The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!

Just like Chicken Little, the Republicans keep trying to make a mountain out of a molehill!

CT GOP: Voters deserve details of voter signup safeguards after noncitizen registered

The Hartford Courant

By Don Stacom

July 24, 2026

Senior Republican state lawmakers are calling on Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration to investigate whether the software system blamed for allowing thousands of non-citizens to register to vote in New Jersey could cause a similar trouble in Connecticut.

At the same time, local Republican candidates and town committees are asking precisely how a non-citizen in West Hartford got onto the town’s voter rolls for five years.

After repeatedly assuring residents that Connecticut’s voting system is among the safest in the nation, Lamont’s senior administrators late this week were minimizing the West Hartford case as a one-off while emphasizing that the man involved — a longtime restaurant owner who moved here from Montenegro — never actually voted.

They acknowledged that Connecticut’s DMV uses some of the same IDEMIA software that’s been faulted for New Jersey wrongly adding names to the voter rolls even when the individuals acknowledged not being American citizens. But the DMV has maintained that Connecticut uses the software for only a tiny part of its process.

Okay, stop right there… out of how many did they find? 6,600 improper registrations that make up roughly 0.1% of New Jersey's total registered voter population. Yeah, it should be zero, but using it to make it harder for marginalized populations to vote is wrong!

In Kansas, they found 1,500 transgender individuals out of nearly 2 million drivers!

The Advocate reported that, in congressional testimony before a Senate panel, NCAA President Charlie Baker stated that he believed fewer than 10 transgender athletes were competing across the entire organization—out of a total population of more than 500,000 college student-athletes, or two out of every 100,000 athletes!

The Republicans want to create fear and blow it all out of proportion! Why? So they can pass bills to limit voting by minorities because they tend to vote Democratic! Why use trans people? Because most people have no idea about trans people, so the Republicans use voters' ignorance to promote their lies and get them to vote Republican. In other words, it is all about POWER! And we are seeing what they do when they are in power: they create fear so they can pass draconian laws and enact policies favorable to their billionaire friends.