How many times have you voted?
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A ballot question asks electors to decide if they want to do away with Connecticut’s restrictive excuse-only absentee voting. Connecticut is among just a handful of states that requires a reason to vote absentee such as:
“An absence from your town on Election Day prevents you from appearing at your polling place, or you are prevented from appearing at your assigned polling place on Election Day because of sickness or physical disability (not necessarily your sickness or disability), active service in the Military, religious tenets forbid secular activity on the day of the election, duties as an election official at a polling place other than your own during all of the hours of voting.”
More info from Connecticut Secretary of the State website:
Overview
At the November 5, 2024, general election, voters will consider a proposed amendment to the Connecticut Constitution dealing with no-excuse absentee voting. If a majority of those voting on a proposed amendment approve it, the amendment becomes part of the state constitution. The ballot question and text of the proposed amendment appear below, together with a link to the explanatory text in both English and Spanish.Ballot Question
Shall the Constitution of the State be amended to permit the General Assembly to allow each voter to vote by absentee ballot?Explanatory Text
Text of the Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Section 1. That the following be proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the State, which, when approved and adopted in the manner provided by the Constitution, shall, to all intents and purposes, become a part thereof:Section 7 of article sixth of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 7. The general assembly may provide by law for voting in the choice of any officer to be elected or upon any question to be voted on at an election by qualified voters of the state who [are unable to] will not appear at the polling place on the day of election. [because of absence from the city or town of which they are inhabitants or because of sickness or physical disability or because the tenets of their religion forbid secular activity.]
Bridgeport’s antics in the 2023-24 mayoral election will stymie the pro-absentee vote in Connecticut and will probably have an influence beyond, in other states with measures on liberalizing voting methods… to be certain, the measure will not pass in Connecticut, thanks to Bridgeport’s nonsense…
We hurt the state in 2023-24 by our ballot-stuffing antics and we gave Hartford/Stamford-Greenwich one more excuse to keep us under their thumb as the state’s neglected, barefoot and poor, bastard-stepchild LARGEST city… (Look how Tweed-New Haven Airport just got $4 million for expansion of their national service, and Bridgeport Airport is treated as just another part of pariah city as we hardly even have any local, Piper Cub traffic there anymore… Not to mention our University of Bridgeport’s death-bed condition… Or Success Village… And the list goes on and is long and prodigious…).
Great job, Joe! Ganim for Governor!
Readers:
“Inappropriate handling” of absentee ballots? Ballot stuffing? What does the video show? Just the facts….man or ma’m…just the evidence that you think you observed. But it may take “law and order”, at the State level, not the local Police Department, years to act on the outcomes of one or more investigations?
While OIB is asking those readers who are locally interested in the national outcome, what about summoning answers on local matters?
* Does the Mayor have an obligation to appoint or re-appoint qualified and diverse citizen voters to Boards and Commissions per our City Charter? What grade would you give him on his ragged accomplishments in this regard? Do you cut him any slack as regards a Fair Housing Commission, because he inherited NON-APPOINTMENTS from Finch, and Finch from Fabrizi? What enforcement mechanism should be in place as a City ‘safety net”?
* Speaking about Fair Housing, what would the existence of such a City authority with sufficient powers likely have provided to more than 700 Success Village owners more than two years ago when the attempt at “self-governance” was going down in flames?
* The Mayor, City Clerk, and Council President who are expected to guide City governance “towards progress” as of November 1, 2024 had not even signed in to the Town Clerk’s office to affirm their residence address as requested in January each year since 2017. I have mentioned this ‘Ordinance Avoidance’ at the last three Council Public Speaking sessions. But the Board and Commission as well as elected officials responsible to sign-in with proof continues to show 90% failing. Have we had officials in recent years who failed to live in the City? Who voted elsewhere? Yes!! Do we term those who fail to register as “scofflaws”? What is Ganim2’s excuse?
* A Charter review, mentioned several times in recent years for which applications have been submitted, has gone quiet, once again. Will it find itself quickly and set a deadline too close to deal with administration issues that fail the public good currently? Twenty years passed while Ichabod Crane slept. Does that provide any excuse for Bridgeport inaction?
