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Statutes > Connecticut > Title9 > Chap147 > Sec9-306

      Sec. 9-306. Penalties. Any person, not expressly authorized thereto, who has possession of any official ballot, and any person who makes or has possession of any forged imitation of any official ballot, and any person who offers to anyone not authorized or permitted by law to have or receive an official ballot or who aids or knowingly permits any person to obtain possession of an official ballot, and any person who offers to aid or knowingly permits anyone to obtain possession of an official ballot for the purpose of using the same for any purpose not prescribed by law, and any person not authorized who gives or offers to any person an official ballot, and any person who offers to another any forged imitation of any official ballot or offers to the box-tender, for the purpose of voting the same, any ballot not an official ballot, and any person who offers any elector while the elector is in an election booth any ballot or places any ballot in such booth for the use of any elector or for any purpose, and any person, not by law authorized thereto, who receives any official ballot from any person not authorized by the provisions of this part to offer or give the same, and any person who receives an official ballot for the purpose of using the same for any other purpose or purposes than those expressly named by the provisions of this part, and any person who knowingly receives for the purpose of depositing the same in any ballot box any forged imitation of any official ballot, and any box-tender who knowingly deposits in any ballot box any ballot not an official ballot or any box-tender who knowingly deposits in any stub box any stub other than one torn or separated from a ballot offered by an elector while in the act of voting, and any person who imitates any official ballot or prints or causes to be printed any ballot authorized by this part in any manner other than as prescribed by the Secretary of the State, and any person who places upon any official ballot any mark or device for the purpose of enabling any person to identify the same as having been voted by the elector or by any particular person, or who alters or changes any ballot by erasing or removing any name or names therefrom, and any person who attempts to ascertain or observe the ballot being voted by any elector while such elector is in any booth or enclosure so as to ascertain how such elector has voted, except as provided in this part, and any person who, having received his or her official ballot, leaves the voting place without having either delivered it to the box-tender or the moderator or returned it to a ballot clerk, and 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 party nominees or offers to any elector such ballot, shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than five years or be both fined and imprisoned.

      (1949 Rev., S. 1127; 1953, S. 783d; P.A. 07-194, S. 35.)

      History: P.A. 07-194 made technical changes.