Sec. 9-159r. Mandatory supervised voting at institutions. Procedure.
Sec. 9-159r. Mandatory supervised voting at institutions. Procedure. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes to the contrary, if twenty or more of
the patients in any institution in the state are electors, absentee ballots voted by such
electors shall be voted under the supervision of the registrars of voters or their designees
of the town in which the institution is located, in accordance with the provisions of this
section. As used in this section, the term "institution" shall be construed as defined in
section 9-159q.
(b) Application for an absentee ballot for any such patient shall be made to the clerk
of the town in which such patient is eligible to vote. The application procedure set forth
in section 9-140 shall apply, except that the clerk shall deliver the absentee voting set
for any such application to the clerk of the town in which the institution is located, who
shall deliver all such voting sets he receives to the registrars of such town, on the date
when the supervision of absentee balloting is to occur. The ballots and envelopes shall
be prepared for delivery to the applicant as provided in sections 9-137 to 9-140a, inclusive. The registrars or their designees shall furnish the town clerk a written receipt
for such ballots. The registrars of the town in which an institution is located and the
administrator of the institution shall mutually agree on a date and time for such supervision of absentee balloting, which shall be not later than the last business day before the
election or primary.
(c) The supervision of absentee balloting under this section shall be carried out in
accordance with the provisions of subsections (g), (h), (i) and (k) of section 9-159q.
(P.A. 87-532, S. 8, 10; P.A. 91-128, S. 2; P.A. 93-230, S. 7; P.A. 95-177, S. 3, 7.)
History: P.A. 91-128 amended Subsec. (b) to require supervised voting to be held not later than last business day before
election or primary; P.A. 93-230 amended Subsec. (c) to add reference to Sec. 9-159q(j); P.A. 95-177 amended Subsec.
(c) by deleting reference to Sec. 9-159q(f) and (j) and adding reference to 9-159q(i) and (k), effective January 1, 1996.
Cited. 231 C. 602.