As noted in the previous blog post, on June 7 the Connecticut legislature adjourned. Many bills failed to pass: (1) bills letting independents vote in primaries; (2) bills to replace “disobedient” presidential electors; (3) bills to use ranked choice voting in presidential primaries and in general elections; (4) a bill to ban fusion; (5) a bill for a top-two system; (6) a bill requiring qualified minor parties to follow their own bylaws; (7) a bill to treat minor party nominees equally in the public funding system; (8) a bill that would have legalized out-of-state circulators. Out-of-state circulators are permitted under a federal court ruling but the election law hasn’t been updated to show that.

The only important election law bill that passed is HJR 1, a proposed constitutional amendment to allow early voting.