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2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 149 - Elections and Primaries: Contested › Section 9-330. - Examination and testing of tabulators.

Any judge having jurisdiction over any action brought under section 9-323, 9-324, 9-328 or 9-329a shall have the power, if sufficient reason is shown, to order the examination and testing of any voting tabulators.
(1957, P.A. 526, S. 8; P.A. 78-125, S. 11; P.A. 97-154, S. 5, 27; P.A. 11-20, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 78-125 deleted reference to Sec. 9-326, repealed by the same act; P.A. 97-154 inserted reference to Sec. 9-329a, effective July 1, 1997; pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machines” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulators”, effective May 24, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 149 - Elections and Primaries: Contested › Section 9-331. - Tie vote for or vacancy in office of sheriff.

Section 9-331 is repealed, effective December 1, 2000.
(1949 Rev., S. 1095; 1953, S. 809d; P.A. 00-99, S. 153, 154.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 150 - Elections: Campaign Financing (See Chapter 155) › Section 9-334 to 9-343. - Forms for statements. Definitions. Principal campaign treasurer and campaign treasurers, appointment, duties. Contributions. Filing of statements and reports, fee. Contributions or expenditures by: Stock corporations and other business organizations to candidates, parties, committees, organizations, political committees established by organizations, individuals, party committees and ongoing political committees, candidate committees, political committees formed solely to aid or promote success or defeat of a constitutional amendment or referendum question. Statement of organization by political committees, filing, contents. Regulation of campaign expenditures, generally.

Sections 9-334 to 9-343, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 1156–1161, 1163–65; 1953, S. 811d–820d; 1957, P.A. 400, S. 1–3; 1961, P.A. 15; 263; 517, S. 74; 1963, P.A. 473; 1967, P.A. 592, S. 17–25; 1971, P.A. 736, S. 1; 844, S. 1; 1972, P.A. 67; P.A. 73-61, S. 1; P.A. 74-183, S. 184, 291; 74-189, S. 2–9, 24; 74-213, S. 5, 9; 74-338, S. 81, 83, 94; P.A. 75-273, S. 1, 3; 75-571, S. 2–12, 33, 34; P.A. 76-154, S. 1; 76-157, S. 1, 2; 76-275, S. 6, 9; 76-435, S. 14, 82; P.A. 77-158; 77-201, S. 1, 2; 77-471, S. 1, 4; 77-583, S. 1; P.A. 79-616, S. 1, 2, 24; 79-620, S. 2; P.A. 80-272, S. 1, 2; 80-281, S. 16–19; 80-432, S. 2, 3; P.A. 81-325, S. 1; 81-357, S. 1–12, 27; 81-360, S. 1, 4; 81-395, S. 1–3, 9; 81-434, S. 2, 3; 81-472, S. 8, 159; P.A. 82-39, S. 1–3, 6–8, 12; 82-54, S. 1, 6, 9; 82-122, S. 1, 2; 82-247, S. 13, 14; 82-472, S. 171, 172, 183; P.A. 83-336, S. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6; 83-560, S. 1, 6; P.A. 84-437, S. 2, 4; 84-511, S. 8, 15; P.A. 85-270, S. 1, 2, 7; 85-598, S. 1, 2, 8, 10; P.A. 86-99, S. 33, 34; 86-240, S. 1, 2, 11, 12.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 150 - Elections: Campaign Financing (See Chapter 155) › Section 9-345 and 9-346. - Penalties. Powers of state referees and judges.

Sections 9-345 and 9-346 are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 1167, 1170; 1953, S. 822d, 823d; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 97; 1972, P.A. 31; P.A. 74-183, S. 185, 291; 74-213, S. 6, 9; P.A. 75-571, S. 33, 34; P.A. 76-436, S. 351, 681; P.A. 86-99, S. 33, 34.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 150 - Elections: Campaign Financing (See Chapter 155) › Section 9-347 to 9-348dd. - Preservation of testimony and securing of witnesses. Expenses of inquiry. Application of provisions. Formation of committees; designation and responsibilities of campaign treasurer and deputy treasurer; appointment and responsibilities of solicitor. Contributions. Deposit of contributions; anonymous contributions, disposition. Authorization of expenditures; liability for debt incurred; election day expenditures. Payment of authorized political expenses by checks of authorized banks, petty cash fund, reimbursement of committee workers for authorized expenditures from personal funds; preservation of records. Payment of permitted expenses by campaign treasurers; charitable and memorial contributions; honorariums for elected officials prohibited. Statements and reports required of campaign treasurers, generally; disposition of surpluses. Who may contribute for political purposes. Payment of election contest expenses. Acts prohibited as corrupt practices. Penalty. Forms, distribution, town clerk's fee. Testimonial affairs limited. Principal campaign treasurer for each candidate and campaign treasurer for each committee, duties. Committees: Party; political, organized for ongoing political activities; political, established by organizations, generally. Contributions from joint bank accounts. Limit on contributions to candidates by individuals; unlimited expenditures by individuals permitted. Limits on contributions to committees by individuals. Limitation on campaign contributions and expenditures; expenditures defined. Expenditures by candidate on behalf of his own campaign, reimbursement of candidate by campaign treasurer for certain expenses. Political advertising.

