Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-601c — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 155 / Section 9-601c
Sec. 9-601c. “Independent expenditure” defined.
Status: in_force

(b) When the State Elections Enforcement Commission evaluates an expenditure to determine whether such expenditure is an independent expenditure, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the following expenditures are not independent expenditures:

(1) An expenditure made by a person in cooperation, consultation or in concert with, at the request, suggestion or direction of, or pursuant to a general or particular understanding with (A) a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or (B) a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee;

(2) An expenditure made by a person for the production, dissemination, distribution or publication, in whole or in substantial part, of any broadcast or any written, graphic or other form of political advertising or campaign communication prepared by (A) a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or (B) a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee;

(3) An expenditure made by a person based on information about a candidate's, political committee's, or party committee's plans, projects or needs, provided by (A) a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or (B) a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, with the intent that such expenditure be made;

(4) An expenditure made by an individual who, in the same election cycle, is serving or has served as the campaign chairperson, treasurer or deputy treasurer of a candidate committee, political committee or party committee benefiting from such expenditure, or in any other executive or policymaking position, including as a member, employee, fundraiser, consultant or other agent, of a candidate committee, political committee or party committee;

(5) An expenditure made by a person or an entity on or after January first in the year of an election in which a candidate is seeking public office that benefits such candidate when such person or entity has hired an individual as an employee or consultant and such individual was an employee of or consultant to such candidate's candidate committee or such candidate's opponent's candidate committee during any part of the eighteen-month period preceding such expenditure;

(6) An expenditure made by a person for fundraising activities (A) for a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or (B) for the solicitation or receipt of contributions on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee;

(7) An expenditure made by a person based on information about a candidate's campaign plans, projects or needs, that is directly or indirectly provided by a candidate, the candidate's candidate committee, a political committee or a party committee, or a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of such candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, to the person making the expenditure or such person's agent, with an express or tacit understanding that such person is considering making the expenditure;

(8) An expenditure made by a person for a communication that clearly identifies a candidate during an election campaign, if the person making the expenditure, or such person's agent, has informed the candidate who benefits from the expenditure, that candidate's candidate committee, a political committee or a party committee, or a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of the benefiting candidate or candidate committee, political committee, or party committee, concerning the communication's contents, or of the intended audience, timing, location or mode or frequency of dissemination. As used in this subdivision, a communication clearly identifies a candidate when that communication contains the name, nickname, initials, photograph or drawing of the candidate or an unambiguous reference to that candidate, which includes, but is not limited to, a reference that can only mean that candidate; and

(9) An expenditure made by a person or an entity for consultant or creative services, including, but not limited to, services related to communications strategy or design or campaign strategy or to engage a campaign-related vendor, to be used to promote or oppose a candidate's election to office if the provider of such services is or has provided consultant or creative services to such candidate, such candidate's candidate committee or an agent of such candidate committee, or to any opposing candidate's candidate committee or an agent of such candidate committee after January first of the year in which the expenditure occurs. For purposes of this subdivision, communications strategy or design does not include the costs of printing or costs for the use of a medium for the purpose of communications. For purposes of this subdivision, campaign-related vendor includes, but is not limited to, a vendor that provides the following services: Polling, mail design, mail strategy, political strategy, general campaign advice or telephone banking.

(c) When the State Elections Enforcement Commission evaluates an expenditure to determine whether an expenditure by entity is an independent expenditure, the following shall not be presumed to constitute evidence of consent, coordination or consultation within the meaning of subsection (a) of this section: (1) Participation by a candidate or an agent of the candidate in an event sponsored by the entity, unless such event promotes the success of the candidate's candidacy or the defeat of the candidate's opponent, or unless the event is during the period that is forty-five days prior to the primary for which the candidate is seeking nomination for election or election to office; (2) membership of the candidate or agent of the candidate in the entity, unless the candidate or agent of the candidate holds an executive or policymaking position within the entity after the candidate becomes a candidate; or (3) financial support for, or solicitation or fundraising on behalf of the entity by a candidate or an agent of the candidate, unless the entity has made or obligated to make independent expenditures in support of such candidate in the election or primary for which the candidate is a candidate.

(d) When the State Elections Enforcement Commission evaluates an expenditure to determine whether such expenditure is an independent expenditure, the commission shall consider, as an effective rebuttal to the presumptions provided in subsection (b) of this section, the establishment by the person making the expenditure of a firewall policy designed and implemented to prohibit the flow of information between (1) employees, consultants or other individuals providing services to the person paying for the expenditure, and (2) the candidate or agents of the candidate.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232l — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-232l
Sec. 9-232l. Applications for provisional ballots.
Status: in_force

(b) If the moderator decides that an elector, whose name appears on the registry list and who has been challenged pursuant to sections 9-232 to 9-232f , inclusive, is not eligible to vote in the primary or election for federal office, such elector may apply for and cast a provisional ballot upon the execution of a written affirmation by the elector at the polling place affirming that the elector is qualified to vote in the election or primary for federal office in the polling place and has neither offered himself to vote nor voted in person or by absentee ballot at said election or primary for federal office at the polling place.

(c) Such application for provisional ballot shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the State, executed before an election official and include a written affirmation, under penalty of false statement in absentee balloting pursuant to section 9-359a , which shall be in the form substantially as follows:

AFFIRMATION: I, the undersigned, do hereby state, under penalties of false statement, that:

1. I am an elector in the town indicated.

2. I am eligible to vote in the election or primary indicated for federal office today in the town and polling place indicated.

3.a. My name does not appear on the official list of eligible voters for the polling place indicated, and the polling place officials called the registrars of voters and were told that my name did not appear on the active registry list for this town for at least one of the four years previous or on one of the preliminary active registry lists for this year; or

b. The moderator decided that I am not eligible to vote for federal office in the town indicated for the reason of disfranchisement, lack of identity, lack of bona fide residence or failure to present the prescribed identification required for new electors after January 1, 2003, indicated.

4. My residence address is located in the voting district that this polling place serves.

5. I have not voted and I will not vote otherwise than by this ballot in person or by absentee ballot at this election or primary for federal office.

6. I apply for a provisional ballot for federal office.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-153c — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 145 / Section 9-153c
Sec. 9-153c. (Formerly Sec. 9-136b). Procedure in case of omission or error in printing or issuing of ballot.
Status: in_force

(b) Any additional absentee voting sets issued to applicants under this section shall be issued in consecutive ascending numerical order based upon the serial number appearing on the outer envelope for return of ballots to the municipal clerk, and the clerk shall keep a record of such numbers by making a notation on, or attaching a memorandum to, the applicant's original application for an absentee ballot.

(c) The municipal clerk shall keep a list containing the name, address and voting district of each absentee ballot applicant who has been issued more than one absentee ballot under this section and the serial number appearing on the outer envelope of each absentee voting set so issued. The list shall be kept with the list required under section 9-140 .

(d) If more than one ballot is received from an applicant who has been sent a correct ballot under subsection (a) of this section, the ballot last received by the municipal clerk shall be counted if no ballot of such applicant has already been counted. For all ballots of such applicant that are not counted, the municipal clerk shall inscribe the word “rejected” and note the reasons for rejection on the outer envelope and shall seal them, unopened, in a package and retain them in a safe place until delivered in accordance with section 9-140c .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-12 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 143 / Section 9-12
Sec. 9-12. Who may be admitted.
Status: in_force

(b) Any citizen who will have attained the age of eighteen years on or before the day of a regular election may apply for admission as an elector. If such citizen is found to be qualified the citizen shall become an elector on the day of the citizen's eighteenth birthday. The registrars shall add the name of any person applying under this subsection, if found qualified, to the registry list and, if applicable, to the enrollment list, together with the effective date of his registration. The registrars may place the name of each such person at the end of the registry and enrollment lists for the voting district.

Cited. 31 CS 454.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-249a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 147 / Section 9-249a
Sec. 9-249a. Order of parties on ballots.
Status: in_force

(1) The party whose candidate for Governor polled the highest number of votes in the last-preceding election;

(2) Other parties who had candidates for Governor in the last-preceding election, in descending order, according to the number of votes polled for each such candidate;

(3) Minor parties who had no candidate for Governor in the last-preceding election;

(4) Petitioning candidates with party designation whose names are contained in petitions approved pursuant to section 9-453o ; and

(5) Petitioning candidates with no party designation whose names are contained in petitions approved pursuant to section 9-453o .

(b) Within each of subdivisions (3) and (4) of subsection (a) of this section, the following rules shall apply in the following order:

(1) Precedence shall be given to the party any of whose candidates seeks an office representing more people than are represented by any office sought by any candidate of any other party;

(2) A party having prior sequence of office as set forth in section 9-251 shall be given precedence; and

(3) Parties shall be listed in alphabetical order.

(c) Within subdivision (5) of subsection (a) of this section, candidates shall be listed according to the provisions of section 9-453r .

The party whose candidate for governor polled the highest number of votes on that party's line shall be given precedence on the ballot in the subsequent general election. 307 C. 470.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-153b — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 145 / Section 9-153b
Sec. 9-153b. (Formerly Sec. 9-142). Additional ballots.
Status: in_force

(b) For all absentee voting sets or portions thereof returned under subsection (a) of this section, the municipal clerk shall mark the serially-numbered outer envelope “rejected” and note the reasons for rejection on all absentee ballots and envelopes so returned and shall seal all such absentee voting sets or portions thereof in a package and retain them in a safe place until delivered in accordance with section 9-140c . The municipal clerk shall keep a list of the names of each absentee ballot applicant who has applied for more than one absentee ballot, as provided in section 9-140 , together with the serial number appearing on the outer envelope of each absentee voting set issued to each such applicant.

(c) If more than one absentee ballot is received from any elector, the ballot of such elector last received by the municipal clerk shall be counted if no absentee ballot of such elector has already been counted. For all absentee ballots of such elector that are not counted, the municipal clerk shall mark the serially-numbered outer envelopes “rejected” and note the reasons for rejection and shall deliver such ballots in accordance with section 9-140c .

See Sec. 1-2a re construction of references to “United States mail”, “postmark” or “registered or certified mail”.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-6b — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 141 / Section 9-6b
Sec. 9-6b. Assistance to blind persons in the signing of petitions.
Status: in_force

(b) Any person who is blind, as defined in section 1-1f , may cause his name to be affixed to a petition which is authorized pursuant to any provision of the general statutes, or any special act, provided an authorized agent reads aloud the full text of the petition in the presence of the circulator, and the blind person consents to having his name appear thereon. In the event a blind person is unable to write, his authorized agent may write the name of such blind person followed by the word “by” and his own signature. Any provision of the general statutes to the contrary notwithstanding, no authorized agent who complies with the provisions of this subsection shall be prosecuted or subjected to criminal liability. No circulator shall act as an authorized agent.

