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CT Gen Stat § 9-261b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 147 - Voting Methods|Section 9-261b - Privacy sleeve.

 The registrars of voters shall either ensure that each ballot clerk offer every elector a privacy sleeve into which the ballot can be inserted and fully shielded from view or, in the alternative, place such privacy sleeve in every voting booth for the elector's use. No elector shall be required to accept a privacy sleeve.(P.A. 11-173, S. 26.)History: P.A. 11-173 effective July 13, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 9-261c (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 147 - Voting Methods|Section 9-261c - Electronic devices used to check names of electors.

 The Secretary of the State shall review, in consultation and coordination with The University of Connecticut, electronic devices that could assist official checkers in checking the names of electors pursuant to section 9-234 or any regulation adopted pursuant to this chapter. Not later than September 1, 2015, the Secretary shall include on a list any such device that the Secretary approves and shall make such list available to municipalities in a manner determined by the Secretary. The Secretary may add or remove a device from such list, as the Secretary determines such addition or removal is necessary.(P.A. 14-217, S. 26.)History: P.A. 14-217 effective June 13, 2014.
CT Gen Stat § 9-262 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 147 - Voting Methods|Section 9-262 - Duties of election officials during voting hours.

 During the entire period of an election, at least one of the election officials shall be stationed approximately three to four feet from the voting tabulator to regulate the submission of the elector's ballot. The election officials shall also, at such intervals as such officials deem proper or necessary, examine the voting booth to ascertain whether it has been defaced or damaged and to detect the wrongdoer and repair the damage. After the opening of the polls, no election official shall allow any person other than the election officials to pass within the area where the voting booths and voting tabulator are situated, except for the purpose of voting or except as provided in this part. No election official shall remain or permit any person to remain in any position or near any position that would permit him to see or ascertain how an elector votes.(1949 Rev., S. 1206; 1953, S. 738d; P.A. 07-194, S. 25.)History: P.A. 07-194 replaced provisions re voting machine with provisions re voting tabulator and made conforming and technical changes.Cited. 135 C. 150.
CT Gen Stat § 9-263 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 147 - Voting Methods|Section 9-263 - Use of paper ballots when voting machine damaged.

 Section 9-263 is repealed, effective October 1, 2007.(1949 Rev., S. 1206; 1953, S. 739d; 1957, P.A. 561, S. 18; 1959, P.A. 487, S. 5; P.A. 80-339, S. 2; P.A. 95-185, S. 2; P.A. 00-79, S. 2; P.A. 04-113, S. 7; P.A. 07-194, S. 47.)
CT Gen Stat § 9-266 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 147 - Voting Methods|Section 9-266 - Keys to be kept. Storage of voting tabulator.

 When the voting tabulator has been locked at the close of an election, the moderator shall return the keys for the tabulator to the registrars of voters with the official returns. Except as provided in section 9-309 or 9-311, such registrars of voters shall securely keep such keys and not permit the same to be taken, or any tabulator to be unlocked, for a period of fourteen days from the election, unless otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by the State Elections Enforcement Commission. All tabulators shall be collected immediately on the day after election or as soon thereafter as possible, and shall be secured and stored in a place or places directed by the registrars of voters.(1949 Rev., S. 1203, 1215; 1953, S. 742d; 1957, P.A. 526, S. 6; 561, S. 20; P.A. 86-1, S. 2, 5; P.A. 95-88, S. 1; P.A. 07-194, S. 27; P.A. 15-224, S. 24.)History: P.A. 86-1 added reference to order issued by state elections enforcement commission; P.A. 95-88 changed number of days machine remains locked from 10 to 14; P.A. 07-194 changed “voting machine” to “voting tabulator” and made conforming and technical changes; P.A. 15-224 added reference to Sec. 9-309 re exception to security measures taken by registrars of voters for keys and tabulators, effective July 7, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 9-267 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 147 - Voting Methods|Section 9-267 - Removal of officials.

 If, at any time during the performance of his or her duties, any moderator, assistant registrar of voters, official checker, ballot clerk or voting tabulator tender is, from any cause, found incompetent, the registrars of voters may remove him or her and appoint another competent person.(1949 Rev., S. 1082; 1953, S. 743d; 1971, P.A. 285; P.A. 11-20, S. 1; 11-173, S. 47.)History: 1971 act added moderator and challenger to those who may be removed for incompetence; P.A. 11-173 replaced “challenger, voting machine tender or checker” with “assistant registrar of voters, official checker, ballot clerk or voting tabulator tender” and made technical changes, effective July 13, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 9-268 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 147 - Voting Methods|Section 9-268 - Duties of selectmen imposed on other officials.