* Will 20%, 25%, or more of eligible and registered in Bridgeport be seen to vote by close of polls Tuesday at 8PM? How many will have considered a revision in the terms when no-excuse ballots can be used? How will Town Committees in Bridgeport report to their members? Who will the group of ‘unaffiliated’ in the City look to for information, values, guidance, or genuine participation? Time will tell.
John, the facts? 🙂
The Port’s politics didn’t need video evidence to observe the facts: Port’s AB game has been corrupted for some time, and that has influenced Port’s elections for decades.
Wanda was an extremely popular player in Port politics among state and local candidates. She rose to Vice Chair of DTC, to the hand of Mario who wielded his AB powers/influence, No? Who, until recently held a decent pay, cushy job, with benefits for what she brought to the table.
Shit, I can’t find a coded/side job picking up dogshit. 😂
https://www.tiktok.com/@derrick_yells/video/7348868742434016555
Well, until Wanda was thrown under the bus, in a sense. I am sure this all could have been swept under the rug if Gome and his team/backers just capitulated to G2 taking the primary and forgoing the second bite at Wands’s expense
Just some facts John 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSi1G-YjxvA
https://www.tiktok.com/@derrick_yells/video/7348868742434016555
John, the facts? 🙂
The Port’s politics didn’t need video evidence to observe the facts: Port’s AB game has been corrupted for some time, and that has influenced Port’s elections for decades.
Wanda was an extremely popular player in Port politics among state and local candidates. She rose to Vice Chair of DTC, to the hand of Mario who wielded his AB powers/influence, No? Who, until recently held a decent pay, cushy job, with benefits for what she brought to the table.
Shit, I can’t find a coded/side job picking up dogshit. 😂
https://www.tiktok.com/@derrick_yells/video/7348868742434016555
Well, until Wanda was thrown under the bus, in a sense. I am sure this all could have been swept under the rug if Gome and his team/backers just capitulated to G2 taking the primary and forgoing the second bite at Wands’s expense
Just some facts John 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSi1G-YjxvA
RT
Just some facts? From your storyline of “winners and losers” and not really facts, but a storyline, supported with side glances that many times distract rather than add to the influence of your narrative. Just saying.
My observations and questions are from 30,000 feet at the destruction of bodies, with our neighbors who are informed, qualified, and evaluated contributing on boards and commissions of which our Mayors have selection “POWER”. Do they fail to use it fully? Do they leave posts empty and suggest that the public is not responding? Aren’t they out and around, looking for good people who wish to participate in City governance as the Charter provides?
Is a review of the Charter due after 20 years? Can we do better as the population of the State’s largest municipality? If you do not perform oversight of the mileage on your auto, perhaps you can expect a breakdown? If you do not promote your principles and purpose in government, perhaps you can anticipate underwhelming performance of your governance structure? Did you listen to the downtown surviving business owners last night commenting upon the doubling of penalties as an enforcement mechanism, or the increase in expense to use a meter (where meters have broken down or not been replaced for over one year), or lack of parking enforcement, especially on weekends? Likely not. It was a “hearing” where people exceeded the three minute limitations of “public speaking”. Imagine that?
Maybe there is life in the “body politic” responding to deafness and lack of concern by those paid to “govern”? Time will tell.
Jphn, perhaps some facts, with a storyline and sided glances that many times distract rather than add to the influence of my narrative, butt, is your sided glance storyline any less or more of a distraction rather than adding influence into your narrative those around you?
However, it seems your 30,000 feet observations and questions at the destruction of bodies, with your neighbors, who are informed, qualified, and evaluated contributing on boards and commissions of which our Mayors have selected “POWER”. Their failure may fall with their participation to elevate to your level of approved narrative. My grounded observation seems that trait is dictatorial 🙂
Your narrative is can we do better, perhaps. But has the city done better in your present observation?
No, I didn’t hear about downtown surviving business owners bitching the other night commenting upon the doubling of penalties as an enforcement mechanism, or the increase in expense to use a meter (where meters have broken down or not been replaced for over one year), or lack of parking enforcement, especially on weekends?
