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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-33 - Register of guests and lodgers in lodging houses, inns and hotels.

19:32-33 Register of guests and lodgers in lodging houses, inns and hotels.
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 the room, rooms or bed occupied by them. This register shall be arranged so that there shall be a space on the same line in which each male guest or male lodger shall sign his name.
Such landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper shall make a sworn report upon a blank to be prepared and furnished by the superintendent thirty days before the election next ensuing to such superintendent, containing a detailed description of the premises so used and occupied as a lodging house, inn or hotel, including the size and character of building, and in case only part of a building is so used, a statement as to what part, and the names of the lodgers therein, and all the employees, and all other persons living therein, including the landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper, and members of his family, who claim a voting residence at or in such lodging house, inn or hotel, together with the length of time they have been regularly lodged or lived therein, the beginning of such residence, the color, approximate age, height, weight, whereby the persons may be identified, the nationality, the occupation and place of business of such persons, and the room occupied by each person, and whether the person is a guest, landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper, and the signature of each person. Above the space reserved for the signature of each such person shall be printed the following words, "the foregoing statements are true." In the form of affidavit, which shall be sworn to by the landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper of such lodging house, inn or hotel, shall be included the statement that the signatures of the guests or lodgers certified to in such report were written in the presence of such landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper, and that he personally knows them to be the persons therein described.
To the end that the sworn report herein required shall truly set forth the facts therein stated, such landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper shall question each male person lodging or living in the lodging house, inn or hotel as to his intention of claiming such place as a voting residence, and the person shall thereupon declare his intention thereof, and if he shall claim the place as his voting residence he shall give to such landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper such facts regarding himself as are required to be incorporated in the sworn report herein provided for. Such report and affidavit shall be filed personally by the landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper with the superintendent at his office.
Any such landlord, proprietor, lessee or keeper or any lodger who shall violate this section shall be deemed guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
L.1947,c.167,s.8; amended 2005, c.154, s.17.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-34 - Sealing, preserving and opening ballot boxes

19:32-34. Sealing, preserving and opening ballot boxes
The superintendent, his chief deputy or assistants, shall have the power, when in his or their judgment it is deemed necessary at any election, upon the completion of the counting and canvassing of the ballots by any district board, to enter any place containing ballot boxes for the purpose of taking possession and sealing any ballot box or boxes with a seal to be adopted by the superintendent. When any ballot box shall be so sealed it may be removed to a vault or other place of security by the superintendent, his chief deputy or assistants, but shall not be opened and the seal thereof destroyed or affected without an order first had and obtained from a judge of the Superior Court assigned to the county. Taping or any other mechanical device may be used to make such sealing secure.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 730, s. 9. Amended by L.1953, c. 19, p. 349, s. 50.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-35 - Interference with sealing ballot boxes, bags; third degree crime.

19:32-35 Interference with sealing ballot boxes, bags; third degree crime.
10. Any person preventing, hindering or interfering with the said superintendent or his chief deputy or assistants in sealing such ballot box or boxes or bag or bags shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
L.1947,c.167,s.10; amended 2005, c.154, s.18.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-36 - Destroying, removing, defacing seals, third degree crime.

19:32-36 Destroying, removing, defacing seals, third degree crime.
11. Any person who destroys, defaces or removes, or attempts to destroy, deface or remove, such a seal shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
L.1947,c.167,s.11; amended 2005, c.154, s.19.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-37 - Exercise of powers by superintendent or assistants, when

19:32-37. Exercise of powers by superintendent or assistants, when
The powers herein granted may be exercised by the superintendent, his chief deputy or assistants, upon the completion of the counting and canvassing of the ballots at any election by the district board or within a period of ninety days thereafter.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 731, s. 12.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-44 - Superintendent and assistants to have powers of peace officers

19:32-44. Superintendent and assistants to have powers of peace officers
The superintendent and his chief deputy and assistants shall have and possess all the powers of constables, policemen and other peace officers.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 734, s. 19.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-45 - Arrest without warrant; aid of peace officers in taking arrested person to police station

19:32-45. Arrest without warrant; aid of peace officers in taking arrested person to police station
The superintendent and his chief deputy and assistants are hereby authorized and empowered and without warrant, to arrest any person violating any provision of this Title.
The superintendent and his chief deputy and assistants, as the case may be, shall have the right and power to call upon any constable, police officer or other peace officer to aid in taking any person so arrested to the nearest police station in the municipality in which the arrest is made, and such constable, police officer or other peace officer shall render such aid.
Any constable, police officer or other peace officer failing to comply with such request shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 734, s. 20.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-46 - Detention of persons arrested

