New Jersey Election Law

This act governs the administration of elections, centering on the voter registration system: it defines residence for voting purposes and sets out how registration records are created, verified by signature, corrected, and maintained, including the transfer of names to an inactive file and their removal from the rolls. It establishes the machinery by which state and local election officials compile and publish preliminary registration lists, certify final lists, supply registration cards and challenge lists for use at the polls, issue temporary registration certificates, and furnish certified copies of registration records and lists of persons who voted, along with notice-and-appeal procedures for voters whose names are struck and a method for updating records when voting district boundaries change. It also imposes general administrative rules — uniform deadlines, a requirement that filings be originals, and limits on public employees holding elective office — and includes protective provisions ensuring that a voter's right to vote and the validity of an election survive clerical errors or an official's neglect of duty, while prohibiting false entries or erasures made to alter voting rights.

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