Connecticut’s Secretary of the State plans to ask lawmakers to allow any registered voter to cast an absentee ballot in future elections. But the president of Connecticut’s Town Clerks Association says the state lacks the resources for widespread mail voting.
A record number of residents were allowed to vote by mail for the first time this year due to the pandemic. Anna Posniak is president of the association and Town Clerk in the City of Windsor. She is one of several local election officials in charge of absentee ballots.
Posniak wants the state to review the process, which required towns hire and train new workers and offer overtime to process absentee ballots.
She said states that offer universal vote-by-mail for every election have more infrastructure, technology, and larger staffs trained solely to do mail voting.
Connecticut is one of six states that require a legal excuse to vote absentee.