2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 9-306. Penalties.
Sec. 9-306. Penalties. Any person, not expressly authorized thereto, who has in
his possession any official ballot, and any person who makes or has in his possession
any forged imitation of any official ballot, and any person who offers to anyone not
authorized or permitted by law to have or receive an official ballot or who aids or knowingly permits any person to obtain possession of an official ballot, and any person who
offers to aid or knowingly permits anyone to obtain possession of an official ballot for
the purpose of using the same for any purpose not prescribed by law, and any person
not authorized who gives or offers to any person an official ballot, and any person who
offers to another any forged imitation of any official ballot or offers to the box-tender,
for the purpose of voting the same, any ballot not an official ballot, and any person who
offers any elector while he is in an election booth any ballot or places any ballot in such
booth for the use of any elector or for any purpose, and any person, not by law authorized
thereto, who receives any official ballot from any person not authorized by the provisions
of this part to offer or give the same, and any person who receives an official ballot for
the purpose of using the same for any other purpose or purposes than those expressly
named by the provisions of this part, and any person who knowingly receives for the
purpose of depositing the same in any ballot box any forged imitation of any official
ballot, and any box-tender who knowingly deposits in any ballot box any ballot not an
official ballot or any box-tender who knowingly deposits in any stub box any stub other
than one torn or separated from a ballot offered by an elector while in the act of voting,
and any person who imitates any official ballot or prints or causes to be printed any
ballot authorized by this part in any manner other than as prescribed by the Secretary
of the State, and any person who places upon any official ballot any mark or device for
the purpose of enabling any person to identify the same as having been voted by himself
or by any particular person, or who alters or changes any ballot by erasing or removing
any name or names therefrom, and any person who attempts to ascertain or observe the
ballot being voted by any elector while such elector is in any booth or enclosure so as
to ascertain how such elector has voted, except as provided in this part, and any person
who, having received his official ballot, leaves the voting place without having either
delivered it to the box-tender or the moderator or returned it to a ballot clerk, and any
person who prints or causes to be printed upon any official ballot the name of any person
not a candidate of a party whose name is printed at the head of the column containing
such party nominees or offers to any elector such ballot, shall be fined not less than one
hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five
years or be both fined and imprisoned.
