Town clerks across Connecticut are anxiously awaiting a flood of absentee ballots in the final days before Tuesday’s primary election, in what some described as a bumpy rollout of expanded mail-in voting. Nearly 300,000 voters, about 20% of all registered Democrats and Republicans in the state, requested absentee ballots after state legislators passed a law last month that loosened restrictions on voting by mail for this year’s primary and general elections because of the Covid-19 health crisis. In addition to presidential...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 09, 2020 17:02 UTC