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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:45-6.2 - Reimbursement to county from State for certain costs.

19:45-6.2 Reimbursement to county from State for certain costs.
6. In accordance with the provisions of Art.VIII, Sec.II, par.5 of the Constitution, upon application for reimbursement by a county governing body to the Secretary of State and approval of the application by the Director of the Division of Budget and Accounting, a county shall be reimbursed by the State for:
a. compensation to each member of the district board of elections who shall have served at the general election, the primary election, and any nonpartisan municipal, special, or recall election, and who shall have qualified for and been paid $300 for such service in accordance with R.S.19:45-6, the sum of $225; and
b. any additional costs incurred by the county as a result of the provisions of this act, P.L.2001, c.245.
L.2001,c.245,s.6; amended 2022, c.5, s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:45-8 - Compensation of judges holding court

19:45-8. Compensation of judges holding court
Each of the judges holding court, as herein required, shall be entitled to receive the sum of twenty dollars for each day he shall be personally present, pursuant to the provisions of this title, in addition to the salary to which he is now entitled by law, which sum shall be paid by the treasurer of the county as other court expenses are paid.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:45-9 - Compensation of county and municipal clerks

19:45-9. Compensation of county and municipal clerks
The boards of chosen freeholders in the several counties may pay the county clerks for extra duties and services imposed upon and performed by them under this title an amount to be fixed by such boards. The governing bodies of the several municipalities may pay the municipal clerks for extra duties and services imposed upon and performed by them under this title an amount to be fixed by such governing body.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:46-6 - New Jersey Redistricting Commission

19:46-6. New Jersey Redistricting Commission
1. There is hereby established the New Jersey Redistricting Commission, which shall establish the Congressional districts for use in the decade of the 1990s.
L.1991,c.510,s.1; per s.12, expired January 1, 2001.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:46-8 - Organizational meeting; quorum; vacancies

19:46-8. Organizational meeting; quorum; vacancies
3. The commission shall meet to organize as soon as may be practicable after the appointment of the independent member but not later than February 15, 1992. At the organizational meeting the members of the commission shall determine such organizational matters as they deem appropriate. Thereafter, a meeting of the commission may be called by the chairman or upon the request of seven members, and seven members of the commission shall constitute a quorum at any meeting thereof for the purpose of taking any action.
Vacancies in the membership of the commission occurring prior to the certification by the commission of Congressional districts or during any period in which the districts established by the commission may be or are under challenge in the courts of this State or the courts of the United States shall be filled within five days of their occurrence in the same manner as the original appointments were made.
L.1991,c.510,s.3; per s.12, expired January 1, 2001.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:46-9 - Certification of Congressional districts

19:46-9. Certification of Congressional districts
4. On or before March 20, 1992, or within three months after receipt by the Governor of the official statement by the Clerk of the House of Representatives regarding the number of Representatives to which the State is entitled, pursuant to section 2a of 2 U.S.C., whichever is later, the commission shall certify the establishment of the Congressional districts to the Secretary of State. The commission shall certify the establishment of districts pursuant to a majority vote of its members. Any vote by the commission upon a proposal to certify the establishment of a Congressional district plan shall be taken by roll call and shall be recorded, and the vote of any member in favor of any Congressional district plan shall nullify any vote which he shall previously have cast during the life of the commission in favor of a different Congressional district plan. Any Congressional district plan introduced by a member of the commission shall be considered for adoption by the commission and subject to a recorded vote to ascertain the level of support for that plan among the members. If the commission is unable to certify the establishment of districts by the time required due to the inability of a plan to achieve seven votes, the two district plans receiving the greatest number of votes, but not fewer than five votes, shall be submitted to the Supreme Court, which shall select and certify whichever of the two plans so submitted conforms most closely to the standards established in section 5 of this act. The independent member of the commission may vote only when the vote of the other members of the commission in favor of a Congressional district plan results in a tie.
L.1991,c.510,s.4; per s.12, expired January 1, 2001.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:46-10 - Districting standards

