Title 19, Title 19: ELECTIONS

19:53B-2. Distribution, use of emergency ballots 11. a. The board shall not permit other emergency ballots to be used at an election except the emergency ballots which are provided for by this amendatory and supplementary act, P.L.1992, c.3 (C.19:53B-1 et al.). It shall confine t…

19:53B-20. Ballots remain sealed in box for 15 days; when removable 29. When district board members have processed both voted and non-voted emergency ballots, the ballots shall remain sealed within the box for a period of 15 calendar days, which shall begin on the first business …

19:53B-21 List by district, number of emergency ballots used. 1. Within 15 calendar days after an election other than a general election or three days after the certification of the results of that election, whichever occurs later, or in the case of a general election on the day …

19:53B-3. Voting with emergency ballots 12. a. If for any cause a voting machine fails to operate, the district board shall use the supply of emergency ballots that are on hand at the opening of the polls. The mode and manner of voting the emergency ballots shall in all respects …

19:53B-4. Use of emergency ballot box 13. If it becomes necessary to use the emergency ballot box, and if the numbers on the green seal and the voting machine key envelope were identical when previously examined as provided in R.S.19:52-1, the judge of the district board shall re…

19:53B-5. Procedure for voter use of emergency ballots 14. After the district board ascertains that a voter is properly registered and qualified to vote, the member of the board charged with maintaining the signature copy register shall require the voter to sign the signature cop…

19:53B-6 Emergency ballots marked secretly; violation. 15. Every voter to whom an emergency ballot is given shall retire into the polling booth or to the designated voting area, as the case may be. Not more than one voter shall be permitted to enter or be in the same booth or vot…

19:53B-7. Method of marking ballot 16. To vote for a candidate whose name is printed in any column, the voter shall mark a cross x, plus + or check / in the square provided for the name of each candidate in any column for whom the voter chooses to vote. To vote upon the public qu…

19:53B-8. Personal choice column provided on emergency ballots 17. Nothing in this amendatory and supplementary act, P.L.1992, c.3 (C.19:53B-1 et al.) shall prevent any voter from writing or pasting within the proper title of office in the column designated personal choice, the n…

19:53B-9. Spoiled emergency ballots 18. If any voter to whom any official emergency ballot has been handed spoils or renders the same unfit for use, the voter shall return the emergency ballot and the pre-punched single-hole plain white envelope to a district board member. The vo…

19:53C-1 Preparation of provisional ballot packet; notices. 7. a. (1) The county clerk or the municipal clerk, in the case of a municipal election, shall arrange for the preparation of a provisional ballot packet for each election district. It shall include the appropriate number…

19:53C-10 Voted provisional ballot placed in envelope, written instructions. 16. a. After voting the provisional ballot and completing the affirmation statement, and before leaving the polling booth or the designated voting area, as the case may be, the voter shall place the vote…

19:53C-11. Inventory of provisional ballots 17. Immediately following the closing of the polls on the day of an election, the members of the district board shall inventory the provisional ballots. All invalid provisional ballots placed in envelopes and marked "SPOILED" shall be c…

19:53C-12. Transportation of provisional ballot bag 18. Immediately following the sealing of the provisional ballot bag at a polling place on the day of any election, a member of the district board shall transport the ballot bag and all other election materials to a location desi…

19:53C-13 Opening of provisional ballot bag. 19. When the office of the commissioner of registration receives a provisional ballot bag that has been found to be in good order, the commissioner thereof shall first break the seal and open the bag. In any county where the superinten…

19:53C-14. Canvassing provisional ballots 20. In canvassing the provisional ballots, the county board shall count the votes as follows: a. If proper marks are made in the squares provided for the names of any candidates in any column and the total number voted for, for each offic…

19:53C-15. Counting provisional ballots; standards for validity 21. In counting the provisional ballots, the board shall deem void all provisional ballots which are wholly blank, or on which more names have been marked or designated for every office than there are persons to be e…

19:53C-16. Invalid provisional ballots 22. In every case in which a provisional ballot shall be declared invalid, the ballot, which shall be enclosed in a envelope, shall not be canvassed or counted, but shall be marked "REJECTED" on the outside thereof. Provisional ballots which…

19:53C-17. Votes counted, void votes 23. If, for any reason, a provisional ballot voter votes a ballot other than the ballot for the district in which the voter is qualified to vote, the votes for those offices and questions for which the voter would be otherwise qualified to vot…

19:53C-18. Decision of county board final 24. The decision of a majority of the county board on any question concerning a provisional ballot matter shall be deemed the decision of the board and final. If any member of the board dissents from any decision and wishes to make the di…

19:53C-19. Use of tally sheets 25. a. The clerk of the board shall, upon the tally sheets provided for that purpose, make a list of the names of all persons for whom one or more votes shall have been given, designating the office which that person shall be voted for, and of any p…

19:53C-2. procedures, use of provisional ballots 8. a. The district board shall not permit other provisional ballots to be used at an election except those provisional ballots provided for by P.L.1999, c.232 (C.19:53C-1 et al.). It shall confine the distribution and use of the pr…