See Sec. 9-453a re petition for nomination for elective office.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-429 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-429
Sec. 9-429. Cancellation of primary for office or town committee when vacancies in candidacies result in no contest.
Status: in_force

(b) If, prior to the commencement of the period of early voting at a primary for nomination to an office, such a number of candidates have died, withdrawn their names or become ineligible, and have not been replaced as permitted in sections 9-426 and 9-428 , as to render the total number of candidates for such office no greater than the number to be nominated to such office, the primary shall not be held, and each of the party-endorsed and other candidates shall be deemed to have been lawfully nominated to such office.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232b — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-232b
Sec. 9-232b. Penalty for false statement.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 9-439b re penalty for false statement in statement to moderator under Sec. 9-439a.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-193 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-193
Sec. 9-193. Registrar's oath.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 1-25 re forms of oaths.

No vacancy exists in office between election or succession and taking of oath and filing of certificate. 120 C. 565. Cited. 206 C. 579.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-158e — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 145 / Section 9-158e
Sec. 9-158e. Identification required from person applying for presidential ballot. Mailing or giving of presidential ballot to applicant. Mailing overseas ballot to applicant.
Status: in_force

(b) Upon receipt of an application for an overseas ballot, the clerk, if satisfied that the application is proper and that the applicant is qualified to vote at the federal election for which the application is made, pursuant to the provisions of sections 9-158b to 9-158m , inclusive, shall forthwith mail a ballot containing the names and offices of the candidates for federal office and instructions and envelopes for its return to the applicant.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-226 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-226
Sec. 9-226. Municipal elections.
Status: in_force

Both warning and notice are requisite for legal meeting. 4 D. 62; 5 C. 391; 37 C. 392; 44 C. 157; 52 C. 483; 58 C. 488; 60 C. 165; 121 U.S. 121. Warning is to be affirmatively thereof. 25 C. 555, see also 121 U.S. 121. The hour of meeting presumed to be a proper hour. 13 C. 227. The notice should fairly state the purpose of meeting. Id.; 15 C. 327; 36 C. 83; 53 C. 577; 58 C. 488. The town may act within the limits of the warning. 55 C. 245. The warning needs no address, but addressed “to the inhabitants” is valid. 32 C. 47. Clerk's certificate imports verity only as to matters of lawful consideration. 44 C. 158; 51 C. 22. Five days before the meeting means five days before the day of meeting; the town is not estopped by erroneous record of town clerk, as against one acting under it. Id. Notice published in newspaper four days before meeting insufficient. 83 C. 331. As to necessity of recording warning, see 121 U.S. 121. Recorded return of notice of warning, best evidence of contents of warning. 97 C. 633. Unnecessary for warning to state number of grand jurors to be elected. 111 C. 341.

Cited. 36 CS 74.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-55 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 143 / Section 9-55
Sec. 9-55. Printing of complete enrollment lists and lists of unaffiliated electors.
Status: in_force

(b) If a political party authorizes unaffiliated electors to vote in a primary, under section 9-431 , and a notice of primary is published, the registrars shall cause a list of all unaffiliated electors eligible to vote in the primary to be printed before the commencement of the period of early voting at such primary. If unaffiliated electors are authorized to vote in only one party's primary and are authorized to vote for all offices to be contested at the primary, the registrars may print the list of unaffiliated electors in combination with such party's enrollment list, indicating party affiliation where applicable.

(c) If the legislative body of the municipality votes to eliminate separate enrollment lists under section 9-54 and:

(1) Notices of primaries are published for two parties to be held on the same day, the registrars of voters shall print complete separate enrollment lists and, if unaffiliated electors are authorized to vote in the primary, the registrars of voters shall print a separate list of unaffiliated electors as provided in subsection (b) of this section; or

(2) A notice of primary is published for one party in which unaffiliated electors are authorized to vote for some but not all offices to be contested at the primary, the registrars of voters shall print a complete separate enrollment list and a separate list of unaffiliated electors as provided in subsection (b) of this section; or

(3) A notice of primary is published for only one party and (A) unaffiliated electors are not authorized to vote, or (B) unaffiliated electors are authorized to vote for all offices to be contested at the primary, a registry list may be used as a checklist at the primary and the registrars of voters shall print a supplementary or updated list indicating those electors who have become eligible to vote in the primary since the printing of the registry list.

(d) Whenever a list is required by this section to be printed, a supplement to such list shall be compiled by the registrars of voters of persons who after such date and prior to twelve o'clock noon of the last business day before the primary become eligible to vote in such primary. The registrars of voters may combine such separate compilation with the foregoing printed list by reprinting the list or incorporating the updated list.

(e) The registrars of voters shall make available for public use such list in the office of the registrars of voters until the printing of the next completed enrollment list; and they shall deliver to the chairman of the town committee of each political party copies of each such list for each voting district in the town. Whenever the registrars of voters are not in their office, such list shall be available at another municipal office. Upon request, the registrars of voters shall give one complete set of such lists to each candidate for nomination for any office or for election as a town committee member. The registrars of voters shall deliver a sufficient number of copies thereof to the moderator of each primary. No petition brought under the provisions of section 9-63 shall operate to delay the completion and printing of such lists. If the petition of any elector is granted after any such list has been completed, the registrars of voters or assistant registrars of voters, as the case may be, shall issue to such elector a certificate showing that the elector is entitled to the privileges accompanying enrollment in the political party named in the elector's petition.

See Sec. 9-372 for applicable definitions.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-169g — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-169g
Sec. 9-169g. Town clerks required to submit voting district maps to Secretary of the State. Use of maps by General Assembly.
Status: in_force

(b) The Secretary of the State shall make such maps available to the General Assembly, for use by the General Assembly in carrying out its responsibilities under (1) Article XXVI of the Amendments to the Constitution of Connecticut, or any subsequent corresponding state constitutional provision, with regard to the redistricting of assembly, senatorial and congressional districts, and (2) Public Law 94-171, concerning the establishment of a plan identifying the geographic areas for which specific tabulations of population are desired in the decennial census of the United States.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-750 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 157 / Section 9-750
Sec. 9-750. *(See end of section for amended version and effective date.) Portion of revenues from tax under chapter 208 to be deposited in Citizens' Election Fund if insufficiency in fund. Deduction from amount deposited.
Status: in_force

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3-69a , if funds are deposited into the Citizens' Election Fund pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section, the aggregate amount of any such deposits shall be deducted from the amount deposited into said fund under section 3-69a for the following fiscal year.

*Note: On and after July 1, 2025, this section, as amended by section 188 of public act 23-205, is to read as follows:

“Sec. 9-750 Portion of revenues from tax under chapter 208 to be deposited in Citizens' Election Fund if insufficiency in fund. If, (1) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, or any fiscal year thereafter, the amount of funds available under section 3-69a for deposit in the Citizens' Election Fund established in section 9-701 is less than the amount of funds required under said section 3-69a to be deposited in said fund, resulting in an insufficiency in the amount of the deposit, or (2) during an election cycle the amount of funds in the Citizens' Election Fund is less than the amount of funds required to provide grants to each qualified candidate committee pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, resulting in an insufficiency in said fund, a portion of the revenues from the tax imposed under chapter 208, equal to the amount of any insufficiency described in subdivision (1) or (2) of this section, shall be deposited in said fund to allow for the payment of grants pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.”
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-611 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 155 / Section 9-611
Sec. 9-611. (Formerly Sec. 9-333m). Limits on contributions made by individuals to candidate committees, exploratory committees. When contributions by personal check or credit card required. Contributions by individuals less than eighteen years of age.
Status: in_force

(b) (1) No individual shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, an exploratory committee, in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars, if the candidate establishing the exploratory committee certifies on the statement of organization for the exploratory committee pursuant to subsection (c) of section 9-604 that the candidate will not be a candidate for the office of state representative. No individual shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, any exploratory committee, in excess of two hundred fifty dollars, if the candidate establishing the exploratory committee does not so certify.

(2) No individual shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, a political committee formed by a slate of candidates in a primary for the office of justice of the peace, in excess of two hundred fifty dollars.

(c) No individual shall make contributions to such candidates or committees which in the aggregate exceed thirty thousand dollars for any single election and primary preliminary to such election.

(d) No individual shall make a contribution to any candidate or committee, other than a contribution in kind, in excess of one hundred dollars except by personal check or credit card of that individual.

(e) No individual who is less than eighteen years of age shall make a contribution or contributions, in excess of thirty dollars to, for the benefit of, or pursuant to the authorization or request of: (1) A candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary to any office; (2) a candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for election to any office; (3) an exploratory committee; (4) any other political committee in any calendar year; or (5) a party committee in any calendar year. Notwithstanding any provision of subdivision (2) of section 9-7b , any individual who is less than eighteen years of age who violates any provision of this subsection shall not be subject to the provisions of subdivision (2) of section 9-7b .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-461 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-461
Sec. 9-461. Filing of list of candidates with Secretary.
Status: in_force

The town clerk has the ministerial obligation under section to accept and to file with the secretary lists of minor party candidates that are facially valid under the terms of Sec. 9-452. 348 C. 364.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-195 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-195
Sec. 9-195. Compensation of registrars and town clerks for duties as to enrollment.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 9-55a re compensation of registrars, clerks and other personnel.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-409 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-409
Sec. 9-409. Availability and issuance of primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or election as town committee members.
Status: in_force

(b) Petition forms for candidacies for nomination to the municipal offices of state senator and state representative shall be available from the registrar beginning on the seventy-seventh day preceding the day of the primary for such office.