Sections 9-347 to 9-348dd, inclusive, are repealed.
(1949 Rev., S. 1168, 1169; 1953, S. 824d. 825d; 1967, P.A. 592, S. 1–15; 1971, P.A. 161, S. 1; 736, S. 2; 844, S. 2; 1972, P.A. 32; P.A. 73-61, S. 2; 73-604; P.A. 74-183, S. 186, 291; 74-189, S. 1, 11–24; 74-198, S. 1–6; 74-202, S. 1–7; 74-213, S. 7, 9; 74-338, S. 79, 80, 82, 83, 94; P.A. 75-273, S. 2, 3; 75-482, S. 1–5; 75-506, S. 1, 2; 75-571, S. 13–31, 33, 34; P.A. 76-154, S. 2, 3; 76-156, S. 1, 2; 76-264, S. 1–3; 76-270, S. 1, 2; 76-275, S. 1–5, 7, 9; P.A. 77-58; 77-64; 77-180; 77-471, S. 2, 3; 77-583, S. 2; 77-604, S. 57, 84; P.A. 78-51; 78-153, S. 31, 32; 78-280, S. 2, 16, 17, 127; P.A. 79-351; 79-377, S. 1, 2; 79-381, S. 1–4; 79-438; 79-616, S. 3, 4, 24; 79-620, S. 1; 79-631, S. 99, 111; P.A. 80-212, S. 2–4; 80-223; 80-271, S. 1–3; 80-281, S. 20–27, 31; 80-289, S. 1, 2; 80-483, S. 35, 186; P.A. 81-325, S. 2–16; 81-357, S. 13–27; 81-360, S. 2–4; 81-395, S. 4, 5, 8, 9; 81-467, S. 6, 8; 81-472, S. 121, 159; P.A. 82-39, S. 4, 5, 9–12; 82-54, S. 2–5, 7–9; 82-426, S. 8, 14; 82-472, S. 28, 183; P.A. 83-336, S. 5, 6; 83-410; 83-560, S. 2–6; P.A. 84-192, S. 1–3; 84-511, S. 9–15; P.A. 85-270, S. 3–7; 85-598, S. 3–7, 10; 85-613, S. 21, 154; P.A. 86-99, S. 33, 34; 86-240, S. 3, 4, 11, 12.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-351. - Delay in counting or declaring vote.

Any moderator of any election or voting district who, wilfully and without cause, delays the counting or declaration of the number of votes cast shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than one year.
(1949 Rev., S. 1119; 1953, S. 828d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-352. - Tampering with tabulator by election official.

Any election official who, with intent to cause or permit any voting tabulator to fail to correctly register all votes cast thereon, tampers with or disarranges such tabulator in any way or any part or appliance thereof, or causes such tabulator to be used or consents to its being used for voting at any election with knowledge of the fact that the same is not in order, or not perfectly set and adjusted to correctly register all votes cast thereon, or who, for the purpose of defrauding or deceiving any elector or of causing it to be doubtful for what candidate or candidates or proposition any vote is cast, or causing it to appear upon such tabulator that votes cast for one candidate or proposition were cast for another candidate or proposition, removes, changes or mutilates any ballot shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 1220; 1953, S. 829d; P.A. 87-382, S. 36, 55; P.A. 11-20. S. 19; P.A. 13-258, S. 37.)
History: P.A. 87-382 deleted references to “ticket”; P.A. 11-20 replaced “machine” with “tabulator” and “ballot label” with “ballot” and deleted language re description of the ballot label on a machine, effective May 24, 2011; P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.
See Sec. 9-367 re penalty for tampering with voting tabulator applicable to persons who are not election officials.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-353. - False statement, certificate or return.

Any election official who, at the close of the polls, purposely causes the vote registered on the tabulator to be incorrectly taken down as to any candidate or proposition voted on, or who knowingly causes to be made or signed any false statement, certificate or return of any kind, of such vote, or who knowingly consents to any such act, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 1221; 1953, S. 830d; P.A. 11-20, S. 1; P.A. 13-258, S. 38.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator”, effective May 24, 2011; P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-354. - Improper printing of ballot.

