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General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 1111  
January Session, 2025  
LCO No. 2452 
 
 
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION 
AND ELECTIONS  
 
 
Introduced by:  
SEN. HONIG, 8th Dist.  
 
 
 
AN ACT CONCERNING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE 
GOVERNOR'S WORKING GROUP ON RANKED-CHOICE VOTING. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
 
That title 9 of the general statutes be amended to implement the 1 
recommendations of the Governor's Working Group on Ranked-Choice 2 
Voting by (1) allowing municipalities to use ranked-choice voting in 3 
certain municipal elections, (2) allowing political parties to use ranked-4 
choice voting in party conventions and primaries, (3) allowing political 5 
parties to use ranked-choice voting in presidential preference primaries, 6 
and (4) authorizing the Secretary of the State to defer implementation of 7 
ranked-choice voting procedures upon a determination that issues 8 
related to ballot design, tabulation technology or inadequate resources 9 
necessitate such deferral. 10 
Statement of Purpose:   
To allow for ranked-choice voting as recommended by the Governor's 
Working Group on Ranked-Choice Voting.