 Whenever the duties imposed by this part upon selectmen are imposed by the charter of any municipality upon any other officer or officers, the term “selectmen”, as used herein, shall be construed to apply to such other officer or officers, who shall be vested with all the powers and duties and shall be subject to all the obligations imposed by this chapter upon such selectmen. In any municipality where by charter the duties of selectmen are limited to the admission of electors and are not imposed by charter upon any other officer or officers, the term “selectmen”, as used herein, shall apply to the registrars of voters of such municipality, who shall be vested with all the powers and duties and shall be subject to all the obligations imposed by this part upon such selectmen.(1949 Rev., S. 1223; 1953, S. 744d.)
CT Gen Stat § 9-269 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 147 - Voting Methods|Section 9-269 - Borough election officials.

 In the case of a borough election, the duties and privileges of the various town and city officials specified in this part shall be exercised by the corresponding borough officials.(1949 Rev., S. 1192; 1953, S. 745d.)
CT Gen Stat § 9-272 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 147 - Voting Methods|Section 9-272 - Conditions under which use of voting tabulators may be discontinued.

 If, owing to the number of candidates to be voted upon, owing to inability to obtain a sufficient number of voting tabulators or, if it is found impracticable to use voting tabulators at any election, primary or referenda to be held in any municipality, or in one or more of the voting districts therein, the registrars of voters may discontinue the use of such tabulators for such election in any of the voting districts therein, and shall thereupon cause ballots to be procured and used at such election, primary or referenda in each of the voting districts wherein the use of voting tabulators has been so discontinued. The procedures for securing and counting the paper ballots described in this section shall be in compliance as nearly as possible, in the manner prescribed by the Secretary of the State, with the procedures for securing and counting absentee ballots.(1949 Rev., S. 1196; 1951, S. 260b; 1953, S. 748d; 1963, P.A. 210; P.A. 07-194, S. 40; P.A. 11-20, S. 38; 11-173, S. 20.)History: 1963 act authorized municipal clerk and registrars rather than board of selectmen, common council or, warden and burgesses to discontinue use of machines; P.A. 07-194 replaced “voting machines” with “voting tabulators” and made technical changes; P.A. 11-20 deleted “as provided by this part”, effective May 24, 2011; P.A. 11-173 added references to primary or referenda and language re procedures for paper ballots complying, in manner prescribed by Secretary of the State, with procedures for absentee ballots, and made technical changes, effective July 13, 2011.
CT Gen Stat § 9-308 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-308 - Canvass of returns.

 Immediately on the close of the polls, the election officials shall proceed to canvass the returns as provided in section 9-309 and shall not stop for any purpose until the canvass is completed, except as provided in said section. The room in which such canvass is made shall be clearly lighted and such canvass shall be made in plain view of the public. No person or persons, during the canvass, shall close or cause to be closed the main entrance to the room in which such canvass is conducted, in such manner as to prevent ingress or egress thereby, but, during such canvass, no person other than the election officials shall be permitted to be in the area where the voting tabulator is located.(1949 Rev., S. 1212; 1953, S. 786d; 1957, P.A. 526, S. 2; P.A. 11-20, S. 1; 11-173, S. 48; P.A. 15-224, S. 22.)History: P.A. 11-173 replaced language re guard rail with “in the area” and replaced “machine” with “tabulator”, effective July 13, 2011; P.A. 15-224 added reference to exception provided in Sec. 9-309 for interruption of canvass, effective July 7, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 9-311b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-311b - Recanvass on tie vote.

 If the electors fail to elect a candidate for any office by reason of an equality of votes at any election, there shall be a recanvass of the returns for such office unless, prior to the time of such recanvass, all but one of the candidates so receiving an equal number of votes dies, withdraws his name or for any reason becomes disqualified to hold such office.(1963, P.A. 185, S. 2.)
CT Gen Stat § 9-312 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-312 - Declaration of result; returns to secretary.

 In each municipality divided into voting districts, unless otherwise provided by law, the head moderator shall be the presiding officer for the purpose of declaring the result of the vote of the whole municipality and of making returns to the Secretary of the State, and the moderators in each of the voting districts shall be assistant presiding officers and shall make returns of their polls as required by law.(1949 Rev., S. 1059; 1953, S. 790d; 1971, P.A. 836, S. 3.)History: 1971 act substituted “head moderator” for “moderator of the first district” and for “moderators of the other district” substituted “moderators in each of the voting districts”.Duty of moderator in election of selectmen. 104 C. 401.
CT Gen Stat § 9-313 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-313 - Forms for returns.

