Connecticut prosecutors charged four Bridgeport political operatives on Tuesday with abusing the absentee balloting system during the city's 2019 Democratic primary for mayor.
Among the four individuals who are facing the election-related charges are Bridgeport city councilman Alfredo Castillo and Wanda Geter-Pataky, the vice chairwoman of the city's Democratic Party who became the face of another major election scandal last year.
The Connecticut Chief State's Attorney also charged Nilsa Heredi and Josephine Edmonds, two other campaign workers who were involved in the 2019 election between Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim and his Democratic challenger Marilyn Moore.
All of them are charged with unlawfully possessing another person's absentee ballot.
The charges come more than four years after the primary between Ganim and Moore ended in a lawsuit and widespread allegations of absentee ballot fraud.
Many of the same political operatives continued to play a major role in local elections in Bridgeport, a city with a history of ballot fraud and election do-overs.
Bridgeport's 2023 Democratic primary for mayor also led to widespread accusations of ballot tampering after Geter-Pataky and several other people were captured on surveillance footage depositing stacks of absentee ballots into drop boxes in the city.
https://ctmirror.org/2024/06/11/bridgeport-wanda-geter-pataky-arrested-absentee-ballot/
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