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Statutes > New-jersey > Title-19 > Section-19-59 > 19-59-819:59-8 Instructions for completion, return of ballots; notice.
8. a. Each county clerk shall send by air mail, with each overseas ballot transmitted by such means, appropriate printed instructions for its completion and return, together with an inner and outer envelope similar to that required as to civilian absentee ballots with a legend on the inner envelope stating "Overseas Ballot."
b.Each county clerk shall send to each overseas voter requesting that an overseas ballot be sent to that voter by electronic means all appropriate printed instructions for its completion and return. The printed instructions sent to each such voter shall include a certificate substantially the same as provided for in section 9 of P.L.1976, c.23 (C.19:59-9).
c.The printed instructions sent with each overseas ballot, including instructions sent by electronic means, shall include a copy of the following notice:
PENALTY FOR FRAUDULENT VOTING
Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of the Overseas Residents Absentee Voting Law, or who, not being entitled to vote thereunder, fraudulently votes or attempts to vote thereunder or enables or attempts to enable another person, not entitled to vote thereunder, to vote fraudulently thereunder or who prevents or attempts to prevent by fraud the voting of any person legally entitled to vote under this act, shall be guilty of an indictable offense, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject, in addition to such other penalties as are authorized by law, to disenfranchisement unless and until pardoned or restored by law to the right of suffrage.
L.1976, c.23, s.8; amended 1978, c.130, s.3; 1993, c.73, s.8; 2008, c.61, s.8.