19:32-46. Detention of persons arrested
Upon delivering the person so arrested to the officer in charge of the police station to which he is removed, such officer shall hold and detain the person so arrested until ordered released by the magistrate taking the complaint hereinafter provided for or by other process of law.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 734, s. 21.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-47 - Complaint against person arrested; hearing by magistrate

19:32-47. Complaint against person arrested; hearing by magistrate
Upon delivering the person so arrested to the officer in charge of such police station the superintendent or his chief deputy and assistants, as the case may be, making the arrest, shall forthwith and as soon as may be make and sign before a magistrate of the municipality in which the arrest was made a complaint in writing, duly verified, setting forth the particular act for which such person was arrested. Upon the complaint being made, the magistrate before whom it is made shall forthwith and as soon as may be cause the person so arrested to be brought before him and proceed on such complaint, as in the case of other persons arrested on a complaint charging a criminal offense.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 734, s. 22.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-48 - Removal of persons from polling places

19:32-48. Removal of persons from polling places
The superintendent, his chief deputy and assistants are hereby authorized and empowered to remove from any polling place or place where any election is being held any person found violating any provision of this Title or in any way unlawfully interfering with the lawful conduct of any election.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 735, s. 23.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-49 - Superintendent of elections, commissioner of registration.

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 charged with all the duties had and exercised and required to be performed by, the superintendent of elections and the commissioner of registration in any county, including the custody and control of voting machines heretofore or hereafter installed in the county in any manner provided by law, except those heretofore or hereafter installed in any municipality by the governing body thereof, which shall be placed and remain in the custody of the municipal clerk unless taken over by the county according to law. The deputy superintendent of elections in counties of the first class, and in counties of the second and fifth classes in which the governing body has established the office of superintendent of elections for the county, is constituted the deputy commissioner of registration.
L.1947, c.167, s.24; amended 1982, c.46, s.5; 1992, c.17, s.5; 2021, c.58, s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-50 - Salaries and expenses during fiscal year in which act takes effect

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 expenses of the superintendent of elections and his office during such fiscal year, all appropriations made in said budget to the county board of elections, except those made for the payment of the salaries of the members of said board and the expenses of the board in connection with the functions to be performed by it during said year, notwithstanding the provisions of this act, shall be transferred and made available to the superintendent of elections for the carrying out of the powers and functions vested in him under this act, which shall include all appropriations for (a) salaries and wages, except for the salaries of the members of the board, (b) the control and conduct of permanent registration, and (c) the custody, maintenance and distribution of voting machines.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 735, s. 25.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-51 - Transfer of employees of county board of elections

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 elections and fix the salary to be paid to such clerks.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 736, s. 26.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-52 - Appropriations for salaries and expenses

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, during such fiscal year, the board of chosen freeholders shall appropriate and use any county funds, not otherwise appropriated or dedicated, for such purposes.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 736, s. 27.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-53 - Voting machines, forms, records, etc. to be turned over

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, books, binders, folders, files, card indexes, documents and forms, used or unused, relating to or used or useful in connection with the registration of voters, or the use of voting machines, in the county, together with all racks, cabinets, furniture, equipment and supplies used or useful for the filing, storing, repair servicing or use of the same.
L.1947, c. 167, p. 736, s. 28.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-54 - Abolishment of offices of superintendent, deputy superintendent of elections.

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 superintendent of elections in the county, and the functions, powers, and duties of each office shall be transferred to and assumed by the county board of elections. The transfer of the functions, powers, and duties of the office of the superintendent of elections and the office of the deputy superintendent of elections shall be completed no later than the 90th day following the adoption of the ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, and the term of office of each individual holding each office shall be terminated no later than that 90th day.
b. Whenever reference is made in any statute, regulation, document or judicial proceeding to the office of superintendent of elections or the office of deputy superintendent of elections concerning the functions, powers, and duties that had been vested therein prior to their abolishment pursuant to subsection a. of this section, the same shall mean and refer to the county board of elections.
c. Notwithstanding any provision of subsection b. of section 3 of P.L.2015, c.249 (C.40A:4-45.45b) to the contrary, and subject to approval by the Director of the Division of Local Government Services in the Department of Community Affairs, all expenses, including salaries, of such county's board of elections shall be exempt from the requirements of that subsection for the budget year next succeeding the budget year in which a resolution or an ordinance, as appropriate, is adopted pursuant to subsection a. of this section. The director shall approve an exemption of expenses from the requirements of subsection b. of section 3 of P.L.2015, c.249 (C.40A:4-45.45b) pursuant to this subsection if: (1) the director determines that the expenses are reasonable and will result in long-term savings for the county; and (2) the county board of election's budget request for the budget year is less than the aggregate amount of the budget requests submitted to the county governing body by the office of the superintendent of elections, the office of the deputy superintendent of elections, and the board of elections in the last preceding budget year.
L.2018, c.163, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-55 - Requirements for re-establishing offices.

