(a) No person who receives or accepts or offers to receive or accept, or pays, transfers or delivers, or offers or promises to pay, transfer or deliver, or contributes or offers or promises to contribute to another to be paid or used, any money or other valuable thing as a compensation, inducement or reward for the registering or abstaining from registering of any one qualified to register or for giving or withholding or in any manner influencing the giving or withholding a vote at any general election in this State, shall vote at such election unless such person being challenged for any of said causes takes and subscribes to the following oath or affirmation, which shall be administered by the inspector:
“I, ________________________________ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have not received or accepted, or offered to receive or accept, paid or transferred or delivered, or offered or promised to pay, transfer or deliver, or contributed or offered or promised to contribute to another to be paid or used any money or other valuable thing as compensation, inducement or reward for the registering or abstaining from registering of any one qualified to register, or for the giving or withholding a vote at this election.
Signed ________________________________________________________________
Sworn and subscribed to before me this ________ day of November, A. D. ________
________________________________________________________________ Inspector.”
(b) Such oath or affirmation shall be conclusive evidence to the election officers of the truth of such oath or affirmation, but if any such oath or affirmation shall be false, the person making the same shall be guilty of perjury, and no conviction thereof shall bar any prosecution under § 8 of Article V of the Constitution of this State. Such oath or affirmation, when signed and attested as provided in this section, shall be competent evidence in any proceeding against the party making the same.
(c) In order to enable the election officers to carry into effect this section, the Department shall cause to be prepared not less than 15 blank forms of the oath or affirmation provided for in this section and shall cause said oaths to be delivered to each inspector in each of the election districts of that inspector's county at the time provided in § 4509 of this title.
Structure Delaware Code
Chapter 49. CONDUCT OF ELECTION
Subchapter II. Regulations Governing Conduct of Elections During Hours of Voting
§ 4931. Time and manner of opening election.
§ 4933. Persons permitted in the voting room.
§ 4934. Challengers; appointment and powers.
§ 4935. Special officers at entrance of polling place.
§ 4936. Order of voting; determination of challenge.
§ 4938. Grounds for admitting a person to a voting machine.
§ 4939. Determination of challenge based on identity of voter.
§ 4940. Disqualification because of bribery; determination of challenge.
§ 4942. Electioneering in polling place; penalties; definitions.
§ 4943. Voting assistance based on blindness, disability, or illiteracy; instructions for voters.
§ 4944. Vote for candidates for President and Vice President as vote for their electors.
§ 4945. Majority vote of inspector and judges of election.
§ 4946. Powers of election officers to preserve order during election; penalty.