the Court of Common Pleas shall receive from the Civil Servic* 
 Commission certificate of names of persons eligible for appointment on district 
 board of registry and election before twentieth day of August. Section 310. 
 
 Such judge or judges shall preside at the drawing for members of the dis- 
 trict board and direct the proceedings. Section 311. 
 
 Such judge or judges shall fill all vacancies arising in district board of regis- 
 try and election. Section 312, 
 
 Such judge or judges, or any judge hearing a case in the Circuit Court, shall 
 hear complaints regarding the fitness or eligibility of persons chosen to serve 
 on county boards and summarily determine such questions. Section 314. 
 
 Judge of Court of Common Pleas to review action of county board in revising 
 primary list. Section 336. 
 
 Judge of Court of Common Pleas or Justice of Supreme Court may issue cer- 
 tificates directing the transfer of a voter from the registry list in one district to 
 that of another. Section 357. 
 
 He shall have power to hold Court of Common Pleas on the day preceding 
 election to revise and correct the registry lists. Section 2y<). And on election 
 day to inquire in a summary way whether voter whose vote has been refused or 
 rejected by any district board of election is entitled to vote in such election dis- 
 trict. Section 280. 
 
 XIII. NOMINATIONS OF CANDIDATES. 
 
 Di£Ferent Methods of Nomination — 
 
 Candidates of all political parties which, at the last election, cast five per cent, 
 or more of the total number of votes, shall be nominated at primaries conducted 
 at public expense. (See Primary Elections) Parties casting more than two per 
 cent, and less than five per cent, may nominate by party convention. Section 38. 
 Those parties casting less than two per cent, may nominate by petition. Sec- 
 tion 41. 
 
 By Petition of Legal Voters — 
 
 Candidates for State offices, and for offices in a political division less than the 
 State, may also be nominated and have their names printed upon the official ballot 
 upon petition signed by legally-qualified voters equal in number to at least two 
 per centum of the entire vote cast for members of the General Assembly at the 
 last preceding general election in the State, county, district or other political 
 division ; provided, that no more than eight hundred names shall be required for 
 each candidate named for a State office, and not more than one hundred names 
 for any candidate for any office in a political division less than the State, and 
 that in the case of a newly-established election district, county, city or other 
 political division, fifty signatures shall be sufficient to a petition nominating can- 
 didates for the first election. Section 41. (See Form I^o. 10.) 
 
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 Vacancies — How Filled- 
 
 To fill vacancies, when a candidate declines or dies before election, or the cer- 
 tificate of nomination is insufficient or inoperative, the nomination shall be made 
 in the manner required for original nominations. Section 45. (See Forms Nos. 
 p and II. 
 
 Committees, when so empowered by conventions, may fill such vacancies. Sec- 
 tion 45. 
 
 When Certificate of Nomination Shall Be Filed — 
 
 All nominations, whether by convention or by petition, shall be certified in 
 form prescribed (Sections 39, 41; see Forms Nos. 8, 9, 10 and 11), and shall be 
 filed as follows : For State officers and members of Congress, in d'stricts embrac- 
 ing more than one county, with the Secretary of State twenty-five days before 
 election ; all certificates and petitions naming candidates to be voted for by all 
 the voters of a single county or more than a single political division thereof, o'r 
 where candidates for city offices are to be voted for upon the county ticket, shall 
 be filed with the clerks of the respective counties wherein the officers nomi- 
 nated are to be voted for at least thirty days prior to such election ; all other 
 certificates and petitions shall be filed with the clerks of the respective munici- 
 palities wherein the candidates nominated are to be chosen at least twenty-five 
 days before the election whereat they are to be voted for. Section 42. 
 
 Amendment of Certificates and Petitions — 
 
 Certificates and petitions of nomination may be amended, in form or substance, 
 at any time after having been filed, not later than five days before the election. 
 Section 235. 
 
 Acceptance of Nomination — 
 
 Candidates must accept their nominations in writing and file the acceptances 
 with the certificates of nomination. Section 42. (See Forms Nos. 8, p and 10.) 
 
 When Nomination by Petition or Certificate is Not Required — 
 
 Generally, candidates must be nominated by petition or certificate. They must 
 be so nominated in all general elections, and in all charter, local or special elec- 
 tions, held in the cities and towns of this State, and in all other municipalities 
 having by the last State or federal census a population exceeding 8,000 inhabit- 
 ants. Such nomination, however, is not required for annual township elections, 
 nor for the charter, local or special elections held in those municipalities (exclu- 
 sive of cities and towns) which have a population of 8,000 inhabitants or less. 
 Compare Sections 85 and 234. 
 
 Certificates Open to Public Inspection — 
 
 All certificates and petitions, when filed, shall be open to public inspection, 
 and shall be preserved one year. Section 42. 
 
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 XIV. OFHCIAL BALLOTS. 
 
 When Required and When Not Required to be Used — 
 
 Official ballots are required to be used at all general elections. (See Sections 
 41, 365-) 
 
 Printed and Distributed at Public Expense — 
 
 All ballots to be cast at any general election, and any local, charter or special 
 election in any city in this State, shall be printed and distributed at public ex- 
 pense. Sections 48, 234. Sample ballots mailed each voter before election. Sec- 
 tion 364- Blanket ballots to be used. Section 358. 
 
 How Ballots Shall Be Printed — 
 
 All ballots shall be printed with black ink on plain white paper of such thick- 
 ness that the printing thereon cannot be distinguished from the back. They shall 
 be of uniform size, quality of type and without any mark, word, device or figure 
 thereon. Section 49, 
 
 For arrangement of ballot, size of type, etc., see Sections 359, 360. Each 
 ballot shall have at the top thereof a perforated coupon to be prepared as pro- 
 vided in Section 362, and also as provided in this section, each ballot shall have 
 at the top thereof, the words "Official Ballot," etc., together with the facsimile 
 signature of the county clerk. Where questions are to be voted on, they shall 
 be printed as provided in Section 363, 
 
 Sample Ballots — 
 
 County clerks shall, ten days before election, or such day as may be fixed by 
 law for holding a special election throughout the county, furnish to each munici- 
 pal clerk, a sufficient number of official sample ballots, together with a sufficient 
 number of one-cent stamped envelopes to enable each of the boards of registry 
 and election to mail one copy of the official sample ballot to each registered 
 voter in his district, and the municipal clerk shall deliver said ballots at his office 
 on or before Tuesday preceding the general or special election, to the clerk of 
 the board of registry and election, and the said board shall prepare and deposit 
 in the post-office, before 12 o'clock, noon, on the Wednesday preceding election 
 day, an envelope containing one said sample ballot addressed to each registered 
 voter in the district. The said sample ballots shall be, as nearly as possible, a 
 facsimile of the official ballot, but shall be printed on paper of different color with 
 the words : "This ballot cannot be voted ; it is a sample copy of the official ballot 
 used on Election Day," printed in large type at the top. See Section 364- 
 
 How and When Ballots Shall Be Delivered — 
 
 The ballots shall be printed and in possession of the county clerk at least five 
 days before the election (Section 53), and shall be delivered to the clerk of each 
 township, city or other municipality three days prior to the election, in sealed 
 packages, clearly addressed on the outside, stating the election district for which 
 each package is intended and the number of ballots and envelopes enclosed. The 
 township or municipal clerk (as the case may be) shall, on the day before the 
 
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 election (on Saturday before when election takes place on Monday), deliver to 
 one of the election clerks in each district the package of ballots addressed to his 
 district and the election clerk is required to deliver the package, with the seals 
 unbroken, to the election board on the morning of the election before the polls 
 are opened. In all cases when packages of ballots are delivered the clerks are 
 required to give and take receipts therefor, and to file or preserve the receipts. 
 Section 54. (See Form No. 20.) 
 
 Shall Be Subject to Inspection, and Shall Be Reprinted if Mistakes are 
 Discovered — 
 
 The ballots, while in possession of the county or municipal clerk, are subject 
 to inspection and examination by the candidates and their agents ; if any mistake 
 is discovered, the clerk is required immediately to destroy the incorrect or in- 
 complete ballots and cause new ballots to be printed in their stead. Summary 
 proceedings may be taken before a Justice of the Supreme Court to require the 
 clerk to comply with the law in this regard. Section 53. 
 
 If Not Delivered in Time, or Lost or Stolen, Township or Other Clerks 
 Shall Provide — 
 
 If the official ballots shall not be delivered at the time specified or should be 
 destroyed or stolen, or the official supply shall be exhausted and other official 
 ballots cannot be obtained in time for the election, the township or other muni- 
 cipal clerk, or the election board (as the case may require), shall cause other bal- 
 lots to be prepared in the form prescribed, omitting the endorsement at the top, 
 and the board of election shall use the same at the election. A statement of the 
 facts shall be made, under oath, by the person preparing the new ballots. When 
 the official ballots, or either of them, for the reasons named, are dispensed with, 
 the mode and manner of voting shall, in all respects, conform to the requirements 
 of the law. Section 55. 
 
 XV. COUNTY BOARDS OF ELECTIONS. 
 Appointment — 
 
 The county board of elections shall consist of four persons, to be commissioned 
 by the Governor, upon nomination of the chairmen of the two largest political 
 parties, provided the nominations are made in the month of June, otherwise the 
 Governor may appoint men of his own selection. Vacancies caused by death or 
 disability shall be filled for the unexpired term. Section 13. 
 
 Term — 
 
 The terms of office of members of the county board of elections are two years, 
 the terms of two members expiring on August ist in each year. Section 13. 
 
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 Oath- 
 
 Each member, before entering upon the performance of his duties, is required 
 to take and subscribe an official oath, after which he can administer, at any meet- 
 ing of the board, any oath or affirmation required or permitted by the Election 
 law. Section id. (See Form No. i6.) 
 
 Office— 
 
 The board of chosen freeholders shall provide the county board of elections 
 with a suitable office and furniture, in the county court house, or in a building at 
 the county seat as near as possible to the court house. Section 13. 
 
 Organization — 
 
 On the first Tuesday in August, or on such other day as the board may agree 
 on within the first ten days in August, the county board shall meet at the county 
 court house, or other place provided for them, and organize by selecting a chair- 
 man and secretary, who shall not be of the same political party. Failing, after 
 three ballots, to elect, the oldest member in years shall be chairman and the next 
 oldest, not of the same party, shall be secretary. Section 14. 
 
 Appointment of District Boards — 
 
 County boards of election shall choose district boards by lot. Section 311. 
 
 Revision of Primary Lists — 
 
 County board of election shall meet on Friday succeeding first registry day to 
 revise primary list. Section 336- 
 
 XVI. DISTRICT BOARD OF REGISTRY AND ELECTION. 
 
 Members Not Eligible to Other Offices — 
 
 No election officer shall be elected to any office to be filled at the election in 
 which he shall serve. Section 84. 
 
 How Appointed — 
 
 The district boards of registry and election shall consist of four persons, to be 
 chosen in the following manner: The county board of elections or some person 
 appointed by the judge of the court of common pleas for this purpose, shall choose 
 by lot on or before August twenty-fifth, from a list of eligible candidates submitted 
 by the Civil Service Commission, four persons, two being from each of the politi- 
 cal parties casting the highest and next highest number of votes for members of 
 the General Assembly at the last election. The eligible list shall be prepared as 
 provided for in the 309th, 310th atid 311th sections of the act, which should be 
 carefully read. The chairmen of each of the county committees of said political 
 
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 parties shall, on or before the first day of May, nominate in writing to the .Civil 
 Service Commission^ a list of names. Five or more legal voters may also nomi- 
 nate candidates. Section 309. The Civil Service Commission shall examine the 
 persons so nominated regarding their qualifications on or before the fifteenth day 
 of August in each year, and the said commission shall certify on or before the 
 twentieth day of August, the names of the applicants whose examinations have 
 been found satisfactory. Section 310. 
 
 Term and Oath — 
 
 The term of office shall be for two years from September first. Section 3^3- 
 And an oath shall be taken before a duly authorized officer and filed in the county 
 clerk's office. Section 16. 
 
 Vacancies — 
 
 Vacancies in the district board of registry shall be filed by the judge of the 
 court of common pleas, as provided for in Section 312. 
 Vacancy on election day, Section 17. 
 
 Organization — 
 
 At its first meeting the district board shall organize by electing one member 
 to be judge and one member to be inspector ; the judge shall be the chairman 
 of the board ; the remaining two members of the board shall be its clerks. If the 
 board fail to elect a judge after voting three times, the oldest member in years 
 shall be judge, and if the board fail to elect an inspector after voting three times, 
 the next oldest member of the board in years shall become inspector ; provided, 
 that both chairman and inspector shall not be nominees of the same chairman. 
 Section 19. 
 
 Power to Administer Oaths — 
 
 After having duly qualified according to law, each member of the board is 
 authorized, at any meeting thereof, to administer any oath or affirmation required 
 or permitted to be taken by the Election law. Section 16. 
 
 First Meeting to Register Voters for the Primary and for the Genera) 
 Election in Districts Within Municipalities Above Five Thousand 
 Inhabitants — 
 
 The first registry day shall be on the second Tuesday in September, from one 
 o'clock in the afternoon until nine o'clock in the evening. At this meeting a 
 primary registry list, together with a separate registry list for the general election, 
 shall be prepared, as provided for in Section 333. 
 
 Second Meeting to Register Voters for the General Election in Districts 
 Within Municipalities Above Five Thousand Inhabitants — 
 
 The second registry day shall be held on the fourth Tuesday in September, be- 
 tween the hours of seven o'clock A. M. and nine o'clock P. M., at which time 
 shall also be conducted the primary election. (See Primary Election.) Section 
 
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 337' Voters may register for the general election on this day, but not to vote 
 at the primaries. Section 337. 
 
 Third Meeting to Register Voters for the General Election in District* 
 Within Municipalities Above Five Thousand Inhabitants — 
 
 The third registry day shall be held on the Tuesday two weeks next preceding 
 the general election between the hours of one and nine P. M. Section 348. 
 
 Rrst Meeting to Register Voters for General Election in Districts in! 
 Municipalities Having 5,000 Inhabitants or Less^ — 
 
 The board of registry and election shall meet annually on the second Tuesday 
 of September, at the place designated by the township or municipal clerk (see 
 Section 335), at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, and, having organized, shall proceed 
 at once to ascertain by actual inquiry at every dwelling or habitation, or of the 
 head of every family, the names and residences and street numbers of all legal 
 voters within their district ; they shall continue the enumeration from day to 
 day, and shall complete the same on or before the following Friday. To facili- 
 tate the work the board may divide their district into subdivisions, and any two 
 members, to be designated by the chairman, may, in company, make the enumera- 
 tion in such subdivisions ; but no name shall be entered upon the canvassing-book 
 without the concurrence of bath members. When the canvass is made by the 
 whole board, a majority must concur to enter a name on the canvassing-book. 
 Section 23. 
 
