Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 9 - Elections › 32 - Registrars of Voters-Canvass by Mail › Registrars of Voters-Canvass by Telephone › Section 9-32-7 - Telephone canvass-general provisions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) A telephone
				canvass shall be made by the registrar or his designee making a telephone call
				to the residence of the elector listed on the registry list. If there is no
				published telephone number or no telephone number in service for the residence
				of an elector, the registrar or his designee shall note such fact as part of
				his canvass by telephone.
(b) A
				telephone call shall qualify as one of the two methods of canvass required
				before the name of an elector may be removed from the registry list, only when
				it is made to the household of an elector that has both a published telephone
				number and a number which is in service at the time the call is made. A call to
				a changed telephone number provided by the telephone company shall be deemed a
				published number provided the changed number is identified as relating to the
				former number. Unlisted numbers shall be deemed published only if they are made
				available to the registrars of voters by the telephone company. A telephone
				number of an elector provided to the registrars of voters or town clerk by such
				elector shall be deemed published; a telephone number of an elector provided to
				the registrars of voters or town clerk by a person other than such elector
				shall be deemed not published. If during a telephone canvass a telephone call
				is made to a telecommunications device for the deaf in an elector's household,
				said telephone call shall not qualify as one of the two methods of canvass
				required before the name of an elector may be removed from the registry list
				unless the registrar or designee uses a similar device or uses a message relay
				center.
(c) The information
				solicited by a registrar or designee in a canvass by telephone shall confirm
				the following information with respect to each elector living within the
				household: the elector's name and bonafide residence address; whether the
				elector has recently moved, and, if so, such elector's new residence address,
				if known; whether the elector is in the military service; and whether the
				elector's name has changed, and, if so, the elector's new name. An elector's
				mailing address and date of birth may be similarly solicited but such
				information shall not be required of the individual providing the
				information.
(d) The registrar of
				voters or his designee shall sign a written memorandum of each telephone call
				made as part of a telephone canvass which shall include the date and time of
				the telephone call, the telephone number called and, if possible, the name of
				the person giving the information, which may be anyone answering the telephone
				and shall not be limited to the elector. In the event that the individual
				giving the information is speaking Spanish, such fact shall also be recorded.
				In the event that the number is not published or not in service that fact shall
				also be made a part of this memorandum.
(e) If the registrars of voters are not able
				to obtain positive information that an elector is still a bona fide resident of
				the household called in a telephone canvass, or if the registrars of voters do
				receive positive information that an elector is no longer a bona fide resident
				of the household called in a telephone canvass, they shall take such action
				with respect to the removal of the elector's name from the registry list as
				they shall deem appropriate subject to the requirements of Section
				9-32-9.
				Such action may be based on other information which they may have received
				concerning the elector.