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15 DE Code § 5141. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 51. Criminal Offenses|Subchapter II. Particular Offenses|§ 5141. Stealing or destroying ballot box, ballot, poll list; penalty.

§ 5141. Stealing or destroying ballot box, ballot, poll list; penalty. Whoever, not being an election officer:  (1) Steals or wilfully breaks or destroys any ballot box used or intended to be used at any election; or (2) Wilfully or fraudulently conceals, secretes or removes any ballot box from the custody of the election officers; or (3) Alters, defaces, injures, destroys or conceals any ballot or envelope which has been deposited in any ballot box at such election or any poll list used or intended to be used at such election or any report, return, certificate or other evidence in this title required or provided for; shall, for each such offense, be fined not more than $200 or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both. 19 Del. Laws, c. 39, §  49;  27 Del. Laws, c. 65;  Code 1915, §  1808;  Code 1935, §  1897;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5143;
15 DE Code § 5142. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 51. Criminal Offenses|Subchapter II. Particular Offenses|§ 5142. Requiring unauthorized oath; penalty.

§ 5142. Requiring unauthorized oath; penalty. Whoever, being an election officer or other person, administers or causes to be administered to any legal voter any oath or affirmation not authorized by the Constitution or laws of this State for that purpose as a prerequisite or condition of voting at any election, except when such oath or affirmation is administered in order to satisfy such election officer or other person that such vote is a legal vote according to the Constitution and laws of this State, shall for each such offense be fined not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 and imprisoned 10 days. 12 Del. Laws, c. 326, §  3;  Code 1915, §  1827;  Code 1935, §  1916;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5144;
15 DE Code § 5143. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 51. Criminal Offenses|Subchapter II. Particular Offenses|§ 5143. Candidate for General Assembly not to make written pledge; penalty.

§ 5143. Candidate for General Assembly not to make written pledge; penalty. (a) No candidate for State Senator or Representative in the General Assembly shall make any written pledge to give or withhold that candidate's own vote on any proposed law or legislation, nor shall any other person seek to influence any such candidate in the candidate's attitude upon any proposed law or legislation by offer or promise of a vote or votes or of any support at any primary or election. (b) Whoever violates subsection (a) of this section shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $1,000, or imprisoned not less than 1 month nor more than 2 years, or both. Code 1915, §  1876D;  29 Del. Laws, c. 112;  30 Del. Laws, c. 105;  Code 1935, §  1944;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5145;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5144. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 51. Criminal Offenses|Subchapter II. Particular Offenses|§ 5144. Unauthorized release of absentee vote information; penalty.

§ 5144. Unauthorized release of absentee vote information; penalty. (a) Any person who knowingly or intentionally releases, transfers, distributes, or otherwise permits or facilitates the distribution of information relating to the number of absentee votes cast in favor or against any particular candidate or measure prior to the close of the polls on the day of an election at which absentee votes were cast and counted is guilty of the unauthorized release of absentee vote information in the first degree and shall be fined not less than $300 nor more than $500 and may be imprisoned not less than 1 nor more than 2 years. (b) Any person who recklessly releases, transfers, distributes, or otherwise permits or facilitates the distribution of information relating to the number of absentee votes cast in favor or against any particular candidate or measure prior to the close of the polls on the day of an election at which absentee votes were cast and counted is guilty of the unauthorized release of absentee vote information in the second degree and shall be fined not more than $200 and may be imprisoned not more than 1 year. 75 Del. Laws, c. 149, §  3;
15 DE Code § 5161. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 51. Criminal Offenses|Subchapter III. Offenses Carrying Civil Liability|§ 5161. Intimidation of election officers; penalty.

§ 5161. Intimidation of election officers; penalty. If any person, firm, corporation or employer existing or doing business in this State, hinders, coerces or intimidates or attempts to hinder, coerce or intimidate any person who has been appointed an election officer under the laws of this State from qualifying and performing such person's duties as such by threats of depriving such person of employment or occupation, absolutely or contingently, directly or indirectly, shall be liable to a penalty of $500, recoverable by the Attorney General by civil action in any court of competent jurisdiction in the name of the State, and for the use and benefit of this State. 45 Del. Laws, c. 144, §  24;  45 Del. Laws, c. 148, §  24;  45 Del. Laws, c. 149, §  24;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5161;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5162. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 51. Criminal Offenses|Subchapter III. Offenses Carrying Civil Liability|§ 5162. Intimidation of electors; penalty.