 Second Meeting to Register Voters for General Election in Districts in 
 Municipalities Having 5^000 Inhabitants or Less — 
 
 On the fourth Tuesday of September the board shall meet at the place desig- 
 nated by the township or municipal clerk, at 7 o'clock A. M., and remain in ses- 
 sion until 9 o'clock P. M., for the purpose of making two alphabetical lists or 
 registers of the names of the voters and their places of residences and street 
 numbers, if any, and also for the purpose of conducting the primary election. 
 These lists shall be transcribed from the canvassing-books, and shall include also 
 the names of all persons not on the canvassing-books, who shall personally ap- 
 pear before the board and show to its satisfaction that they are entitled to vote ; 
 and, also, of all persons who shall be shown, by the affidavit in writing of some 
 voter in that election district, to be a legal voter therein. Section 23. (See Form 
 No. 7.) When the lists are completed, the board shall certify on each of them, 
 and announce publicly the number of names entered thereon. On the next day 
 each of the clerks of election shall post, in a conspicuous place within the dis- 
 trict, a list, in hand-bill form, of the names entered on the registers, with resi- 
 dences and street numbers, if any, certified by the board, or a majority of them, 
 to be correct copies of the original registers. Section 24. 
 
 Third Meeting to Register Voters for General Election in Districts in 
 Municipalities Having 5,000 Inhabitants or Less — 
 
 On Tuesday next preceding the general election the board shall meet and re- 
 main in session from i o'clock P. M. to 9 o'clock P. M., to revise and correct the 
 registers, and to add thereto the names of all persons entitled to vote in such dis- 
 trict at the next election, who shall appear in person, and of erasing therefrom 
 
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 the name of any person who, after a fair opportunity to be heard, shall be shown 
 not to be entitled to vote. No name shall be added to or erased from the regis- 
 ters without the concurrence of a majority of the board. Section 24. When the 
 registers are completed, the board shall publicly announce and certify on each 
 register the number of names, thereon, and on the next day succeeding this rrieet- 
 ing the chairman of the district board shall deliver one of them to the county 
 board of elections and the other he shall retain for use by the district board on 
 election day. The chairman shall also designate one of the clerks to prepare a 
 third copy of the register, which shall be certified, and the clerk shall, within the 
 next two days, file the same with the clerk of the city, township or municipality. 
 Section 24. 
 
 Provision When Local Election Falls on Registry Day for General Election — 
 
 Whenever the time fixed by law for holding any municipal, local or charter 
 election falls on any day of registry for the general election, the registry shall 
 take place on the day following such municipal, local or charter election. Sec- 
 tion 37. 
 
 Registration of Voters in Municipalities Having Over 5,000 Inhabitants for 
 Elections Other than General Elections — 
 
 In all such cities the district boards shall make, alter and revise the registers 
 of voters for all elections other than general elections. New registers ar? not 
 necessary where the election districts remain unchanged, but in such cases re- 
 vision and correction only are to be made. Each board shall meet at the place 
 designated by the city clerk on Tuesday four weeks next preceding the election, 
 and finally on Tuesday two weeks before the election. Each meeting shall con- 
 tinue from I to 9 o'clock P. M. Section 26. The city clerk shall deliver to each 
 district its register used at the preceding general election at least six weeks be- 
 fore the election, the city clerk having obtained the same from the county board 
 of elections seven weeks before the election. Section 27. The city clerk shall 
 publish notice of the registration, including a short description of boundary lines 
 of election districts and location of polling-places, at least two weeks before the 
 first registration day in at least two newspapers. Section 28. The district boards 
 shall add to the registers in the same manner as for general elections, and on 
 the day succeeding the first registration day each of the clerks shall post in a 
 conspicuous place a copy of the revised register, and on the day succeeding the 
 second registration day the chairman shall deliver one copy thereof to the county 
 board of elections and retain one copy for use by the district board on election 
 day. Section 26. 
 
 Registration of Voters for Township and Local Elections in Districts in 
 Municipalities Having 5,000 Inhabitants or Less — 
 
 No new registration is required within any district in any township, town or 
 borough or other municipality outside of municipalities having over 5,000 inhab- 
 itants, for any township, charter, local or special election. In every such district 
 the district board shall procure the copy of the register for the preceding election 
 filed with the township or municipal clerk and use it, revising and correcting it 
 in the manner provided for the revision and correction of registers in municipali- 
 ties having over 5,000 inhabitants. Such boards shall meet for this revision and 
 
correction on the Tuesday next preceding the election, and each election clerk 
 shall post at least three notices of the time and place of the meeting in con- 
 spicuous places at least one week before the meeting. No copy of the register 
 need be posted, but on the day after the meeting one copy shall be filed with the 
 county board of elections. Section 2<). 
 
 Registration by Affidavit — 
 
 Whenever a voter is registered by affidavit, whether for a general election or 
 for a township, town, borough, municipal, charter or local or primary election, 
 a separate affidavit is required for each person registered. (See Form No. 7.) 
 It must also contain the address of the affiant and be signed by him. All affidavits 
 must be preserved by the judge of election until the completion of the registry, 
 and then be delivered by him to the county board of election, who shall give a 
 receipt for the same, stating the number received. The county board shall pre- 
 sers'e the affidavits for six months. Section 32. Each district board shall regis- 
 ter the name of every person who shall be shown by the affidavit of a voter re- 
 siding within their election district to be lawfully entitled to vote. Sections 23, 
 24, 26, 29. They shall also register the name of every person who shall appear 
 before them and satisfy them by an affidavit that he will, on the day of the next 
 ensuing election, be entitled, under the constitution and laws of this State, to 
 vote in that district. Section 35. No registration for general election by affi- 
 davit in municipalities above 5,000 population. Section 348. Any person pre- 
 vented by illness or absence from the State from registering personally may regis- 
 ter by affidavit on form to be procured from board of registry and election. 
 Section 349. Persons in the employ of United States Government who have the 
 right to and desire to exercise the rights of franchise may register by affidavit. 
 Section 428. 
 
 The Proceedings Shall Be Open to the Public — 
 
 The proceedings of the board shall be open to the public, and all persons en- 
 titled to vote in the district shall be entitled to be freely heard in relation to the 
 revision and correction of the registers. Section 32. 
 
 Certificate to Voter Who Has Removed — 
 
 No person shall vote at any general election in any election district other 
 than the one in which he is registered, unless he shall appear before either the 
 justice of the Supreme Court holding the circuit court in said county, or one of 
 the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, or one of the judges 
 assigned to hold the circuit court of said county, at the court house, or at such 
 other place within each county as will be most convenient and accessible to the 
 largest number of voters in said county, at which the said justice or judge, in his 
 discretion, shall authorize, on or prior to the day of the general election, and 
 shall make proof to the satisfaction of said justice or judge that he has moved 
 from the election district in which he has registered since the day on which he 
 did register, and that he has moved into another district in said county, and shall 
 obtain from said justice or judge an order sealed with the seal of the county 
 clerk, directing the board of registry and election to place the name of the 
 said voter upon the registry of the said election district ; said order shall be 
 shown to the board of registry and election in which said voter is registered and 
 
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 said board shall thereupon erase his name from said register and issue a transfer 
 as now provided by law, which transfer and the order of the court shall be filed 
 by the voter with the board of registry and election in the election district where 
 said voter desires to vote, and said board shall obey said order. Section 357. 
 (See Form No. 19.) 
 
 Conducting General, Local, Township and Municipal Elections — 
 
 The board of chosen freeholders of each county is required to provide and 
 keep in good repair ballot-boxes for use in the respective election districts, of the 
 form prescribed by law, for both the general elections and the primary elections. 
 Section 60. 
 
 In all elections, general, local or charter, the polls shall open at 6 o'clock in 
 the morning and close at 7 o'clock in the evening, and shall" be kept open during 
 the whole of the day of election between the hours aforesaid, except that an 
 adjournment may be had from i o'clock until 2 o'clock in the afternoon, or for a 
 shorter time between those hours. Section 4. The decision of a majority of the 
 board of election on any question shall be taken as the decision of the board, 
 and final, any member, however, having the righ,t to record and sign his dissent 
 in the poll-book. Section go. 
 
 The boards of registry and election shall hold and conduct all general, munici- 
 pal, local and special elections to be held throughout this State. Section 64. 
 
 As soon as the election is opened, and before receiving any vote, the board of 
 election shall make public proclamation of the opening of the election, and of 
 their readiness to receive the votes of voters and exhibit the ballot-box, so that 
 bystanders can see that there is nothing contained therein. Section 66. 
 
 The poll-book shall be kept by one of the clerks of election, who shall number 
 and record the names and residences of the persons voting in the order in which 
 their votes are received. The poll-book in municipalities below five thousand, 
 
 shall have a heading as follows : "Names of voters at an election held in 
 
 district of — in the county of , on the day of , in the 
 
 year of our Lord one thousand hundred and , for '■ — " (naming 
 
 the offices to be filled.) Section 67. (See Form No. 21.) 
 
 For municipalities above five thousand inhabitants, the poll-book shall have 
 six columns, headed respectively : "Number of voter," "names of voters," "resi- 
 dence of voter," "signature or statement number of voter," "signatures com- 
 pared," and "remarks." Section 351. 
 
 If they adjourn before the close of election, they shall state in the poll-book, 
 immediately after the last name therein, in words written in full length, the 
 whole number of the names of the voters in the poll-book, to which the mem- 
 bers of the board shall sign their names (seeForm No. 22), and shall unlock 
 the ballot-box, secure the bar or bolt so as to prevent the insertion of ballots; 
 place therein the poll-book, and shut and lock the ballot-box. During the adjourn- 
 ment the ballot-box shall be kept in public view. Section 77. At the opening 
 of the election the keys of the ballot-box shall be distributed amongst the mem- 
 bers of the board of registry and election, each member keeping the key deliv- 
 ered to him until a statement of the result of the election shall have been made 
 and certified as required by law. Section 6$. 
 
 No person shall be allowed to vote whose name does not appear on the register 
 (Section 33), except upon presentation of a certificate of removal after being 
 registered in another district. (Section 357, Form 19.) 
 
 The board shall challenge every person who shall claim to have a right to vote 
 
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 whom they shall know, suspect or believe not to be a qualified or entitled to vote 
 (see Section 72), and for the purpose of satisfying themselves as to the right of 
 any person to vote they may examine him, and any other person or persons, under 
 oath or affirmation. Section 75. For oaths administered in cases of challenge, 
 see Section 73. 
 
 The board shall keep the election booths or compartment supplied with lead 
 black pencils, and shall allow no person within the railed enclosure while the 
 election is in progress, except the election officers, and voters entering the same 
 for the purpose of preparing their ballots and voting. Also, they shall allow no 
 person to be present in the polling-room outside the railed enclosure during 
 the progress of the election, except the officers connected with the election, the 
 candidates and their duly authorized agents, and the agents of the parties, such 
 voters as are actually present for the purpose of voting and the officers duly ap- 
 pointed for keeping the peace. Section 78. The method of voting is set out in 
 full in Section 366. 
 
 Preservation of Order at Polls — 
 
 It is the duty of the board to preserve the peace and maintain good order at 
 the polling-place, and- for that purpose they are invested with the powers and 
 duties of constables, and they may request the municipal authority to detail one 
 or more policemen to assist them. Section S3. They may also commit to the com- 
 mon jail of the county, for a period not exceeding three days, by an order in 
 writing, any person who refuses to obey their lawful commands and who by dis- 
 orderly conduct in their hearing or presence shall interrupt or disturb their pro- 
 ceedings, which order shall be executed by any sheriff or constable, or in case 
 of the absence of the sheriff or constable, by any person deputed in writing for 
 that purpose. Section i86- 
 
 Canvassing the Vote — 
 
 Immediately after closing the polls the clerk keeping the poll-book shall state, 
 after the last name, in words written at full length, the whole number of the 
 names of the voters in the poll-book, as follows : "The whole number of the 
 names of the persons whose votes have been received during the election is 
 ," The members of the district board shall sign their names thereto. Sec- 
 tion 86. (See Form No.. 23.) The board shall then unlock the ballot-box and can- 
 vass the votes. The judge shall take the ballot from the box separately, read it 
 publicly and deliver it to the inspector, who, being satisfied that the ballot was 
 properly read, shall number the ballot on its back, and string the ballot. Section 
 87. Each clerk shall keep a tally-sheet. Section 88. The excess of ballots in 
 the box over the number of names on the poll-book are void. All marked ballots 
 are void. Sections 58, 85. All ballots on which any name is written in ink or 
 with pencil other than black, or on which pasters are used printed otherwise than 
 with black ink on white paper, are void. Sections 59, 85. But if a voter marks 
 more names than there are persons to be elected to office, and his choice cannot 
 be determined, his ballot shall not be counted for such officer, but shall be counted 
 for such other officers as are properly marked ; such ballots to be marked "de- 
 fective." Sections 92 and 367- No ballot wholly void shall be canvassed, esti- 
 mated or numbered, but on all such ballots shall be written the words "rejected 
 ballot," and shall then be strung on a different twine from the other ballots. 
 Sectioyx gi. After all the votes shall have been read, examined, numbered and 
 
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 strung as directed, the board shall cast up the vote given for each person. Sec- 
 lion 88. They shall then personally examine the tally-sheets, and if they find 
 these sheets and the record of the canvass to be correct, shall sign the returns. 
 Section 89. A plurality of votes is sufficient to elect, and a tie vote renders the 
 office vacant. Section 93. When a question or proposition is to be voted on, "a 
 majority of the legal voters" means a majority of the legal voters voting on such 
 question or proposition. Section 185. 
 
 Statement of Result of General Election — 
 
 After the canvass has been made, the board of election shall make a statement 
 of the result thereof, and a certificate thereto of the form prescribed by law. 
 Section 95. No member shall sign such statement until after the completion of 
 the counting of the votes and his personal examination of the tally-sheets to de- 
 termine the result. Section 89. A copy of the same shall be made, signed and 
 delivered to the township or city clerk, and a copy within two days to the county 
 clerk. In the case of an election for Governor, or for members of the House of 
 Representatives, or for electors of President and Vice-President, a copy shall 
 also be made and signed, and sent by mail within two days to the Secretary of 
 State. Section 96- 
 
 Statement of Result and Determination of Township or Municipal 
 Elections — 
 
 In every township or municipality (other than cities) containing but one elec- 
 tion district, the members of the district board of election conducting any town- 
 ship, local or charter election therein shall, upon the close of the election, ascer- 
 tain and determine what officers have been elected, sums of money voted or pro- 
 positions adopted, and the result of the election in all other particulars ; in every 
 township or municipality containing more than one election district the members 
 of the district boards of election conducting any such election shall meet on the 
 day after holding the same, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, at the 
 polling place in the district in which the township or municipal clerk may reside, 
 and when so met shall ascertain and determine in like manner the results of said 
 election in said township or municipality ; provided, that when such township or 
 municipality contains more than two election districts, two members only from 
 the board of election of each district, to be designated by the board, shall meet 
 in like manner and ascertain the result of said election as above provided ; such 
 determination shall be written out and signed by the election officers making the 
 same, and forthwith delivered to and filed by the township or municipal clerk. 
 Section 94. 
 
