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Voting Methods

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Voting tabulators required. Notification of purchase or discontinuance of use.

Report to Secretary of number of voting tabulators.

Payment for voting tabulators.

Provision of voting tabulators and booths.

Periodic examination of voting tabulators.

Examination and approval of tabulators by Secretary. Subsequent alteration made by voting tabulator companies. Use of hole-punch voting tabulators prohibited. Regulations. Agreement with The University of Connecticut or Connecticut State University System.

Voting tabulator and direct recording electronic voting tabulator construction requirements. Attribution of unknown votes for cross-endorsed candidates.

Regulations concerning use of voting machines.

Procedures for use of direct recording electronic voting tabulators.

Voting Technology Standards Board.

Mechanics. Instruction and certification by the Secretary of the State.

Inspection by party watchers, party chairpersons, candidates and officials.

Filing of reports.

Duties of registrars re condition of tabulators. Repairs made on election day. Required reports.

Preparation of tabulators.

Candidates, immediate family members and associated business entities prohibited from transporting, preparing, repairing or maintaining voting tabulator. Exception.

Furnishing of supplies.

Instruction of election officials.

Order of parties on ballots.

Arrangement of ballots when more than nine party designations and petitioning candidate rows.

Form of ballots.

Blank space where party fails to nominate.

Order of office on ballots.

Transferred to Chapter 146, Part II, Sec. 9-183b.

Order of names of party nominees for multiple-opening office determined by lot. Order when candidate nominated by more than one party.

List of municipal offices to be filled.

Sample ballots.

Certification re number of ballots ordered.

Filing of sample ballot with Secretary.

Location of voting tabulator and stationing of officials.

Election officials; additional lines of electors.

Two shifts of election officials.

Duties of election officials before polls open; moderator's return certificates.

Instruction by means of demonstrator device.

Process of voting.

Preparation of polling place form of identification by committee prohibited.

Privacy sleeve.

Electronic devices used to check names of electors.

Duties of election officials during voting hours.

Use of paper ballots when voting machine damaged.

Assistance to elector who is blind, has disability or is unable to write or to read the ballot.

Write-in votes.

Keys to be kept. Storage of voting tabulator.

Removal of officials.

Duties of selectmen imposed on other officials.

Borough election officials.

Sections
9-270 and 9-271

Votes by paper ballots. Referenda by paper ballots.

Conditions under which use of voting tabulators may be discontinued.

Sections
9-273 to 9-276

Preparation of ballots. Secretary may prescribe forms. Secret ballot. Form for printing ballots.

Sections
9-277 and 9-278

Straight and split ticket sections. Form of straight ticket section.

Sections
9-279 to 9-306

Form of ballot. Sample ballots. Insertion on ballot on death of nominee. Ballot to resolve tie vote. Secretary to transmit ballots. Clerks to obtain ballots if not received two days before election. Packaging of ballots, method of opening. Ballot box sealing stamp. Ballot box lock. Clerks to be custodians of keys. Registrars of voters to provide rooms or booths and ballot boxes. Ballot table; process of voting. Arrangement of and admission to voting place. Method of voting. Method of balloting. Deposit of ballots; booth tenders. Improper markings of ballot. Box-tenders. Interference prohibited; assistance of physically disabled persons. Removal of officials. Counters; certificates; declaration of vote. Deposit of certificates. Ballot return by moderators for state elections. Return of ballots to box, sealing and preservation. Destruction of unused official ballots. Fraudulent abstracting or intermingling of votes. Failure of moderator to return keys. Penalties.