From Gabby DeBenedictis, CT Mirror:
A new law requires that absentee ballot applications be clearly marked with the specific year they’re valid for, and prohibits applications and ballots without the year noted on them from being distributed or used.
The law also puts tighter regulations on absentee ballot application requests, prohibiting town clerks from giving a person five or more ballot applications if the date they request them is 90 days or more before absentee ballots are issued for that election.
The updated regulations follow an ongoing absentee ballot scandal in Bridgeport, where a judge ordered the city to re-do its 2023 mayoral primary election between Mayor Joe Ganim and his opponent John Gomes following allegations of absentee ballot fraud.
Earlier this year, Connecticut prosecutors also charged several Bridgeport political operatives with abusing the absentee balloting system during the city’s 2019 Democratic primary for mayor.
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