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2009 Connecticut Code
Title 9 Elections
Chapter 147 Voting Methods
- Sec. 9-238. Voting tabulators required. Notification of purchase or discontinuance of use.
- Sec. 9-238a. Report to secretary of number of electors and voting machines.
- Sec. 9-239. Payment for voting machines.
- Sec. 9-240. Provision of voting machines and booths.
- Sec. 9-240a. Periodic examination of voting machines.
- Sec. 9-241. Examination and approval of machines by secretary. Subsequent alteration made by voting machine companies. Use of hole-punch voting machines prohibited. Regulations. Agreement with The University of Connecticut or Connecticut State University System.
- Sec. 9-242. Voting machine and direct recording electronic voting machine construction requirements.
- Sec. 9-242a. Regulations concerning use of voting machines.
- Sec. 9-242b. Procedures for use of direct recording electronic voting machines.
- Sec. 9-242c. Voting Technology Standards Board.
- Sec. 9-243. Mechanics. Instruction and certification by the Secretary of the State.
- Sec. 9-244. Inspection by party watchers, party chairpersons, candidates and officials.
- Sec. 9-245. Filing of reports.
- Sec. 9-246. Duties of mechanics. Repairs made on election day. Required reports.
- Sec. 9-247. Preparation of machines.
- Sec. 9-247a. Candidates and immediate family members prohibited from transporting, preparing, repairing or maintaining voting machines. Exceptions.
- Sec. 9-248. Furnishing of supplies.
- Sec. 9-249. Instruction of election officials.
- Sec. 9-249a. Order of parties on the ballot label.
- Sec. 9-249b. Arrangement of ballot labels when more than nine party designations and petitioning candidate rows.
- Sec. 9-250. Form of ballots.
- Sec. 9-250a. Blank space where party fails to nominate.
- Sec. 9-251. Order of office on ballot labels.
- Sec. 9-252.
- Sec. 9-253. Order of names of party nominees for multiple-opening office determined by lot. Order when candidate nominated by more than one party.
- Sec. 9-254. List of offices to be filled.
- Sec. 9-255. Sample ballot labels.
- Sec. 9-256. Filing of sample ballot label with secretary.
- Sec. 9-257. Location of voting tabulator and stationing of officials.
- Sec. 9-258. Election officials; additional lines of electors.
- Sec. 9-258a. Two shifts of election officials.
- Sec. 9-259. Duties of election officials before polls open; moderator's return certificates.
- Sec. 9-260. Instruction by means of demonstrator or spare voting machine.
- Sec. 9-261. Process of voting.
- Sec. 9-261a. Preparation of polling place form of identification by committee prohibited.
- Sec. 9-262. Duties of election officials during voting hours.
- Sec. 9-263. Use of paper ballots when voting machine damaged.
- Sec. 9-264. Assistance to elector who is blind, has disability or is unable to write or to read the ballot. Paper ballots available for electors with disabilities.
- Sec. 9-265. Write-in votes.
- Sec. 9-266. Keys to be kept. Storage of voting tabulator.
- Sec. 9-267. Removal of officials.
- Sec. 9-268. Duties of selectmen imposed on other officials.
- Sec. 9-269. Borough election officials.
- Sec. 9-270. Votes by paper ballots.
- Sec. 9-271. Referenda by paper ballots.
- Sec. 9-272. Conditions under which use of voting tabulators may be discontinued.
- Sec. 9-273. Preparation of ballots.
- Sec. 9-274. Secretary may prescribe forms.
- Sec. 9-275. Secret ballot.
- Sec. 9-276. Form for printing ballots.
- Secs. 9-277 and 9-278. Straight and split ticket sections. Form of straight ticket section.
- Sec. 9-279. Form of ballot.
- Sec. 9-280. Sample ballots.
- Sec. 9-281. Insertion on ballot on death of nominee.
- Sec. 9-282. Ballot to resolve tie vote.
- Sec. 9-283. Secretary to transmit ballots.
- Sec. 9-284. Clerks to obtain ballots if not received two days before election.
- Sec. 9-285. Packaging of ballots; method of opening.
- Sec. 9-286. Ballot box sealing stamp.
- Sec. 9-287. Ballot box lock.
- Sec. 9-288. Clerks to be custodians of keys.
- Sec. 9-289. Registrars of voters to provide rooms or booths and ballot boxes.
- Sec. 9-290. Ballot table. Process of voting.
- Sec. 9-291. Arrangement of and admission to voting place.
- Sec. 9-292. Method of voting.
- Sec. 9-293. Method of balloting.
- Sec. 9-294. Deposit of ballots. Booth tenders.
- Sec. 9-295. Improper markings of ballot.
- Sec. 9-296. Box-tenders.
- Sec. 9-297. Interference prohibited. Assistance of physically disabled persons.
- Sec. 9-298. Removal of officials.
- Sec. 9-299. Counters. Certificates. Declaration of vote.
- Sec. 9-300. Deposit of certificates.
- Sec. 9-301. Ballot return by moderators for state elections.
- Sec. 9-302. Return of ballots to box; sealing and preservation.
- Sec. 9-303. Destruction of unused official ballots.
- Sec. 9-304. Fraudulent abstracting or intermingling of votes.
- Sec. 9-305. Failure of moderator to return keys.
- Sec. 9-306. Penalties.
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