Any person who prints or causes to be printed upon any official ballot the name of any person not a candidate of a party whose name is printed at the head of the column containing such nominees or who prints or causes to be printed any authorized ballot in any manner other than that prescribed by the Secretary of the State shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1953, S. 831d; P.A. 11-20, S. 1; P.A. 13-258, S. 39.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “ballot label” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “ballot”, effective May 24, 2011; P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not less than $100 or more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-355. - Official neglect or fraud.

Any person who, without reasonable cause, neglects to perform any of the duties required of him by the laws relating to elections or primaries and for which neglect no other punishment is provided, and any person who is guilty of fraud in the performance of any such duty, and any person who makes any unlawful alteration in any list required by law, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars or be imprisoned not more than one year or be both fined and imprisoned. Any official who is convicted of fraud in the performance of any duty imposed upon him by any law relating to the registration or admission of electors or to the conduct of any election shall be disfranchised. Any public officer or any election official upon whom any duty is imposed by part I of chapter 147 and sections 9-308 to 9-311, inclusive, who wilfully omits or neglects to perform any such duty or does any act prohibited therein for which punishment is not otherwise provided shall be guilty of a class E felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 1121, 1217; 1953, S. 832d; P.A. 80-432, S. 1; P.A. 13-258, S. 21.)
History: P.A. 80-432 added application to primaries; P.A. 13-258 changed penalty from fine of not more than $2,000 and imprisonment of not more than 3 years to class E felony.
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.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-357. - Fraudulent registration.

Any person who fraudulently procures himself or another to be registered as an elector shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or be both fined and imprisoned.
(1949 Rev., S. 1029; 1953, S. 834d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-358. - False swearing before registrar, moderator, board or State Elections Enforcement Commission.

Any person who, upon oath or affirmation, legally administered, wilfully and corruptly testifies or affirms, before any registrar of voters, any moderator of any election, primary or referendum, any board for admission of electors or the State Elections Enforcement Commission, falsely, to any material fact concerning the identity, age, residence or other qualifications of any person whose right to be registered or admitted as an elector or to vote at any election, primary or referendum is being passed upon and decided, shall be guilty of a class D felony and shall be disfranchised.
(1949 Rev., S. 1126; 1953, S. 835d; P.A. 05-235, S. 8; P.A. 06-196, S. 57.)
History: P.A. 05-235 applied section to testimony or affirmation before State Elections Enforcement Commission, added “primary or referendum” and substituted “guilty of a class D felony” for “imprisoned not more than two years”, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes, effective June 7, 2006.
Cited. 29 CS 305.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-359. - Absentee ballots.

Any (1) person who executes an absentee ballot for the purpose of informing any other person how he votes, or procures any absentee ballot to be prepared for such purpose, (2) municipal clerk or moderator, elector appointed to count any absentee ballot or other person who wilfully attempts to ascertain how any elector marked his absentee ballot or how it was cast, (3) person who unlawfully opens or fills out, except as provided in section 9-140a with respect to a person unable to write, any elector's absentee ballot signed in blank, (4) person designated under section 9-140a who executes an absentee ballot contrary to the elector's wishes, or (5) person who wilfully violates any provision of chapter 145, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 1149; 1953, S. 836d; P.A. 74-96, S. 8, 9; P.A. 86-179, S. 45, 53; P.A. 95-177, S. 4, 7.)
History: P.A. 74-96 deleted “subject to the penalties provided in section 9-306” and substituted “guilty of a class D felony”, effective January 1, 1975; P.A. 86-179 made technical changes; P.A. 95-177 divided section into Subdivs., added Subdiv. (4) re certain persons designated under Sec. 9-140a and made technical changes, effective January 1, 1996.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-359a. - False statement in absentee balloting. Class D felony.

(a) A person is guilty of false statement in absentee balloting when he intentionally makes a false written statement in or on or signs the name of another person to the application for an absentee ballot or the inner envelope accompanying any such ballot, which he does not believe to be true and which statement or signature is intended to mislead a public servant in the performance of his official function.
(b) False statement in absentee balloting is a class D felony.
(P.A. 74-96, S. 1, 9.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-360. - Fraudulent voting.

