{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-19-34-1","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 19:34-1","heading":"False registration or transfer; penalties.","body":"If any member of the district board shall willfully refuse to enter in the canvassing books or upon the registers the name of any person legally entitled to vote, or shall register the name of any person contrary to the provisions of this title, such member shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.\nAny person who shall cause or procure his name to be registered in more than one election district, or shall cause or procure his name or that of any other person to be registered, knowing that he or such other person is not entitled to vote in the election district wherein such registry is made at the next election to be held therein, shall be punished for each such offense and shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.\nNo district board shall execute or deliver to any voter any paper in the nature of a transfer, purporting to authorize him to vote in any other election district unless he is actually registered as now provided by law.\nAny officer or employee who shall willfully fail to perform or enforce any of the provisions of this title or who shall unlawfully or fraudulently remove any registration records, or who shall willfully destroy any record directed by this title to be kept, or any person who shall willfully or fraudulently register more than once, or register under any but his true name, or attempt to vote by impersonating another who is registered, or who willfully registers in any election district where he is not a resident at the time of registering, or who violates any of the provisions of this title, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.\nAmended 2005, c.154, s.20.","path":["TITLE 19 ELECTIONS"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"ca928edc6792d0fc13fa29fd815f4358503a63ccbf0e9d25e6b585955566b602","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-19-33-1","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-19-34-1.1"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}