 The determination of the result of the city election is made by the county can- 
 vassers. Sections 102, ill. 
 
 Disposition of Ballot-box, Keys and Papers — 
 
 The ballots cast at the election, whether counted or rejected, the poll-list, the 
 tally papers and all unused and all spoiled official envelopes, shall be deposited in 
 the ballot-box, which, being locked and bound with tape and sealed, shall be de- 
 livered to the township or city clerk. In each city the city clerk's office shall be 
 kept open for the reception of the ballot-boxes, and a record kept of the time of 
 
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 their reception and the names of the persons delivering them. Sections 99, 346 and 
 366. The checked register of voters used at the election shall be filed and the 
 ballot-box keys shall be deposited with the county clerk. Section 67. 
 
 Mailing Sample Ballots — 
 
 District boards shall mail to every voter sample ballot before Wednesday noon 
 preceding general election day. Section 364, 
 
 District board of registr>- and election shall mail sample ballots to every voter 
 on Wednesday preceding primary day. Section 334. 
 
 Transfer Certificates — 
 
 District board shall issue transfer certificates to voters from one district to 
 another for primary election in the same manner as provided for the issuing of 
 transfer certificates for the general election. Section 337. 
 
 District boards shall not supply certificates of transfer of voters from one dis- 
 trict to another except when authorized by the court as provided for in Section 357. 
 (Section 356.) 
 
 Boards Shall Certify ResulU — 
 
 District boards shall certify result of primary election for nomination of Gov- 
 ernor and for members of Congress to county clerk. Section 344. 
 
 Supply County Clerks With Registry Lists — 
 
 District board of registry and election shall furnish county clerk immediately 
 after the close of the last day of registration in municipalities above five thousand 
 population, with a complete list of persons registered for the general election. 
 Section 350. 
 
 XVII. PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF VOTERS. 
 
 May Attend Meetings of Board of Registry and be Heard — 
 
 Every voter is entitled to be freely heard in relation to the revision and cor- 
 rection of the registers, and for that purpose may attend the meetings of the 
 board. Section 32. 
 
 Who May Vote— 
 
 Every male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, who 
 shall have been a resident of this State one year, and of the county in which he 
 claims his vote five months, next before the election, and who has also complied 
 with the registration laws, and has not disqualified himself by any crime, has the 
 right to vote. Sections 68, 69, 71, 7S and 82. 
 
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 How He Shall Prepare Hi» Ballot and Vote It — 
 
 See Section 366. 
 
 May Vote Although His Name Has Been Checked — 
 
 A legal voter whose name has already been checked as having voted may vote 
 notwithstanding such checking, on satisfying the board that he has not previously 
 voted. Section 82. 
 
 When and How He May Be Assisted — 
 
 See Section 368. (Form No. 24.) 
 Shall Not Exhibit His Ballot or Reveal Its Contents — 
 
 No voter shall, within the polling-room, show his ballot, after it has been pre- 
 pared for voting, to any person in such a way as to reveal its contents. Section 
 198. 
 
 When a Naturalized Citizen is Challenged — 
 
 If a naturalized citizen's right to be registered is challenged he is required to 
 prove to the satisfaction of a majority of the board, by affidavit or otherwise, 
 that he is entitled to vote in that district at the next election, or he shall produce 
 his certificate of naturalization, or shall have been duly registered at a previous 
 election in that district. Section 73- 
 
 Freedom from Arrest on Civil Process — 
 
 No person having the right to vote shall be arrested by virtue of any civil pro- 
 cess on the day on which an election shall be held. Section 70. 
 
 XVIIl. AGENTS OR CHALLENGERS. 
 
 Chairman of County Committee May Appoint — 
 
 See Section 63- {Forms 17 and 18.) 
 
 Candidate by Petition May Appoint — 
 
 Any candidate duly nominated by petition may likewise appoint two agents, 
 who shall have permits issued to <them in the same manner, and who shall have 
 the same privileges ; provided, that only two agents shall be allowed for each poll- 
 ing-place to represent all the candidates of each petition or gi'oup. Section 63- 
 
 Their Authority — 
 
 The agents so appointed shall file their permits with the board of registry and 
 election named therein, and shall thereupon have authority to be present in the 
 polling-place during the election, and to be within the railed enclosure during the 
 counting of votes. Section 63, They are not entitled to any compensation from 
 public funds, Section 180, 
 
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 For Municipal or Local Elections — 
 
 For an election within a single municipality or subdivision thereof, the agents 
 may be appointed by the chairman of the committee of each political party having 
 condidates in nomination for municipal offices, or, by any candidate nominated 
 by petition, &c. Section 63. 
 
 XIX. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. 
 
 Constitutional Provision — 
 
 In time of war no elector in the actual military service of the State, or of the 
 United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by rea- 
 son of his absence from such election district ; and the legislature shall have 
 power to provide the manner in which, and the time and place at which, such 
 absent voters may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes in the elec- 
 tion districts in which they respectively reside. Section 220. 
 
 How Vote May Be Cast — 
 
 See Sections 221 to 232. 
 
 Preservation of Affidavits, &c. — 
 
 See Sections 223, 225 and 226. 
 
 Receipts to Postmaster — 
 
 Any person to whom there has been delivered an envelope marked as provided 
 by law — that is, endorsed "Soldier's (or sailor's) vote" — shall give the postmaster 
 a receipt therefor. Section 227. 
 
 Blank Forms and Envelopes — ^How Provided — 
 
 See Section 232. 
 
 Penalties — 
 
 Failure to perform duty by any member of the board of election, presenting 
 to the board any false, forged, altered or changed ballot, envelope or instrument 
 of authority, and intimidation of soldiers or sailors in the exercise of their right 
 to vote, is made punishable by fine and imprisonment. Sections 229, 230, 231. 
 
 XX. COUNTY CANVASSERS. 
 
 Time, Place and Character of Meeting — 
 
 The board of county canvassers shall meet on Monday next after the election, 
 at 12 o'clock noon, at the county court house. Section 103. The proceedings shall 
 be open and public. Section 117, 
 
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 How Constituted and Organized — 
 
 The county board of elections shall constitute the board of county canvassers 
 for all general and special elections in this State, and for all local or municipal 
 elections in the cities of this State. The county clerk shall be clerk of the board. 
 Section 102. If the county clerk be absent, the board shall appoint a fit person 
 to act as clerk. The chairman shall administer to the clerk of the board (whether 
 it be the county clerk or a person appointed by the board) the official oath pre- 
 scribed by law. Section 104. 
 
 Adjournment — 
 
 If at the time and place appointed for the meeting of the board a major part 
 shall not attend, or if at such time the statements of the result of the election 
 from every election district shall not be produced, the board shall adjourn to 
 some convenient hour on the next day, and at the hour to which such adjourn- 
 ment shall be had, the canvassers then present may proceed with their duties, 
 or they may again adjourn for a period not exceeding three days. Section 105. 
 In case of adjournment all statements of the result of the election delivered to 
 such board, or to any member thereof, shall, in the presence of the board and 
 before it shall adjourn, be securely enclosed and sealed and delivered to the 
 county clerk for safe keeping until the next meeting of the board. Section 107. 
 
 County Clerk to Obtain Missing Statement — 
 
 If at the time fixed for the meeting of the board any of the statements of the 
 result of the election have not been filed with the county clerk, he shall forth- 
 with, by special messenger or otherv/ise, obtain the same for the next meeting 
 of the board at the expense of the county. Section 106. If a special messenger 
 be employed, he shall be commissioned, in writing, under the hand and official 
 seal of the county clerk, and shall exhibit his commission to the person to whom 
 he shall apply for such missing statement. Section 124. (See Form No. 25.) 
 All statements produced and laid before the board shall be filed by the county 
 clerk in his office. Section 116. 
 
 Powers of County Canvassers — 
 
 The decision of the majority of the members shall be taken as the decision 
 of the board. Any member may, however, dissent from any decision of the 
 board by stating such dissent in writing and delivering the same to the county 
 clerk to be filed in his office. Section 117. Boards of county canvassers may 
 commit disorderly persons who disturb their proceedings to the common jail of 
 the county. Section 186. 
 
 Statements of Results of Election Made by County Canvassers — 
 
 The county clerk shall produce and lay before the board all statements of the 
 result of election that have been filed in his office. Section 103. The board shall 
 then proceed to make two statements of the result of the election, in the county, 
 each of which statements shall contain the name of each district, the number of 
 the names of the voters on the poll-books of each election district, and of the 
 ballots rejected, and the whole number of such names and rejected ballots in all 
 of said election districts, the number of votes given in each election district for 
 
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 each person voted for, and the whole number of votes given for each person for 
 any office, mentioning the office or offices for which each person was designated. 
 Each statement shall be certified to be true and correct by a certificate appended 
 thereto signed by the members of the board making the canvass. Sections i8o, 
 log. One of the statements so made and certified shall be delivered to the county 
 clerk and by him filed in his office, and the other shall be enclosed and sealed up 
 by the chairman of the board, who shall deliver or safely transmit the same to 
 the Secretary of State, so that he shall receive the same within three days after 
 the meeting of the board, to be filed by such secretary in his office. Section no. 
 In case of any municipal election in any city, the second copy of the state- 
 ment, instead of being sent to the Secretary of State, should be delivered or 
 transmitted to the city clerk, to be by him filed. Section- no. All statements 
 of the result of an election shall be made by boards of county canvassers upon 
 the statements produced and laid before them. Section 113. 
 
 Statements of Determination of County Canvassers^ 
 
 In the case of any election for member of the Senate, members of the General 
 Assembly, or for any county or city officer or officers, the county board shall not 
 only make a statement of the result of the election, but they shall also determine 
 who have been elected and make and certify a statement of such determination. 
 The certificate of such determination shall be signed by the chairman and at- 
 tested by the clerk. The statement of the determination, with such certificate 
 thereto, shall be annexed to the statement of the result of the election and de- 
 livered to the county clerk, to be by him filed. In the case of an election for 
 any city officer or officers, another copy of such determination, as to such officer 
 or officers, shall be likewise made, signed and attested, and filed with the city 
 clerk. Sections ill, 112. All such statements shall be made upon the state- 
 ments produced and laid before the county board. Section 113. The county 
 clerk shall, without delay, deliver to each person determined to be elected to the 
 office of Senator, member of the General Assembly, or to any county office, a 
 copy of such statement of determination and of the certificate thereto annexed, 
 which certified copy shall be signed by the county clerk and have the seal of the 
 county thereto affixed. A like certified copy shall be transmitted by the county 
 clerk to the Secretary of State within five days after the meeting of the board. 
 Section 114. ' 
 
 XXI. STATE CANVASSERS. 
 
 Time and Place of Meeting — 
 
 The State canvassers shall meet in the Senate Chamber, or some other con- 
 venient place, in Trenton, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the twenty-first day 
 after the election for the purpose of canvassing and estimating the votes given^ 
 for members of the House of Representatives, electors of President and Vice- 
 President, or Governor, and of determining and declaring who have been elected. 
 Section 119. 
 
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 How Constituted and Organized — 
 
 The Governor and four or more members of the Senate, summoned by the Gov- 
 ernor and representing different political parties, shall constitute the board of 
 State canvassers. The Governor shall be its chairman, and the Secretary of 
 State, if present, its clerk. Section iig. The official oath prescribed by law 
 shall be administered by the chairman to the other members, and by one of such 
 members to the chairman. Section 120. After such oaths have been taken, the 
 chairman shall administer the proper official oath to the clerk, the board hav- 
 ing the power,' in the absence of the Secretary of State, to appoint a fit person 
 to act as clerk. Section 121. 
 
 Vacancies — How Filled — 
 
 If a number of the members of the Senate summoned by the Governor, suffi- 
 cient to constitute the board, shall not attend the meeting thereof, the Governor 
 shall summon as members of such board as many fit persons, possessing the quali- 
 fications required for members of the Senate, as shall be necessary to complete 
 the number required to constitute the board. Section 122. 
 
 Secretary of State to Obtain Missing Statements — 
 
 If the Secretary of State shall not receive from any county board of canvassers 
 its statement of the result of the election in such county within seven days after 
 the meeting of the county canvassers, or if, having received such statement, it 
 shall not include the statement of the result of the election in every election dis- 
 trict in such county, he shall forthwith, by special messenger or otherwise, ob- 
 tain the missing statement. Section 118. If a special messenger be employed, 
 he shall be commissioned, in writing, under the hand and official seal of the 
 Secretary of State, and shall exhibit his commission to the person to whom he 
 shall apply for the statement. Section 124. (See Form No. 25.) All statements 
 received and obtained by him shall be produced and laid before the State board 
 of canvassers. Sections 118, 123. If he shall neglect so to do, the chairman 
 of the State board shall summon him to perform that duty. Section 125. Such 
 statements, after use by the State board, shall be filed by the Secretary of State, 
 in his office. Section 128. 
 
 Meeting to be Public — 
 
 The proceedings of the State board shall be open and public. Section 129. 
 
 Powers of State Canvassers — 
 
 The decision of a majority of the members of the State board shall be taken 
 to be the decision of the board. Any member may, however, dissent from any 
 decision by stating his dissent in writing and delivering it to the Secretary of 
 State to be filed in his office. Section 129. The board may commit to the com- 
 mon jail of the county any disorderly person who may disturb their proceedings. 
 Section 186. 
 
 Statements Made by State Canvassers — 
 
 The State board of canvassers shall make a statement of the result of the 
 election similar in form to that made by the county canvassers, which shall be 
 
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 certified to be true and correct under the hand of the chairman of the board, 
 attested by the clerk thereof. Section 123. 
 
 The board shall also determine the person or persons elected to office, and 
 make a statement of their determination similar in form to that made by the 
 county canvassers, which statement shall also be certified to be true and correct 
 under the hand of the chairman of the board, attested by the clerk thereof. Sec- 
 tion 123. 
 
 Both of the above statements, with the certificates thereto annexed, shall be 
 filed in the office of the Secretary of State. Section 123. Both of the said state- 
 ments shall be made only upon the statements of the result of the election pro- 
 duced and laid before the board. Section 126. The Secretary of State shall make 
 and deliver to each person declared to be elected a copy of the statement of de- 
 termination, which copy shall be certified under his hand and seal of the State. 
 Section 127. 
 
 XXII. RECOUNT OF VOTES. 
 
 Whenever any candidate at any election shall have reason to believe that an 
 error has been made by any board of election or of canvassers in counting the 
 vote or declaring the result of the election, or whenever any citizen shall have 
 reason to believe that an error has been made, &c., whereby the result of the 
 election has been changed, such candidate or such citizen may, within ten days 
 after the election, apply to a Justice of the Supreme Court for a recount, and 
 such Justice is authorized to order a recount to be made. Sections 159 to 161. 
 
