General Assembly Raised Bill No. 941
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 3020
*03020_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 941
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 3020
*03020_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT IMPLEMENTING NO-EXCUSE ABSENTEE VOTING.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 9-135 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective upon certification by the Secretary of the State of the vote approving the constitutional amendment concerning no-excuse absentee voting):
(a) Any elector eligible to vote at a primary or an election and any person eligible to vote at a referendum may vote by absentee ballot. [if he is unable to appear at his polling place during the hours of voting for any of the following reasons: (1) His active service with the armed forces of the United States; (2) his absence from the town of his voting residence during all of the hours of voting; (3) his illness; (4) his physical disability; (5) the tenets of his religion forbid secular activity on the day of the primary, election or referendum; or (6) the required performance of his duties as a primary, election or referendum official at a polling place other than his own during all of the hours of voting at such primary, election or referendum.]
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 upon certification by the Secretary of the State of the vote approving the constitutional amendment concerning no-excuse absentee voting 9-135(a)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
upon certification by the Secretary of the State of the vote approving the constitutional amendment concerning no-excuse absentee voting
9-135(a)
Statement of Purpose:
To allow for no-excuse absentee voting.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]