After New Bport Ballots Arrests, CT Senate GOP Note Death of Reform That Had Bipartisan Support

For Immediate Release 

In the aftermath of four more people being arrested in connection to an investigation into the handling of absentee ballots during the 2023 mayoral election cycle in Bridgeport, Sen. Rob Sampson and Sen. Stephen Harding today reminded taxpayers that a bipartisan election integrity reform initiative could have been passed this year, but died in the Democrat controlled General Assembly.

 “We had bipartisan support:  Enact a 12-year ban for people convicted of an election crime from distributing absentee applications.

That’s common sense. It would have been a great first step for Connecticut to address this ongoing scandal that has made international news.

It would have passed unanimously at the State Capitol.

But it died.

Meanwhile, Gov. Lamont didn’t know or didn’t care – and provided zero leadership.

So Connecticut remains a national laughingstock on elections.

Connecticut Republicans will continue pressing for election reforms, but we are outnumbered in Hartford.

Let’s face it: Connecticut will remain a punchline around the world until Connecticut Democrats are thrown out of office.”

Sens. Sampson and Harding noted how Senate Republicans this year proposed a bill to prohibit unsolicited distribution of absentee ballot applications so that only the individual voter may request an absentee ballot application, but the Senate Democrat chair of the legislature’s elections committee refused to give the proposal a public hearing.