(c) Any person who requests a petition form shall give his name and address and the name, address and office or position sought of each candidate for whom the petition is being obtained, and shall file a statement signed by each such candidate that he consents to be a candidate for such office or position. In the case of the municipal offices of state senator and state representative, each such candidate shall include on the statement of consent his name as he authorizes it to appear on the ballot. Upon receiving such information and statement, the registrar shall type or print on a petition form the name and address of each such candidate, the office sought and the political party holding the primary. The registrar shall give to any person requesting such form one or more petition pages, suitable for duplication, as the registrar deems necessary. If the person is requesting the form on behalf of an indigent candidate or a group of indigent candidates listed on the same petition, the registrar shall give the person a number of petition pages determined by the registrar as at least two times the number needed to contain the required number of signatures for a candidacy for nomination to municipal office or a number of petition pages determined by the registrar as at least five times the number needed to contain the required number of signatures for a candidacy for election as a town committee member. An original petition page filled in by the registrar may be duplicated by or on behalf of the candidate or candidates listed on the page and signatures may be obtained on such duplicates. The duplicates may be filed in the same manner and shall be subject to the same requirements as original petition pages. All information relative to primary petitions shall be a public record.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-364a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 151 / Section 9-364a
Sec. 9-364a. (Formerly Sec. 9-344). Acts prohibited in elections, primaries, referenda, caucuses and conventions. Public disclosure of election worker personally identifying information. Criminal penalties, civil cause of action.
Status: in_force

(b) Any person who influences or attempts to influence by force or threat the vote, or by force, threat, bribery or corrupt means, the speech, of any other person at a primary, caucus, referendum, convention or election; any person who influences or attempts to influence by force, threat or harassment any election worker in the performance of any duty under the provisions of this title related to election administration at a primary, referendum, election or recanvass; any person who wilfully and fraudulently suppresses or destroys any vote or ballot properly given or cast, whether so given or cast by mail, by deposit in a secure drop box or in person at a polling place or designated early voting or same-day election registration location, or, in counting such votes or ballots, wilfully miscounts or misrepresents the number thereof; and any presiding or other officer of a primary, caucus or convention who wilfully announces the result of a ballot or vote of such primary, caucus or convention, untruly and wrongfully, shall be guilty of a class C felony.

(c) Any person who, with intent to harass, terrorize or alarm any election worker, or to improperly influence any election worker in the performance of any duty under this title related to election administration at a primary, referendum, election or recanvass, publicly discloses the personal identifying information of such election worker shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

(d) Any election worker described in subsection (b) or (c) of this section, as applicable, shall have a civil cause of action against the person who, with respect to such election worker, violated said subsection.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-453r — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-453r
Sec. 9-453r. Position of candidates' names on ballot.
Status: in_force

(b) On the horizontal rows below the rows so used for candidates, if any, who are so entitled to a party designation on the ballot, shall be placed, in the appropriate office columns, the names of candidates contained in petitions approved pursuant to section 9-453o bearing no party designation. Such candidates shall not be entitled to separate rows. Precedence as to horizontal row between or among such candidates shall be determined, if necessary, by the order in which their applications for petitions were filed with the Secretary of the State from the earliest to the latest; provided that within any such horizontal row the names of as many of such candidates for the same multiple-opening office as such row will accommodate shall be placed before placing the names of other such candidates for such office on the next such row. The order of the names of such candidates for the same multiple-opening office, within and between any such horizontal rows, shall be determined by the registrars of voters by lot in a ceremony which shall be open to the public. The registrars of voters shall provide at least five days public notice for each such ceremony. Each row in which a candidate's name appears who is not entitled to a party designation shall be labeled “Petitioning Candidates”, the print of which shall correspond to that used for party designations.

See Sec. 9-249b re arrangement of ballot when number of party designations and petitioning candidate rows on ballot exceeds nine.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-7c — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 141 / Section 9-7c
Sec. 9-7c. Recommended appropriations. Allotments.
Status: in_force

(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Governor shall not reduce allotment requisitions or allotments in force concerning the State Elections Enforcement Commission.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-153d — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 145 / Section 9-153d
Sec. 9-153d. (Formerly Sec. 9-143). Mailing of ballots to persons living outside of United States, military personnel, spouses or dependents.
Status: in_force

(b) Within the time limits in subsection (b) of section 9-158c for availability of overseas ballots, either registrar of voters may, in a form to be prescribed by the Secretary of the State, direct the municipal clerk forthwith to mail an overseas ballot, with the necessary envelopes and instructions, to the best-known address, within the knowledge of the registrar issuing such direction, of a citizen of the United States who is eligible to vote as an overseas elector under sections 9-158a to 9-158m , inclusive, and such direction shall constitute sufficient application for such absentee ballot. Such ballot shall not be counted unless an application form prescribed in subsection (b) of section 9-158d is received by the town clerk prior to the day of the election or primary. The municipal clerk may, during such period, so act on his own motion and without waiting for the direction of a registrar of voters or other application, if the clerk first completes and retains in his records as an application the same direction form that is used by a registrar of voters.

See Sec. 9-153e re alternate application procedure for certain military personnel.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-50c — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 143 / Section 9-50c
Sec. 9-50c. Maintenance of state-wide centralized voter registration system. Intrastate and interstate data sharing.
Status: in_force

(b) The Secretary of the State may provide such information or data to a nonpartisan third-party vendor for the purpose of maintaining the state-wide centralized voter registration system established pursuant to section 9-50b , provided such vendor's activities are performed under the supervision of the Secretary and such vendor has entered into an agreement to protect the confidentiality of such information or data.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-40a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 143 / Section 9-40a
Sec. 9-40a. Continuance of residence in certain cases. Procedure for removal of names for failure to vote.
Status: in_force

(b) Not later than May first in each year in which a canvass of electors is conducted, the registrars of voters shall send the notice of removal and return card required by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, P.L. 103-31, as amended from time to time, to each member of the armed forces of the United States or their auxiliaries, or a spouse or dependent of such member, whose name has not been checked as having voted in at least one election, primary, referendum or town meeting during the four preceding calendar years. If such elector does not return the card within thirty days, the registrars of voters shall place the name of such elector on the inactive registry list compiled under section 9-35 for four years, and if such name remains on the inactive list for four years, such name shall thereupon be removed from the registry list. Such removal shall not affect the right of such member, spouse or dependent to apply for admission as an elector in such town.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-232a
Sec. 9-232a. Remedy for denial of voting rights.
Status: in_force

To the Moderator of .... (Polling Place)

I, .... (Name), of .... (Street Address), of the (City) (Town) (Borough) of .... do hereby state, under the penalties of false statement, that (1) I am an elector in said municipality, (2) I am qualified to vote in the (State) (City) (Town) (Borough) (Special) election being held in said municipality on this date and (3) I have not prior to this time offered myself to vote or voted either in person or by absentee ballot at said election.

.... a.m., p.m. (exact time of day)

Dated at ...., Connecticut, this .... day of ...., 20...

.... (Signature)

.... (Address)

Received at .... (Time) (a.m.) (p.m.) on this .... day of ...., 20.., by, .... (Signature) Moderator of .... (Polling Place)
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-249 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 147 / Section 9-249
Sec. 9-249. Instruction of election officials.
Status: in_force

(b) The election officials of such voting districts shall attend the elections training program developed under subdivision (1) of subsection (d) of section 9-192a and any other meeting or meetings as are called for the purpose of receiving such instructions concerning their duties as are necessary for the proper conduct of the election.

(c) Each election official who qualifies for and serves in the election shall be paid not less than one dollar for the time spent in receiving such instruction, in the same manner and at the same time as the official is paid for the official's services on election day.

(d) No election official shall serve in any election unless the official has received such instruction and is fully qualified to perform the official's duties in connection with the election, but this shall not prevent the appointment of an election official to fill a vacancy in an emergency.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-19c — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 143 / Section 9-19c
Sec. 9-19c. Application for admission at place of employment, residence or study.
Status: in_force

(b) Such employer, or chief administrative officer, upon receipt of such notice, shall provide a suitable place for the taking of applications for admission as electors and shall forthwith cause a prominent notice to be posted on the bulletin board or other place where general notices to employees, students or residents are customarily posted, which notice shall specify the date, place and hour at which such official will receive such applications, and such notice shall remain posted through the day of such taking of applications. Procedures under this section shall conform as nearly as may be to the procedures for applications for admission submitted pursuant to sections 9-19b , 9-19e , 9-20 and 9-23a . No employer shall penalize or refuse to pay an employee who proceeds under this section and section 9-19d , and any employee proceeding under said sections shall be entitled to be paid at his regular rate for up to one-half hour for the purpose of making application to become an elector.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-147a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 145 / Section 9-147a
Sec. 9-147a. Central counting of absentee ballots; designation of location by registrars of voters. Exception for counting in respective polling places.
Status: in_force

(b) At any election, primary or referendum, all absentee ballots may be counted in the manner provided in section 9-150a in the respective polling places if the registrars of voters agree that such absentee ballots should be so counted. If unaffiliated electors are authorized under section 9-431 to vote in the primary of either of two parties, absentee ballots may be counted in the respective polling places if the parties agree that such absentee ballots should be so counted. Any election official serving in a polling place may observe the counting of absentee ballots at such polling place, provided no candidate for election or nomination shall be allowed within such polling place during the hours of voting for any purpose other than casting such candidate's vote and no such candidate shall be allowed to participate in such counting, except (1) a municipal clerk or registrar of voters, who is a candidate for the same office, and (2) a deputy registrar of voters, who is a candidate for the office of registrar of voters, performing such official's duties.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-236 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-236
Sec. 9-236. Activities prohibited in and near polling place; distance markers; entry restricted; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(b) (1) The selectmen shall provide suitable markers to indicate the seventy-five-foot distance from such entrance. Such markers shall consist of a board resting on an iron rod, which board shall be not less than twelve inches square and painted a bright color and shall bear the figures and letters “75 feet” and the following words: “On the day of any primary, referendum or election no person shall solicit in behalf of or in opposition to another or himself or peddle or offer any ballot, advertising matter or circular to another person or loiter within a radius of seventy-five feet of any outside entrance in use as an entry to any polling place or in any corridor, passageway or other approach leading from any such outside entrance to such polling place or in any room opening upon any such corridor, passageway or approach.”

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection, the selectmen may provide the markers required by the provisions of this subsection in effect prior to October 1, 1983, except that in the case of a referendum which is not held in conjunction with an election or a primary, the selectmen shall provide the markers required by subdivision (1) of this subsection.

(3) The moderator and the moderator's assistants shall meet at least twenty minutes before the opening of a primary, referendum or an election in the voting district, and shall cause to be placed by a police officer or constable, or such other primary or election official as they select, a suitable number of distance markers. Such moderator or any police officer or constable shall prohibit loitering and peddling of tickets within that distance.

