Bill Text: CT HB06635 | 2013 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 6635 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Amended Election Returns.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-07-12 - Signed by the Governor [HB06635 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-HB06635-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 6635*
*January Session, 2013*		LCO No. 4462
		04462_______GAE
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT CONCERNING AMENDED ELECTION RETURNS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 9-322a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2014):

(a) Not later than seven days following each regular state election, the head moderator and the registrars of voters and municipal clerk for each municipality divided into voting districts shall meet to identify any error in the returns. The head moderator shall correct any error identified and file an amended return with the Secretary of the State and the registrars of voters.

(b) Not later than twenty-one days following each regular state election, the [town] municipal clerk of each [town] municipality divided into voting districts shall file with the Secretary of the State a consolidated listing, in tabular format, as prescribed by the Secretary of the State, of the official returns of each such voting district for all offices voted on at such election, including the total number of votes cast for each candidate, the total number of names on the registry list, and the total number of names checked as having voted, in each such district. The town clerk of such town shall certify that he or she has examined the lists transmitted under this section to determine whether there are any discrepancies between the total number of votes cast for a candidate at such election in such town, including for any recanvass conducted pursuant to section 9-311 or 9-311a, and the sum of the votes cast for the same candidate in all voting districts in such town. In the case of any such discrepancy, the town clerk shall notify the head moderator and certify that such discrepancy has been rectified. Each listing filed under this section shall be retained by the Secretary of the State not less than ten years after the date of the election for which it was filed.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	January 1, 2014	9-322a

Statement of Purpose:

To require the head moderator, registrar of voters and municipal clerk to identify and correct any error in returns not later than seven days following an election.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]