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A judge has overturned the results of the Democrat primary for the mayoral race in Bridgeport, Connecticut, after viewing compelling evidence of voter fraud. His ruling creates chaos for the general election that is scheduled to take place in just a few days. On September 12, incumbent Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim narrowly edged out challenger John Gomes by a mere 251-vote margin in the Democrat primary. Primary election day ballots favored Gomes, but after absentee ballots were tallied later that evening, Ganim prevailed over Gomes, 4,212 to 3,961. Within days, the Gomes camp cried foul, posting a video to Facebook...

The incumbent Democratic mayor of Buffalo, running as a write-in candidate, declared victory Tuesday night as he held a nearly 20-point lead over his Democratic Party opponent. India Walton, a socialist backed by many high-profile progressives like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, refused to concede to Mayor Byron Brown in the highly publicized contest until her campaign sees “all the votes,” her spokesman Jesse Myerson told The Post via text. Brown, 63, who lost to Walton in the June Democratic primary, claimed what would be a stunning victory in a speech to supporters from his campaign headquarters shortly after 11 p.m. “Today’s election,...

The three remaining contenders in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary have all filed lawsuits demanding a potential recount of the June 22 ranked-choice election vote, the winner of which has still not been determined. “It is without precedent in a New York City mayoral race or any citywide office,” said election attorney Stanley Schlein, who represents former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia in her legal action against the NYC Board of Elections (BOE). Civil-rights lawyer Maya Wiley sued Thursday in Brooklyn state court requesting that all the ballots that were “cast or attempted to be cast” be preserved for a...

The top contender to become New York City’s next mayor outlined his pro-police position on Thursday during the first Democrat primary debate. “The first thing I’d do as mayor is go to our police force and say that ‘Your city needs you. Your city needs you to do your jobs professionally, responsibly, and justly.’ But the police are going to be a core way for us to address the public safety concerns that so many New Yorkers have,” Andrew Yang, the former Democrat presidential candidate, told the forum. “And let me be clear, defund the police is the wrong approach...

CHICAGO — Chicago mayoral candidate Willie Wilson says he wasn't trying to buy anyone's vote when he handed out close to $200,000 to churchgoers. The millionaire businessman said Sunday's appearance at the New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church was nothing more than "one of the biggest property tax relief assistance" events of the year and the kind of thing he's done before. The Illinois State Board of Elections said Wilson didn't break any campaign finance laws because the money came from his non-profit foundation. Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner, himself seeking reelection, joined Wilson at New Covenant Missionary Baptist Church at the...

Some Baltimore residents who expected to work for state Sen. Catherine Pugh’s mayoral campaign Tuesday instead damaged vehicles outside of her campaign headquarters after being told there were no jobs available. A spokesman for Pugh’s campaign called it a misunderstanding. Anthony McCarthy, the spokesman, said Pugh decided “they will be paid” regardless. A crowd of about 100 people lined the block outside Sandi’s Learning Center on North Ellamont Street, many of them saying they were promised election day jobs. About a dozen police officers were on the scene and two security guards were at the door. Police said they responded...

Several Rockland County and New York City-based lawmakers were arrested by federal authorities on corruption charges today. Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin (D) and Deputy Mayor Joseph Desmaret (D) were among those arrested. The Spring Valley pair are being hit with charges for allegedly taking bribes on sales of village property and asking for a stake in a company as conditions in a deal. Bronx GOP Chairman Jay Savino, who happens to live primarily in Congers and is Clarkstown’s tax certiorari attorney, was arrested for allegedly selling the mayoral ballot line in New York City to Senator Malcolm Smith of...

If you watched the debates or look at the candidate’s websites, you will never see the dreaded “D” word spoken nor spelled out. You know why, and so do these wily candidates. The “D” word conjures up images of Pelosi, Reid and billions of dollars flying out of your collective pockets and into the hands of millionaire bankers and insurance executives. Some will tell you that no one mentions the “D” word because the Houston Mayoral Race is a non-partisan race. Really? You sure you want to go with that one? According to the letter of the law, the race...

Dear Fellow Republican, With a successful Special Election Win of Eric Ulrich in the Queens 32 district, the Republican Party in New York City is showing hopeful signs that we can build on our core principles one race at a time. In order to do that, though, we will need to field candidates on the local level and for citywide office this year. We will only take a step backwards if we, as a Party, throw our support behind the Mayor and allow him to run on the Republican line. in 2001 and 2005, the mayor fought and won his...

