absentee ballots

During the 2020 election any registered voter in Connecticut could vote by absentee ballot because of the COVID-19 pandemic. That won’t be an option for the next election, but the House took the first steps Monday to expand the circumstances to legally obtain an absentee ballot.

State lawmakers moved a step closer Monday to expanding access to no-excuse absentee ballots.

While election officials in Georgia were verifying signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one metro-Atlanta county, President Donald Trump pressed a lead investigator to look at a different county

Forty-three states allow voters to cast their ballots before Election Day and Secretary of the State Denise Merrill would like to see Connecticut added to that list. “Red states, purple states, and blue states almost all allow their voters to conveniently vote prior to Election Day,” Merrill said. Merrill said allowing voters to vote before Election Day or without an…

The state legislature’s General Administration and Elections Committee heard testimony Monday both for and against allowing early voting or no excuse absentee ballots in Connecticut.

More than 650,000 Connecticut voters voted last year by absentee ballot and some lawmakers want to make sure they can do it in the future.    “A resolution to propose an amendment to allow for no-excuse absentee voting, is there a motion?,” Rep. Dan Fox (D-Stamford) said.  “So moved, second.”  The Government Administration and Elections Committee plans to debate a...

A state legislative committee plans to debate a resolution to change Connecticut’s Constitution to allow no-excuse absentee voting.

A Delaware County man is accused of illegally voting for President Donald Trump under the names of his deceased mother and deceased mother-in-law.

Wisconsin has finished a recount of its presidential results, confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump in the key battleground state

“In light of the pandemic it just seemed like a smart thing to do,” said Soloman Daniel of New Britain. Daniel was one of more than 650,000 Connecticut voters who cast their ballot through the mail or the ballot drop box this year. “The less roadblocks there are to voting, the more people you have voting,” said Daniel. Emergency COVID-19…

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill has proposed making ‘no excuse’ absentee balloting permanent in Connecticut.

Approximately 659,000 Connecticut voters opted to cast absentee ballots because of the pandemic. So could large scale, no excuses, absentee balloting become the norm like it was during the pandemic?

While most statewide election results are in, some final results are still being tallied as absentee ballots are being counted.

Faced with the possibility that voters might have to choose whether to risk going out and voting in a pandemic, the state decided months before the November election to allow any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in 2020. Now, a day after an election in which more than 650,000 people voted by absentee ballot, Connecticut Secretary of the…

More than 9,000 people voter by absentee ballot in Waterbury for the 2020 election, compared to 2,000 in the 2016 presidential election and 600 of those ballots were returned on Tuesday. The process is underway to count the ballots from Tuesday to make sure the person didn’t vote in person.

Approximately 659,000 people in Connecticut tried absentee voting this election, many for the first time, due to the pandemic. Election officials said for the most part, it went off without a hitch. At the same time, it went down to the wire for towns and cities to count hundreds of thousands of ballots. At Hartford City Hall, workers got all…

The very latest as of 11 p.m. Tuesday on the races around Connecticut and the counting of votes in the General Election.

All registered voters were able to apply for an absentee ballot this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing the numbers of absentee voters over most years and leading to questions about what to expect with the counting process. According to a bill signed by Gov. Ned Lamont, local election officials were able to open the outer envelope of the…