General Assembly

 

Proposed Bill No. 5732

 

January Session, 2011

 

LCO No. 1292

   

Referred to Committee on Government Administration and Elections

 

Introduced by:

 

REP. MOLGANO, 144th Dist.

 

AN ACT CONCERNING RECEIPTS FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF BALLOTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That chapter 147 of the general statutes be amended to require a receipt for ballots cast by voters who vote by coloring in, with pencil, their selections and feed their ballots into a reader or by electronically recording selections using a station designed for physically disabled voters unable to use a paper ballot.

Statement of Purpose:

To allow voters using a colored-in or electronically recorded ballot cast at a station designed for physically disabled voters assurance of their selections.