Corrupticut. Will vote fraud steal the election in Connecticut?
It's about 2 days since the polls closed here in Connecticut. I'd say it was 45 hours since the polls closed, but that's not true. It's only true for 168 towns. In Bridgeport the polls were ordered by a judge to stay open an extra 2 hours because several polling places ran out of ballots. The gubernatorial election results are close enough that both major party candidates are claiming to have won. The Secretary of State will not declare a winner until the vote counts from Bridgeport are certified. She has already certified the results from ALL the other towns. It is expected that the small lead the Republican Tom Foley currently has will be overcome by the votes coming in from Bridgeport and that the Democrat Dannel Malloy will be elected. That's all well and good given that Bridgeport is heavily Democratic and past results have strongly supported Democratic candidates.
BUT HERE"S THE KICKER. The results thus far from Bridgeport showing 15 of 25 precincts reporting do NOT REGISTER A SINGLE VOTE FOR THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE TOM MARSH. Not one single vote. For a person who received 1-2 % of the votes in almost EVERY other town in the state. The only other towns in which the official results posted on the SOTS website where Marsh did not get at least 1% of the vote were Canaan, Easton and Shelton. It seems incredibly suspect to me that with over 25,000 votes already counted in Bridgeport not one single voter opted for someone other than the major party candidates. Did the party hacks working behind the scenes stuffing the ballot box forget there was a third person on the ballot? OOPS. It's things like this that make me less and less comfortable that elections in the United States are fair and honest. Somehow I think our elections have a lot more shenanigans involved than we care to acknowledge. Maybe former President Jimmy Carter and former Prime Minister Tony Blair can find time to monitor the next major election here in Connecticut?
Oh, and lest you think that this rant is the work of a Foley supporter let me be very clear. I DID NOT VOTE FOR TOM FOLEY. Nor am I a Tea Party sympathizer. I was even once an elected delegate to the Tarrant County (TX) Democratic Party convention. Did this election reveal an electorate fed up with the status quo? You betcha!
BUT HERE"S THE KICKER. The results thus far from Bridgeport showing 15 of 25 precincts reporting do NOT REGISTER A SINGLE VOTE FOR THE INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE TOM MARSH. Not one single vote. For a person who received 1-2 % of the votes in almost EVERY other town in the state. The only other towns in which the official results posted on the SOTS website where Marsh did not get at least 1% of the vote were Canaan, Easton and Shelton. It seems incredibly suspect to me that with over 25,000 votes already counted in Bridgeport not one single voter opted for someone other than the major party candidates. Did the party hacks working behind the scenes stuffing the ballot box forget there was a third person on the ballot? OOPS. It's things like this that make me less and less comfortable that elections in the United States are fair and honest. Somehow I think our elections have a lot more shenanigans involved than we care to acknowledge. Maybe former President Jimmy Carter and former Prime Minister Tony Blair can find time to monitor the next major election here in Connecticut?
Oh, and lest you think that this rant is the work of a Foley supporter let me be very clear. I DID NOT VOTE FOR TOM FOLEY. Nor am I a Tea Party sympathizer. I was even once an elected delegate to the Tarrant County (TX) Democratic Party convention. Did this election reveal an electorate fed up with the status quo? You betcha!
posted by Wake of the Flood at 3:49 PM
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