Sen. President Donald Williams and 23 other Democratic Senators were cross-endorsed in the 2012 election by both the Democratic party and a third party, but Williams proposed getting rid of the cross-endorsement system Monday because he says it causes confusion for voters.

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Tags: cross endorsement, Working Families Party, Independent Party, Michael Telesca, Donald Williams, Miles Rapoport, secretary of the state, Hugh McQuaid, dh

Tom Foley testified Monday before the legislature’s good government committee calling the laws governing conflicts of interest in state government “absurd,” saying the “foxes are guarding the hen house.” The hour-long testimony offended lawmakers in his own party.

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Tags: Tom Foley, Rosa Rebimbas, conflict of interest, government admimistration and elections committee, Hugh McQuaid, dh

After about five minutes of debate Friday, the Government Administration and Elections Committee approved legislation to add Connecticut to an inter-state agreement to cast its electoral ballots for the presidential candidate that receives the most votes nationally.

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In 2012, Sgt. Kevin Townley’s vote didn’t count. He mailed it from the United Arab Emirates, but it never got to hometown of Trumbull to be counted.

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Former Sen. Ernie Newton’s most recent arrest has motivated Sen. Ed Meyer, D-Guilford, to propose legislation prohibiting public officials convicted of corruption from using public campaign funds

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Nearly one year ago, CT News Junkie contributor Jason Paul suggested that state Democrats “lost” the decade’s redistricting process. In retrospect, Mr. Paul’s piece seems prophetic. Redistricting modestly strengthened the hand of state Republicans and helped them hold their margins in each chamber of the General Assembly.

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Despite a devastating storm hitting little more than a week before Election Day, Secretary of the State Denise Merrill said Monday that Connecticut is ready for the election, with all of its polling places powered and voter turnout anticipated to be high.

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In addition to the storm and the power outages at some polling places, Registrars of Voters are also dealing with a new, web-based Centralized Voter Registration system, which is cooperating for some and not for others.

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Republican Linda McMahon brought her Senate campaign into deep Democratic country Thursday—opening a downtown New Haven office and moving to haul city officials into state court on charges of alleged ballot problems.

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The election is less than a week away, but Hurricane Sandy isn’t going to stop Connecticut from opening up its more than 700 polling places.

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