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-establish the offices and return to them the functions, powers, and duties provided by law until the following requirements have been met in the following order:
a. at least five years shall have passed since the offices were abolished;
b. a new ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, providing for the re-establishment of the office of superintendent of elections and the office of deputy superintendent of elections, and the return of the functions, powers, and duties of each office provided by law from the county board of elections, shall be adopted by the county's governing body and a certified copy of the ordinance or resolution, as appropriate, together with a tally of the vote to adopt it, shall be filed with the Secretary of State within 10 days after the adoption;
c. a written report shall be prepared for the secretary that:
(1) explains why the governing body of the county believes the re-establishment of the office of superintendent and the office of deputy superintendent is necessary;
(2) presents a plan for how the offices shall be re-established and shall work in conjunction with the county clerk and the county board of elections; and
(3) includes the financial information necessary to prove that re-establishing the offices shall improve the efficiency and reduce the cost of:
(a) operating and administering State, county, school, municipal, special, and federal elections;
(b) maintaining and distributing voting machines; and
(c) overseeing the administration of voter registration in the county; and
d. the re-establishment of the office of superintendent of elections and the office of deputy superintendent of elections shall be approved by the secretary after the secretary has had a maximum of 90 days to review the report. The secretary shall be authorized to receive answers to such questions that the secretary deems necessary to ask to ensure that the operation and administration of elections, maintenance and distribution of voting machines, and administration of voter registration shall be conducted by the county in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible.
In the event that the secretary decides that the office of superintendent of elections and the office of deputy superintendent of elections should be re-established in a county, qualified individuals to serve in each office shall be appointed as provided by law and the functions, powers, and duties of the offices shall be re-established within one year after the secretary's decision.
L.2018, c.163, s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:32-56 - Appointment of officers if office re-established.

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 of elections pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1992, c.17 (C.19:32-26.1), in a county if the offices are re-established pursuant to section 2 of P.L.2018, c.163 (C.19:32-55).
L.2018, c.163, s.3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-1 - False registration or transfer; penalties.

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 provisions of this title, such member shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Any person who shall cause or procure his name to be registered in more than one election district, or shall cause or procure his name or that of any other person to be registered, knowing that he or such other person is not entitled to vote in the election district wherein such registry is made at the next election to be held therein, shall be punished for each such offense and shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
No district board shall execute or deliver to any voter any paper in the nature of a transfer, purporting to authorize him to vote in any other election district unless he is actually registered as now provided by law.
Any officer or employee who shall willfully fail to perform or enforce any of the provisions of this title or who shall unlawfully or fraudulently remove any registration records, or who shall willfully destroy any record directed by this title to be kept, or any person who shall willfully or fraudulently register more than once, or register under any but his true name, or attempt to vote by impersonating another who is registered, or who willfully registers in any election district where he is not a resident at the time of registering, or who violates any of the provisions of this title, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.20.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-1.1 - Crimes; election official defined.

