Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 3108 – Primary election districts; conduct of primary elections
The Department shall, at least 2 weeks before a primary election, determine and establish primary election districts, each of which shall consist of 1 or more entire election districts in the same representative district.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 3108
- 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
- Election officers: means the inspector of election, the 2 judges of election and the clerks of election who are appointed for each election district under § 4702 of this title. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Primary election: means an election at which voters registered as members of a major political party may vote to determine the nominees of that political party for the general election. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
- Registration record: means a voter's registration record maintained in the State's Election Management System, the list or file of registered voters sent to each election district for use by election officers on the day of the election, and until determined obsolete, it also applies to a voter's record maintained in the county master file. See Delaware Code Title 15 Sec. 101
The Department and the election officers shall conduct the primary elections in the same way that general elections are conducted and in accordance with the applicable provisions of this title, except that the voting machines shall be operated so that the only buttons open to each voter shall be the buttons for candidates of the party of the voter’s party affiliation as shown by the voter’s original permanent registration record.
The primary election officers and clerks shall be chosen by the Department from among the election officers and clerks selected for the general election for the election district or districts contained in the primary election district, and for each such primary election district the election officers and clerks shall be divided as equally as possible between the 2 principal parties.
20 Del. Laws, c. 393, § ?23; 27 Del. Laws, c. 66, § ?1; Code 1915, § ?1697; Code 1935, § ?1785; 15 Del. C. 1953, § ?3109; 50 Del. Laws, c. 426, § ?11; 50 Del. Laws, c. 631, § ?1; 51 Del. Laws, c. 107, § ?1; 52 Del. Laws, c. 87; 57 Del. Laws, c. 567, § ?17; 70 Del. Laws, c. 506, § ?1; 79 Del. Laws, c. 275, § ?54;