Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment XXIV

Publisher edition notice: The publisher identifies this compilation as revised to January 1, 2025. It preserves the annotated original 1965 text and all ratified amendments, alongside the Revisors' unofficial convenience version incorporating extant amendments. The latter does not supersede the original Constitution and amendments; later changes have not been independently verified.

Amendment XXIV Ratified amendment and publisher annotations.

ARTICLE XXIV.*
*Adopted November 19, 1986.
Cited. 231 C. 602.
Balancing factors of length of delay, reason for delay, assertion of right and prejudice, defendant was not deprived of
right to a speedy trial. 47 CA 91.
Cited. 27 CS 68.
(Prohibiting the use of a party lever in any state or local election.)
Section 5 of article sixth of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:
In all elections of officers of the state, or members of the general assembly, the votes
of the electors shall be by ballot, either written or printed, except that voting machines
or other mechanical devices for voting may be used in all elections in the state, under
such regulations as may be prescribed by law. No voting machine or device used at
any state or local election shall be equipped with a straight ticket device. The right of
secret voting shall be preserved.

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CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT