Posted on 10/27/2004 3:30:03 PM PDT by LurkedLongEnough
(Hartford-AP, Oct. 27, 2004 Updated 5:07 PM) _ Early voting in the presidential race is available for some Connecticut residents.
Early voting is allowed under Connecticut law for voters who did not register by the October 19th deadline and only want to vote for president.
A change in the way the state handles the presidential ballots allows unregistered voters to vote in the presidential race from now until the polls close on Election Day.
The changes were made to avoid the problems created four years ago when town clerks were inundated by unregistered voters wanting to cast presidential-only ballots.
A spokesman for Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz says another change is a clarification of what kind of identification is acceptable to qualify for a presidential ballot.
A photo ID or some proof of residence, such as utility bill, will be required to obtain a presidential ballot.
More than 30,000 people used the presidential ballot on Election Day in 2000.
Wonder how many of these voted in other states too.
Pop. of CT is over 3 million . Make that 1% .
They can't follow any rules, so they just change them. This crap's gonna kill us!
No, it is less than 1% of the population of CT.
10%, 1%, - Damn that lousy CT school system.
The interesting thing is that Bysiewicz's office never compiled the votes from these Y2K "presidential" ballots. So we have no idea what percentage were for Gore--but from the stories I heard at the time, of large groups of "voters" suddenly descending on a polling place, demanding presidential ballots, leaving as a group, and then the same thing happening a little while later in an adjacent town, it's not unlikely that a lot of those ballots were cast fraudulently, and that this contributed to Gore's lopsided victory in this state and his proported larger popular vote nationally.
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