Connecticut § 9-61 - Prima facie evidence supporting discretionary erasure or exclusion.

§ 9-61. Prima facie evidence supporting discretionary erasure or exclusion.

Sec. 9-61. Prima facie evidence supporting discretionary erasure or exclusion. Enrollment in any other political party or organization, active affiliation with any other political party or organization, knowingly being a candidate at any primary or caucus of any other party or political organization, or being a candidate for office under the designation of another party or organization, within a period of two years prior to the date of the notice as provided in section 9-60 shall be prima facie evidence that any elector committing any such act is not affiliated with, or in good faith a member of, and does not intend to support the principles or candidates of the party upon the enrollment list of which his name appears or in which his application for enrollment is pending; and, upon reasonable proof of the commission of any one of such acts, the name of any such elector may be stricken or excluded from such list and such erasure or exclusion shall be effective for a period of two years from the date of any such act. The same procedure as to notice to appear thereon, return and hearing shall be followed as provided in section 9-60. If, after full hearing, such registrar and chairman or party member or such deputy registrar and chairman or party member, as the case may be, find that the name of any such elector has been wrongfully or improperly stricken or excluded from such list, such name shall be forthwith placed upon the enrollment list.

(1949 Rev., S. 1177; 1953, S. 562d; 1967, P.A. 902, S. 2; 1969, P.A. 122, S. 1; P.A. 83-475, S. 13, 43; P.A. 97-154, S. 10, 27.)

History: 1967 act added provision for removal from enrollment list of name of an elector whose name appeared on any ballot label of an election only under party designation other than that of party in which enrolled, removal to be for period of time equal to term of office for which he was candidate; 1969 act changed removal to period of time beginning on day of election and ending at termination of term of office and further provided that he might then apply for enrollment in the party; P.A. 83-475 made section applicable to applicants for enrollment and specified two-year period for erasure or exclusion; P.A. 97-154 repealed provision for mandatory erasure from enrollment list for name of elector appearing on ballot only under party designation other than that of party with which he is enrolled, effective July 1, 1997.

Knowingly becoming a candidate for office on ticket of a new party automatically separates voter from his former party. 102 C. 607. Cited. 144 C. 1.

Cited. 16 CS 6. The words, “at an election only under a party designation other than that of the party with which he is enrolled”, make it clear that the legislature intended a party could run on a dual ticket. 31 CS 89.