The first step in the slow walk to a 2024 referendum on no-excuse absentee voting in Connecticut is complete.
Absentee ballots
Bipartisan support in Connecticut House to ease absentee voting
The House passed a bill Monday repealing statutory restrictions on absentee voting that can deny ballot access to Connecticut voters.
House GOP blocks 2022 referendum on absentee voting
House Republicans succeeded Tuesday in delaying until 2024 a referendum on no-excuse absentee voting.
Democrats, Republicans split on absentee ballot access
Once again, easing absentee ballot access is a wedge issue in Connecticut.
A partisan divide over a Connecticut voters’ rights act
Democrats endorsed bills that would create a state voting rights act and increase voter registration and ballot access.
Republicans on key committee oppose no-excuse absentee ballot voting
Republicans signaled Friday they will try to block fast-track action on a constitutional amendment allowing no-excuse voting by absentee ballot.
Voter fraud is real, just not on the scale claimed by Trump
Voter fraud is real, a potential factor in close local races. But not for president in 2020.
Across Connecticut, no problems at the polls
Long lines reported early; absentee ballots contribute to heavy turnout
Connecticut’s one-day COVID positive rate hits 4.1%
The 4.1% rate is the state’s highest one-day number since early June. The new seven-day rolling average is 2.5%.
One-fifth of the CT electorate has already voted — and Democrats are far outpacing Republicans and unaffiliated voters
More than 455,000 people have voted by absentee ballot in Connecticut so far, representing 70% of those who applied.
Connecticut pushback against Trump over absentee ballots
The governor used a bill signing ceremony to counter the president’s false claims that mail-in voting is rife with fraud.
Farewells and bipartisan votes in a special House session
Republicans questioned the need for the session, but they mostly voted with the Democrats during the special session Wednesday.
CT Dems push back against Trump plans to ‘sabotage’ postal service
Attorney General William Tong is considering a lawsuit and Sen. Richard Blumenthal presses for more funding for the postal service.
Despite pandemic and power outages, the Connecticut primary is here
The polls open at 6 a.m. Tuesday for a primary complicated by a pandemic, a power outage and Connecticut’s first broad use of absentee ballots.
This candidate is ON the ballot. Now, she just needs one to vote.
Sen. Marilyn Moore is one of 1,100 Democrats in her district still awaiting an absentee ballot. She is not happy.