Sec. 9-289. Registrars of voters to provide rooms or booths and ballot boxes. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 9-289. Registrars of voters to provide rooms or booths and ballot boxes. The registrars of voters shall provide a suitable room or rooms or booths for holding all elections at which paper ballots are to be used and shall give public notice of the location thereof at least one week before the day of such elections. The number of rooms or booths shall be one for each one hundred and fifty names on the last-completed registry list of the town, except that in towns having more than fifteen hundred names on such list there shall be one for each two hundred and fifty names. Such room or rooms or booths shall be supplied with necessary conveniences for electors to arrange their ballots. The interior of the rooms or booths shall be secure from outside observation, and such rooms or booths shall be located in or connected with the room where the ballot boxes shall be stationed. The registrars of voters shall provide the ballot box or boxes necessary for use at all such elections. Each such ballot box shall have an aperture in its lid for the purpose of depositing the ballots and shall be so constructed that, when the voting is completed, the aperture may be closed so that no ballots can afterward be put into the box without reopening it. In addition thereto, the registrars of voters shall prepare or cause to be prepared an additional box which shall be placed by the side of the ballot box, which box shall be constructed in the same manner as the ballot box, in which box all stubs torn or separated from the ballots at the time of voting shall at such time be deposited. Such boxes shall be marked respectively "ballots" and "stubs", in order to designate the boxes in which the ballots and stubs shall be deposited, respectively. Any expenses incurred in the execution of the requirements of this section shall be paid by the municipality.

      (1949 Rev., S. 519, 1054; 1953, S. 766d; P.A. 07-194, S. 29.)

      History: P.A. 07-194 changed "selectmen" to "registrars of voters" and added provision requiring municipalities to pay any expenses incurred in execution of the requirements of section.

      Irregularities in arranging polling place held not to invalidate election. 75 C. 53.