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Opinion: CT is more restrictive on voting rights than Georgia? Yes, Virginia, it’s true By Monte Frank © Provided by Connecticut Post Monte Frank, left, with Oz Griebel, who made an independent bid for the governor’s office in 2018 by petitioning onto the ballot. It may surprise Connecticut residents to learn that our Nutmeg State is significantly more restrictive than Georgia in voting and ballot access and that we lag behind many states when you consider photo ID requirements, early voting and closed-party primaries that disenfranchise 40 percent of the electorate. Our nation’s history of voter suppression has been shamefully directed at people of color. It is troubling that more than 25 states have signed voter suppression bills into law since 2010 and that stricter voting restrictions accelerated after a 2013 Supreme Court ruling weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965, legislation aimed at preventing discriminatory voting practices.

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