 XXIII. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. 
 
 Governor- 
 
 Proceedings relating to a contest in the case of an election for Governor are 
 prescribed in sections 141 and 152. 
 
 Legislature and Congress — 
 
 Proceedings relating to a contest in the case of an election of State Senator, 
 member of General Assembly, or member of the House of Representatives of the 
 United States, are prescribed in sections 153 to 15?- 
 
 County, Township, City or Other Municipal Offices — 
 
 Proceedings relating to a contest in the case of an election of any officer of 
 any county, city, borough, village, township or other municipality, are prescribed 
 in sections 162 to 177- 
 
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 XXIV. THE LEGISLATURE. 
 
 Election of Members- 
 
 Members of the General Assembly are elected annually on the Tuesday next 
 after the first Monday in November. Section i. 
 
 Apportionment of Members — 
 
 The members of the General Assembly are apportioned amongst the several 
 counties in the manner set forth in section 237. 
 
 Place of Meeting — 
 
 The Senate and General Assembly shall convene and hold their sessions in the 
 State House, at Trenton. Section 115. 
 
 Evidence of Rigbt of Members to Seats — 
 
 In the organization of each house the certified copies of the statements of 
 determination of the county boards of canvassers, made by* the county clerk, or 
 the certificate issued by the justice of the Supreme Court, in case of a recount, 
 shall be deemed and taken to be prima facie evidence of the right of the persons 
 therein mentioned to seats in the houses, respectively, to which they have been 
 declared to be elected. Sections 115, 159. 
 
 Vacancy — How Created — 
 
 If any person elected to the Senate or General Assembly shall neglect or re- 
 fuse for ten days next after the commencement of the sessions of such house to 
 take his seat therein, or to send to such house a satisfactory excuse, or shall, 
 during any session of such house, be absent unremittingly for ten days (unless 
 expressly excused by such house), or shall remove from and cease to be a resident 
 of this State, or of the county for which he may have been elected, his office 
 shall be deemed vacant. Section 134. 
 
 Vacancies — How Supplied — 
 
 Whenever any vacancy shall happen in the State Senate or General Assembly, 
 the house in which the vacancy happens shal lissue a writ of election supplying 
 the same, unless such house shall be of opinion that the services of a person 
 in the vacant office will not be required during the unexpired portion of the 
 legislative year ; if the vacancy happens during the recess of the Legislature, or 
 after the annual election and not less than fifteen days before the commence- 
 ment of the legislative year, the Governor shall issue such writ of election, vmless 
 of opinion that the services of a person in the vacant office will not be required 
 for the unexpired portion of the legislative year ; the board of chosen freeholders 
 of any county may, however, require such writ to be issued. Sections 133, 274, 
 275. The writ shall be in the nature of a proclamation, shall be signed by the 
 Governor, President of the Senate, or Speaker of the House of Assembly, as the 
 case may be, shall specify the cause and purpose of the election, the name of the 
 officer in whose office the vacancy has occurred, and the day on which the elec- 
 tion shall be held, which shall not be less than fifteen nor more than forty days 
 
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 from the date of the writ. Section 136. The writ shall be delivered to the Sec- 
 retary of State, who shall affix thereto the seal of this State, and file it in his 
 office and send a certified copy thereof to the clerk of the county in whose rep- 
 resentation the vacancy happens. Section 137. The county clerk shall publish 
 the copy so received by him, at the expense of the county, in at least four of the 
 newspapers of the county, at least once a week, until the time of election. Sec- 
 tion 138. 
 
 XXV. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 Who Not Eligible- 
 No person shall be elected a member of the House of Representatives who 
 shall hold any office of trust or profit under the United States. Section 183. 
 
 When and How Members are Elected — 
 
 Members of the House of Representatives shall be elected on the Tuesday next 
 after the first Monday in November, 19 12, and at the same time in every second 
 year thereafter. Section 182. 
 
 Election — How Certified — 
 
 In case of the election of one or more members of the House of Representa- 
 tives, a general certificate of the election is signed by the Governor, attested by 
 the Secretary of State, sealed with the seal of the State, and transmitted to the 
 clerk of the House of Representatives, if in session, and, if not in session, then 
 at their first meeting. Section 130. 
 
 Vacancy — How Supplied — 
 
 Sections 135 to 138. 
 
 Congressional Districts — 
 
 The congressional districts of this State are set forth in section 239. 
 
 XXVI. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS. 
 
 Who Ineligible- 
 No person shall be elected to the office of an elector of President and Vice- 
 President who shall hold any office of trust or profit under the United States, 
 or who shall hold the office of Senator or member of the House of Representa- 
 tives of the United States. Section 183. 
 
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 Qualifications of Electors — 
 
 Each elector of President and Vice-President must be a male citizen of the 
 United States, of the age of twenty-five years or upwards, and an inhabitant of 
 this State, and have been a citizen of the United States seven years next preced- 
 ing the election. Section 3- 
 
 When and How Nominated — 
 
 Nominated at State convention. Section 430. 
 
 When and How Elected — 
 
 They are to be elected on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in Novem- 
 ber, 191 6, and at the same time in each fourth year thereafter. Section 3. 
 
 Election — How Cert'.fied — 
 
 Their election is certified by a general certificate of election, signed by the 
 Governor, attested by the Secretary of State, sealed with the seal of the State, 
 and delivered to the president of the college of electors of this State on the day 
 and at the time and place appointed for the meeting of the college. Section 130. 
 
 Time and Place of Meeting — 
 
 The electors shall meet at the State House at Trenton, on the day appointed 
 by Congress, at the hour of 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and, after choosing a 
 president and secretary from their own body, shall proceed to perform the duties 
 required of them by the constitution and laws of the United States. Section 131. 
 
 Vacancies — How Supplied — 
 
 Vacancies happening in the electoral college shall be filed by the other members 
 thereof. Section 132. 
 
 Charter Elections in Cities and Towns and in Municipalities Having Over 
 8,000 Inhabitants — 
 
 The provisions of the Election law relating to the nomination of candidates 
 and the use of official ballots apply to all local and special elections in all of the 
 cities of this State. Section 85. 
 
 XXVII. INCOMPATIBLE OFFICES. 
 
 No person shall hold at the same time more than one of the following offices : 
 Elector of President and Vice-President of the United States, member of the 
 House of Representatives of the United States, member of the Senate or of the 
 General Assembly of this State, county clerk, register, surrogate, sheriff or cor- 
 oner. The acceptance of any such office by a person holding another of them 
 shall vacate the office to which he was previously elected or appointed. Section 
 184. No election officer is eligible to any office to be filled at the election at 
 which he serves. Section 84. 
 
XXVIII. ELECTION DISTRICTS. 
 
 No election district within this State shall contain more than four hundred 
 voters, except in an election district wherein there may be located a home or 
 institution wherein persons entitled to vote may reside, and in any such district 
 the number of voters shall be as near four hundred as possible. Section 306. 
 
 XXIX. COMPENSATION OF ELECTION BOARDS. 
 
 See Section 316- 
 
 Compensation for Services of County and Municipal Clerks — 
 
 County and mun'cipal clerks, for their services, are entitled to fair and reason- 
 able compensation, to be determined, in the case of a county clerk, by the board 
 of chosen freeholders, and in the case of a municipal clerk by the governing 
 body of the city, township or municipality. Section 1/9. 
 
 Compensation of County Boards of Elections — 
 
 The county board of elections are entitled to reasonable compensation for their 
 services, to be fixed by the board of chosen freeholders. The member acting as 
 secretary thereof may also receive an additional compensation not exceeding one- 
 third of the compensation of the individual members of the board, except in 
 counties of the first class, where each such board shall have a clerk, who shall 
 receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the board of chosen freeholders. 
 Section 180. 
 
 General Expenses — 
 
 Read section 180 with section 315. 
 
 XXX. CRIMES AND PENALTIES. 
 
 Crimes, misdemeanors and other punishable acts are defined as follows : 
 Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the provisions 
 of any law of this State relating to elections, who willfully neglects or refused 
 to perform it, or who, in his official capacity, knowingly and fraudulently acts in 
 contravention or violation of any of the provisions of such laws, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor. Section 4og. 
 
 The Printer — 
 
 See Section 199, 
 
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 General Offenses — 
 
 Willful and corrupt swearing by any person in taking any oath, affirmation or 
 deposition prescribed or authorized by the Election Law. Section i88. 
 
 Willfully and corruptly suborning or procuring any person to swear or affirm 
 falsely in taking any oath, affirmation or deposition prescribed or authorized by the 
 Election law. Sectioji i88. 
 
 Robbing or plundering any ballot-boxes. Section i<^o. 
 
 Unlawfully and by stealth or violence taking or removing from any ballot-box 
 any ballot, or other paper. Section 190. 
 
 Changing, altering oi* destroying any ballot or other paper contained in any 
 ballot-box. Section 190. 
 
 Selling, or offering to sell, or exposing for sale, spirituous, vinous, malt or in- 
 toxicating liquors on any election day. Section 192. 
 
 Bringing into the polling-place on election day or on any day of registry, dur- 
 ing the hours that the election or registration is in progress or during the count- 
 ing or canvassing of the votes, any spirituous, vinous, malt or intoxicating liquors. 
 Section 193. 
 
 Falsely making or fraudulently defacing or fraudulently destroying any certifi- 
 cate of nomination or petition, or any part thereof, or filing or receiving for filing 
 any certificate of nomination or petition, knowing the same or any part thereof 
 to be falsely made. Section 195. 
 
 Suppressing any certificate of nomination or petition which has been duly filed, 
 or any part thereof. Section 195. 
 
 Forging or falsely making the official endorsement of any ballot. Section 195. 
 
 Removing or destroying any of the ballots or pencils placed in the election 
 booths with intent to hinder or delay the election, or to hinder or delay any voter 
 in the preparation of his ballot. Section 196. 
 
 Showing his ballot, by any voter within the polling-room after it is prepared 
 for voting in such way as to reveal its contents. Section 198. 
 
 Soliciting a voter to show his ballot within the polling-place, or within one 
 hundred feet thereof. Section 198. 
 
 Knowingly voting, or oft'ering to vote, any ballot except an official ballot, where 
 at the election official ballots are required to be used. Section 198. 
 
 Placing, or permitting to be placed, any mark upon the face or back of a ballot 
 by which the ballot may afterwards be identified. Section 198. 
 
 Writing, pasting or otherwise placing upon any official ballot any mark, sign 
 or device as a distinguishing mark whereby to indicate to any member of any 
 election board or other person how any voter has voted. Section 200. 
 
 Inducing, or attempting to induce, any voter to write, paste or otherwise place 
 on his ballot any mark, sign or device of any kind as a distinguishing mark by 
 which to indicate to any member of any election board or other person how anr 
 other voter has voted. Section 200. 
 
 Entering into or attempting to form any agreement or conspiracy with any 
 other person to induce, or attempt to induce, any voter to place any distinguish- 
 ing mark, sign or device on his ballot, whether or not said act be committed, or 
 attempted to be committed. Section 200. 
 
 Directly or indirectly giving, lending, or agreeing to give or lend, or offering, 
 promising, or promising to procure, or endeavoring to procure, any money or other 
 valuable consideration or thing to or for any voter, or to or for any person in 
 order to induce any voter to vote or refrain from registering for any election. 
 Sections 202, 431 to 443. 
 
 Corruptly doing or committing any of the acts mentioned in the last preced- 
 
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 ing sentence on account of any such voter having voted or refrained from voting 
 at an election, or registered or refrained from registering for an election. Sec- 
 tions 203, 431 to 443. 
 
 Directly or indirectly giving or procuring, or agreeing to give or procure, or 
 offering or promising to procure, or endeavoring to procure, any office, place or 
 employment to or for any voter, or to or for any person on behalf of a voter, 
 or to or for any person in order to induce a voter to vote or refrain from voting, 
 or to register or refrain from registering. Sections 203, 431 to 443. 
 
 Corruptly doing any act mentioned in the last preceding sentence on account 
 of any voter having voted or refrained from voting or having registered or re- 
 frained from registering, for any election. Sections 203, 431 to 443. 
 
 Giving, advancing or paying, or causing to be given, advanced or paid, any 
 money or other valuable thing to any person or to the use of any person with 
 the intent that such money or other valuable thing or any part thereof, shall be 
 expended or used for bribery of voters or of any other unlawful purpose at any 
 election. Sections 403, 431 to 443. 
 
 Knowingly paying, or causing to be paid, any money to any person wholly or 
 in part expended in bribery of voters at any election. Sections 403, 431 to 443. 
 
 Directly or indirectly receiving, agreeing or contracting for any money, gift, 
 loan or valuable consideration, office, place or employment, by a voter, for him- 
 self or for any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for refraining or 
 agreeing to refrain from voting at any election, or for registering or agreeing to 
 register, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from registering for any elec- 
 tion. Sections 203, 43ito 443. 
 
 Directly or indirectly making use of, or threatening to make use of, any force, 
 violence or restraint, or inflicting or threatening to inflict, any damage, injury, 
 harm or loss against any employe by any employer, or by any agennt, superin- 
 tendent or overseer of any company or corporation employing workmen, in order 
 to induce or compel such employe to vote or refrain from voting for any par- 
 ticular candidate or candidates at any election. Sections 206, 431 to 443. 
 
 By any sort of duress, constraint or improper influence, or by any fraudulent 
 or improper device, contrivance or scheme, impeding, hindering or preventing the 
 free exercise of the franchise of any voter at any election. Section 206. 
 
 Compelling, inducing or prevailing upon any voter to vote for or against any 
 particular candidate or candidates at any election by any of the means described 
 in the next preceding sentence. Section 206. 
 
 Obstructing the entrance to any polling-place, obstructing or interfering with 
 any voter, or electioneering within any polling-place or publicly within one hun- 
 dred feet thereof. Section 207. 
 
 Removing, destroying or mutilating any registry list or copy thereof, or re- 
 moving, destroying or mutilating before the election closes any list of voters 
 posted in accordance with the law. Section 2og. 
 
 Swearing falsely in any affidavit to secure the registration of any person. Sec- 
 tion 35. 
 
 Causing or procuring his name to be registered in more than one election dis- 
 trict by any person. Section 34. 
 
 Causing or procuring his name, or that of any other person, to be registered, 
 knowing that he, or the person whose name is procured to be registered, is not 
 entitled to vote in the election district wherein such registry is made. Section 34. 
 
 Falsely personating any registered voter. Section 34. 
 
 Willfully obstructing or interfering with any election clerk on the way from 
 the polls to the office of the city clerk. Section loi. 
 
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 Bribing any person at any election. Sections 219, 431 to 443. 
 
 Willfully neglecting or refusing to perform any duty imposed upon an elector 
 to whom any soldier's or sailor's ballot shall be sent. Section 229. 
 
