connecticut absentee ballots

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…

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

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…

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

A Connecticut man told NBC Connecticut Investigates he had concerns after trying, and failing, to mail an absentee ballot in last month’s state primary. While the voter accepted some of the blame, he still had questions considering national concerns about mail-in voting. The voter, from Newington, did not want to give his name.  He told NBC Connecticut Investigates he’s...

NBC CT Investigates looks into the concerns of a Newington voter who reached out to us over how his absentee ballot was handled in the primary election.

With the primary in the rearview mirror, the state of Connecticut is getting ready for the general election and the crush of one million absentee ballots. Secretary of the State Denise Merrill plans to send 2.1 million absentee ballot applications to all voters and she told town clerks that she didn’t plan to use a mail house to help them…

With the primary in the rearview mirror, the state is getting ready for the general election in November and the possible crush of one million absentee ballots.