22 chapters · 707 sections in this title.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-224b Registration as write-in candidate in special election to fill vacancy.
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Sec. 9-224b. Registration as write-in candidate in special election to fill vacancy. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, in order to be a valid write-in candidate in a special election called to fill a vacancy in a state, district or municipal office, a pers…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-225 State elections.
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Sec. 9-225. State elections. (a) The town clerk or assistant town clerk of each town shall warn the electors therein to meet on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November in the even-numbered years, at six o'clock a.m., which warning shall be given by publication (1) in a…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-226 Municipal elections.
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Sec. 9-226. Municipal elections. The warning of each municipal election shall specify the objects for which such election is to be held. Notice of a town election shall be given by the town clerk or assistant town clerk, by publishing a warning (1) in a newspaper published in suc…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-227 Record of warning of municipal election.
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Sec. 9-227. Record of warning of municipal election. Section 9-227 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 494; 1953, S. 704d; 1963, P.A. 393, S. 10.) PART V CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-228 Municipal elections.
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Sec. 9-228. Municipal elections. All municipal elections shall be held and conducted, as far as may be, in the same manner as state elections, unless otherwise provided by law. (1949 Rev., S. 495, 531; 1953, S. 705d.)
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-228a Certification re location of polling place. Report to Secretary of the State identifying moderators. Removal of moderator by Secretary.
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Sec. 9-228a. Certification re location of polling place. Report to Secretary of the State identifying moderators. Removal of moderator by Secretary. (a) The registrars of voters of each municipality shall, not later than thirty-one days prior to each municipal, state or federal e…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-229 Appointment of moderators. Certification and duties of regional election advisors. Instruction and certification of moderators. Regulations. Alternate moderators.
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Sec. 9-229. Appointment of moderators. Certification and duties of regional election advisors. Instruction and certification of moderators. Regulations. Alternate moderators. (a) The registrars of voters in the several towns and, in towns where there are different registrars for …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-229a Election or primary day polling place observers. Appointment. Duties. Training program. Regulations. Additional election officials. Code of ethics for polling place observers.
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Sec. 9-229a. Election or primary day polling place observers. Appointment. Duties. Training program. Regulations. Additional election officials. Code of ethics for polling place observers. Section 9-229a is repealed, effective July 13, 2011. (P.A. 07-194, S. 9; P.A. 11-173, S. 69…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-229b Regional election advisors. Appointment by regional councils of governments. Memorandum of understanding with the Secretary of the State.
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Sec. 9-229b. Regional election advisors. Appointment by regional councils of governments. Memorandum of understanding with the Secretary of the State. (a) Any regional council of governments organized under the provisions of sections 4-124i to 4-124p, inclusive, may appoint a reg…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-229c Grants to regional councils of governments from Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management for support of regional election advisors.
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Sec. 9-229c. Grants to regional councils of governments from Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management for support of regional election advisors. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, and each fiscal year thereafter, each regional council of governments that has appoin…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-230 Authority of registrars and moderators to prevent or suppress disorder.
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Sec. 9-230. Authority of registrars and moderators to prevent or suppress disorder. The registrars of voters may request the head of the police department of the municipality, or, if none, a constable serving such municipality, to provide police protection at any polling place of…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-231 Oath of election officials.
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Sec. 9-231. Oath of election officials. All election officials shall be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties, and the several moderators and registrars may administer such oaths. (1949 Rev., S. 1051; 1953, S. 708d.) See Sec. 1-25 re forms of oaths.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232 Challenges to the right of any person offering to vote. Challenges to not be indiscriminate and to be under oath.
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Sec. 9-232. Challenges to the right of any person offering to vote. Challenges to not be indiscriminate and to be under oath. (a) Any elector may challenge the right of any person offering to vote, on the ground of want of identity with the person on whose name the vote is offere…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232a Remedy for denial of voting rights.
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Sec. 9-232a. Remedy for denial of voting rights. Any elector qualified to vote and offering to vote at any election, who is denied the right to vote because his name has been checked off on the check list in use at his polling place, but who claims that he has not in fact voted o…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232b Penalty for false statement.
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Sec. 9-232b. Penalty for false statement. Any person wilfully making a false statement in a statement which he signs and furnishes to a moderator of an election under section 9-232a shall be guilty of false statement, as provided in section 9-8, and shall be subject to the penalt…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232c Moderator to keep memorandum of challenge; form.
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Sec. 9-232c. Moderator to keep memorandum of challenge; form. The moderator shall keep an accurate memorandum of the challenge which shall include (1) the name of the challenged voter; (2) his registry list address; (3) the reason for the challenge; (4) the name and address of th…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232d Request for challenged ballot.
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Sec. 9-232d. Request for challenged ballot. If the moderator's decision pursuant to section 9-232 is not favorable to the challenged voter, such person may request a challenged ballot by submitting an application to the moderator, such application shall include as part thereof an…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232e Casting of challenged ballot, procedure.
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Sec. 9-232e. Casting of challenged ballot, procedure. Any person requesting a challenged ballot and entitled thereto shall announce his or her name to the official checkers. The registrars of voters or the assistant registrar of voters, as the case may be, shall write, in red ink…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232f Preservation and counting of challenged ballots.
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Sec. 9-232f. Preservation and counting of challenged ballots. The town clerk shall preserve such ballots in the sealed envelopes for a period of one hundred eighty days after the election. However, in the case of a contested election, either party to such action may request the c…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232g 9-232g
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Sec. 9-232g. Transferred to Chapter 145, Sec. 9-159p.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232h 9-232h
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Sec. 9-232h. Reserved for future use.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232i Definition.
