Groton Democratic Clerk Takes Trump Line: Don’t Send Every Voter an Absentee Ballot Application.

It is not only loathsome demagogue Donald Trump who objects to every voter receiving an absentee ballot application during a global pandemic. He has an ally in Groton Town Clerk Betsy Moukawsher, who The Day newspaper of New London described as “irked” by the change in protocol wrought by the public health crisis.

“We’re quite behind because of this new development, we were fine prior to it,” Moukawsher told The Day. “I don’t think this is a good formula going forward for the general election. If people want to vote absentee, they have the ability to with the COVID-19 excuse, but we should not send out applications to every registered voter in the state. That should be the responsibility only of the voter.”

Moukawsher is married to the state trial court judge who upheld the new procedure. He is also the judge who ruled in 2016 that local school districts ought to be able to bar special needs students from public schools. The cruel ruling alarmed U.S. Department of Education officials and was unanimously rejected by the state’s highest court.