Title 19, Title 19: ELECTIONS

19:7-5 Powers. 19:7-5. Such challengers shall be the authorized challengers for their respective political parties and candidates or for the proponents or opponents of a public question. They shall have the power to challenge the right to vote therein of any person claiming such …

19:7-6. Badge Every such challenger shall at any election wear a badge, to be furnished by the county board, which shall show to any person the political party or candidate or group of candidates or the side for whom or for which the challenger is acting. Amended by L.1956, c. 66…

19:7-6.1. Limitation on number of challengers present in polling place 1. Unless express permission be given by the district board, not more than one challenger appointed for a party, candidate, or on a public question, shall be present at any one time in any polling place while …

19:8-1. Location For the purpose of this title a polling place or room shall be within a building wherein a district board is directed as hereinafter provided to meet for the purpose of registering voters or conducting elections.

19:8-10. Location of ballot boxes in polling places The ballot boxes at every polling place shall be within the polling room or place, and so placed that the voter shall be able to deliver his ballot to the election officers after emerging from the booth before leaving the room o…

19:8-11. By whom provided and repaired The county board in counties of the first class and the board of chosen freeholders in counties other than counties of the first class shall provide sufficient ballot boxes for use in the polling places of each election district within the c…

19:8-12. Size and construction of boxes The boxes shall be at least one foot in depth, width, and length, measuring the same on the exterior thereof, and shall be constructed with wooden or metal tops and bottoms and wooden or metal frames and glass or metal sides. Each box shall…

19:8-2 Suggested list of available places, selection. 19:8-2. The clerk of every municipality, on or before April 1 shall certify to the county board of every county wherein such municipality is located a suggested list of places in the municipality suitable for polling places. T…

19:8-3 Schoolhouses and public buildings; other locations; certification of expenses. 19:8-3. The county board may select the schoolhouse or schoolhouses, public building or public buildings as the polling places in any municipality in the county whether or not such schoolhouses …

19:8-3.1 Accessibility of polling places. 1. Each polling place selected by the county board of elections for use in any election shall be accessible to individuals with disabilities and the elderly unless: a. the Attorney General determines that a state of emergency exists that …

19:8-3.2 Inaccessible polling place; alternate place, mail-in ballot. 2. The Secretary of State shall establish, in accordance with the "Administrative Procedure Act," P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.), the rules and regulations necessary to ensure that in any election a voter…

19:8-3.3 Polling places, compliance with federal ADA. 3. The Attorney General shall be responsible for ensuring that each polling place is in compliance with the federal "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990" (42 U.S.C. s. 12101 et seq.) and shall exercise oversight authority …

19:8-3.4 Report of inaccessible polling places, ADA guidelines. 4. No later than May 15 of every other year, beginning with May 15 next following the enactment of P.L.2005, c.146, each Voting Accessibility Advisory Committee, established pursuant to section 11 of P.L.1991, c.429 …

19:8-3.5 Review and compliance. 5. No later than July 1st of each year, beginning with July 1 next following the enactment of P.L.2005, c.146, the Attorney General shall review the reports of the Voting Accessibility Advisory Committee and shall ensure that every possible effort …

19:8-3.6. Report to federal authorities 6. No later than December 31st of each even-numbered year, the Secretary of State shall report to the Federal Election Commission, in the manner required by the commission, the number of accessible and inaccessible polling places in the Sta…

19:8-3.7 Voting Accessibility Advisory Committee in each county. 11. a. The county executive in each county in which that office is established, or the governing body of the county in any other county, shall establish a Voting Accessibility Advisory Committee, which shall consist…

19:8-3.8 "Polling Place Accessibility Fund"; use. 10. a. There shall be established in the Department of Law and Public Safety a non-lapsing fund to be known as the "Polling Place Accessibility Fund," hereinafter referred to as the fund, to be held separate from all other funds o…

19:8-4 Certification of list of polling places. 19:8-4. The county board before May 15 of each year shall certify a list of polling places so selected to the sheriff and to the clerk of the county and to the superintendent of elections of the county if any there be and to each mu…

19:8-5. Display of American flag An American flag, approximately 3 feet by 5 feet in size, shall be displayed at the outside entrance of each polling place in this State by the district boards during the hours when the boards are in session; except that, when more than one pollin…

19:8-5.1 Sign identifying polling place, hours. 1. For seven days before the day of any election, each county board of elections may cause to be displayed a sign outside of each polling place identifying it as such, and identifying the date and hours of polling. L.2005,c.151,s.1.…

19:8-6 Proper equipment and voting instructions. 19:8-6. The county boards in counties of the first class and the municipal clerks in counties other than counties of the first class shall purchase or lease and furnish the proper equipment of polling places, to enable the district…

19:8-7 Booths; size; doors or curtains; shelf; privacy sleeves, folders. 19:8-7. The booths shall be sufficiently large to enable the voter to conveniently prepare the voter's ballot as provided for and shall have swinging doors or privacy screens, shields, or curtains so that pr…

19:8-8. Number of booths In municipalities having permanent registration the number of booths in each election district shall not be less than one for every one hundred persons registered in such district at the last preceding general election and not less than three booths shall…

19:8-9. Location of booths The booths shall be erected within the polling room or place and so arranged that all the officers conducting the election can see whether more than one person enters or is in any booth at the same time.

