General Assembly Raised Bill No. 487
February Session, 2020 LCO No. 3041
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN REVISIONS TO ELECTION
STATUTES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 Section 1. Section 9-21 of the general statutes is repealed and the
2 following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2020):
3 (a) If any applicant for admission as an elector in any town has
4 previously been admitted as an elector in any other town in this state,
5 or in any other state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of
6 Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Guam or the Trust
7 Territory of the Pacific Islands, he shall, under penalties of perjury, so
8 declare, and shall also declare by what name and in what town and
9 state, district or territory he was last admitted as an elector and the street
10 address from which he last voted therein. The admitting official shall,
11 [within] not later than forty-eight hours [thereafter] after such
12 declaration, transmit a notice of cancellation of such registration, upon
13 a form prescribed by the Secretary of the State to the registrars of such
14 other town or, in the case of a town in another state, district or territory,
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15 to the appropriate registration official or officials in such other town.
16 Upon receipt of such notice of cancellation of registration, the registrars
17 of the town from which such elector has removed shall forthwith erase
18 the name of such elector from the registry list of the town, if the same
19 has not been erased [therefrom] from such list.
20 (b) When the Secretary of the State receives information from a
21 registration official of another state, the District of Columbia, the
22 Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands,
23 Guam or the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands that an elector of this
24 state has registered in such other state, district or territory, the Secretary
25 of the State may transmit a notification of such registration to the
26 registrars of the town where such individual may be an elector in this
27 state. If the registrars determine that the individual identified in the
28 notice is an elector in this state, the registrars shall remove the name of
29 such elector from the registry list.
30 Sec. 2. Subsection (c) of section 9-23g of the general statutes is
31 repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October
32 1, 2020):
33 (c) Forthwith upon receipt of a registration application in the office of
34 the registrars of voters, the registrar shall mark such date on the
35 application and review the application to determine whether the
36 applicant has properly completed it and is legally qualified to register.
37 Forthwith upon completing [his] such review, the registrar shall (1)
38 indicate on the application whether the application has been accepted
39 or rejected, (2) mail a notice to the applicant, (3) indicate on the
40 application the date on which such notice is mailed, and (4) provide a
41 copy of such notice to the other registrar. If the registrar determines that
42 the applicant has not properly completed the application or is not
43 legally qualified to register, the notice shall indicate that the application
44 has been rejected and shall state any reason for rejection. If the registrar
45 determines that the applicant has properly completed the application
46 and is legally qualified to register, the notice shall indicate that the
47 application has been accepted. A notice of acceptance or a notice of
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48 rejection shall be sent (A) not later than four days after receipt of an
49 application during the period beginning on the forty-ninth day before
50 an election and ending on the twenty-first day before such election, (B)
51 on the day of receipt of an application if it is received (i) during the
52 period beginning on the twentieth day before such election and ending
53 on the seventh day before such election, (ii) during the period beginning
54 on the sixth day before an election and ending on election day if the
55 application has been received by the seventh day before an election by
56 the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles or by a voter registration agency,
57 (iii) during the period beginning on the twenty-first day before a
58 primary and ending on the fifth day before a primary, or (iv) during the
59 period beginning on the fourth day before a primary and ending at
60 twelve o'clock noon on the last weekday before a primary, if the
61 application has been postmarked by the fifth day before the primary and
62 is received in the office of the registrars of voters during such period or
63 if the application is received by the fifth day before a primary by the
64 Commissioner of Motor Vehicles or by a voter registration agency, and
65 (C) [within] not later than ten days [of] after receipt of an application at
66 any other time. A notice of acceptance shall be sent by first-class mail
67 with instructions on the envelope that it be returned if not deliverable
68 at the address shown on the envelope. A notice of acceptance shall
69 indicate the effective date of the applicant's registration and enrollment,
70 the date of the next regularly scheduled election or primary in which the
71 applicant shall be eligible to vote and the applicant's precinct and
72 polling place. If a notice of acceptance of an application is returned
73 undelivered, the registrars shall forthwith take the necessary action in
74 accordance with section 9-35 or 9-43, notwithstanding the May first
75 deadline in section 9-35. An applicant for admission as an elector
76 pursuant to this section and section 9-23h may only be admitted as an
77 elector by a registrar of voters of the town of [his] such applicant's
78 residence. Not later than December thirty-first, annually, the Secretary
79 of the State shall establish an official calendar of all deadlines set forth
80 in this subsection for regularly scheduled elections and primaries to be
81 held in the following calendar year.
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2020 9-21
Sec. 2 October 1, 2020 9-23g(c)
Statement of Purpose:
To make technical revisions to provisions concerning elections.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]
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Statutes affected:
Raised Bill: 9-21