Sec. 9-255. Sample ballot labels. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 9-255. Sample ballot labels. The board of selectmen or the municipal clerk shall provide for all polling places using voting machines at least three sample ballot labels which shall be arranged in the form of a diagram showing the entire front of the voting machine as it will appear after the official ballot labels are arranged for voting on election day or that portion thereof which will contain the offices, party designations, names of candidates, write-in slots and questions to be voted upon. On each such sample ballot label shall be printed instructions as to the use of the voting machine, which instructions shall be approved by the Secretary of the State. Such sample ballot labels shall be so posted inside the polling place as to be visible to those within the polling place during the whole day of election. At least one of such sample ballot labels shall be so posted as to be visible to an elector being instructed on the demonstrator or spare voting machine under section 9-260.

      (1949 Rev., S. 1198; 1953, 1955, S. 732d; 1957, P.A. 561, S. 14; P.A. 77-245, S. 7; P.A. 87-382, S. 27, 55.)

      History: P.A. 77-245 changed "town" to "municipal" clerk; P.A. 87-382 substituted "demonstrator or spare voting" for "dummy" voting machine.