2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 9-148. Counting of absentee ballots; training of counters.
Sec. 9-148. Counting of absentee ballots; training of counters. In municipalities
where there are registrars of voters for each voting district, the appointment of such
absentee ballot counters shall be made by the registrars of the first district. If there is
no district so designated, such appointment shall be made by the registrars of the district
in which the presiding officer for the purpose of declaring the result of the vote of the
whole municipality is the moderator. Each person appointed to count absentee ballots
shall participate in a training session at which the registrars, municipal clerk and moderator shall review and study the absentee counter's manual provided by the Secretary of
the State under section 9-150a. Each elector so appointed shall be sworn to carry out
faithfully the duties of his office and not to attempt to ascertain the manner in which
any absentee elector has marked his absentee ballot. The registrars of voters shall ascertain the voting district in which each absentee elector is registered and shall apportion
the envelopes according to voting districts among the appointed groups of electors, if
there is more than one such group, in such manner that each group can conveniently
count the votes apportioned to it.
History: 1963 act provided for endorsement of date of receipt on envelope; P.A. 77-187 substituted "head" moderator for "chief" moderator; P.A. 84-319 eliminated requirement that absentee ballot counters be affiliated with appointing registrar's political party; P.A. 85-592 amended section to require mandatory training sessions for absentee ballot counters and to specify that registrars, municipal clerks and moderators must review and study absentee counter's manual at such sessions; P.A. 86-179 deleted provisions re clerk's endorsement and affidavit of receipt of ballots.
Absentee ballots held void due to clerk's total noncompliance. Relation to sections 9-145 and 9-146 discussed. 164 C. 204. Cited. 186 C. 125, 150. Cited. 216 C. 253, 270.
