2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 9-290. Ballot booth. Process of voting.

      Sec. 9-290. Ballot booth. Process of voting. (a) The selectmen shall provide, at the entrance into the enclosure prescribed by section 9-289, a ballot booth at which the elector shall obtain the elector's ballot. Each ballot booth shall be in charge of two ballot clerks, not of the same political party, who shall be appointed by the registrars.

      (b) In each primary, election or referendum, when an elector has entered the polling place, the elector shall (1) announce the elector's street address, if any, and name to the checkers in a tone sufficiently loud and clear to enable all the election officials present to hear the same, and (2)(A) present to the checkers the elector's Social Security card or any other preprinted form of identification which shows the elector's name and either the elector's address, signature or photograph, or (B) sign a statement under penalty of false statement, on a form prescribed by the Secretary of the State, that the elector is the person whose name appears on the official checklist. Each checker shall check the name of such elector on the official checklist. No political party shall have more than one challenger. The moderator may allow in the polling place any witnesses that may be required in the case of a challenge, provided the moderator shall not allow in more than one witness at a time.

      (c) In each polling place in which two or more parties are holding primaries in which unaffiliated electors are authorized to vote pursuant to section 9-431, an unaffiliated elector shall also announce to the separate table of checkers for unaffiliated electors the party in whose primary the elector chooses to vote and the checkers shall note such party when checking such elector's name on the checklist of unaffiliated electors. Such choice shall not alter the elector's unaffiliated status.

      (d) In each polling place in which two or more parties are holding primaries in which unaffiliated electors are authorized to vote or in which one party is holding a primary in which unaffiliated electors are authorized to vote for some but not all offices to be contested at the primary, the checkers shall give to each elector checked a receipt provided by the municipal clerk, in a form prescribed by the Secretary of the State, specifying either (1) the party with which the elector is enrolled, if any, or (2) in the case of an unaffiliated elector, the party in whose primary the elector has chosen to vote and whether the elector is authorized to vote for only a partial ballot.

      (e) If not challenged by any of the election officials, the elector shall be permitted to pass the railing to the side where the ballot booth is located. The elector shall give any receipt the elector has received to a ballot clerk at the ballot booth to which the elector is directed and the ballot clerk shall permit the elector to vote only in the primary of the party specified by the receipt and, if applicable, at the separate ballot booth with the partial ballot specified by the receipt. One of the ballot clerks shall deliver to such elector one official ballot, except that if any elector so defaces or injures any such ballot as to render it unfit for use, upon the return of such ballot to the ballot clerks, such clerks shall furnish the elector with another official ballot.

      (1949 Rev., S. 1055; 1953, S. 767d; P.A. 02-130, S. 1.)

      History: P.A. 02-130 designated existing provisions as Subsecs. (a) and (e), making technical changes therein, and inserted Subsecs. (b), (c) and (d) and provisions in said Subsec. (e) re polling place procedures, effective July 1, 2002.