When Connecticut’s largest city boasts more than 70,000 registered voters it will put a strain on election officials trying to accommodate absentee ballot requests during
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Tag: Ned Lamont
“The Carpet Bagger Is On The Ballot”
The carpetbaggers have qualified for the ballot, in a round-about way. Rejected by Superior Court Judge Barry Stevens for trying to qualify for State House
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Sports Betting Is Ticket To More State Revenue
From Ted Taylor, president of Sportech Venues SportsBettingForCT, one of Connecticut’s four licensed gaming operators. This column also appears at CT News Junkie. Connecticut has a
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Absentee Ballot Processing Restored To Local Town Clerks
The mail house the state used to issue absentee ballots for the primary might as well have been an outhouse. Either way, it is out,
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Early Returns: Brown And Moore In Tight Battle For State Senate
Strap in. Gonna be a long night’s journey into several days. City Councilman Marcus Brown and incumbent State Senator Marilyn Moore are in a virtual
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Lamont Order Extends Primary Vote Count Two Days, City Absentee Voters Top Record
Through rain, sleet, snow, dark of night, a snarly health pandemic called Covid and a hairy monster named Isaias, democracy prevails. Governor Ned Lamont on Monday
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Election Officials Brace For Surge Of Absentee Ballots After Mail House Delays
Just days from Tuesday’s Covid-delayed preference primaries for president including four legislative races in Bridgeport, a modest 937 absentee ballots from Democrats citywide have been
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Botched Ballots–State’s Mail House Screw-Up Suppresses Primary Voters
With one week left to primary day, thousands of absentee ballots across the state are, well, absent. City political operatives lay blame on the mail
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