Connecticut 2011 2011 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB01187 Introduced / Bill

Filed 03/15/2011

                    General Assembly  Raised Bill No. 1187
January Session, 2011  LCO No. 4592
 *04592_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)

General Assembly

Raised Bill No. 1187 

January Session, 2011

LCO No. 4592

*04592_______GAE*

Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections 

Introduced by:

(GAE)

AN ACT CONCERNING A TECHNICAL REVISION TO THE STATUTES CONCERNING POLLING PLACES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 9-438 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

In each municipality or voting district, the polling places for [primaries] a primary held under sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, shall be the same as those used for the election to be held. When unaffiliated electors are authorized under section 9-431 to vote in the primary of either of two parties, both parties shall hold their primaries in the same room of each such polling place. On the day of the primary, the polls shall remain open for voting from six o'clock a.m. until eight o'clock p.m. 

 


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage 9-438

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:

Section 1

from passage

9-438

Statement of Purpose: 

To make a technical revision to the statutes concerning polling places. 

[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.]