Qualifications

• The laws put in place are the ones responsible for establishing the criteria of who can and cannot vote. The Connecticut Code states that a person must be at least 18 years old and a resident of town in order to be qualified to apply to be a participant in the elections. If found qualified, the registrars of the particular area will include the name and date of registration to the registry list. According to the same code, mentally challenged people are not allowed to vote.
  
  

Conviction

• Those convicted of a felony and as such is in incarceration are disqualified from participating in the voting process. However, they are deemed automatically restored upon the happening of certain conditions. The first is that the imposed time in the correctional facility or community residence should be completed. In addition to this, all the necessary fines imposed by the courts should be paid. Once the felon has finished serving the judgment that has been rendered to him or her by the courts, electoral privileges are restored.
  
  

Absentee Voting

• An elector registered to vote at an election or any person qualified to participate at a referendum may use absentee voting procedures if he or she is unable to physically go to the polling location during the voting period. The acceptable reasons for availing of this privilege include active service with the military of the United States, illness, and physical disability. If, due to religion reasons, the person is prohibited from joining any secular activity during the election period, then absentee ballots may be used. Furthermore, those who are not in his area of the voting residence for the duration of the elections or referendum and those serving as an official in a primary, election, or referendum in a different locality are excused from having to personally appear during the voting process.
  
  

Prohibitions

• On the day in which the voting takes place, all campaign activities are slated to stop near the polling location. This means that no one is allowed to give out any materials promoting a candidate in the election, peddle, any ballot or circular within a 75-foot radius of a polling location entrance. People are also not allowed to loiter around the vicinity where the voting is taking place. However, activities of parent-teacher organizations to raise funds on the day of the polling can take place as long as they are not held in the same room of the elections and do not advertise the fact that voting activities have been undertaken.
  
  

Interference

• Those who are slated to vote should be allowed to make their decisions freely. A person who tries to influence the person casting his or her vote shall do so at the risk of imprisonment and imposition of fines. Some of the activities that would qualify as influencing with the decisions of voters would be entering into any kind of agreement to vote a certain way or to allow anyone to see the choice cast. Those who have been found guilty of this offense may be imposed with the penalty of imprisonment.