Any person not legally qualified who fraudulently votes in any town meeting, primary, election or referendum in which the person is not qualified to vote, and any legally qualified person who, at such meeting, primary, election or referendum, fraudulently votes more than once at the same meeting, primary, election or referendum, shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars and shall be imprisoned not less than one year or more than two years and shall be disfranchised. Any person who votes or attempts to vote at any election, primary, referendum or town meeting by assuming the name of another legally qualified person shall be guilty of a class D felony and shall be disfranchised.
(1949 Rev., S. 1122, 1125; 1953, S. 837d; P.A. 82-176, S. 1, 3; P.A. 05-235, S. 9; P.A. 06-196, S. 58.)
History: P.A. 82-176 amended section to add prohibition against fraudulent voting in primaries, against voting in primaries by assuming the name of another and against voting more than once at a town meeting or primary; P.A. 05-235 added references to “referendum”, made a technical change and substituted “legally qualified person shall be guilty of a class D felony” for “who is registered or enrolled, as the case may be, shall be fined five hundred dollars and be imprisoned one year”, effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes, effective June 7, 2006.
Complaint describing offense in the language of statute is sufficient. 38 C. 400.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-362. - Decision of election officials no bar to prosecution.

The decision of the board for admission of electors or of the registrars or of a moderator, as to a person's right to be admitted to the elector's oath, to registration or to cast his vote, shall, in no case, be a bar to a criminal prosecution for procuring himself to be made an elector or to be registered or for voting, without the qualifications required by law.
(1949 Rev., S. 1115; 1953, S. 839d.)
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-363. - Circulation of misleading instructions.

Any person who, with intent to defraud any elector of his or her vote or cause any elector to lose his or her vote or any part thereof, gives in any way, or prints, writes or circulates, or causes to be written, printed or circulated, any improper, false, misleading or incorrect instructions or advice or suggestions as to the manner of voting on any tabulator, the following of which or any part of which would cause any elector to lose his or her vote or any part thereof, or would cause any elector to fail in whole or in part to register or record the same on the tabulator for the candidates of his or her choice, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 1222; 1953, S. 840d; P.A. 11-20, S. 1; P.A. 12-193, S. 1.)
History: Pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator”, effective May 24, 2011; P.A. 12-193 changed penalty from a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years or both to a class D felony and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2012.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-364. - Influencing elector to refrain from voting.

Any person who, with intent to disenfranchise any elector, influences or attempts to influence by force or threat, bribery or corrupt, fraudulent or deliberately deceitful means any elector to stay away from any election shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 1123; 1953, S. 841d; P.A. 12-193, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 12-193 added provision re intent to disenfranchise an elector, inserted “by force or threat, bribery or corrupt, fraudulent or deliberately deceitful means” and changed penalty from a fine of not more than $500 and imprisonment of not more than 1 year or less than 3 months to a class D felony, effective July 1, 2012.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-364a. (Formerly Sec. 9-344). - Acts prohibited in elections, primaries, referenda, caucuses and conventions. Penalties.

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 person in a primary, caucus, referendum convention or election; or wilfully and fraudulently suppresses or destroys any vote or ballot properly given or cast 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.
(1949 Rev., S. 1162; 1953, S. 821d; P.A. 74-189, S. 10, 24; P.A. 81-467, S. 7, 8; P.A. 82-176, S. 2, 3; P.A. 12-193, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 74-189 added “referendum” to subject matter of prohibited influences or attempts, changed penalty from a fine between $25 and $100 to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for not more than one year of both; in 1977 Sec. 9-344 transferred to Sec. 9-364a; P.A. 81-467 deleted reference to voting more than once or casting more than one ballot at a time; P.A. 82-176 added words “or election”; P.A. 12-193 changed penalty from a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 1 year or both to a class C felony, effective July 1, 2012.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-365. - Employers' threats.

Any person who (1) during the period that is sixty days or less prior to any election, municipal meeting, school district election or school district meeting, attempts to influence the vote of any operative in his or her employ by threats of withholding employment from him or her or by promises of employment, or (2) dismisses any operative from his or her employment on account of any vote he or she has given at any such election or meeting shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 1116; 1953, S. 842d; P.A. 12-193, S. 4.)
History: P.A. 12-193 added Subdiv. designators (1) and (2), changed penalty from a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500 or imprisonment of not less than 6 months or more than 12 months or both to a class D felony and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2012.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-366. - Interference with electors in voting.

