Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 4933 – Persons permitted in the voting room
(a) The following persons shall be admitted to the voting room:
(1) Members and employees of the Department identified by a badge or written authorization;
(2) The State Election Commissioner and the Commissioner’s employees identified by a badge or written authorization;
(3) Persons voting and waiting to vote, or a child lawfully accompanying such person pursuant to § 4937(e) of this title, or a person providing voter assistance pursuant to § 4943 of this title;
(4) One challenger from a political party with a candidate on the ballot as provided in § 4934 of this title;
(5) Any people accompanied by persons listed in paragraphs (a)(1) and (2) of this section above;
(6) Persons with business in the building that is not connected to the election. For example: an athletic team picking up or dropping off equipment at their school. Such persons shall remain outside of the voting room except to pass through or by the voting room in the conduct of their business;
(7) A person or persons deemed necessary to the conduct of the election by majority vote of the inspector and judges.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 4933
- Ballot: means those portions of cardboard, paper or other material to be placed within the ballot frames of a voting machine or to be used for absentee voting in order to list the names of the offices to be voted for, the name of each candidate and the designation of the party by which the candidate is nominated, a space for the voter to write in the name of any candidate of that voter's choice for any office, and the statement of any question submitted with provision for a "yes" or "no" vote. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- 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
- 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
(b) No other person except as noted below shall be permitted within 50 feet of any entrance to the building used by voters.
(c) Media and persons conducting exit polls shall be permitted within the 50-foot exclusion zone, but may not talk to persons who have not voted while in the 50-foot exclusion zone.
21 Del. Laws, c. 38, §§ ?15, 16; 22 Del. Laws, c. 63; Code 1915, §§ ?1754, 1755; Code 1935, §§ ?1843, 1844; 15 Del. C. 1953, § ?4933; 57 Del. Laws, c. 181, § ?53; 58 Del. Laws, c. 148, § ?82; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 75 Del. Laws, c. 232, § ?59; 77 Del. Laws, c. 227, § ?2; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § ?76; 80 Del. Laws, c. 343, § 1;