Connecticut
Ballot Security
What Politicians Say
In November, Connecticut voters could improve their score on ease of voting if they approve a proposal to allow early in-person voting.
Spurred by election problems during the coronavirus pandemic, the state legislature put a constitutional amendment that would allow early voting on the ballot.
Currently, Connecticut is one of five states that do not have an early in-person option available to all voters.
State voters rejected a similar constitutional amendment in 2014, 52-48, that would have also removed restrictions on vote-by-mail.
The legislature is considering a separate constitutional amendment on no-excuse vote-by-mail that could be on the ballot in 2024.
Ease of Voting
During the pandemic, the legislature temporarily added a coronavirus infection to the list of reasons that a voter could request a mail-in ballot.
In 2022, lawmakers permanently added a more general “sickness” excuse to the list, which includes being out of the area due to military service, physical disabilities, religious reasons or working as an elections official.
Ballot Security
Democratic Governor Ned Lamont included in a recent budget $2 million for a public information campaign on voting.
That includes a full-time security analyst who will look for election-related misinformation and rumors on fringe websites and social media and respond, either by flagging them to the social media companies or countering with correct information.
The budget also includes $4 million to upgrade voter registration and ballot counting systems.
How Politicians Responded to the 2020 Election
All of Connecticut’s top officials and members of Congress are Democrats, and believe that Biden’s election was fairly won.