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“How comfortable would you be still using your iPhone 1?” Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas said Tuesday. She was making a comparison to a time in the technology revolution that includes Connecticut's now obsolete voting equipment.

The CT legislature enabled the state to borrow more than $25M to replace its aging voting equipment. But Lamont has to authorize the funding.

Connecticut is one of a small number of states that do not allow for early voting in elections, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Current and former state officials stumped to change that by backing a constitutional amendment on the steps of the Capitol in Hartford on Thursday.

Connecticut needs voting reforms Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org A resident drops an absentee ballot application into a box outside West Hartford Town Hall during the last election season. Like 650,000 Connecticut residents, I voted by absentee ballot last November. Like me, these voters might be shocked to learn this method of voting is not available in future elections. Connecticut has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the nation built into its Constitution. These restrict people to a single day of voting (the first Tuesday in November) and limit use of the absentee ballot option to pe...

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