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 to vote or vote, urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote or to attempt to register or vote or exercising any right under the provisions of P.L.1994, c.182 (C.19:31-6.11 et al.); or
(2) knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of this State of a fair and impartially conducted election by the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious or fraudulent under the provisions of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes or the procurement, casting or tabulation of ballots that are known by the person to be materially false, fictitious or fraudulent under the provisions of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes, is guilty of a crime of the second degree.
b. Any 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 to vote or vote, urging or aiding any person to register to vote, to vote or to attempt to register or vote, or exercising any right under the provisions of P.L.1994, c.182 (C.19:31-6.11 et al.); or
(2) knowingly and willfully deprives, defrauds or attempts to deprive or defraud the residents of this State of a fair and impartially conducted election by the procurement or submission of voter registration applications that are known by the election official to be materially false, fictitious or fraudulent under the provisions of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes or the procurement, casting or tabulation of ballots that are known by the election official to be materially false, fictitious or fraudulent under the provisions of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes, is guilty of a crime of the second degree and, in addition to any other penalties provided under the law, shall be permanently barred from serving as an election official.
c. As used in this section, "election official" shall include, but not be limited to, any superintendent or deputy superintendent of elections, commissioner of registration, member of a county board of elections, county clerk, municipal clerk, member of a district board of elections, member of a board of county canvassers and member of a board of State canvassers.
L.1994,c.182,s.43; amended 2005, c.154, s.21.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-2 - Offenses concerning nomination certificates or petitions.

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 certificate of nomination or petition, knowing the same or any part thereof to be falsely made, or suppress any certificate of nomination or petition which has been duly filed, or any part thereof. A person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Any person who, being a member of one political party, shall sign his name to any petition indorsing any person as a candidate for office of another political party, shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.22.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-3 - Ballots; offenses concerning printing, distribution, possession and forgery thereof.

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 knowingly permit to be taken any of such ballots by any other person than such county or municipal clerk or his duly authorized agent, or shall print or cause to be printed any official ballot in any other form than that prescribed by the county or municipal clerk, or with any other names thereon, or with the names spelled or the names or printing thereon arranged in any other way than that authorized and directed by this title, the person so offending shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
If any person not authorized by the proper officers shall print or make any official or sample ballot provided for in this title, or on or prior to election day shall willfully have in his possession an official ballot without being authorized by this title to have charge or possession thereof, the person so offending shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
If any person shall forge or falsely make any ballot or the official indorsement thereof, the person so offending shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.23.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-4 - Voting by incarcerated person, fourth degree crime.

19:34-4 Voting by incarcerated person, fourth degree crime.
19:34-4. If a person convicted of a crime which disfranchises him while serving a sentence of incarceration shall vote at any election, unless he shall have been pardoned or restored by law to the right of suffrage, he shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
amended 2005, c.154, s.24; 2019, c.270, s.5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-5 - Interference with conduct of election.

19:34-5 Interference with conduct of election.
19:34-5. No person shall, during an election, with intent to hinder or delay same, or to hinder or delay any voter in the preparation of his ballot, remove or destroy any of the ballots or pencils placed in the booths or compartments for the purpose of enabling the voter to prepare his ballot.
Any person willfully violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a disorderly persons offense.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.25.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-6 - Prohibited actions in polling place on election day; exception for simulated voting.

19:34-6 Prohibited actions in polling place on election day; exception for simulated voting.
19:34-6. a. If a person shall on election day tamper, deface or interfere with any polling booth or obstruct the entrance to any polling place, or obstruct or interfere with any voter, or loiter in or near the polling place, or, with the purpose to obstruct or interfere with any voter or to unduly delay other voters from voting, spend an inordinate amount of time in the polling booth, or do any electioneering within any polling place or within one hundred feet thereof, he shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
b. This section shall not be construed to prohibit a minor from entering a polling place on the day of an election to vote in a simulated election at that polling place, or persons from supervising or working at a polling place in a simulated election in which minors vote, provided that the county board of elections has determined that the polling place can accommodate simulated election activities without interfering with the orderly conduct of the official voting process.
Amended 1940, c.199, s.3; 1948, c.438, s.12; 2000, c.173, s.2; 2005, c.154, s.26.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-7 - Violation of ballot regulations.

19:34-7 Violation of ballot regulations.
19:34-7. No person shall within the polling room mark his ballot in a place other than in the polling booth or show his ballot, nor shall anyone request such person to show his ballot during the preparation thereof, nor shall any other person inspect such ballot during the preparation thereof or after it is prepared for voting in such a way as to reveal the contents, nor shall any person within the polling place or within a hundred feet thereof, loiter, electioneer, or solicit any voter.
No voter, at any election where official ballots are used, shall knowingly vote or offer to vote any ballot except an official ballot as by this Title required.
No person shall on any pretext carry any official ballot from the polling room on any election day except such persons as may by this Title be authorized to do so.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
Amended 1940, c.199, s.4; 1948, c.438, s.13; 2005, c.154, s.27.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-10 - Identifying or distinguishing marks on ballots.

