2011 Connecticut Code
Title 9 Elections
Chapter 143 Electors: Qualifications and Admission
Sec. 9-23h. Application form.

      Sec. 9-23h. Application form. The application provided for in section 9-23g shall provide spaces for the following information for each applicant: (1) Name, (2) bona fide residence, including street number, street address, apartment number if applicable, town and zip code, (3) telephone number, (4) date of birth, (5) whether the applicant is registered as an elector in any other town in the state of Connecticut or in any other state, and if so, the applicant's last previous voting residence, (6) whether the applicant is a United States citizen, (7) whether the applicant will be eighteen years of age on or before election day, (8) party affiliation, if any, (9) the applicant's signature and date of signature, and (10) the applicant's Connecticut motor vehicle operator's license number or, if none, the last four digits of the applicant's Social Security number. The spaces for the applicant's telephone number and party affiliation shall indicate that such information does not have to be provided. On any such application printed on or after January 1, 2006, the space for the applicant's party affiliation shall also include a list of the names of the major parties, as defined in section 9-372, as options for the applicant. The spaces regarding United States citizenship and whether the applicant will be eighteen years of age on or before election day shall indicate that if the applicant answers "No" to either question, the applicant may not complete the voter registration form. No Social Security number on any such form filed prior to January 1, 2000, may be disclosed to the public or to any governmental agency. The application shall contain a notice that if the applicant does not receive a notice of acceptance or rejection of the application from the office of the registrars of voters for the municipality in which the applicant resides, the applicant should contact said office. The application shall also contain any other information, questions or instructions prescribed by the Secretary of the State.

      (P.A. 88-344, S. 2, 5; P.A. 93-386, S. 2, 5; P.A. 94-121, S. 19, 33; P.A. 99-268, S. 41, 46; P.A. 00-169, S. 22; P.A. 02-83, S. 7; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 92; P.A. 05-235, S. 16.)

      History: P.A. 93-386 required form to provide space for applicant's Social Security number, required secretary and registrars to comply with Privacy Act re request for such number and prohibited public disclosure of the number, amended Subpara. (A) by substituting "until approved by the registrars of voters," for "until he receives a notice of acceptance from the registrars of voters, which should be within three weeks," amended Subpara. (B) by adding reference to Sec. 9-27, deleted former Subparas. (C), (E) and (F), re witnessing official, and renumbered remaining Subparas. accordingly, substituted new Subpara. (D) for former Subpara. (H), requiring summary of applicable penalties to be contained on application instead of full text and amended relettered Subpara. (E) to provide for applicant to retain receipt, effective January 1, 1994; P.A. 94-121 deleted requirements that application provide spaces for applicant's sex, birthplace and printed or typed name and address and contain instructions re question re citizenship and information specified in former Subparas. (A) to (E), inclusive, effective January 1, 1995; P.A. 99-268 repealed requirement that application provide space for applicant's Social Security number and extended prohibition on disclosure of Social Security numbers on forms to the public or to any governmental agency, effective January 1, 2000; P.A. 00-169 revised effective date of P.A. 99-268 but without affecting this section; P.A. 02-83 made a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality and required application to contain notice that applicant should contact registrars' office if applicant does not receive notice of acceptance or rejection, effective January 1, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 added new Subdiv. (7) to require application to provide space for whether applicant will be 18 years of age on or before election day, renumbered former Subdivs. (7) and (8) as Subdivs. (8) and (9), added Subdiv. (10) to require application to provide space for applicant's Connecticut motor vehicle operator's license number or, if none, the last four digits of applicant's Social Security number, and added provision to require spaces re citizenship and whether applicant will be 18 years of age to indicate that if applicant answers "No", applicant may not complete form, effective January 1, 2004; P.A. 05-235 required application to include list of names of major parties, effective January 1, 2006.