19:53C-20. Votes tallied 26. Upon the receipt of a certified tally sheet from the county board, the county clerk shall add the votes contained thereon to the total vote for all candidates and in favor of or against all public questions cast at the polling place from which the tal…

19:53C-21 List by district, number of provisional ballots used. 2. Within 15 calendar days after an election other than the general election or three days after the certification of the results of that election, whichever occurs later, or in the case of a general election on the …

19:53C-3 Procedure as to voters changing residence within the county, certain use of provisional, mail-in ballots. 9. Whenever a voter enters a polling place to vote on the day of an election and the circumstance of that voter matches the circumstance of a voter described in subs…

19:53C-4. Designated area for marking provisional ballot, affirmation statement 10. The district board shall designate an area within the polling place, which may be a voting booth, for the voter to mark the provisional ballot and affirmation statement. If the district board desi…

19:53C-5 Voters given provisional ballot, retire into designated voting area. 11. Every voter to whom a provisional ballot and envelope with an affirmation statement is given shall retire into the designated voting area. Not more than one voter shall be permitted to enter or be i…

19:53C-6. Completion of affirmation statement 12. Prior to voting the provisional ballot or immediately thereafter, the voter shall complete the affirmation statement attached to the provisional ballot envelope. The statement shall conform with the requirements for such a stateme…

19:53C-7 Voting with provisional ballot. 13. To vote for a candidate whose name is printed in any column, or to vote in favor of or against any public question printed on the provisional ballot, the voter shall: a. Mark a cross x, plus + or check in the square provided for the na…

19:53C-8. Write-in votes on provisional ballot permitted 14. Nothing in P.L.1999, c.232 (C.19:53C-1 et al.) shall prevent any voter from writing or pasting within the proper title of office in the column designated personal choice, the name or names of any person or persons for w…

19:53C-9. Spoiled provisional ballot, affirmation statement; procedure 15. If any voter to whom a provisional ballot and envelope with an affirmation statement has been handed spoils or renders any of the same unfit for use, the voter shall return the ballot and the envelope with…

19:57-27 Ballots not to be invalidated because of omissions, withdrawal of candidates. 27. a. No absentee ballot shall be rejected or declared invalid because it does not contain all of the names of the candidates or all of the public questions to be voted for or upon in the elec…

19:58-1. Short title This act shall be known as and may be cited as the "Presidential Ballot Law (1964)." L.1964, c. 134, s. 1.

19:58-10. Form of presidential ballot The county clerk shall prescribe the form of the Presidential ballots, which shall in all respects conform with the provisions of this act and shall be of such character that they can be voted only for the election of electors for President a…

19:58-11. Duty of county clerk to furnish presidential ballots, inner and outer envelopes, and directions; payment of expenses Each county clerk shall cause to be printed a sufficient number of Presidential ballots for each Presidential election to be held in this State and along…

19:58-12. List of applicants; inspection Each county clerk, upon receipt of applications for Presidential ballots for removed residents shall make a list of them according to the municipalities of the addresses, or former addresses, in this State of the voters making such applica…

19:58-13. Examination and approval of qualifications of applicant; investigations Upon receipt of any application for a Presidential ballot, the county clerk shall make an examination, from any available information, to determine whether or not such applicant is qualified to vote…

19:58-14. Transfer of permanent registration forms of removed residents The county clerk, upon receipt of an application for a Presidential ballot, based upon the applicant's removal from this State to another state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, or the Virgin Isla…

19:58-15. Delivery of ballots; deadline for applications Each county clerk shall deliver a Presidential ballot for use under this act, to each applicant, whose application therefor has been so approved, in person, or by forwarding the same by first-class mail, in a sealed envelop…

19:58-16. Forwarding applications and accompanying certificates to county board of elections; list of applications Each county clerk, after processing the applications for Presidential ballots, in the manner prescribed by this act, shall forward such applications, including those…

19:58-17. Directions to be sent with ballots; envelopes Each county clerk shall send, with each Presidential ballot, appropriate printed directions for the preparation and transmission of such ballot, together with an inner and outer envelope of the character described in the act…

19:58-19. Certificate; form 19. Upon the said margin of said flap on the inner envelope to be sent to a removed resident there shall be printed a certificate in affidavit form substantially as follows: State of ........................ County of ......................., or (if ap…

19:58-2. Definitions As used in this act unless the context otherwise indicates the following terms shall have the following meaning: "Removed resident" means a person, who was formerly a resident of one of the counties of this State but who has, or shall have, removed to another…

19:58-20. Certification of names and addresses of recipients of ballots Each county clerk shall, from time to time, prior to each Presidential election, certify in writing, under oath, to the commissioner of registration of the county, the names and home addresses of the persons …

19:58-21. Marking and handling of presidential ballots by voters Any voter shall be entitled to mark any Presidential ballot, so forwarded to him, for voting at any election by indicating his choice of candidates for the offices named. When so marked, such ballot shall be placed …

19:58-22. Mailing of ballots to county board of elections Said sealed outer envelope with the inner envelope and the ballot enclosed therein, shall then be mailed with sufficient postage to the county board of elections to which it is addressed, or shall be presented in person to…