Connecticut voters in Tuesday’s election will be able to choose whether to allow the expansion of absentee voting in the state so that people no longer need a specific excuse to cast a mail-in ballot.
And they are being asked to make that decision at a moment when a deep partisan divide has emerged over trust in the country’s elections and a stream of criminal allegations continue to emerge out of Bridgeport, where the city’s 2023 Democratic primary for mayor was overturned due to widespread allegations of absentee ballot fraud.
Connecticut’s Democratic leaders and organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Conservation Voters, the Connecticut Project, the NAACP and the League of Women Voters have spent months informing people about the ballot measure and advocating for its passage…