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Delaware Code Title 15. Elections § 3122. Delivery of registration records to proper inspectors; penalty

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(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.

(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.

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