Sec. 9-396. Ballot vote at caucus; eligibility to vote.
Sec. 9-396. Ballot vote at caucus; eligibility to vote. At any caucus of the enrolled
members of any party in any municipality or in any voting district of any municipality,
the chairman of such caucus shall, upon the receipt of a written motion from any person
lawfully participating in such caucus calling for a vote by ballot upon such matter as
such motion designates, submit such motion to a rising vote; and, if fifteen electors
present and legally entitled to participate in such caucus vote in favor of such motion,
the vote on the matter specified in such motion shall be by ballot. The presiding officer
shall thereupon appoint two tellers; and, upon the written application of fifteen electors
legally entitled to participate in such caucus, he shall appoint a teller from the persons
whose names appear on such application. Before any ballot is deposited, the name of
the elector offering to vote shall be given to the clerk or secretary of such caucus, and
such name shall be checked on the enrollment list of such party. No person shall vote
or participate or attempt to vote or participate in any caucus of a party in any voting
district unless he is enrolled on the last-completed enrollment list of such party in such
voting district; provided, if the party rules of such party provide for a joint caucus for
two or more voting districts of a municipality, a person may vote in such joint caucus
if the voting district in which he is enrolled is participating in such joint caucus. Any
person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than two
hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days or both.
(November, 1955, S. N108; 1958 Rev., S. 9-131; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 24.)
History: 1963 act restated previous provisions.
See Sec. 9-431a re eligibility to vote at caucus, primary or town convention.
Cited. 144 C. 27.