(c) No person shall be allowed within any polling place for any purpose other than casting his or her vote, except (1) those permitted or exempt under this section or section 9-236a , (2) primary officials under section 9-436 , (3) election officials under section 9-258 , including (A) a municipal clerk or registrar of voters, who is a candidate for the same office, performing his or her official duties, and (B) a deputy registrar of voters, who is a candidate for the office of registrar of voters, performing his or her official duties, or (4) unofficial checkers under section 9-235 . Representatives of the news media shall be allowed to enter, remain within and leave any polling place or restricted area surrounding any polling place to observe the election, provided any such representative who in any way interferes with the orderly process of voting shall be evicted by the moderator. A number of students in grades four to twelve, inclusive, not to exceed four at any one time in any one polling place, may enter any polling place between twelve o'clock noon and three o'clock p.m. for the purpose of observing the activities taking place in the polling place, provided there is proper parental or teacher supervision present, and provided further, any such student who in any way interferes with the orderly process of voting shall be evicted by the moderator. An elector may be accompanied into any polling place by one or more children who are fifteen years of age or younger and supervised by the elector if the elector is the parent or legal guardian of such children.

(d) Any person who violates any provision of this section or, while the polls are open for voting, removes or injures any such distance marker, shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.

Cited. 129 C. 503.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-602 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 155 / Section 9-602
Sec. 9-602. (Formerly Sec. 9-333d). Designation of treasurer and depository institution. Certification. Persons authorized to receive contributions. Duties of treasurer. Personal jurisdiction of State Elections Enforcement Commission over nonresidents.
Status: in_force

(b) No contribution in aid of or in opposition to the candidacy of any person or to any party or referendum question shall be made at any time, except to the committee's treasurer whose designation is on file with the proper authority, a solicitor or a candidate who is exempt from the requirement to form a candidate committee and has filed a certification.

(c) An individual who is designated as treasurer of a committee shall be responsible for all duties required of him under this chapter until the committee is terminated. The treasurer shall be relieved of such duties upon his permanent incapacity, resignation or replacement, provided a statement to that effect is filed with the proper authority, as provided in section 9-603 . In the event of the death of the treasurer or after a statement has been filed concerning the treasurer's incapacity, resignation or replacement, if a deputy treasurer has been designated, the deputy treasurer shall be responsible for all duties required of the treasurer under this chapter until the candidate or chairman of the committee files with the proper authority a designation of a successor treasurer. If a deputy treasurer has not been designated, the candidate or chairman shall designate a successor treasurer and file such designation with the proper authority not more than ten days after the death of the treasurer or the filing of the statement of his incapacity, resignation or replacement.

(d) (1) In addition to its jurisdiction over persons who are residents of this state, the State Elections Enforcement Commission may exercise personal jurisdiction over any nonresident person, or the agent of such nonresident person, who makes a payment of money, gives anything of value or makes a contribution or expenditure, in excess of two hundred dollars, to or for the benefit of any committee or candidate.

(2) Where personal jurisdiction is based solely upon this subsection, an appearance does not confer personal jurisdiction with respect to causes of action not arising from an act enumerated in this subsection.

(3) Any nonresident person or the agent of such person over whom the State Elections Enforcement Commission may exercise personal jurisdiction, as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsection, shall be deemed to have appointed the Secretary of the State as the person's or agent's attorney and to have agreed that any process in any complaint, investigation or other matter conducted pursuant to section 9-7b and brought against the nonresident person, or said person's agent, may be served upon the Secretary of the State and shall have the same validity as if served upon such nonresident person or agent personally. The process shall be served upon the Secretary of the State by the officer to whom the same is directed by leaving with or at the office of the Secretary of the State, at least twelve days before any required appearance day of such process, a true and attested copy of such process, and by sending to the nonresident person or agent so served, at the person's or agent's last-known address, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, a like and attested copy with an endorsement thereon of the service upon the Secretary of the State. The Secretary of the State shall keep a record of each such process and the day and hour of service.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-159p — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 145 / Section 9-159p
Sec. 9-159p. (Formerly Sec. 9-232g). Challenge of absentee ballots.
Status: in_force

(b) Challenges shall not be made indiscriminately and may only be made if the challenger knows or reasonably believes that the right of the person offering to vote by absentee ballot should be denied on one or more of the grounds specified in subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Challenges made concerning ballots that the municipal clerk has not delivered to the registrars of voters for counting pursuant to sections 9-140c and 9-147a shall be made in writing to the municipal clerk. Challenges made concerning ballots that the municipal clerk has delivered to the registrars of voters for counting pursuant to sections 9-140c and 9-147a shall be made in writing to the central counting moderator or the moderator of the polling place at which the ballot is to be counted pursuant to subsection (b) of section 9-147a . All challenges shall be made under oath.

(d) Immediately upon receipt of a challenge, the municipal clerk shall send copies of the challenge to each registrar of voters and to the person offering to vote by absentee ballot. The municipal clerk shall send the copy of the challenge to the person offering to vote by first class certified mail to the mailing address shown on the application for the absentee ballot. The municipal clerk shall furnish copies of any written response to the challenge to each registrar of voters. The municipal clerk shall deliver the ballot in the inner envelope, which shall not be opened, the serially-numbered envelope and any other evidence relevant to the challenge, to the registrars, who shall sign a receipt for the same.

(e) Immediately upon receipt of a challenge, the moderator shall deliver copies of the challenge to each registrar of voters. The moderator shall also deliver, or designate another election, primary or referendum official to deliver, the ballot in the inner envelope, which shall not be opened, the serially-numbered envelope and any other evidence relevant to the challenge to the registrars, who shall sign a receipt for the same.

(f) The registrars of voters shall examine the challenge, any written response to the challenge and any other evidence or information they deem relevant to the challenge, including the inner envelope, which shall not be opened, and shall determine whether the challenge should be upheld. If the registrars fail to agree that the challenge should be upheld, it shall be deemed to have been denied.

(g) The registrars of voters shall make the determination not earlier than noon of the day of the election, primary or referendum at which the ballot is submitted and not later than the time when the counting of all other absentee ballots at the election, primary or referendum has been completed.

(h) The registrars of voters shall notify, in writing, the municipal clerk and the central counting moderator, or the moderator of the polling place at which the ballot is to be counted pursuant to subsection (b) of section 9-147a , of their determination. If the challenge is denied, the absentee ballot shall be delivered by the registrars to the appropriate location for counting pursuant to law. If the challenge is upheld, the registrars shall mark the word “rejected” on the serially-numbered outer envelope and note the reasons for rejection, and shall return it together with all other evidence received in connection with the challenge to the municipal clerk who shall retain the same until delivered in accordance with section 9-140c , except that a challenge to a ballot which the municipal clerk has delivered to the registrars of voters for counting pursuant to sections 9-140c and 9-147a shall be returned to the moderator to whom the challenge was made.

(i) Within five days after the election, primary or referendum the municipal clerk shall send to the person whose offer to vote was challenged a copy of the written determination of the registrars and a statement as to the disposition of the absentee ballot.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-23a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 143 / Section 9-23a
Sec. 9-23a. When person admitted as an elector permitted to vote in primary. Exception.
Status: in_force

(b) An applicant for admission or enrollment under section 9-26 shall be entitled to vote in a primary if he files his application for admission or enrollment with the town clerk before the day of the primary and is otherwise eligible to vote in the primary.

See Sec. 9-57 re application for enrollment by new elector at time of admission and attachment of party privileges.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-23r — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 143 / Section 9-23r
Sec. 9-23r. Submission of identifying information with mail voter registration application.
Status: in_force

(b) If an individual submits such information pursuant to this section as part of the individual's voter registration application and, with respect to subdivision (3) or (4) of subsection (a) of this section, the registrars of voters are able to match the information submitted with an existing Connecticut identification record bearing the same number, name and date of birth as provided, such individual shall not be required to produce identification when voting in person or by absentee ballot and may sign a statement as described in subparagraph (B) of subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of section 9-261 in lieu of presenting identification when voting in person.

(c) Any additional documentation submitted as part of the voter registration application pursuant to this section may be destroyed by the registrars of voters after verification pursuant to the Help America Vote Act, P.L. 107-252, as amended from time to time.

(d) If an individual described in subsection (a) of this section does not submit the identification described in subsection (a) of this section as part of the individual's application for admission as an elector, when the individual has entered the polling place in an election for federal office, the individual shall present: (1) A current and valid photo identification, or (2) a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter. If an individual does not meet the requirements of this subsection in an election for federal office, such individual may cast a provisional ballot prescribed under sections 9-232i to 9-232o , inclusive.

(e) If an individual described in subsection (a) of this section does not submit the identification described in subsection (a) of this section as part of the individual's application for admission as an elector, and if the individual votes by absentee ballot in an election for federal office, the individual shall enclose in the outer absentee ballot envelope, and not in the inner envelope with the ballot: (1) A copy of a current and valid photo identification, or (2) a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or other government document that shows the name and address of the voter. If an individual does not meet the requirements of this subsection in an election for federal office, such individual's absentee ballot shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (2) of subsection (d) of section 9-150a and treated as a provisional ballot for federal office only, pursuant to sections 9-232i to 9-232o , inclusive.

See Sec. 9-232i for definition of “election for federal office”.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-710 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 157 / Section 9-710
Sec. 9-710. Loans and personal funds for campaigns. Limits.
Status: in_force

(b) All such loans shall be repaid in full prior to the date such candidate committee applies for a grant from the Citizens' Election Fund pursuant to section 9-706 . A candidate who fails to repay such loans or fails to certify such repayment to the State Elections Enforcement Commission shall not be eligible to receive and shall not receive grants from the fund.