Any person who induces or attempts to induce any elector to write, paste or otherwise place, on a ballot, or a table or booth used for voting, any name, sign or device of any kind, as a distinguishing mark by which to indicate to another how such elector voted, or enters into or attempts to form any agreement or conspiracy with any person to induce or attempt to induce electors or any elector to so place any distinguishing mark on such ballot, table or booth, or attempts to induce any elector to do anything with a view to enabling another person to see or know for what persons or any of them such elector votes, or enters into or attempts to form any agreement or conspiracy to induce any elector to do any act for the purpose of enabling another person or persons to see or know for what person or persons such elector votes, or attempts to induce any person to place himself or herself in such position, or to do any other act for the purpose of enabling him or her to see or know for what candidates any elector other than himself or herself votes, or himself or herself attempts to get in such position to do any act so that he or she will be enabled to see or know how any elector other than himself or herself votes, or does any act which invades or interferes with the secrecy of the voting or causes the same to be invaded or interfered with, shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 1219; 1953, S. 843d; P.A. 87-382, S. 37, 55; P.A. 11-20, S. 1; P.A. 12-193, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 87-382 deleted references to “ticket”; pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator”, effective May 24, 2011; P.A. 12-193 changed “write-in ballot” to “ballot”, replaced provision re voting tabulator with provisions re table or booth, changed penalty from imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony and made technical changes, effective July 1, 2012.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-367. - Tampering with ballot or voting tabulator.

Any person, not being an election official, who, with intent to cause or permit any ballot, voting tabulator or other appliance used in connection with such tabulator to fail to correctly register any vote cast upon such ballot, tabulator or other appliance, during any election or before any election, tampers with a voting tabulator, disarranges, defaces, injures or impairs the same in any manner, or mutilates, injures or destroys any ballot or any other appliance used in connection with such tabulator, shall be guilty of a class C felony.
(1949 Rev., S. 1218; 1953, S. 844d; P.A. 11-20, S. 22; P.A. 12-193, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 11-20 added language re intent and made section applicable to tampering with a ballot, voting tabulator or other appliance, rather than a voting machine or ballot label, effective May 24, 2011; P.A. 12-193 changed penalty from imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class C felony, effective July 1, 2012.
See Sec. 9-352 re penalty for tampering with voting tabulator by election official.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-368. - Arrest of accused.

Upon the written complaint of any three electors of a town in which a violation of any law relating to elections has occurred to any judge of the superior court for the judicial district within which the offense has been committed, supported by oath or affirmation that the complainants have good reason to believe and do believe that the allegations therein contained are true and can be proved, such judge shall issue a warrant for the arrest of the accused.
(1953, S. 845d; 1959, P.A. 28, S. 167; P.A. 74-183, S. 187, 291; P.A. 76-436, S. 163, 681; P.A. 78-280, S. 1, 127.)
History: 1959 act transferred jurisdiction to issue warrant from trial justice to circuit court judge; P.A. 74-183 changed “circuit court for the circuit” to “court of common pleas for the county or judicial district”, effective December 31, 1974; P.A. 76-436 changed “court of common pleas” to “superior court”, effective July 1, 1978; P.A. 78-280 deleted “county or”.
Cited. 21 CS 445.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties › Section 9-368c. - Misrepresentation of contents of a petition.

(a) No person shall intentionally misrepresent the contents of a petition circulated under title 9.
(b) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class D felony.
(P.A. 87-530.)
Section does not mandate registrar must invalidate a petition sheet circulated with a candidate's incorrect address. 329 C. 293.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 152 - Referenda › Section 9-369d. - Submission of local question to voters who are not electors. Vote by electors and voters held in conjunction with an election.

(a) Whenever by law a question may be submitted to voters who are not electors of a municipality, the municipality may submit the question to a vote by electors and voters held in conjunction with an election. Except as otherwise provided, the general statutes shall apply to such vote.
(b) (1) The procedures set forth in this subsection shall only apply if a municipality so chooses and only upon approval of such procedure by its legislative body or in any town in which the legislative body is a town meeting, by the board of selectmen.
(2) Voters who are not electors shall vote by separate voting tabulator or paper ballot, containing solely the question, at one separate location which may be a separate room in the location at which electors vote. Such separate location shall be treated as a separate voting district and polling place for such voters, except that the registrars of voters shall appoint a moderator who shall be the head moderator for the purpose of this question only, and such other officials as the registrars deem necessary. The moderator of such separate location shall add the results of the vote by electors on the question to the results of the vote by voters who are not electors, and shall file such results in the office of the municipal clerk. The moderator of such separate location shall be the moderator for the purposes of a recanvass of a close vote on such question under section 9-370a. The head moderator of the town shall indicate on the return of vote of such question filed with the Secretary of the State that such return does not include the return of vote of voters who are not electors.
(c) Voters who are not electors and who are entitled by law to vote by absentee ballot shall be entitled to vote by separate absentee ballot containing solely such question. Such absentee ballot shall be issued beginning on the thirty-first day before the election, or, if such day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, beginning on the next preceding day.
(d) The warning of the election shall include the location where voters who are not electors may vote.
(P.A. 97-192, S. 1; P.A. 00-66, S. 24; P.A. 11-20, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 00-66 made a technical change in Subsec. (c); pursuant to P.A. 11-20, “machine” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “tabulator” in Subsec. (b)(2), effective May 24, 2011.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 152 - Referenda › Section 9-370. - Submission of local questions at elections.