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 how any voter has voted at any election, or if any person shall induce or attempt to induce any voter to write, paste or otherwise place on his ballot any mark, sign or device of any kind, as a distinguishing mark by which to indicate to any member of any district board or other person how such voter has voted, or shall enter into or attempt to form any agreement or conspiracy with any other person to induce or attempt to induce voters or any voter to so place any distinguishing mark, sign or device on his ballot, whether or not such act be committed or attempted to be committed, such person so offending shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.29.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-11 - Fraudulent voting; interference with election or canvass; third degree crime.

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 changes any ballot after it has been deposited in the ballot box; or adds, or attempts to add, any ballot to those legally polled at any election, either by fraudulently introducing the same into the ballot box before or after the ballots therein have been counted; or adds to or mixes with, or attempts to add to or mix with, the ballots lawfully polled, other ballots while the same are being counted or canvassed, or at any other time, with intent to change the result of such election; or carries away or destroys, or attempts to carry away or destroy, any poll list, or ballots, or ballot box, for the purpose of breaking up or invalidating the election; or willfully detains, mutilates or destroys any election returns; or in any manner so interferes with the officers holding the election, or conducting the canvass, or with the voters lawfully exercising their rights of voting at the election, as to prevent the election or canvass from being fairly had and lawfully conducted, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 1940, c.199, s.5; 1948, c.438, s.14; 2005, c.154, s.30.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-12 - Attempt to cast illegal vote; third degree crime.

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 entitled to vote, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 1940, c.199, s.6; 1948, c.438, s.15; 2005, c.154, s.31.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-13 - Attempts to examine marked ballot, disclose content of mail-in ballot, third degree crime.

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 who opens or suffers the folded ballot of any elector which has been handed in to be opened or examined previous to putting the same in the ballot box, or who makes or places any mark or device on any folded ballot with the view to ascertain the name of any person for whom the elector has voted, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
b. Any person who is authorized to receive and canvass completed mail-in-ballots pursuant to P.L.2009, c.79 (C.19:63-1) who knowingly discloses to the public the contents of a mail-in ballot prior to the time designated by law for the closing of the polls for each election shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
amended 1940, c.199, s.7; 1948, c.438, s.16; 2005, c.154, s.32; 2020, c.72, s.4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-14 - Member of district board revealing knowledge of how voter voted.

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 voted for on any ballot bearing a name not printed thereon, or fraudulently or corruptly gives any information concerning the appearance of any ballot voted, he shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.33.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-15 - Electioneering within or about polling place; disorderly persons offense.

19:34-15 Electioneering within or about polling place; disorderly persons offense.
19:34-15. 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 place or room or within a distance of 100 feet of the outside entrance to such polling place or room, or within 100 feet of a ballot drop box in use during the conduct of an election, the person shall be guilty of a disorderly persons offense.
Amended 1940, c.199, s.8; 1948, c.438, s.17; 2005, c.154, s.34; 2021, c.459, s.5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-16 - Removal, destruction, mutilation of registry, voters' lists.

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 title, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.35.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-17 - Unlawfully taking ballot box or removing contents; destroying ballots; willfully suppressing records.

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 exchange, alter or destroy any ballot or other paper contained therein, or if any person shall willfully and corruptly suppress, withhold, mutilate, destroy, alter or change any return, statement or certificate or any copy thereof, which shall have been made in pursuance of this title, and delivered to him to be filed, or which shall have been intrusted or delivered to him to be delivered or transmitted to any other person in pursuance of this title, every such person, his aiders, procurers and abettors, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
This section shall not apply to the destruction of ballots or the performance of other acts by officials when such acts are performed as prescribed in this title.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.36.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-18 - Interfering with return of ballot boxes.

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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-19 - Insignia at polls.

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 commission government election day, except the badge furnished by the county board as herein provided.
A person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a disorderly persons offense.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.38.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-20 - Soliciting or procuring or assisting unlawful registration and other violations of election law.

