Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-05-27


fer or deliver, or contributed. OF offered or
promised TO contribute to another, to be
paid or used. amy money or other valuable
thing as II compensation, inducement or
reward for the registering or abstaining
from registering OF amy one qualified to
register, or for the giving or Withholding,
or in any manner influencing the giving
or Withholding. vote at such election.
Such oath or affirmation shall be con-
elusive evidence to the election officers of
the truth of such oath or ailirmation but
If any such oath or affirmation shall be
false, the person making the same shall
be guilty of perjury, and no conviction
thereof shall bar any prosecution under
Section 8 of this Article.
Section 4. The General Assembly shall
provide by law for uniform biennial
registration of the names of all the voters
in this State who possess the qualifica-
tons prescribed in this Article, which
registration shall be conclusive evidence
to the election officers Of the right of every
person so registered to vote at the general
election next thereafter, who is not dis
qualified under the provisions of Section
y of this Article; but no person shall vote
at such election unless his name appears
Such registration shall be commenced
not more than 100 days nor less than
sixty days before and be completed not
more than twenty days nor less than ten
days before such election. Application
for registration may be made on at least
five days during the said period; provided,
however, that such registration may be
corrected as hereinafter provided, at any
time prior to the day Of holding the cleo
ton.
Voters shall be registered upon personal
application only; and each voter shall, at
the time of his registration, pay a regis
tration fee of one dollar.
From the decision of the registration
officers granting or refusing registration,
or striking or refusing TO strike a name
or names from the registration list, any
person interested, or any registration Off
Ger, may appeal tosthe resident Associate
Judge of the county, or in case of his disa-
bility or absence from the county, to any
judge entitled to sitin the Supreme Court.
whose determination shall be final; and
he shall have power to order any name
Improperly omitted from tho said registry
TO he placed thereon, and any name inn
properly appearing on the said registry
to be stricken therSfrom and any name
appearing on the said registry. in any
manner incorrect. to be corrected. and to
make and enforce all NECESSARY orders in
the premises for the correction of the said
registry. Registration shall be required
only for general biennial elections at
which Representatives TO the General As
sembly shall be chosen, unless the Gen
eral Assembly shall otherwise provide by
law.
The existing laws in reference to the
registration of voters, so far as consistent
with the provisions of this Article, shall
continue in force until the General AS
sembly shall otherwise provide by law.
The existing laws in reference to the
registration of voters, so far as consistent
with the provisions Of this Article, shall
continue in force until the General As
sembly shall otherwise provide.
Section 5. Electors shall in all cases, ex-
cept treason, felony, or breach of the
peace. be privileged from arrest during
their attendance at elections, and in going
to and returning from them.
Section 8. The presiding election officer
of each hundred or election district on
the day next after the general election,
shall deliver one of the certificates of the
election, made and certified as required by
law, together with the ballot box or ballot
boxes, containing the ballots and other
papers required by law to be placed there
in, to the prothonotary of the Superior
Court of the county, who shall at ~
o'clock noon on the second day after the
election present the same to the said court,
and the election officer or officers having
charge of any other certificate or certi-
ficates of the election shall at the same
time present the same to the said court,
and the said court shall at the same time
convene for the performance of the duties
hereby imposed upon it; and thereupon the
said court. with the aid of such of its
officers and such sworn assistants as it
shall appoint, shall publicly ascertain the
state of the election throughout the coun-
ty, by calculating the aggregate amount
of all the votes for each office that shall
he given in all the hundreds and election
districts of the county for every person
voted for for such Office.
In case the certificate of election of any
hundred or election district shall not be
produced, or in case the certificates pro-
duced do not agree, or in case of complaint
under oath of fraud or mistake in any such
certificate. or in case fraud or mistake is
apparent on the face of any such certifi-
cate, the court shall have power to issue
summary process against the election Off
GERS or any other persons to bring them
forthwith into court with the election
papers in their possession OF control. and
t6-open the ballot boxes and take there
from any paper contained therein, and TO
make n recount of the ballots contained
therein, and to correct any fraud or mis-
take in any certificate or paper relating TO
such election.
The said court shall have all other the
jurisdiction and powers now vested by
law in the boards of canvass, and such
other powers as shall he provided by law.
After the state Of the election shall have
been ascertained as aforesaid. the said
court shall make certificates thereof. I'M
der the seal of said court, in the form re-
quired by law, and transmit, deliver and
lodge the same as required by this Con-
stituton or by law, and deliver the ballot
boxes to the sheriff Of the county, to be
by him kept and delivered as required by
law.
No act or determination of the court in
the discharge of the duties imposed upon
it by this section shall be conclusive in
the trial of any contested election.
For the purposes Of this section the SUI
perior Court shall consist in New Castle
county of the Chief Justice and the resi-
dent Associate Judge; i'll Kent county of
the Chancellor and the resident Associate
Judge; and in Sussex county of the resi-
dent Associate Judge and the remaining
Associate Judge