The Republican gubernatorial has not said anything about my protections here in Connecticut, when asked about LGBT protections he said cryptically that he is in favor of everyone rights. In the past that has been a code word for the Republican’s “Religious Freedom” where someone can ignore the non-discrimination law just by saying “it is again my religious beliefs.”
Please do not let this bigotry come to Connecticut.
The race between the two gubernatorial candidates is so close that a vote for any third party candidate will be enough to swing the election to the Republicans.
Remember what happened in Maine.
The votes for a third party candidate were enough to get Republican LePage elected.
Please vote! Please vote Democratic and protect my rights and end this insanity that has sweep our country.
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Update 11:20 AM
I would also like to remind votes here in Connecticut that the candidate that gets the most votes wins... but that includes the total votes of all the parties that the candidate in on (Cross-endorsed or Fusion).
i.e. Because Lamont is also on the Working Families Party line his total will be the sum of the Democratic votes and the Working Families Party votes.
CROSS-ENDORSING CANDIDATES
Cross-endorsement (also known as “fusion voting”) is a process whereby two or more political parties (typically a major and minor party) nominate the same candidate for the same office during the same general election. We identified seven states where cross-endorsement is permitted: Connecticut, Idaho, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont. However, in two of them, Idaho and Mississippi, fusion voting does not occur in practice, and thus we do not include them in this report.
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In Connecticut, New York, and South Carolina, a cross-endorsed candidate's name appears on the ballot as many times as he or she is chosen as a party's nominee. The candidate's votes on each party's ballot are added together to determine the total number of votes he or she receives.
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"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 9, 1940
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A reminder... Here in Connecticut even if you are not registered you can still vote!
Go to your EDR [Election Day Registration] location. Don't go to the normal polling place. You can only do it at the EDR location, and that is usually at the Town Hall. You can vote on a provisional ballot there.
Voter information... CT Secretary of State office Elections & Voter page
amen!!!
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