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Nancy Dinardo Speaks Out On Voting

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Staff Writer & Eric Warner

2024’s election season is almost here with Fall fast approaching. As November quickly approaches, candidates are asking people for their vote. While several residents have already declared to whom their support will go, numerous others are disinterested in some of this year's candidates and are considering not voting at all. Connecticut State Democratic Party Chairwoman Nancy Dinardo was asked about the current voting climate and her thoughts on it.

Nancy Dinardo was the first woman to serve as the state’s Democratic State Chair in 2005 and the first to be re-elected to the post in a separate term in 2020 after temporarily stepping down in 2015 to join the Democratic National Committee in 2016. Previously, DiNardo served as the chairwoman of the Democratic Town Committee in Trumbull for nearly 30 years since 1971, joined the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee in 1998, and served as the Committee’s finance chairwoman from 2002 to 2004. Aside from politics, DiNardo also worked as an educator for nearly 30 years at Bridgeport Public Schools teaching first grad and serving as Director of Psychological Services before retiring from education in 2002.

 “Many people often vote [for] their party, which is okay,” DiNardo explained. “Some people don’t really get involved enough to even look at that stuff. But I do think it is important that people vote. It makes a difference in people’s lives.” DiNardo noted that even a few votes could turn the tide of an election, adding to the importance for everybody to vote if they can. Voters are  “deciding what they want and how they want the country to go. The candidates who are out there, talk about what their positions are and they talk about what they will do if they get elected…People have to decide which of the candidates is most like or in line with their position, and vote accordingly.

“I get discouraged when, for instance, I ask people  (about the presidential elections) they say they don’t like Biden or Trump and they don’t want to vote.  That’s not an answer. Granted if you don’t like either one, you don’t have to vote for those candidates, but I think it’s important for the rest of the ticket….senators, congressman, state legislators to go out and vote. It makes a difference in people’s lives.  Look at Joe Courtney (2nd Congressional district)…he won by 83 votes.  I have had races locally in my town, where candidates won by nine votes or even less.  So, it is important…. come out and vote.”