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An illegal voting scheme in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has become a rallying cry for former President Donald Trump and his supporters who are still pushing false claims about 2020 election security and trying to sow doubts ahead of the 2024 presidential contest.
While election experts say this fearmongering about fraud in US elections is overblown, they say the Connecticut case does highlight the potential vulnerabilities with mail-in voting.
Last week, a state judge nullified the results of September’s Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport, Connecticut’s largest city, which has a history of voting scandals. The judge said surveillance footage showed allies of the incumbent mayor stuffing hundreds of ballots into dropboxes, a clear violation of state law, which restricts who can handle mail-in ballots.
Superior Court Judge William Clark, who presided over a case challenging the primary results, called the volume of evidence “perhaps unprecedented,” adding, “the videos are shocking to the court and should be shocking to all the parties.” (The now-invalidated primary results showed incumbent mayor Joe Ganim beating challenger John Gomes by 251 votes.)
The judge ordered a redo of the Democratic primary. Since he didn’t have the power to delay the general election, it went forward as planned on Tuesday. Unofficial results show Ganim in the lead by only about 1%, but Gomes acknowledged the outcome in a statement Thursday, saying he’s now focusing on the...
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