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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 15:56:08+00:00

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(a) The word “candidate” shall, unless the context otherwise requires, include both candidates for nomination and election.
(a.1) “Canvass” includes gathering the ballots after the election and counting, computing and tallying the votes.
(b) The word “county” shall mean any county of this Commonwealth.
(c) The words “county board” or “board” shall mean the county board of elections of any county herein provided for.
(d) The words “district election board” or “election board” shall mean the election officers required to conduct primaries and elections in any election district in accordance with the provisions of this act.
(e) The words “district register” shall mean the cards containing all or any part of the registry list of qualified electors of the same election district, as prepared by the registration commissions.
(f) The word “election” shall mean any general, municipal, special or primary election, unless otherwise specified.
(g) The words “election district” shall mean a district, division or precinct, established in accordance with the provisions of this act, within which all qualified electors vote at one polling place.
(g.1) The words “election officer” shall include the judge of elections and the majority and minority inspectors elected or appointed by a county board of elections and the clerk or machine inspector appointed by a county board of elections.
(h) The words “general election” shall mean the election which the Constitution of this Commonwealth requires to be held in even-numbered years.
(i) The words “independent nomination” shall mean the selection by an independent political body, in accordance with the provisions of this act, of a candidate for a public office authorized to be voted for at an election.
(j) The words “municipal election” shall mean the election which the Constitution of this Commonwealth requires to be held in odd-numbered years.
(k) The word “nomination” shall mean the selection, in accordance with the provisions of this act, of a candidate for a public office authorized to be voted for at an election.
(l) The words “November election” shall mean either the general or municipal election, or both, according to the context.
(m) The word “oath” shall include affirmation and the word “swear” shall include affirm.
(o) The words “party nomination” shall mean the selection by a political party, in accordance with the provisions of this act, of a candidate for a public office authorized to be voted for at an election.
(p) The words “political body” shall mean an independent body of electors, as defined in section 801 of this act.
(q) The words “polling place” shall mean the room provided in each election district for voting at a primary or election.
(r) The words “primary” or “primary election” shall mean any election held for the purpose of electing party officers and nominating candidates for public offices to be voted for at an election.
(r.1) “Public institution” means institutions primarily maintained by the Federal, State or local governments and includes but is not limited to veterans' hospitals and homes, State hospitals, poor houses and county homes.
(s) The words “public office” shall include every public office to which persons can be elected by a vote of the electors under the laws of this State.
(t) The words “qualified elector” shall mean any person who shall possess all of the qualifications for voting now or hereafter prescribed by the Constitution of this Commonwealth, or who, being otherwise qualified by continued residence in his election district, shall obtain such qualifications before the next ensuing election.
(u) The words “registered and enrolled member of a political party” shall mean any qualified elector who shall be registered according to political designation, in accordance with the provisions of the registration acts.
(v) The words “special election” shall mean any election other than a regular general, municipal or primary election.
Provided, however, That the words “qualified absentee elector” shall in nowise be construed to include persons confined in a penal institution or a mental institution nor shall it in anywise be construed to include a person not otherwise qualified as a qualified elector in accordance with the definition set forth in section 102(t) of this act.
(x) The words “members of the merchant marine of the United States” mean persons (other than persons in military service) employed as officers or members of crews of vessels documented under the laws of the United States or of vessels owned by the United States or of vessels of foreign flag registry under charter to or control of the United States, and persons (other than persons in military service) enrolled with the United States for employment or for training for employment or maintained by the United States for emergency relief service as officers or members of crews of any such vessels, but does not include persons so employed or enrolled for such employment or for training for employment or maintained for such emergency relief on the Great Lakes or the Inland waterways.
(y) The word “dependent” means any person who is in fact a dependent.
(z) The words “person authorized to administer oaths” shall mean any person who is a commissioned officer in military service or any member of the merchant marine of the United States designated for this purpose by the United States Secretary of Commerce or any civilian official empowered by any State or Federal law to administer oaths.
(z.2) Repealed by 1968, Dec. 11, P.L. 1183, No. 375, § 2.
(z.3) The words “duties, occupation or business” shall include leaves of absence for teaching or education, vacations, sabbatical leaves, and all other absences associated with the elector's duties, occupation or business, and also include an elector's spouse who accompanies the elector.
(z.4) The word “municipality” shall mean a city, borough, incorporated town, township or any similar general purpose unit of government which may be created by the General Assembly.
1937, June 3, P.L. 1333, art. I, § 102. Amended 1941, Aug. 1, P.L. 672, § 1; 1945, March 9, P.L. 29, § 1; 1951, March 6, P.L. 3, §§ 1, 2; 1960, Jan. 8, P.L. (1959) 2135, § 1; 1963, Aug. 13, P.L. 707, §§ 1, 2, effective Jan. 1, 1964; 1968, Dec. 11, P.L. 1183, No. 375, §§ 1 to 3; 1986, May 5, P.L. 150, No. 47, § 1, imd. effective; 1990, Dec. 17, P.L. 681, No. 169, § 1, effective in 60 days; 1998, Feb. 13, P.L. 72, No. 18, § 1, imd. effective; 2002, Dec. 9, P.L. 1246, No. 150, § 1, imd. effective; 2012, March 14, P.L. 195, No. 18, § 1, imd. effective.
The 1998 amendment, in par. (w), substituted “municipality” for “State or county” and “Commonwealth or county” throughout the section, and added par. (z.4).
Act 2002-150, § 1, added par. (g.1).
Act 2012-18, § 1, added the definition of “proof of identification”.

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