Sec. 9-236a. Spare voting machine or ballot box for educational use of students. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 9-236a. Spare voting machine or ballot box for educational use of students. Any town, on its own initiative or upon a request by the Secretary of the State, and with the approval of the legislative body of the town or, in the case of a town in which the legislative body is a town meeting, the board of selectmen, may require a spare voting machine or ballot box to be provided inside any polling place or in a room adjacent to the polling place, for the educational use of students from kindergarten to grade twelve, inclusive. Upon such approval, the registrars shall establish procedures for the use of the machine or ballot box, including but not limited to: (1) Location and preparation of the machine or ballot box, (2) duties of machine or ballot box tenders and (3) canvassing the returns. Any such machine shall be in addition to the demonstrator or spare voting machine required by section 9-260. Ballots completed by students under this section shall be unofficial, and polling place officials shall not be required to handle or count such ballots. Each student who will be using such machine or ballot box inside a polling place or a room adjacent to the polling place shall be accompanied by an adult. The supervisor of such students for the purposes of this section shall submit the names of all adults who will be working with such students to the registrars at least forty-eight hours before the election.

      (P.A. 89-286, S. 2, 3; P.A. 94-203, S. 9, 12.)

      History: P.A. 94-203 authorized town to provide educational purpose voting mechanisms on its own initiative or upon a request by the secretary of the state, authorized the use of ballot boxes, reduced the minimum grade level for participation from fourth grade to kindergarten and added provisions re supervision, effective July 1, 1994.