• "The legislature should embrace this chance to decrease congestion at the polls on Election Day and improve the chances of vulnerable people to cast their ballots." ACLU Connecticut 

• "Voters schedules, illness on election day, work responsibilities and family engagements, can become a barrier to making it to the polling place on Election Day."  National Association of Social Workers - CT Chapter

• “If you can get anything you want 24 hours a day, that means there are people working 24 hours a day, and those people might not know that, when they’re going to have to work and when they can get off.”  Patricia Rossi, Vice President for Advocacy and Public Issues of the Connecticut League of Women Voters.Yale Daily News, Oct. 19, 2022  
  

• “'What I’m not comfortable with is the vagueness and open-endedness of the question,...it's like a blank check to whatever legislators are in power to say, ‘We will give you 40 days, 30 days, 20 days.’ And we’re not going to pay for it and part-time registrars are going to have to do it full-time...'” Dominic Rapini, 2022 SOS Candidate.

• "Rapini insists that once early voting extends beyond three days, 'it shortens the amount of time a voter has to maximize their knowledge of a candidate. You lose the opportunity to learn important things about candidates.'” by Scott Benjamin, Community Contributor, The Patch, Sun, Apr 3, 2022

• "...members of the committee said the resolutions to put the questions before voters lacked adequate safeguards to prevent voter fraud....'It must be done in the right way, there must be protections in place and there must be checks and balances in there. Until we do that– or at least make a step in the right direction to do that, I could not support this,' Rep. Gale Mastrofrancesco, R-Wolcott, said."  by Hugh McQuaid, CT News Junkie, March 5, 2021

• "...[Dominic] Rapini continued to argue that allowing early in-person voting in Connecticut would become an 'unfunded mandate' on town clerks and registrars of voters, who run the local election systems...'This is not where I want to put our money,' he added." by Andrew Brown, CT Mirror, Oct 19, 2022

Committees formed to SUPPORT H.J.R. 59:

Yes for Freedom to Vote Early

Selected Contributions TO Yes for Freedom to Vote Early include:

• Planned Parenthood
  
• The Connecticut Project Action Fund, Inc., Hartford, CT
• American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC
• District 1199 Political Advances Through Legislative Success, Hartford, CT
• SEIU Connecticut State Council PAC, Hartford, CT
• Sixteen Thirty Fund, Washington, DC
• Connecticut Laborers' Political League, Pomfret, CT
• AFT Connecticut, Rocky Hill, CT
• Amy Caplan, Greenwich, CT
• Connecticut State UAW - CAP Council, East Hartford, CT
• Connecticut State Employees Assoc. PAC, Hartford, CT

ACLU of Connecticut RISE PAC

Selected Contributions TO ACLU of Connecticut RISE PAC include:

• ACLU of Connecticut, West Hartford, CT
  

The following is neither a YES nor a NO for the ballot measure:

• • "If the voters approve the referendum question, it would be up to lawmakers to pass legislation outlining the duration and rules for early voting." Mark Pazniokas, CT Mirror, May 6, 2021
    

Websites advocating in support

• • CT Votes Early
  • ACLU CT
    

The following is neither a YES nor a NO for the ballot measure:

• • "If the voters approve the referendum question, it would be up to lawmakers to pass legislation outlining the duration and rules for early voting." Mark Pazniokas, CT Mirror, May 6, 2021