§ 2-19. List to be maintained by Clerk; challenge of qualifications of voter.

The Town Clerk shall make a list of all persons to whom absentee voter's ballots shall have been issued and keep such list on file in his/her office where it shall be available for public inspection during regular office hours until the day of the referendum. Any qualified elector may, upon examination of such list, file a written challenge of the qualifications as a voter of any person whose name appears on such list, stating the reasons for such challenge. Such written challenge shall be transmitted by the Town Clerk to the inspectors of election on referendum day. Such list shall also be posted in a conspicuous place or places during the referendum, and any qualified elector may challenge the acceptance of the absentee voter's ballot of any person on such list, by making his/her challenge and the reasons therefor known to the inspectors of election before the close of the polls. The inspectors of election shall proceed to determine each objection. Unless the inspectors, by majority vote, shall sustain the objection, the chairman, or if he/she refuses, another inspector shall endorse upon the envelope the objection and the words "not sustained," shall sign such endorsement, and shall open the envelope and deposit the ballot as provided hereafter. Should the inspectors, by majority vote, sustain such objection, the objection and word "sustained" shall be similarly endorsed upon the envelope, the envelope shall not be opened nor the ballot therein canvassed, and such envelope shall be returned unopened to the Town Clerk. If the inspectors of election shall have received an envelope endorsed with the name of a person who to the knowledge of the inspectors is deceased on the day of the referendum, the inspectors shall return such envelope unopened to the Town Clerk with the words "deceased - objection sustained" endorsed on the envelope.