 The Secretary of the State shall transmit to the town clerk of each town, before each state election, blank forms for the returns required by this chapter, and such returns shall be made out, certified and directed according to such forms. The Secretary of the State shall cause to be printed in the several blanks, for the use of moderators and counters, such names of candidates for the several offices to be voted for as are certified to him by the chairmen of the state committees of the several political organizations in the state.(1949 Rev., S. 1083; 1953, S. 791d.)
CT Gen Stat § 9-315 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-315 - Canvass for presidential electors, U.S. senator and members of Congress.

 The votes returned as cast for a senator in Congress, representatives in Congress and presidential electors shall be publicly counted by the Treasurer, Secretary of the State and Comptroller on the last Wednesday of the month in which they were cast, and such votes shall be counted in conformity to any decision rendered by the judges of the Supreme Court as provided in section 9-323. In accordance with the count so made, they shall, on said day, declare what persons are elected senators in the Congress of the United States or representatives in Congress, and the Secretary of the State shall forthwith notify them by mail of their election; and they shall declare the proper number of persons having the greatest number of votes to be presidential electors and, in case of an equal vote for said electors, shall determine by lot from the persons having such equal number of votes the persons appointed, and the Secretary of the State shall forthwith notify them by mail of their appointment.(1949 Rev., S. 1112; 1953, S. 793d; P.A. 85-577, S. 8.)History: P.A. 85-577 required that candidates for U.S. Senate and House of Representatives be notified by mail immediately of their election and abolished requirement that names of persons appointed as presidential electors be published in two Hartford newspapers.Cited. 231 C. 602.Cited. 16 CS 36.
CT Gen Stat § 9-316 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-316 - Canvass in vacancy election of U.S. senator or representative.

 The Treasurer, Secretary of the State and Comptroller shall, within thirty days after a vacancy election for a senator in Congress or representative in Congress, subject to the provisions of section 9-323, publicly count the votes returned, and declare what person is elected, and the Secretary of the State shall forthwith notify him by mail of his election. The Secretary of the State shall enter the returns in tabular form in books kept by him for that purpose and present a copy of the same, with the name of, and the total number of votes received by, each of the candidates for said office, to the Governor within ten days thereafter.(1949 Rev., S. 1111; 1953, S. 794d; P.A. 85-577, S. 9.)History: P.A. 85-577 amended section to require notification to candidates by mail, required secretary of the state to enter returns in tabular form in books and to send a copy of the same, with the name of, and the total number of votes received by, each candidate to the governor within ten days thereafter, where previously original returns and canvass were submitted to governor.
CT Gen Stat § 9-317 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-317 - Certification of election of U.S. senator.

 When any senator in Congress has been elected, the Governor shall certify his election under the seal of the state to the President of the Senate of the United States, which certificate shall be countersigned by the Secretary of the State.(1949 Rev., S. 101; 1953, S. 795d.)
CT Gen Stat § 9-318 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-318 - Canvass of votes for state officers.

 The votes for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General shall be canvassed by the persons authorized to receive and count the same, within thirty days next after they were cast, unless a complaint under the provisions of section 9-324 is pending, in which case such canvass shall not be made until after the third Monday of December next after they were cast. In making such canvass, the votes upon the returns made by presiding officers shall be counted in conformity to the decision of the judge of the Superior Court or of the Supreme Court, as the case may be, and such canvass shall be in conformity to such decision, and a fair list of such votes made to conform to the original returns of the presiding officers, as corrected or affected by the finding or decision of such judge, with the original returns of the presiding officers and certified copies of the decision of such judge, shall, on the first day of the session, be laid before the General Assembly, which shall declare who are elected to said offices respectively.(1949 Rev., S. 1108; 1953, S. 796d.)Compared with Secs. 9-310 and 9-311. 16 CS 37.
CT Gen Stat § 9-319 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-319 - Canvass of votes for state senators and representatives and judges of probate.

 The votes for state senators, state representatives and judges of probate, as returned by the moderators, shall be canvassed, during the month in which they are cast, by the Treasurer, Secretary of the State and Comptroller, and they shall declare, except in case of a tie vote, who is elected senator in each senatorial district, representative in each assembly district and judge of probate in each probate district. The Secretary of the State shall, within three days after such declaration, give notice by mail to each person chosen state senator, state representative or judge of probate of his election.(1949 Rev., S. 1087; 1953, S. 797d; 1967, P.A. 557, S. 6; P.A. 00-99, S. 31, 154.)History: 1967 act provided for application of section to state senators and state representatives; P.A. 00-99 deleted references to sheriff, effective December 1, 2000.Trial court lacked jurisdiction over plaintiff's claims and therefore it similarly lacked jurisdiction to enjoin state defendants from canvassing the votes and declaring a winner of the election, even temporarily. 331 C. 436.Cited. 16 CS 36.
CT Gen Stat § 9-320 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-320 - Returns of municipal elections by clerks. Elected town clerk who is registrar of vital statistics ex officio.

