Community advocates who are suing to throw out Bridgeport’s mayoral primary results say they interviewed 50 residents who filled out absentee ballots. Seventeen cited improprieties.
Callie Gail Heilmann leads Bridgeport Generation Now Votes, a non-partisan, non-profit organization backing the lawsuit.
“Our canvass uncovered a systematic targeting and manipulation of some of our most vulnerable citizens: low-income, disabled, elderly and monolingual Spanish speakers for the purpose of controlling and monitoring their votes.”
Heilmann told reporters on Wednesday that as a private citizen, she had held a fundraiser for candidate and State Senator Marilyn Moore.
Moore got the most votes at the polls. She lost the primary to incumbent mayor Joe Ganim, whose absentee ballots outnumbered Moore’s 3-1.
The state Election Enforcement Commission launched an investigation on Monday.
