Merrill Redux: Chief Election Official Can’t Tell Cromwell From Cornwall. Town Clerks Race to Correct Blunders, Aid Voters.

Cromwell is a town in central Connecticut. Cornwall is 40 miles away in Litchfield County. Cromwell is home to nearly ten times more residents than Cornwall. Both towns befuddle Secretary of the State Denise Merrill.

Twice this week, Merrill’s office has sent absentee ballot applications for the August 11th party primaries to the wrong town. On Wednesday, the town clerk in Cromwell received applications for Cornwall. The next day Cornwall’s clerk discovered 250 applications from Cromwell voters. The dutiful clerks met in Thomaston—halfway between their towns—each day to correct the mistake.

Merrill spokesman Gabe Rosenberg wrote this week, “It is so easy for voters’ faith to be eroded from the electoral process….” Rosenberg might want to remind the Hartford Democrat that this is not the moment to flex her power to blunder and erode.

The Journal Inquirer’s Alex Wood has more on Merrill’s errors.