Title 19, Title 19: ELECTIONS

19:32-49 Superintendent of elections, commissioner of registration. 24. In addition to the foregoing, the superintendent of elections is constituted the commissioner of registration for the county and he shall, within the county, have and exercise all the powers of, and be charge…

19:32-5 Investigations by superintendents and assistants; neglect to furnish information or exhibit records, fourth degree crime. 19:32-5. Such superintendents and their assistants, in order to enforce the laws of this State regarding the conduct of elections, shall investigate a…

19:32-50. Salaries and expenses during fiscal year in which act takes effect If during the fiscal year in which this act becomes effective, the board of chosen freeholders of the county shall not have made provision in its annual budget for the payment of the salaries and other e…

19:32-51. Transfer of employees of county board of elections All employees of the county board of elections of the county hereby are transferred to the office of superintendent of elections but the board of chosen freeholders may provide two clerks for the county board of electio…

19:32-52. Appropriations for salaries and expenses In the event that said appropriations shall not be sufficient to provide full payment of the salaries and other expenses of the superintendent of elections and his office and of the county board of elections and its office, durin…

19:32-53. Voting machines, forms, records, etc. to be turned over Upon the taking effect of such resolution the county board of elections of the county shall turn over to the superintendent of elections all voting machines of the county with the keys thereto, and all records, boo…

19:32-54 Abolishment of offices of superintendent, deputy superintendent of elections. 1. a. Upon the adoption of a resolution or ordinance, as appropriate, the governing body of a county may abolish the office of superintendent of elections and the office of deputy superintenden…

19:32-55 Requirements for re-establishing offices. 2. Once the office of superintendent of elections and the office of deputy superintendent of elections has been abolished in a county pursuant to P.L.2018, c.163 (C.19:32-54 et al.), the county shall not be permitted to re-establ…

19:32-56 Appointment of officers if office re-established. 3. An individual shall be appointed to fill the office of superintendent of elections pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1947, c.167 (C.19:32-26), and an individual shall be appointed to fill the office of deputy superintendent…

19:32-6 Subpoenas; power to issue; service; failure to testify; false statements, crime. 19:32-6 The superintendent shall have power to issue subpoenas for the purpose of investigating any complaint of violation of the election laws of the state, such subpoenas to be issued in th…

19:32-7. Attendance at elections; admission to polling places The superintendent, his subordinates, or any person or persons designated by him, may attend at any election, any of whom shall be admitted at any time within any polling place and within the guard rails thereof.

19:32-8 Register of lodgers. 19:32-8. When directed by the superintendent every landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper of a lodging house, inn or hotel, shall keep a register in which shall be entered the names and residences, the date of arrival and departure of his guests, and …

19:32-9. Card records of persons registered in municipalities not having permanent registration The district board of each election district in municipalities not having permanent registration shall on each day of registration transfer to cards to be provided for that purpose by …

19:33-1 Procedure for removing names from register. 19:33-1. A judge of the Superior Court shall order stricken from the Statewide voter registration system and any other register the name of any person who shall be shown to his satisfaction not to be entitled to vote at any elec…

19:34-1 False registration or transfer; penalties. 19:34-1. If any member of the district board shall willfully refuse to enter in the canvassing books or upon the registers the name of any person legally entitled to vote, or shall register the name of any person contrary to the …

19:34-1.1 Crimes; election official defined. 43. a. Any person, other than an election official, who: (1) knowingly and willfully intimidates, threatens or coerces, or attempts to intimidate, threaten or coerce, any person for registering to vote, voting or attempting to register…

19:34-10 Identifying or distinguishing marks on ballots. 19:34-10. If any person shall write, paste or otherwise place upon any official ballot any mark, sign or device of any kind as a distinguishing mark whereby to indicate to any member of any district board or other person ho…

19:34-11 Fraudulent voting; interference with election or canvass; third degree crime. 19:34-11. Every person not entitled to vote who fraudulently votes, and every person who votes more than once at any one election; or knowingly hands in two or more ballots folded together; or …

19:34-12 Attempt to cast illegal vote; third degree crime. 19:34-12. Every person not entitled to vote who fraudulently attempts to vote, or who being entitled to vote attempts to vote more than once at any election, or who personates or attempts to personate a person legally ent…

19:34-13 Attempts to examine marked ballot, disclose content of mail-in ballot, third degree crime. 19:34-13. a. Every inspector, judge or clerk of an election, who, previous to putting the ballot of an elector in the ballot box, attempts to find out any name on such ballot, or w…

19:34-14 Member of district board revealing knowledge of how voter voted. 19:34-14. If a member of any district board has knowledge how any person has voted and shall reveal such knowledge to any other person, or shall fraudulently or corruptly disclose what other candidates were…

19:34-15 Electioneering within or about polling place; disorderly persons offense. 19:34-15. a. If a person shall distribute or display any circular or printed matter or offer any suggestion or solicit any support for any candidate, party or public question within the polling pla…

19:34-16 Removal, destruction, mutilation of registry, voters' lists. 19:34-16. A person who shall remove, destroy or mutilate any registry list or copy thereof, or who before an election closes shall remove, destroy or mutilate any list of voters posted in accordance with this t…

19:34-17 Unlawfully taking ballot box or removing contents; destroying ballots; willfully suppressing records. 19:34-17. If a person shall rob or plunder any ballot box, or unlawfully and by stealth or violence take the same or remove therefrom any ballot or other paper, or excha…

19:34-18 Interfering with return of ballot boxes. 19:34-18. A person who shall willfully obstruct or interfere with the clerk or clerks on the way from the polls to the office of the city clerk shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree. Amended 2005, c.154, s.37.

