Title 19, ELECTIONS

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…

19:23-48. Challenges; procedure If a voter who desires to vote in the same political party box in which he voted at the next preceding primary election is challenged, he shall take an oath or affirmation, to be administered by a member of the district board in the following form:…

19:23-49 Counting of votes. 19:23-49. At the close of the primary election for the general election each district board shall immediately proceed to count the votes cast at the election and ascertain the results thereof for the candidates of each political party holding such elec…

19:23-5. Party candidates for primary nominated by members of same party by petition Candidates to be voted for at the primary election for the general election shall be nominated exclusively by the members of the same political party by petition in the manner herein provided.

19:23-50. Statements of result; contents The district boards shall at the conclusion of the canvass make up and sign three statements of the result of such election. The statements shall in words at length show the total number of names of persons entitled to vote, the whole numb…

19:23-51. Form of statement Such statement shall be substantially in the following form: Statement of the result of a primary election held in the ward election district of the of (municipality) in the county of and state of New Jersey, on the day of 19 : Total number of names of…

19:23-52. Certification of statement To such statement shall be added a certificate in the following form: We certify the foregoing to be a true and correct statement of the result of the primary election held in such district at the time above stated and that it correctly exhibi…

19:23-53 Statements transmitted to clerks and superintendent of elections; access to office of municipal clerk. 19:23-53. The district board shall immediately deliver or transmit this statement to the clerks of the county and municipality within which such primary election was he…

19:23-54 Canvass of votes by municipal clerks; certificates of election to county board. 19:23-54. The municipal clerk shall canvass the statements of the district board, not later than the third day after they are received, as far as they relate to the election of members of the…

19:23-55. Canvass of votes by county clerks; statement The county clerks shall within 10 days canvass such statements relating to all officers and positions to be voted for by the voters of the entire State, county, county election district, congressional district, municipality o…

19:23-56. Certificates of election of members of state committee The county clerk shall issue a certificate to the male or males receiving the highest number of votes among the male candidates for the number of positions to be filled by male members of the State committee and to …

19:23-57. Canvass of votes by secretary of state; certificates of election issued The secretary of state shall forthwith canvass such statements of the county clerks and determine by the highest number of votes what persons have been so nominated by the voters of the political pa…

19:23-58 Provisions of title applicable. 19:23-58. Any provisions of this title which pertain particularly to any election or to the general election shall apply to the primary election for the general election insofar as they are not inconsistent with the special provisions of t…

19:23-6. Address of petitions Petitions nominating candidates to be voted for by the voters of a political party throughout the entire State or of any subdivisions thereof more than a single county or any congressional district shall be addressed to the Secretary of State. Petiti…

19:23-7 Signers; certificates of candidates. 19:23-7. Each such petition shall set forth that the signers thereof are qualified voters of the State, congressional district, county, or county election district, municipality, ward or election district, as the case may be, in which …

19:23-7.1 Promulgation, publication, candidate nomination petitions. 5. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the Secretary of State shall promulgate and publish the forms to be used for petitions nominating candidates to be vote…

19:23-8. Numbers of signers to petitions. 19:23-8. a. The petitions for candidates to be voted for by the voters of a political party throughout the entire State shall in the aggregate be signed by at least 2,500 of such voters; in the case of candidates to be voted for by the vo…

19:24-1 Notification relative to number of delegates, alternates to be elected. 19:24-1. In every year in which primary elections are to be held as herein provided for the election of delegates and alternates to the national conventions of political parties, including any nationa…

19:24-2 Certification as to number of delegates, alternates to be elected. 19:24-2. The Secretary of State shall, on or before March 20 of that year, certify to the county clerk and county board of each county the number of delegates and alternates-at-large to be chosen by each s…

19:24-3. Nomination by petition Candidates for election as delegates or alternates to the national conventions of political parties shall be nominated by petition in the manner herein provided for the nomination of candidates to be voted for at the primary election for the genera…