 Delivering or presenting to any district board of election any false, forged, 
 altered or changed ballot, envelope or instrument of any soldier or sailor. Sec- 
 tion 230. 
 
 Directly or indirectly controlling, or attempting to control, any enlisted elector 
 in the exercise of his rights of suffrage by menace, bribery, fear of punishment, 
 hope of reward, or any other corrupt or arbitrary measure or resort whatever, or 
 annoying, injuring or otherwise punishing any such absent, enlisted elector for 
 the manner in which he may have exercised his rights. Section 231. 
 
 Any; candidate endorsed for nomination by any political party at any primary 
 election, or any person nominated by petition for any elective office, shall file, 
 within five days after filing petition of nomination, the names of person or per- 
 sons who shall have charge of campaign moneys. Section 379. 
 
 No candidate shall expend any money except through such committee so nomi- 
 nated. Section 379. 
 
 Treasurer of such committee shall file within five days after primary election 
 and twenty days after general election an itemized statement of all moneys re- 
 ceived or disbursed. Section 380. 
 
 Every candidate shall file statement of personal contributions. Section 381. 
 
 Any candidate who shall refuse or neglect to file, or who shall make false 
 statement of moneys received or expended, in addition to other penalties, shall 
 forfeit the office to which he may have been elected. Section 384. 
 
 Every claim against said committee must be presented within four days after 
 primary election and ten days after general election, and must be paid within 
 fifteen days after the completion of official canvass, and not otherwise. Section 
 385. 
 
 Court of common pleas may order paid bills not so presented, if satisfied that 
 there is no intentional misconduct shown. Section 386. 
 
 Every bill, placard, poster, pamphlet, advertisement or other printed matter 
 shall bear upon the face thereof the name and address of the pereons or commit- 
 tee causing the same to be published. Section 387. 
 
 No money shall be paid or any expense authorized or incurred by or on be- 
 half of any candidate for nomination or election for any purpose proliibited by 
 the provisions of this act. Section 388. 
 
 No money shall be paid or any expense authorized or incurred by any candi- 
 date except as provided for in Section 389. 
 
 The expenses or contributions of any ascendant or descendant, brother, sister, 
 uncle, aunt, nephew, niece of any candidate, or of any fellow official of a cor- 
 poration, shall be considered the same as the expenses or contributions of the 
 candidate himself. Section 390. 
 
 No money shall be paid or any expense authorized or incurred on behalf of 
 any candidate for the hiring of any vehicle for the transportation of voters to 
 or from the polls, nor for the hiring of watchers at the polls on election day 
 except the two persons provided by law. Section 39 t. 
 
 The court may order transportation furnished. Section 392. 
 
 No payment of money shall be made or any expense authorized or incurred 
 by any person in aid of or for any candidate except by the committee heretofore 
 referred to. Section 394' 
 
 No person shall, in any way, contribute money or other valuable consideration 
 to or for any person for the doing of any act forbidden under tb.e election lavfs^^ 
 
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 for the commission of any crime against the election franchise ; for colonizing ; 
 for hindering voters ; for securing the withdrawal of a candidate, or for any pur- 
 pose in contravention of the provisions of this act; for making payments after 
 time limited. Section 395. 
 
 Name of giver must be entered. Section 396. 
 
 No person holding public office or position not filled by the voters, except per- 
 sons holding an appointive office for a terra which is fixed by law, shall contribute. 
 Section 397. 
 
 No person shall solicit contributions from any religious, charitable or other 
 organization. Section 398. 
 
 No person shall solicit any candidate for nomination or for public office to 
 subscribe for the support of any club or organization, or to buy tickets to any 
 entertainment. Section 399. 
 
 Certain corporations shall not contribute. Section 400. 
 No person shall pay for attendance at the polls. Section 401. 
 No person shall give or provide any political badge, button or other insignia 
 to be worn at or about the polls. Section 402. 
 
 No person shall pay, lend or contribute, or offer or promise to pay, lend or 
 contribute, any money or other valuable consideration, to any voter to vote or re- 
 frain from voting ; to give employment to any person in order to induce such 
 person to vote or refrain from voting ; to make any gift, loan, promise or offer 
 in order to induce such person or persons to procure, or endeavor to procure, 
 the election of any person ; or to promise to furnish funds for bribery ; to fur- 
 nish money for board and lodging ; to assist in evading arrest o-f any person, or 
 to pay for the endorsement by delegates, associations, etc. ; to secure the with- 
 drawal of any candidate for public office. Section 403. 
 
 No person shall receive or agree to receive any valuable consideration in con- 
 sideration of his voting or refraining from voting. Section 404. 
 
 No person shall willfully cause or allow himself to be registered on any regis- 
 tration list on which he is not entitled to be registered. Section 405. 
 
 No person shall willfully cause or allow any other person to be registered on 
 any registration list on which list such person is not entitled to be registered. 
 Section 406. 
 
 Every person who fraudulently votes, or who votes more than once at any 
 election, or who hands in two or more tickets folded together, or changes any 
 ballot after the same has been deposited in the ballot-box, or who adds or at- 
 tempts to add any ballots to those legally polled, with the intent of changing the 
 result of said election, or destroys or attempts to destroy any poll list, or ballots, 
 or ballot-box, or willfully detains, mutilates or destroys any election returns, or 
 in any manner so interferes with the officers holding said election, they shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 407. 
 
 Every person who fraudulently attempts to vote, or who impersonates any other 
 voter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 408. 
 
 Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the provisions 
 of any law of this State relative to elections, who willfully neglects or refuses to 
 perform it, or who, in his official capacity, knowingly and fraudulently acts in 
 contravention or violation of any of the provisions of such laws, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor. Section 409. 
 
 Any person offending against any provision of this act is a competent witness 
 against another person so offending. Section 410. 
 Betting is unlawful. Section 411. 
 
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 Eevery candidate who refuses or neglects to file the statement required by sec- 
 tion 435 of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 412. 
 
 It is unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to make threats to 
 abduct or otherwise affect the voting of any person, either by duress, or other 
 forcible or fraudulent device or contrivance. Section 414. 
 
 Pay envelopes shall not bear political expressions. Section 414. 
 
 Posting of political hand-bills, containing threats or notice affecting elections, 
 shall not be posted in factories. Sectien 414. 
 
 Corporations shall forfeit charter for violation of the provisions of Section 414. 
 
 Election officers seeking to or disclosing voter's ballot, guilty of misdemeanor. 
 Section 4I5' 
 
 Duty of prosecutor of pleas to inquire into violations of corrupt practices act. 
 Section 416. 
 
 Penalty of candidates for violating corrupt practices act is forfeiture of office. 
 Section 417. 
 
 Contested elections. Sections 418, 420. 
 
 XXXI. PRIMARY ELECTIONS. 
 
 Objects — 
 
 The objects for which primary elections are to be held are two, viz.: (i) To 
 elect delegates to party conventions to nominate candidates for President and 
 Vice-President; (2) to elect party candidates directly and without any convention 
 for all other offices. Sections 240, 289 to 293, 317, 342 to 347. 
 
 Time of Primary Election — 
 
 Primary elections are held on the fourth Tuesday of September in each year 
 from 7 A. M. to 9 o'clock P. M. Section 337. 
 
 Place of Holding Primary Election — 
 
 The primary election in a particular election district shall be held at the place 
 where the voters of that district are to be registered. Section 241. 
 
 Voting Places, Booths, Etc., to be Provided — 
 
 The municipal or township clerk shall, at least twenty days before the primary 
 election, secure in each election district a suitable room for the registry of voters 
 and the primary election, and notify the registry or poll clerk or board of registry 
 and election thereof; he shall also arrange the same for a polling-room and erect 
 therein booths and furnish the same with black lead pencils in the same manner 
 as for the general election. Section 250. 
 
 Nomination of Candidates at Primary Election — 
 
 Where a candidate for public office is to be voted for in a single election dis- 
 trict, or in a township, borough or ward which contains but one election district, 
 ten or more voters of any political party, and in any township, borough or ward 
 
391 
 
 having two or more election districts, twenty-five or more voters of any political 
 party shall file with the municipal or township clerk a petition, addressed to such 
 clerk, endorsing any member of their political party for nomination by their party 
 at the primary election ; the petition so filed shall request that the name of the 
 person so endorsed be printed on the official ballot of the party to which the peti- 
 tioners belong ; the endorsed person who shall receive the largest number of votes 
 at the primary election shall be the party candidate at the general election. Sec- 
 tions 241, 243, 260. Each candidate must file a written acceptance. Section 244. 
 (See Form No. 26.) 
 
 Nomination of Delegates at Primary Election — 
 
 Where a candidate for public office is to be nominated by delegates (Presidential 
 electors), any ten or more voters of any political party may file with the municipal 
 or township clerk a petition addressed to such clerk endorsing any member of 
 their political party as a candidate for the position of delegate to a political con- 
 vention of said party; the petition so filed shall request that the name of the 
 person so endorsed be printed on the official ballot of the party to which the 
 petitioners belong ; the endorsed person who shall receive the largest number 
 of votes at the primary election shall be a delegate to the ensuing political con- 
 vention of his party. Sections 241, 243, 260. Each nominee for position of dele- 
 gate must also file a written acceptance. Section 244. (See Form No. 27.) 
 
 Election of County and City Committee — 
 
 Section 245. 
 
 Election of Members of State Committee — 
 
 Section 370. 
 
 XXXII. NOMINATIONS UNDER DIRECT PRIMARY ACT. 
 
 Sections 289 to 293. {Form 30.) 
 
 Officers to be voted for by the voters of an entire municipality may be nomi- 
 nated as above stated, except that the petition for nomination must contain not 
 less than fifty signers, and must be filed with the municipal clerk not less than 
 twenty days before the primary election. Sections 289 to 393, also 243 and 347. 
 
 Candidates for the office of Governor or Representative in Congress shall be 
 nominated directly, without the intervention of delegates or conventions, at the 
 primary election held in September. Not less than 1,000 voters of any political 
 party may file with Secretary of State a petition endorsing any member of their 
 party as a candidate for nomination of said party for the office of Governor. Sec- 
 tions 342 and 343. 
 
 Not less than 200 voters of any political party in any congressional district com- 
 prising more than one county may file with the Secretary of State a petition en- 
 dorsing any member of their party as a candidate for nomination of said party 
 to the position of Representative in Congress in said district. Sections 306 and 
 343- 
 
 Where any congressional district is laid out wholly within a single county the 
 petitions must be filed with the county clerk of said county. Section 343. 
 
Notice of Primary Election — 
 
 At least ten days before the primary election, the poll clerks shall give notice 
 of the time and place thereof by five or more advertisements posted at conspicu- 
 ous places in the election district. Section 252. (See Form No. 28.) 
 
 Official Ballot — 
 
 Section 345- 
 
 Delivery of Ballots and Ballot-Boxes — 
 
 Section 251. 
 
 Official Oath — 
 
 Section 252. {Form 29.) 
 
 How Conducted — 
 
 Sections 241 and 252. 
 
 Who May Vote— 
 
 Section 332- 
 
 How to Vote — 
 
 Section 346' 
 
 Challenges — 
 
 If a voter at a primary election be challenged he shall make oath in the form 
 prescribed. Section 252. Persons authorized to challenge voters are the election 
 officers (Section 252), the two agents appointed by the chairman of the county 
 committee of each political party (Section 264), and every person whose name is 
 printed on the official primary ballot (Section 264.) The appointment of agents by 
 the chairmen of the county committees may be made in writing and be filed with 
 the respective boards of registry and election. Section 264. 
 
 Canvassing Ballots and Making Statements Thereof — 
 
 The board of registry and election shall canvass the ballots cast for each party 
 at a primary election, deliver to the municipal or township clerk a statement of 
 the results thereof. Sections 241, 254, 255. 
 
 Who Considered Duly-elected Candidates for Public Office — 
 
 Section 256. 
 
 Procedure Where Candidate Dies or Declines — 
 
 If a candidate for office in a single ward or township die or decline after the 
 primary election and before the general election, the proper committee of the 
 
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 party to which the person dying or declining belongs shall file a new nomination 
 with the municipal or township clerk. Sections 256, 305- If a person endorsed in 
 a petition as a candidate to be voted for at a primary election die or decline be- 
 fore such primary election, the vacancy shall be filled by a majority of the per- 
 sons who signed the petition of the person so dying or declining, signing and filing 
 a new petition, to be verified by three of the signers thereto. Section 258. If a 
 person elected as delegate to a convention die or decline after the primary elec- 
 tion and before the date of the convention, his place shall be filled by a majority 
 vote of the other delegates selected from the election district in which the person 
 so dying or declining was elected. Section 260. 
 
 Expression of a Voter at Primaries for United States Senator — 
 
 Sections 2Q4 and 293. 
 
 Each candidate for the nomination for the office of State Senator or Member of 
 the General Assembly, or for election to either of such offices, shall file with his 
 nominating petition, or at any time before the primary or general election, with 
 the county clerk, one of the statements set forth in section 341- 
 
 XXXIII. STATE CONVENTION. 
 
 A State convention of each political party shall be held each year. The said 
 convention shall be made up of the following members : First, the party candidates 
 who have been nominated at the party primaries in September immediately pre- 
 ceeding the convention for the office of Member of Assembly or State Senator in 
 each county of the State ; second, the candidate of the party for Governor nomi- 
 nated at said primaries in the year in which a Governor is elected, and in each 
 year in which no Governor is elected, the Governor of the State shall be a mem- 
 ber of the convention of the political party to which he belongs; third, members 
 of the State Senate belonging to said party who are holding office at the time of 
 holding of the State convention and whose successors are not to be chosen at the 
 ensuing general election ; fourth, members of the State committee. Section 370. 
 
FORMS 
 
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FORMS. 
 
 No. 1 — Notice of Election by Secretary of SUte to County Clerk. ; 
 
 [This notice is required by Section 5 to be given In the month of August. Within 
 
 fifteen dtys after Its receipt the county clerk is required, by the 
 
 same section, to transmit a certified copy of It to 
 
 the clerk of each township, city or other 
 
 municipality in the county.] 
 
 To 
 
 Clerk of the County of 
 
 In conformity with the provisions of an act entitled "An act to regulate 
 elections (Revision of 1898)," approved April 4th, 1898, you are hereby notified 
 that electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, a Member 
 of the House of Representatives of the United States for the Con- 
 gressional District, and a Member of the Senate of this State for the County 
 
 of (or as the case may be) are to be elected at the next general 
 
 election to be held November 3rd, 1914- 
 
 Dated at Trenton, New Jersey, August , I9i4. 
 
 Scretary of State of New Jersey. 
 
 No. 2 — ^Notice of Election by County Clerk to Township, City and Other 
 
 Municipal Clerks. 
 
 [This notice is required by Section 6 to be given in the month of August.] 
 
