A Connecticut judge has ordered a redo of the Democratic primary in Bridgeport after obtaining shocking footage of alleged illegal ballot box stuffing.
Surveillance video shows several people appearing to shove stacks of ballot papers into drop boxes at several locations across the state’s largest city.
Superior Court Judge William Clark said he had seen enough evidence to order a rerun of the September 12 primary in which incumbent Mayor Joe Ganim defeated challenger John Gomes by a narrow 251 votes out of 8,173 cast.
The Gomes campaign later also sued the city, demanding a new primary.
‘The volume of ballots so mishandled is such that it calls the result of the primary election into serious doubt and leaves the court unable to determine the legitimate result of the primary,’ Clark wrote in his ruling.