(c) A candidate who intends to participate in the Citizens' Election Program may provide personal funds for such candidate's campaign for nomination or election in an amount not exceeding: (1) For a candidate for the office of Governor, twenty thousand dollars; (2) for a candidate for the office of Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, State Treasurer or Secretary of the State, ten thousand dollars; (3) for a candidate for the office of state senator, two thousand dollars; or (4) for a candidate for the office of state representative, one thousand dollars. Such personal funds shall not constitute a qualifying contribution under section 9-704 . For the purposes of this section, and after the amendment of regulations pursuant to subparagraph (B) of subdivision (1) of subsection (e) of section 9-706 , expenditures for child care services made directly from any such candidate's personal funds and for which such candidate does not seek reimbursement from his or her candidate committee, as provided in subsection (k) of section 9-607 , shall not count toward the amounts provided in subdivisions (1) to (4), inclusive, as applicable, of this subsection.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-311 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 148 / Section 9-311
Sec. 9-311. Recanvass in case of discrepancy. Authority of moderator to prevent or suppress disorder.
Status: in_force

(b) The moderator shall determine the place or places where the recanvass shall be conducted and, if such recanvass is held before the tabulators are boxed and collected in the manner required by section 9-266 , the moderator may either require that such recanvass of such tabulators be conducted in each place where the tabulators are located, or he may require that they be removed to one central place, where such recanvass shall be conducted. All recanvassing procedures shall be open to public observation, subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this section. Such recanvass officials shall, in the presence of such moderator and registrars of voters, make a record of the number on the seal and the number on the protective counter, if one is provided, on each voting tabulator specified by such moderator. Such registrars of voters in the presence of such moderator shall turn over the keys of each such tabulator to such recanvass officials, and such recanvass officials, in the presence of such registrars of voters and moderator, shall immediately proceed to recanvass the vote cast thereon, and shall then open the package of absentee ballots and recanvass the vote cast thereon. In the course of the recanvass of the absentee ballot vote the recanvass officials shall check all outer envelopes for absentee ballots against the inner envelopes for such ballots and against the registry list to verify postmarks, addresses and registry list markings and also to determine whether the number of envelopes from which absentee ballots have been removed is the same as the number of persons checked as having voted by absentee ballot. The write-in ballots shall also be recanvassed at this time. Any party representative present shall have a right to view each ballot as it is being recanvassed by the recanvass officials, so as to be able to discern the markings on such ballot. All of the recanvass officials shall use the same forms for tallies and returns as were used at the original canvass and the absentee ballot counters shall also sign the tallies.

(c) The votes shall be announced and recorded in the manner prescribed in section 9-309 on return forms provided by the registrars of voters and appended thereto shall be a statement signed by the moderator indicating the time and place of the recanvass and the names, addresses, titles and party affiliations of the recanvass officials. The write-in ballots shall be replaced in a properly secured sealed package. Upon the completion of such recanvass, any tabulator used in such recanvass shall be locked and sealed, the keys thereof shall immediately be returned to such registrars of voters and such tabulator shall remain so locked until the expiration of fourteen days after such election or for such longer period as is ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction. The absentee ballots shall be replaced in their wrappers and be resealed by the moderator in the presence of the recanvass officials. Upon the completion of such recanvass, such moderator and at least two of the recanvass officials of different political parties shall forthwith prepare and sign such return forms which shall contain a written statement giving the result of such recanvass for each tabulator and each package of absentee ballots whose returns were so recanvassed, setting forth whether or not the original canvass was correctly made and stating whether or not the discrepancy still remains unaccounted for. Such return forms containing such statement shall forthwith be filed by the moderator in the office of such clerk. If such recanvass reveals that the original canvass of returns was not correctly made, such return forms containing such statement so filed with the clerk shall constitute a corrected return. In the case of a state election, a recanvass return shall be made in duplicate on a form prescribed and provided by the Secretary of the State, and the moderator shall file one copy with the Secretary of the State and one copy with the town clerk not later than ten days after the election. Such recanvass return shall be substituted for the original return and shall have the same force and effect as an original return.

(d) The moderator may, when any disorder arises that interferes with the conduct of a recanvass, including any attempt by a person other than a recanvass official to take part in such recanvass or by such a person to communicate with a recanvass official other than the moderator, and the offender refuses to submit to the moderator's lawful authority, order that the offender be removed by the recanvass officials from such recanvass until the offender conforms to order or, if need be, until such recanvass is completed.

(e) As used in this section, (1) “moderator” means, in the case of municipalities not divided into voting districts, the moderator of the election and, in the case of municipalities divided into voting districts, the head moderator of the election, and (2) “registrars of voters”, in a municipality where there are different registrars of voters for different voting districts, means the registrars of voters in the voting district in which, at the last-preceding election, the presiding officer for the purpose of declaring the result of the vote of the whole municipality was moderator.

See Sec. 1-2a re construction of references to “United States mail”, “postmark” or “registered or certified mail”.

Cited. 231 C. 602.

Cited. 10 CS 316.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-332 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 149 / Section 9-332
Sec. 9-332. Adjourned election in tie vote. Withdrawal of candidate.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 9-173 re plurality vote required for election.

See Sec. 9-188 re tie vote in election of first selectman.

See Sec. 9-218 re tie vote in election of probate judge.

See Sec. 9-315 re tie vote in election of presidential electors.

Moderator, town clerk and selectman have no power to make statute effective and mandamus does not lie against them. 130 C. 717.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-173 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-173
Sec. 9-173. Plurality required for election.
Status: in_force

As applied to office of selectman. 75 C. 460. Cited. 135 C. 150.

Without a bipartisan restriction, a plurality of votes cast elects. 10 CS 258.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-137 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 145 / Section 9-137
Sec. 9-137. Inner envelope for return of ballot; statement under false statement penalty.
Status: in_force

“I hereby state under the penalties of false statement in absentee balloting that I am eligible to vote at the primary, election or referendum in the municipality in which this absentee ballot is to be cast and that I expect to be unable to appear at my polling place on the day of such primary, election or referendum for one or more of the following reasons: (1) My active service in the armed forces; (2) my absence from the town in which I am eligible to vote; (3) sickness; (4) physical disability; (5) the tenets of my religion which forbid secular activity on the day of such primary, election or referendum; or (6) my duties as a primary, election or referendum official.

Date ....

.... (Signature)”

See Sec. 9-14a re electors in custody of state.

Cited. 231 C. 602.

Cited. 28 CS 361.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-390 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-390
Sec. 9-390. Selection of party-endorsed candidates for municipal office and selection of delegates to conventions.
Status: in_force

(b) Delegates to conventions shall be selected, in accordance with the rules of such party, by the method prescribed in either subdivision (1) or (3) of subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Except as provided in subsection (g) of this section, party-endorsed candidates of any party in any municipality for town committee members shall be selected, in accordance with the rules of such party, by the method prescribed in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of this section.

(d) The selection of party-endorsed candidates in the manner provided in subsection (a) or (c) of this section and the selection of delegates to conventions in the manner provided in subsection (b) of this section shall be made and certified to the clerk of the municipality or the Secretary of the State, as the case may be, within the time specified in section 9-391 .

(e) (1) In the endorsement of any person for an office or a position as committee member, in the manner provided in subsection (a) or (c) of this section, for whom only the electors of a political subdivision of such municipality or of a senatorial district or assembly district located in such municipality may vote, only the enrolled party members, delegates or town committee members, as the case may be, from such political subdivision or district may participate, except that, in a municipality in which the town committee is elected at large and is the endorsing authority, such endorsement shall be made by the town committee as a whole and except that, whenever no member of the endorsing authority resides in such political subdivision or district from which the endorsement is to be made, then such endorsing authority as a whole shall endorse.

(2) In the selection of any person for a position as delegate to a convention, in the manner provided in subsection (b) of this section, where only the electors of a political subdivision of such municipality or of a senatorial district or assembly district located in such municipality may vote for the offices to be voted upon at such convention, only the enrolled party members or town committee members, as the case may be, from such political subdivision or district may participate, except that (A) in a municipality in which the town committee is elected at-large and is the selecting authority, the town committee as a whole shall select, and (B) in a municipality in which the town committee is elected from political subdivisions and is the selecting authority, whenever no member of the town committee resides in such political subdivision or district from which the selection is to be made, the town committee as a whole shall select.

(f) Candidates endorsed in the manner provided in subsection (a) or (c) of this section shall run in the primary of such party as party-endorsed candidates, except as provided in section 9-417 . Delegates to conventions selected in the manner provided in subsection (b) of this section shall be deemed to have been lawfully selected as such delegates.

(g) Any party in any municipality may by its rules provide that no selection be made of party-endorsed candidates for municipal office or town committee members and that the nominees of such party for such municipal office or town committee members of such party be chosen at direct primaries in accordance with the provisions of sections 9-405 , 9-406 , 9-409 to 9-412 , inclusive, and 9-414 , except as provided in sections 9-418 and 9-419 .

(h) This section shall not apply to district delegates to conventions.

See Sec. 9-434 re verification of candidates' names.

Cited. 232 C. 65.

Cited. 30 CS 34.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-175 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-175
Sec. 9-175. Presidential and vice presidential electors. Write-in candidates and ballots.
Status: in_force

(b) In the case of a write-in candidate for President of the United States, such candidate may register his candidacy with the Secretary of the State by submitting his name and the names of a vice presidential candidate and candidates for the office of elector in a number not exceeding the whole number of electors to which the state is then entitled. Such registration shall be on a form prescribed by the Secretary of the State, which form shall include a statement of consent to being a candidate by each proposed candidate for elector and by the candidate for Vice President. Such registration shall not include a designation of political party. A candidate for President may register at any time after January first of the election year and not later than four o'clock p.m. on the fourteenth day preceding the election at which the offices of presidential elector and vice presidential elector are being contested. If a candidate has so registered, a vote may be cast by write-in ballot for such candidate by writing in the last name of the candidate for President and the last name of the candidate for Vice President or only the last name of the candidate for President; such write-in ballot shall be counted, and shall be in all respects effective, as a vote for each of the presidential electors representing such candidates for President and Vice President. No person nominated for the office of President, Vice President, or presidential elector by a major or minor party or by nominating petition shall register as a write-in candidate for such office under the provisions of this section and any such registration of a write-in candidacy filed by such a person shall be void.

Subsec. (a):

Electors placed on ballot by Secretary of the State must be those pledged to vote for the candidates nominated by their national political party. 254 C. 789.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-431 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-431
Sec. 9-431. Eligibility to vote at primary.
Status: in_force

(b) Any such person offering to vote and being challenged as to his identity or residence shall, before he votes, prove by the testimony, under oath, of at least one other elector qualified to vote in such primary or by such other evidence acceptable to the moderator either of the following which are applicable: (1) His identity with the person on whose name he offers to vote or (2) his bona fide residence in the municipality or political subdivision holding the primary, as the case may be. The rules of each party in each municipality shall prescribe whether members of the town committee shall be elected from the municipality at large, in which case any person on the last-completed enrollment list of such party in such municipality shall be eligible to vote in a primary for the election of such committee members, or whether such committee members shall be elected from political subdivisions of such municipality, in which case only persons on the last-completed list of such party in such a political subdivision shall be eligible to vote in a primary for the election of such committee members from such political subdivision; provided no town committee in any municipality shall be elected both at large and from political subdivisions.

