(a) Each registrar of voters shall be present during the taking of the vote at any regular or special state or municipal election in the registrar's of voters town or district. The assistants in their respective districts shall, when requested by either registrar of voters, be present at the taking of any such vote and discharge the duties of registrars of voters. Each registrar of voters shall appoint some suitable person to check the list manually on paper or electronically in each district, unless the registrars of voters have established two shifts for election officials under the provisions of section 9-258a, in which case each such registrar of voters shall appoint one such person for each district for each shift. Each such person, who is so appointed official checker, shall manually on paper or electronically check the name of each elector on the list when the elector offers the elector's vote, and no voting tabulator tender shall permit any vote to be cast upon the voting tabulator until the name has been so checked.
(b) If an official checker is checking the name of an elector electronically, the checker shall use an electronic device approved by the Secretary of the State, in accordance with the provisions of section 9-261c.
(c) If an official checker is using such an electronic device to check the names of voters and such device becomes inoperable, the official checker shall check such names using a printed copy of such list provided pursuant to section 9-39.
(1949 Rev., S. 1069; 1953, S. 711d; 1969, P.A. 500, S. 3; P.A. 11-20, S. 1; 11-173, S. 35; P.A. 14-217, S. 23.)
History: 1969 act provided for appointment of checkers for each established shift; P.A. 11-173 added “official” re checkers, replaced “machine” with “tabulator” and made technical changes, effective July 13, 2011; P.A. 14-217 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and amended same to add references to manual or electronic checking of list and make a technical change, added Subsec. (b) re electronic checking of an elector's name and added Subsec. (c) re when electronic checking device becomes inoperable, effective June 13, 2014.
See Sec. 9-267 re removal of checkers for incompetence.
Registry list is evidence of domicile and the checking thereof of fact of voting; 21 C. 101 overruled. 67 C. 459.
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