Absentee Ballots Available for Referendum in Newtown

NEWTOWN, CT — Town Clerk Debbie Aurelia Halstead has announced that absentee ballots will be available for the upcoming referendum during the regular office hours of Town Hall, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Town Clerk’s office will have special absentee voting hours Saturday, April 20 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Anyone who is a registered voter in the Town of Newtown or who is a U.S. citizen assessed for at least $1,000 for real estate or motor vehicles on the 2018 grand list for the Town of Newtown is qualified to vote at the referendum.

1. active service in the Armed Forces,
2. absence from the Town during all the hours of voting,
3. illness,
4. physical disability,
5. religious tenets which forbid secular activity on the day of the Referendum or
6. duties as a Referendum official at a polling place other than your own during all hours of voting.

The application for an absentee ballot with less than three weeks notice is available here.

Absentee ballots can be returned in person to the office of the Town Clerk by 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 22 or by mail or designee before the closing of the polls on referendum day, 8 p.m., April 23, 2019.

The referendum will be held on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at 11 Queen Street, Newtown Middle School Gymnasium "A."

Absentee ballots will be counted at the Newtown Municipal Center, 3 Primrose Street at 5 p.m.
Residents with questions may contact the Town Clerk’s Office at 270-4210.

Available online are a sample ballot, explanatory text and the resolutions.