Sec. 9-373a. Registration of write-in candidates.
Sec. 9-373a. Registration of write-in candidates. Any person desiring to be a
write-in candidate for any state, district or municipal office to be filled at any regular
election shall register his candidacy with the Secretary of the State on a form prescribed
by the secretary. The registration shall include the candidate's name and address, the
designation and term of the office sought, a statement of consent to the candidacy, and
any other information which the secretary deems necessary. In the case of a write-in
candidacy for the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor, the registration shall include a candidate for each of those offices, or shall be void. The registration shall not
include a designation of any political party. The registration shall be filed with the
secretary not more than ninety days prior to the election at which the office is to be filled
and not later than four o'clock p.m. on the fourteenth day preceding the election, or the
registration shall be void. No person nominated for an office by a major or minor party
or by nominating petition shall register as a write-in candidate for that office under the
provisions of this section, and any registration of a write-in candidacy filed by such a
person shall be void. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, any
person desiring to be a write-in candidate for the municipal office of town meeting
member in any town having a representative town meeting which has seventy-five or
more members shall register his candidacy with the town clerk of such town not later
than the last business day preceding such election.
(P.A. 83-475, S. 1, 43; P.A. 87-382, S. 52, 55.)
History: P.A. 87-382 added notwithstanding sentence re write-in candidates for municipal office of town meeting
member in towns having a representative town meeting which has at least 75 members.