absentee ballots

While election officials in Georgia were verifying signatures on absentee ballot envelopes in one metro-Atlanta county, President Donald Trump pressured a lead investigator to “find the fraud.”

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…

This is one of the most litigious elections in memory with hundreds of lawsuits filed across the country leading up to Nov. 3. There is preparation underway for new legal challenges in Connecticut come Election Day. Decisions will likely be made at both the ballot box and in court in the days ahead. “I am ready for whatever comes our...

There is preparation underway for new legal challenges in Connecticut come Election Day. Decisions will likely be made at both the ballot box and in court in the days ahead.

Election Day is tomorrow and today is the last day to request an absentee ballot from your town hall. Depending on your town, if you haven’t requested an absentee ballot, you can call your town clerk and ask to make an appointment today to fill out the ballot and put it in the drop box today, according to Lt....

Election Day is tomorrow and today is the last day to request an absentee ballot from your town hall.

Among the hundreds who turned out for curbside absentee voting in New Haven on Sunday was the Walton family. “Excited and anxious at the same time. You need to make a difference and if we don’t vote, we can’t say anything that is going wrong that you don’t agree with because you didn’t try to make a change. Because...

Newington residents, many of which have voted absentee, are getting ready for this year’s Election Day.

At the most recent count, 584,232 absentee ballots have been cast in Connecticut. To expedite the steps processing those, many communities are getting a head start. The Secretary of the State’s office said more than 40 towns are taking advantage of a new statute that allowed them to begin verifying absentee ballots Friday at 5 p.m rather than 6 p.m…