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This bill proposes to amend title 9 of the general statutes to require early voting ballots to be cast using two envelopes, mirroring the existing process for absentee ballots. The two-envelope system is designed to protect the secrecy of a voter's ballot by creating an additional layer of privacy. Typically, this means voters would first place their marked ballot in an inner envelope, which does not have any identifying information, and then place that inner envelope into a second outer envelope that includes the voter's identifying information. This method ensures that when election officials verify the voter's eligibility, they can separate the identification envelope from the ballot envelope, thus maintaining the anonymity of the individual ballot and protecting the voter's right to a secret ballot during the early voting process.

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