There are shocking allegations of improper activities at polls in Bridgeport. Mayor Jason McCoy was one of several Republican poll watchers dispatched to the Park City to monitor the election there. In an exclusive interview with Channel 3, McCoy told us they were sent there because they suspected something could go wrong. Why did they think that? McCoy said they received word that an application for absentee ballots to be sent to Bridgeport contained the address of a vacant lot.
McCoy told me he witnessed people who got more than one ballot, didn’t check in to get a ballot, and other improper activities.
There is also some video of inside a polling station (Central High School) that shows a chaotic scene between a poll watcher and a poll worker.
Here is our report: http://www.wfsb.com/local-video/index.html?grabnetworks_video_id=4405211
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Dennis:
It is a shame what is going on in Bridgeport. It almost looks like there is cheating going on, and I’m sure even after the final votes come in this is not the end of it. I hope that someone gets fired over this, because there is no excuse for not having enough ballots so that people can vote on election day. The other thing that I can’t understand is how they can say they have a winner when the biggest city here in the State has not been counted.
Maybe its me, and I’m seeing it different then the rest of the people out there.
What they should do is come up with a way to scan your hand or finger print as your ballot to vote, then you don’t need the paper and no two prints would be the same.
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The whole situation in Bridgeport wreaks of democratic fraud. I don’t buy the BS coming out of the register of voters office in Bridgeport. As far as I am concerned this election has been tainted. There are people that need to prosecuted for this.
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not only do i feel that this may show signs of mis trust but id like to add that this would Def discourage myself from wantin to partake in this privilege freedom of speech meaning right to vote! this is coming from a first time voter in this election! im sure many voters are going to feel this way as well esp in this town of B
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Let’s say I’m the Democrat candidate for governor. My polling tells me the race is close. I want to hold back an ace in the hole. The Democrat president conveniently comes to burgeon turn-out in a Democrat city, where I’m guaranteed to do well, just a week before the election. So, as a “cushion”, we deliberately arrange that only 21,000 ballots are sent to serve 70,000 registered voters. Surprise- more voters than ballots, so, the Democrat Secretary of the State appeals to the court. Then, we get a sympathetic judge (Democrat-appointed?) to hold the polls open and agree to accept photocopied ballots. Finally, Larson closes his victory headquarters and sends his entire entourage of workers to man reverse 800# phone banks (illegal?) calling Bridgeport voters to show up after 8 p.m.. So does the mayor of Bridgeport. Now, I close the gap with my adversary (enemy?) and force a weeks-long recount, where we can work additional “magic”.
We’ve become a 3rd world, third-rate, tin-pot “republic”, where elections are regularly stolen.
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LibertySon. So let me get this straight. Your in a City that you are guaranteed to win by huge margins; and where the President of the United States appears on your behalf and other candidates to drive up voter participation. Right? So you decide that you can “fix” the election by … wait for it………………………………………….making sure there arent’ enough ballots for all of your supports to vote with who then go home and don’t come back (100 ballots submitted after 8:00). Wow you are some deep thinker.
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VOTER FRAUD IN BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dan Malloy and the Democrats get away with it. We are living in scary times here, and I worry for my country as I see more and more of this going on. The peoples will have no longer matters anymore.
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1 – There is no “Lincoln Avenue School” in Bridgeport.
2 – Nobody applied for ballots from a vacant lot — absentee ballot *applications* were requested from a volunteer that used their actual name, and the number next door to the campaign headquarters (apparently in error). Voters still are required to apply for ballots individually, and those ballots are not given to campaign workers — but are rather delivered to voters by mail.
Regardless, absentee ballots do not appear at polling places, so why someone would be dispatched from Vernon to be at a polling place as a result of absentee ballot applications being taken out somewhere across the state is a real mystery.
3 – There is no such thing as an “unofficial ballot” which might be mixed with “official ballots” at the polls.
This is some very poor journalism.
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Where do the completed absentee ballots go if not back to the polls to be counted?
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Grackle, you are right. One the polling places shown in the video actually is the old Mark Twain School which is now a magnet or charter school on Lyme St in Hartford. This is where I have voted for years. The volunteer shown seated at table in the polling place is same one that checked me in
HARTFORD!!!!!
NOT BRIDGEPORT!!!!! ON NOVEMBER 2, 2010 DAY!!!!
Thank you
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Good eye. You’re right, Nita. An editor inadvertently put in a shot of another polling place at the end of the report. The amateur video is of the Central High location on Lincoln Blvd.
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Braemar, most towns with many polling places (including Bridgeport) do a “central count” of absentee ballots that occurs in one location. Town Clerks retain custody of the absentee ballots until 10am on election day, when they are released to the Registrars to be counted.
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David- 21,000 was a guesstimate as to a number just short of what they anticipated to show up, based on turnout at previous elections. Meanwhile, they photocopied ballots to make up the difference. The fact that the strategy didn’t work doesn’t mean they didn’t try… voters just weren’t that motivated for Malloy, despite all the calls.
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