19:46-10. Districting standards
5. a. The plan certified by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission for the establishment of Congressional districts shall provide for equality of population among districts; for the preservation of minority voting status within each district; for the geographical contiguity of individual districts; and for reasonable protection for districts from decade to decade against disruptive alteration due to redistricting.
b. (1) In the plan, the population of each Congressional district shall be as nearly equal as practicable, and the difference in population between the most populous and least populous districts as small as practicable, as required by the Constitution of the United States and all applicable decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.
(2) No Congressional district shall be established which fragments an ethnic or racial minority community which, if left intact, would constitute a majority or significant number of voters or potential voters within a single district with the ability to elect the candidate of their choice. For the purposes of this paragraph, a minority community means any group enjoying special protection under the civil rights provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the federal "Voting Rights Act of 1965," as amended and supplemented (42 U.S.C. s. 1973 et seq.).
c. Congressional districts shall be drawn so that they are contiguous.
d. To the fullest extent reasonable and when not in conflict with the foregoing standards, Congressional districts shall be drawn to preserve continuity from decade to decade.
L.1991,c.510,s.5; per s.12, expired January 1, 2001.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:46-11 - Meetings of the commission

19:46-11. Meetings of the commission
6. Meetings of the New Jersey Redistricting Commission shall be held at convenient times and locations. The commission shall hold at least three public hearings in different parts of the State. The commission shall, subject to the constraints of time and convenience, review written plans for the establishment of Congressional districts submitted by members of the general public. Notwithstanding any statute, rule or regulation to the contrary, the commission shall not be subject to the "Open Public Meetings Act," P.L.1975, c.231 (C.10:4-6 et seq.).
L.1991,c.510,s.6; per s.12, expired January 1, 2001.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:46-12 - Use of districts

19:46-12. Use of districts
7. The establishment of Congressional districts shall be used thereafter for the election of members of the House of Representatives and shall remain unaltered through the next year ending in zero in which a federal census for New Jersey is taken, unless such districts are ruled invalid by the courts of this State or the United States.
L.1991,c.510,s.7; per s.12, expired January 1, 2001.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:46-13 - Original and exclusive jurisdiction of Supreme Court

19:46-13. Original and exclusive jurisdiction of Supreme Court
8. Notwithstanding any statute, rule or regulation to the contrary and except as otherwise required by the Constitution of the United States or by any federal law, no court of this State shall have jurisdiction over any judicial proceeding challenging the actions of the New Jersey Redistricting Commission, including its establishment of Congressional districts under this act, except that the Supreme Court of this State shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction to consider any cause brought upon the petition of a legally qualified voter of the State and to grant relief appropriate to the cause, including the issuance of an order to the commission to establish new districts. The Court shall give any petition filed as provided herein precedence over all other matters. It shall render judgment within 30 days of the date on which the petition is filed.
L.1991,c.510,s.8; per s.12, expired January 1, 2001.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:46-14 - Assistance to commission

19:46-14. Assistance to commission
9. The commission shall be entitled to call to its assistance and avail itself of the services of such staff or employees of any State, county or municipal department, board, bureau, commission or agency as it may require and as may be available for its purposes, and to employ such stenographic, clerical and professional assistance as it may deem necessary in order to perform its duties, within the limits of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to it for its purposes.
L.1991,c.510,s.9; per s.12, expired January 1, 2001.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:47-1 - Words and terms defined.

19:47-1 Words and terms defined.
19:47-1. As used in this subtitle:
"Ballot", except when reference is made to irregular ballots, means that portion of the ballot containing the name of the candidate and the designation of the party by which he was nominated, or a statement of a proposed constitutional amendment, or other question or proposition with the word "yes" for voting for any question or proposition, and the word "no" for voting against any question.
"Question" includes any constitutional amendment, proposition or other question submitted to the voters at any election.
"Official ballot" means the material displaying the names of the candidates nominated and a statement of the questions submitted.
"Irregular ballot" means a vote cast, by or on a special device, for a person whose name does not appear on the ballots.
"Voting machine custodian" means the person who shall have charge of preparing and arranging the voting machine for elections.
"Protective counter" means a separate counter built into the voting machine which cannot be reset, which records the total number of votes cast.
The list of candidates used or to be used on the front of the voting machine for an election district in which the voting machine is used pursuant to law shall be deemed official ballots under this subtitle.
Amended 2004, c.88, s.13.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-2 - Examination of voting machines by secretary of state

