Nomination and election of federal and state officers, state
senators and representatives, judge of probate, registrars of voters,
justices of the peace and such elective municipal officers, boards
and commissions as are provided for in the Charter shall be conducted
in the manner prescribed for in the Constitution and General Statutes.
The registrars of voters shall prepare lists of registered voters.
A meeting of registered voters of the Town for the election of municipal
officers shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday
in November 1985, and biennially thereafter. The number of members
of any one political party who may be elected to any elective board
shall not exceed the number prescribed by the General Statutes.
All officers of the Town who are chosen by election shall be
elected at large. The Council may, from time to time, by ordinance,
divide the Town into voting districts with the establishment of voting
places therein.
When any municipal election conducted pursuant to the provisions
of the Charter results in a tie, with the consent of the tied candidates,
the tie may be broken by a single toss of a coin by a third party
agreeable to the tied candidates. Otherwise, when any municipal election
or referendum conducted pursuant to the provisions of the Charter
results in a tie, an adjourned election or referendum shall be conducted
in accordance with the provisions of the General Statutes to determine
who shall be elected or, in the case of a question at referendum,
whether it shall be accepted or rejected. Said adjourned election
or referendum shall be held on the seventh day after the election
or referendum which resulted in a tie and shall be confined to the
tied candidates or issues. Any voting machine, the returns from which
are not subject to disagreement, may be unlocked and used in said
special election. If voting machines are not available in sufficient
number, paper ballots may be used in place of, or in conjunction with,
voting machines.
Unless otherwise required by General Statutes any vacancy in
an elective Town office, for whatever cause arising, shall be filled
by appointment by the Council for the unexpired portion of the term
or until the next biennial election, whichever is sooner. The Council
shall fill by appointment a vacancy in any elective office within
60 days from the time that the office becomes vacant with the exception
of the Town Council that must be filled within 30 days. If a person
vacating an elective office was elected as a member of a political
party, the vacancy shall be filled by a member of the same party.
If there shall be a biennial election before the expiration of the
term of any office in which a vacancy occurs, such office shall be
filled until said election by appointment, as provided herein, and
subsequently by the election of a person to fill that office for the
remaining portion of the term. Such person shall take office the Tuesday
following that election.
No person shall be eligible for election to any Town office
who is not, at the time of that election, a registered voter of the
Town, and any person ceasing to be a registered voter of the Town
shall thereupon cease to hold elective office.
Minority representation on all elected offices shall be in accord
with Section 9-167a of the General Statutes.