Title 19, Title 19: ELECTIONS

19:14-14. Public questions at foot of ballot; instructions to voters Immediately below the six-point diagram rule to be printed in place of the last two-point hair line rule across the entire ballot, from one four-point rule to the other, shall be printed as near to the center of…

19:14-16 Style of type, rulings and spacing. 19:14-16. The words to be printed on the perforated coupon shall be printed in twelve-point bold-faced capital letters and the figures in eighteen and twenty-two-point bold-faced type. At the head of the ballot the words "Official Gene…

19:14-18. Number of ballots on hand Not later than noon of the fifth day preceding the general election the county clerk shall have printed and on hand in his office one and one-fifth times as many official ballots for each election district in each municipality in the county as …

19:14-19. Custody of printed ballots The county clerk shall keep such ballots in his custody and be responsible therefor until they shall be delivered to the municipal clerks as hereinafter provided.

19:14-2. Contents; names of candidates; public questions There shall be a single or blanket form of ballot, upon which shall be printed the names of all the candidates of every party or group of petitioners having candidates to be voted for at such election. The name of a candida…

19:14-2.1. Inclusion on general election ballot of candidate with votes in primary by irregular ballot or write-in vote; requirements The name of a person for whom votes are cast by irregular ballot or by write-in vote in a primary election to nominate candidates for elective off…

19:14-20. Correction of errors When it shall appear that an error or omission has occurred in the copy prepared by the county clerk for the printer or in the printing of the ballots by any county clerk, any voter resident in the county may present to a judge of the Superior Court…

19:14-21 Preparation; delivery of sample ballots and envelopes to municipal clerk or commissioner of registration. 19:14-21. The county clerk shall cause samples of the official general election ballot to be printed in English, but for each election district within the county in …

19:14-21.1 Information sent to newly-registered voters for general election. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a voter who registers after the 29th day prior to a general election and who is eligible to participate in that election may be sent, i…

19:14-22 Form and contents; color of paper. 19:14-22. The official general election sample ballots shall be as nearly as possible facsimiles of the official general election ballot to be voted at such election and shall have printed thereon, after the words which indicate the num…

19:14-23. Envelopes for mailing official general election sample ballots The stamped envelopes shall be of sufficient size and have sufficient postage to enable the official general election sample ballots and anything else required to be enclosed therewith to be mailed therein. …

19:14-24 Delivery by municipal clerks to district boards. 19:14-24. The municipal clerk to whom the sample ballots and stamped envelopes have been so delivered by the county clerk shall deliver the same at his office, or in any other way he sees fit, on or before noon of the Tues…

19:14-25 Mailing by district board or commissioner of registration; county board of elections; duties of. 19:14-25. In counties not having a superintendent of elections where the county board of elections does not have the equipment or facilities to address and mail sample ballot…

19:14-25.1 Sample ballot not required to be sent under certain circumstances. 9. A county clerk shall not be required to send a sample ballot for any election to a voter who has been sent a mail-in ballot for that election, pursuant to section 3 of P.L.2009, c.79 (C.19:63-3), and…

19:14-26. Preservation of envelopes and ballots returned by postmaster The county board, commissioner, or superintendent, as the case may be, shall preserve all envelopes and sample ballots which shall have been mailed by the district boards but returned to it or him by the postm…

19:14-27. Inclusion with sample ballot; other arrangements in certain counties Except as provided by section 19:14-33 of this Title, when any question or proposition shall be submitted to the people of the State at any general election or at any election held to vote on a constit…

19:14-28. Descriptive marks in case of amendments When an amendment to the constitution or to a statute is so mailed, such part thereof as is new and not contained in the existing constitution or statute shall be underscored, and if any portion of the existing law or constitution…

19:14-29. Relation to statute or constitution made clear When a copy of an act of the legislature is required by section 19:14-27 of this title to be printed and mailed to each registered voter, and such act is an amendment or supplement to a statute of this state, there shall be…

19:14-3. Detachable coupon; printing thereon Each ballot shall have at the top a detachable coupon the width of the ballot above a perforated line not less than two inches from and parallel to the upper edge of the paper. These coupons shall be numbered consecutively from one to …

19:14-30. Attorney general to designate information to be sent When under the provisions of this title it shall be necessary to mail to the voters any portion of the statute law of the state or any portion of the state constitution, the attorney general shall designate by writing…

19:14-31. Summary statement sufficient The attorney general, in place of or in addition to designating any portion of the statute law or state constitution to be so printed and mailed, may, if he deems proper, make a summary statement of the existing law or constitutional provisi…

19:14-32. Printing and delivery by secretary of state When by section 19:14-27 of this title copies of an act of the legislature or of a constitutional amendment are required to be printed and mailed, the secretary of state shall cause to be printed and, at least twenty days befo…

19:14-33. When referendum notices unnecessary It shall not be necessary for the secretary of state, or any other official, to cause notice to be published of any state-wide proposition directed by the legislature to be submitted to the people, nor shall it be necessary for the se…

19:14-34. County clerks to municipal clerks; packages sealed; record of delivery; receipts The county clerks of the several counties, not later than three days prior to the general election shall cause to be delivered to the clerk of each municipality within their respective coun…

19:14-35. Municipal clerk to member of district board; delivery by member of board to board; receipts The municipal clerk shall on the day preceding any such general election, deliver, at his office or in any other way that he sees fit, to one of the members of each district boar…

19:14-4 Official elections; ballots; specifications. 19:14-4. In the center of the ballot immediately below the perforated line shall be printed in bold-faced type the words "Official general election ballot." Below these words and extending across the ballot shall appear the wor…

19:14-5. Printing body of ballot From each end of such six-point diagram rule there shall be printed a four-point diagram rule extending at right angles and from such six-point rule to within not less than a half inch of the lower edge of the paper. Between these four-point rules…

19:14-6 Column designations; accompanying instructions. 19:14-6. In each column, immediately below the six-point rule, shall be printed the proper word or words to designate the column, to be known as the "column designation." In the columns at the extreme left shall be printed t…

19:14-7. Printed rulings on ballot Below such six-point rule and parallel thereto, extending across the entire ballot from one four-point rule to the other, shall be printed two-point hair line rules approximately five-sixteenths inch and not over twenty-four points apart of a nu…

19:14-8 Arrangement of ballots. 19:14-8. In the columns of each of the political parties which made nominations at the next preceding primary election to the general election and in the personal choice column, within the space between the two-point hair line rules, there shall be…

19:14-8.1. Ballots for presidential electors When Presidential Electors are to be elected, their names shall not be printed upon the ballot, either paper or voting machine, but in lieu thereof, the names of the candidates of their respective parties or political bodies for Presid…

19:14-9. Duplicate nominations for same office; selection of column and designation A candidate who receives more than one nomination for the same office, either from more than one political party or from more than one group of petitioners, or from one or more political parties a…