19:48-2. Examination of voting machines by secretary of state
Any person or corporation owning or being interested in any voting machine may apply to the Secretary of State to examine such machine. Before the examination the applicant shall pay to the Secretary of State an examination fee of four hundred fifty dollars ($450.00). The Secretary of State within a period of thirty days shall examine the machine and shall make and file in the office of the Secretary of State his report of the examination, which report shall state whether in his opinion the kind of machine so examined can be safely used by the voters at elections under the conditions prescribed in this subtitle. If the report states the machine can be so used, it shall be deemed approved, and machines of its kind may be adopted for use at elections as herein provided.
Before making such report the Secretary of State shall require the voting machine to be examined by three examiners to be appointed for such purpose by him, one of whom shall be an expert in patent law and the other two mechanical experts, and shall require of them a written report on such machine, which the Secretary of State shall attach to his own report on the machine. Each examiner shall receive one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) for his compensation and expenses in making an examination and report as to each voting machine examined by him from and out of the examination fee of four hundred fifty dollars ($450.00). Neither the Secretary of State nor any examiner shall have any pecuniary interest in any voting machine. When the machine has been so approved, any improvement or change that does not impair its accuracy, efficiency, or capacity, shall not render necessary a re-examination or reapproval thereof. Any form of voting machine not so approved cannot be used at any election.
The certificate of approval, or a certified copy thereof, shall be conclusive evidence that the kind of machine so examined complies with the provisions of this subtitle, except that the action of the Secretary of State in approving such machine may be reviewed by the Superior Court in a proceeding in lieu of prerogative writ.
Amended by L.1953, c. 19, p. 355, s. 58.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.1 - State House Commission, convening of and action by

19:48-3.1. State House Commission, convening of and action by
For the purpose of this act, a vote by the majority of the members of the State House Commission shall constitute valid action by said commission, and the said State House Commission shall be convened by any member thereof.
L.1940, c. 197, p. 847, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.2 - Authorized ballots; emergency, provisional ballots

19:48-3.2. Authorized ballots; emergency, provisional ballots
3. No ballots shall be prepared or used at any election in any election district under the provisions of this act other than such ballots as are required for use in voting machines, emergency ballots for use if a voting machine fails to operate, as provided in P.L.1992, c.3 (C.19:53B-1 et al.), and provisional ballots for use by certain voters who no longer reside at the place from which they are registered, as provided in P.L.1999, c.232 (C.19:53C-1 et al.).
L.1940, c.197, p.847, s.3; amended 1992, c.3, s.4; 1999, c.232, s.4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.3 - State House Commission to provide voting machines in first and second class counties

19:48-3.3. State House Commission to provide voting machines in first and second class counties
In each county of the first class and each county of the second class in which voting machines of the type to meet the requirements of subtitle fifteen of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes have not been furnished by the board of chosen freeholders for use at all elections in all election districts in said county, such voting machines shall be provided by the State House Commission for use in all election districts of each said county in the manner provided by this act.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 20, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.4 - Appropriation for purchase of voting machines

19:48-3.4. Appropriation for purchase of voting machines
There is hereby appropriated to the State House Commission the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000.00) for the purpose of purchasing the voting machines required by this act.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 20, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.5 - Purchase of voting machines; competitive bids; notice; procedure

19:48-3.5. Purchase of voting machines; competitive bids; notice; procedure
The State House Commission shall purchase such voting machines of the type described in subtitle fifteen of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes, by competitive bidding and upon such notice and according to such procedure as the State House Commission shall prescribe.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 20, s. 3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.6 - Purchase of voting machines as available

19:48-3.6. Purchase of voting machines as available
If the State House Commission is unable to purchase sufficient voting machines to meet the requirements of this act, it shall purchase such number as may be available and thereafter, from time to time, make further purchases of such voting machines as they become available, until sufficient voting machines have been purchased to meet the requirements of this act.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 20, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.7 - Delivery of voting machines purchased