 To 
 
 Clerk of the Township of (City or other Municipality) of 
 
 In conformity with the provisions of an act entitled "An act to regulate 
 elections (Revision of 1898)," approved April 4th, 1898, you are hereby notified 
 that a sheriff (three coroners, a county clerk, a register of deeds, a surrojiatc, 
 or as the case may be) are to be elected at the next general election to be held 
 November 3rd, 1914. 
 
 Dated at , in the county of , and State 
 
 of New Jersey, August , 19I4' 
 
 Qerk of the County of 
 
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298 
 
 No. 3 — General Notice of Election by Township, City or Municipal Clerk. 
 
 [This notice is required by Section 7.] 
 
 Notice is hereby given that an election will be held in the township (city, or 
 
 other municipality) of , in the county of , 
 
 on Tuesday, the third day of November, A. D. 1914, between the hours of 6 o'clock 
 in the morning and 7 o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of electing (name 
 all offices to be filled at the election). Said election will be held at the following 
 places : 
 
 In District No. i, in said township (or, in District No. i in the 
 
 ward of said city or other municipality), at 
 
 In District No. 2, in said township (or, in District No. 2 in the 
 
 ward of said city or other municipality), at 
 
 In District No. 3, in said township (or, in District No. 3 in the 
 
 ward of said city or other municipality), at 
 
 Witness my hand this day of October, A. D. 1914. 
 
 Qerk of the Township (City or other 
 Municipality) of 
 
 No. 4. — CeVtiBcate by the Secretary of State to the County Clerks of 
 Names of Candidates. 
 
 [This certificate Is required by Section 43.] 
 
 State of New Jersey, 
 
 Department of State. 
 
 A statement of all the candidates nominated by certificate or petition filed 
 
 in the office of the Secretary of State in pursuance of an act entitled "An act to 
 
 regulate elections (Revision of 1898)," approved April 4th, 1898, for whom 
 
 voters within the county of are by law entitled to vote at 
 
 the general election to be held on the third day of November, 1914. 
 
 FOR THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR. 
 
 Names of Candidates. 
 
 Residences. 
 
 Names of Parties 
 Nominating. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
299 
 
 FOR lilE OFFICE OF MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 
 UNITED STATES. 
 
 Names of Candidates. 
 
 Residences. 
 
 Names of Parties 
 Nominating. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 I Hereby Certify that the foregoing statement is correct and true. Witness 
 my hand and seal of office this day of October, 1914. 
 
 Secretary of State. 
 
 No. 5. — Certificate by County Clerk to Secretary of State of Names of 
 
 Candidates. 
 
 [This certificate is required by Section 42.] 
 
 To the Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey : 
 
 Pursuant to the provisions of the act entitled "An act to regulate elections 
 (Revision of 1898,)" approved April 4th, 1898, I hereby certify the names, places 
 of residence and post-office addresses of the several candidates nominated for 
 Senator and members of the General Assembly to be voted for in the county 
 
 of , at the general election to be held on the third day of 
 
 November, 1914, and also the title of the party nominating said candidates, 
 and whether by convention or petition, with the dates of holding such conven- 
 tions and of the filing of certificates of nominations and petitions. 
 
 FOR SENATOR. 
 
 Names 
 
 Residences. 
 
 Post-Office 
 
 Addresses. 
 
 Party 
 Nomi- 
 nating. 
 
 By Conven- 
 tion or 
 Petition. 
 
 Date of 
 Holding Con- 
 vention. 
 
 Date of Filing 
 
 Certificate of 
 
 Nomination or 
 
 Petition. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 FOR MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 Names 
 
 Residences 
 
 Post-Office 
 Addresses. 
 
 Party 
 Nomi- 
 nating. 
 
 By Conven 
 
 tlon or 
 
 Petition. 
 
 Date of 
 Holding Con- 
 vention. 
 
 Date of Filing 
 
 Certificate of 
 
 Nomination or 
 
 Petition. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Witness my hand at , in the county of. 
 
 this day of November, A. D. 1914- 
 
 Clerk of the County of. 
 
 No. 6. — Notice by Township, City or Municipal Clerk to Diatrict Bowrd; 
 of Reistry and Election of Location of Room for 
 Registry and Election. 
 
 [This notice is required by Section 8.] 
 
 To the District Board of Registry and Election of Election District No , 
 
 Township (or Ward) of , County (or City) of : 
 
 You are hereby notified that I have procured a room at in 
 
 the above-stated election district, in which your board shall meet to make and 
 revise the register of voters for the general election to be held on November 
 3rd, 1914, and also in which to hold said election. 
 
 Dated , A. D. 1914. 
 
 Clerk of the Township (or City) of. 
 
 No. 7. — ^Affidavit of Voter for Registration. 
 
 [Form of affidavit of a voter to show the right of another to have his name entered 
 on the register. Sections S3, S4. 26, 29, 82, 883, 849.] 
 
 V Jersey, I 
 Zounty, j 
 
 ss. 
 
 State of New 
 
 , County, 
 
 ,, being duly sworn, on his oath saith, that he is a legal 
 
 voter in the District, Township of 
 
 County of , and that his address is at # 
 
 in said District ; that he is well acquainted with , who re- 
 
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 sides at , in the township and county aforesaid, and that 
 
 he, the said has resided in the State of New Jersey for 
 
 one year last past and in the county of for five months 
 
 last past that he is a citizen of the United States and is a legal voter in said 
 election district. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me 
 this .... day of , A. D. 1914 
 
 :| 
 
 No. 8. — Certificate of Nomination by Party Convention. 
 
 [This form Is prepared for use in cases of nominations by party conventions. It is 
 easily adapted to cases of nominations by party conventions for the whole State, for 
 Congrressional districts, for counties, or for townships and municipalities. When 
 the certificate is filed with the Secretary of State, it should be done at least twenty- 
 five days before the election; when with the county clerk, at least fifteen days 
 before the election; and when with the municipal clerk, at least twenty-five days 
 before the election. See Section 42.] 
 
 This Certifies, That at a Convention of Delegates held at , 
 
 in the county of , on the day of , 1914. 
 
 and representing the party, a political party which at the 
 
 [Not more than three words.] 
 general election next preceding the holding of said convention polled for members 
 of the General Assembly at least two per centum of the total vote cast in 
 the , the following nominations were made : 
 
 Office to be Filled. 
 
 Name of Candidate. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Post-Office Address 
 
 [Print or write all the above entries very plainly.] 
 Witness our hands this day of , A. D. 1914. 
 
 Presiding Officer of the Convention. 
 Residence. , p, O. Address 
 
 Residence . 
 
 Secretary of the Convention. 
 , P. O. Address 
 
 State of New Tkrsey. / 
 
 n . \ ss. 
 County, V 
 
 I, , being duly sworn, depose and say that I was the 
 
 Presiding Officer of the Convention named in the foregoing certificate, and 
 
 that said certificate and the statements therein contained are true, as I verily 
 
 believe. 
 
 this .... day of , A. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before 
 
 D. 1914. ) 
 fore me, T 
 
302 
 
 State of New Jersey, 
 
 \ 
 
 . County, ' 
 
 I, , being duly sworn, depose and say that I was the 
 
 Secretary of the Convention named in the foregoing certificate, and that said 
 certificate and the statements therein contained are true, as I verily believe. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed 
 this .... day of 
 
 i before me, / 
 
 ,, A. D. 1914. r 
 
 I, , the candidate mentioned in the foregoing certificate, 
 
 do hereby accept the nomination for the office for which I am therein named. 
 
 Dated, , 1914- 
 
 No. 9 — Certificate of Nomination to Fill Vacancy. 
 
 [To be filed with the proper officer at least thirteen days before election. Section 45.] 
 
 This Certifies, That at a Convention of Delegates held at , 
 
 in the county of , on the day of , 1914, 
 
 and representing the party, a political party which at the 
 
 [Not more than three words.] 
 general election next preceding the holding of said convention polled for members 
 of the General Assembly at least two per centum of the total vote cast in 
 
 the , the undersigned were appointed a committee to fill 
 
 vacancies ; 
 
 And Whereas, a vacancy exists in the nomination by said convention for the 
 
 office of , occasioned by the of the 
 
 [State reason.] 
 
 said , who was nominated as aforesaid, which nomination 
 
 [Name of candidate.] 
 
 was duly certified and filed in the office of ; Therefore, 
 
 we, the committee aforesaid, do hereby make the following substitute for the 
 said , nominated as aforesaid : 
 
 Office to be Filled. 
 
 Name of Candidate. 
 
 Residence. Post-Office Address 
 
 [Print or write all the above entries very plainly.] 
 Witness our hands this day of , A. D. 1914. 
 
 Chairman of Committee to fill Vacancies. 
 Secretary of Committee to fill Vacancies. 
 
Jersey, / 
 )unty, j 
 
 303 
 
 State of New 
 
 County, 
 
 I, , being duly sworn, depose and say that I am the Chair- 
 man of the Committee to fill Vacancies, appointed by the convention named in 
 the foregoing certificate, and that the said certificate and the statements therein 
 contained are true, as I verily believe. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me, 
 this day of , A. D. 1914. 
 
 State of New Jersey, ( ^^ 
 
 County, \ 
 
 I, , being duly sworn, depose and say that I am the Sec- 
 retary of the Committee to fill Vacancies, appointed by the convention named 
 in the foregoing certificate, and that the said certificate and the statements 
 therein contained are true, as I verily believe. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me, ) 
 this day of , A. D. 1914. j 
 
 I, , the candidate nominated to fill the vacancy mentioned 
 
 in the foregoing certificate, do hereby accept the nomination for the office for 
 which I am therein named. ) 
 
 Dated, , 1914. C 
 
 No. 10. — Nomination by Petition. 
 
 [Form of certificate of nomination by petition. May be adopted to the entire State 
 or to any district or subdivision thereof more or less than a single county. Section 41.] 
 
 To the Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey : 
 [Or to such other officer as may be proper under Secti.m 41.1 
 
 The undersigned, legal voters of the State of New Jersey, residing within the 
 
 coimty of , do hereby nominate the following named persons 
 
 for the several offices mentioned, to be voted for at the election to be held on 
 the third day of November, 1914: 
 
 Office to be Filled. 
 
 Name of Candidate. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Post-Office Address 
 
 [Print or write all the above entries very plainly.] 
 
304 
 
 And we do hereby certify that each of the candidates above named is legally 
 qualified to hold the office for which he is nominated, and that your petitioners 
 are legally qualified to vote for said candidates. The title of the party (or 
 
 principle) which said candidates represent is 
 
 [Not more than three words.] 
 
 Witness our hands this day of , A. D. 1914. 
 
 Signature.* 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Post-office Address 
 
 Street No. (if any). 
 
 [♦A voter may sign one petition for each officer to be nominated, and no more, 
 but all the names need not be signed to one petition. Section 41.] 
 
 [At least five of the voters signing the petition shall take and subscribe the following 
 oath. Section 41.] 
 
 State of New Jersey 
 County^ 
 
 ;ey, ) 
 
 , ••; , and , being duly sworn, on 
 
 their oaths, respectively, do say that the foregoing petition is made in good 
 faith, and that they verily believe all the signatures thereto to be genuine and 
 those of duly-qualified voters. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me, 
 this day of , A. D. 1914. 
 
 J 
 
 We, the candidates mentioned in the foregoing certificate, do hereby accept 
 the nominations for the ofiices for which we are therein respectively named. 
 Dated, , 1914. 
 
 No. 11. — Nomination by Petition to Fill Vacancy. 
 
 [To be addressed to and filed with the proper officer at least thirteen days before 
 election. Section 46.] 
 
 Whereas, Certain legal voters of the county of did, on 
 
 the day of , 1914, in the manner and form prescribed by law, 
 
 nominate for the office of , and filed a 
 
305 
 
 certificate thereof with , as required by law ; And Whereas, 
 
 a vacancy exists in the nomination aforesaid, occasioned by the .' 
 
 [State reason.] 
 
 of said : Therefore, we, the undersigned, legal voters of 
 
 [Name of candidate.] 
 
 the State of New Jersey, residing within the county of , do 
 
 hereby make the following substitute for the said , nom- 
 inated as aforesaid : 
 
 Office to be Filled. Name of Candidate. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Post-office Address 
 
 [Print or write all the above entries very plainly.] 
 
 And we do hereby certify that the candidate above named is legally qualified 
 to hold the office for which he is nominated, and that your petitioners are legally 
 qualified to vote for said candidate. 
 
 The title of the party (or principle) which said candidate represents 
 
 is 
 
 [Not more than three words.] 
 
 Witness our hands this day of A. D. 1914. 
 
 [•A voter may sign one petition for each officer to; be nominated, and no more, 
 but all the names need not be signed to one petition. Section 41.] 
 
 [Here must be appended the oath of five voters, and the acceptance of the 
 candidate. See Form No. 70.] 
 
 No. 12. — Certificate of Appointment of Board of Registry and Election. 
 
 [The county board of elections appoint the several boards of registry and election. 
 
 Section 313.] 
 
 This is to Certify, That the County Board of Elections of the county 
 of have this day appointed the following persons, viz.. 
 
 to be members of the Board of Registry and Electiop for the 
 
 Election District in the of , in said 
 
 county of , from and including September ist, 191/, to and 
 
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 including August 31st, 1915, or until their successors are appointed and qualified. 
 Dated the day of August, A. D. 1914. 
 
 Chairman of County Board. 
 Secretary of County Board. 
 
 No. 13. — Certificate of County Board of Elections That Name of Voter 
 Has Been Added to Register. 
 
 LThis certificate should be presented to the proper board of registry and election, 
 and that board, if Ratisfij-d that the person then*in named Is entith'd to vote 
 in their election district, and not otherwise, should receive and file the certifi- 
 cate, add the person's name to their copy of the register, and allow him to 
 vote. See Section 25.] 
 
 To the Board of Registry and Election in Election District No , Town- 
 ship (or Ward) of , County (or City) of : 
 
 We, the County Board of Elections in and for the county of , 
 
 DO HEREBY CERTIFY that has applied in person to us for the 
 
 purpose of having his name placed on the register of voters in and for your 
 Election District; that proper evidence has been submitted to us satisfying us 
 that he is a legal voter entitled to vote at the election to be held in your Election 
 District on November 3rd, 1914; that it appears to us that his name has been 
 improperly or inadvertently left off the registry list for said election in your 
 Election District ; and that we have added his name to the copy of the register 
 for your Election District filed with us. 
 
 In witness whereof, we have caused this certificate to be signed by our Chair- 
 man and Secretary this day of , A. D. 1914. 
 
 Chairman. 
 Secretary. 
 
 ^o, 14. — Notice of Application to County Board of Elections to Have 
 Name of Registered Person Stricken From the Register. 
 
 [This notice should be delivered persoaq^lVy to the person whose name it Is desired 
 to have erased from the register; Or, in default of such service, it must be left 
 with some person over fourteen years of age at the assigned place of residence 
 of the person whose name it is desired to have erased. The service must be 
 made "at least two entire days" before the meeting of the county board. That 
 is. for the meeting of the county board on Thursday, October 29th, the notice 
 must be served not later than October 27th. and for the meeting on Saturday, 
 October 31st, not later than October 29lh. [See Section 25.] 
 
