CT House endorses early voting in bipartisan vote
But fight looms over absentee ballots and fraud
MARK PAZNIOKAS :: CTMIRROR.ORG
Corrie Betts of the NAACP speaking in support of early voting and easier access to absentee ballots. At left is House Speaker Matt Ritter.
House Democrats and Republicans clashed in dueling press conferences Thursday about whether expanding absentee voting would lead to fraud, then they largely united behind another ballot access issue: endorsing a constitutional amendment allowing in-person early voting.
The House voted 115-26 to place the constitutional amendment before the voters next year. If passed at referendum in 2022, it will allow the General Assembly to decide in 2023 whether to offer early voting, as is available in 44 other states.
Lamont s plan for pandemic relief focuses on economy, child care and education
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CT to start collecting family-leave tax from its workers next week
Many employers started collecting the tax on Jan. 1. The state didn t.
Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo
Non-union state employees will begin paying the new income tax surcharge to support the paid family and medical leave benefits program on April 23, nearly four months into the tax year, Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo announced Tuesday.
Employees will face a proportionally higher deduction rate of 1.5% from then until June 30 to catch up on the amount owed, the comptroller added. From July 1 onward, workers will pay the normal deduction rate of 0.5%.
“It’s not a surprise it’s been difficult. We’re a larger employer,” Lembo said during a live-streamed, late-morning news conference. “And we have lots of employment rules.”