Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 3122 – Delivery of registration records to proper inspectors; penalty
(a) The Department of Elections shall before 7:00 a.m. of the day on which a primary election is held by any political party deliver to the proper inspector the registration records for each general election district that may be contained within each primary election district, and the inspector shall have the registration records at the place of holding the primary election at the time for opening the polls on primary election day.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 3122
- 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
- Inspector: means inspector of elections. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- political party: means any political organization which elects a state committee and officers of a state committee, by a state convention composed of delegates elected from each representative district in which the party has registered members, and which nominates candidates for electors of President and Vice-President, or nominates candidates for offices to be decided at the general election. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Primary election: means an election at which voters registered as members of a major political party may vote to determine the nominees of that political party for the general election. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Signature: means both a written signature conforming to § 302(23) of Title 1 and a digital or electronic signature that is an electronic sound, symbol or process attached to or logically associated with a document and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the document as specified by the State Election Commissioner. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) In each year in which a municipal election is held in the City of Wilmington the inspector for each primary election district within such City, before 7:00 a.m. of the day on which such primary election is held, shall be furnished by the Department with the registration records for each general election district that may be contained within such inspector’s primary election district, and each inspector shall have the registration records at the place of holding the primary election in the inspector’s district at the time for opening the polls on primary election day.
(c) Whoever:
(1) Being a member of the Department of Elections, refuses, neglects or fails to deliver to each inspector of any primary election to be held within the member’s county the registration records for each general election district that may be contained in the primary election district to which such registration records apply; or
(2) Being an inspector, refuses, neglects or fails to have such registration records at the place of holding the primary election for any general or special election or any municipal election in the City of Wilmington at the time designated in this chapter;
shall, for each such offense, be fined $100, and the person’s office shall be forfeited.
(d) Each day of refusal, neglect or failure shall constitute a separate offense under this section.
(e) For the purposes of this section, the term “registration records” means poll lists and signature cards, and/or an electronic device that contains the names and addresses of the registered voters in the election district.
20 Del. Laws, c. 393, § ?24; 22 Del. Laws, c. 285, § ?4; 27 Del. Laws, c. 66, § ?1; Code 1915, § ?1698; 34 Del. Laws, c. 108, § ?7; Code 1935, § ?1786; 43 Del. Laws, c. 127, § ?3; 45 Del. Laws, c. 150, § ?8; 15 Del. C. 1953, § ?3122; 49 Del. Laws, c. 4, § ?5; 50 Del. Laws, c. 426, §§ ?4, 12; 57 Del. Laws, c. 567, § ?18; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 188, § ?23; 75 Del. Laws, c. 232, § ?32; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § ?56;