General Assembly Raised Bill No. 435
February Session, 2012 LCO No. 2419
*02419_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 435
February Session, 2012
LCO No. 2419
*02419_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING CHANGES TO ELECTION LAWS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subdivision (3) of subsection (c) of section 9-55 of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2012):
(3) A notice of primary is published for only one party and (A) unaffiliated electors are not authorized to vote, or (B) unaffiliated electors are authorized to vote for all offices to be contested at the primary, a registry list may be used as a checklist at the primary and the registrars of voters shall print [a supplementary or] an updated list indicating those electors who have become eligible to vote in the primary since the printing of the registry list.
Sec. 2. Subdivision (12) of section 9-372 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2012):
(12) "Registrar" means the registrar of voters in a municipality who is enrolled with the political party holding a primary; [and, in each municipality where there are different registrars for different voting districts, means the registrar so enrolled in the voting district in which, at the last-preceding regular election, the presiding officer for the purpose of declaring the result of the vote of the whole municipality was moderator;]
Sec. 3. Subsection (d) of section 9-235 of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2012):
(d) No candidate for an office in an election may be an unofficial checker at such election. [In municipalities divided into two voting districts in which registrars are elected for each district, such appointments may be made by the registrars in each district.] Such unofficial checkers may remain within the polling place for the purpose of checking their own copy of the registry list to indicate the names of electors who have voted, and may enter and leave the restricted area surrounding the polling place during the hours of election or referendum for the purpose of taking such information outside said area or may communicate such information from the polling place by means of telephones provided by the party for which such checkers were appointed. If any such unofficial checker interferes with the orderly process of voting or attempts to influence any elector, he shall be evicted by the moderator. An unofficial checker appointed pursuant to this section may receive compensation from the municipality in which the election is held.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2012 9-55(c)(3)
Sec. 2 July 1, 2012 9-372(12)
Sec. 3 July 1, 2012 9-235(d)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
July 1, 2012
9-55(c)(3)
Sec. 2
July 1, 2012
9-372(12)
Sec. 3
July 1, 2012
9-235(d)
Statement of Purpose:
To make technical and conforming changes to election laws.
[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.]