Eastern Connecticut election officials will review paper ballots from the November 3 election at ten voting locations in nine area towns. Connecticut’s Secretary of the State randomly selected 49 precincts statewide and gave local officials until November 23 to finish the reviews.
The selected sites in the area are Montville Town Hall Gym 1, Preston Plains Middle School, Chaplin Volunteer Fire Department, Voluntown Town Hall Meeting Room (early voting), Killingly Board of Education Central Office Cafeteria 1-1, Columbia’s Yeomans Hall, Griswold Town Hall (early voting), two Windham sites (VFW District 5 and the early voting site at Town Hall’s Bellingham Auditorium), and East Lyme’s Niantic Center School.
The state listed 17 alternates. Area sites on that list include Ledyard’s Juliet Long School District 2, Windham Center Fire Department, East Lyme’s Community Center early-voting site, Union Town Hall’s early-voting site and Norwich City Hall Room 335 for early voting.
Bipartisan teams will retabulate voter-marked paper ballots and compare those counts with the machines’ totals. The University of Connecticut will independently analyze the reports. The findings will be filed with the State Elections Enforcement Commission and made public.