Connecticut Democrats Eye Election Reform After Fiasco In Bridgeport Mayoral Race, Investigations

Democrats in Connecticut are pursuing election reform following a "Redo" election for the Bridgeport mayoral race which has resulted in multiple investigations regarding ballot harvesting.

Since the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have raised concerns about election irregularities and are often called "Election deniers" by Democrats and the media.

The Bridgeport mayoral election that began last fall concluded in February with a win for the incumbent Democratic mayor, amid multiple election fraud complaints and investigations.

A new mayoral election was ordered by a judge in November after a video was posted online that appeared to show a supporter of incumbent Democratic Mayor Joe Ganim stuffing stacks of papers into an absentee ballot drop box during the September Democratic mayoral primary election.

Gomes' campaign told Just the News in February that in the trial on the September primary election, the mayor's legal team "Withdrew their defense that the Gomes campaign committed misconduct, and did not raise it in any post-trial briefing." Ganim won both the redo primary election in January against Gomes and the general election in February, in which Gomes ran as an independent candidate.

"Referrals are not proof of wrongdoing, but an important step to ensure that our elections are secure." Thomas' office also has two election reform proposals advancing through the state legislature in an effort "To close loopholes observed by our election monitors." One of the proposals is Senate Bill 441, which would create a 17-member board to address election administration issues that are beyond the jurisdictions of both the SEEC and the secretary's office.

Since Trump and other Republicans have raised concerns about election irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, they have frequently been labeled "Election deniers." Hillary Clinton herself has often declared Trump was an "Illegitimate president" and suggested that "He knows that he stole the 2016 presidential election." However, multiple Democrats sued over alleged election fraud last year and dozens of them have claimed election fraud and irregularities since at least the 2000 presidential election.

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