Title 9 — Title 9: Elections

Sec. 9-209. Certificate filed with secretary when planning or zoning members to be elected. The town clerk of any town which has provided by ordinance for the election of the members of its planning commission, zoning commission or zoning board of appeals shall file a certificate…

Sec. 9-210. Incompatible town offices. No selectman shall hold the office of town clerk, town treasurer or collector of town taxes during the same official year, nor that of judge of probate for the district within which such town is located; no town treasurer shall hold the offi…

Sec. 9-211. United States senator; vacancy. (a) In case of a vacancy in the office of senator in Congress, the Governor, except as otherwise provided by federal or state law, shall, not more than ten days after the occurrence of such vacancy, issue writs of election directed to t…

Sec. 9-211a. Fifty or more vacancies in the office of senator in Congress among the states. Connecticut vacancy. Governor's power to appoint. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 9-211, in the event that among the states there are fifty or more vacancies in the office of sen…

Sec. 9-212. Representative in Congress. (a) In case of a vacancy in the office of representative in Congress from any district, the Governor, except as otherwise provided by law, shall not more than ten days after the occurrence of such vacancy issue writs of election directed to…

Sec. 9-213. Secretary, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General. (a) If the office of Secretary of the State or Comptroller becomes vacant, the General Assembly, if in session, shall fill it; but, if the vacancy occurs when the General Assembly is not in session or if the Gene…

Sec. 9-214. State representative. Section 9-214 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1086; 1953, S. 695d; 1957, P.A. 119, S. 2; 1959, P.A. 475, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 84; 1967, P.A. 557, S. 3.)

Sec. 9-215. Member or member-elect of the General Assembly. (a) When any member or member-elect of the General Assembly resigns, the member or member-elect shall resign by notifying the Secretary of the State of the member's or member-elect's decision, and if any member or member…

Sec. 9-216. Nomination by petition. Nominations may also be made by petition in vacancy elections for the offices of state senator and state representative in the manner provided in sections 9-379 and 9-453a to 9-453p, inclusive, which petitions shall be submitted to the town cle…

Sec. 9-217. List of candidates. The Secretary of the State shall provide to the clerk of the municipality in which such election is to be held a list of the candidates of each party for such office by the thirty-fourth day before the commencement of the period of early voting at …

Sec. 9-218. Probate judge. When there is no election of probate judge in any district by reason of two or more having an equal and the highest number of votes, or when a new probate district is created and no provision made for the election of a judge thereof, or whenever it is s…

Sec. 9-219. Justice of the peace. Section 9-219 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 7549; 1953, S. 698d; P.A. 73-475, S. 2, 3.)

Sec. 9-220. Town office. If any town office in any town is vacant from any cause, such town, if such office is elective, shall, except as otherwise provided by law, fill the vacancy at the next town election or at a special election called for such purpose in accordance with the …

Sec. 9-221. Municipal office vacancy election provisions inapplicable in certain circumstances. (a) When under the provisions of any general statute, special act or charter, it is required that a vacancy in any municipal office be filled at the next municipal election, such provi…

Sec. 9-222. Filling of vacancy in office of first selectman or selectman. Petition for special election. When a vacancy occurs in the office of first selectman or in the office of selectman it shall be filled within thirty days after the day of its occurrence by the remaining mem…

Sec. 9-223. Notice of vacancy in municipal office. The clerk of any town, the mayor of any city or the warden of any borough in which a vacancy occurs in any elective office shall notify the Secretary of the State of such vacancy within five days thereafter; and, in the case of a…

Sec. 9-224. Special election on same day as regular election. If any special election is called to fill a vacancy in any office on the same day as a regular election, the names of the candidates for such office shall be placed on the same ballot as the names of the candidates to …

Sec. 9-224a. No election if only one candidate in special election to fill vacancy. At any special election called to fill a vacancy in a state, district, or municipal office if there appears on the ballot the name of only one candidate, and no person has registered as a write-in…

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…

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. 9-232g. Transferred to Chapter 145, Sec. 9-159p.

Sec. 9-232h. Reserved for future use.

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…