 You are hereby notified that I, the subscriber, a qualified voter of Election 
 District ■'No , in the township (or ward) of , in the 
 
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 county (or city) of , will apply to the County ' Board of 
 
 Elections in and for the county of , at their meeting to be 
 
 held at the county court house of said county [or, if they do not meet there, 
 state the place], on Thursday, October 29th, 1914 [or Saturday, October 31st, 
 1914], at eight o'clock in the morning, or as soon thereafter as said board can 
 hear said application, to have your name stricken from the register of voters 
 of said Election District, on the ground that you have not been a resident of 
 the State of New Jersey for one year [or, as the case may be]. 
 
 Witness my hand this day of , A. D. 1914. 
 
 No. 15. — Certificate of County Board of Elections That a Nsune Has Been 
 Erased From the Register. 
 
 [This cprtlflcate should be presented to the proper board of registry and election, 
 and that board should then receive and file It and erase trora their copy of 
 the register the name of the person therein given, and. refuse to receive his 
 vote if It should be presented. See Section 25.] 
 
 To the Board of Registry and Election in Election District No , Town- 
 ship (or Ward) of , County (or City) of : 
 
 We, the County Board of Elections in and for the county of , 
 
 DO HEREBY CERTIFY that it has appeared to us by affidavit of , 
 
 a qualified voter of your Election District, that notice in writing was given by 
 
 him to on the day of , A. D. 1914. 
 
 by delivering the same to said personally [or, if not deliv- 
 ered personally, then say, by leaving the same at , his assigned 
 
 place of residence, with , , a person above the age of fourteen 
 
 years, on the day of , A D. 1914, stating that at our 
 
 meeting held on this day application would be made to have the name of 
 
 said •. stricken from the register of voters for your Election 
 
 District, on the ground that he has not been a resident of the State of New 
 Jersey for one year [or, as the case may be] ; that we have accordingly exam- 
 ined into the said matter ; that it has appeared to our satisfaction that said 
 
 has not been a resident of the State of New Jersey for one 
 
 5'ear [or, as the case may be], and that for that cause he is not entitled to vote 
 in your Election District on November 3rd, 1914- And we further hereby 
 
 CERTIFY that the name of said has, by our order, been 
 
 erased from the copy of the register for your Election District on file with us, 
 on the ground that he has not been a resident of New Jersey for one year 
 [or, as the case may be]. 
 
 In witness whereof, we have caused this certificate to be signed by our Chair- 
 man and Secretary this day of ., A. D. 1914. 
 
 Chairman. 
 Secretary. 
 
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 No. 16. — Oath of Members of County Boards of Elections and of District 
 Boards of Registry and Election. 
 
 [This oath, when duly executed, shall be forthwith forwarded to the county clerk, 
 who is directed to file it in his office. Section 16.] 
 
 State of New Jersey, I 
 
 County, ) 
 
 I, , do solemnly and sincerely promise and swear 
 
 [or affirm] that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties of a 
 
 member of the Board of Registry and Election for Election District No , 
 
 in the township of , in the county of 
 
 lor, of a member of the County Board of Elections of the county of ], 
 
 to the best of my skill and ability. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me, 
 this .... day of , A. D. 1914. 
 
 No. 17. — Appointment of Agent or Challenger. 
 
 [This jjaper shall be filed with the county board of elections five days before the 
 election, and the county board of elections shall issue a permit in accordance 
 therewith to the person named therein. Section 63.] 
 
 To 
 
 Residence 
 
 By virtue of the authority vested in me by law, I do hereby appoint you as 
 
 one of the two Agents or Challengers to represent the ' party 
 
 at Election District No in the township of , and 
 
 county of , at the general election to be held November 
 
 3rd, 1914. 
 
 Witness my hand, this day of , 1914. 
 
 Chairman of County Committee. 
 
 [This form, with the necessary alterations, may also be used for the appointment 
 of Agents by candidates nominated by petition.] 
 
 No. 18. — Permit to Agent or Challenger. 
 
 [This permit must be presented by the person named therein to the election board 
 of the district named therein, and he shall then be permitted to remain within 
 the polling place while the election is in progress, and to be within the railed 
 enclosure while the ballots are being counted. Section 63.] 
 
 having presented to the County Board of Elections of 
 
 the county of , a paper under the hand of the Chairman 
 
 of the County Committee of the said county of , 
 
 appointing him as one of the two Agents or Challengers to represent the 
 
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 party of Election District No , in the township 
 
 of 3 , and county of , at the general elec- 
 tion to be held on November 3rd, 1914, be, the said , is 
 
 hereby permitted to act as such Agent or Challenger at the election in said 
 Election District, in accordance with the law of this State. 
 
 In witness whereof, the County Board of Elections of the county of 
 
 have caused this certificate to be signed by its Chairman 
 
 and Secretary, on this day of , A. D. 1914. 
 
 Chairman. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 [This form, with the necessary alterations, may also be used for Permits to Agents 
 appointed by candidates nominated by petition.] 
 
 No. 19. — Transfer Certificate. 
 
 (This certiiicate is issued in pursuance with Sections 359 and 360.) 
 
 Election District No , Township (or Ward) of , 
 
 County (or City) of 
 
 , who had been duly registered as a legal voter in this 
 
 Election District, having presented to this board a certificate directing his transfer 
 
 to the Election District No , Township (or Ward) of , 
 
 County (or City) of ; it is on this day of 
 
 ordered, that his name be erased from the registry of the first mentioned district 
 
 and be transferred to the Election District, in the Township 
 
 (or Ward) of , County (or City) of 
 
 Board of Registry and Election. 
 
 No. 19a. — Certificate Directing Transfer of Voter. 
 
 Election District No , Township (or Ward) of , 
 
 County (or City) of 
 
 It appearing to the satisfaction of the court that has 
 
 moved from Election District, in the Towaship (or Ward) 
 
 of , County (or City) of , in which 
 
 District he had been duly registered, to Election District No , in the 
 
Township (or Ward) of county (or City) of 
 
 It is thereupon on this day of Ordered that the Board 
 
 of Registry and Election of said Election District No , in the Town- 
 ship (or Ward) of , County (or City) of 
 
 place the name of the said upon the Registry of the said 
 
 Election District. 
 
 Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. 
 
 No. 20. — Receipt for BalloU. 
 
 [This receipt for ballots should be given by the party receiving them to the party 
 delivering them. See Section 54.] 
 
 I, , clerk of the city of Cor, clerk of 
 
 the township of ; or, one of the clerks of the hoard of reg- 
 istry and election of Election District No ^ in the Township of ; 
 
 or, as the case may be] do hereby acknowledge that I have received on this 
 
 day from , county clerk of the county of 
 
 [or, city clerk of the city of ; or, township clerk of the 
 
 township of ; or, as the case may be], sealed packages of 
 
 ballots having thereon respectively the following directions: 
 
 Dated November , A. D, 1914. 
 
 Clerk of [a» the case may be]. 
 
 No. 21. — ^Heading in Poll-Book. 
 
 [This form is prescribed in Section 67.] 
 
 Names of voters at an election held in the District of 
 
 , in the county of , on the day 
 
 of , in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred , 
 
 for (naming the offices to be filled). 
 
 No. 22. — ^Entry in Poll-Book on Adjournment for Dinner. 
 
 [This form is prescribed in Section 77.] 
 
 The whole number of the names of the voters in this poll-book whose votes 
 have been received during this election, up to the time of our adjournment for 
 
3" 
 
 dinner, being at i o'clock in the afternoon, is two hundred and twenty-six (or, 
 aa the case may be). 
 
 Judgre of Election. 
 Inspector of Election. 
 
 Clerks of Election. 
 
 No. 23 Entry in Poll-Book at CIom of Election. 
 
 [This form is prescribed in Beetion 86.] 
 
 The whole number of names of the persons whose votes have been received 
 during this election is three hundred and forty-five (or, as the case may be). 
 
 Judgre of Election. 
 Inspector of Election. 
 
 Clerks of Election. 
 
 No. 24. — Oatk of Person Who Claims Assistance by Reason of Blindness 
 or Inability to Read or Write. 
 
 [This oath is required by SecUon 368.] 
 
 You do solemnly swear that you are blind (or name any other physical disa- 
 bility), and that by reason thereof, you are unable to enter and remain in a 
 booth, or to prepare your ballot therein for voting at this election, without 
 assistance. So help you God. 
 
 The oath to a blind voter, or a voter unable to read or ■write, may be adminis- 
 tered with the ceremony of lifting up the hand and swearing by the ever-living 
 God, instead of that 5f touching and kissing the Book of the Gospels. When the 
 oath is administered with the ceremony of lifting up the hand it should be in the 
 following form: 
 
 You do solemnly swear by the ever-living God that you are blind (or unable 
 to read or write), and that, by reason thereof, you are unable to enter and 
 remain in a booth, or to prepare your ballot therein for voting at this election, 
 without assistance. 
 
 y 
 
 Where the blind voter, or voter unable to read or -write, has conscientious scruples 
 against taking an oath, he may affirm in the following form: 
 
 I, , being conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath, do 
 
 solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I am blind (or unable to 
 
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 read or write), and that, by reason tKereof, I am unable to enter and remain 
 in a booth, or to prepare my ballot therein for voting at this election without 
 assistance. 
 
 No. 25. — Commission of Messenger to Obtain Missing Statement of the 
 Result of an Election. 
 
 , [This form,,js authorized by Section 124.] 
 
 To . . .^ Esquire : 
 
 Whereas, No statement of the fesult of the election held on November 3rd, 
 1914, in District No. ,>. ^. . , ...v.inrtlJe:tpw4;iship (city, or as the case may be) of 
 
 , in the county of has been file(J in my 
 
 office : 
 
 Therefore, pursuant to the provisions of the act entitled "An act to regulate 
 
 elections (Revision of 1898)," approved April 4th, 1898, I, , 
 
 Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey (or, Clerk of the County of 
 ), do hereby appoint and commission you as my special mes- 
 senger to obtain a statement of the result of the election held on November 3rd, 
 
 19 14, in said District No , in the township (city, or as the case may be) 
 
 of in the county of , to the end that 
 
 the same may be forthwith filed in my office according to law. 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal 
 on this day of November, A. D. 19 14. 
 
 Secretary of the State of New Jersey 
 (or. Clerk of the County of ) 
 
 No. 26. — Petition Nominating Candidate for Public Office. 
 
 [Sefe Sections 241, 243, 260.] 
 
 To. 
 
 (City, borough, town or township clerk.) 
 Clerk of ....>..........,. .... ..... i 
 
 (City, borough, town or township.) 
 
 We, the undersigned, hereby certify : That we reside in 
 
 election district in the ward of the 
 
 (City, borough, town or township.) 
 
 and that we are qualified voters therein ; that we are members of the 
 
 party and that at the last election for members of the General Assembly we voted 
 for a majority of the candidates whose names were printed upon the ticket of 
 said party, and that we intend to affiliate with the said party at the ensuing elec- 
 tion ; that we endorse the person hereinafter mentioned as candidate 
 for nomination to the office of and we request that you print 
 
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 upon the official primary ballot of said party the name of the said person 
 We further certify that the residence and post-office address of the said 
 
 person so endorsed as follows : 
 
 (is or are) 
 
 Name. Residence. P. O. Address. 
 
 and that the said person so endorsed legally qualified under the laws 
 
 (is or are) 
 of this State to be nominated for the said office. 
 
 (Signature of Petitioners): 
 
 Name. Residence. P. O. Address. 
 
 State of New Jersey^ 
 County of 
 
 being duly upon his 
 
 (Sworn or affirmed) 
 
 saith, that he is one of the signers of the petition hereto 
 
 (oath or affirmation) 
 
 annexed ; that said petition is signed by each of the signers thereto in his own 
 
 proper handwriting ; that each of such signers is to the best of the knowledge and 
 
 belief of this a legal voter of the said election district, as 
 
 (deponent or affiant) 
 stated in said petition, and belongs to the political party named in said petition, 
 and that such petition is prepared and filed in absolute good faith for the sole 
 
 purpose of endorsing the person therein named in order to secure 
 
 (his or their) 
 nomination as candidate for office as stated in said petition. 
 
 before me 
 
 (Sworn to or affirmed) 
 
 this day 
 
 of 1914- 
 
 Certificate of Acceptance of Nomination for Public Office. 
 
 [This certificate must be annexed to the foregoing petition. See Section 244.] 
 
 I hereby certify that I am qualified for the office of 
 
 mentioned in the foregoing petition, and that I consent to stand as a candidate 
 for nomination at the ensuing primary election, and that if nominated I agree to 
 accept the nomination. 
 
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 No. 27. — Petition Nominating Candidate for Position of Delegate. 
 
 [See Sections 241, 243. 260.] 
 
 To 
 
 (City, borough, town or township clerk.) 
 
 Clerk of 
 
 (City, borough, town or township.) 
 
 We, the undersigned, hereby certify : That we reside in 
 
 election district in the ward of the , and 
 
 (City, borough, town or township) 
 
 that we are qualified voters therein ;that we are members of the 
 
 party, and that at the last election for members of the General Assembly we voted 
 for a majority of the candidates whose names were printed upon the ticket of 
 said party, and that we intend to affiliate with the said party at the ensuing elec- 
 tion; that we endorce the person hereinafter mentioned as candidate for 
 
 the position of delegate to the ensuing convention of the 
 
 (State, congressional, county, assembly, city, etc.) 
 said party ; and we request that you print upon the official primary ballot of the 
 said party the name of the said person . We further certify that the resi- 
 dence and postoffice address of the said person so endorsed 
 
 (is or are) 
 as follows: 
 
 Name. Residence. P. O. Address. 
 
 and that the said person so endorsed legally qualified under the laws 
 
 (is or are) 
 of this State to act as delegate to the said convention. 
 
 (Signatures of petitioners): 
 
 Name, Residence. P. O. Address. 
 
 State of New Jersey, 
 County of 
 
 being duly upon his 
 
 (sworn or affirmed) (oath or affirmation) 
 
 saith, that he is one of the signers of the petition hereto annexed ; that said peti- 
 tion is signed by each of the signers thereto in his own proper handwriting; that 
 
 each of such signers is to the best of the knowledge and belief of this 
 
 (deponent or affiant) 
 
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 a legal voter of the said election district, as stated in said petition, and belongs 
 to the political party named in said petition, and that such petition is prepared 
 and filed in absolute good faith for the sole purpose of endorsing the person 
 
 therein named in order to secure selection as delegate as stated in 
 
 (hiB or their) 
 said petition. 
 
 before me 
 
 (Sworn to or affirmed) 
 
 this day 
 
 of 1914' 
 
 Plain Certificate of Acceptance of Nomination for Position of Delegate. 
 
