Title 9, Title 9: Elections

Sec. 9-416. No-contest nominations; state or district office. If (1) at a state or district convention no person other than a party-endorsed candidate has received at least fifteen per cent of the votes of the delegates present and voting on any roll-call vote taken on the endors…

Sec. 9-416a. Failure of party to endorse; state or district office. If a party has made no endorsement of a candidate for a particular state or district office, and if within the time specified in section 9-400, a candidacy for such party's nomination to such office is filed in c…

Sec. 9-417. No-contest nominations; municipal office and town committee members. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, if within the time specified in section 9-405, no candidacy for nomination by a political party to a municipal office has been filed by or on…

Sec. 9-418. Failure of party to endorse; municipal office. (a) If within the time specified in section 9-391, a party has failed, with respect to the office of state senator or state representative, to certify to the Secretary of the State, or with respect to any other municipal …

Sec. 9-419. Failure of party to endorse; town committee members. If within the time specified in section 9-391, a party has failed, with respect to the election of town committee members, to certify to the clerk of the municipality names of persons as party-endorsed candidates eq…

Sec. 9-420. Persons selected as convention delegates by party deemed lawfully selected. The persons selected by a political party to serve as delegates to a convention shall be deemed to have been lawfully selected as such delegates or district delegates. (November, 1955, S. N69;…

Sec. 9-421. When primary not to be held for town committee members. Any provision of sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, to the contrary notwithstanding, no primary shall be held by a party for the election of a member of a town committee unless candidacies for such election numb…

Sec. 9-422. Primaries for justices of the peace. Any provision of sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, to the contrary notwithstanding, no primary shall be held for nomination by a party to the office of justice of the peace unless candidacies for such nomination numbering at leas…

Sec. 9-423. Time for primaries; state, district or municipal office. (a) The primaries of all parties for nomination to an office to be voted upon at a state election shall be held on the second Tuesday in August in the year in which such state election is held. (b) The primaries…

Sec. 9-424. Time for primaries; delegates. Section 9-424 is repealed, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date. (June, 1955, S. 577d; November, 1955, S. N50; 1958 Rev., S. 9-79; 1961, P.A. 72, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 51; 52, …

Sec. 9-425. Time for primaries; town committees. The day for holding a primary for the election of town committee members shall be the first Tuesday in March in even-numbered years. (June, 1955, S. 577d; November, 1955, S. N51; 1958 Rev., S. 9-80; 1961, P.A. 72, S. 2; 1963, P.A. …

Sec. 9-426. Cancellation of primary for office or town committee due to vacancies in non-party-endorsed candidacies. Slate vacancies. (a) If only one candidacy has been filed by a person other than a party-endorsed candidate for the nomination by a political party to a particular…

Sec. 9-427. Cancellation of delegate primary due to vacancies in party-endorsed candidacies; filling of vacancies when incomplete party-endorsed slate wins delegate primary. Section 9-427 is repealed, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or…

Sec. 9-428. Vacancy in party-endorsed candidacy. (a) If a party-endorsed candidate for election to the position of town committee member, prior to twenty-four hours before the opening of the polls at the primary, dies or, prior to ten days before the day of such primary, withdraw…

Sec. 9-429. Cancellation of primary for office or town committee when vacancies in candidacies result in no contest. (a) If, prior to the opening of the polls at a primary for election of town committee members, such a number of candidates have died, withdrawn their names or beco…

Sec. 9-430. Withdrawal procedure. No candidate shall be deemed to have withdrawn under the provisions of section 9-426, 9-428 or 9-429 until a letter of withdrawal signed by such candidate is filed with the municipal clerk in the case of municipal office or town committee member,…

Sec. 9-431. Eligibility to vote at primary. (a) No person shall be permitted to vote at a primary of a party unless (1) he is on the last-completed enrollment list of such party in the municipality or voting district, as the case may be, or (2) if authorized by the state rules of…

Sec. 9-431a. Eligibility to vote at caucus, primary or town convention. A person whose name does not appear on the registry list of any town or district shall not be eligible to vote in any caucus, primary or town convention within such town. (1967, P.A. 533, S. 3.)

Sec. 9-431b. Eligibility to vote on removal from one town in state or district to another. Section 9-431b is repealed. (1971, P.A. 756, S. 1, 2; P.A. 73-630, S. 18, 19.)

Sec. 9-432. Verification of names on filing with secretary. Section 9-432 is repealed. (1957, P.A. 518, S. 37; 1958 Rev., S. 9-130; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 58; P.A. 87-382, S. 54, 55.)

