Registration and Election Laws of the State of Delaware, Incorporating Recent Amendments TheretoPress of Mercantile Print. Company, 1913 - 238 pages |
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aforesaid Alternate Registrar Amended appointed Appoquinimink Hundred Assembly Assessor ballot boxes Books of Qualified Books of Registered candidate Castle County Castle Hundred center line certificates Chapter Christiana Hundred Christiana River City of Wilmington Clerk County Treasurer deliver Department of Elections designated by law District shall embrace District shall vote duty East Dover Hundred Eastern Election District elec election held election officers electors entitled to vote envelope Governor hold the election holding elections House of Representatives hundred or election Inspector Kent County law for holding Laws of Delaware Levy Court Commissioners misdemeanor number of votes oath or affirmation officer authorized Peace Pencader Hundred persons entitled place heretofore designated Place of voting political party presiding officer primary election Prothonotary Qualified Voters receive Registered Voters Registration officers Second Election District Section Senate and House Sheriff special election Sussex County trict vacancy Volume 22 Voting Books White Clay Creek Wilmington Hundred
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Page 16 - Every male citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this State one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county, and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident...
Page 34 - That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Page 91 - ... and any ballot, or part of a ballot, from which it is impossible to determine the elector's choice of candidates shall be void as to the candidate or candidates thereby affected: Provided, however. That all such ballots shall be preserved, marked by the inspectors "not counted" and kept separate from the others voter.
Page 91 - ... the person or persons so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof...
Page 152 - ... whose right to the office is contested, which, if taken from him, 'would reduce the number of his legal votes below the number of votes given to some other person for the same office, after deducting therefrom the illegal votes which may be shown to have been given to such other person.
Page 17 - ... not paid, offered or promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at such election...
Page 16 - ... no person in the military, naval, or marine service of the United States shall be considered a resident of this state, by being stationed in any garrison, barrack, or military or naval place or station within this state...
Page 63 - Sec. 2. No person who shall receive, accept or offer to receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or withholding a vote at an...
Page 88 - Not more than one person shall be permitted to occupy any booth at one time, and no person shall remain in or occupy a booth longer than may be necessary to prepare his ballot and in no event longer than five minutes.
Page 199 - They shall have been for at least two years residents of the district for which they are appointed, one of whom shall be designated by said board as chairman of the board of directors of the Federal reserve bank and as "Federal reserve agent.