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Delaware Statutes § 5307 Duties of inspector at special polling place

⤴ Up to Chapter 53: Military or Other Interference With Elections

Statute Text

(a) The polls authorized to be held by § 5306 of this title shall be held at the place where they are opened unless it be impracticable to hold them there in which event they shall be adjourned to some other place, or places, if necessary, in the election district where they are opened, and there held, and they shall be kept open until 6:00 in the afternoon, when the inspector shall close them.
(b) As soon as such polls are closed, the inspector holding them, having first ascertained the number of ballots cast, and for whom and for what office the votes were given, and made a certificate thereof, shall seal up the ballots received by that inspector in a box or envelope, and keep them safely, together with the list of the names of the electors who have deposited their ballots with that inspector, until the time of the meeting of the Superior Court of the inspector's county, constituted as provided by § 6, article V, of the Constitution of this State, provided by the election laws, when the inspector shall appear before the Court with the ballots and list of voters and that inspector's certificate, and deliver the certificate to the Court, with an affidavit made by the inspector upon the same, that it contains a true and faithful statement of the number of ballots received by the inspector, the names of the electors who cast them, the number of votes for the different persons voted for and that at the poll held by the inspector, that the inspector did not knowingly receive the ballot of any person not a duly qualified voter within that inspector's election district according to the Constitution and laws of this State and did not refuse to receive the ballot of any person so qualified, who had been prevented from voting at the regular place of voting by military force or the requirement of an oath unauthorized by the Constitution and laws of this State, and that the inspector determined every matter that came before that inspector and performed every act and duty required of the inspector by law touching the election held by the inspector, truly, faithfully and impartially, according to the best of that inspector's skill and judgment.

History

12 Del. Laws, c. 491, § 2; Code 1915, § 1832; Code 1935, § 1921; 15 Del. C. 1953, § 5308; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186 , § 1 .;

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