§ 5162. Intimidation of electors; penalty. If any person, or corporation existing or doing business in this State, hinders, controls, coerces or intimidates or attempts to hinder, control, coerce or intimidate any qualified elector of this State from or in the exercise of the elector's right to vote at any general, special or municipal election held under the laws of this State, by means of bribery or by threats of depriving such elector of employment or occupation, absolutely or contingently, directly or indirectly, every elector so aggrieved may, in a civil action brought for that purpose, sue for and recover from the person or corporation so offending the sum of $500. 16 Del. Laws, c. 329, §§  1, 2;  Code 1915, §  1789;  Code 1935, §  1878;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5162;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5163. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 51. Criminal Offenses|Subchapter III. Offenses Carrying Civil Liability|§ 5163. Liability of corporation or officers.

§ 5163. Liability of corporation or officers. In any trial under § 5161 or § 5162 of this title, the acts of any officer of a corporation, insofar as they affect or concern an employee or servant of such corporation, shall be taken and held to be the acts of the corporation, whether general or special authority as to such acts from the corporation is shown or not. Nothing contained in § 5161 or § 5162 of this title or in this section shall be construed to relieve any officer of a corporation from individual liability under such sections. 16 Del. Laws, c. 329, §§  1, 2;  Code 1915, §  1789;  Code 1935, §  1878;  45 Del. Laws, c. 147, §  24;  45 Del. Laws, c. 148, §  24;  45 Del. Laws, c. 149, §  24;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5163;
15 DE Code § 5164. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 51. Criminal Offenses|Subchapter III. Offenses Carrying Civil Liability|§ 5164. Liability of stakeholder for paying election bet.

§ 5164. Liability of stakeholder for paying election bet. If any stakeholder, or person with whom any money or thing, laid as a wager or bet on the result of any election, or on the election or defeat of any candidate or person voted for thereat, shall be deposited, shall at any time either before or after such bet shall have been decided, pay over or deliver to either or both of the persons betting the same, or to any other person by the order or for the use of them, or either of them, the money or thing so illegally betted, every such stakeholder or depository shall forfeit and pay to any person who will sue for the same, double the amount of such wager or bet or double the value of the thing betted. Either of the persons betting shall be competent witnesses against the stakeholder. Code 1852, §§  314, 315;  Code 1915, §  1813;  Code 1935, §  1902;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5164;
15 DE Code § 5901. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter I. Members of the General Assembly|§ 5901. Notice of intention to contest; specifications.

§ 5901. Notice of intention to contest; specifications. Any person intending to contest the election or the eligibility of any one returned by the board of canvass as a member of either branch of the General Assembly from any of the counties of this State shall at least 20 days before the meeting of the General Assembly give written notice of such intention to the person whose seat that person intends to contest, and within 10 days after the notice shall deliver to the person a written specification of the several grounds upon which that person intends to contest the election or the eligibility of such person. If 1 of such grounds shall be that illegal votes were given at such election for the person so returned, then such specification shall particularly set forth the name of each alleged illegal voter, with the several objections to the legality of that voter's vote. Code 1852, §  427;  Code 1915, §  1893;  Code 1935, §  2011;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5901;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5902. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter I. Members of the General Assembly|§ 5902. Counter specifications.

§ 5902. Counter specifications. The person returned by the board of canvass as having been elected shall, within 15 days after receiving the notice specified in § 5901 of this title, deliver to the person contesting the elected person's seat a like specification of objections to the right of the contestant to such seat. Code 1852, §  428;  Code 1915, §  1894;  Code 1935, §  2012;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5902;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5903. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter I. Members of the General Assembly|§ 5903. Verification of specifications.

§ 5903. Verification of specifications. Every specification shall be verified by affidavit of the party delivering the same, stating that the party verily believes that the grounds of objection set forth are substantially true, and that the voters specified as illegal voters were not entitled by law to vote at the election in question. Code 1852, §  429;  Code 1915, §  1895;  Code 1935, §  2013;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5903;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5904. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter I. Members of the General Assembly|§ 5904. Delivery of notice and specification to presiding officer of Senate or House.

§ 5904. Delivery of notice and specification to presiding officer of Senate or House. Copies of the notice and specifications verified as provided in § 5903 of this title shall be delivered to the Speaker or President, as the case may be, of the house having cognizance of the matter. The contestant shall deliver the contestant's own notice and specifications with the contestant's petition on the first day of the session, and the sitting member shall deliver a copy of the sitting member's specifications to the Speaker or President when the sitting member delivers them to the contestant. Code 1852, §  430;  Code 1915, §  1896;  Code 1935, §  2014;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5904;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5905. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter I. Members of the General Assembly|§ 5905. Inquiry restricted to grounds specified.

