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Merrill proposes voting by mail
Jacqueline Rabe, CT MIRROR
February 14, 2011
A bipartisan coalition is pushing for an elections reform package
that includes a constitutional amendment to allow early voting by
mail.
"We are not on the forefront of this," Secretary of the State
Denise W. Merrill said while announcing the reform package with
both Republican and Democratic lawmakers standing behind her. She
said 35 states currently allow early voting by mail.
The package also includes provisions requiring local registrars to
have an emergency plan in place if polling locations run out of
ballots or long lines form and granting the secretary of the state
the authority to require registrars order more ballots. The
changes are aimed at preventing a repeat of the Election Day
fiasco of 2010, when Bridgeport and a half dozen other communities
ran out of ballots on Election Day, does not happen again.
merrill
Leaders of the legislature's elections committee and the chief
elections officer introduce an elections reform package
The vote-by-mail proposal would require a constitutional
amendment, Merrill said, because the constitution now allows
absentee voting only for those who are ill, disabled, out of town
on Election Day or barred by their religion from participating in
secular activities.
[Please read the rest of this article in the archives at the CT MIRROR website]