Article V — Elections
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Del. Const. art. V, § 1 Time and manner of holding general election
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The general election shall be held biennially on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November, and shall be by ballot; but the General Assembly may by law prescribe the means, methods and instruments of voting so as best to secure secrecy and the independence …
Del. Const. art. V, § 2 Qualifications for voting; members of the Armed Services of the United States stationed within State; persons disqualified; forfeiture of right
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Every citizen of this State of the Age of twenty-one years who shall have been a resident thereof one year next preceding an election, and for the last three months a resident of the county, and for the last thirty days a resident of the hundred or election district in which he m…
Del. Const. art. V, § 3 Influencing voter; loss of vote; challenge; oath and affirmation; perjury
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No person who shall receive or accept, or offer to receive or accept, or shall pay, transfer, or deliver, or offer or promise to pay, transfer or deliver, or shall contribute, or offer or promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a…
Del. Const. art. V, § 4 Registration of voters; days for registration; application to strike name from list; appeals; registration as prerequisite for voting
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The General Assembly shall enact uniform laws for the registration of voters in this State entitled to vote under this Article, which registration shall be conclusive evidence to the election officers of the right of every person so registered to vote at any General Election whil…
Del. Const. art. V, § 5 Electors privileged from arrest; exceptions
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Electors shall in all cases, except treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest, during their attendance at elections, and in going to and returning from them.
Del. Const. art. V, § 6 Certificate of election and ballots; delivery to Prothonotary; duties and composition of court; quorum
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The presiding election officer of each hundred or election district, on the day next after the general election, shall deliver one of the certificates of the election, made and certified as required by law, together with the ballot box or ballot boxes, containing the ballots, and…
Del. Const. art. V, § 7 Election offenses; penalties; self-incrimination
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Every person who either in or out of the State shall receive or accept, or offer to receive or accept, or shall pay, transfer or deliver, or offer or promise to pay, transfer or deliver, or shall contribute, or offer or promise to contribute, to another to be paid or used, any mo…
Del. Const. art. V, § 8 Prosecution for election offenses; procedure; appeal; bond
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Every prosecution for any of the offenses mentioned in Section 7 of this Article shall be on information filed by the Attorney General, after examination and commitment or holding to bail by a judge or Justice of the Peace, and the cause shall be heard, tried and determined by th…
Del. Const. art. V, § 9 Enumeration of election offenses as limitation on power of General Assembly
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The enumeration of the offenses mentioned in Section 7 of this Article shall not preclude the General Assembly from defining and providing for the punishment of other offenses against the freedom and purity of the ballot, or touching the conduct, returns or ascertainment of the r…
Del. Const. art. V, § 2B Residence requirements of persons from other states; election of President and Vice-President of United States; qualifications
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The General Assembly shall extend to a citizen of the United States who has resided in this State for at least three months next preceding an election but who does not meet the residence requirements established in Article V, Section 2 of this Constitution, the right to vote for …
Del. Const. art. V, § 2A Residence requirements in case of intrastate removal; election of President and Vice-President of the United States; qualifications
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The General Assembly shall extend to any elector in the State who shall have changed his residence from one county, hundred, or election district to another, but who has not resided therein for a sufficient time so as to be eligible to vote in the county, hundred or election dist…