Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-349
Unlawful sessions of board for admission
Section 9-349 is repealed.
General Statutes of Connecticut Chapter 151 — Elections: Prohibited Acts and Penalties
Connecticut · statute · Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 151 · 24 active provisions
Provisions
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-350
Failure to warn election
Any person whose duty it is to warn any election and who fails to warn such election as required by law shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-351
Delay in counting or declaring vote
Any moderator of any election or voting district who, wilfully and without cause, delays the counting or declaration of the number of votes cast shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned not less than six months nor more than one year.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-352
Tampering with tabulator by election official
Any election official who, with intent to cause or permit any voting tabulator to fail to correctly register all votes cast thereon, tampers with or disarranges such tabulator in any way or any part or appliance thereof, or causes such tabulator to be used or consents to its being used for voting at any election with k…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-353
False statement, certificate or return
Any election official who, at the close of the polls, purposely causes the vote registered on the tabulator to be incorrectly taken down as to any candidate or proposition voted on, or who knowingly causes to be made or signed any false statement, certificate or return of any kind, of such vote, or who knowingly consen…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-354
Improper printing of ballot
Any person who prints or causes to be printed upon any official ballot the name of any person not a candidate of a party whose name is printed at the head of the column containing such nominees or who prints or causes to be printed any authorized ballot in any manner other than that prescribed by the Secretary of the S…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-355
Official neglect or fraud
Any person who, without reasonable cause, neglects to perform any of the duties required of him by the laws relating to elections or primaries and for which neglect no other punishment is provided, and any person who is guilty of fraud in the performance of any such duty, and any person who makes any unlawful alteratio…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-356
Neglect to elect grand jurors
Section 9-356 is repealed.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-357
Fraudulent registration
Any person who fraudulently procures himself or another to be registered as an elector shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or be both fined and imprisoned.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-358
False swearing before registrar, moderator, board or State Elections Enforcement Commission
Any person who, upon oath or affirmation, legally administered, wilfully and corruptly testifies or affirms, before any registrar of voters, any moderator of any election, primary or referendum, any board for admission of electors or the State Elections Enforcement Commission, falsely, to any material fact concerning t…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-359
Absentee ballots
Any (1) person who executes an absentee ballot for the purpose of informing any other person how he votes, or procures any absentee ballot to be prepared for such purpose, (2) municipal clerk or moderator, elector appointed to count any absentee ballot or other person who wilfully attempts to ascertain how any elector…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-359a
False statement in absentee balloting. Class D felony
(a) A person is guilty of false statement in absentee balloting when he intentionally makes a false written statement in or on or signs the name of another person to the application for an absentee ballot or the inner envelope accompanying any such ballot, which he does not believe to be true and which statement or sig…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-360
Fraudulent voting
Any person not legally qualified who fraudulently votes in any town meeting, primary, election or referendum in which the person is not qualified to vote, and any legally qualified person who, at such meeting, primary, election or referendum, fraudulently votes more than once at the same meeting, primary, election or r…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-361
Primary or enrollment violations
The following persons shall be guilty of primary or enrollment violations: (1) Any person unlawfully voting or participating or attempting to vote or participate in any primary in which he is not eligible to vote or participate; (2) in towns divided into voting districts, any elector who registers or votes at any prima…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-362
Decision of election officials no bar to prosecution
The decision of the board for admission of electors or of the registrars or of a moderator, as to a person's right to be admitted to the elector's oath, to registration or to cast his vote, shall, in no case, be a bar to a criminal prosecution for procuring himself to be made an elector or to be registered or for votin…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-363
Circulation of misleading instructions
Any person who, with intent to defraud any elector of his or her vote or cause any elector to lose his or her vote or any part thereof, gives in any way, or prints, writes or circulates, or causes to be written, printed or circulated, any improper, false, misleading or incorrect instructions or advice or suggestions as…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-364
Influencing elector to refrain from voting
Any person who, with intent to disenfranchise any elector, influences or attempts to influence by force or threat, bribery or corrupt, fraudulent or deliberately deceitful means any elector to stay away from any election or otherwise refrain from voting, whether such voting is by mail, by deposit in a secure drop box o…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-364a
(Formerly Sec. 9-344). Acts prohibited in elections, primaries, referenda, caucuses and conventions. Public disclosure of election worker personally identifying information. Criminal penalties, civil cause of action
(a) As used in this section, “election worker” means any municipal clerk, registrar of voters, deputy registrar of voters, election official described in section 9-258, primary official described in section 9-436 or recanvass official described in section 9-311, and “personal identifying information” has the same meani…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-364b
Restrictions on incumbents' use of public funds
Section 9-364b is repealed.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-365
Employers' threats
Any person who (1) during the period that is sixty days or less prior to any election, municipal meeting, school district election or school district meeting, attempts to influence the vote of any operative in his or her employ by threats of withholding employment from him or her or by promises of employment, or (2) di…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-366
Interference with electors in voting
Any person who induces or attempts to induce any elector to write, paste or otherwise place, on a ballot, or a table or booth used for voting, any name, sign or device of any kind, as a distinguishing mark by which to indicate to another how such elector voted, or enters into or attempts to form any agreement or conspi…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-367
Tampering with ballot or voting tabulator
Any person, not being an election official, who, with intent to cause or permit any ballot, voting tabulator or other appliance used in connection with such tabulator to fail to correctly register any vote cast upon such ballot, tabulator or other appliance, during any election or before any election, tampers with a vo…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-368
Arrest of accused
Upon the written complaint of any three electors of a town in which a violation of any law relating to elections has occurred to any judge of the superior court for the judicial district within which the offense has been committed, supported by oath or affirmation that the complainants have good reason to believe and d…
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-368c
Misrepresentation of contents of a petition
(a) No person shall intentionally misrepresent the contents of a petition circulated under this title. (b) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a class D felony.