Connecticut Local Politics

Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz talked to Dennis House on Face the State this weekend about possibly running in 2010.
Bysiewicz notes her frustration at waiting for Blumenthal in 2006–I’m sure that’s yet another prod for him to announce early. Bysiewicz does say she won’t make a decision based on what Blumenthal decides, but [...]

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With nearly 220,000 new voters having registered since the beginning of the year - nearly 50,000 of those in the first half of October alone - the number of registered voters in CT has now surpassed the 2 million mark reports Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz.

“By all accounts 2008 has seen unprecedented interest in our [...]

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As many of you already know, there will be a question on the ballot this November asking whether or not Connecticut should hold a constitutional convention. This is mandated by the constitution itself. Every twenty years, this question is asked. In 1986, the answer voters delivered was no.
And the Secretary of the State thinks that [...]

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A release from the Secretary of the State’s office today said that SOTS Susan Bysiewicz has been appointed to the National Association of Secretaries of the State (NASS) subcommittee on presidential primaries. The group will meet in Washington next month to work on establishing a bipartisan solution to the current broken system of primaries.
�If the [...]

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The Secretary of the State’s office has produced two new videos which explain how to use the new optical scan voting machines, and how to use the state’s vote-by-phone system. They’ve placed the new videos on YouTube:

The videos will also be playing in polling places this September and November.

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File that under headlines you will never see.
Chris Healy reacts to Susan Bysiewicz’s call for Sen. Lou DeLuca to resign on his blog:

Now she believes Lou DeLuca broke the public trust, although no evidence has surfaced he ever used his office to benefit indicted waste hauler James Galante of Danbury. Did he say he would [...]

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