Registration and Election Laws of the State of Delaware, Incorporating Recent Amendments TheretoPress of the Delawarean, 1906 - 210 pages |
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aforesaid Alternate Registrar appointed Appoquinimink Hundred Assembly Assessor Assistant Registrar authorized by law ballot boxes Blackbird Hundred Books of Qualified Books of Registered candidates Castle County Castle Hundred certificates Chapter Christiana Hundred City of Wilmington Clerk contest County Treasurer Delaware 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 Governor hereafter hereby hold the election holding elections hundred dollars hundred or election Inspector Kent County law for holding Levy Court Commissioners lists misdemeanor number of votes oath or affirmation officer authorized Peace Pencader Hundred persons entitled place heretofore designated Place of voting political party polls presiding officer primary election Prothonotary Qualified Voters Registered Voters Registration officers Second Election District Section Sheriff special election Sussex County trict vacancy VOLUME 22 Voters for Primary Voting Books Whiteleysburg Wilmington hundred
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Page 14 - ... no person in the military, naval, or marine service of the United States shall be considered a resident of this state...
Page 146 - ... 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 146 - When the person whose right is contested has given to any elector or inspector, judge, or clerk of the election, any bribe or reward, or has offered any such bribe or reward for the purpose of procuring his election, or has committed any other offense against the elective franchise defined in title four, part one, of the Penal Code. 4. On account of illegal votes.— 1875-100.
Page 14 - 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 81 - ... 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 153 - Act, either in person or through another, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars; and...
Page 140 - States, prior to the ordinary period, as hereinafter specified, electors shall be appointed in each State for the election of a President and Vice President of the United States...
Page 16 - ... 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 76 - ... print or cause or permit to be printed, any ballot in any other form than the one prescribed by this act, or with any other...
Page 9 - VicePresident of the United States, or for any office to be voted for by the electors of the State at large, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall be entitled to use four pages of printed space in the State campaign book provided for by Sections 6 and 7 of the above entitled "Law to limit candidates...