Election Law of North Carolina |
Common terms and phrases
abstracts action appointed assembly attorney ballot boxes biennially thereafter board of canvassers board of commissioners board of county board of education board of elections cents certificate chairman chapter city or town clerk Code Congress constitution copy county board county canvassers county commissioners courthouse door defendant deposit duly duty elec election for members election held election precincts entitled to vote filed governor guilty hundred and six imprisoned judges of election justices meet misdemeanor Monday North Carolina notice number of votes Permanent Roll person political party poll books poll tax polling place president and vice-president qualified voters quo warranto received register of deeds registrar and judges registrar or judge registration books registration of voters residence respective counties returning officer seal secretary sheriff stock law superior court tax receipt term of office thirty days thousand nine hundred tion township vacancy vote a ticket votes cast ward or precinct
Popular passages
Page 12 - Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read and write any section of the Constitution in the English language...
Page 63 - The returns of every election for said officers shall be sealed up and transmitted to the secretary of State, directed to the speaker of the house of representatives...
Page 20 - You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that you are a citizen of the United States...
Page 33 - ... to the person who shall sue for the same, and the other to the use of the United States, to be recovered by suit in any district court of the United States, within whose jurisdiction such offense may have been committed.
Page 38 - When any person shall usurp, intrude into, or unlawfully hold or exercise, any public office, civil or military, or any franchise within this state, or any office in a corporation created by the authority of this state...
Page 38 - The writ of scire facias, the writ of quo warranto, and proceedings by information in the nature of quo warranto, are abolished ; and the remedies heretofore obtainable in those forms may be obtained by civil actions under the provisions of this chapter.
Page 63 - Senate, who shall open and publish them in the presence of a majority of the members of each House of the General Assembly. The person having the highest number of votes shall be...
Page 39 - Whenever such action is brought, the attorney-general in addition to the statement of the cause of action, may also set forth in the complaint the name of the person rightly entitled to the office, with a statement of his right thereto...
Page 11 - ... months next preceding the election: Provided, that removal from one precinct, ward or other election district, to another in the same county, shall not operate to deprive any person of the right to vote in the precinct, ward or other election district from which he has removed until four months after such removal.
Page 37 - Half to the Use of the Person who shall sue for the same, and the other Half to...