Title 9 — Title 9: Elections

Sec. 9-307. Certificate of check lists. Immediately after the polls are closed, the official checker or checkers, appointed under the provisions of section 9-234, shall make and deliver to the moderator a certificate stating the whole number of names on the registry list or enrol…

Sec. 9-308. Canvass of returns. Immediately on the close of the polls, the election officials shall proceed to canvass the returns as provided in section 9-309 and shall not stop for any purpose until the canvass is completed, except as provided in said section. The room in which…

Sec. 9-309. Procedure for announcing results. Temporary interruption of canvass after transmission of preliminary totals to Secretary of the State. Security of tabulators and other materials. Upon the close of the polls, the moderator, in the presence of the other election offici…

Sec. 9-310. Sealing of tabulator by moderator. As soon as the count is completed and the moderator's return required under the provisions of section 9-259 has been executed, the moderator shall place the sealed tabulator in the tabulator bag, and so seal the bag, and the tabulato…

Sec. 9-311. Recanvass in case of discrepancy. Authority of moderator to prevent or suppress disorder. (a) If, within three days after an election, it appears to the moderator that there is a discrepancy in the returns of any voting district, such moderator shall forthwith within …

Sec. 9-311a. Recanvass on close vote. For purposes of this section, state, district and municipal offices shall be as defined in section 9-372 except that the office of presidential elector shall be deemed a state office. Forthwith after a regular or special election for municipa…

Sec. 9-311b. Recanvass on tie vote. If the electors fail to elect a candidate for any office by reason of an equality of votes at any election, there shall be a recanvass of the returns for such office unless, prior to the time of such recanvass, all but one of the candidates so …

Sec. 9-311c. Secretary of the State to develop recanvass procedures instructional training video. Requirement for recanvass officials to view. The Secretary of the State shall develop an instructional training video on recanvass procedures, based on the most recent Recanvass Proc…

Sec. 9-312. Declaration of result; returns to secretary. In each municipality divided into voting districts, unless otherwise provided by law, the head moderator shall be the presiding officer for the purpose of declaring the result of the vote of the whole municipality and of ma…

Sec. 9-313. Forms for returns. The Secretary of the State shall transmit to the town clerk of each town, before each state election, blank forms for the returns required by this chapter, and such returns shall be made out, certified and directed according to such forms. The Secre…

Sec. 9-314. Return of preliminary and duplicate lists of votes by moderator. (a) As used in this subsection, “moderator” means the moderator of each state election in each town not divided into voting districts and the head moderator in each town divided into voting districts. Th…

Sec. 9-315. Canvass for presidential electors, U.S. senator and members of Congress. The votes returned as cast for a senator in Congress, representatives in Congress and presidential electors shall be publicly counted by the Treasurer, Secretary of the State and Comptroller on t…

Sec. 9-316. Canvass in vacancy election of U.S. senator or representative. The Treasurer, Secretary of the State and Comptroller shall, within thirty days after a vacancy election for a senator in Congress or representative in Congress, subject to the provisions of section 9-323,…

Sec. 9-317. Certification of election of U.S. senator. When any senator in Congress has been elected, the Governor shall certify his election under the seal of the state to the President of the Senate of the United States, which certificate shall be countersigned by the Secretary…

Sec. 9-318. Canvass of votes for state officers. The votes for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General shall be canvassed by the persons authorized to receive and count the same, within thirty days next after they were ca…

Sec. 9-319. Canvass of votes for state senators and representatives and judges of probate. The votes for state senators, state representatives and judges of probate, as returned by the moderators, shall be canvassed, during the month in which they are cast, by the Treasurer, Secr…

Sec. 9-320. Returns of municipal elections by clerks. Elected town clerk who is registrar of vital statistics ex officio. (a) The clerk of each municipality shall, within ten days after the municipal election, return to the Secretary of the State a statement of the name, post-off…

Secs. 9-320a to 9-320e. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 9-320f. Manual or electronic audit of votes by registrar of voters or town clerk. Offices subject to audit. University of Connecticut analysis. Discrepancy recanvass. Voting tabulator failure to record votes. Secretary of the State investigation and report. Regulations. Defi…

Sec. 9-320g. Authorization of electronic equipment by Secretary of the State for conduct of an audit. Notwithstanding any provision of this title, the Secretary of the State, in consultation and coordination with The University of Connecticut, may authorize the use of electronic …

Sec. 9-321. Return by moderator of election of town clerk and registrar of vital statistics. Section 9-321 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 522; 1953, S. 799d; P.A. 88-45, S. 3.)

Sec. 9-322. Failure of moderator to make returns. Each moderator of an election who neglects to make any return required by law shall be fined twenty dollars. (1949 Rev., S. 526; 1953, S. 257d.)

Sec. 9-322a. Correction of errors in returns. Clerk to file listing of returns. Certification of lists. (a) Not later than forty-eight hours following each regular election, the registrars of voters shall provide the results of the votes cast at such election to the town clerk. N…

Sec. 9-322b. Candidate elected to two or more offices in a municipality and prohibited from holding more than one office. Determination of officeholder. Notwithstanding the provisions of this title, if a candidate is elected to two or more offices in a municipality at the same el…