Trump’s insistence the election was rigged is a distraction that GOP candidates in Connecticut say they are intent on ignoring.
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House GOP blocks 2022 referendum on absentee voting
House Republicans succeeded Tuesday in delaying until 2024 a referendum on no-excuse absentee voting.
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CT House endorses early voting in bipartisan vote
The Connecticut House voted overwhelmingly Thursday to place a constitutional amendment allowing early voting on the 2022 ballot.
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Senator alleges voter fraud, but no complaint was filed
Rob Sampson said a voter in his district was told an absentee ballot already had been cast in her name.
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Weeks after the election, Secretary of the State’s efforts to monitor disinformation campaigns ended
For weeks, an intelligence analyst monitored social media for the Secretary of the State’s office. Then her contract ran out.
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Photos: A day of protests in Hartford
Black Lives Matter advocates crossed paths with Trump supporters in two very different protests Saturday in Hartford.
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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.
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Records subpoenaed in Bridgeport mayoral primary
With the issuance of subpoenas. elections officials opened an investigation Monday of a Bridgeport mayoral primary marred by allegations of fraud.
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CT residents join others who blast White House voting panel
WASHINGTON — Connecticut voters were among those who provided public comment to the White House about the work of its voter fraud commission, and like most of those who weighed in, were highly critical of the effort.
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Trump’s claims of voter fraud an issue for Connecticut’s Merrill
President Donald J. Trump’s repeated and unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud in the popular vote for president promises to complicate the tenure of Connecticut’s Denise Merrill as president of the National Association of Secretaries of State.
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Fact, fiction and dead voters: ‘There’s never been a case here’
Don’t bother to look for a case of someone voting in the name of the dead at the polls in Connecticut, even if Donald J. Trump frets that 1.8 million dead Americans are still registered to vote. Proven voter fraud is rare here, and it’s never involved impersonation at the polls.
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Vote twice? In Connecticut there’s no law against trying
Connecticut election law has a loophole that the state’s top elections’ official wants closed: It is a felony to vote twice in the same election, but trying and failing is no crime.