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Twenty-nine states use ranked-choice voting in certain primaries and elections, and in recent years its use was implemented broadly and successfully in Maine and Alaska.
In 2023, legislation drafted by bipartisan co-sponsors was introduced in Connecticut that, among other things, would have given municipalities the option of using ranked-choice voting in municipal elections for single-winner offices and would have given political parties the option of using ranked-choice voting in presidential preference primaries.
That bill – Senate Bill 389 – received a public hearing in the Government Administration and Elections Committee, however, the committee did not take a vote to advance the bill before its deadline.
The members of the working group include:
- Co-Chair: State Senator Cathy Osten (D-Sprague)
- Co-Chair: State Senator Tony Hwang (R-Fairfield)
- Vice Chair: Monte Frank (Attorney at Pullman & Comley, past present of the Connecticut Bar Association, and 2018 candidate for lieutenant governor under the Griebel-Frank for CT Party)
- Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz or designee
- Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas or designee
- State Representative Hilda Santiago (D-Meriden)
- Annalisa Stravato (Republican registrar of voters for the Town of Wilton, executive vice president of the Registrar of Voters Association of Connecticut, and former vice chair of the Connecticut Republican Party)
- Alexander Russell (Director of the UConn Center for Voting Technology Research)
- Dan Rosenthal (Former Democratic first selectman for the Town of Newtown)
- Lindsay Farrell (Senior political strategist for the national Working Families Party)
- Ann Reed (Vice president of advocacy for the League of Women Voters of Connecticut)
- Patricia Spruance (Town clerk for the Town of Windham and president of the Connecticut Town Clerks Association)
- Cheri Quickmire (Executive director of Common Cause in Connecticut)
As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments or concerns at Robyn.Porter@cga.ct.gov or 860-240-1371.
In Dedicated and Loyal Service,
Robyn A. Porter |
