Breaking news on the gubernatorial election fiasco:
The Connecticut GOP confirms that it is formally requesting that all 169 municipalities turn over all election records for inspection to the party under the Freedom of Information Act.
Republican volunteers are hand-delivering public records requests to registrars and town clerks across the state.
“This is not unusual in case a statewide recount is ordered,” said Christopher Healy, the state GOP chairman.
Fred DeCaro III, Greenwich’s Republican registrar, confirmed that he received a FOIA request at 12:20 p.m. Friday.
“It asks for everything,” DeCaro said.
Covered in the request are ballot logs, lists of inactive voters, moderators’ memos, tally sheets, official check lists, absentee ballot request lists, the number of rejected absentee ballots and the number of spoiled ballots.
DeCaro said the request came from Elizabeth Kurantowicz, the chief of staff for the state GOP.
“We’re making the materials available for inspection (but) we’
re not photocopying everything,” said DeCaro, who indicated that the materials will be ready at 8 a.m. on Monday.
Healy said that the state party’s plan is to collect the raw data and bring it to the GOP headquarters in Hartford for evaluation.
Told that Greenwich planned to make its materials available for inspection but wouldn’t be copying them, Healy said that the party would have to confer with local election officials on its request.
You can read the Freedom of Information request below.
