Election Law On Trial

A Federal Court is reviewing Connecticut's requirement that voters register at least two weeks before an election in order to vote. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal are both named in the suit, but both have expressed sympathy for abolishing the two week deadline.

The current law allows unregistered citizens to vote for president, but not other federal or state races. The plaintiffs allege that 30,000 unregistered Connecticut citizens voted for president in 2004, but they were barred from voting in other federal and state races.

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