Any provision of any special act to the contrary notwithstanding, no local question approved for submission to the electors of a municipality within the period of sixty days prior to an election as defined in section 9-1 may be voted upon at such election unless otherwise specifically provided by the general statutes.
(1959, P.A. 156, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 396.)
History: 1961 act increased time limitation from 35 to 60 days prior to an election.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 152 - Referenda › Section 9-370a. - Recanvass on close question vote.

In the case of an election or referendum wherein the difference between the “Yes” and “No” vote on a question was less than one-half of one per cent of the total number of votes cast for the question but not more than two thousand votes, the moderator shall proceed forthwith to cause a recanvass of such returns to be made as nearly as may be in the manner provided in section 9-311. In the case of a regional school district referendum where there is a tabulation of the vote as a whole, the moderators in the district shall proceed forthwith to cause such recanvass to be made upon such tabulation.
(1971, P.A. 438; P.A. 98-96.)
History: P.A. 98-96 added provision re recanvass in regional school district referendum; (Revisor's note: During the preparation of the 1999 revision the words “shall proceed forthwith to cause a recanvass of such returns to be made as” were omitted from the first sentence of this section following the word “moderator,” due to a computer or clerical error. The omitted wording was reinstated editorially by the Revisors).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 152 - Referenda › Section 9-371. - Report of referendum result to secretary.

Whenever any town, city or borough has conducted a referendum in accordance with the provisions of any special act, or on the question of the acceptance of such act, or on the question of the adoption of any home rule charter or charter revision or amendment thereto, the clerk of such municipality shall, within fifteen days, notify the Secretary of the State, in writing, of the result of such referendum.
(1959, P.A. 615, S. 21; 1971, P.A. 507, S. 2.)
History: 1971 act added application of section to “on the question of adoption of any home rule charter or charter revision or amendment thereto”.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 152 - Referenda › Section 9-371a. - Nonbinding referendum re selection of legislative body.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the general statutes or any public act, special act or charter, a municipality may conduct a nonbinding referendum for the purpose of soliciting elector input concerning the manner and method of selecting the members of its legislative body.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1, S. 46, 51.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 99-1 effective July 1, 1999.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-373. - Nominations to public office.

All nominees for state, district and municipal office, all members of town committees and all delegates to conventions, shall be chosen as provided in this chapter.
(June, 1955, S. 578d, 579d; November, 1955, S. N54; 1958 Rev., S. 9-69; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 2.)
History: 1963 act entirely replaced previously existing provisions.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-373a. - Registration of write-in candidates.

Any person desiring to be a write-in candidate for any state, district or municipal office to be filled at any regular election shall register his candidacy with the Secretary of the State on a form prescribed by the Secretary. The registration shall include the candidate's name and address, the designation and term of the office sought, a statement of consent to the candidacy, and any other information which the Secretary deems necessary. In the case of a write-in candidacy for the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor, the registration shall include a candidate for each of those offices, or shall be void. The registration shall not include a designation of any political party. The registration shall be filed with the Secretary not more than ninety days prior to the election at which the office is to be filled and not later than four o'clock p.m. on the fourteenth day preceding the election, or the registration shall be void. No person nominated for an office by a major or minor party or by nominating petition shall register as a write-in candidate for that office under the provisions of this section, and any registration of a write-in candidacy filed by such a person shall be void. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, any person desiring to be a write-in candidate for the municipal office of town meeting member in any town having a representative town meeting which has seventy-five or more members shall register his candidacy with the town clerk of such town not later than the last business day preceding such election. A person may register as a write-in candidate for a district or municipal office if such person's name appears on the last-completed registry list of the district or municipality represented by such office, as the case may be. A person may register as a write-in candidate for a state office if such person's name appears on the last-completed registry list of the state.
(P.A. 83-475, S. 1, 43; P.A. 87-382, S. 52, 55; P.A. 15-224, S. 14.)
History: P.A. 87-382 added notwithstanding sentence re write-in candidates for municipal office of town meeting member in towns having a representative town meeting which has at least 75 members; P.A. 15-224 added requirements for district and municipal offices that name of candidate appear on last-completed registry list of district or municipality represented by such office and for state offices that name of candidate appear on last-completed registry list of state, effective January 1, 2016.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-373b. - Cross endorsement of a candidate.

