Any person requesting a challenged ballot and entitled thereto shall announce his or her name to the official checkers. The registrars of voters or the assistant registrar of voters, as the case may be, shall write, in red ink, before the elector's name on the registry list the initials “CB”. The challenged ballot shall be a regular ballot. After the voter has so announced his or her name, the moderator shall deliver to such voter a regular ballot together with a serially-numbered envelope marked “Challenged Ballot”. The challenged voter shall forthwith mark the ballot in the presence of the moderator in such manner that the moderator shall not know how the ballot is marked. The challenged voter shall then fold the ballot in the presence of the moderator so as to conceal the markings and deposit and seal it in the serially-numbered envelope. The challenged voter shall then deliver such envelope to the moderator. The moderator shall retain all such envelopes in an envelope provided by the registrars of voters that shall be sealed immediately following the close of the polls. Such envelope shall be delivered to the head moderator who shall file the envelope with the municipal clerk. The municipal clerk shall retain such envelope until the time when such envelope may be destroyed.
(P.A. 75-348, S. 3, 11; P.A. 76-329, S. 1; P.A. 77-202, S. 3, 4; P.A. 91-286, S. 4; P.A. 07-194, S. 17.)
History: P.A. 76-329 deleted provision for depositing challenged ballot in locked ballot box and substituted “deliver such envelope to the moderator” with further provision that moderator retain “all such envelopes in an envelope which he shall seal immediately following the close of the polls”; P.A. 77-202 modified that to include that the latter envelope be provided by the secretary of the state; P.A. 91-286 amended section to require that envelope containing serially-numbered envelopes be prescribed by secretary of the state and provided by municipal clerk instead of provided by secretary; P.A. 07-194 made technical changes, added requirement to use red ink to mark “CB” before elector's name and provided for delivery of sealed envelope to head moderator who shall file envelope with municipal clerk for retention.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Section 9-164. - Regular and special municipal elections.
Section 9-164a. - Transitional terms of office.
Section 9-164b. - Deferred terms.
Section 9-164c. - Change of municipal election date.
Section 9-164d. - Notification to secretary.
Section 9-164e. - Proposed action to be submitted to municipal attorney.
Section 9-164f. - Election of registrars unaffected.
Section 9-167a. - Minority representation.
Section 9-168. - Place of holding elections.
Section 9-168b. - Designation of polling places in adjacent voting districts.
Section 9-168c. - Accessibility of polling places to physically disabled voters.
Section 9-168e. - Parking spaces at polling places for handicapped and infirm elderly persons.
Section 9-169. - Voting districts.
Section 9-169a. - Split voting districts.
Section 9-169b. - Effective date of changes in voting districts.
Section 9-169c. - At-large election of members of legislative bodies of certain towns.
Section 9-169f. - Reapportionment required for certain municipal legislative bodies.
Section 9-170. - Eligibility to vote at town elections.
Section 9-171. - Eligibility to vote at city elections.
Section 9-172. - Eligibility to vote at state elections.
Section 9-172a. - Revised registry list defined for purposes of special elections.
Section 9-172b. - Updated list and registration deadline for special election or referendum.
Section 9-173. - Plurality required for election.
Section 9-174a. - Emergency contingency plan for elections. Model plan.
Section 9-174b. - Notification re extension of hours of polling place.
Section 9-175. - Presidential and vice presidential electors. Write-in candidates and ballots.
Section 9-176. - Meeting of presidential electors.
Section 9-177. - Compensation of presidential electors.
Section 9-178. - Senator in Congress.
Section 9-179. - Representative in Congress.
Section 9-180. - Representative at large.
Section 9-181. - State officers.
Section 9-183. - Justices of the peace.
Section 9-183a. - Number of justices of the peace, exceptions.
Section 9-184. - Vacancy in office of justice of the peace when justice nominated by a major party.
Section 9-185. - Municipal officers.
Section 9-186. - Electoral status of municipal officers and justices of the peace.
Section 9-187a. - Date term to begin.
Section 9-189. - Town clerks, treasurers and tax collectors.
Section 9-189a. - Four-year terms for town clerks, registrars and treasurers.
Section 9-190. - Registrars of voters.
Section 9-190a. - Election of registrars at state elections.
Section 9-190b. - Temporary relief of registrar by Secretary of the State; procedure.
Section 9-190c. - Removal of registrar.
Section 9-191. - Election of registrars for each voting district.
Section 9-192b. - Designation of registrar, deputy or an assistant to receive instruction.
Section 9-193. - Registrar's oath.
Section 9-194. - Compensation of registrars, deputies and assistants.
Section 9-195. - Compensation of registrars and town clerks for duties as to enrollment.
Section 9-199. - Boards of assessment appeals. Alternate and additional members.
Section 9-201. - Election of five-member boards of police commissioners.
Section 9-202. - Board of finance.
Section 9-203. - Number and term of members of boards of education.
Section 9-204. - Minority representation on board of education.
Section 9-204a. - Nomination and voting for full number of board members to be elected authorized.
Section 9-204b. - Optional alternative system for towns with four-year terms for board of education.
Section 9-205. - Election of board of education when number of members revised.
Section 9-206a. - Optional number of members and terms of boards of education.
Section 9-207. - Library directors.
Section 9-208. - Election of library directors on change from annual to biennial election.
Section 9-209. - Certificate filed with secretary when planning or zoning members to be elected.
Section 9-210. - Incompatible town offices.
Section 9-211. - United States senator; vacancy.
Section 9-212. - Representative in Congress.
Section 9-213. - Secretary, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General.
Section 9-214. - State representative.
Section 9-215. - Member or member-elect of the General Assembly.
Section 9-216. - Nomination by petition.
Section 9-217. - List of candidates.
Section 9-218. - Probate judge.
Section 9-219. - Justice of the peace.
Section 9-221. - Municipal office vacancy election provisions inapplicable in certain circumstances.
Section 9-223. - Notice of vacancy in municipal office.
Section 9-224. - Special election on same day as regular election.
Section 9-224a. - No election if only one candidate in special election to fill vacancy.
Section 9-224b. - Registration as write-in candidate in special election to fill vacancy.
Section 9-225. - State elections; exception for certain elections held in 2020 and 2021.
Section 9-226. - Municipal elections; exception for certain elections held in 2021.
Section 9-227. - Record of warning of municipal election.
Section 9-228. - Municipal elections.
Section 9-229b. - Regional election monitors. Contract. Memorandum of understanding.
Section 9-230. - Authority of registrars and moderators to prevent or suppress disorder.
Section 9-231. - Oath of election officials.
Section 9-232a. - Remedy for denial of voting rights.
Section 9-232b. - Penalty for false statement.
Section 9-232c. - Moderator to keep memorandum of challenge; form.
Section 9-232d. - Request for challenged ballot.
Section 9-232e. - Casting of challenged ballot, procedure.
Section 9-232f. - Preservation and counting of challenged ballots.
Section 9-232j. - Provisional ballot packets for elections for federal office.
Section 9-232k. - Secretary of the State to prescribe and provide provisional ballots.
Section 9-232l. - Applications for provisional ballots.
Section 9-232m. - Casting of provisional ballots.
Section 9-232o. - Counting of provisional ballots.
Section 9-233. - Voting tabulator tenders.
Section 9-234. - Presence of registrars. Official checkers. Checking of elector's name.
Section 9-235. - Unofficial checkers.
Section 9-235a. - Temporary absence of election officials.
Section 9-235c. - Voluntary service by election, primary or referendum officials.
Section 9-235e. - Secretary of the State allowed access to polling place.
Section 9-236a. - Spare voting tabulator or ballot box for educational use of students.