Delaware Code (Titles 8, 9, 25, 30)

9 Del. C. § 510

Persons entitled to vote

# (a)

Every citizen who resides in the community in which the election is being held and who would be entitled at the time of the holding of such election to register and vote in any election district of which the community is a part at a general election if such general election were held on the day of such election in the community, and every owner of real property in the community, may vote at such election, whether or not that owner is at the time a registered voter.

# (b)

Any real property owner who has sold his or her property or properties in the community subsequent to the preparation of the survey and plot made by the Department of Transportation shall not be permitted to vote but the then-owner of the property or properties shall be entitled to vote in the former property owner’s place and stead upon furnishing the judge of election with the original or a certified copy of the deed to the property or properties, which deed shall clearly evidence that it was duly recorded.

# (c)

Any person claiming the right to vote at the election as an heir of any real property owner in the community who has died, or as trustee or guardian under the terms of the last will and testament of any such real property owner shall furnish the judge of election with the original or a certified copy of the will or other document evidencing that person’s ownership of, or interest in, the property of any such real property owner, and shall thereupon be entitled to vote in the place and stead of such deceased real property owner.

# (d)

Wherever the property of such deceased real property owner in the suburban community is left to joint tenants or tenants in common, the following rules shall prevail:

# (1)

The vote of any 1 joint tenant or tenant in common shall be received where no other such tenant appears claiming the right to vote;

# (2)

Where 1 joint tenant or tenant in common votes in opposition to another, the vote shall be cancelled;

# (3)

A majority of the votes of any such joint tenants or tenants in common shall determine the manner in which the vote shall be cast;

# (4)

The vote of any life tenant shall be accepted over the person having a reversionary interest in the property in the suburban community.

Amendment history

45 Del. Laws, c. 123, § 9; 58 Del. Laws, c. 44, §§ 4-7; 60 Del. Laws, c. 503, § 22; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1

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