Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 2012 – Challenge for bribery; oath; effect of oath; refusal to take oath
If upon the personal application of anyone to be registered, the applicant shall be challenged for having received or accepted, or for having offered to receive or accept, or for having paid, transferred or delivered, or for having offered or promised to pay, transfer or deliver, or for having contributed or offered or promised to contribute to another to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation, inducement or reward for the registering or abstaining from registering of anyone qualified to register, the registration officer shall administer to the person so challenged an oath or affirmation, as follows:
“You do solemnly swear upon the Holy Evangels of Almighty God (or “You do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm”) that you have not received or accepted or offered to receive or accept, or paid, transferred or delivered, or offered or promised to pay, transfer or deliver, or contributed or offered or promised to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation, inducement or reward for the registering or abstaining from registering of anyone qualified to register at the registration for this present year, so help you God” (or “so you do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm”).
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Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 2012
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Department: means the State Department of Elections, consisting of the State Board of Elections and such staff as the Board shall appoint under this title, but shall not include the State Election Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Oath: includes affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and "sworn" includes affirmed; and the forms shall be varied accordingly. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
- Registration officers: means the registrar, assistant registrar and alternate registrars appointed by the Department as defined in this section. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Registration record: means a voter's registration record maintained in the State's Election Management System, the list or file of registered voters sent to each election district for use by election officers on the day of the election, and until determined obsolete, it also applies to a voter's record maintained in the county master file. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
Such oaths or affirmations shall be conclusive evidence to the registration officers of the truth of such oath or affirmation, but if any such oath or affirmation is false, the person making the same shall be guilty of perjury, and no conviction thereof shall bar any prosecution under § 8 of Article V of the State Constitution. If any person so challenged refuses to make the oath or affirmation prescribed in this section, the registration officers shall enter the words “refused to make oath concerning bribery” in the appropriate space in the applicant’s application for registration and the department shall place the original permanent registration record of the applicant in the special file or binder known as the “list of disqualified voters.”
21 Del. Laws, c. 36, § ?5; Code 1915, § ?1628; 34 Del. Laws, c. 106, § ?1; 35 Del. Laws, c. 82, § ?1; Code 1935, § ?1715; 15 Del. C. 1953, § ?1725; 50 Del. Laws, c. 169, § ?17; 67 Del. Laws, c. 354, §§ ?11, 12; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;