Connecticut’s voter rights law, the strongest in the nation, finally got funded | Colin Wood/ StateScoop
Upon announcing this week that he’d signed into law a “balanced, sensible budget” for next two years, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont was also signaling that he’d authorized funding for the most comprehensive voting rights act in the nation. The Connecticut Voting Rights Act, which became law in 2023 after the NAACP Legal Defense Fund introduced the legislation and accompanied it to enactment, had sat without funding until Monday. Now the act, which the civil rights group says needs roughly $1 million each year it operates, has the dollars it needs to implement its numerous protections, like legal tools to fight discriminatory voting rules in court, expanded language assistance for voters who struggle with English and a data portal to host all of the state’s election results and demographic information. Read Article