Delaware Code § 15-5901

Notice of intention to contest; specifications
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Any person intending to contest the election or the eligibility of any one returned by the board of canvass as a member of either branch
of the General Assembly from any of the counties of this State shall at least 20 days before the meeting of the General Assembly give
written notice of such intention to the person whose seat that person intends to contest, and within 10 days after the notice shall deliver to
the person a written specification of the several grounds upon which that person intends to contest the election or the eligibility of such
person. If 1 of such grounds shall be that illegal votes were given at such election for the person so returned, then such specification shall
particularly set forth the name of each alleged illegal voter, with the several objections to the legality of that voter's vote.
(Code 1852, § 427; Code 1915, § 1893; Code 1935, § 2011; 15 Del. C. 1953, § 5901; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.)

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