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40:72-1.2.   Ballot; form and content
    The question shall be printed upon the ballots to be used at such general election in substantially the following form:

   "To vote upon the public question printed below, if in favor thereof mark a  cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word Yes, and if opposed thereto mark a cross (X) or plus (+) in the square at the left of the word No.

   Yes.           "Shall the ordinance ........................

                  (stating the nature of the  proposed ordinance)

     No.          be adopted?' "

  

   In counties where voting machines are used, the ballot shall be prepared in  accordance with the provisions of Title 19 of the Revised Statutes concerning  elections.

   Amended by L.1953, c. 365, p. 1950, s. 3, eff. Aug. 11, 1953.