 [This certificate, or the next one, must be annexed to the foregoing petition. See 
 
 Section 244.] 
 
 hereby certify that qualified for the position of delegate 
 
 (I or we) (I am or we are) 
 
 to the convention mentioned in the foregoing petition, that consent 
 
 (I or we) 
 to stand at the ensuing primary election as candidate for the position of dele- 
 gate to the said convention, and that if chosen as such delegate, will 
 
 (I or we) 
 act as such delegate- 
 
 Certificate of Acceptance of Nomination for Delegate, with Request That 
 
 Name of Person Who is the Acceptor's Choice for Nomination 
 
 at the Convention be Printed on Ballot. 
 
 [This c«rtlflcat©, or the next preceding one, must be annexed to the last foregoing 
 petition. See Section 244.] 
 
 , the undersigned, hereby certify that qualified for the 
 
 (I or we) (I am or we are) 
 
 position of delegate to the convention mentioned in the foregoing petition, that 
 
 consent to stand at the ensuing primary election as candidate for 
 
 (I or we) 
 
 the position of delegate to the said convention, and that if chosen as such dele- 
 gate will act as such delegate ; that request that the name of 
 
 {I or we) (I or we) 
 
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 be printed opposite name on the official prim- 
 
 (ntiy or our) 
 
 ary ballot of the said party as choice for 
 
 (niy or our) 
 
 I I !••.. ! 1 
 
 (governor, congressman, senator, surrogate, sheriff, mayor, or as the case may be.) 
 
 No. 28. — Notice of Time and Place of Primary Election. 
 
 [This notice must be given by the poll clerks by five or more copies of it posted at 
 conspicuous places at least ten days before the primary election. Section 252.] 
 
 Notice is hereby given that a primary election for all political parties will be 
 
 held in and for the Election District, in , 
 
 (city, township, or as the case may be) (location) 
 
 at , in said Election District, on Tuesday, September 22, I9i4> 
 
 between the hours of one and nine o'clock in the afternoon. 
 
 Dated , A. D. 19 14. 
 
 Poll Clerks. 
 
 No. 29. — Official Oath of Officers Conducting Primary Election. 
 
 [This oath must be taken before opening the primary election. Section 252.] 
 
 State of New Jersey, County of , ss,\ I, 
 
 a member of the board of registry and election in and for the 
 
 Election District, in the , in said county, do solemnly swear 
 
 (city, townshhip, or as the case may be) 
 that I will to the best of my understanding and ability, conduct the primary elec- 
 tion in and for said Election District, on the twenty-third day of September, 
 A. D. nineteen hundred and thirteen, honestly and in accordance with the law, 
 so help me God. 
 
 Sworn to and subscribed before me this 
 day of September, A. D. 19 14. 
 
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 No. 30. — Petition Nominating Candidate for Public Office. 
 
 Primary Act. 
 
 Direct 
 
 [See Sections 289 to 293.] 
 
 To 
 
 Clerk of 
 
 We, the undersigned, hereby certify that we reside in the 
 
 of , and that we are qualified voters therein ; that we are 
 
 members of the party, and that at the last election for mem- 
 bers of the General Assembly we voted for the majority of the candidates whose 
 names were printed on the ticket of the said party, and that we intend to affiliate 
 with said party at the ensuing election. That we endorse the person., hereinafter 
 named as candidate . . for the office therein named, and we request that you print 
 upon the official primary ballot the name. . of the said person.. . We further cer- 
 tify that the residence and post-office address of the said person so endorsed 
 
 as follows : 
 
 (is or are) 
 
 Office to be Filled. Name of Candidate. 
 
 Residence. 
 
 Post-Office Address. 
 
 CPrint or write all the above entries very plainly.] 
 We do further certify that the said person . . so endorsed 
 
 legally 
 
 (is or are) 
 qualified under the laws of this State to be nominated for said office. 
 
 Signature. 
 
 Residence and Post Office Address. 
 
 State of New Jersey, 
 County of 
 
 being duly sworn, upon his oath deposes and says that he 
 
 is one of the signers of the foregoing petition ; that said petition was signed by 
 each of the signers thereto in his own proper handwriting; that each of the 
 signers thereto is, to the best of the knowledge and belief of this deponent, a 
 
 legal voter of county, as stated in said petition, and belongs to 
 
 the political party named in said petition, and that this petition is prepared and 
 
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 filed in absolute good faith for the sole purpose of endorsing the persons therein 
 named in order to secure their nominations as candidates for oflfice, as therein 
 stated. 
 
 Sworn to before me this 
 day of 
 
 , 1914. J 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF ACCEPTANCE. 
 
 We hereby certify that we are legally qualified for the offices for which wc 
 have been endorsed in the foregoing petition ; that we consent to stand as candi- 
 dates for nomination at the ensuing primary election, and that if nominated we 
 agree to accept the nominations. 
 
 (This blank can be used for nominating either county or municipal officers.) 
 
 FORM No. 31. 
 
 [AfEidavlt of voter, who, by reason of Illness or absence from the State, is unable to 
 register personally. Section 349.] 
 
 Affidavits must be filed with the District Board of Election on or before 
 
 October 20, 1914. 
 
 County of 
 
 } 
 
 , being duly sworn according to law, saith that he is a 
 
 citizen of the United States and a legal voter in the Election 
 
 District of the Ward of the City of , County 
 
 of ; that by reason of 
 
 (Illn»'ss or absence from the State of 
 New Jersey, as the case may be.) 
 is unable to register personally for the ensuing general election. 
 
 He further deposes and says that his name is ; that 
 
 his place of residence is ; that he occupies 
 
 (Street and number.) 
 
 ; that the name of the householder, tenant, 
 
 (State number of room or floor occupied.) 
 
 subtenant or apartment lesse is ; that his age is 
 
 years ; that he has resided in the State of New Jersey years ; that 
 
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 the county of his nativity is ; that he voted last in 
 
 (Give country, State or province of birth.) (Give name or municipality.) 
 
 in business under the name of 
 
 that he is or 
 
 employed by 
 
 present is 
 
 that the location of his business or employment 
 
 last was 
 
 (Signature) 
 **Sworn and subscribed to before me 
 this day of , 1914- 
 
 FORM No. 32. 
 
 [United States Government. Section 428.] 
 
 Affidavits must be filed with the District Board of Election on or before the 
 last registry day. 
 
 State of . 
 County of 
 
 }... 
 
 , being duly sworn according to law, on his oath saith that 
 
 he had attained the age of twenty-one years and has a legal residence in the State 
 of New Jersey, but is now living out of the State, in the employ of the United 
 States Government; that he has the right to and desire to exercise the right of 
 
 franchise in the Election District of the 
 
 Ward of the of , County of 
 
 in the State of New Jersey. 
 
 He further deposes and says that his name is ; 
 
 that his place of residence is , ; that he occupies ; 
 
 (Street and number) 
 (state number of room or floor occupied) 
 that the name of the householder, tenant, subtenant or apartment lessee is 
 
 ; that his age is years ; that he has 
 
 resided in the State of New Jersey years ; that the 
 
 ♦If the voter is In business for himself or with others, the name under which 
 he is so in business, or if the voter is employed by some other person, the name of 
 his present employer. If he is not in business and hs^ no employment, the word 
 "none" shall be cntrrrd, together with the name under which he was last in business 
 or the name of his last employer, if any. 
 
 ♦•Tf the above affidavit is talcen outside of the State of New Jersey, it shall be 
 accompanied by a proper certificate from the clerk of a court of record, in the 
 county where such affidavit Is taken, showing the authority of the person admin- 
 istering the oath to take affidavits. 
 
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 country of his nativity is ; that he voted last in 
 
 (give country, state or province of birth) 
 
 ; that he is in the employ of the United States Gov- 
 
 Give name of municipality.) 
 
 ernment as 
 
 (give name of department or bureau) 
 
 (Signature) 
 
 Sworn and subscribed to before me 
 
 at this day 
 
 of , 1914- 
 
 FORM No. 33. 
 
 Designation of Campaign Committee, 
 
 I, the undersigned, a member of the Party, a candidate 
 
 for nomination for the ofl&ce of , do hereby name and ap- 
 point to receive, expend, audit and disburse all 
 
 moneys contributed, donated, subscribed, or in anywise furnished or raised, for 
 the purpose of aiding or promoting my nomination for the office above stated. 
 
 Dated, , 191 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 We, the undersigned, do hereby accept the above appointment and consent to 
 act as such committee. 
 
 The above designation must be filed with the original petition of nomination, or 
 within five days thereafter, and shall be filed with the official authorized to receive 
 and file the original petition of nomination. 
 
 FORM No. 34. 
 
 [Candidates for office, or for nomination for office, to be filled by the voters of a 
 political division greater than a county, shall file this statement with Secretary of 
 State, Candidates for j.11 other oflfices shall file statements with county clerk. 
 Section 381.] 
 
 State of New Jersey, 
 County of 
 
 I, , having, been a candidate for , 
 
 at the election, held in the State of 
 
 New Jersey, on the ' day of , 191 , do solemnly 
 
 swear that I have paid the sum of $ to 
 
 (Naming committee designated by him) 
 for my expenses at the said election, and no more, and that, excej as aforesaid. I 
 
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 have not, nor, to the best of my knowledge and belief, has any person, committee, 
 club, society or association, on my behalf, directly or indirectly, made any pay- 
 ment, or given, promised or offered any reward, office, employment, or valuable 
 consideration, or incurred any liability on account of or in respec\ of the conduct 
 or management of the said election, except such moneys as may have been paid 
 to or expenses by the said committee designated by me. 
 
 (Signed) 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me 
 
 this day of 
 
 191 . 
 
 FORM No. 35. 
 
 Statement bv Tre.\surer of Campaign Committee. 
 
 [This, -statement must give the names of each contributor or the source from 
 which moneys were received, and an itemized statement of all expendiures over 
 tive dollars; also the names of all persons to whom moneys w^ere paid, the specific 
 nature of each item, by whom the service was performed, and the purpose for 
 which it was expended, and be filed with the official with whom candidate's petition 
 was filed, within five days after any primary election, and twenty days after any 
 general election. Section 380.] 
 
 State of New Jersey, 
 County of 
 
 I, being the treasurer of the committee appointed by 
 
 to receive and expend funds in connection with his candi- 
 dacy for the office of , at the election, 
 
 held on the day of , 191 , do solemnly swear that 
 
 the following is a true, full and correct statement of svich receipts and expendi- 
 tures : 
 
 Receipts. Expenditures. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me this 
 
 day of A. D. 
 
 19T . 
 
 (Signed) 
 
Index to Instructions to Voters. 
 
 Pacb 
 Instructions Relative to the Duties of Officers and Voters — 
 
 I- Dates of General and Primary Elections, 258 
 
 II. The Governor, 358 
 
 III. The Secretary of State, 258 
 
 IV. County Clerk, 259 
 
 V- Township, City and Municipal Clerks, 260 
 
 VI. Governing Boards of Municipalities, 262 
 
 VII. Chairman of State Committee, 262 
 
 VIII- Chairman of County Political Committees, 262 
 
 IX. County Committee, . . . ; 262 
 
 X. State Committee, 262 
 
 XL Civil Service Commission, 262 
 
 XII. Judges of Court of Common Pleas, 263 
 
 XIII. Nomination of Candidates, 263 
 
 XIV. Official Ballots, 265 
 
 XV. County Boards of Elections, 266 
 
 XVI. District Boards of Registry and Election, 267 
 
 XVII- Privileges and Duties of Voters, 275 
 
 XVIII, Agents or Challengers, 276 
 
 XIX- Soldiers and Sailors, 277 
 
 XX. County Canvassers, ►. . 277 
 
 XXI. State Canvassers, 279 
 
 XXII. Recount of Votes, 281 
 
 XXIII. Contested Elections, 281 
 
 XXIV- The Legislature, , 282 
 
 XXV. House of Representatives, 283 
 
 XXVI. Presidential Elector!, 283 
 
 XXVII. Incompatible Offices, 284 
 
 XXVIII- Election Districts, 285 
 
 XXIX. Compensation of Election Boards, 285 
 
 XXX. Crimes and Penalties, 285 
 
 XXXI. Primary Elections, 290 
 
 XXXII. Nominations Under Direct Primary Act, 291 
 
 XXXIIL State Convention, .• 293 
 
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 No. I. Notice of election by Secretary of State to county clerk, 297 
 
 No. 2- Notice of election by county clerk to township, city and other 
 
 municipal clerks, 297 
 
 No- 3. General notice of election by township, city or municipal clerk, 298 
 No. 4. Certificate by the Secretary of State to the county clerks of 
 
 names of candidates, 298 
 
 No. 5- Certificate by county clerk to Secretary of State of names of 
 
 candidates, 299 
 
 No. 6. Notice by township, city or municipal clerk to district board of 
 
 registry and election of location of room, registry and 
 
 election, • 300 
 
 No- 7. Affidavit of voter for registration, 300 
 
 No. 8. Certificate of nomination by party convention, 301 
 
 No. 9- Certificate of nomination to fill vacancy, 302 
 
 No. 10. Nomination by petition, 303 
 
 No. 1 1. Nomination by petition to fill vacancy, 304 
 
 No. 12. Certificate of appointment by board of registry and election,.. 305 
 No- 13. Certificate of county board of election that name of voter has 
 
 been added to register, 306 
 
 No. 14- Notice of application to county board of election to have name 
 
 of registered person stricken from the register, 306 
 
 No. 15. Certificate of county board of elections that a name has been 
 
 erased from the register, 307 
 
 No. 16. Oath of members of county boards of elections and of district 
 
 boards of registry and election, 308 
 
 No. 17. Appointment of agent or challenger, 308 
 
 No- 18. Permit to agent or challenger, 308 
 
 No- 19- Transfer certificate, 309. 
 
 No. 19a. Certificate directing transfer of voter, 309 
 
 No. 20. Receipt for ballots, 310 
 
 No. 21. Heading in poll-book, 3i"0 
 
 No. 22. Entry in poll-book on adjourning for dinner, 310 
 
 No- 23- Entry in poll-book at close of election, 311 
 
 No- 24. Oath of person who claims assistance by reason of blindness 
 
 or inability to read or write 311 
 
 No. 25. Commission of messenger to obtain missing statement of the 
 
 result of an election, 312 
 
 No. 26. Petition for nominating candidate for public office, 312 
 
 No. 27. Petition nominating candidate for position of delegate, 314 
 
 No. 28. Notice of time and place of primary election, 316 
 
 No- 29. Official oath of officers conducting primary election, 316 
 
 No- 30. Petition nominating candidate for public office, direct primary 
 
 act, 317 
 
 No. 31. Affidavit of voters, municipalities over 5,000, 318 
 
 No. 32. Affidavit of voters, government employees, 319 
 
 No- 33. Designation of campaign committee, 320 
 
 No. 34- Statement by candidate, 320 
 
 No. 35- Statement by treasurer of campaign committee, 321 
 
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