Denise Merrill

Gov. Ned Lamont Thursday appointed former Connecticut associate attorney general Mark Kohler as Secretary of the State. Kohler is replacing Denise Merrill, who announced this week she would step down effective noon Thursday to spend more time with her husband, who is facing serious health issues. “Mark is incredibly well-respected as a levelheaded, tactful, and experienced attorney who has a…

CT Secretary of the State Denise Merrill will leave office six months before her third term ends to spend more time with her husband, who is facing serious health problems.

Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill will leave office six months before her third term ends, telling The Associated Press she is resigning Thursday, effective at noon, to spend more time with her husband, who is facing serious health problems. The veteran Democrat, who was first elected as the state’s top elections official in 2010 after serving 17 years…

In 2020 for the first time, Connecticut voters were able to use COVID-19 as an excuse to vote by absentee ballot, but that provision has expired. Lawmakers are debating whether it should continue. More than 600,000 Connecticut voters cast their votes by absentee ballot in 2020, but that won’t be possible in this November unless lawmakers change the law. “The…

When the polls closed Tuesday none of the information about the vote in any town was available to the public because the Secretary of the State’s results reporting website wasn’t working.

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill announced Wednesday that she will not run for reelection in 2022.

Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill announced Wednesday she will not seek reelection in 2022, noting it’s time for a “new generation” to “step up” with new ideas on how to further modernize voting and protect voters’ rights. The three-term Democrat and former president of the National Association of Secretaries of State made the announcement outside the state Capitol,…

“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.

The Sectretary of the State’s Office was one of several state agencies afftected by an outage at the state’s data center over the weekend.

The Connecticut Attorney General and Secretary of the State are expressing concern ahead of the Novemeber general election and whether the Postal Service will be equipped to make sure every vote is counted.

As the U.S. Postal Service sounds the alarm about its ability to handle increased mail-in voting this November, Connecticut’s Attorney General and the Secretary of the State are considering their legal options with less than three months until the election. There is growing concern about recent policy changes and delays within the USPS as millions of Americans will be...

Voters will be casting votes Tuesday for the primary and some polling places do not have power.

Eversource is working to restore power to Connecticut polling places before the primary on Tuesday. As of 10 a.m. Monday morning, seven polling places remain without power. Officials from the Secretary of the State’s Office said Union all town halls have connectivity except in Union, Sterling, Plainfield, Colebrook, Colchester, Ashford and Salem. They said Frontier is physically at all...

Bloomfield Town Councilwoman Danielle Wong had to collect over 350 signatures to get her name on the ballot for Connecticut’s 15th House district after the party’s endorsement went to incumbent Bobby Gibson. “We have had so many challenges getting face-to-face interaction,” said Wong, referring to the social distancing measures created by the coronavirus pandemic. She described the safety precautions...

Connecticut’s Secretary of the State is pushing for changes that she says will make this November’s presidential election run smoother than it did four years ago. Denise Merrill made these exact same proposals last year, but they were never taken up by the Senate.  Now that it’s an election year, she urging lawmakers get this legislation passed and to...

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill is proposing a bill that would allow felons to vote once out of prison.

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill to announce a new legislative proposals on Thursday afternoon. According to a representative, the proposal will streamline voting and voter registration for Connecticut’s citizen. The 1 p.m. announcement is set to take place in Merrill’s office in Hartford.

Many voters in Connecticut who believe they are independent voters, are actually registered with the Independent Party of Connecticut.

St. Pierre said she registered to vote as soon as she turned 18. “I have an obligation to speak my mind through a vote,” said Allison St. Pierre of Rocky Hill. She’s one of 30,000 members of Connecticut’s Independent Party. NBC Connecticut News asked her what she thought the Independent Party stood for. “I’ve never really thought about that. ...