He is not pro-choice. This is a clear lie.

He has said that he will vote against protecting the right for a women to choose. He has said that he will defend states condemning women to die from dangerous pregnancies.

What he is doing is the equivalent of someone saying that they were against slavery, but that they would oppose the federal government banning slavery. That person was never anti-slavery, they were just hiding their evil views behind a rhetorical shield.

I am quite concerned about fascists running our government who won't recognize election results. If they won't recognize past elections there is no reason to trust that they will recognize future elections.

These people want to end democracy in America. They want to destroy our country, our way of life, our right to vote. They are traitors to America and want to replace it with a dictatorship where our votes aren't counted.

We know that this is what they want, because it is what they tried to do in 2020 and what any election denier is implicitly promising to do in the future.

Who gives a shit?

Do you know what would be worse for the fishing industry, global warming destroying our ports. Fishing is a tiny industry in CT. Even if wind energy would totally destroy the CT fishing industry (which it won't) then that would still be a more then fine trade. The benefits of cheap clean wind energy far outweigh the minuscule fishing industry in CT.

I mean, it's her husbands gun not hers. She isn't trying to inauthentically claim that she is personally into guns, but is saying that she is sympathetic and empathetic to gun owners.

Allowing No Excuse Absentee Ballots will likely be on the ballot in 2024, assuming that Democrats retain control of the CT General Assembly.

To get something on the ballot it needs to be passed by the CT General Assembly twice in 4 years, and the passed a measure to allow no-excuse absentee voting in 2021 and Democrats have said they will do it again in 2023, in time for the 2024 election.

Early voting is when the state allows all voters to vote early. Usually the town/city hall acts as the early voting polling location and all voters can come in and cast their ballots.

The point of this ballot measure is to make it so that you don't need an excuse to vote early. People who likely could vote on election day will choose to vote early. Millions of Americans have already cast ballots for the 2022 election in the 46 states with early voting. Most of those voters don't know if they could have voted on election day, but decided to vote early anyway.

If you knew ahead of time you can just vote by absentee ballot. My point is that since we can't know ahead of time for some of these things, it is better to give people many opportunities to vote early to prevent unexpected obstacles from getting in their way. And that people who think that they likely will be able to vote on election day will still vote early to prevent an unexpected obstacle from stopping them.

In CT our state constitution has prevented us from having early voting. The CT state constitution is oddly specific about voting procedures and says which day people must vote, unlike most other state constitutions. It isn't clear to me if this was done intentionally to prevent early voting, as early voting wasn't really a thing anywhere when the state constitution was written in 1965.

We tried to amend the constitution in 2014, but the ballot language was confusing and it didn't pass. Hopefully it does pass this year.

Vote yes on this ballot measure!

There has not been nearly enough campaigning on this issue. In 2014 a similiar ballot measure failed in CT, largely because not enough people knew what the ballot question was asking or what it would do. This measure just allows in person early voting. In 2024 there will be another ballot measure allowing on allowing no-excuse mail absentee voting.

I think it is also relevant that this ballot measure did pass the CT general assembly with some bipartisan support. It passed the CT state house with Republican support, but in the CT state senate the Republicans opposed it.

Tell your family and friends to vote in favor of this ballot measure!

Why not allow people to have early voting?

It is fairly easy for something to come up on a Tuesday that makes it hard to come in to vote on election day. Maybe you or your kid gets sick, or something happens at work that suddenly and unexpectedly makes you have to be out of town that day. Or maybe there is a big storm.

Voting early removes the risk of anything happening that would otherwise prevent you from voting. And once again, there is no downside to allowing people to vote early. If you want to wait until election day, as a majority of people do in states with early voting, you can!

Also, if you vote early then political campaigns will stop contacting you, as they know who has already voted.