Parents sue after legislators drop religious exemption
Wednesday, May 5, 2021 |
Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com)
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Parents and organizations in Connecticut have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state s removal of a religious exemption for vaccines. We think it s an absolutely abhorrent piece of legislation, says Brian Festa of We The Patriots USA and CT Freedom Alliance, the organizations suing Connecticut. This law strips over 8,500 school children of their religious freedom and their fundamental right to an education.
The legislation was signed into law by Gov. Ned Lamont last week. The new law takes effect in the fall for the 2022 school year at both public and private schools, and day care centers.
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Published March 21. 2021 12:01AM
Carol Reimers, Laura Smits and Judy Lhamon
It’s time to set the record straight: Voting in Connecticut is overwhelmingly safe and secure; it is administered by election professionals from both major parties.
Whether in-person, by mail, or placed in drop boxes in each municipality across the state, Connecticut voters turned out in record numbers for the November 2020 election. The turnout, 79.7%, was the highest in Connecticut’s history, thanks to an executive order issued by the governor and affirmed by the legislature allowing any voter to vote by absentee ballot. But because of our state’s restrictive absentee ballot laws, this was only allowed under these special circumstances.
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State Senator Jorge Cabrera (D-Hamden) joined Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill and the Hamden legislative delegation this week at the M. L. Keefe Community Center in Hamden to support the passage of amendments to the Connecticut Constitution that would allow Early Voting and expand access to absentee ballots without Connecticut registered voters needing to provide an excuse.
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Forty-four states currently allow for either Early Voting or access to absentee ballots without an excuse, or both, with Kentucky joining those states this week. Connecticut, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, and South Carolina are the only states that restrict voters from casting their ballots prior to Election Day, either in-person or by absentee ballot without an excuse.
A voter casts an absentee ballot.
The Democratic majority on a General Assembly committee that oversees state election law voted Monday to endorse bills that would create a state voting rights act and increase voter registration and ballot access.
At the last scheduled meeting before its deadline for reporting bills to the floors of the House or Senate, the Government Administration and Elections Committee approved nearly a half-dozen bills that divided Democrats and Republicans.
Republicans voted as a bloc against several high-profile measures, but there was little debate. Only the ranking Republicans, Sen. Rob Sampson and Rep. Gale Mastrofrancesco, both from Wolcott, spoke to raise questions or objections.