Reports are noting that once the decision was made to extend voting hours in Bridgeport, the reverse-911 system was used to notify select areas of Bridgeport that the polls were still open.
In addition to using an emergency system for a non-life threatening situation (a violation of state law, which is now under investigation), there is a clear violation of equal notification.
They may not be laying down-—This from the Westport News-
On Wednesday both Malloy and Foley declined to answer questions from reporters on whether they were gathering legal teams, but Republican State Central Committee Chairman Chris Healy is challenging the use of photocopied ballots in Bridgeport with the State Elections Enforcement Commission.
In Bridgeport, for much of Wednesday Trumbull First Selectman Timothy Herbst and a battery of lawyers met with Bridgeport’s outgoing Republican Registrar of Voters Joseph Borges to explore if there were voting irregularities to form the basis of a lawsuit.
“I can’t believe what I’m seeing,” Herbst, who is working for the Foley campaign, said Wednesday night. “It’s nearly 24 hours after the polls close and we still can’t get a number of the votes cast compared against the number of voters checked off on the tally sheets.”
Sources said Kevin O’Connor, Connecticut’s former U.S. attorney now working as a lawyer with a firm run by former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, has been contacted to look into the allegations, some of which include absentee ballot application irregularities; whether voters were allowed to cast ballots at polls where they are not registered; and whether ballots were cast by people whose names were not properly checked off.
Healy on Oct. 20 filed a complaint alleging that two individuals obtained and distributed more than 250 applications for absentee ballots listing a vacant lot on North Avenue as their address.
Foley’s team apparently is examining vote tallies in other towns as well. A representative from his campaign was in the Fairfield Town Clerk’s office Thursday morning going over the election numbers with Town Clerk Betsy Browne...
http://www.westport-news.com/local/article/Bysiewicz-We-re-waiting-for-Bridgeport-before-797923.php
“In addition to using an emergency system for a non-life threatening situation (a violation of state law, which is now under investigation), there is a clear violation of equal notification.”
I did not know about this. Unbelievable !
And wouldn't there be a stature prohibiting local government phones from being used for get-out-the-vote purposes?
i heard the reverse 911 call was a voice recording of obama although i haven’t heard any reporting on it. almost like they knew where they could acorn things.