Connecticut General Statutes
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.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 9 - Elections

Chapter 151 - Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties

Section 9-349. - Unlawful sessions of board for admission.

Section 9-350. - Failure to warn election.

Section 9-351. - Delay in counting or declaring vote.

Section 9-352. - Tampering with tabulator by election official.

Section 9-353. - False statement, certificate or return.

Section 9-354. - Improper printing of ballot.

Section 9-355. - Official neglect or fraud.

Section 9-356. - Neglect to elect grand jurors.

Section 9-357. - Fraudulent registration.

Section 9-358. - False swearing before registrar, moderator, board or State Elections Enforcement Commission.

Section 9-359. - Absentee ballots.

Section 9-359a. - False statement in absentee balloting. Class D felony.

Section 9-360. - Fraudulent voting.

Section 9-361. - Primary or enrollment violations.

Section 9-362. - Decision of election officials no bar to prosecution.

Section 9-363. - Circulation of misleading instructions.

Section 9-364. - Influencing elector to refrain from voting.

Section 9-364a. (Formerly Sec. 9-344). - Acts prohibited in elections, primaries, referenda, caucuses and conventions. Penalties.

Section 9-364b. - Restrictions on incumbents' use of public funds.

Section 9-365. - Employers' threats.

Section 9-366. - Interference with electors in voting.

Section 9-367. - Tampering with ballot or voting tabulator.

Section 9-368. - Arrest of accused.

Section 9-368c. - Misrepresentation of contents of a petition.