More than 123,000 Connecticut voters had cast absentee ballots by Monday morning, more than in any year since 2016, with the exception of the pandemic-year presidential election in 2020. Of them, about 54% came from registered Democrats, according to the Secretary of the State’s office. “The actions of the legislature in 2021 by making absentee ballot less restrictive combined with people getting in the habit of voting by absentee in 2020, you can see the results. People want to vote by absentee,” said Scott Bates, the Connecticut Deputy Secretary of the State.