CT SB01058

Municipal clerks must preserve unused absentee ballots for ten days after an election, primary, or referendum.

Existing preservation requirements remain unchanged for other election materials: sixty days for opened envelopes and rejected ballots, and one hundred eighty days for counted ballots.

Public records access is retained for executed absentee ballot applications, applicant lists, issued ballot sets, and received ballot envelopes for sixty days after elections.

Unused absentee ballots are removed from the sixty-day public record retention requirement and instead governed by the new ten-day preservation period.

Effective date is January 1, 2014.