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Paul Bass, Ko Lyn Cheang, Laura Glesby and Thomas Breen |
Aug 11, 2020 10:28 pm
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Oliver Augustine and Kanesha Crenshaw staff the Ward 25 Republican check-in table at Edgewood School: 16-hour shift, only 22 actual Republicans showing up.
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Top row: Alder Adam Marchand, Democratic Co-Chair Janis Underwood outside Edgewood School Ward 25 polls; inside, poll worker Trish Welfare came prepared with PPE. Bottom row: Rose DeMatteo, Andrea Offutt-Miller and Selina Hobby begin tabulating absentee ballots at 200 Orange St. after noon on Tuesday.
(Updated) Joe Biden and Donald Trump will have to wait at least two days to find out precisely how many votes they won in New Haven Tuesday against candidates who aren’t running against them for president.
Meanwhile, platoons of poll workers spent 16 hours at 40 polling stations in town where they mostly outnumbered the people who entered to vote — when any voters were present at all.
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Aug 10, 2020 12:04 pm
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Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen, Jr.
(Opinion) As a nation, we are facing troubling times during this pandemic. But the truth is many issues, gaps, and weaknesses have been exposed within so many of our state institutions. Not only the vulnerabilities in our healthcare system but equally true of our voting system as well.
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Jul 29, 2020 10:04 am
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Jorge Cabrera invoked his 25 years as a labor leader, saying he would fight for working families if elected. Justin Farmer vowed to bring a new generation to politics that will fix problems created by previous ones.
Those were the core messages from the two candidates competing in a Democratic primary for state senator as they faced off in a campaign debate.
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Maya McFadden |
Jul 24, 2020 9:35 am
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Jamilah Prince-Stewart, organizer of faith voting drive.
FaithActs for Education, a Black-led community organizing nonprofit based in Bridgeport, will include New Haven in its fifth annual Faith Votes Campaign with a goal of activating 3,000 voters in this year’s elections.
FaithActs recently announced it will be expanding its voter education and turnout campaign into Hartford and New Haven for the first time.
Evans outside 200 Orange: Hand sanitizers, face masks, social distancing in place.
As the first absentee ballots start arriving in the mail, Shannel Evans has a message for voters: You have different options — all safe — for exercising your Constitutional right in the Aug. 11 primary.
Wearing a bright blue mask emblazoned with the words, “Medicare for All,” Justin Paglino wandered among shoppers of healthful greens to pitch them on helping a Green candidate run Congress on a universal health care platform.
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Jul 14, 2020 1:00 pm
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Weeks before a Democratic primary, State Senate candidate Justin Farmer cleared a hurdle with the approval of a state public-financing grant for his campaign, and got a boost from another endorsement.
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Ko Lyn Cheang |
Jul 3, 2020 6:04 pm
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Registrar Evans: Focus on keeping people safe.
New Haven voters who turn out for the Aug. 11 presidential primaries can expect to see some changes: Poll workers will wear protective gowns and masks. They will hold the door so voters don’t have to touch the handle. Someone will squirt sanitizer into their hands. Poll workers’ temperatures will be taken. Voters will have to maintain six feet distance from each other.
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Simon Bazelon & Lihame Arouna |
Jul 2, 2020 6:14 pm
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Youth-led march on police headquarters.
(Opinion) The last several weeks have seen an outpouring of energy from America’s youth. Furious about police brutality and systemic racism, young people have taken to the streets in protest. On June 5, a youth-led protest in New Haven drew an estimated 5,000 attendees, and saw enormous participation from high school students like us. We witnessed firsthand as hundreds of people our age marched, chanted, waved signs, and demanded social justice.
A federal judge has for the second time quashed Jason Bartlett’s bid for rule changes to enable him to appear on the Aug. 11 State Senate primary ballot.
Anthony Fiore: You can make a change as a high schooler.
Anthony Fiore needed perseverance during the Covid-19 pandemic to collect the signatures he needed for his election as student representative to the Board of Education.
Jason Bartlett needs to collect 64 signatures a day over 16 days to make the ballot for a Democratic State Senate primary. And he doesn’t need to collect the signatures in person.
That is constitutional, U.S. District Court Judge Janet Hall ruled Monday.
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Laura Glesby |
Jun 5, 2020 5:28 pm
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Petitioning candidates took their quest to federal court Friday to ease barriers to qualifying for the election ballot this year amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Sam Gurwitt |
May 27, 2020 12:24 pm
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Kathy Hoyt
At a virtual convention Tuesday evening, Hamden Republicans endorsed two political newcomers to run against two of the town’s three Democratic state representatives.
