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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 1120
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 448
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
SEN. SAMPSON, 16th Dist.
AN ACT REQUIRING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS FOR CERTAIN SAME -
DAY ELECTION REGISTRATION APPLICANTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That section 9-19j of the general statutes be amended to provide that 1
(1) at an election at which federal offices are on the ballot, if the registrars 2
of voters determine while checking the state-wide centralized voter 3
registration system that an applicant has not already been admitted as 4
an elector in a town in the state, such elector shall be provided a 5
provisional ballot for purposes of voting for federal offices only, and (2) 6
all such provisional ballots, after being cast, shall be segregated for the 7
purpose of an audit to confirm that no voter casting such a ballot did 8
not also vote in another state at such election. 9
Statement of Purpose:
To require that certain applicants for same-day election registration be
issued provisional ballots to confirm such applicants have not voted in
multiple states at the same election.