Connecticut

Registered Connecticut voters must show ID at the polls to vote.

If you are a registered voter but do not present an acceptable ID at the polling place, you must complete and sign a form, under penalty of perjury, that affirms you are the person whose name appears on the official registry checklist and includes your residential address and date of birth.

If you are a first-time voter who must complete your voter registration as noted on the checklist, you must present to the official checker or checkers, before you vote, either a current and valid photo identification that shows your name and address or a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck or other government document that shows your name and address.

Get in touch with VoteRiders if you have questions or need free help securing ID.

You do not need a REAL ID to vote in Connecticut.

Your driver’s license or state ID card will show a star in the upper corner if it meets REAL ID requirements under federal law.

• Connecticut REAL ID info
• Connecticut REAL ID document list
• Connecticut REAL ID FAQ

Get in touch with VoteRiders if you have questions or need free help getting ID.

You may register to vote and cast a ballot on the same day only on Election Day (which is known in Connecticut as “Election Day Registration”). Election Day Registration is available only:

• for regular elections and not for primary elections, and
• at a designated Election Day Registration site, rather than your polling place, in the town where you live.

You must show one of the following acceptable IDs, which are partly different from regular in-person voting:

• your birth certificate, driver’s license, passport, or Social Security card, or in the case of college and university students a current photo ID issued by your higher education institution; and
• only if your ID does not also include proof of your residential address, you must also show another form of ID indicating your home address in your town of residence. This additional ID may include a motor vehicle learner’s permit, a utility bill due no later than 30 days after the election, a lease, a library card, a paycheck, a property tax bill, naturalization documents, for a college or university student a current college or university registration or fee statement, or in any case other satisfactory proof of residence.

Whether you can show an acceptable ID on your electronic device depends on the type of identification you wish to show. For instance, a driver’s license, state ID, student photo ID (unless the original is only available digitally), or valid vehicle registration must be the original. You may present the original or a digital version of a utility bill, bank or credit statement, property tax statement, or vehicle insurance certificate.

If you do not present acceptable ID, in most cases, you may sign an affidavit in lieu of presenting ID.

In order to vote absentee in Connecticut, you must meet ONE of the following: 

• You are in active service in U.S. Armed Forces
• You will be absent from town on Election Day 
• You are ill 
• Your religious beliefs prevent you from performing secular activities like voting on Election Day
• You have duties as a primary, election or referendum official at a polling place other than your own on Election Day 
• You have have a physical disability that prevents you from voting in person on Election Day

You do not need a copy of your ID to vote by mail in Connecticut.

BUT: if it is your first time voting in a federal election in Connecticut, please see the federal ID requirements for first-time voters. A federal election is when you vote for the President, your Congressional Representative or your Senators.

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BUT: If it is your first time voting in a federal election in Connecticut, please see the federal ID requirements for first-time voters. A federal election is when you vote for the President, your Congressional Representative or your Senators.

There is no process to “cure” (fix) your ballot if it is rejected.