Democrats tend to say the former, though hardly all of them; Republicans the latter, though the GOP has advocates of early voting and no-fault absentee ballots. Ritter said he believes one portion of the state constitution’s limits on absentee voting itself are unconstitutional. Sen. Tony Hwang, R-Fairfield, said he agrees that modern life requires great access to absentee ballots. Her campaign wrote letters to every voter that received an absentee ballot, a matter of public record. The bill, which attracted only one GOP vote, would also require universal “no-excuse” absentee voting, online and same-day voter registration and expanded early voting, among other changes.