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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 644
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 2719
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
SEN. FASANO, 34th Dist.
SEN. WITKOS, 8th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING POST -ELECTION AUDITS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That section 9-320f of the general statutes be amended to require 1
that, of the five per cent of the voting districts of the state randomly 2
selected for audit, the Secretary of the State shall ensure that any 3
voting district in which the difference in votes between the candidates 4
for an office is below a certain threshold is included in such five per 5
cent, provided no voting district that has an office subject to a 6
recanvass shall be so included. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Secretary of the State to include voting districts that
have close elections, but not close enough to trigger recanvasses, in the
five per cent of districts state-wide selected for audit.