Sec. 9-1. Definitions.
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Except as otherwise provided, the following terms, as used in this title and sections 3-124 , 7-5 , 7-6 , 7-7 , 7-17 , 7-20 , 7-39 , 7-157 , 7-214 , 7-275 , 7-295 , 7-343 , 7-407 , 8-1 , 8-5 , 8-19 , 10-219 , 11-36 , 13a-11 , 45a-18 , 45a-19 and 51-95 have the following meanings:
(a)“Ballot” means paper or other material containing the names of the candidates or a statement of a proposed constitutional amendment or other question or proposition to be voted on;
(b)“Board for admission of electors” means the board as composed under subsection
(a)of section 9-15a ;
(c)“Clerical error” means any error in the registry list or enrollment list due to a mistake or an omission on the part of the printer or a mistake or omission made by the registrars or their assistants;
(d)“Election” means any electors' meeting at which the electors choose public officials by use of voting tabulators or by paper ballots as provided in section 9-272 ;
(e)“Elector” means any person possessing the qualifications prescribed by the Constitution and duly admitted to, and entitled to exercise, the privileges of an elector in a town;
(f)Repealed by P.A. 77-298, S. 14;
(g)“Municipal clerk” means the clerk of a municipality;
(h)“Municipal election” means the regularly recurring election held in a municipality at which the electors of the municipality choose public officials of such municipality;
(i)“Municipality” means any city, borough or town within the state;
(j)“Official ballot” means the official ballot to be used at an election, or the official ballot to be used thereat in accordance with the provisions of section 9-272 ;
(k)“Population” means the population according to the last-completed United States census;
(l)“Presidential electors” means persons elected to cast their ballots for President and Vice President of the United States;
(m)“Print” means methods of duplication of words by mechanical process, but shall not include typewriting;
(n)“Referendum” means
(1)a question or proposal which is submitted to a vote of the electors or voters of a municipality at any regular or special state or municipal election, as defined in this section,
(2)a question or proposal which is submitted to a vote of the electors or voters, as the case may be, of a municipality at a meeting of such electors or voters, which meeting is not an election, as defined in subsection
(d)of this section, and is not a town meeting, or
(3)a question or proposal which is submitted to a vote of the electors or voters, as the case may be, of a municipality at a meeting of such electors or voters pursuant to section 7-7 or pursuant to charter or special act;
(o)“Regular election” means any state or municipal election;
(p)“Registrars” means the registrars of voters of the municipality;
(q)“Registry list” means the list of electors of any municipality certified by the registrars;
(r)“Special election” means any election not a regular election;
(s)“State election” means the election held in the state on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in the even-numbered years in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of Connecticut;
(t)“State officers” means the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller and Attorney General;
(u)“Voter” means a person qualified to vote at town and district meetings under the provisions of section 7-6 ;
(v)“Voting district” means any municipality, or any political subdivision thereof, having not more than one polling place in a regular election;
(w)“Voting tabulator” means a machine, including, but not limited to, a device which operates by electronic means, for the registering and recording of votes cast at elections, primaries and referenda;
(x)“Write-in ballot” means a vote cast for any person whose name does not appear on the official ballot as a candidate for the office for which the person's name is written in; and
(y)“The last session for admission of electors prior to an election” means the day which is the eighteenth day prior to an election.