By Ken Dixon, Staff WriterSep
Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas in the State Office Building on Monday, announcing that nearly 316,000 cast ballots during the first week of early voting.
It was “two human errors” that resulted in the controversial, delayed Democratic primary in Enfield, Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas told state lawmakers on Friday.
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Staff in Thomas’s office had tried to redraft state rules to make it easier for local election officials to understand the petition process, but included erroneous information, she said.
That resulted in Thomas Tyler taking the issue all the way to the state Supreme Court in his attempt to challenge incumbent state Rep. John Santanella, D-Enfield.
Friday’s informational hearing before the General Assembly’s Government Oversight Committee focused on two problems that occurred in advance of the Aug. 11 primary, including requirements on how candidates listed signatures on their petition pages; and the issuance of petitions for challenging candidates on different dates, depending on whether there are single-town or multi-town General Assembly districts.
“As part of our effort to streamline the petition process for registrars, our office consolidated two forms,” said Kristen Sullivan, director of elections in Thomas’s office, adding the changes aimed to “minimize confusion.”
“During that revision, the language was inadvertently changed to instruct petition circulators to list the total number of signatures across all petition pages, rather than the number of signatures appearing on each petition page, as required by law,” Sullivan said.
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