2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 9-294. Deposit of ballots. Booth tenders.

      Sec. 9-294. Deposit of ballots. Booth tenders. The registrars of each town shall designate and appoint two persons to serve during the hours the polls are open, who shall have charge of the rooms or booths herein provided for. Only one elector at a time shall be permitted to enter the same room or booth to prepare his ballot, unless the elector, from physical infirmity, requires assistance, and the booth tenders shall see that the space is vacant before admitting an elector, and no person, while an elector is in such room or booth, shall attempt to learn about or observe the ballot prepared by such elector. No elector shall remain in the room or booth, while preparing his ballot, more than three minutes, and he shall thereupon pass out and into the enclosure where the ballot box and stub box are placed and, under the direction of the moderator, shall deposit his ballot upon the ballot box. Each person who has received an official ballot from any ballot clerk, and who, having passed into the enclosure where the ballot box and the stub box are placed, fails to deposit the same upon the ballot box as prescribed, shall immediately, and before leaving such enclosure, deliver the same to the moderator; and any person, having received an official ballot from either of such ballot clerks, who fails to pass with the same into the enclosure in which such ballot box and stub box are placed, shall immediately, and before leaving the room or booth in which such ballot clerks are stationed, return the same to such ballot clerks.

      (1949 Rev., S. 1066; 1953, S. 771d.)