early voting

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill talks about the Nov. 2 election, which is the last one where any registered voter can use an absentee ballot. She also talks about the future of absentee and early voting in our state.

The Connecticut House has approved a bill to put the idea of early voting up for a vote.

The House voted 115-26 Thursday to send voters a ballot question about whether they would like to see Connecticut offer some form of early voting in the future. It’s next stop will be the state Senate. “At the end of the day folks, Connecticut’s constitution puts us in a bad place. We are not in good company,” House Speaker...

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.

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…

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

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...

Changes to the way millions of Americans voted this year contributed to record turnout, but that’s no guarantee the measures making it easier to cast ballots will stick around for future elections

“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.

Gov. Ned Lamont said tolls, early voting, and the legalization of marijuana are all on the table as a new legislature with an expanded Democratic majority begins next session.

NBCLX Political Reporter Noah Pransky breaks down voter turnout by age so far this election, with only 23% of the votes coming from Americans under the age of 30 and the majority coming from voters 65 and older.

On the eve of Election Day, John Fortier of the Bipartisan Policy Democracy Project explains what you need to know to interpret the presidential race results as they begin rolling in on Election Night. What do the historic surges in early voting mean for President Trump and Joe Biden, and how can the Electoral College hand the White House to...

Forget the red and blue election map. The most important map to watch on Election Night is one that shows when each state starts counting its early ballots. The differing rules states use to prioritize when early voting ballots are counted may create a blue or red “mirage” on Election Night that shows early leads for either Joe Biden or...

It’s time to remake our electoral map so voters are prepared for a “red mirage” and “blue mirage” on Election Night

The number of people who have voted in the election is already more than half of the total number of ballots cast in 2016

More than 21 million voters across the U.S. have already cast ballots in person amid record-breaking early turnout

Sixty million Americans have already voted in the 2020 election so far, with two-thirds of those votes coming from mail-in ballots. NBCLX storyteller Chase Cain breaks down this huge surge in early voting.

With eight days before Election Day, more people already have cast ballots in this year’s presidential election than voted early or absentee in the 2016 race as the start of in-person early voting in big states led to a surge in turnout in recent days.

With two weeks until Election Day, more than 35 million Americans have already voted in the 2020 presidential election, according to U.S. Elections Project data Tuesday.