Primary elections to be held on a Wednesday this year

HARTFORD, Conn. – Primaries for this year’s municipal elections have been pushed back a week and a day due to what a spokesman for Secretary of the State Denise Merrill called a “random kind of calendar coincidence.”

Primary elections in 23 cities and towns will take place Wednesday, Sept. 16. Such elections typically happen 56 days prior to the General Election.

Av Harris, a spokesman for Merrill, said voting was pushed back a week as specified in state statute because it originally fell the day after Labor Day. Then it was pushed back again because the new date coincided with the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah.

Statute says that if a primary falls on a “day on which the tenets of a religion forbid secular activity, the primary shall be held on the next succeeding day.”

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