19:48-3.7. Delivery of voting machines purchased
All voting machines purchased by the State House Commission pursuant to this act shall be delivered to the superintendent of elections in counties having a superintendent of elections and to the county board of elections in each county of the second class. If the State House Commission is unable at its first purchase to purchase sufficient voting machines to meet the requirements of this act, it shall determine in its discretion the county or counties to which the voting machines purchased are to be delivered and the machines shall be delivered as required by such determination, and as further purchases are made the same procedure shall be followed.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 21, s. 5. Amended by L.1947, c. 168, p. 767, s. 26.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.8 - Certification to counties of voting machines purchased; appropriations in annual budget

19:48-3.8. Certification to counties of voting machines purchased; appropriations in annual budget
As soon as any voting machines are purchased by the State House Commission and the determination is made as to the number to be delivered to any county, the State House Commission shall certify to the board of chosen freeholders of said county the number of voting machines purchased for said county and the amount of the purchase price paid therefor. In the annual budget of said county for the year following the date of such certification, and in each annual budget thereafter until the full amount so certified is paid, the board of chosen freeholders of said county shall appropriate an amount sufficient to pay one-fifth of the total amount or amounts so certified by the State House Commission, together with three per centum (3%) interest from the date of certification; provided, however , that, in any year, the board of chosen freeholders may appropriate and pay any amount greater than herein required.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 21, s. 6. Amended by L.1945, c. 122, p. 477, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.9 - Payments by counties out of first tax moneys

19:48-3.9. Payments by counties out of first tax moneys
In each county in which it is required by this act that an appropriation for the purposes of this act be included in the annual budget of any county, the board of chosen freeholders of said county shall direct the county treasurer of said county to pay, and the county treasurer, not later than the first day of March in such year, shall pay to the State Treasurer the amount of such appropriation out of the first moneys received from the various municipalities of the county for county taxes and before making any other payment out of said moneys.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 21, s. 7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.10 - Certification to Commissioner of Local Government of moneys to be appropriated; withholding approval of county budget

19:48-3.10. Certification to Commissioner of Local Government of moneys to be appropriated; withholding approval of county budget
Whenever the State House Commission makes its certification to any county of money to be appropriated by said county pursuant to the provisions of this act, it shall make a like certification to the Commissioner of Local Government and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Local Government to withhold approval of any county budget which does not contain any appropriation required by this act until such time as such appropriation is included.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 21, s. 8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.11 - Use of voting machines when insufficient number delivered to counties

19:48-3.11. Use of voting machines when insufficient number delivered to counties
When voting machines are delivered to any county pursuant to the provisions of this act and they are insufficient to provide voting machines for use in all election districts of said county, such voting machines shall be installed and used in such municipalities of said county and in such wards thereof as, in counties having a superintendent of elections, the superintendent of elections shall designate and as, in counties of the second class, not having a superintendent of elections the commissioner of registration shall designate, giving preference to municipalities in the descending order of population measured by the last Federal census and, in any municipality, giving preference to the several wards thereof according to the same standard.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 22, s. 9. Amended by L.1947, c. 168, p. 767, s. 27.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.12 - Convening of State House Commission; majority vote

19:48-3.12. Convening of State House Commission; majority vote
For the purpose of this act, the State House Commission may be convened by any member thereof on ten days' notice, in writing, given to the other members thereof, and a vote of the majority of the members thereof shall constitute valid action by said commission.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 22, s. 10.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.13 - Ballots, type permitted

19:48-3.13. Ballots, type permitted
11. No ballots other than ballots required for use in voting machines, emergency ballots for use if a voting machine fails to operate and provisional ballots for use by certain voters who no longer reside at the place from which they are registered, as provided in P.L.1999, c. 232 (C.19:53C-1 et al.), shall be prepared or used at any election in any election district.
L.1944, c.7, p.22, s.11; amended 1947, c.168, s.28; 1992, c.3, s.5; 1999, c.232, s.5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.14 - Enforcement of act by Attorney General

19:48-3.14. Enforcement of act by Attorney General
If any provision of this act is not complied with, the Attorney-General, at the request of the State House Commission, shall forthwith proceed to enforce compliance with the same.
L.1944, c. 7, p. 22, s. 12.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.15 - Definitions

