Title 19, Title 19: ELECTIONS

19:23-13. Vacancies caused by death or declining the office; new petition; oath of allegiance Should any person indorsed in any petition as a candidate to be voted for at any primary election, except for the office of "Choice for President," delegates and alternates to national c…

19:23-14 Certification by municipal clerk. 19:23-14. Petitions addressed to the Secretary of State, the county clerks, or the municipal clerks shall be filed with such officers, respectively, before 4:00 p.m. of the 71st day next preceding the day of the holding of the primary el…

19:23-15 Acceptance, statement by candidates to accompany petitions. 19:23-15. Accompanying the petition and attached thereto each person indorsed therein shall file a certificate, stating that he is qualified for the office mentioned in the petition; that he consents to stand as…

19:23-16 Person nominated by petition; filing of certificate. 19:23-16. Any person nominated at the primary by having the person's name written or pasted upon the primary ballot shall file a certificate stating that the person is qualified for the office for which the person has …

19:23-17. Designation on primary ticket of policy or faction. 19:23-17. a. Any person endorsed as a candidate for nomination for any public office or party position whose name is to be voted for on the primary ballot of any political party may, on the petition of nomination in wh…

19:23-18. Grouping of candidates. 19:23-18. a. Several candidates for nomination to the same office with multiple open seats to be voted on at a primary election may in such petitions request that their names be associated and that the common slogan or endorsement to be named by …

19:23-19. Defective petition; notice to candidates In case a petition of nomination shall be defective excepting as to the number of signatures, the officer with whom such petition has been filed shall forthwith notify any candidate so indorsed whose petition for nomination is de…

19:23-20. Amendment of defective petition; time specified. 19:23-20. Such candidate shall be permitted to amend the petition either in form or in substance, but not to add signatures, so as to remedy the defect not later than 4:00 p.m. of the third day after the last day for the …

19:23-20.1 Deadline for objection to nomination petition. 8. Every petition of nomination in apparent conformity with the provisions of this Title shall be deemed to be valid, unless objection thereto be duly made in writing and filed with the officer with whom the original petit…

19:23-20.2 Duties, responsibilities of officer with whom original petition was filed. 9. The officer with whom the original petition was filed shall in the first instance pass upon the validity of such objection in a summary way unless an order shall be made in the matter by a co…

19:23-21 Certification by Secretary of State. 19:23-21. The Secretary of State shall certify the names of the persons indorsed in the petitions filed in the secretary's office to the clerks of counties concerned thereby not later than noon of the 61st day prior to the holding of …

19:23-22 Certification by county clerk. 19:23-22. The county clerk shall certify all of the persons so certified to the clerk by the Secretary of State and in addition the names of all persons indorsed in petitions filed in the clerk's office to the clerk of each municipality con…

19:23-22.1. Certification by municipal clerks of nominees to county clerks in certain counties In counties having a population of 700,000 or more inhabitants and in second class counties having a population of not less than 300,000 or more than 425,000 inhabitants and in counties…

19:23-22.4. Printing ballots in counties In all counties the county clerk shall cause to be printed a sufficient number of official primary ballots and official primary sample ballots of each political party, in proper form for the mailing of such sample ballots at the times and …

19:23-22.5. Cost of printing ballots in certain counties In counties having a population of 700,000 or more inhabitants and in second class counties having a population of not less than 300,000 or more than 425,000 inhabitants and in counties having a population of not less than …

19:23-23. Separate ballot for each party There shall be separate ballots for each political party. Such ballots shall be alike in form for all political parties.

19:23-23.1 Findings, declarations. 1. The Legislature finds and declares that: a. The Elections Clause of the United States Constitution grants the State with the right and ability to make laws concerning the time, place, and manner of elections. b. State and Federal courts have …

19:23-23.2 Design standards, primary election ballots. 2. a. All primary election ballots used in this State shall comply with the following design standards: (1) the oval or space for the voter to mark a vote shall be to the left or to the right of the name of each candidate, an…

19:23-23.3 Severability. 13. The provisions of this act, P.L.2025, c.32 (C.19:23-23.1 et al.) shall be severable, and if any of its provisions shall be held to be unconstitutional, the decision of the court shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this act. L.…

19:23-24 Primary election ballots; position. 19:23-24. a. The position which the candidates for the primary for the general election shall have upon the ballots used for the primary election for the general election, in the case of candidates for nomination for members of the Uni…

19:23-25. Make up and printing ballot. 19:23-25. The ballots shall be made up and printed consistent with the requirements of section 2 of P.L.2025, c.32 (C.19:23-23.2) and in substantially the following form: At the top of each ballot shall be printed the words "Official Democra…

19:23-25.1. Designation or slogan on primary ballots No designation or slogan shall be printed on any ballot to be used in the conduct of any primary election in connection with any candidate or group of candidates for office, which designation or slogan includes or refers to the…

