2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 9-258. Election officials; additional lines of electors.
Sec. 9-258. Election officials; additional lines of electors. The election officials
of each polling place, except voting machine mechanics, shall be electors of the town
and shall consist of one moderator, two checkers, two registrars of voters or two assistant
registrars of voters, as the case may be, of opposite political parties, not more than two
challengers if the registrars of voters have appointed challengers pursuant to section 9-232, and at least one and not more than two voting machine tenders for each voting
machine in use at the polling place. A known candidate for any office shall not serve
as an election official on election day or serve at the polls in any capacity, except that
a municipal clerk or a registrar of voters, who is a candidate for the same office, may
perform his official duties. If, in the opinion of the municipal officials, the public convenience of the electors in any voting district so requires, provision shall be made for an
additional line or lines of electors at the polling place and, if more than one line of electors
is established, two additional checkers for each line of electors shall be appointed and,
if more than one machine is used in a polling place, at least one and not more than two
additional voting machine tenders shall be appointed for each additional machine so
used. Head moderators, central counting moderators, absentee ballot counters and voting
machine mechanics appointed pursuant to law shall also be deemed election officials.
No election official shall perform services for any party or candidate on election day.
History: 1959 acts substituted registrars or assistant registrars of voters for deputy registrars and removed reference to trial justice court which was abolished; P.A. 74-109 removed the exception for office of justice of the peace from prohibition against candidates serving as election officials effective upon adoption of Senate Joint Resolution No. 22 of the 1973 session as an amendment to the constitution of Connecticut; P.A. 75-488 added "and party checkers" to "additional officers" to be appointed if more than one line of electors is established; P.A. 76-24 changed "party checkers" to "unofficial checkers"; P.A. 77-245 changed "town" to "municipal" clerk; P.A. 80-215 added qualification that election officials be electors of the town; P.A. 83-391 amended section to provide that voting machine mechanics need not be electors of town and to permit use of less than two challengers and two voting machine tenders and added provision to clarify that head moderators, central counting moderators, absentee ballot counters and voting machine mechanics are election officials and to provide that election officials shall not perform services for any party or candidate on election day; P.A. 84-546 moved exception re voting machine mechanics; P.A. 88-91 prohibited a municipal clerk or a registrar of voters who is a candidate for a different office from serving as an election official on election day or serving at the polls in any capacity.
To "take part in count" construed. What ballots to be rejected because of participation in count. 62 C. 482, 483.