19:48-3.15. Definitions
As used in this act--
"Municipal election" means an election to be held in and for a single municipality only, at regular intervals;
"Pertinent equipment" means channels, rollers, compensators, lockouts, pins and shutters used in connection with voting machines.
L.1945, c. 59, p. 335, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.16 - Purpose of act

19:48-3.16. Purpose of act
The purpose of this act is to provide a method of establishing a uniform system of voting, by voting machines in all election districts, at any municipal election, in municipalities in which voting machines have been installed, pursuant to the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement, for use in part of, but not in all of, such election districts.
L.1945, c. 59, p. 335, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.17 - Renting of voting machines

19:48-3.17. Renting of voting machines
In any case in which voting machines have been so installed for use in part of, but not in all of, the election districts of any municipality in any county of the first or second class, thereby preventing the holding of any such municipal election in such municipality with the use of voting machines in all election districts, in accordance with the provisions of law relating to elections where voting machines are used, the superintendent of elections of any such county having a superintendent of elections or the county board of elections of any such county of the second class, if there be no superintendent of elections, as the case may be, may rent from any other county or counties in which voting machines have been installed under any law other than the act to which this act is a supplement, as many voting machines and any pertinent equipment as, in his or its judgment, shall be necessary to carry out the purpose of this act by providing voting machines for use in all of such election districts in such municipality at any municipal election to be held therein; provided, however, that all voting machines so rented shall conform substantially to the type of voting machines already installed for use in such municipality.
L.1945, c. 59, s. 3. Amended by L.1947, c. 168, p. 768, s. 29.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.18 - Agreements for rental of voting machines; terms and conditions

19:48-3.18. Agreements for rental of voting machines; terms and conditions
Such superintendent of elections or such county board of elections, as the case may be, of the county in which such municipality is located, is hereby authorized and empowered, in behalf and in the name of the county in which the voting machines are to be used, to enter into an agreement with the board of chosen freeholders of the county owning such machines, which board is also hereby authorized and empowered to enter into such an agreement, for the rental of such machines and any pertinent equipment for use at any such municipal election, upon the following terms and upon such additional terms as may be mutually agreed upon, and any such agreement made pursuant to the provisions of this act shall be binding upon the respective counties:
a. The rental rate for each machine and any pertinent equipment accompanying the same shall not exceed five dollars ($5.00);
b. The machines and any pertinent equipment rented shall be transported entirely at the expense of the county in which the same are to be used;
c. The board of chosen freeholders of the county from which the machines are rented shall cause the counters within all machines rented to be set at zero (000) at least fifteen days before the date of the municipal election in which the machines are to be used;
d. The machines and any pertinent equipment rented, after delivery thereof to such superintendent of elections or such county board of elections, as the case may be, shall, except when being transported and when actually at the polling places, be stored in a suitable place which shall be a fireproof building in the county in which such municipality is located;
e. The machines and any pertinent equipment rented shall be returned to their usual place of storage in the county from which they are rented not later than twenty days after the municipal election in which they are to be used, with the counter within each machine set at zero (000);
f. The machines and any pertinent equipment rented shall be duly returned to the place of storage thereof in the county from which they are rented in the same condition as when leaving such place; and any partial or total damage done to any machine or pertinent equipment from any cause whatever, between the time of leaving such place of storage and its return thereto, shall be repaired or replaced at the expense of the county in which the same are to be used.
L.1945, c. 59, p. 336, s. 4.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.19 - Certification to municipal clerk of voting machines rented

19:48-3.19. Certification to municipal clerk of voting machines rented
In the event such an agreement is made, such superintendent of elections or such county board of elections, as the case may be, shall, before the thirtieth day prior to the date of the municipal election for which the voting machines have been so rented, certify in writing to the municipal clerk of the municipality in which such election is to be held that at least one voting machine will be provided for each election district of such municipality for use at such election.
L.1945, c. 59, p. 337, s. 5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.20 - County clerk's duties on receipt of certification.

