Secretary of the State Announces Plans for Election System Upgrades
Published April 21, 2021 • Updated on April 21, 2021 at 1:54 pm
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Secretary of the State Denise Merrill and Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz said in a statement that the Bond Commission passed $4 million in funds for upgrades to Connecticut's election infrastructure and those funds, combined with around $4.5 million in federal funds from the Help America Vote Act, will go toward modernizing the election infrastructure for a more secure, reliable, and accessible voting system.
This funding will go toward:
Replacing the Central Voter Registration System
Replacing the Election Management System/Online Election Night Results Portal
Evaluation of the next generation of voting equipment
State officials said Connecticut has not replaced the tabulators used to count ballots since they were first purchased and introduced in 2008
Expansion of Automatic Voter Registration to other state voter registration agencies
The Office of the Secretary of the State will begin the process of putting together a group to evaluate next generation voting technology.
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