Manual of the Registration and Election Laws of ... Delaware, for ... WilmingtonJ. Kirk & Sons, 1892 - 354 pages |
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aforesaid alphabetical lists Alternate Registrar applicant appointed Assembly assessor ballot boxes board of canvass Books of Registered candidates Castle County Castle Hundred cause certificate challenged Chapter Christiana Hundred city of Wilmington column headed contest conviction thereof County Treasurer deliver Department of Elections designated by law District shall vote duty East Dover Hundred elec Election Dist election is held election officers elector entered entitled to vote entries Governor hold the election holding elections hundred dollars hundred or election imprisoned inspec inspectors of election Kent County law for holding misdemeanor number of votes o'clock oath or affirmation offering to vote Peace penalty person voted persons entitled place heretofore designated Place of voting poll clerk poll list polling place presiding officer Prothonotary receive regis Registered Voters Registration officers Representative District residence Second Election District SECTION Sheriff special election stamp tion vacancy Voting Books Wilmington hundred writ of election
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Page 77 - ... no person in the military, naval, or marine service of the United States shall be considered a resident of this state...
Page 13 - ... 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...
Page 150 - You do solemnly swear (or affirm), that you will fully and truly answer all such questions as shall be put to you touching your place of residence and qualifications as an elector...
Page 118 - ... 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 33 - Falls constitution," then, and in that event, it shall be the duty of the...
Page 173 - Every such person shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail...
Page 96 - ... such person or persons shall for every such offence be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon every conviction thereof be punished by such fine or imprisonment, or both, as the court before which such person or persons shall be convicted shall adjudge.
Page 12 - 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 68 - Board to which such act, ordinance, or resolution shall have been so returned, shall, after the expiration of not less than ten days thereafter, proceed to reconsider the same. If, after such reconsideration, a majority of the members elected to the Board shall agree to...
Page 5 - 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...