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      Sec. 9-307. Certificate of check lists. Immediately after the polls are closed, the official checkers, appointed under the provisions of section 9-234, shall make and deliver to the moderator a certificate, in duplicate, stating the whole number of names on the registry list or enrollment list including, if applicable, unaffiliated electors authorized under section 9-431 to vote in the primary, and the number checked as having voted in that election or primary. For the purpose of computing the whole number of names on the registry list, the lists of persons who have applied for presidential or overseas ballots prepared in accordance with section 9-158h shall be included. Thereupon the registrars or assistant registrars, as the case may be, acting at the respective polls, shall write and sign with ink, on the list or lists so used and checked, a certificate of the whole number of names registered thereon eligible to vote in the election or primary and the number checked as having voted in that election or primary, and deposit it in the office of the municipal clerk of their town on or before the following day. The municipal clerk shall carefully preserve the same on file, with the marks on it without alteration, for public inspection, and shall immediately enter a certified copy of such certificate on the town records. Subject to the provisions of section 7-109, the municipal clerk may destroy any voting check list four years after the date upon which it was used. The moderator shall place one of the duplicate certificates which he received from the official checkers in the voting machine together with the moderator's return provided for in sections 9-259 and 9-310 and shall then lock the machine as provided in section 9-310, and he shall deposit the other of such duplicate certificates in the office of the municipal clerk on or before the following day.

      (1949 Rev., S. 1070; 1953, S. 785d; 1957, P.A. 526, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 200; February, 1965, P.A. 365; P.A. 76-295, S. 15, 18; P.A. 77-245, S. 9; P.A. 86-179, S. 44, 53; P.A. 87-509, S. 11, 24; P.A. 88-364, S. 13, 123.)

      History: 1963 act added authority to destroy check list after four years; 1965 act provided for count of whole number of names on registry list to include the list of new resident voters prepared pursuant to Sec. 9-163g; P.A. 76-295 deleted the latter provision and inserted provision for the count to include persons who applied for presidential ballots and those who applied for overseas ballots; P.A. 77-245 changed "town clerk's office" to "office of the municipal clerk" and "town" to "municipal" clerk where appearing; P.A. 86-179 made technical changes; P.A. 87-509 required certificate to also state whole number of names on enrollment list including, if applicable, unaffiliated electors authorized to vote in primary; P.A. 88-364 made a technical change.

      Not improper to combine this certificate with that required under Sec. 9-259. 116 C. 41. See annotations to Sec. 9-310.