Democratic Primary

Connecticut voters will have two chances to hear from the four candidates running to represent the 22nd State Senate District before the Democratic primary.

John Avlon beat Nancy Goroff to challenge Rep. Nick LaLota in New York’s first congressional district. Port Jefferson Village Deputy Mayor Rebecca Kassay will face State Assemblymember Ed Flood in November, and much more.

As Democratic party faithful gathered at the Mohegan Sun this weekend for their party state convention, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut won the endorsement of state Democrats for a third term.

A Connecticut Superior Court judge has ordered a new election for Bridgeport’s Democratic mayoral primary, after surveillance videos show possible ballot stuffing. It will be held after next week's general election, featuring Major Joe Ganim and his challenger John Gomes.

Mayor Joe Ganim testified in Bridgeport Superior Court on Tuesday. On the stand, Ganim distanced himself from two of his campaign workers who pleaded the Fifth when questioned about city surveillance video that showed them allegedly stuffing mail-in ballot drop boxes prior to the city’s Democratic primary election.

Some Bridgeport voters are discouraged by the mail-in ballot scandal surrounding Mayor Joe Ganim’s September Democratic primary win. But advocates hope that the voters will take their concerns to the polls in November.

After two of his campaign workers exercised their 5th Amendment right last week, Mayor Joe Ganim is set to testify in Bridgeport Superior Court on Tuesday in a case involving alleged absentee ballot abuse in the city’s Democratic primary.

Testimony in the case involving alleged absentee ballot fraud in Bridgeport’s Sept. 12 Democratic primary for mayor is expected to begin in about two weeks, according to Superior Court Judge William Clark.

Former mayoral candidate Shafiq Abdussabur had complained when more than a thousand of his signatures to get on the Democratic primary ballot were thrown out.

Shafiq Abdussabur is trying to convince a judge that he has enough signatures from New Haven Democrats to make the primary ballot. He said state officials have told him that the ballots can be reprinted if he is successful.