Rep. Bob Godfrey, D-Danbury, was one of several Democratic members to vote against the campaign-finance and voting reforms that were approved in the House earlier today.
“The ACLU is right,” Godfrey, the immediate past president of the Council of State Governments said in an interview later. “It’s overly broad. It’s inviting litigation. It needed a lot more work.” He said that the e-mail-voting section, where voters would waive the rights of privacy in exchange for faxing their votes or sending pdf files, would be ripe for computer fraud. “No one has come up with totally secure software. This is just a disaster waiting to happen.” He supports the disclosure sections of the bill that were drafted to counter the influence of so-called super pacs. The bill hit the Senate floor at about 10:45 Tuesday night, but its future, following an anticipated vote of approval, is murky, since Gov. Dannel P. Malloy isn’t happy with the legislation.