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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 352
February Session, 2024
LCO No. 2447
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT
ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO VIEW A BALLOT DURING
RECANVASS PROCEDURES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 9-311 of the 2024 supplement to 1
the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 2
thereof (Effective July 1, 2024): 3
(b) The moderator shall determine the place or places where the 4
recanvass shall be conducted and, if such recanvass is held before the 5
tabulators are boxed and collected in the manner required by section 9-6
266, the moderator may either require that such recanvass of such 7
tabulators be conducted in each place where the tabulators are located, 8
or he may require that they be removed to one central place, where such 9
recanvass shall be conducted. All recanvassing procedures shall be open 10
to public observation, subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this 11
section. Such recanvass officials shall, in the presence of such moderator 12
and registrars of voters, make a record of the number on the seal and 13
the number on the protective counter, if one is provided, on each voting 14 Bill No. 352
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tabulator specified by such moderator. Such registrars of voters in the 15
presence of such moderator shall turn over the keys of each such 16
tabulator to such recanvass officials, and such recanvass officials, in the 17
presence of such registrars of voters and moderator, shall immediately 18
proceed to recanvass the vote cast thereon, and shall then open the 19
package of absentee ballots and recanvass the vote cast thereon. In the 20
course of the recanvass of the absentee ballot vote the recanvass officials 21
shall check all outer envelopes for absentee ballots against the inner 22
envelopes for such ballots and against the registry list to verify 23
postmarks, addresses and registry list markings and also to determine 24
whether the number of envelopes from which absentee ballots have 25
been removed is the same as the number of persons checked as having 26
voted by absentee ballot. The write-in ballots shall also be recanvassed 27
at this time. Any party representative present shall have a right to view 28
each ballot as it is being recanvassed by the recanvass officials [,] so as 29
to be able to discern the markings on such ballot, and any moderator or 30
recanvass official who interferes with such right shall be subject to a fine 31
of five hundred dollars. All of the recanvass officials shall use the same 32
forms for tallies and returns as were used at the original canvass and the 33
absentee ballot counters shall also sign the tallies. 34
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2024 9-311(b)
GAE Joint Favorable