There were no surprises Friday morning when Secretary of the State Denise Merrill and Republican Party Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr., announced the names of the four Republican presidential candidates who will appear on Connecticut’s April 24 primary ballot. A fifth candidate submitted his request about 40 minutes after the deadline.

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Tags: Republican presidential contest, Jerry Labriola Jr., Buddy Roemer, Fred Karger, Vermin Supreme

In five minutes Monday, the Government Administration and Elections Committee voted to raise 35 concepts this session. A bill to join the National Popular Vote Compact was not among them.

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Tags: National Popular Vote, slossberg, Meyer, Andrew Fleischmann, elections, presidential elections

After reversing its initial decision to hire former Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano, the State Elections Enforcement Commission re-interviewed the finalists and voted unanimously Friday to hire an attorney from Hamden as its new executive director.

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Tags: election, enforcement, Sebastian Giuliano, Stephen Cashman, Michael Brandi

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, the first governor elected with public campaign funds, said he may have closed out his political action committee this month, but it’s not going to stop him from helping other PACs raise money.

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Tags: fundraising, PAC, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Democratic Governors Association, Cuomo, O'Malley

(Updated 12:29 p.m.) The State Elections Enforcement Commission decided not to act Wednesday on former Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano’s appointment to head the agency.

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Tags: Giuliano, SEEC, Cashman, Russ Morin, Gayle Slossberg, Middletown, Wesleyan

A Wesleyan student filed a complaint with the State Elections Enforcement Commission Tuesday alleging that former Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano ran a campaign that “tried to deter Wesleyan students from the polls.”

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Tags: Sebastian Giuliano, SEEC, complaint, Wesleyan, students, Joseph Adinolfi

Concerned with former Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano’s handling of the election process this past November, a group of Wesleyan students plan to protest outside the State Elections Enforcement Commission’s offices Tuesday.

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(Updated 3:35 p.m.) Election Day registration, no excuse absentee voting, and online voter registration are just a few of the legislative proposals put forward on Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Secretary of the State Denise Merrill and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

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Tags: election day registration, election, voter, ballot, fraud, online voting, Republicans, Denise Merrill, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy

He heard the testimony and studied the maps and in the end Special Master Nathaniel Persily decided not to make significant changes to Connecticut’s five congressional districts.

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Tags: Redistricting, map, special master, Republicans, Democrats, 5th, congress

The State Elections Enforcement Agency, which has been without an executive director for the past seven months, chose former Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano to lead it at a time of great uncertainty.

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Tags: Sebastian Giuliano, Stephen Cashman, Citizens' Election Program, State Elections Enforcement Commission, Republican