AN ACT ENABLING TOWNS TO CHECK VOTERS IN ELECTRONICALLY.

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

Section 1. Section 9-234 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2013):

Each registrar of voters shall be present during the taking of the vote at any regular or special state or municipal election in the registrar's of voters town or district. The assistants in their respective districts shall, when requested by either registrar of voters, be present at the taking of any such vote and discharge the duties of registrars of voters. Each registrar of voters shall appoint some suitable person to check the list in each district, unless the registrars of voters have established two shifts for election officials under the provisions of section 9-258a, in which case each such registrar of voters shall appoint one such person for each district for each shift. Each such person, who is so appointed official checker, shall manually or electronically check the name of each elector [thereon] on the list when the elector offers the elector's vote, and no voting tabulator tender shall permit any vote to be cast upon the voting tabulator until the name has been so checked. If an official checker is checking the name of an elector electronically, the checker shall use an electronic device approved by the Secretary of the State, in accordance with the provisions of section 2 of this act.

Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective from passage) The Secretary of the State shall conduct a review of electronic devices that could assist checkers in checking the name of electors pursuant to section 9-234 of the general statutes, as amended by this act. Not later than September 1, 2013, the Secretary shall make a list of any such devices that the Secretary approves for use pursuant to said section 9-234 available to municipalities in a manner determined by the Secretary. The Secretary may periodically update such list if the Secretary determines that such update is necessary.