19:48-3.20 County clerk's duties on receipt of certification.
6. Upon receipt of such certification, the county clerk of the municipality in which such election is to be held shall proceed to prepare and furnish to such superintendent of elections or such county board of elections, as the case may be, at least seven days before any such election, official ballots of the type and in the number required by law for use in voting machines, and shall make such other arrangements as are necessary to hold such municipal election by the use of voting machines in all election districts of such municipality, in accordance with the provisions of law relating to elections where voting machines are used, and such election shall in all respects be so held and conducted.
L.1945, c.59, s.6; amended 2020, c.71, s.5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-3.21 - Expenditures for voting machines rented; reimbursement of county by municipality

19:48-3.21. Expenditures for voting machines rented; reimbursement of county by municipality
Such superintendent of elections or such county board of elections, as the case may be, is hereby authorized to expend for the purpose of this act a sum not to exceed forty dollars ($40.00) per each voting machine rented plus any sum expended for the repair or replacement of any machines or pertinent equipment partially or totally damaged, which expenditures shall be in addition to any amount authorized to be expended, under Title 19 of the Revised Statutes, by such superintendent of elections or such county board of elections, as the case may be, and shall be paid, when certified to and approved by such superintendent of elections or such county board of elections, as the case may be, by the county treasurer of the county in which the machines are used; and the county making such payment shall be reimbursed therefor by the municipality holding such election, in the same manner as is now provided by law for the payment of other expenses in connection with any election held in and for a municipality only.
L.1945, c. 59, p. 338, s. 7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-4 - Custody and care of machines

19:48-4. Custody and care of machines
Voting machines, heretofore or hereafter installed in any manner provided by law, in any county not having a superintendent of elections, shall be placed, and remain, in the custody of the county board of elections, and voting machines, heretofore or hereafter installed in any manner provided by law, in any county having a superintendent of elections, shall be placed, and remain, in the custody of the superintendent of elections; except that voting machines, heretofore or hereafter installed in any municipality by the governing body thereof, in any manner provided by law, shall be placed, and remain, in the custody of the municipal clerk unless taken over by the county according to law.
The county board of elections or the superintendent of elections or the municipal clerk, as the case may be, shall preserve and keep in repair all voting machines placed in its or his custody pursuant to the provisions of this section.
Amended by L.1947, c. 168, p. 764, s. 24.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-5 - Payment for machines

19:48-5. Payment for machines
Any voting machines owned and in use by a municipality at the time of a county-wide installation at county expense may be taken over by the county if mutually agreeable between the county and municipality. In no case shall the municipality be reimbursed to the extent of more than the original cost of the machines. Any county and the board of chosen freeholders thereof and any municipality and the governing body thereof on the adoption and rental or purchase of voting machines shall provide for the payment thereof in such manner as the governing body of such governmental unit deems best according to the financial condition of such unit, and the governing body may meet the necessary expenditure by budget appropriation, and for the purpose of purchasing shall have the power within this subtitle to borrow money and issue negotiable bonds to pay for same, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of article 1 of chapter 1 of the title Municipalities and Counties (s. 40:1-1 et seq.).
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:48-8 - Rental of voting machines to associations, clubs, etc.; terms

19:48-8. Rental of voting machines to associations, clubs, etc.; terms
The superintendent of elections of any county having a superintendent of elections or the county board of elections of any county not having a superintendent of elections may, upon application of any recognized association, club, fraternity, union or other group of persons whose constitution or by-laws requires the election of officers by secret ballot, rent to said association, club, fraternity, union or other group of persons, one or more voting machines owned by said county for the purpose of conducting said secret election, at a rental and upon such terms as may be determined upon by such superintendent of elections or county board of elections.
L.1966, c. 120, s. 1, eff. June 17, 1966.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:49-2.1 - Repeal

19:49-2.1. Repeal
All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed insofar as they relate to counties of the first class where voting machines are or shall be used.
L.1941, c. 163, p. 521, s. 2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:49-3 - Number of official ballots to be furnished.

