Time Range For Action Alert:
May 19 2025 to May 28 2025Urge Governor Lamont to sign HB 7229 to ensure ballot access for eligible voters in state custody.
HB 7229 would require that all Connecticut prisons carry absentee ballots applications, eliminating administrative barriers to voting for those who are eligible.
Action: Email or call Governor Lamont and urge him to sign HB 7229 when it comes across his desk.
More information about HB 7229:
Yale Law School Civil Rights Advocacy Clinic, the League of Women Voters of Connecticut, and other partner organizations in the Coalition to Unlock the Vote held an information briefing on Tuesday, May 6. Watch HERE.
Read the CT News Junkie article for more: "Lawmakers, Advocates Push To Ease Voting Access for Eligible Incarcerated Individuals"
Issues referenced by this action alert:
Voting rights are under attack.