They are not my neighbors, my current, yet recurrent storyline has moved to a new hood who have different concerns on their plate being dished out other than parking meter fees and penalties. JS
https://connecticut.news12.com/dss-thefts-of-snap-benefits-surge-in-bridgeport-as-ebt-cards-are-reloaded-at-start-of-month?fbclid=IwY2xjawGXpKJleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHdgfELGWROPLmqP–L_JwLuLQRRn2Y-TNv90xEEILyIiSdkPLfj-ydumxQ_aem_lIZbFq_CO17BK801GE7Qdw
To Jeff’s point,
Jeff, I think you need to take your blinders off because I don’t think you see it. 🙂
Perhaps
“Bridgeport’s antics in the 2023-24 mayoral election will stymie the pro-absentee vote in Connecticut and will probably have an influence beyond, in other states with measures on liberalizing voting methods… to be certain, the measure will not pass in Connecticut, thanks to Bridgeport’s nonsense…”
and by Port’s ballot-stuffing antics, it perhaps gave Hartford/Stamford-Greenwich an excuse to keep the Port under their thumb as the state’s neglected, barefoot, and poor, bastard-stepchild.
However, how do you see a pro-absentee ballot vote to expand the AB game to stymie the Port corrupt AB game? If anything, this liberal voting method measure that is on the ballot is designed to enhance Port’s Abusive game by extension keeping the Port barefoot, poor, and a bastard stepchild.
This measure is probably coming out of that Hartford/Stamford-Greenwich, gold cost to keep the Port barefoot and poor, bastard stepchild 🙂
Taste the movement, a breath of fresh air, Gen Now, who perfected that liberal art of lying, with their 20,000 shades of ballots. Clearly, they want to expand the AB-corrupted game. I am pretty sure people are going to take a page out of Wanda’s Saga and buy some stamps.
So, without any restrictions as to who can vote by AB, it looks like Gen Now big daddy money, LV mama bear wants to raise themselves by helping the Gold Coast keep the Port Barefoot and poor, bastard-stepchild. 🙂
They can’t do it without the help of their elected officials in keeping silent. Thus, the expansion of Port AB corrupted the political game by extending the AB voting ballot initiative.
I know Lamont is not too keen on supporting the Ports Soccer League with public funding support. While, I’ll assume the Port’s elected officials are in support of it how hard are they fighting, championing that Hartford /Stamford-Greenwich, Gold Coast entity?
As for UB that death-bed was dead 30 years ago. Thanks to that Gold Coast effort in neglecting that, barefoot, poor, bastard stepchild. How many billions did UConn get of the last three decades from Hartford?
To be fair, until the Second Coming of Christ resurrected UB from that death-bed.
So, Jeff, leave UB out of Port’s political shit show. UB doesn’t have time for your problems.
Good job Korean Jesus. #Sun Myung Moon 🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8MZGr5YQ1Y
To be fair, North and South you are both basically Chinese. 🙃
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOcL5ZCVEFg
As of 9am 551 voted 😁 Black Rock.
Robert: Thanks for making my argument so eloquently! (Without even trying!) (But UB would have been gone 30 years without the Unification Church…. And really — no need for the religious and racial bigotry. Bigots failed to appreciate how the Unification Church helped to prop up this failing city for two decades, even making UB outstanding in several technical and non-technical fields. They should have been running the whole city. Instead, we had incompetent, corrupt, bigoted administrations at the helm — and look what we have to show for it. Amen.
Oh, contraire, Jeff, there’s always room for religious and racial bigotry in politics. That shit is like jelly pudding pops. 🙂
Though for some that shit is their dietary main entrée. Wouldn’t you say Taste the Movement, Breath of Fresh Air, the most disingenuous pol group out of Port politics, Gen Now? :)🤣
I remember having discussions regarding that with boys’ friends back in the day. I was seemingly one of the few who voiced support for the “second coming” resurrecting that failed higher educational institution. I will not go as far as to say the Unification Church to running the whole city.
Let’s not forget G2’s incompetent, corrupt bigoted administration was not at the helm, and the Port led the country in murder, Per Capita.
BTW, I’m not sure if I made your argument of expanding the AB Voting unless you were talking in parables. 🙂
Perhaps on the Gold Coast/Stamford/Greenwich/Hartford. trying to keep the Port Barefoot, poor, bastard stepchild. 🙂
The Port may not be much to look at but at least it has a vision. 🙂
Are you in support for a Port soccer team?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gygLBiPwO4w