19:23-26.3 Data collection, ballot design changes; report, recommendations to Governor, Legislature. 8. a. The Division of Elections in the Department of State shall collect data from county and municipal clerks and county boards of elections on their experiences regarding the ch…

19:23-27. Printing of ballots; number; cost paid by municipalities Not later than twelve o'clock noon of the Saturday preceding a primary for the general election each municipal clerk shall have had printed and on hand in his office for the use of each of the political parties of…

19:23-28. Style of ballot; paper and type The ballots shall be printed on plain white paper uniform in size, quality and type and of such thickness that the printing thereon cannot be distinguished from the back of the paper, and without any mark, device or figure on the front or…

19:23-29. Error in ballots; correction When it shall appear that any error or omission has occurred in the copy prepared by the municipal clerk for the printer or in the printing of the official ballots for any primary election by any municipal clerk, any voter resident in any el…

19:23-30 Number of ballots and envelopes; printing; delivery; cost paid by municipalities. 19:23-30. a. 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 envelopes, …

19:23-30.1 Information sent to newly-registered voters for primary election. 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law to the contrary, a voter who registers after the 29th day prior to a primary election and who is eligible to participate in that election may be sent, i…

19:23-31 Sample ballot facsimile of official ballot. 19:23-31. The official primary sample ballot shall be, as nearly as possible, a facsimile of the official primary ballot to be voted at the primary election and shall be printed on paper different in color from the official pri…

19:23-32. Words on envelopes Each of such envelopes shall have printed on the face thereof, in large type, the words, "Official Primary Sample Ballot," and in smaller type, in the upper left-hand corner, the words, "If not delivered in two days return to the superintendent of ele…

19:23-33 Sample ballots and envelopes furnished to district boards or commissioner of registration. 19:23-33. 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 envel…

19:23-34 Mailing sample ballots. 19:23-34. Each of such district boards, 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 envelopes, and the commissioner of registr…

19:23-35 Posting sample ballots. 19:23-35. 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 envelopes, such district board shall also post three sample ballots in …

19:23-36. Return of unused sample ballots and envelopes In counties not having a superintendent of elections where the county board of elections does not have the equipment or facilities to mail sample ballot envelopes, the district boards shall return to the municipal clerk the …

19:23-37. Public display of returned envelopes All the envelopes which shall have been mailed but not delivered to the addresses and shall have been returned to the superintendent, commissioner or county board, shall be retained by the superintendent, commissioner or county board…

19:23-38. Municipal clerk to members of district boards; receipt The municipal clerk shall on the day preceding the primary election cause to be delivered, at his office, to a member or members of the district board of each election district within his municipality, the ballots a…

19:23-39. Members of district boards to board; receipts Such member or members shall on the morning of the primary election, before proclamation of the opening of the polls, deliver the ballot boxes and the ballots by them received to the election boards of their respective elect…

19:23-40 Primary elections, dates, time. 19:23-40. The primary election for the general election shall be held for all political parties upon the Tuesday next after the first Monday in June between the hours of 6:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M., Standard Time. It shall be held for all poli…

19:23-41. Officers in charge All of the members of the district board shall conduct the primary election for all political parties holding primary elections under this title.

19:23-42 Method of conducting primary elections. 19:23-42. The primary election for the general election shall be conducted by the district boards substantially in the same manner as the general election, except as herein otherwise provided. Each district board may allow one memb…

19:23-45 Requirements for voting in primary elections; affiliation. 19:23-45. No voter shall be allowed to vote at the primary election unless his name appears in the signature copy register. A voter who votes in a primary election of a political party or who signs and files with…

19:23-45.1 Notice of requirements for voting in primary elections, publication. 2. a. The county commissioner of registration in each of the several counties shall cause a notice to be published in each municipality of their respective counties in a newspaper or newspapers circul…

19:23-45.2. Cost of publication; payment by counties The cost of the publishing of the notices required to be published by this act by the county commissioners of registration shall be paid by the respective counties. L.1976, c. 16, s. 3, eff. April 8, 1976.

19:23-45.3. Rules and regulations The Secretary of State shall promulgate such rules and regulations as he deems necessary to implement this act, including the procedures to be followed in the filing, reporting and authentication of declarations of political party affiliation pur…

19:23-46 Determination of right to vote. 19:23-46. Each voter offering to vote shall announce his name and the party primary in which he wishes to vote. The district board shall thereupon ascertain by reference to the signature copy register or the primary election registry book …

19:23-47. Preparation and casting of ballots Such voter shall thereupon prepare and cast his ballot in substantially the same manner as is herein provided for the preparation and casting of ballots at the general election and subject to the same regulations. The blank space or sp…