Surveillance videos of a woman making multiple early morning trips to stuff paper inside an absentee ballot drop box prompted Connecticut election officials Wednesday to open an investigation into possible fraud in the mayoral primary in Bridgeport, the state’s largest city.
The State Elections Enforcement Commission voted Wednesday to launch an investigation after receiving multiple referrals and complaints on the matter from the Bridgeport police and others.
Gomes would not say how his campaign obtained the city video other than it was given to them “because Bridgeport is tired to see the continuation of the violation of our civil rights.” The Associated Press could not immediately independently verify the authenticity of the video released by his campaign.
For decades, Bridgeport, a heavily Democratic working-class city of 148,000, about 62 miles east of New York City, has been under state and federal scrutiny for alleged irregularities involving absentee ballots. New primaries have been called over the years in state legislative and local city council races because of absentee ballot problems.
Gomes, who is still eligible to run in the general election as an independent candidate, said in his lawsuit that he learned about the existence of the surveillance video three days after the primary.
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