19:49-3 Number of official ballots to be furnished.
19:49-3. At least one week prior to the start of the early voting period for any primary, local, or general election two sets of official ballots shall be provided for each voting machine, for each polling place, for each election district, for use in and upon the voting machine. One set thereof shall be inserted or placed in or upon the voting machine and the other shall be retained in the custody and possession of the county board of elections or the superintendent of elections or the municipal clerk, as the case may be, having custody of voting machines, unless it shall become necessary during the course of the election to make use of the same upon or in the voting machine. At the close of the election all official ballots, except those actually in or upon the voting machine at the close of the election, whether the same shall have been used in the machine or not, shall be returned to the official providing the same in the manner by this Title provided.
amended 1945, c.56, s.4; 2021, c.40, s.18.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:49-5 - Irregular ballots

19:49-5. Irregular ballots
Ballots voted for any person whose name does not appear on the machine as a nominated candidate for office are herein referred to as irregular ballots. Such irregular ballot shall be written or affixed in or upon the receptacle or device provided on the machine for that purpose. No irregular ballot shall be voted for any person for any office whose name appears on the machine as a nominated candidate for that office or for a delegate or alternate to a national party convention; any irregular ballot so voted shall not be counted. An irregular ballot must be cast in its appropriate place on the machine, or it shall be void and not counted.
Amended by L.1941, c. 166, p. 530, s. 5; L.1984, c. 39, s. 2, eff. May 4, 1984.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:50-1 - Instructional sessions for district board members.

19:50-1 Instructional sessions for district board members.
19:50-1. a. Within 30 days before each election, the county board of elections shall cause new members of the district boards who are to serve in election districts to be instructed in the conduct of elections, and in their duties in connection therewith. All district board members shall be required to attend said instructional sessions for each election at least once every two years. The instructional sessions shall be conducted in person except that instructional sessions may be offered remotely, by electronic means, to any district board member who has completed the instructional session within the last four years and provided that the county board of elections shall implement procedures to conduct such remote sessions. Such procedures shall be approved by the Secretary of State and reviewed and approved once every two years. The county board of elections shall cause to be given to each member of each district board who has received such instruction and is fully qualified to properly conduct the election, a certificate to that effect. For the purpose of giving such instruction the county board of elections shall call such meeting or meetings of the district boards as shall be necessary. The content of said meeting or meetings shall be limited solely to the instruction of district board members; lobbying or the advancement of political ends shall be prohibited. The members of the district board of each election district shall attend such meeting or meetings as shall be called for the purpose of receiving such instruction concerning their duties as shall be necessary for the proper conduct of the election. No member of any district board shall serve in any election unless the member shall have received such instruction as herein provided and is fully qualified to perform the duties in connection with the election, and has received a certificate to that effect from the county board of elections; but this shall not prevent the appointment of a person as a member of the district board to fill a vacancy in an emergency, as now provided by law. In addition to the foregoing, the county board of elections shall design, prepare and distribute training manuals for district board members, pursuant to guidelines established by the Secretary of State. The county board of elections shall also make the training manual available on its Internet site and on the Internet site of the Division of Elections in the Department of State.
b. The Secretary of State shall establish guidelines for the design of training manuals for members of district boards of election, and shall design, prepare and distribute training manuals for members of county boards of election, and county clerks. The Secretary of State shall also make training manuals available on the Internet site of the Division of Elections.
Amended 1945, c.56, s.5; 1947, c.78; 1987, c.151, s.3; 2005, c.151, s.2; 2022, c.71, s.2.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:50-2 - Instruction in use of voting machines; availability.

19:50-2 Instruction in use of voting machines; availability.
19:50-2. a. For the first four successive general elections after the adoption of a new type of voting machine in a county, the county board of elections or the superintendent of elections, as the case may be, having custody of voting machines, shall designate suitable and adequate times and places where voting machines containing sample ballots showing titles of offices to be filled, and, so far as practicable, the names of candidates to be voted for at the next election, shall be exhibited for the purpose of giving instructions in the use of voting machines. No voting machine to be assigned for use in an election shall be used for such instruction after having been prepared and sealed for the election. During public exhibition of any voting machine for the instruction of voters previous to an election, the counting mechanism thereof shall be concealed from view and the doors may be temporarily opened only when authorized by such county board of elections or such superintendent of elections or such municipal clerk, as the case may be.
b. The county board of elections shall design, prepare and make available to voters instructions on the proper operation of the voting machine used in the county. The instructions may be conveyed on cards, computer software, pamphlets, posters, video or such other media as the county board deems appropriate, subject to the guidelines set forth by the Attorney General. The instructions shall also be made available on the official Internet site of the Division of Elections in the Department of Law and Public Safety and the county board of elections shall provide a link to such instructions on its official Internet site. The Attorney General shall establish guidelines for the design of instructions for the proper operation of voting machines used in this State. The provisions of this subsection shall be in addition to any other provision for voter instruction required by law.
Amended 1942, c.106; 1945, c.56, s.6; 2005, c.151, s.3.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:52-2 - Location of voting machines

