Posted on 12/20/2023 6:03:09 PM PST by lowbridge
When Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim arrived at his Election Night party in early September, he was told that he was trailing his Democratic primary challenger, John Gomes.
Ganim, who was running for his third term as mayor since serving a federal prison sentence on corruption charges, took to the stage at a nightclub in downtown Bridgeport and explained to a small crowd of supporters that he was likely to lose the vote count from the polls, which had just closed around an hour before.
But Ganim and his team were unfazed, with several people openly promising a decisive victory once the absentee ballots were counted.
“Primaries are close. That’s just the way it is,” Ganim said. “But we are confident at this point, because of the hard work, because of the commitment, because of the support we received throughout the city of Bridgeport.”
There was reason for that confidence: Several of the people who surrounded Ganim on that stage had spent months laying the groundwork for many of the absentee votes cast in the city.
Documents reviewed by The Connecticut Mirror show that just one of Ganim’s supporters, Wanda Geter-Pataky, spent four months traversing parts of Bridgeport, helping voters fill out at least 537 absentee ballot applications ahead of the election, which was decided by 251 votes.
Geter-Pataky, who is the vice chairwoman of Bridgeport’s Democratic party, has since found herself at the center of an ongoing election scandal that has led to allegations of widespread ballot fraud and a new court-ordered primary between Ganim and Gomes.
She became the frequent subject of nightly news broadcasts after she was captured on city surveillance footage allegedly depositing stacks of absentee ballots into a drop box ahead of the primary.
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It’s a shame that there is “no evidence”.
Bridgeport is where they got a judge to keep a few polling stations in overwhelmingly Democrat districts open an extra half-hour, and then used the city’s “reverse-911” system to target Democrat voters in those districts and tell them the polls would be open late and they should get there ASAP.
This was coordinated with “we’ll drive you to the polls” volunteers.
Just Democrats being Democrats. LOL
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