Title 9, Title 9: Elections

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…

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…

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 Section 9-227 is repealed.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

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.)

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…

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 …

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 Section 9-229a is repealed, effective July 13, 2011.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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

Sec. 9-238. *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (a) and effective date.) Voting tabulators required. Notification of purchase or discontinuance of use. *(a) Except as provided in section 9-272, voting tabulators shall be used at all elections held in any munici…

Sec. 9-238a. Report to Secretary of number of voting tabulators. During the first week of February in each year, the town clerk of each town shall notify the Secretary of the State, on a form provided by said Secretary, of the total number of voting tabulators in such town and, i…

Sec. 9-239. Payment for voting tabulators. The fiscal authority in each municipality shall authorize payment of the bill incurred for the purchase or lease or other method of acquisition of an adequate number of voting tabulators incurred by the officials responsible for providin…

Sec. 9-240. Provision of voting tabulators and booths. The board of selectmen in each town, unless otherwise provided by law, shall provide or may authorize the registrars to provide a suitable room or rooms and voting tabulator booths for holding all elections. The interior of t…

Sec. 9-240a. Periodic examination of voting tabulators. Not more than two hundred ten days nor less than thirty days prior to each regular election for state officers, each voting tabulator to be used in the next succeeding regular election, including each additional tabulator re…

Sec. 9-241. Examination and approval of tabulators by Secretary. Subsequent alteration made by voting tabulator companies. Use of hole-punch voting tabulators prohibited. Regulations. Agreement with The University of Connecticut or Connecticut State University System. (a) Any per…

Sec. 9-242. Voting tabulator and direct recording electronic voting tabulator construction requirements. Attribution of unknown votes for cross-endorsed candidates. (a) A voting tabulator approved by the Secretary of the State shall be so constructed as to provide facilities for …

Sec. 9-242a. Regulations concerning use of voting machines. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, in the event that the Secretary of the State approves for use, in the manner provided by section 9-241, a kind of voting machine not so approved on J…