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| 19 | 20 | | AN ACT CONCERNING THE RIGHT TO VIEW A BALLOT DURING |
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| 20 | 21 | | RECANVASS PROCEDURES. |
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| 21 | 22 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 22 | 23 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 24 | 25 | | Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 9-311 of the 2024 supplement to 1 |
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| 25 | 26 | | the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 2 |
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| 26 | 27 | | thereof (Effective July 1, 2024): 3 |
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| 27 | 28 | | (b) The moderator shall determine the place or places where the 4 |
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| 28 | 29 | | recanvass shall be conducted and, if such recanvass is held before the 5 |
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| 29 | 30 | | tabulators are boxed and collected in the manner required by section 9-6 |
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| 30 | 31 | | 266, the moderator may either require that such recanvass of such 7 |
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| 31 | 32 | | tabulators be conducted in each place where the tabulators are located, 8 |
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| 32 | 33 | | or he may require that they be removed to one central place, where such 9 |
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| 33 | 34 | | recanvass shall be conducted. All recanvassing procedures shall be open 10 |
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| 34 | 35 | | to public observation, subject to the provisions of subsection (d) of this 11 |
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| 35 | 36 | | section. Such recanvass officials shall, in the presence of such moderator 12 |
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| 36 | 37 | | and registrars of voters, make a record of the number on the seal and 13 |
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| 42 | 44 | | tabulator specified by such moderator. Such registrars of voters in the 15 |
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| 43 | 45 | | presence of such moderator shall turn over the keys of each such 16 |
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| 44 | 46 | | tabulator to such recanvass officials, and such recanvass officials, in the 17 |
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| 45 | 47 | | presence of such registrars of voters and moderator, shall immediately 18 |
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| 46 | 48 | | proceed to recanvass the vote cast thereon, and shall then open the 19 |
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| 47 | 49 | | package of absentee ballots and recanvass the vote cast thereon. In the 20 |
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| 48 | 50 | | course of the recanvass of the absentee ballot vote the recanvass officials 21 |
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| 49 | 51 | | shall check all outer envelopes for absentee ballots against the inner 22 |
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| 50 | 52 | | envelopes for such ballots and against the registry list to verify 23 |
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| 51 | 53 | | postmarks, addresses and registry list markings and also to determine 24 |
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| 52 | 54 | | whether the number of envelopes from which absentee ballots have 25 |
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| 53 | 55 | | been removed is the same as the number of persons checked as having 26 |
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| 54 | 56 | | voted by absentee ballot. The write-in ballots shall also be recanvassed 27 |
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| 55 | 57 | | at this time. Any party representative present shall have a right to view 28 |
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| 56 | 58 | | each ballot as it is being recanvassed by the recanvass officials [,] so as 29 |
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| 57 | 59 | | to be able to discern the markings on such ballot, and any moderator or 30 |
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| 58 | 60 | | recanvass official who interferes with such right shall be subject to a fine 31 |
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| 59 | 61 | | of five hundred dollars. All of the recanvass officials shall use the same 32 |
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| 60 | 62 | | forms for tallies and returns as were used at the original canvass and the 33 |
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| 61 | 63 | | absentee ballot counters shall also sign the tallies. 34 |
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| 62 | 64 | | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following |
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| 63 | 65 | | sections: |
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| 65 | 67 | | Section 1 July 1, 2024 9-311(b) |
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