A candidate for an office appearing on a ballot for a state election, as defined in section 9-1, may appear on the ballot as a candidate for more than one major or minor party, as defined in section 9-372, for the same office, provided a candidate of such minor party for the office of Governor, Secretary of the State, State Treasurer, State Comptroller or Attorney General received at least fifteen thousand votes at the previous state election for any such office.
(P.A. 13-180, S. 39.)
History: P.A. 13-180 effective June 18, 2013.
See Sec. 9-453t re cross endorsement by petition.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-375. - Amendment of party rules.

The local party rules, governing a political party in any municipality, may be amended by one of the three following methods: (1) By a caucus of its enrolled party members, (2) by a convention of delegates chosen by its enrolled party members in a manner prescribed in such rules or (3) by its town committee. Whenever, in any municipality, the method of amending the local party rules of a party is by the town committee, such rules may also be amended either by a caucus of its enrolled party members or by a convention of delegates chosen by its enrolled party members in a manner prescribed in such rules, whichever such rules specify, which caucus or convention, as the case may be, shall forthwith be called by the chairman of its town committee upon the filing with the registrar of voters of such party in such municipality of a petition signed by at least five per cent or five hundred, whichever is less, of its enrolled party members in such municipality, and such caucus or convention, as the case may be, shall be held within a period of time reasonably necessary to convene the same, which period of time shall be prescribed in its rules. Whenever the method of amendment prescribed in accordance with the provisions of this section for a party in any municipality consists of or involves a convention of delegates chosen by its enrolled party members under its party rules, such rule or amendment so prescribing such method of amendment shall also prescribe the manner in which such delegates are to be chosen.
(1957, P.A. 518, S. 40; 1958 Rev., S. 9-70; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 4.)
History: 1963 act restated previous provisions.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-375b. - Amendment of party rules following a census.

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 9-374 and 9-375, during the second calendar year following the year in which the decennial census of the United States is taken, (1) any amendments of the state rules of a particular party necessitated by redistricting may be made by a majority vote of the members of the state central committee of such party voting thereon at a meeting called for the purpose of considering such amendments, and (2) any amendments of the local rules of a particular party necessitated by redistricting may be made by a majority vote of the members of the town committee of such party voting thereon at a meeting called for the purpose of considering such amendments. Any such amendments shall be effective upon the filing of a copy thereof in the office of the Secretary of the State by the chairman or vice-chairman of such political party.
(P.A. 92-1, S. 6, 8; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7, S. 116.)
History: Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7 provided for amendments of rules during second calendar year following year in which the decennial census is taken, deleted references to 1992 and made technical changes, effective October 5, 2009.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-376. - Postponement of primary day.

(a)(1) If the day fixed for any primary falls on a Sunday or a legal holiday or on a day on which the tenets of a religion forbid secular activity, the primary shall be held on the next succeeding day other than a Sunday or a legal or such religious holiday. (2) If the day fixed for any primary falls on the Tuesday immediately following Labor Day, the primary shall be held on the next succeeding Tuesday.
(b) If a primary is held on a day prescribed by subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of this section, the day of the primary shall be considered to be the day on which such primary would have been held except for subdivision (1) of said subsection, for all other purposes including the calculation of any period of time having reference to such primary, except that the calculation of any deadline relating to a person becoming eligible to vote in such primary shall be made from the day on which the primary is actually held.
(November, 1955, S. N53; September, 1957, P.A. 1, S. 4; 1958 Rev., S. 9-82; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 5; 1967, P.A. 767, S. 1; P.A. 83-544, S. 1, 4; P.A. 87-472, S. 2, 14; P.A. 89-297, S. 17.)
History: 1963 act restated existing provisions; 1967 act added provision concerning religious holiday to the days on which a primary will not be held; P.A. 83-544 designated the former statute Subsec. (a), adding a new Subdiv. (2) which deals with primaries which fall on the Tuesday after Labor Day, and added a new Subsec. (b) containing provisions formerly contained in Subsec. (a); P.A. 87-472 made Subsec. (b) applicable only to primary held on day prescribed by Subsec. (a)(1); P.A. 89-297 added exception in Subsec. (b) for calculation of any deadline relating to a person becoming eligible to vote in a primary under Subsec. (a)(1).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-377. - Write-in spaces on ballots prohibited.

