An Act to Regulate Elections (revision 1920) Passed May 5, 1920: With the Amendments and Supplements Thereof, and Other Acts Concerning Elections to the End of the Legislative Session of 1924MacCrellish & Quigely Company, state printers, 1924 - 380 pages |
Common terms and phrases
absentee elector's affidavit aforesaid Amended P. L. appointed Assembly ballot-box board of elections board of registry campaign manager candidacy chairman challenge lists column county board county canvassers county clerk county committee court day of registration delivered diagram rule district board duly duty elec election day election district election registry book entitled to vote envelopes Expenditures fifteen thousand filed Filling Vacancies forthwith legal voter mailed mark a cross misdemeanor municipal clerk municipal committee notice number of names number of votes oath official ballot official general election pality party position person or persons petition of nomination political party poll-book polling place President and Vice-President primary election registry printed prosecutor Proviso public office public question registers of voters registration day registry and election residence Secretary signature copy register signed special election statement therein thereof thereto tion title of office trict United States Senate votes cast
Popular passages
Page 311 - ... vacancies happen in the representation of any State In the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided. That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Page 140 - If a voter marks more names than there are persons to be elected to an office, or if, for any reason, it is impossible to determine the voter's choice for any office to be filled, his ballot shall not be counted for such office.
Page 274 - ... any voter, or to or for any other person, in order to induce such voter to vote, or refrain from voting...
Page 285 - Advances or pays, or causes to be paid, any money or other valuable thing, to or for the use of any other person with the intent...
Page 292 - ... him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he may testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before said Commission, or in obedience to its subpoena, or the subpoena of either of them, or in any such case or proceeding...
Page 103 - 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 in place of that of the original nominee. And in the event that he has already sent forward his certificate he shall forthwith 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 person...
Page 102 - The chairman and secretary of such committee shall thereupon make and file with the proper officer a certificate setting forth the 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 an original certificate of nomination.
Page 274 - Election: 5. Every Person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any Money to or to the Use of any other Person with the Intent that such Money or any Part thereof shall be expended in Bribery at any Election...
Page 275 - ... person having voted or refrained from voting, or being about to vote or refrain from voting at such election, shall be guilty of treating.
Page 285 - ... 5. Every person who shall advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money to or to the use of any other person with the intent that such money or any part thereof shall be expended in bribery at any election...