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Sec. 9-232i. Definition. As used in this section and sections 9-23r and 9-232l, “election for federal office” means an election for electors of President and Vice-President, an election or primary for United States Senator and an election or primary for Representative in Congress…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232j Provisional ballot packets for elections for federal office.
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Sec. 9-232j. Provisional ballot packets for elections for federal office. The moderator of the election in each voting district shall appear at the office of the town clerk not later than eight o'clock p.m. of the day before an election for federal office. At such time, the town …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232k Secretary of the State to prescribe and provide provisional ballots.
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Sec. 9-232k. Secretary of the State to prescribe and provide provisional ballots. The Secretary of the State shall prescribe and provide to town clerks the provisional ballot which shall be a ballot of candidates for federal office. The Secretary may prescribe that the provisiona…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232l Applications for provisional ballots.
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Sec. 9-232l. Applications for provisional ballots. (a) An individual may apply for and be issued a provisional ballot if (1) the individual appears at the polling place and declares that such individual is an elector in the town in which the individual desires to vote and that th…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232m Casting of provisional ballots.
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Sec. 9-232m. Casting of provisional ballots. Upon receipt of an application for provisional ballot, the moderator shall provide the applicant with a provisional ballot and a serially-numbered envelope and shall make a record of such issuance on the provisional ballot inventory fo…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232n Determination of eligibility of provisional ballot applicants to vote. Report. Corrected return.
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Sec. 9-232n. Determination of eligibility of provisional ballot applicants to vote. Report. Corrected return. Immediately after the close of the polls, the moderator shall seal the provisional ballot depository envelope and deliver such envelope to the registrars of voters of the…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232o Counting of provisional ballots.
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Sec. 9-232o. Counting of provisional ballots. Except as otherwise provided by the general statutes, section 9-23r and sections 9-232i to 9-232o, inclusive, the provisions of the general statutes concerning procedures relating to counting absentee ballots shall apply as nearly as …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-233 Voting tabulator tenders.
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Sec. 9-233. Voting tabulator tenders. Prior to each election, the registrars of voters of each town shall appoint, for each voting tabulator to be used at such election, at least one and not more than two electors of such town as a voting tabulator tender, unless the registrars o…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-234 Presence of registrars. Official checkers. Checking of elector's name.
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Sec. 9-234. Presence of registrars. Official checkers. Checking of elector's name. (a) Each registrar of voters shall be present during the taking of the vote at any regular or special state or municipal election in the registrar's of voters town or district. The assistants in th…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-235 Unofficial checkers.
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Sec. 9-235. Unofficial checkers. (a) At least forty-eight hours prior to each election to be held in a municipality, each registrar of voters in such municipality may appoint for each line of electors in each voting district therein, to serve as unofficial checkers, not more than…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-235a Temporary absence of election officials.
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Sec. 9-235a. Temporary absence of election officials. The provisions of this title requiring the attendance of election officials at the polls during the hours of voting at any election shall not be construed to prevent the absence of any such official for periods of not more tha…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-235b Runners.
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Sec. 9-235b. Runners. At any election or primary, any person may serve as a runner solely to enter and leave a polling place and the restricted area surrounding the polling place for the purpose of taking outside the polling place and said area, information identifying electors w…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-235c Voluntary service by election, primary or referendum officials.
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Sec. 9-235c. Voluntary service by election, primary or referendum officials. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary or of any special act, charter or ordinance, any election, primary or referendum official may serve on a voluntary basis without comp…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-235d Citizens sixteen or seventeen years of age authorized to serve as election or primary officials. Requirements.
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Sec. 9-235d. Citizens sixteen or seventeen years of age authorized to serve as election or primary officials. Requirements. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of sections 9-233, 9-235 and 9-258 a United States citizen who is sixteen or seventeen years of age and a bona fide reside…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-235e Secretary of the State allowed access to polling places and locations designated for the conduct of early voting.
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Sec. 9-235e. Secretary of the State allowed access to polling places and locations designated for the conduct of early voting. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Secretary of the State, or the Secretary's designee, shall be allowed access to each polling place or l…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-236 Activities prohibited in and near polling place; distance markers; entry restricted; exceptions.
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Sec. 9-236. Activities prohibited in and near polling place; distance markers; entry restricted; exceptions. (a) On the day of any primary, referendum or election, no person shall solicit on behalf of or in opposition to the candidacy of another or himself or on behalf of or in o…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-236a Spare voting tabulator or ballot box for educational use of students.
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Sec. 9-236a. Spare voting tabulator or ballot box for educational use of students. Any town, on its own initiative or upon a request by the Secretary of the State, and with the approval of the legislative body of the town or, in the case of a town in which the legislative body is…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-236b Voter's Bill of Rights. Sample ballots. Voters in line when polls scheduled to close permitted to vote. Voting instructions and information. Display of identification requirements.
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Sec. 9-236b. Voter's Bill of Rights. Sample ballots. Voters in line when polls scheduled to close permitted to vote. Voting instructions and information. Display of identification requirements. (a) The Secretary of the State shall provide each municipality with sufficient quantit…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-237 Display of national and state flags.
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Sec. 9-237. Display of national and state flags. A United States flag, at least three feet by five feet in size, shall be displayed, and a Connecticut state flag of the same size may be displayed, on the wall inside each polling place during the hours of voting on the day of any …
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-237a Telephones at polling places.
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Sec. 9-237a. Telephones at polling places. The registrars of voters shall provide a telephone for each polling place for the use of the election officials to aid in clarifying the status of electors whose right to vote is questioned, if a telephone is not available and readily ac…