Section 19:34-13 - Attempts by election officers to discover how voter voted; third degree crime.

NJ Rev Stat § 19:34-13 (2019) (N/A)
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19:34-13 Attempts by election officers to discover how voter voted; third degree crime.

19:34-13. 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.

Amended 1940, c.199, s.7; 1948, c.438, s.16; 2005, c.154, s.32.