(c) Any citizen who has not yet attained the age of eighteen years but who will have attained the age of eighteen years on or before the day of a regular election, and who: (1) Is otherwise qualified to be an elector, and (2) has applied for admission as an elector, may vote at a primary of a party held for such regular election pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-606a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 155 / Section 9-606a
Sec. 9-606a. Terms “treasurer” and “deputy treasurer” substituted for “campaign treasurer” and “deputy campaign treasurer”.
Status: in_force

(b) The Legislative Commissioners' Office shall, in codifying the provisions of this section, make such technical, grammatical and punctuation changes as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-405 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-405
Sec. 9-405. Time for filing primary petition candidacies for municipal offices and town committee members.
Status: in_force

(2) Candidacies of persons, other than party-endorsed candidates, for nomination by a political party to a municipal office to be voted upon at a state election shall be filed with the registrars, as provided in section 9-406 , not later than four o'clock p.m. on the sixty-third day preceding the day of the primary for such office. Said day and hour shall be specified on the petition forms.

(b) On the last day for filing primary petition candidacies, in accordance with the provisions of this section, the office or office facilities of the registrars of voters shall open not later than one o'clock p.m., and remain open until at least four o'clock p.m., and such registrars or their deputy or assistant registrars shall be present.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-158a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 145 / Section 9-158a
Sec. 9-158a. Presidential and federal elections; overseas balloting. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) “Federal election” means any general or special election or any primary held solely or in part for the purpose of selecting, nominating or electing any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, member of the United States Senate or member of the United States House of Representatives;

(2) “Former resident” means a person who was a bona fide resident of a town in this state and who has moved from that town to another state less than thirty days before the day of a presidential election and who for that reason is unable to register to vote in the election in such person's present town or state of residence;

(3) “Overseas elector” means any person permitted to vote pursuant to subsection (b) of section 9-158b ;

(4) “Presidential election” means an election at which electors of President and Vice-President are elected;

(5) “Resident” means a bona fide resident of a town in this state;

(6) “State” includes any of the several states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands; and

(7) “United States” includes the several states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands, but does not include American Samoa, The Canal Zone, the trust territory of the Pacific Islands or any other territory or possession of the United States.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-135 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 145 / Section 9-135
Sec. 9-135. Absentee voting eligibility. Misrepresentation prohibited.
Status: in_force

(b) No person shall misrepresent the eligibility requirements for voting by absentee ballot prescribed in subsection (a) of this section, to any elector or prospective absentee ballot applicant.

See Sec. 9-14a re electors in custody of state.

Cited. 186 C. 125.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-222 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-222
Sec. 9-222. Filling of vacancy in office of first selectman or selectman. Petition for special election.
Status: in_force

In case where charter provision controls and under that provision the vacancy is timely filled, a special election is not triggered under section. 328 C. 758.

Cited. 41 CS 267.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-240 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 147 / Section 9-240
Sec. 9-240. Provision of voting tabulators and booths.
Status: in_force

Irregularities in arranging polling place held not to invalidate election. 75 C. 53.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-412 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-412
Sec. 9-412. Registrar's receipt and verification of petitions for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or election as town committee members. Filing with clerk.
Status: in_force

Section does not mandate registrar must invalidate a petition sheet circulated with a candidate's incorrect address. 329 C. 293.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-368i — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 151a / Section 9-368i
Sec. 9-368i. Definitions. Construction of certain words and phrases.
Status: in_force

(1) “Alternative method of election” means a method of electing candidates to the legislative body of a municipality other than an at-large method of election or a district-based method of election, and includes, but is not limited to, proportional ranked-choice voting, cumulative voting and limited voting;

(2) (A) “At-large method of election” means a method of electing candidates to the legislative body of a municipality in which such candidates are voted upon by all electors of such municipality;

(B) “At-large method of election” does not include any alternative method of election;

(3) “District-based method of election” means a method of electing candidates to the legislative body of a municipality in which, for municipalities divided into districts, a candidate for any such district is required to reside in such district and candidates representing or seeking to represent such district are voted upon by only the electors of such district;

(4) “Federal Voting Rights Act” means the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, 52 USC 10301 et seq., as amended from time to time;

(5) “Government enforcement action” means any denial of administrative or judicial preclearance by the state or federal government, pending litigation filed by a state or federal entity, final judgment or adjudication, consent decree or other similar formal action;

(6) “Legislative body” means the board of aldermen, council, board of burgesses, representative town meeting, board of education, district committee, association committee or other similar body, as applicable, of a municipality;

(7) “Municipality” or “municipal” means any town, city or borough, whether consolidated or unconsolidated, any local or regional school district, any district, as defined in section 7-324 or any other district authorized under the general statutes;

(8) “Organization” means a person other than an individual;

(9) “Protected class” means a class of citizens who are members of a race, color or language minority group, as referenced in the federal Voting Rights Act;

(10) “Divergent voting patterns” means voting in which the candidate or electoral choice preferred by protected class members diverges from the candidate or electoral choice preferred by electors who are not protected class members; and

(11) “Vote” or “voting” includes any action necessary to cast a ballot and make such ballot effective in any election or primary, including, but not limited to, admission as an elector, application for an absentee ballot and any other action required by law as a prerequisite to casting a ballot and having such ballot counted, canvassed or certified properly and included in the appropriate totals of votes cast with respect to candidates for election or nomination and to referendum questions.

(b) In the construction of this section and sections 9-368j to 9-368q , inclusive, words and phrases that are not defined in subsection (a) of this section, but that are used in the federal Voting Rights Act and interpreted in relevant case law, including, but not limited to, “political process” and “prerequisite to voting”, shall be construed in a manner consistent with such usage and interpretation.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-719 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 157 / Section 9-719
Sec. 9-719. Grant amounts and expenditures: Analysis; report.
Status: in_force

(1) The amount of grants made during the election cycle from the Citizens' Election Fund established under section 9-701 ;

(2) The amount of expenditures reported by each candidate participating in the Citizens' Election Program established under section 9-702 and by each candidate not participating in the program during the election cycle;

(3) The amount of money returned to the Citizens' Election Fund during the election cycle by each candidate;

(4) The overall and average amounts of spending for each election contest for each office during the election cycle; and

(5) The amount of independent expenditures for each election contest for each office during the election cycle.

(b) Not later than January 1, 2012, and biennially thereafter, the State Elections Enforcement Commission shall report its analysis conducted under subsection (a) of this section and any recommendations for adjustments to grant amounts under the Citizens' Election Program to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to elections in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-188 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-188
Sec. 9-188. First selectman and selectmen. Election procedure. Dual candidacy prohibited. Minority representation; restricted voting. Tie vote.
Status: in_force

Annotations to former statutes:

Whether under Art. 10, Sec. 2, of the constitution, the election of one selectman, only, is lawful. 32 C. 108. The plurality is of the ballots as actually cast, not as originally printed. 60 C. 352. Office of first selectman was created by Rev. St., 1875, Ch. 3, Sec. 2. 46 C. 549; 42 C. 463. History of section and of office of first selectman. 75 C. 460. Application to previous form of ballot. 91 C. 365; 102 C. 589; 104 C. 398; 105 C. 259. Cited. 130 C. 714. Election officials justified in refusing to permit plaintiff to vote for two candidates for first selectman. 135 C. 147. The clearly expressed intent of the legislature was that the principal of minority representation should control the results of special elections as well as those of regular elections. 143 C. 679.

Annotation to present section:

Statute clearly states that unsuccessful candidate for office of first selectman may vie for place on the board; successful candidate for first selectman does not determine political affiliation of majority of board. 21 CS 482.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-4 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 141 / Section 9-4
Sec. 9-4. Duties of secretary.
Status: in_force

The Secretary of the State as Commissioner of Elections is charged with advising local election officials. 31 CS 447.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-415 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-415
Sec. 9-415. When primary required.
Status: in_force

(b) If a candidacy for nomination by a political party to a district office is filed by or on behalf of any person other than a party-endorsed candidate within the time specified in subsection (b) of section 9-400 and in conformity with the provisions of section 9-400 , a primary shall be held in each municipality of the district and each part of a municipality which is a component part of the district, to determine the nominee of such party for such office, except as provided in section 9-416a .

(c) If a candidacy for nomination by a political party to a municipal office is filed by or on behalf of any person other than a party-endorsed candidate within the applicable time specified in section 9-405 and in conformity with the provisions of sections 9-405 , 9-406 , 9-406a , 9-409 , 9-410 , 9-412 and 9-414 , a primary shall be held in the municipality or political subdivision thereof in which the nomination for municipal office is to be made, to determine the nominee of such party for such office, except as provided in section 9-418 .

(d) If candidacies numbering at least twenty-five per cent of the number of town committee members to be elected by a party either in the municipality or in the political subdivision, as the case may be, are filed by or on behalf of persons other than party-endorsed candidates within the time specified in subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 9-405 and in conformity with the provisions of sections 9-405 , 9-406 , 9-406a , 9-409 to 9-412 , inclusive, and 9-414 , a primary shall be held in the municipality or political subdivision thereof in which members of a town committee are to be elected, to elect the members of the town committee, except as provided in sections 9-419 and 9-421 .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-16 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 143 / Section 9-16
Sec. 9-16. Notice of sessions of registrars of voters.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 9-25 re admission of armed forces members as electors.

See Sec. 9-31a re special admission procedure for permanently physically disabled persons.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-163cc — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 145a / Section 9-163cc
Sec. 9-163cc. Early voting state-wide public awareness campaign. Early voting procedure manual for distribution to municipal election officials.
Status: in_force

(b) The Secretary of the State shall develop an early voting procedure manual, which shall include, but need not be limited to, a model plan for the designation and staffing of locations for the conduct of early voting, and shall revise such procedure manual as necessary in accordance with changes in the law relating to the conduct of early voting. The Secretary shall distribute such procedure manual, and any revision to such procedure manual, to each registrar of voters and municipal clerk and shall publish such procedure manual, and any such revision, on the Internet web site of the office of the Secretary of the State.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-369a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 152 / Section 9-369a
Sec. 9-369a. Submission of local questions at election.
Status: in_force

(a) The electors of the municipality entitled to vote by absentee ballot at the election under the provisions of section 9-135 shall be entitled to vote upon any such question.

