An Act to Regulate Elections (revision of 1898) Approved April 4th , 1898MacCrellish & Quigley, state printers, 1909 - 246 pages |
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act entitled affidavit aforesaid Amended appointed approved April fourth assembly ballot or envelope ballot-box board of election board of registry booth borough candidates chairman committee contest convention conviction thereof copy county board county clerk county or municipal deliver district boards dollars duly duty elec election district election held election officers entitled An act entitled to elect entitled to vote exceeding filed forthwith governor guilty hereby hereinafter hereinbefore imprisonment Jersey legal voters manner misdemeanor municipal clerk number of votes o'clock oath or affirmation office or offices official ballots official envelope Penalty person or persons political party poll-book position of delegate primary book primary election printed punished received registry and election resident result Revision of 1898 secretary senate signed single ward special election statement supplement term of office therein thereto tion township United States senator vacancy votes cast voting machine ward willfully writ of election
Popular passages
Page 121 - ... that 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 reason of his absence from such election district...
Page 217 - Every white male citizen of the United States, of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of the State one year next preceding the election, and of the county, township or ward in which he resides, such time as may be provided by law, shall have the qualifications of an -elector, and be entitled to vote at all elections.
Page 80 - ... shall be referred • to the same committee) by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.
Page 197 - The following persons shall also be deemed guilty of bribery, and shall be punishable accordingly : — (1.) Every voter who shall, before or during any election, directly or indirectly, 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...
Page 109 - ... any voter or to or for any other person, in order to induce any voter to vote, or refrain from voting, or shall corruptly do any such act as aforesaid, on account of such voter having voted or refrained from voting at any election; 2.
Page 30 - And in the event that he has already sent forth 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 principal he represents and the name of the person for whom such nominee is substituted.
Page 217 - 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 26 - ... when the nomination is for an office to be filled by the voters of the entire state...
Page 202 - In this state shall directly or indirectly, pay or use or offer, consent or agree to pay or use any money or property for or In aid of any political party, committee or organization, or for or in aid of any corporation...
Page 198 - ... 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 so testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, and no testimony so given or produced shall be received against him upon any criminal action, suit or proceeding, investigation, inquisition or inquiry.