Bill Text: CT HB06631 | 2013 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Order Of Parties On Ballots.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-15 - File Number 512 [HB06631 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2013-HB06631-Introduced.html
General Assembly |
Raised Bill No. 6631 | ||
January Session, 2013 |
LCO No. 4242 | ||
*04242_______GAE* | |||
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS |
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Introduced by: |
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(GAE) |
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AN ACT CONCERNING THE ORDER OF PARTIES ON BALLOTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 9-249a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective January 1, 2014):
(a) The names of the parties shall be arranged on the ballots in the following order:
(1) The party [whose candidate for Governor polled the highest number of votes] in which the Governor was enrolled for the last-preceding election;
(2) Other parties who had candidates for Governor in the last-preceding election, in descending order, according to the number of votes polled for each such candidate;
(3) Minor parties who had no candidate for Governor in the last-preceding election;
(4) Petitioning candidates with party designation whose names are contained in petitions approved pursuant to section 9-453o; and
(5) Petitioning candidates with no party designation whose names are contained in petitions approved pursuant to section 9-453o.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
January 1, 2014 |
9-249a(a) |
Statement of Purpose:
To provide that the name of the party in which the Governor was enrolled for the last-preceding election be the party that appears first on the ballot.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]