(b) When the clerk of the municipality determines that the necessary action has been taken for submission of the question, he shall, at least forty-five days prior to the election, file in the office of the Secretary of the State a statement setting forth the designation of the question as it is to appear on the ballot at the election, the date upon which the submitting action was taken and the reference to the law under which the action was taken. Such designation shall be in the form of a question, as provided in section 9-369 . Whenever it is specifically provided in the general statutes that any such question may be approved for such submission within the period of forty-five days prior to such an election, and action is taken to submit a question within such period, the clerk of the municipality shall file the statement required by this subsection with the Secretary of the State immediately upon the taking of such action.

(c) When action is taken for submission of a question, from the time of such action through the day of the election, the clerk of the municipality shall make the full text of the question and the designation which is to appear upon the ballot available for public inspection. If the designation is not prescribed by law, the clerk shall phrase the designation of the question in a form suitable for printing on the ballot. The warning of the election shall include a statement that the question is to be voted upon, the designation of the question to appear on the ballot, and a statement that the full text of the question is available for public inspection in the clerk's office.

(d) The moderator or head moderator of the election shall file the results of the vote on each such question and the returns of the election with the Secretary of the State in the manner prescribed under the provisions of section 9-314 or other applicable law.

Cited. 36 CS 74.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-15a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 143 / Section 9-15a
Sec. 9-15a. Membership and quorum of board for admission of electors.
Status: in_force

(b) Any member of the board for the admission of electors in any town who finds that he is unable to attend a meeting of the board shall designate another elected officer of such town to act for him by filing a statement of such designation in writing in the office of the town clerk at any time prior to the opening of the meeting, provided, if an assistant town clerk is available, he shall serve in the absence or inability of the town clerk and, if the deputy registrar of voters is available, he shall serve in the absence or inability of his registrar.

(c) A quorum of the board for the admission of electors shall consist of a bare majority of the members of such board. An assistant town clerk or a deputy registrar or any other town officer designated by, and acting for, a member of such board pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall be included as a member of such board for purposes of ascertaining the existence of a quorum.

(d) This section shall supersede any inconsistent provision of any charter or special act.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-614 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 155 / Section 9-614
Sec. 9-614. (Formerly Sec. 9-333p). Organizations.
Status: in_force

(b) Change in method of funding. A political committee established by an organization may elect to alter the manner in which it is funded if it complies with the requirements of this subsection. The committee chairperson shall notify the repository with which the committee's most recent statement of organization is filed, in writing, of the committee's intent to alter its manner of funding. Within fifteen days after the date of receipt of such notification, the treasurer of such political committee shall return any funds remaining in the account of the committee to the organization's treasury after payment of each outstanding liability. Within seven days after the distribution and payments have been made, the treasurer shall file a statement with the same repository itemizing each such distribution and payment. Upon such filing, the treasurer may receive voluntary contributions from any member of the organization which established such committee subject to the limitations imposed in subsection (b) of section 9-612 .

(c) Designation of funding method. The chairperson of each political committee established by an organization on or after July 1, 1985, shall designate the manner in which the committee shall be funded in the committee's statement of organization.

(d) Independent expenditures. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, an organization, acting alone, may make independent expenditures.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-174 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-174
Sec. 9-174. Hours of voting on day of election and during period of early voting. Voting by electors and same-day election registration applicants in line at hour prescribed for closing of voting location.
Status: in_force

(b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any special act or municipal charter, at any regular election, each location designated for same-day election registration pursuant to subsection (c) of section 9-19j shall, on election day, as defined in said section, remain open for registration and voting from six o'clock a.m. until eight o'clock p.m. No applicant for same-day election registration shall be admitted as an elector or permitted to cast such applicant's vote after the hour prescribed for the closing of the location designated for such purposes on election day unless such applicant is in line at eight o'clock p.m. An election official or a police officer of the municipality, who is appointed by the registrars of voters, shall be placed at the end of the line at eight o'clock p.m. Such official or officer shall not allow any applicants who were not in such line at eight o'clock p.m. to enter such line.

(c) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any special act or municipal charter, at any regular election and any primary, other than a presidential preference primary, held on or after April 1, 2024, each location designated for the conduct of early voting pursuant to subsection (b) of section 9-163aa or for same-day election registration pursuant to subsection (c) of section 9-19j shall, during the early voting period, remain open from ten o'clock a.m. to six o'clock p.m., except that such location shall remain open from eight o'clock a.m. to eight o'clock p.m. on the last Tuesday and Thursday prior to the election or primary.

(2) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes or any special act or municipal charter, at any special election and any presidential preference primary held on or after April 1, 2024, each location designated for the conduct of early voting pursuant to subsection (b) of section 9-163aa shall, during the early voting period, remain open from ten o'clock a.m. to six o'clock p.m.

(3) No voter shall be permitted to cast such voter's vote after the hour prescribed for the closing of the location designated for early voting at any election or primary under subdivision (1) or subdivision (2) of this subsection unless such voter is in line at such prescribed hour. An election or primary official or a police officer of the municipality, who is appointed by the registrars of voters, shall be placed at the end of the line at such prescribed hour. Such official or officer shall not allow any voters who were not in such line at such prescribed hour to enter such line.

Before election, requirement is mandatory if direct proceedings for its enforcement are brought, but after election, it is directory if no substantial harm shown. 20 CS 464.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-186 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-186
Sec. 9-186. Electoral status of municipal officers and justices of the peace.
Status: in_force

Cited. 162 C. 256.

Cited. 40 CA 643.

Court may not, in quo warranto proceeding, determine whether or not the defendant is an elector; selectmen and town clerk have exclusive jurisdiction to make such determination. 19 CS 487. The fact that for one to qualify for election to a town office he must be an elector, is an establishment of a minimum age qualification for municipal elective officials, including mayors, by the state. 31 CS 447.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-355 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 151 / Section 9-355
Sec. 9-355. Official neglect or fraud.
Status: in_force

Registrars failing to make lists are subject hereto. 64 C. 160. Implied that certificate is lawful authority for holding person, though no express provision in section. 140 C. 496.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-708 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 157 / Section 9-708
Sec. 9-708. Payment of primary or general election campaign grant to eligible qualified candidate committee.
Status: in_force

(2) A qualified candidate committee of a major party candidate for the office of Governor that received moneys from the Citizens' Election Fund for a convention campaign and whose candidate is the party-endorsed candidate for such office and is deemed, pursuant to section 9-416 , to have been lawfully chosen as the nominee of such party for such office shall receive a grant from the fund for a general election campaign. Upon receiving verification from the Secretary of the State of a no-contest nomination for such office in accordance with the provisions of said section, the State Elections Enforcement Commission shall notify the State Comptroller of the amount payable to such qualified candidate committee pursuant to section 9-705 . Not later than two business days following notification by the commission, the State Comptroller shall draw an order on the State Treasurer for payment of the general election campaign grant to such committee from said fund.

(b) A qualified candidate committee that received moneys from the Citizens' Election Fund for a primary campaign and whose candidate is the party nominee shall receive a grant from the fund for a general election campaign. Upon receiving verification from the Secretary of the State of the declaration by the Secretary of the State in accordance with the provisions of section 9-440 of the results of the votes cast at the primary, the State Elections Enforcement Commission shall notify the State Comptroller of the amount payable to such qualified candidate committee pursuant to section 9-705 . Not later than two business days following notification by the commission, the State Comptroller shall draw an order on the State Treasurer for payment of the general election campaign grant to such committee from said fund.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-169e — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-169e
Sec. 9-169e. Voting districts in special elections held to fill vacancy in district or municipal office.
Status: in_force

See part III (Secs. 9-211 to 9-224, inclusive) re procedure for filling vacancies in specific offices.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-700 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 157 / Section 9-700
Sec. 9-700. Definitions.
Status: in_force

(1) “Commission” means the State Elections Enforcement Commission.

(2) “Convention campaign” means, in the case of a major party candidate for Governor, the period beginning the day such candidate files the affidavit under section 9-703 certifying such candidate's intent to abide by the expenditure limits under the Citizens' Election Program and ending at the close of the state convention held pursuant to section 9-382 by such major party for the purpose of endorsing a candidate for nomination to the office of Governor.

(3) “Depository account” means the single checking account at the depository institution designated as the depository for the candidate committee's moneys in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of section 9-604 .

(4) “District office” has the same meaning as provided in section 9-372 .

(5) “Eligible minor party candidate” means a candidate for election to an office who is nominated by a minor party pursuant to subpart B of part III of chapter 153.

(6) “Eligible petitioning party candidate” means a candidate for election to an office pursuant to subpart C of part III of chapter 153 whose nominating petition has been approved by the Secretary of the State pursuant to section 9-453o .

(7) “Fund” means the Citizens' Election Fund established in section 9-701 .

(8) “General election campaign” means (A) in the case of a candidate nominated at a primary, the period beginning on the day following the primary and ending on the date the treasurer files the final statement for such campaign pursuant to section 9-608 , or (B) in the case of a candidate nominated without a primary, the period beginning on the day following the day on which the candidate is nominated and ending on the date the treasurer files the final statement for such campaign pursuant to section 9-608 .

(9) “Major party” has the same meaning as provided in section 9-372 .

(10) “Minor party” has the same meaning as provided in section 9-372 .

(11) “Municipal office” has the same meaning as provided in section 9-372 .

(12) “Primary campaign” means the period beginning on the day following the close of (A) a convention held pursuant to section 9-382 for the purpose of endorsing a candidate for nomination to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, State Treasurer or Secretary of the State or the district office of state senator or state representative, or (B) a caucus, convention or town committee meeting held pursuant to section 9-390 for the purpose of endorsing a candidate for the municipal office of state senator or state representative, whichever is applicable, and ending on the day of a primary held for the purpose of nominating a candidate for such office.

(13) “Qualified candidate committee” means a candidate committee (A) established to aid or promote the success of any candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, State Treasurer, Secretary of the State, state senator or state representative, and (B) approved by the commission to receive a grant from the Citizens' Election Fund under section 9-706 .

