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[newhavenvotes]

March 2026 Legislative Updates: Please Support No-Excuse Absentee Voting Bill; Ranked Choice Voting Passes out of Committee; Universal Voting Study Bill

We just wanted to provide you with a few updates about important elections- and voting-related legislation:

* SB 386, Ranked Choice Voting legislation that we support, passed out of committee this week. It now goes to the floor of the Senate for a possible vote. Thanks to everyone who testified in support of this pro-voter reform.

* This week the Government Administration and Elections (GAE) committee is holding a public hearing on several important bills, including No-Excuse Absentee Voting (HB 5001) that was constitutionally authorized by voters in November 2024, but we have been waiting for the legislature to pass legislation that would create an actual statutory framework for this type of voting.

As with other voting rights advocates, this is our major priority for this legislative session. While it is too late to sign up to testify in person, we strongly urge you to support the bill with written testimony to the GAE Committee. => Watch the hearing live on YouTube or catch it on demand on CT-N. => Submit written testimony in support of legislation that builds on HB 5001 (written testimony doesn't have the same deadline as live testimony). Feel free to contact us if you would like to see some talking points. * We also support SB 395: An Act Studying Efforts to Increase Voter Participation and Authorizing Municipal Pilot Programs to Promote Such Efforts, a bill that would create a task force or study committee to look at "universal voting" and other ways to increase turnout.

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Thanks for your support and advocacy, and please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.

Aaron Goode

New Haven Votes Coalition

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[machavilli76]

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