Except as otherwise provided, the following terms, as used in this title and sections 3-124, 7-5, 7-6, 7-7, 7-17, 7-20, 7-39, 7-157, 7-214, 7-275, 7-295, 7-343, 7-407, 8-1, 8-5, 8-19, 10-219, 11-36, 13a-11, 45a-18, 45a-19 and 51-95 have the following meanings:
(a) "Ballot" means paper or other material containing the names of the candidates or a statement of a proposed constitutional amendment or other question or proposition to be voted on;(b) "Board for admission of electors" means the board as composed under subsection (a) of section 9-15a;(c) "Clerical error" means any error in the registry list or enrollment list due to a mistake or an omission on the part of the printer or a mistake or omission made by the registrars or their assistants;(d) "Election" means any electors' meeting at which the electors choose public officials by use of voting tabulators or by paper ballots as provided in section 9-272;(e) "Elector" means any person possessing the qualifications prescribed by the Constitution and duly admitted to, and entitled to exercise, the privileges of an elector in a town;(f) Repealed by P.A. 77-298, S. 14;(g) "Municipal clerk" means the clerk of a municipality;(h) "Municipal election" means the regularly recurring election held in a municipality at which the electors of the municipality choose public officials of such municipality;(i) "Municipality" means any city, borough or town within the state;(j) "Official ballot" means the official ballot to be used at an election, or the official ballot to be used thereat in accordance with the provisions of section 9-272;(k) "Population" means the population according to the last-completed United States census;(l) "Presidential electors" means persons elected to cast their ballots for President and Vice President of the United States;(m) "Print" means methods of duplication of words by mechanical process, but shall not include typewriting;(n) "Referendum" means (1) a question or proposal which is submitted to a vote of the electors or voters of a municipality at any regular or special state or municipal election, as defined in this section, (2) a question or proposal which is submitted to a vote of the electors or voters, as the case may be, of a municipality at a meeting of such electors or voters, which meeting is not an election, as defined in subsection (d) of this section, and is not a town meeting, or (3) a question or proposal which is submitted to a vote of the electors or voters, as the case may be, of a municipality at a meeting of such electors or voters pursuant to section 7-7 or pursuant to charter or special act;(o) "Regular election" means any state or municipal election;(p) "Registrars" means the registrars of voters of the municipality;(q) "Registry list" means the list of electors of any municipality certified by the registrars;(r) "Special election" means any election not a regular election;(s) "State election" means the election held in the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the even-numbered years in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of Connecticut;(t) "State officers" means the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General;(u) "Voter" means a person qualified to vote at town and district meetings under the provisions of section 7-6;(v) "Voting district" means any municipality, or any political subdivision thereof, having not more than one polling place in a regular election;(w) "Voting tabulator" means a machine, including, but not limited to, a device which operates by electronic means, for the registering and recording of votes cast at elections, primaries and referenda;(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; and(y) "The last session for admission of electors prior to an election" means the day which is the eighteenth day prior to an election.(1949 Rev., S. 1030; 1953, S. 503d; November, 1955, S. N39; 1957, P.A. 13, S. 99; 442, S. 13; March, 1958, P.A. 27, S. 34; 1961, P.A. 274, S. 2; February, 1965, P.A. 393, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 831, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 871, S. 63; P.A. 73-616, S. 8; P.A. 75-567, S. 54, 80; P.A. 76-311; P.A. 77-298, S. 14; P.A. 79-189, S. 1, 9; P.A. 84-319, S. 1, 49; P.A. 88-364, S. 116, 123; P.A. 91-351 , S. 22 , 28 ; P.A. 97-192 , S. 2 ; P.A. 05-235 , S. 26 ; P.A. 07-194 , S. 37 ; P.A. 11-20 , S. 2 .)
Amended by P.A. 23-0204, S. 183 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2023 Regular Session, eff. 1/1/2024.Amended by P.A. 23-0005, S. 23 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2023 Regular Session, eff. 7/1/2023.Amended by P.A. 21-0037, S. 101 of the Connecticut Acts of the 2021 Regular Session, eff. 6/4/2021.Amended by P.A. 11-0020, S. 2 of the the 2011 Regular Session, eff. 5/24/2011. Cited. 139 C. 209 ; 140 C. 517 ; 184 C. 200 . Cited. 36 CS 74 ; 43 CS 297 . Stand-alone referendum is not subject to the election contest deadline of Sec. 9-328 and requiring application of Secs. 9-369 and 9-328 to a referendum held under Subdiv. (n)(2) would impinge on home rule considerations. 48 CS 481.