19:34-19 Insignia at polls. 19:34-19. No person shall display, sell, give or provide any political badge, button or other insignia to be worn at or within one hundred feet of the polls or within the polling place or room, on any primary, general or special election day or on any …

19:34-2 Offenses concerning nomination certificates or petitions. 19:34-2. No person shall falsely make, falsely make oath to, or fraudulently deface or fraudulently destroy any certificate of nomination or petition, or any part thereof, or file, or receive for filing, any certif…

19:34-20 Soliciting or procuring or assisting unlawful registration and other violations of election law. 19:34-20. Whoever shall solicit the registering of his name on the registry list of any election district or precinct, knowing that he is not a legal voter in such district o…

19:34-21 Voting in wrong party ballot box. 19:34-21. A person who being a member of one political party shall vote in the ballot box used for the primary election of another political party shall in each case be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree. Amended 2005, c.154, s.40.

19:34-22 False voting at primary. 19:34-22. If a person not entitled to vote at any primary election as herein provided shall vote or offer to vote at such primary meeting or caucus knowing or having reason to believe himself not entitled to so vote, or if any person shall counse…

19:34-23 Primary election officials acting before taking oath; willfully disregarding or violating rules. 19:34-23. If any judge, inspector, clerk or other officer of a primary election shall act in such capacity before taking and subscribing to the oath or affirmation required b…

19:34-24. Betting on election No person shall make, lay or deposit any bet, wager or stake, to be decided by the result of any election, by the election or defeat of one or more persons at any election, or by any contingency connected with or growing out of any election. All cont…

19:34-25 Bribery. 19:34-25. a. If a person shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person in his behalf, give, lend or agree to give or lend, or shall offer, promise or promise to procure, or endeavor to procure, any money or other valuable consideration or thin…

19:34-26 Perjury; subornation of perjury. 19:34-26. If a person shall be guilty of willful and corrupt false swearing or affirming, or by any means shall willfully and corruptly suborn or procure a person to swear or affirm falsely, in taking any oath, affirmation or deposition p…

19:34-27 Improperly influencing or intimidating employees. 19:34-27. An employer of any workman, or any agent, superintendent or overseer of any company or corporation employing workmen, or any person who shall directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person in his beha…

19:34-28. Threatening or intimidating voters No person shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or by any other person in his behalf, make use of, or threaten to make use of, any force, violence or restraint, or inflict or threaten the infliction, by himself or through any other…

19:34-29. Obstructing or interfering with voter No person shall by abduction, duress or any forcible or fraudulent device or contrivance whatever, impede, prevent or otherwise interfere with the free exercise of the elective franchise by any voter; or compel, induce or prevail up…

19:34-3 Ballots; offenses concerning printing, distribution, possession and forgery thereof. 19:34-3. If any printer employed by any county or municipal clerk to print official ballots, or any person engaged in printing the same, shall appropriate to himself or give or deliver or…

19:34-30. Influencing of vote by employer; placards for such purpose No employer, in paying his employees the salary or wages due them, shall inclose their pay in "pay envelopes" upon which there is written or printed the name of any candidate or any political motto, device or ar…

19:34-31. Violation by person or corporation; misdemeanor; forfeiture of charter Sections 19:34-27 to 19:34-30 of this title shall apply to corporations as well as individuals, and any person or corporation violating the provisions thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and an…

19:34-32. Contributions by insurance corporations No insurance corporation or association doing business in this state shall, directly or indirectly, pay or use, or offer, consent or agree to pay or use, any money or property for or in aid of any political party, committee, organ…

19:34-33. Contributions by state, county or municipal committees No state, county or municipal committee or organization of any political party shall expend any money in aid of the candidacy of any candidate for election as a delegate at any national convention, or election to an…

19:34-34. Expenditures by party committee or organization or petitioners No such party committee or organization, nor any committee of any group of petitioners, nor any other person shall expend any money in aid of any candidate for public office, except as herein otherwise provi…

19:34-35 Other contributions and expenditures. 19:34-35. Any person who shall expend, aid or assist in the expenditure of any such money for a purpose not authorized by this title, or for a purpose not named in the statement accompanying such contribution, shall be guilty of a cr…

19:34-38. Certain expenditures prohibited No person shall pay, lend or contribute, or offer or agree to pay, lend or contribute, any money or other valuable consideration to or for any person for any of the following: a. The doing or procuring to be done of any act forbidden to b…

19:34-39. Other expenditures prohibited No person directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person: Inducing voters. a. Shall pay, lend or contribute, or offer or promise to pay, lend or contribute, money or other valuable consideration to or for any voter, or to or…