HB 5883 — AN ACT CONCERNING VOTING FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICERS AND ON LOCAL QUESTIONS.

(x) "Write-in ballot" means a vote cast for any person whose name does not appear on the official ballot as a candidate for the office for which the person's name is written in;

(y) "The last session for admission of electors prior to an election" means the day which is the seventh day prior to an election;

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4894 4 of 8 (z) "Minor municipal voter" means any person qualified, under the provisions of section 1 of this act, to vote (1) at any regular or special municipal election for only the officers of such municipality or at any primary for only the nomination of candidates for such officers, and (2) at any referendum for any question or proposal of only such municipality.

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Section 9-372 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

The following terms, as used in this chapter, chapter 157 and sections 9-51 to 9-67, inclusive, 9-169e, 9-217, 9-236 and 9-361, shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Caucus" means any meeting, at a designated hour and place, or at designated hours and places, of the enrolled members of a political party within a municipality or political subdivision thereof for the purpose of selecting party-endorsed candidates for a primary to be held by such party or for the purpose of transacting other business of such party;

(2) "Convention" means a meeting of delegates of a political party held for the purpose of designating the candidate or candidates to be endorsed by such party in a primary of such party for state or district office or for the purpose of transacting other business of such party;

(3) "District" means any geographic portion of the state which crosses the boundary or boundaries between two or more towns;

(4)"District office" meansanelective office for whichonly theelectors in a district, as defined in subdivision (3) of this section, may vote;

(5) "Major party" means (A) a political party or organization whose candidate for Governor at the last-preceding election for Governor received, under the designation of that political party or organization, at least twenty per cent of the whole number of votes cast for all candidates for Governor, or (B) a political party having, at the last- preceding election for Governor, a number of enrolled members on the LCO No.

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(6) "Minor party" means a political party or organization which is not a major party and whose candidate for the office in question received at the last-preceding regular election for such office, under the designation of that political party or organization, at least one per cent of the whole number of votes cast for all candidates for such office at such election;

(7) "Municipal office" means an elective office for which only the electors and, when permitted by ordinance adopted pursuant to section 1 of this act, minor municipal voters, as defined in section 9-1, as amended by this act, of a single town, city, borough, or political subdivision, as defined in subdivision (10) of this section, may vote, including the office of justice of the peace;

(8) "Party designation committee" means an organization, composed of at least twenty-five members who are electors, which has, on or after November 4, 1981, reserved a party designation with the Secretary of the State pursuant to the provisions of this chapter;

(9) "Party-endorsed candidate" means (A) in the case of a candidate for state or district office, a person endorsed by the convention of a political party as a candidate in a primary to be held by such party, and (B) in the case of a candidate for municipal office or for member of a town committee, a person endorsed by the town committee, caucus or convention, as the case may be, of a political party as a candidate in a primary to be held by such party;

(10) "Political subdivision" means any voting district or combination of voting districts constituting a part of a municipality;

(11) "Primary" means a meeting of (A) the enrolled members of a political party and, when applicable under section 9-431, unaffiliated electors, held during consecutive hours at which such members or electors may, without assembling at the same hour, vote by secret ballot LCO No.

4894 6 of 8 for candidates for nomination to office or for town committee members, and (B) when permitted by ordinance adopted pursuant to section 1 of this act, minor municipal voters held during consecutive hours at which suchminor municipal votersmay,without assembling at thesame hour, vote by secret ballot for candidates for nomination to municipal office or for town committee members;

(12) "Registrar" means the registrar of voters in a municipality who is enrolled with the political party holding a primary and, in each municipality where there are different registrars for different voting districts, means the registrar so enrolled in the voting district in which, at the last-preceding regular election, the presiding officer for the purposeofdeclaringtheresultofthevoteofthewholemunicipalitywas moderator;

(13) "Slate" means a group of candidates for nomination by a political partytotheofficeofjusticeofthepeaceofatown,whichgroupnumbers at least a bare majority of the number of justices of the peace to be nominated by such party for such town;

(14) "State office" means any office for which all the electors of the state may vote and includes the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Comptroller, Attorney General and senator in Congress, but does not include the office of elector of President and Vice-President of the United States;

(15) "Votes cast for the same office at the last-preceding election" or "votes cast for all candidates for such office at the last-preceding election" means, in the case of multiple openings for the same office, the total number of electors and, when permitted by ordinance adopted pursuant to section 1 of this act, minor municipal voters checked as having voted at the last-preceding election at which such office appeared on the ballot.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:

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2 from passage 9-1 Sec.

3 from passage 9-372 Statement of Purpose:

To permit individuals who have attained the age of sixteen years, but who have not attained the age of eighteen years, to vote at elections and primaries of municipal officers and on local questions.

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Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except underlined.]e entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not Co-Sponsors:

ELLIOTT, 88th Dist.Dist.;

ZIOGAS, 79th Dist.

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PHIPPS,SIMMONS, 100th144th Dist.Dist.;

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SIMMONS, 144th Dist.

LOPES, 6th Dist.

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ANREP. ACT CONCERNING VOTING FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICERS AND ON LOCAL QUESTIONS.

BeZIOGAS, it79th enactedDist.; by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

ThatREP. title 9 of the general statutes be amended to provide that any individual who has attained the age of sixteen years may vote for the municipal officers, and on local questions, in the municipality of which such individual is a bona fide resident.

StatementPHIPPS, of100th Purpose:Dist.

ToSEN. permit sixteen year olds to vote at elections and primaries of municipal officers and on local questions.

LCOLOPES, No.6th Dist.;

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DILLON, 92nd Dist.

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SIMMS, 140th Dist.

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