CHAPTER 391
FORMERLY
HOUSE BILL NO. 487
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 45 AND CHAPTER 49 OF TITLE 15 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:
Section 1. Amend § 4508, Chapter 45, Title 15 of the Delaware Code by deleting said section in its entirety and by substituting in lieu thereof the following:
1 4508. Certificates of the vote cast in each election district.
(a) Each department shall print 3 forms of a certificate of the votes cast in each election district in the County. The certificate shall be in the same sequence as is shown on the official ballot. In a presidential year it shall conform to the following design. In a non-presidential year it shall conform as nearly as possible to such design.
County and
Representative District, ss: At the general
election held in the said election district, on the Tuesday next after
the first Monday in November, A.D. nineteen hundred
and the votes stand as follows:
FOR
PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
SENATOR IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
GOVERNOR CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
LT. GOVERNOR CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
ATTORNEY GENERAL CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
STATE TREASURER CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
AUDITOR OF ACCOUNTS CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
SENATOR IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
REPRESENTATIVE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
CLERK OF THE PEACE CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
REGISTER OF WILLS CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
RECORDER CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
REGISTER OF CHANCERY CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
COUNTY EXECUTIVE CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
COUNTY COUNCIL (OR LEVY COURT) CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
RECEIVER OF TAXES AND COUNTY TREASURER CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
COUNTY COMPTROLLER CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
SHERIFF CANDIDATE
TOTAL VOTES
And we further certify that the Clerks of Election were duly sworn or affirmed according to law, and that we were duly sworn or affirmed.
In Testimony, we the Judges of Election for said election district have hereunto set our hand on the day and year aforesaid.
(Signature)'
(b) In the printed forms of certificates, before the same shall be
delivered by the Department of Elections as above directed, the name of the County, the election district, the representative district and the year shall be inserted in the blanks for said purposes in the foregoing form, and the offices to be filled at the election shall be listed in the foregoing order, and the offices not to be filled at the election shall be omitted. The certificate shall include for each candidate on the district ballot the number of votes received as follows: 'Voting machine no. ', 'absentee ballots',
'write-in ballots' and 'totals'. There shall be a space provided to record the number of absentee ballots counted and the number of absentee ballots rejected. The form of the certificates shall be determined by the several county Department of Elections,
and
shall be uniform throughout the State."
Section 2. Amend § 4978(a), Chapter 49, Title 15 of the Delaware Code by deleting the word "form" as it appears in said subsection and by substituting in lieu thereof the word "Information".
Approved July 13, 1994.