Hurricane Sandy left at least 100 of the state's 738 polling places without electricity, but Secretary of State Denise Merrill expects ample progress by the time polls open on Election Day.
"I am confident we will have our polling places where they need to be," she said at a press conference at the Capitol at noon on Wednesday.
Merrill said there is no legal way to postpone the election. She's been in talks with Connecticut Light & Power and said that polling places -- most of which are in municipal buildings such as schools and town halls -- are a priority for the utility companies.
There are 100 polling places in the coverage area of United Illuminating in the New Haven and Bridgeport area, but she said she hasn't received an update from the company.
"We have reached out to them," she said. "We just haven't heard back from them."
Nearly 500,000 customers from the two utility companies are without electricity as of 12:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Connecticut was faced with a similar situation in 2011 when a Halloween snowstorm knocked out electricity throughout the state before municipal elections. Merrill said she doesn't think that storm made much of an impact on the elections.
"We had the same dismally low turnout," she said.
Voting
State law forbids an absentee ballot being cast late simply because a voter is stuck at home, Merrill said. Ballots will be available from city and town halls on Election Day.
This past weekend Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy's disrputive power, extended the voter registration deadline statewide to Nov. 1.
They lost the evangelical vote when the party started endorsing the un-Christian beliefs of notable atheist Ayn Rand.
Then I will let you off the hook.
In as much as you want to stalk me, and then try (but never succeed) to get me... My logic is sound. If he is not directing where or how the power companies ( or company's if you were writing this) go, then what is he doing? Being a messenger? yeah, that's what I said.... All you have to do, is tell me what in fact his specific actions are, and you can call me an idiot. Otherwise, you are flailing and missing .... ok.... you can keep stalking and trying---you wont succeed--you are not smart enough. Now time to tell me the specifics of what malloy does. hahahahahah you lose again.
You think that fools people? Ill ask again--what is Malloy's specific role in this then? Pretty easy to establish that Im an idiot... name calling doesnt work--but proving me wrong? That might prove to be a bit more challenging. I think you are pretty limited to weird analogies that make no sense....bingo ? in the woods? A guy whose father passed on radiation tainted DNA that allows detection of con men? Whatever. Just let me know what Malloy does....pretty simple for a non-idiot.
And I have no interest in answering any questions you may have, because I find the very premises they're based upon to be asinine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK7EPf3QsI0
Really? Asking the role of the governor in this clean up, after being told he plays no role in directing anything? Ha-yeah... Let me interpret your remark Jimmy. -"Um i cant answer that question, because if I do, I will prove my earlier comment to be stupid." Thats right Jimmy--he either is involved or he is not. But to say that he is doing a job , but providing no direction??? Or that he is simply reporting what Cl&P is telling them he is doing...... It has to be one or the other--and being intellectually dishonest, prevents you from acknowledging as such. Like I say, man--- you need to play in your lower level league. My questions require you to understand how foolish you are...and dishonest people, such as yourself, normally just use diversionary tactics...in this case--typical stuff "im not answering, beause its a bad question." hahaha yeah bad question "what does the governor do" really asinine. Again, you just make yourself look the idiot----realize you shouldnt mess with me--you have lost now 27 times in a row. And yes, Im counting.
Try again. I know you can do it. (And remember what I said about brevity. You were starting to ramble again).
Well, Republicans just get the judges their Dad's appointed to change things more to their liking in States their brothers are governors of...so I don't know if that's a good comparison. And the Tea Party used to show up with guns, while riding their medicare scooters...but their primary care physicians would not recommend they riot...if there are in fact any of them left. And the Democrats are not nearly as radicalized as you people make them out to be. Heck if they were I'd consider becoming a Democrat. This country could use some rioting in the streets.
Civility requires self-awareness, people with true self-awareness realize that it is not a requirement to agree with everyone in order to discuss important topics and learn from others. When trying to make a point, digressing into negativity and name calling is neither helpful, nor healthy. This holds true when responding to someone else's rudeness too.