At a primary votes may be cast and counted only for duly qualified candidates at such primary whose names appear on the ballot on primary day. No write-in spaces shall appear on the ballots used at a primary.
(June, 1955, S. 609d; November, 1955, S. N94; 1958 Rev., S. 9-122; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 6; P.A. 76-50, S. 6, 7; P.A. 86-179, S. 49, 53; P.A. 11-20, S. 25.)
History: 1963 act restated existing provisions; P.A. 76-50 deleted “absentee ballots” from the operation of the section; P.A. 86-179 deleted all of existing section and added specific provisions re casting and counting of votes, write-in slides on machine and write-in spaces on absentee ballots; P.A. 11-20 replaced language re write-in slides on voting machines and write-in spaces on absentee ballots with prohibition re write-in spaces on ballots, effective May 24, 2011 (Revisor's note: A reference to “ballot label” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “ballot” to conform with changes made by P.A. 11-20, S. 1).
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-378. - Nominations without party designation excepted.

In any municipality which, under the provisions of a special act, nominates one or more candidates for municipal office without party designation by nominating petitions or in nonpartisan primaries in addition to the nomination of one or more candidates for such office under party designation, the provisions of this chapter shall apply only to the nomination of such candidates for election therein as are nominated and voted upon under party designation.
(June, 1955, S. 571d, 616d; November, 1955, S. N42, N110; 1958 Rev., S. 9-133; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 7; 406.)
History: 1963 acts restated existing provisions and removed exception from primary law of municipalities operating under special acts.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-379. - Eligibility for placing on ballot.

No name of any candidate shall be printed on any official ballot at any election except the name of a candidate nominated by a major or minor party unless a nominating petition for such candidate is approved by the Secretary of the State as provided in sections 9-453a to 9-453p, inclusive.
(1949 Rev., S. 1044; 1953, S. 569d; 1957, P.A. 410, S. 1; 1958 Rev., S. 9-72; 1959, P.A. 476, S. 1; 675, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 8; 1971, P.A. 806, S. 19.)
History: 1959 acts amended parts of Sec. 9-72 found elsewhere in restatement; 1963 act restated previous provisions; 1971 act deleted requirement for party designation and substituted “approved by” for “filed with” the secretary of the state.
Former section cited. 10 CS 210; 16 CS 5.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-380. - Newly-created offices.

In the case of an office created after the last-preceding election, no name of any candidate for such office shall be printed on the official ballot except the name of a candidate nominated by a political party or organization whose candidate for Governor at the last-preceding election for Governor received, under the designation of that political party or organization at least twenty per cent of the whole number of votes cast for all candidates for Governor, or at least one per cent of the whole number of votes cast for all candidates for Governor at such election within the geographical limits of the jurisdiction of such newly-created office, provided, upon the filing of a nominating petition with the Secretary of the State as provided in sections 9-453a to 9-453p, inclusive, signed by a number of qualified electors equal to one per cent of the whole number of votes cast for all candidates for Governor at the last-preceding election within the geographical limits of the jurisdiction of such newly-created office, or whenever the geographical limits of the jurisdiction of a newly-created office differ from the geographical limits of a voting district or group of voting districts as the same were constituted at the time of the last-preceding election for Governor, signed by a number of qualified electors equal to one per cent of the number of electors who voted at the last regular election held in such municipality, or whenever the geographical limits of the jurisdiction of a newly-created office contain more than one town or parts of towns, signed by a number of qualified electors equal to one per cent of the number of electors who voted at the last regular election held in each town which is wholly or partially contained within the geographical limits of the jurisdiction of the newly-created office, such candidate with his party designation, if any, shall be printed on the official ballot. As used in this section, the terms “office created after the last-preceding election” and “newly-created office” do not include an office for which the geographical limits of the jurisdiction of the office have changed as result of redistricting.
(1963, P.A. 313, S. 1; February, 1965, P.A. 600, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 806, S. 20; P.A. 04-18, S. 1.)
History: 1965 act added provision for determining number of signatures required on nominating petition where geographical limits of newly-created office differ from that of a voting district or group of voting districts as they were constituted at the time of the last-preceding election; 1971 act changed the requirement from “one-half of one per cent” to “one per cent” and further added “if any” to “party designation”; P.A. 04-18 excluded an office for which geographical limits of jurisdiction of the office have changed as result of redistricting from terms “office created after the last-preceding election” and “newly-created office”, effective July 1, 2004.
2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 9 - Elections › Chapter 153 - Nominations and Political Parties › Section 9-381. - Nomination procedure.

The provisions of sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, shall apply to the nomination by a major party of any candidate for an elective office, including an office established after the last-preceding election, and to the selection in any municipality by a major party of town committee members or delegates to conventions.
(June, 1955, S. 571d; November, 1955, S. N42; 1958 Rev., S. 9-73; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 9; 313, S. 2.)
History: 1963 acts restated previous provisions and substituted term “elective” for “public” office and provided for application of section to nominations of candidates to newly established offices.