 (a) The clerk of each municipality shall, within ten days after the municipal election, return to the Secretary of the State a statement of the name, post-office address and term of each person elected to office in such election. If an elected town clerk is registrar of vital statistics, ex officio, such return shall so indicate. Each municipal clerk neglecting to make such return shall be fined not more than twenty-five dollars.(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.(1949 Rev., S. 523; 1953, S. 798d; P.A. 88-45, S. 1.)History: P.A. 88-45 designated existing section as Subsec. (a), amended Subsec. (a) to require return to indicate when elected town clerk is registrar of vital statistics, ex officio, and added Subsec. (b) re record and certification of registrars of vital statistics and town clerks.When town clerk's duty under former section mandatory. 18 CS 73.
CT Gen Stat § 9-320g (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-320g - Authorization of electronic equipment by Secretary of the State for conduct of an audit.

 Notwithstanding any provision of this title, the Secretary of the State, in consultation and coordination with The University of Connecticut, may authorize the use of electronic equipment for the purpose of conducting any audit required pursuant to section 9-320f for any primary or general election held on or after January 1, 2016, provided (1) the Secretary of the State prescribes specifications for (A) the testing, set-up and operation of such equipment, and (B) the training of election officials in the use of such equipment; and (2) the Secretary of the State and The University of Connecticut agree that such equipment is sufficient in quantity to accommodate the total number of audits to be conducted. Nothing in this section shall preclude any candidate or elector from seeking additional remedies pursuant to chapter 149 as a result of any information revealed by such process.(P.A. 15-224, S. 28.)History: P.A. 15-224 effective July 7, 2015.
CT Gen Stat § 9-321 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-321 - Return by moderator of election of town clerk and registrar of vital statistics.

 Section 9-321 is repealed.(1949 Rev., S. 522; 1953, S. 799d; P.A. 88-45, S. 3.)
CT Gen Stat § 9-322 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-322 - Failure of moderator to make returns.

 Each moderator of an election who neglects to make any return required by law shall be fined twenty dollars.(1949 Rev., S. 526; 1953, S. 257d.)
CT Gen Stat § 9-322b (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 148 - Election Canvass and Returns|Section 9-322b - Candidate elected to two or more offices in a municipality and prohibited from holding more than one office. Determination of officeholder.

 Notwithstanding the provisions of this title, if a candidate is elected to two or more offices in a municipality at the same election and is prohibited by any provision of the general statutes, a charter or an ordinance from holding more than one such office, the candidate shall notify the registrars of voters and the municipal clerk of the office to which the candidate declines election, and the candidate for such office who receives the next highest number of votes at such election shall be deemed to have been elected to such office.(P.A. 05-235, S. 31.)History: P.A. 05-235 effective July 1, 2005.
CT Gen Stat § 9-325 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 9 - Elections|Chapter 149 - Elections and Primaries: Contested|Section 9-325 - Appeals and reservations of law to be taken to Supreme Court.

 If, upon any such hearing by a judge of the Superior Court, any question of law is raised which any party to the complaint claims should be reviewed by the Supreme Court, such judge, instead of filing the certificate of his finding or decision with the Secretary of the State, shall transmit the same, including therein such questions of law, together with a proper finding of facts, to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who shall thereupon call a special session of said court for the purpose of an immediate hearing upon the questions of law so certified. A copy of the finding and decision so certified by the judge of the Superior Court, together with the decision of the Supreme Court, on the questions of law therein certified, shall be attested by the clerk of the Supreme Court, and by him transmitted to the Secretary of the State forthwith. The finding and decision of the judge of the Superior Court, together with the decision of the Supreme Court on the questions of law thus certified, shall be final and conclusive upon all questions relating to errors in the rulings of the election officials and to the correctness of such count and shall operate to correct the returns of the moderators or presiding officers so as to conform to such decision of said court. Nothing in this section shall be considered as prohibiting an appeal to the Supreme Court from a final judgment of the Superior Court. The judges of the Supreme Court may establish rules of procedure for the speedy and inexpensive hearing of such appeals within fifteen days of such judgment of a judge of the Superior Court.(1949 Rev., S. 1106; 1953, S. 803d; P.A. 78-125, S. 10.)History: P.A. 78-125 changed limiting day in December by which decision of supreme court to be transmitted to secretary of the state to “forthwith”, changed reference to errors in rulings of “moderator” to “election officials”, clarified authority of supreme court to rule on final judgment of superior court and provided for establishment of rules for speedy hearing of appeals.Procedure considered. 77 C. 595. See 82 C. 330. Cited. 186 C. 125; 205 C. 495; 231 C. 602.