General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6631
January Session, 2013 LCO No. 4242
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Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 6631
January Session, 2013
LCO No. 4242
*04242_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE ORDER OF PARTIES ON BALLOTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 9-249a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2014):
(a) The names of the parties shall be arranged on the ballots in the following order:
(1) The party [whose candidate for Governor polled the highest number of votes] in which the Governor was enrolled for the last-preceding election;
(2) Other parties who had candidates for Governor in the last-preceding election, in descending order, according to the number of votes polled for each such candidate;
(3) Minor parties who had no candidate for Governor in the last-preceding election;
(4) Petitioning candidates with party designation whose names are contained in petitions approved pursuant to section 9-453o; and
(5) Petitioning candidates with no party designation whose names are contained in petitions approved pursuant to section 9-453o.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 January 1, 2014 9-249a(a)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
January 1, 2014
9-249a(a)
Statement of Purpose:
To provide that the name of the party in which the Governor was enrolled for the last-preceding election be the party that appears first on the ballot.
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