Bridgeport election monitor warns of issues with curbside voting

Connecticut’s secretary of the state received a report last month warning that candidates and campaigns involved in Bridgeport’s most recent primary stretched the boundaries of the state’s election laws by seeking to influence people who were using curbside voting to cast a ballot.

The report, which was written by a pair of state election monitors who were hired to oversee the city’s electoral system, said local election officials warned political operatives at one of the city’s polling locations not to swarm the vehicles where voters were using a state-approved process to cast a ballot from their cars.

The two election monitors — Chris Prue, Vernon’s Democratic Registrar of Voters, and Essie Labrot, West Hartford’s former town clerk — explained that candidates and campaign workers were instructed where they could and could not stand as election workers assisted voters in casting a ballot from their vehicles.

And they informed Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas that an attorney stood outside the polling location at the John F. Kennedy Campus the rest of that day to ensure that the political operatives who were on scene weren’t interfering or pressuring voters.



https://ctmirror.org/2024/09/11/bridgeport-curbside-voting-election-monitor/