19:52-2. Location of voting machines
At all elections where voting machines may be used, the arrangement of the polling room shall be generally the same as is now provided for by law; the exterior of the voting machine and every part of the polling room shall be in plain view of the election officers; the voting machine shall be placed at least three feet from every wall or partition of the polling room and at least four feet from any table where any of the district election officers may be engaged or seated. The voting machine shall be so placed that the ballots on the face of the machine can be plainly seen by the election officers and the party watchers when not in use by voters. The election officers shall not themselves be, or permit any other person to be, in any position or near any position that will permit one to see or ascertain how a voter votes, or how he has voted. The district election officer attending the machine shall inspect the face of the machine after each voter has cast his vote, to see that the ballots on the face of the machine are in their proper places and have not been mutilated or defaced and that the machine has not been damaged. During elections the door or other covering of the counter compartment of the machine shall not be unlocked or open, or the counters exposed. No person shall be permitted in or about the polling room except as now permitted by law in elections where ballots and ballot boxes are used.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:52-2.1 - Voting authorities; use, stringing.

19:52-2.1 Voting authorities; use, stringing.
1. In all counties wherein voting machines are used the county board of elections shall furnish for use in each election district at any election, a sufficient number of voting authorities in substantially the following form:
City of City of
Ward District Ward District
Election Held Election Held
...... day of............ 20... ........ day of............. 20....
Voting Authority Voting Authority
No................ No..................
...............................
Signature of Voter. .....................................
This certificate must be handed
to the election officer in charge
of the voting machines in order to
vote.
....................................
County Board of Elections
Clerk.
The voting authorities shall be numbered consecutively, be bound together in pads and shall be printed in two parts and perforated so that one part may be given to the voter who shall return the same to the district election officials in charge of the operation of the voting machine in order that such official shall be able to place the same in consecutive order on a string or wire. The other part of the voting authority shall be signed by the voter in his own handwriting before he be permitted to vote and shall remain bound in the pad. All pads containing the portions of the voting authorities on which the names of the persons who have voted have been signed, together with that portion of the voting authority which has been placed on a wire or string shall be returned to the commissioner of registration of the county, who shall keep them for a period of at least six months.
At any primary election for the general election, each voting authority shall be marked to indicate the party primary in which the voter signing the same voted and the used voting authorities shall be strung in such a manner so that those used in one party primary shall remain separate from those used in the other party primary.
L.1944, c.213, s.1; amended 1992, c.3, s.9; 2005, c.136, s.49; 2011, c.134, s.46.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:52-3 - Time allowed a voter

19:52-3. Time allowed a voter
19:52-3. Where a voter presents himself for the purpose of voting, the election officer shall follow the procedure as now required by this title regarding the eligibility of a person to vote. If such eligibility is established, one of the district election officers shall announce the name of the voter and permit him to pass to the booth of the voting machine for the purpose of casting his vote. No voter shall remain in the voting machine booth longer than two minutes, and having cast his vote the voter shall at once emerge therefrom and leave the polling room; if he shall refuse to leave after the lapse of two minutes he shall be removed by the district election officers. Such election officers shall ascertain the name and address of each voter in the manner now provided by law before he enters the voting machine booth for the purpose of voting. No voter after having entered and emerged from the voting machine booth shall be permitted to reenter the same on any pretext whatever. Only one voter at a time shall be permitted in the voting machine booth to vote. However, a voter shall be permitted to be accompanied into the voting machine booth by a dependent child.
Amended 1994,c.154,s.2.