Sec. 9-240a. Periodic examination of voting machines. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 9-240a. Periodic examination of voting machines. Not more than two hundred ten days nor less than thirty days prior to each regular election for state officers, each voting machine to be used in the next succeeding regular election, including additional machines required under section 9-238, shall be examined by the company which manufactured the same or its successor or, with the approval of the Secretary of the State, by persons skilled in the mechanics and operation of said machines, for the purpose of determining that such machine is in sound operable condition for use in such election. Arrangements for such examination shall be made by the officials responsible for providing voting machines under section 9-238. The company or person making such examination shall file a report with respect to each machine with the Secretary of the State and with said officials, indicating whether or not such machine is in sound operable condition. When, as a result of any such examination, a machine is found not to be in sound operable condition, said officials shall have such machine repaired, or shall provide a voting machine in sound operable condition to replace the machine found inoperable. The cost for such examination in each town shall be paid by such town. Failure to cause the examination of a voting machine, as herein required, shall not, of itself, prevent the use of such machine in any election.

      (1967, P.A. 229, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 355, S. 2; P.A. 87-382, S. 21, 55.)

      History: 1969 act deleted obsolete language and required examination of additional machines required under Sec. 9-238; P.A. 87-382 required examination of machines not more than 210 days or less than 30 days before election rather than "during the period from seven months to one month" before election.