§ 5905. Inquiry restricted to grounds specified. In the trial of the case of a contested election, the parties shall be restricted to the grounds of objection in the specifications set forth and shall not examine into the illegality of any votes other than those specified as illegal nor impeach such votes for any causes other than those specified. Code 1852, §  431;  Code 1915, §  1897;  Code 1935, §  2015;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5905;
15 DE Code § 5906. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter I. Members of the General Assembly|§ 5906. Costs when sitting member unseated.

§ 5906. Costs when sitting member unseated. If the house having cognizance of the matter determines that the sitting member is not entitled to that sitting member's own seat, it may order that the costs incurred by such contested election be paid by the State. Code 1852, §  432;  Code 1915, §  1898;  Code 1935, §  2016;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5906;  51 Del. Laws, c. 149, §  7;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5907. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter I. Members of the General Assembly|§ 5907. Costs when sitting member is not unseated.

§ 5907. Costs when sitting member is not unseated. The house in determining against the claim of the contestant may also decide that the proceeding on the contestant's part is frivolous and vexatious and may order that the contestant shall pay all the costs of the contested election, but without such order the contestant shall not be liable to costs and the same shall be paid by the State. Code 1852, §  433;  Code 1915, §  1899;  Code 1935, §  2017;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5907;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5908. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter I. Members of the General Assembly|§ 5908. Execution when costs are to be paid by contestant.

§ 5908. Execution when costs are to be paid by contestant. Any order for the payment of costs by the contestant shall be enforced by a writ issued by the Speaker or President, as the case may be, of the house in which such election was contested to the Sheriff of Kent County, directing the Sheriff of Kent County to levy and make the amount thereof of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the petitioner, under which writ the Sheriff shall sell the same, or such part thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the writ, upon 15 days' notice posted as required in cases of sale on execution process, and shall pay over the amount by the Sheriff of Kent County received upon the writ to the State Treasurer for the purpose of reimbursing to the Treasury the sums drawn therefrom to pay the costs of the contested election. Code 1852, §  434;  Code 1915, §  1900;  Code 1935, §  2018;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5908;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5921. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter II. Electors for President and Vice President|§ 5921. Notice of contest; specification.

§ 5921. Notice of contest; specification. Any person intending to contest the election of any one declared by the Governor to have been chosen an elector of President and Vice President of the United States, shall, within 10 days after such declaration by proclamation of the Governor, give written notice of such intention to the person whose election the contesting person intends to contest and also to the Governor, and within 5 days after the delivery of such notice, shall deliver to the person whose election the contesting person contests and to the Governor written specification of the grounds upon which the contesting person intends to contest the election of the person so declared to have been elected. If 1 of the grounds shall be that illegal votes were given at such election for the person declared to have been elected then such specification shall particularly set forth the name of each alleged illegal voter, with the several objections to the legality of that voter's vote, and shall also distinctly set forth and state the election district at which the alleged illegal vote was cast. 18 Del. Laws, c. 22, §  1;  Code 1915, §  1869;  Code 1935, §  1988;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5921;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  82 Del. Laws, c. 141, § 13;
15 DE Code § 5922. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter II. Electors for President and Vice President|§ 5922. Specification in answer.

§ 5922. Specification in answer. The person declared to have been elected and who has received notice of contest shall, within 10 days after receiving specification of the grounds of contest, deliver to the person so contesting the elected person's election, and to the Governor, a like specification of objections to the right of the contestant to be declared an elector, and in such specification may also state any other ground upon which the elected person rests the validity of the elected person's election. 18 Del. Laws, c. 22, §  2;  Code 1915, §  1870;  Code 1935, §  1989;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5922;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5923. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter II. Electors for President and Vice President|§ 5923. Verification of specifications.

§ 5923. Verification of specifications. Every specification shall be verified by the affidavit of the party delivering the same, stating that the party verily believes that the grounds of objection set forth are substantially true, and that the voters specified as illegal voters were not entitled by law to vote at the election in question. 18 Del. Laws, c. 22, §  3;  Code 1915, §  1871;  Code 1935, §  1990;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5923;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5924. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter II. Electors for President and Vice President|§ 5924. Delivery of documents to special board of canvass.

