absentee ballots

Absentee ballots are arriving in record numbers. The Secretary of the State’s office says there have been over 267,0000 cast in Connecticut already. That’s more than double the last presidential election year of 2016. Registrars in Bristol say if you’re applying for an absentee ballot your request for one must be in by November 2. Thousands though have already taken…

If you’re voting by absentee ballot this year, registrars want to make sure you’re doing it correctly.

Meredith Gervais said she didn’t even consider voting absentee this year. “I know what I’m doing when I go in, in person, circle, fill in the dots, slide it in, see you later, I feel confident about that,” said the Wallingford woman. However, her town has already received 6,500 absentee ballots.  That’s three times more than past presidential elections....

Election officials across Connecticut say this year the final election results may not be known for days due to the amount of absentee ballots they will have to count.

Some voters in Vernon received absentee ballots for the wrong voting district due to what town officials called a flaw in the Secretary of the State’s Centralized Voter Registration System and what state officials described as a clerical error on the town’s part. According to a release from the Vernon Mayor’s Office, the town clerk received reports from voters...

“I was about to stick it in the envelope to send in and I looked, and I saw that my name wasn’t on the envelope.” New Haven voter Stephen Wizner was taking one last look over his ballot when he noticed “Envelope B” had someone else’s label with name and voter identification bar code. He and his wife also...

The city of New Haven is urging voters to make sure to double check their ballots for any errors before sending back to the city.

Ohio’s Republican secretary of state is assuring residents that the election will be secure and accurate after a county sent wrong ballots to 50,000 voters

Connecticut has reported 500,000 voters so far have requested absentee ballots, an option open to everyone this year due to the pandemic. That has amounted to roughly triple the total number of people who voted absentee in 2016. The key question – did you correctly follow all the steps to complete your absentee ballot, so it doesn’t get disqualified?  The…

You must follow a certain set of steps to ensure that your absentee ballot will be counted.

The presidential election is always a busy season for the town clerks office but in West Hartford Essie Labrot said she’s seen nothing like this year. “We are planning to potentially do 30,000 absentee ballots in West Hartford,” she said. “I look back historically and the most we ever issued is 5,000 so this being we are already at the…

With Connecticut allowing all eligible voters to vote by absentee ballots this year, we went to get answers about what you need to know.

On Sunday, voter after voter dropped off their absentee ballots at a special box outside West Hartford Town Hall. “Just get it over with so I wouldn’t forget it. I wouldn’t forget it anyway and this was convenient,” said Eileen Russo of West Hartford. Many have already received their ballot after 15,000 were sent out in West Hartford on...

An unprecedented number of absentee ballots now being sent to Connecticutvoters who’ve applied for them. “The town of Windsor has experienced a much higher volume,” Anna Posniak, Windsor’s town clerk and president of the Connecticut Town Clerks Association said. Posniak said she’s already inching close to 5,000 absentee ballot applications.“In 2016 I issued 1,200 absentee ballots. Today is the...

The governor has signed a bill on processing of absentee ballots of the November election. At 10 a.m., Gov. Ned Lamont held a bill signing ceremony at Hartford City Hall. The bill, House Bill 7005, An Act Concerning a Municipal Election Monitor at the 2020 State Election and Processing of Absentee Ballots for the 2020 State Election, will facilitate the…

Connecticut lawmakers voted Wednesday to give local election officials some extra time to begin processing the large numbers of absentee ballots that are expected to be filed for the Nov. 3 general election. The legislation, which cleared the House of Representatives on a 139-5 vote, will give cities and towns the option of opening the outer envelope of the absentee…

The House met Wednesday to take up 10 pieces of legislation and four judicial nominations that Democratic lawmakers felt were necessary to approve before the start of the next regular session in January. Connecticut has a part-time legislature and due to COVID-19 only one chamber can be in the building at a time.  “School construction is specific to projects that…

Town and city clerks across Connecticut have been enlisting volunteers, hiring extra staff and paying overtime to workers to process an unprecedented number of requests for absentee election ballots. In East Hartford alone, where records show 858 absentee ballots were submitted in the 2016 presidential election, Town Clerk Robert Pasek said he predicts roughly 21,000 could be issued to voters…

A federal appeals court has upheld a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin.

A look at the plan to address absentee ballots during a special session this week.