ASSEMBLY, No. 1843

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

INTRODUCED MAY 2, 1996

By Assemblyman STUHLTRAGER

An Act concerning the mailing of sample ballots for school elections and amending P.L.1995, c.278.

    Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

    1. Section 10 of P.L.1995, c.278 (C.19:60-10) is amended to read as follows:

    10. a. The county clerk shall cause samples of the official school election ballot to be printed in the same manner as prescribed for the printing of sample ballots for the general election by R.S.19:14-21. In counties not having a superintendent of elections where the county board of elections does not have the equipment or facilities to address and mail sample ballot envelopes, the delivery of such sample ballots for mailing, issuance of a receipt for such delivery, and the mailing of sample ballots shall be effected in the same manner as prescribed for the sample ballot for the general election under subsection a. of R.S.19:14-21; and in counties having a superintendent of elections and in other counties where the county board of elections may have such equipment or facilities, the delivery of ballots for mailing, issuance of a receipt for such delivery, and the mailing of sample ballots shall be effected in the same manner as prescribed for the sample ballot for the general election under subsection b. of R.S.19:14-21, subject to the condition that the latest time at which the county clerk may furnish sample ballots for mailing shall be the eighth day preceding the school election.

    b. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection a. and of R.S.19:14-21 to the contrary:

    (1) only one official sample school election ballot shall be sent to each residence address where at least one resident is a registered voter; and

    (2) there shall be prepared one and one-tenth times as many sample ballots and stamped envelopes as there are residence addresses in the school election district in which at least one resident is a registered voter to enable each district board in each municipality or each county commissioner of registration, as the case may be, to mail one of such ballots to each residence address in the school election district in which at least one resident is a registered voter.

(cf: P.L.1995, c.278, s.10)

    2. This act shall take effect on January 1 following enactment.

STATEMENT

    Recently the law was amended to require that sample ballots for school elections be sent to each registered voter. This bill abolishes individualized mailing and instead provides that a single sample ballot be prepared and sent to each residence address in which at least one resident is a registered voter.

Provides for mailing of school board election sample ballots to residences rather than individual voters.