General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1058
January Session, 2013 LCO No. 3995
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Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 1058
January Session, 2013
LCO No. 3995
*03995_______GAE*
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE RETENTION OF UNUSED ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsections (f) to (h), inclusive, of section 9-150b of the general statutes are repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2014):
(f) The municipal clerk shall preserve for sixty days after the election, primary or referendum the depository envelopes containing opened envelopes and rejected ballots required by subsection (f) of section 9-150a, and shall so preserve for one hundred eighty days the depository envelopes containing counted ballots and related materials required by subsection (m) of section 9-150a. The municipal clerk shall preserve for ten days after the election, primary or referendum all unused absentee ballots.
(g) No such depository envelope shall be opened except by order of a court of competent jurisdiction, by the State Elections Enforcement Commission pursuant to a subpoena issued under subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 9-7b or within five days of an election, primary or referendum for the purpose of a recanvass conducted pursuant to law. After such a recanvass the depository envelopes and their contents shall be returned to the municipal clerk and preserved for the stated period.
(h) For sixty days after the election, primary or referendum the following shall be preserved by the municipal clerk as a public record open to public inspection: (1) All executed absentee ballot application forms and direction by registrar forms, as required by subdivision (i) of section 9-140; (2) the list and index of applicants for presidential or overseas ballots as required by section 9-158h; (3) the numerical list of absentee voting sets issued as required by subsection (e) of section 9-140; (4) the list of the names of persons whose absentee ballots are received by the clerk, as required by subsection (a) of section 9-140c; and (5) [all unused absentee ballots; and (6)] all envelopes containing ballots received by the clerk after the close of the polls, which shall remain unopened.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 January 1, 2014 9-150b(f) to (h)
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
January 1, 2014
9-150b(f) to (h)
Statement of Purpose:
To allow clerks to dispose of unused absentee ballots after ten days after an election, primary or referendum.
[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.]