General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6578
January Session, 2013 LCO No. 4000
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Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 6578
January Session, 2013
LCO No. 4000
*04000_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING TIMELY FILING OF ELECTION RETURNS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 9-307 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2014):
Immediately after the polls are closed, the official checkers, appointed under the provisions of section 9-234, shall make and deliver to the moderator a certificate, in duplicate, stating the whole number of names on the registry list or enrollment list including, if applicable, unaffiliated electors authorized under section 9-431 to vote in the primary, and the number checked as having voted in that election or primary. For the purpose of computing the whole number of names on the registry list, the lists of persons who have applied for presidential or overseas ballots prepared in accordance with section 9-158h shall be included. Thereupon the registrars or assistant registrars, as the case may be, acting at the respective polls, shall write and sign with ink, on the list or lists so used and checked, a certificate of the whole number of names registered thereon eligible to vote in the election or primary and the number checked as having voted in that election or primary, and deposit it in the office of the municipal clerk of their town on or before the following day. The municipal clerk shall carefully preserve the same on file, with the marks on it without alteration, for public inspection, and shall immediately enter a certified copy of such certificate on the town records. Subject to the provisions of section 7-109, the municipal clerk may destroy any voting check list four years after the date upon which it was used. The moderator shall place one of the duplicate certificates which the moderator received from the official checkers with the voted ballots from the polling place and the moderator's return provided for in sections 9-259 and 9-310 and shall then lock the tabulator as provided in section 9-310, and the moderator shall deposit the other of such duplicate certificates in the office of the municipal clerk on or before the following day. Any such moderator who fails to deliver such duplicate certificates to the office of the municipal clerk in accordance with this section shall pay a late filing fee of fifty dollars to the municipal clerk.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 January 1, 2014 9-307
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
January 1, 2014
9-307
Statement of Purpose:
To ensure that the municipal clerk has all materials necessary to certify that all discrepancies have been rectified and to report accurate election returns.
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