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 or precinct; or shall willfully counsel, procure, aid, advise, assist or abet in the registering of the name of any other person on the registry list of any election district or precinct, knowing such other person is not entitled to vote therein; or at any election, knowing that he is not a qualified voter, votes thereat; or at any election votes or attempts to vote more than once on his own name; or at any election votes or attempts to vote in more than one election district or precinct; or at any election votes or attempts to vote upon any other name than his own; or knowingly casts or attempts to cast more than one ballot at one time by balloting; or at any election counsels, procures, aids, advises, assists or abets any person, knowing that he is not a qualified voter, to vote thereat; or at any election counsels, procures, aids, advises, assists or abets any person in voting in more than one election district or precinct; or at any election counsels, procures, aids, advises, assists or abets any person to vote or to attempt to vote upon any name other than his own, or knowingly cast or attempt to cast more than one ballot at one time of voting; or at any election shall in any way willfully mark or deface his ballot, or shall willfully counsel, procure, aid, advise, assist or abet any person in the marking or defacing of a ballot; or at any election shall in any way counsel, procure, aid, advise, assist or abet any official or person in any act which is contrary to the provisions of this title; or at any election shall in any way willfully hinder or prevent a voter from casting his legal vote, knowing such person to have a right to vote; or shall willfully tamper with, injure, mutilate, destroy or render unfit for use, any ballot box; shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.39.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-21 - Voting in wrong party ballot box.

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.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-22 - False voting at primary.

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 counsel or procure anyone to so vote, knowing or having reason to believe such voter not entitled to do so, or if any person having voted at any primary meeting held by any political party or organization to nominate candidates or to elect delegates to nominate candidates, to be voted for at any election, shall vote or offer to vote at the primary meeting held by any other political party or organization held to nominate candidates or to elect delegates to nominate candidates, to be voted for at the same election, such person shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.41.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-23 - Primary election officials acting before taking oath; willfully disregarding or violating rules.

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 by this title, or shall willfully disregard or violate the provisions of any rule duly made by the party of which he is a member and for whom he is acting for the government of the primary elections of the party, or if any judge or inspector of any primary election shall knowingly reject the vote of any person entitled to vote under the rules of such party or shall knowingly receive the vote of any person not qualified, or if any judge, inspector, clerk or any other officer of a primary election shall commit any willful fraud in the discharge of his duties by destroying or marking any ballot in any way before such ballot is delivered to the voter or by defacing ballots, adding marks to the poll by false counting, making false returns or by any act or thing whatsoever, he shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.42.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-24 - Betting on election

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 contracts for or on account of any money, property or thing in action so bet, wagered or staked shall be void. Any person who shall pay, deliver or deposit any money, property or thing in action upon the event of any bet, wager or stake prohibited by this section, may sue for and recover the same from the winner or person to whom the same, or any part thereof, shall have been paid or delivered, or with whom the same, or any part thereof, shall have been deposited, whether he shall have been a stakeholder, or other person, whether or not the same shall have been paid over by such stakeholder, or whether or not such bet, wager or stake shall have been lost.
No candidate for public office, before or during an election, shall make any bet or wager with a voter, or take a share or interest in, or in any manner become a party to such bet or wager, or provide or agree to provide any money to be used by another in making such bet or wager, upon any event or contingency whatever. No person, directly or indirectly, shall make a bet or wager with a voter, depending upon the result of any election, with the intent thereby to procure the challenge of such voter, or to prevent him from voting at the election.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-26 - Perjury; subornation of perjury.

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 prescribed or authorized by this title, he shall be deemed guilty of a crime of the third degree, and be deemed to be an incompetent witness thereafter for any purpose within this State, until such time as he shall have been pardoned.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.44.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-27 - Improperly influencing or intimidating employees.

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 behalf or by his direction, make use of or threaten to make use of any force, violence or restraint, or inflict or threaten to inflict by himself or by any other person any injury, damage, harm or loss against any person in his employ, in order to induce or compel such employee to vote or refrain from voting for any particular candidate at any election, or because of such employee having voted or refrained from voting for any particular candidate at any election, or who shall, by any duress, constraint or improper influence or by any fraudulent or improper device, contrivance or scheme, impede, hinder or prevent the free exercise of the franchise of any voter at any election, or shall thereby compel, induce or prevail upon any voter to vote for or against any particular candidate at any election, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.45.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-28 - Threatening or intimidating voters

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 person, of any injury, damage, harm or loss, or in any manner to practice intimidation upon or against any person, in order to induce or compel such person to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or to vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or persons at any election, or on account of such person having voted or refrained from voting at any election.
Amended by L.1940, c. 199, p. 854, s. 9; L.1948, c. 438, p. 1705, s. 18.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-29 - Obstructing or interfering with voter

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 upon any voter either to vote or refrain from voting at any election, or to vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or persons at any election.