2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 9-296. Box-tenders.
Sec. 9-296. Box-tenders. At each regular or special state, municipal or ward election the registrars of each town or voting district, as the case may be, shall appoint a
suitable elector residing therein, for each ballot box, to be box-tender, and one or two
others, as may be necessary, to be substitute box-tenders for each box, respectively. No
person not so appointed shall have charge of any ballot box during the taking of any
vote, and no known candidate for any office shall be moderator, or be put in charge of
any box in which votes are cast for such office, or take part in the count thereof, except
that candidates for registrar of voters may act as counters of votes cast in town elections.
Any candidate who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than
five hundred dollars.
To "take part in count" construed. What ballots to be rejected because of participation in count. 62 C. 482, 483.
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