19:9-1. "Election supplies" defined As used in this title the term "election supplies" shall be deemed to mean such blank books, blank forms, pamphlets and things other than ballots and equipment as may be necessary to enable the provisions of this title to be carried out properl…

19:9-2 Preparation of information and election supplies. 19:9-2. The Director of the Division of Elections shall prepare and distribute on or before April 1 in each year prior to the primary election for the general election and the general election such information as may be nee…

19:9-3. Distribution of supplies by secretary of state Where such supplies to be prepared and distributed by the secretary of state shall be required in any county or municipality thereof he shall deliver same to the county clerk on or before the time herein set forth and take a …

19:9-4. Distribution of supplies by county clerks Where such supplies prepared either by the secretary of state or the county clerk shall be required in a municipality the county clerk shall deliver the same to a member of the district board at his office, or in any other way tha…

19:9-5. Distribution of supplies by municipal clerks Where supplies are delivered by the county clerk or the county board to the municipal clerk for distribution, the municipal clerk shall deliver the same at his office, or in any other way that he sees fit, to a member of the di…

19:10-1. Custodial officer to preserve two years All petitions of nomination, affidavits attached thereto, acceptances, objections thereto and determinations of officers or courts relative to such objections and all other documents relating to elections not otherwise provided for…

19:11-1. Day for filing documents or performing official duties falling on Sunday or legal holiday Should the day for the filing of any petition, declination, resignation, instrument in writing or other paper or document required to be filed in any office under the provisions of …

19:12-1 Certification as to creation of political party. 19:12-1. The Secretary of State shall within thirty days after the completion of the canvass by the board of State canvassers, certify to each county clerk and county board the fact that at the next preceding general electi…

19:12-10 Public notice of dates relevant to elections and voters; internet sites. 4. a. Subject to guidelines established by the Attorney General, each county board of elections shall provide public notice, at appropriate times during the year, of certain dates relevant to electi…

19:12-3 County clerk, forwarding of notice of creation of political party to municipal clerks. 19:12-3. The clerk of each county shall immediately upon the receipt of the certificate from the Secretary of State setting forth that a political party has been created, forward a cert…

19:12-5 Notice that officers will be chosen at general election. 19:12-5. The clerk of every county shall, not later than the 71st day preceding the primary election for the general election, immediately preceding the expiration of the term of office of all other officers who are…

19:12-6 Statement designating public offices to be filled at election. 19:12-6. All municipal clerks, not later than the 71st day preceding the primary election for the general election, shall make and certify under their hands and seals of office and forward to the clerk of the …

19:12-7 Publication of notice of election. 19:12-7. a. The county board in each county shall cause to be published in a newspaper or newspapers which, singly or in combination, are of general circulation throughout the county, a notice containing the information specified in subs…

19:12-7.1 Posting of voter information notice by county board of elections; content and form. 1. a. A county board of elections shall have posted a voter information notice, which shall be referred to as a voter's bill of rights, in a conspicuous location in each polling place an…

19:12-8 Contents of notice. 19:12-8. The notice required by section 19:12-7 of this Title shall include the telephone number and times at which a voter may make inquiry as to the location of the polling place in the district in which he resides, and shall advise that the voter ma…

19:12-9. Publication of certain election procedures required 8. a. The county board in each county shall cause to be published in a daily newspaper of general circulation throughout the county, a notice containing the information specified in subsection b. hereof. This notice sha…

19:13-1. Direct petition and primary election Candidates for all public offices to be voted for at the general election in this state or in any political division thereof, except electors of president and vice president of the United States nominated by the political parties at s…

19:13-10. Objection to petition 19:13-10. 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 petition was filed not l…

19:13-11 Determination of validity of objections. 19:13-11. 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 court of competent jurisdiction…

19:13-12 Judicial hearing. 19:13-12. Any judge of the Superior Court, in the case of candidates to be voted for by the electors of the entire State or of more than one county thereof, and in all other cases a judge of the Superior Court assigned to the county in which any petitio…

19:13-13 Amendment of petitions; time. 19:13-13. A candidate whose petition of nomination, or any affidavit or affidavits thereto, is defective may cause such petition, or the affidavit or affidavits thereto, to be amended in matters of substance or of form as may be necessary, b…

19:13-14. Procedure; highest aggregate of votes to determine party candidates The nomination of candidates for the general election by means of the primary election shall be carried out in the manner hereinafter provided, and in such election the person having in the aggregate th…