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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6362
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 1837
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.
REP. HUGHES, 135th Dist.
REP. CANDELARIA, 95th Dist.
SEN. HASKELL, 26th Dist.
REP. WINKLER, 56th Dist.
REP. LEMAR, 96th Dist.
REP. GILCHREST, 18th Dist.
REP. PHIPPS, 100th Dist.
SEN. LOPES, 6th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS AND
ELECTORAL PRIVILEGES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That title 9 of the general statutes be amended to (1) identify 1
organizations and institutions best suited to help provide to 2
incarcerated individuals information and other resources concerning 3
candidates and policy issues, (2) require local election officials to 4
develop plans to assist eligible incarcerated individuals in both 5
registering to vote and actually voting, (3) require the Secretary of the 6
State and the Commissioner of Correction to coordinate on efforts to 7
facilitate voter education, identify eligible voters and develop 8
procedures for supervised ballot submission, (4) provide that no person 9
who voted while incarcerated may be held liable for failing to withdraw 10
such person's absentee ballot or voting in person after submitting such 11
absentee ballot, (5) provide that no incarcerated person who is ineligible 12 Proposed Bill No. 6362
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to vote may be held liable for inadvertently misrepresenting such 13
person's eligibility and seeking to apply for an absentee ballot, (6) 14
establish a Department of Correction Registrar of Voters, permit local 15
election officials in municipalities without correctional facilities to 16
provide assistance to local election officials in municipalities with such 17
facilities or provide additional funding to local election officials in 18
municipalities with such facilities, (7) establish polling places in jails 19
where periods of incarceration are shorter and promote absentee voting 20
in prisons where such periods are longer, and (8) involve currently and 21
formerly incarcerated individuals in the implementation of such voting 22
initiatives. 23
Statement of Purpose:
To implement several reforms regarding voting by incarcerated
individuals who have not forfeited their electoral privileges.