HARTFORD — Secretary of the State Denise Merrill gathered federal, state and local officials for a meeting Monday to work on strengthening Connecticut’s election cybersecurity before ballots are cast in November.

“2018 will be one of the most closely watched elections in our nation’s ...

Connecticut has joined a multi-state lawsuit to block the Trump Administration from demanding citizenship information in the 2020 Census.

Leading the charge for Connecticut are Attorney General George Jepsen and Secretary of State Denise Merrill, who — along with 16 other states, half a ...

HARTFORD — Angel Arce, the embattled state representative from Hartford whose committee assignments had been withdrawn amid charges that he made inappropriate texts to a young teenaged girl, officially resigned Thursday from the House of Representatives.

Secretary of the State Denise ...

HARTFORD — After gaining the support of Democratic leadership in February, a proposal to give all of Connecticut’s electoral college votes to the winner of the popular vote received hours of public comment at the Capitol Monday.

Connecticut’s top elections official, Secretary of the State ...

HARTFORD — The General Assembly’s majority Democrats on Monday gained a new member — and maybe an important extra vote.

Phil Young of Stratford officially became a state representative during a swearing in ceremony on the House Speaker’s podium at the state Capitol.

Young, a Democrat ...

HARTFORD — In this age of cyber theft and Russian hackers breaking down digital firewalls from the other side of the globe, Secretary of the State Denise Merrill wants to make it harder to steal Connecticut voter identities.

Merrill this year will ask the General Assembly to scrub voter ...

GREENWICH — Voting rights have been threatened across the nation for a decade, said Connecticut Secretary of the State Democrat Denise Merrill.

“What has been going on in the last eight to 10 years is something I never thought I would see again in this country,” she told a Greenwich ...

STRATFORD — Election Day is 10 months away, but state Rep. Joe Gresko is already getting some high-profile endorsements.

Gresko, who’s running for re-election in Stratford’s 121st House district, has received endorsements from U.S. senators Richard Blumenthal and Christopher Murphy, U.S. ...

The General Assembly will hold a special legislative session on Christmas week, but it remains to be seen what they will do.

Senate Democrats on Thursday presented Secretary of the State Denise Merrill with another 17 petition signatures, on top of a previously delivered 17 from Republican ...

BRIDGEPORT — Democratic Chairman Mario Testa’s alleged personal use of the understaffed police force to collect absentee ballots during a recent City Council primary has raised eyebrows among political officials in town and at the State Capitol in Hartford.

“This is not the usual way this ...

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There are about 2.1 million total active registered voters in the state. Of those, there are 861,766 unaffiliated voters, 771,412 Democrats and 453,625 Republicans.

Voter turnout is typically low for municipal elections, roughly 30 percent. However, Secretary of the ...

WESTPORT — Connecticut’s secretary of the state offered a sober speech Wednesday night in which she insisted the greatest threat to voting rights today is, not fraudulent voting, but attempts by many Republican politicians to make voting more difficult.

Invited to speak to the local branch ...

DERBY — For the first time in a dozen years, the city’s two mayoral candidates will square off in a debate Tuesday night.

Mayor Anita Dugatto and her Republican challenger, Richard Dziekan, will take center stage in the high school auditorium beginning at 7 p.m. The two-hour debate is open ...

The federal government on Friday told election officials in 21 states — including Connecticut — that hackers targeted their systems last year, although in most cases the systems were not breached.

The government told The Associated Press last year that more than 20 states were targeted by ...

HARTFORD — It could take days for the controversial Republican budget to reach Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s desk.

The actual documents, hundreds of pages of numbers, dollar signs and legalese, were trundled Monday morning at about 9:30, from the House Clerk’s office in the Capitol, by elevator ...

HARTFORD - Secretary of State Denise Merrill is reminding people that those eligible to vote and who wish to register to vote in time for Tuesday’s primaries have until noon on Monday, Sept. 11, to register in person at their local registrar of voters office.

Also unaffiliated voters also ...

HARTFORD — Democratic Secretary of the State Denise Merrill announced on Friday that she will seek a third four-year term as the state’s chief election official.

“Now more than ever, we need to protect voting rights and stand up for our democracy,” Merrill said in a statement. “There are ...

The News-Times reported on July 4 that Denise Merrill, Connecticut Secretary of the State, who is responsible for voting issues, is deciding the extent of personal data for release to the new U.S. “Voter Fraud Panel.” This panel is requesting extremely sensitive personal data: names, addresses, ...

Born from the Trumpian canard that “millions” of people voted illegally in the 2016 American presidential election, a pretentiously named group called the Presidential Advisory Committee on Election Integrity has asked Connecticut, and all the other states, for personal information on every ...

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill is resisting attempts by President Donald Trump to seek personal information on the more than 2.1 million Connecticut voters.

In a letter to the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, Merrill, who is the state’s top elections official, ...

STAMFORD—Westhill High School teachers and students are being recognized by the state for taking part in the Board of Education’s inaugural Red, White and Blue School civic engagement initiative. The program encouraged schools to use the 2016 presidential election to teach students about the ...

Information in the article, “Greenwich LWV co-sponsors Electoral College talk” (March 21 news story 21) demonstrates the importance of the upcoming April 4 public forum at Greenwich Library about the National Popular Vote (NPV) Interstate Compact. The article leads with the factually incorrect ...

GREENWICH — The expected winter storm kept more than locals off the streets and highways.

Secretary of the State Denise Merrill had been scheduled to come to Greenwich Tuesday to present the town’s Registrar of Voters Department with one of the state’s four Democracy Cups.

Instead, ...

HARTFORD - The General Assembly is considering joining 33 other states that allow early voting to help alleviate long lines at the polls and encourage more people to cast ballots.

“I’m here because voters are demanding this,” said Secretary of State Denise Merrill said. “This is well ...

HARTFORD — A Milford fifth grader who campaigned on a platform promoting the humane treatment of animals, was awarded the blue sash of “Connecticut’s Kid Governor” during a ceremony Friday morning in the historic Old State House.

Jessica Brocksom of the John F. Kennedy School was joined by ...

A push to bring early voting to Connecticut — and send long lines at many polling locations the way of mechanical voting machines — is regaining momentum.

State Rep. William Tong, D-Stamford, this week introduced a bill, the first of the upcoming legislative session, to amend the state ...