§ 7718. Compensation of delegates, officers and employees; expenses.
§ 7718. Compensation of delegates, officers and employees; expenses. Every delegate to the convention shall receive $10 for every day that delegate is in attendance at such convention, not exceeding 3, and in addition thereto, 10 cents for each mile necessarily travelled by the delegate in making 1 round trip from the place of that […]
§ 7719. Applicability of act of Congress.
§ 7719. Applicability of act of Congress. If at or about the time of submitting any such amendment, Congress shall, either in the resolution submitting the same or by a statute, prescribe the manner in which the conventions shall be constituted, and shall not except from the provisions of such statute or resolution such states […]
§ 7576. Time limit for return of ballot; late ballots.
§ 7576. Time limit for return of ballot; late ballots. (a) Each municipality shall endorse the date and time of receipt on the ballot envelope of each absentee ballot received by the municipality. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, for an absentee ballot to be counted pursuant to this chapter, an elector voting […]
§ 7707. Determination of nominations.
§ 7707. Determination of nominations. The sixteenth day before the day fixed for the holding of the election of delegates shall be the last day for the filing of nominating petitions with the Department or, if such sixteenth day falls upon a Sunday or a legal holiday, the day following shall be the last day […]
§ 7577. Procedure on receipt of ballot envelope by municipality.
§ 7577. Procedure on receipt of ballot envelope by municipality. (a) Upon receipt of a ballot envelope the municipality, or a person authorized by the municipality, shall: (1) Ascertain the names of each elector as they appear on the face of each ballot envelope; (2) Ascertain from the information on the ballot envelope the municipal […]
§ 7578. Counting procedure for absentee ballots.
§ 7578. Counting procedure for absentee ballots. At any time between the opening and the closing of the polls on an election day, absentee election judges selected by a municipality’s board of elections, shall count absentee ballots at a properly noticed public meeting in the municipality’s offices or at the place of the election, at […]
§ 7579. Preparing absentee ballots to be counted.
§ 7579. Preparing absentee ballots to be counted. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board of election of any municipality may open absentee ballot envelopes in a public meeting in order to prepare them to be counted. Such meeting shall take place, upon proper notice, at any time between 8: 00 a.m. of […]
§ 7580. Carrier envelope specifications; carrier envelopes as ballot boxes.
§ 7580. Carrier envelope specifications; carrier envelopes as ballot boxes. (a) The municipality shall purchase envelopes to be used as carrier envelopes, which shall be security mailing envelopes, designed to securely protect the contents thereof from tampering, removal, or substitution without detection and shall be large enough to accommodate multiple absentee ballots cast in the […]
§ 7581. Challenges.
§ 7581. Challenges. (a) The ballot of any elector choosing to vote by absentee ballot may be challenged for the same causes and in the same manner as provided in this title for other voters. (b) In addition, the vote of an absentee voter may be challenged: (1) On the ground that the statement filed […]
§ 7582. Rejected ballots.
§ 7582. Rejected ballots. (a) No vote shall be accepted or counted if: (1) The statement of the absentee voter that appears on the front of the ballot envelope is found to have been altered or is not signed; or (2) The absentee voter is not a duly qualified elector entitled to vote in the […]