§ 5924. Delivery of documents to special board of canvass. The notice and specification which have been delivered to the Governor shall be delivered by the Governor to the special board of canvass provided for in § 5927 of this title, together with the certificates of the votes given for each person voted for for elector as returned to the Governor by the respective boards of canvass under Chapter 57 of this title on the first day of the assembling of the special board of canvass. 18 Del. Laws, c. 22, §  4;  Code 1915, §  1872;  Code 1935, §  1991;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5924;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5925. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter II. Electors for President and Vice President|§ 5925. Inquiry restricted to grounds of objection in specifications.

§ 5925. Inquiry restricted to grounds of objection in specifications. In the trial of the case of a contested election, the parties shall be restricted to the grounds of objection in the specifications set forth and to the statement of the other grounds upon which the person declared to have been elected rests the validity of that person's election and shall not examine into the illegality of any other vote than those specified as illegal nor impeach such votes for any causes other than those so specified. 18 Del. Laws, c. 22, §  5;  Code 1915, §  1873;  Code 1935, §  1992;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5925;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5926. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter II. Electors for President and Vice President|§ 5926. Subpoenas for witnesses.

§ 5926. Subpoenas for witnesses. Where any contestant or person who has been declared elected and whose election is contested is desirous of obtaining testimony respecting a contested election, such person may apply to the Prothonotary of the Superior Court in Kent County, for a subpoena or subpoenas for summoning such witnesses as the contestant or person who has been declared elected may wish to appear before the special board of canvass at such time as shall be in the subpoenas designated. Such subpoena shall be directed to the sheriff of the county in which the witness or witnesses reside, and shall be served in the same manner as subpoenas for witnesses in civil cases are served. The sheriff to whom a subpoena may be directed shall make return of that sheriff's service thereon to the special board of canvass on the first day of its meeting to hear the contest. 18 Del. Laws, c. 22, §  6;  Code 1915, §  1874;  Code 1935, §  1993;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5926;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;
15 DE Code § 5927. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter II. Electors for President and Vice President|§ 5927. Superior Court for Kent County declared a special board of canvass to hear contest.

§ 5927. Superior Court for Kent County declared a special board of canvass to hear contest. The Superior Court for Kent County is continued and declared to be a special board of canvass to hear and determine all contests of elections of electors of President and Vice President with power to regulate and determine the mode of procedure, and all other matters pertaining thereto as may be necessary in carrying out the provision of this subchapter and the Act of Congress fixing the day of the meeting of electors. The Governor whenever a notice of contest is served upon the Governor shall immediately make proclamation convening such Superior Court in special session at the Courthouse in Dover on a day to be by the Governor named, which shall not be later than December 20, next succeeding the day of the election in the year in which the election was held. 18 Del. Laws, c. 22, §  7;  Code 1915, §  1875;  Code 1935, §  1994;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5927;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;  82 Del. Laws, c. 141, § 14;
15 DE Code § 5928. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter II. Electors for President and Vice President|§ 5928. Certification by Superior Court.

§ 5928. Certification by Superior Court. The Superior Court, after hearing any contest of election of an elector or electors, shall make out and certify under the seal of the Court the ascertainment of the vote of the State for electors, and also certify the names of the persons chosen as electors, and cause such ascertainment and certificate, together with all the papers and certificates filed in the case, to be delivered to the Governor on or before January 1 next succeeding the day of the election at which electors were chosen. 18 Del. Laws, c. 22, §  8;  Code 1915, §  1876;  Code 1935, §  1995;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5928;
15 DE Code § 5941. (2021)
2021 Delaware Code|Title 15 - Elections|Chapter 59. Contested Elections|Subchapter III. Other Offices|§ 5941. Who may contest; causes.

§ 5941. Who may contest; causes. Any person claiming to be elected to an office to be exercised in and for any county, district or hundred may contest the right of any person declared to be duly elected to such office for any of the following causes:  (1) For malconduct on the part of the election officers or clerks holding the election, or any one of them; (2) When the person whose right to the office is contested was not at the time of the election eligible to such office; (3) When the person whose right is contested has given to any elector or inspector, judge or clerk of election, any bribe or reward or shall have offered any bribe or reward for the purpose of procuring his or her election; (4) On account of illegal votes.17 Del. Laws, c. 33, §  1;  Code 1915, §  1901;  Code 1935, §  2019;  15 Del. C. 1953, §  5941;  70 Del. Laws, c. 186, §  1;