Connecticut Administrative Code
Title 9 - Elections
241 - Standards for Approval of Direct Recording Electronic Voting Machines
Section 9-241-11 - Hardware standards. Ballot

In a primary, the ballot shall be capable of including the contests for all parties conducting a primary. In an election, the ballot shall be able to accommodate at least nine political parties as required by Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-242. Political party and candidate names shall be printed in the style and type size as required by Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-250 and federal law. The DRE shall be able to provide for bilingual presentation of offices, questions and instructions to the voter. The ballots prepared for certification testing by the state shall be of such size and complexity to represent the maximum conditions encountered in Connecticut elections, and shall include at least one for each kind of election conducted in Connecticut--presidential election; gubernatorial election; municipal election, including nonpartisan offices, questions, and multiple vote on liquor permit question; presidential preference primary; town committee primary; delegate primary; primary before gubernatorial election; primary before municipal election; special election; adjourned election between two candidates of one party; and referendum. In an election, the ballot shall be clearly displayed in the proper format, so that the names of the parties are listed, as required by Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-250, with identifiable buttons or other markings associated with each candidate's name, the office for which he is running and the political party or organization which nominated him. In a primary, the names of candidates shall appear on the ballot in accordance with Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-437. The order of the parties, offices and candidates on the ballot shall be in conformance with law. The ballot shall also provide for voting in referenda. The system shall indicate to the voter those contests and referenda which have not been voted. If the system uses printed ballots, it shall be capable of accepting printed ballots from different sources. This includes the current method of employing the services of a printing firm, or alternatively, the use of a computer graphics package and a plotter. An optional automatic ballot formatting subsystem which can be linked to the DRE system software would be advantageous. The manufacturer shall provide the direction and assistance that will be required by the purchasing town in formatting its ballots for the first primary and the first general election using the new DRE voting system.