See Secs. 9-601 to 9-601c, inclusive, for other definitions applicable to chapter.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-675 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 156 / Section 9-675
Sec. 9-675. (Formerly Sec. 9-348ee). Electronic submission of campaign finance disclosure statements required. Waiver for good cause.
Status: in_force

(b) On and after July 1, 2017, the following shall file all financial disclosure statements required by chapters 155 to 157, inclusive, by electronic submission pursuant to subsection (a) of this section: (1) The treasurer of the candidate committee or exploratory committee for each candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, State Treasurer, Secretary of the State, state senator, state representative or judge of probate that raises or spends one thousand dollars or more, (2) the treasurer of any state central committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, (3) the treasurer of any other political committee or town committee required to be registered with the commission that (A) raises or spends one thousand dollars or more during the current calendar year, or (B) raised or spent one thousand dollars or more in the preceding regular election cycle, and (4) the treasurer of any committee, or any other person, who makes or obligates to make any independent expenditure and who is required to file a financial disclosure statement of any such independent expenditure with the State Elections Enforcement Commission in accordance with the provisions of section 9-601d . Once any such candidate committee or exploratory committee has raised or spent one thousand dollars or more during an election campaign, all previously filed statements required by chapters 155 to 157, inclusive, which were not filed by electronic submission shall be refiled in such manner not later than the date on which the treasurer of such committee is required to file its next financial disclosure statement.

(c) (1) The treasurer of the candidate committee for any other candidate, as defined in section 9-601 , that neither raises nor spends one thousand dollars or more who is required to file the financial disclosure statements required by chapters 155 to 157, inclusive, with the commission, and (2) the treasurer of any other political committee or town committee that neither raises nor spends one thousand dollars or more who is required to file the financial disclosure statements required by chapters 155 to 157, inclusive, with the State Elections Enforcement Commission may file any such financial disclosure statements by electronic submission pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, upon the written request of a treasurer or any other person described in subdivisions (1) to (4), inclusive, of subsection (b) of this section, the commission may waive the requirement to file by electronic submission pursuant to subsection (a) of this section if such treasurer or other person demonstrates good cause.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-221 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-221
Sec. 9-221. Municipal office vacancy election provisions inapplicable in certain circumstances.
Status: in_force

(b) 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 provisions shall not apply to any such vacancy which occurs after the deadline for the nomination of candidates specified in section 9-452 and any such vacancy thereafter occurring may be filled until such election, by the official or officials authorized to fill such vacancy, by the appointment of a qualified person to serve until such election and shall forthwith be filled after such election by the official or officials so authorized who are serving after such election by the appointment of a qualified person, provided the period of thirty days set forth in section 7-107 shall not begin with respect to such vacancy until the day after the day of such election and provided, if any portion of the term in which such vacancy occurred remains unexpired after the second municipal election to be held in such municipality after the time of its occurrence, it shall be filled at such second municipal election, except as herein provided.

(c) 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, and such a vacancy occurs after the day before the time specified in section 9-391 for the parties to endorse candidates to run in a primary for nomination to an office and prior to the deadline for the nomination of candidates specified in section 9-452 , nomination of a candidate for such vacancy may be made only by a major or minor party, as defined in section 9-372 , entitled to a place on the ballot with respect to such office under section 9-379 and shall be made by the appointment of a nominee by the town committee of any such party in such municipality, which nomination shall be certified to the clerk of such municipality by the chairman and secretary of such town committee not later than four o'clock p.m. of the fifth day following the deadline for the nomination of candidates specified in section 9-452 , except that when such date is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, such certification shall be made not later than four o'clock p.m. of the next succeeding business day. The municipal clerk shall include the name of any such nominee in the list of candidates of each party for the municipal offices to be filled at such election in accordance with section 9-461 . Upon the occurrence of any such vacancy, such municipal clerk shall forthwith notify in writing the chairman or secretary of the town committee of any such party in such municipality of its occurrence.

Cited. 41 CS 267.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-21a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 143 / Section 9-21a
Sec. 9-21a. Search of computerized voter registration records. Duplicate registrations.
Status: in_force

(b) Upon receipt of such list from the Secretary, the registrars may make such additional investigation as they deem necessary to determine if any elector in their town whose name appears on such list was previously registered in another town. The registrars of voters shall send to each elector on the registry list in their town, who the registrars of voters determine to be the same person who was previously registered in another town, a notice of duplicate registration in a form prescribed by the Secretary of the State stating that (1) based on a computer search of voter registration records it appears that the elector may have been registered to vote in another town before registering in the registrars' town, (2) as the result of such previous registration, the elector is no longer entitled to remain on the registry list in the previous town, and (3) unless the elector contacts the registrars of voters within thirty days to confirm that the elector is still entitled to be on the registry list in the previous town, the elector's name shall be removed from the list. The notice of duplicate registration shall include a form on which the elector may confirm that the elector is entitled to be on an active registry list because the elector is a bona fide resident of the registrars' town and either is not the person whose name appears on the registry list of another town, or has registered in the registrars' town after registering in any other town.

(c) When an elector whose name appears on the inactive list files the confirmation provided for in this section, the elector's name shall be restored to the active list. No elector shall be removed from the registry list pursuant to this section unless both registrars of voters agree that such elector has subsequently registered to vote in another town.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-10a — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 142 / Section 9-10a
Sec. 9-10a. State senators. Senatorial districts.
Status: in_force

(Districts omitted.*)

*Note: See Article XXVI., and Article XXX., Sec. 2, of the Amendments to the Constitution of the State of Connecticut re reapportionment.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-703 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 157 / Section 9-703
Sec. 9-703. Affidavit certifying candidate's intent to abide or not abide by expenditure limits.
Status: in_force

(b) A candidate who so certifies the candidate's intent to abide by the expenditure limits under the Citizens' Election Program set forth in subsection (c) of section 9-702 shall be referred to in sections 9-700 to 9-716 , inclusive, as a “participating candidate” and a candidate who so certifies the candidate's intent to not abide by said limits shall be referred to in sections 9-700 to 9-716 , inclusive, as a “nonparticipating candidate”. The commission shall prepare a list of the participating candidates and a list of the nonparticipating candidates and shall make such lists available for public inspection.

(c) A participating candidate may withdraw from participation in the Citizens' Election Program before applying for an initial grant under section 9-706 , by filing an affidavit with the State Elections Enforcement Commission, which includes a written certification of such withdrawal. A candidate who files such an affidavit shall be deemed to be a nonparticipating candidate for the purposes of sections 9-700 to 9-716 , inclusive, and shall not be penalized for such withdrawal. No participating candidate shall withdraw from participation in the Citizens' Election Program after applying for an initial grant under section 9-706 .
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-352 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 151 / Section 9-352
Sec. 9-352. Tampering with tabulator by election official.
Status: in_force

See Sec. 9-367 re penalty for tampering with voting tabulator applicable to persons who are not election officials.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-232 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-232
Sec. 9-232. Challenges to the right of any person offering to vote. Challenges to not be indiscriminate and to be under oath.
Status: in_force

(b) Challenges shall not be made indiscriminately and may only be made if the challenger knows, suspects or reasonably believes such a person not to be qualified and entitled to vote. Any challenge by an elector and the statement of the person challenged shall be under oath, administered by the moderator.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-320 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 148 / Section 9-320
Sec. 9-320. Returns of municipal elections by clerks. Elected town clerk who is registrar of vital statistics ex officio.
Status: in_force

(b) The Secretary of the State shall keep a record of the names of the registrars of vital statistics and town clerks so returned. The secretary may certify that the persons named in such record are the registrars of vital statistics or the town clerks, as the case may be, of their respective towns for the period for which they were respectively elected.

When town clerk's duty under former section mandatory. 18 CS 73.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-387 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-387
Sec. 9-387. Dispute as to endorsement of a candidate or selection of a delegate.
Status: in_force

Cited. 232 C. 65. Remedy for party's intraparty dispute regarding the filing of slates of candidates lies within its own bylaws and any dispute resolution mechanism provided therein as required by section, coupled with judicial enforcement of the party's internal resolution of that dispute. 348 C. 364.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-453u — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 153 / Section 9-453u
Sec. 9-453u. (Formerly Sec. 9-378m). Reservation of party designation.
Status: reserved

(b) The statement shall include the offices for which candidates may petition for nomination under the party designation to be reserved but shall not include an office if no elector who has signed the application is entitled to vote at an election for such office.

(c) The statement shall include the party designation to be reserved which (1) shall consist of not more than three words and not more than twenty-five letters; (2) shall not incorporate the name of any major party; (3) shall not incorporate the name of any minor party which is entitled to nominate candidates for any office which will appear on the same ballot with any office included in the statement; (4) shall not be the same as any party designation for which a reservation with the secretary is currently in effect for any office included in the statement; and (5) shall not be the word “none”, or incorporate the words “unaffiliated” or “unenrolled” or any similarly antonymous form of the words “affiliated” or “enrolled”.

(d) The statement shall include the names of two persons who are authorized by the party designation committee to execute and file with the secretary statements of endorsement required by section 9-453o and certificates of nomination as required by section 9-460 .

(e) The secretary shall examine the statement, and if it complies with the requirements of this section, the secretary shall reserve the party designation for the offices included in the statement and record such reservation in the office of the secretary. The reservation shall continue in effect from the date it is recorded until the day following any regular election at which no candidate appears on the appropriate ballot for that office under that party designation.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-318 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 148 / Section 9-318
Sec. 9-318. Canvass of votes for state officers.
Status: in_force

Compared with Secs. 9-310 and 9-311. 16 CS 37.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-717 — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 157 / Section 9-717
Sec. 9-717. Severability.
Status: repealed

(b) Any candidate who has received any funds pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and sections 1-100b , 9-750 , 9-751 and 9-760 and section 49 of public act 05-5 of the October 25 special session** prior to any prohibition or limitation on the expenditure of funds from the Citizens' Election Fund taking effect may retain and expend such funds in accordance with this chapter and said sections.

*Note: Public act 05-5 of the October 25 special session is entitled “An Act Concerning Comprehensive Campaign Finance Reform for State-Wide Constitutional and General Assembly Offices”. (See Reference Table captioned “Public Acts of October 25, 2005” in Volume 16 which lists the sections amended, created or repealed by the act.)

**Note: Section 49 of public act 05-5 of the October 25 special session is special in nature and therefore has not been codified but remains in full force and effect according to its terms.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-174b — Connecticut Code / Title 9 / Chapter 146 / Section 9-174b
Sec. 9-174b. Notification re extension of hours of polling place.
Status: in_force

(b) If the registrars of voters of a town are aware of any proceeding in court or order of a court concerning the extension of the hours of any polling place in such town beyond those hours provided in section 9-174 or 9-438 , the registrars shall immediately notify any individual identified in subsection (a) of this section for each candidate on any ballot to be voted upon at such polling place of the proceeding or order. If a registrar fails to reach such individual on a first attempt, the registrar shall leave a message for such individual pursuant to instructions provided by such individual under subsection (a) of this section. Any registrar who notifies an individual of a proceeding shall not be required to notify such individual of the outcome of such proceeding.