Gee, could that really happen? One third of votes that City Council candidates Lydia Martinez and Manny Ayala received on Tuesday’s Democratic primary came as a result of absentee ballots.
That doesn’t happen in Bridgeport, does it?
It has me thinking, and that’s never a good thing, about an autumn day in 1991 when a young Joe Ganim, Democratic candidate for mayor, expressed concern about political operatives for Republican Mayor Mary Moran running up an absentee ballot count.
“I’m worried about them cheating,” Ganim told a wise old political hand who had a quick reply.
“Don’t worry, Joe, all the cheaters are working for you.”
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You only need a box or two of absentee froms, they come 100 in box I have over 500pcs I’ll use them in the next election for mayor.I will slip them in before election eve its easy.
Bridgeport needs do four things.
1. Protect the Count
2. Add up the Numbers
3.Start a Batch system
4 Follow the postman
Regarding comment #1, I also hear that is how the Conn Post gets people to sign up for a subscrition to the paper!
OK Lennie. AB’s are the bread and butter of winning an election in Bridgeport. There needs to be controls as to the requests for AB’s and independent controls. Right now ANYBODY can get applications for AB’s. Now all they need to do is find the seniors (many with age onset Alzheimers) and fill out the app’s and have the diminished seniors sign them. Once the actual AB’s appear at the nursing homes and senior citizen residences the political operative is notified by the staffs and then goes to the location, fills out the AB and submits them. It’s like voting 3-4 or more times by the same operative.