Sec. 9-433. Notice of primary; state and district office. (a) After the deadline set forth in section 9-400 for filing candidacies, and upon the completion of the tabulation of petition signatures, if any, if one or more candidacies for nomination by a political party to a state …

Sec. 9-434. Verification of names on filing with municipal clerk. Exception. Upon the filing with the clerk of a municipality of the names of party-endorsed candidates pursuant to section 9-390 or upon the filing with such clerk of petitions for contesting candidates pursuant to …

Sec. 9-435. Notice of primary for municipal office or election for town committee. Except as provided in sections 9-418 and 9-419, if in any municipality, within the time specified in section 9-405, a candidacy for nomination by a political party to any municipal office or for el…

Sec. 9-436. Use, number and adjustment of voting tabulators; voting booths; conditions and rules for use of paper ballots; qualification, appointment and training of primary officials. (a) Voting tabulators shall be used at each primary, provided, (1) if, because of the number of…

Sec. 9-436a. Candidate checkers. Each group of candidates whose names appear in one single row on the official ballot in a voting district for a primary to be held by a political party may designate, for each line of electors voting in such primary at such voting district, not mo…

Sec. 9-437. Form of ballot. Position of candidates' names on ballot. Sample ballots. Voting instructions and information. (a) At the top of each ballot shall be printed the name of the party holding the primary, and each ballot shall contain the names of all candidates to be vote…

Sec. 9-438. Hours and places of voting. In each municipality or voting district, the polling places for primaries held under sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, shall be the same as those used for the election to be held. When unaffiliated electors are authorized under section 9-…

Sec. 9-439. Duties of officials. The moderator in each polling place shall have charge of the primary held therein. The other officials shall have, as nearly as may be, the same duties as at a regular election. The checkers at each polling place shall check the name of each elect…

Sec. 9-439a. Remedy for denial of right to vote. Any elector qualified to vote at any primary and offering so to vote 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 …

Sec. 9-439b. Penalty for false statement. Any person wilfully making a false statement in a statement which he signs and furnishes to a moderator of a primary under section 9-439a shall be guilty of false statement, as provided in section 9-8, and shall be subject to the penaltie…

Sec. 9-440. Moderators to make returns. Upon the closing of the polls at any primary held under sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, the moderator, in the presence of the other officials, shall immediately lock the voting tabulators against voting and shall then proceed to ascerta…

Sec. 9-441. Compensation of registrars and municipal clerks. For the performance of the duties imposed by this chapter, each registrar and deputy registrar actually engaged therein and each municipal clerk shall receive such reasonable compensation from the municipality as is app…

Sec. 9-442. When party has no registrar. In any municipality where there is no registrar affiliated with a political party holding a primary under the provisions of sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, all the powers and duties conferred by said sections upon registrars shall be e…

Sec. 9-443. Votes for justices of the peace. The vote for the party-endorsed slate or for any contesting slate of justices of the peace shall operate as a vote for all of the candidates on such slate and shall be counted as such, and there shall be no split-ticket voting for just…

Sec. 9-444. Determination of nominee, town committee members or justices of the peace. In the case of a primary for state or district office, each person certified by the Secretary of the State as provided in section 9-440, to have received the greatest number of votes of the ele…

Sec. 9-445. Recanvass on close vote. Forthwith after a primary for nomination to a municipal office or for election of members of a town committee, or forthwith upon tabulation of the vote for a state or district office by the Secretary of the State when the plurality of an elect…

Sec. 9-446. Tie vote. (a) If two or more candidates obtain the same and the highest total number of votes at a primary held to nominate candidates for a state or district office or the municipal office of state senator or state representative, and a tie vote thereby occurs, any o…

Sec. 9-447. Unlocking of voting tabulators. The voting tabulators used in any primary shall not be unlocked for a period of fourteen days from the date of the primary, unless otherwise ordered by any judge of the Superior Court or by the State Elections Enforcement Commission. If…

Sec. 9-448. Recount of paper ballots. The provisions of sections 9-445, 9-446 and 9-447 shall apply to any primary at which paper ballots are used, and such paper ballots shall be recounted in any situation in which a recanvass would be held thereunder. (1963, P.A. 225, S. 4.)

Sec. 9-450. Vacancy elections. (a) Nominations by major parties for any state, district or municipal office to be filled under the provisions of any law relating to elections to fill vacancies, unless otherwise provided therein, shall be made in accordance with the provisions of …

Sec. 9-450a. Special elections in 1974. Section 9-450a is repealed. (P.A. 74-25, S. 12, 13; P.A. 77-240, S. 3.) B MINOR PARTIES

Sec. 9-451. Minor parties. The nomination by a minor party of any candidate for office, including an office established after the last-preceding election, and the selection in a municipality by a minor party of town committee members or delegates to conventions may be made in the…

Sec. 9-452. Time for making nominations. Certification. Late certification void. All minor parties nominating candidates for any elective office shall make such nominations and certify and file a list of such nominations, as required by this section, not later than the sixty-seco…

Sec. 9-452a. Notice of party meetings. Not later than five days before a minor party holds a party meeting to nominate a candidate for public office, the presiding officer of such meeting shall give written notice of the date, time, location and purpose of the meeting to, in the …

Sec. 9-453. Petition requirements. Section 9-453 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1044; 1953, S. 569d; 1957, P.A. 410, S. 1; 1958 Rev., S. 9-72; 1959, P.A. 476, S. 1; 675, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 77; 1971, P.A. 806, S. 1.)

Sec. 9-453a. Petition form. Each petition for nomination for elective office shall be on a form prescribed and provided by the Secretary of the State. Such form shall include, at the top of the form and in bold print, the following: WARNING IT IS A CRIME TO SIGN THIS PETITION IN …