Secretary of state calls for her resignation Tuesday, March 07, 2006 By Brian Thevenot Staff writer Criminal District Court Clerk Kimberly Williamson Butler, who spent last week ignoring court orders and dodging arrest warrants, was led away from a courtroom to a jail cell on Monday after she refused to admit breaking the law before a panel of increasingly irritated judges. Advertisement Just hours later, Secretary of State Al Ater, Louisiana's top election official, called for Butler's resignation and vowed to explore every option to keep her from managing the April 22 election. Butler landed in jail after nine of...

Bill gives Freddy nod amid static By MICHAEL SAUL DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU Former President Bill Clinton endorsed Democrat Fernando Ferrer's mayoral bid yesterday, but his enthusiasm and his words of praise were a bit muted - literally. Appearing together in the South Bronx, Clinton noted that Ferrer had endorsed his candidacy for President in 1992, saying he was "glad to be here to return the favor." In a 130-second address, Clinton mentioned Ferrer's name only once - which might have been a problem if the crowd on Charlotte St. could hear him. Before Clinton and Ferrer arrived, aides...

Sanders is ahead 51 to 40 among likely voters. His largest lead yet. (bolding mine) --- Sanders’ lead among Republicans is 82% to 11% for Frye. Sanders picked up 2 points with Republicans since our last survey. Frye stayed the same. Sanders leads with males 52% and with females 49%, while Frye garners support from 40% of males and 41% of females. This is a large jump among females, 5 points, for Sanders from the last survey. “Sanders has the momentum right now. Frye’s base of voters is solid, but the undecided appear to be breaking Sanders' way... Among labor...

Monday September 19, 2005 By BREE FOWLER Associated Press Writer DETROIT (AP) At a time when Detroit needs its suburbs more than ever, the long-standing rivalry between the city and its surrounding towns is hitting another rough patch. Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, facing a tough re-election fight, last week caused a controversy when he singled out two school districts in neighboring Oakland County as having higher rates of drug use than Detroit's. ``In Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills and all these places, they do more meth, they do more Ecstasy and they do more acid than all the schools in the city...

New School University president Bob Kerrey said he was considering entering the city's mayoral race, citing a failure of the Bloomberg administration's ability to fight federal policies. "I am angry about the way New York City is being treated by Washington D.C.," Kerrey told The New York Times in Sunday editions. "Who is fighting these guys?"

An attorney for supporters of a maverick write-in candidate for mayor asked the City Council on Thursday to overturn Republican incumbent Dick Murphy's narrow victory.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10 — The Democratic Party avoided an embarrassing defeat on Tuesday, winning election of a Democratic businessman, Gavin Newsom, as mayor of San Francisco by having played to the party's organizational strengths in a city it has long dominated. The 36-year-old Mr. Newsom pushed back a powerful challenge from Matt Gonzalez, a former public defender who, according to unofficial final results, fell fewer than 12,000 votes short of becoming the first mayor of a major American city from the Green Party. Those results showed Mr. Newsom with 118,651 votes to Mr. Gonzalez's 107,030, or 53 percent to...

<p>It was a long time in the making, but word is former President Bill Clinton will be in San Francisco for a final get-out-the-vote pep talk Monday for Democratic mayoral candidate Gavin Newsom.</p> <p>The Clinton drop-by was pulled together by Walter Shorenstein, the Democratic fund-raising king. And while scoring Clinton took some work, the biggest headache for Newsom's camp was deciding where to hold the rally.</p>

I heard on KFYI radio that Phil Gordon or his staff asked Randy Pullen to drop out of the mayoral race in exchange for a job. Anyone else hear this?

Some of Houston's best political precognitives are hard at work this summer trying to prevent what they foresee as an electoral disaster. Operating out of the Department of Pre-Elections, these agents have detected a frightening scenario in the making: Houstonians wake up after the first round of the city elections in 2003 and find their only remaining choices for mayor are named Orlando and Sylvester. More and more, the future is looking like a reflection of the past, with a likely confrontation between previous runoff losers. In 1991, state Representative Sylvester Turner squeezed ten-year incumbent Kathy Whitmire out of contention....