West Hartford prepares for the November 5 Election and Early Voting

The general election in West Hartford will be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. All voting locations will be open from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

• All registered voters in West Hartford are eligible to vote at their polling place on Election Day or during Early Voting.

• Those not yet registered to vote but are eligible to do so may register to vote and vote via the Same Day Registration during Early Voting and on Election Day.

The last day to register to vote online, via DMV, or by mail (postmarked) is October 18. The Registrars of Voters office will be open from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM on the eighteenth day before the Election Day registration session.

Starting this year, Connecticut allows residents to vote in person before the election. Early voting will be available from October 21 to November 3 at one location: the Town Hall Auditorium, 50 South Main Street. Please use the main entrance of the Town Hall.

Early Voting hours of operation are:

Early Voting hours of operation
DATES	HOURS
Monday, October 21	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 22	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Wednesday, October 23	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Thursday, October 24	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Friday, October 25	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday, October 26	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday, October 27	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Monday, October 28	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Tuesday, October 29	8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Wednesday, October 30	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Thursday, October 31	8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Friday, November 1	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday, November 2	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday, November 3	10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

When you arrive to vote during the Early Voting period, you will check in and be verified as an eligible voter. You will then receive your ballot with an envelope.  You will complete your ballot at a privacy booth and seal it in the approved envelope. Before you leave, you will place the sealed envelope in the secure receptacle as instructed by the election officials. Ballots will remain unopened until Election Day, November 5.

On Election Day, November 5, voters should go to their regular polling location. Polls will be open from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. To check your voter registration and polling location, visit the Secretary of the State’s look-up or call the West Hartford Registrars of Voters at 860-561-7450.

On Election Day, Same Day Registration will be available in room 400 of West Hartford Town Hall. During Early Voting, Same Day registration is held in the Town Hall Auditorium.

Connecticut law allows voters to receive an absentee ballot if they cannot appear at their assigned polling place on election day because of active service in the military, absence from the town, illness, religious tenets forbidding secular activity on the day of the election, duties as an election official at a polling place other than your own during all of the hours of voting, or physical disability.

To request an absentee ballot for the November 5^th election:

·         First, obtain an absentee ballot application online, in person, or by mail. A Connecticut-issued DMV ID is required for online applications. Then, return the completed application to the Town Clerk’s Office (Room 313, Town Hall). The voter will then receive an absentee ballot.

·         Next, cast your vote using the absentee ballot.

·         Lastly, return the ballot to the Town Clerk’s Office by 8:00 p.m. on November 5 by USPS mail, in person, or deposit it in the secure drop boxes located at Town Hall and the Faxon Branch Library, 1073 New Britain Ave.

For more information, contact the West Hartford Registrars of Voters (Room 209, Town Hall) at 860-561-7450 or visit www.WestHartfordCT.gov/Vote.  To reach the Town Clerk’s Office, call 860-561-7430.