Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch is at it again. The Democrat
who presided over a 2010 vote casting and counting scandal in the tight
race for governor was caught on video Friday guaranteeing Democratic
U.S. Senate candidate Christopher Murphy a big result in the state’s
largest city–even if it takes days to count.
Bridgeport provided a crucial and dubious margin of victory to
Democratic and Working Families Governor Dannel P. Malloy in 2010 amidst
unprecedented chaos at the city’s polling places. The 2010 Bridgeport
assault on democracy included photocopied ballots, altered hours at
polling places, a mysterious bag of votes and Finch’s abuse of the
city’s emergency notification system to increase turnout on Election
Day.
Murphy, locked in a dead heat with Republican Linda McMahon, needs
the grimy Bridgeport Guarantee. He got it from Finch on Friday while
visiting small businesses in the poverty-wracked city. A laughing Finch
boasts even if it takes a couples of days to get the results,”You can be
guaranteed you’re going to get the vote.” Two years after the 2010
fiasco, it remains no laughing matter to the rest of Connecticut.
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