Connecticut mayor wins the Democratic primary in a rare election redo
Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mayor Joe Ganim won a rare Democratic primary election redo Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press.
Bridgeport, Connecticut, Mayor Joe Ganim won a rare Democratic primary election redo Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press.
"Overwhelmingly, we won on the machines!" Ganim said earlier in the evening, as votes were still being counted. "Almost a thousand more people heeded our call and came out."
The election redo — the city’s third mayoral contest in five months — threatened the sitting mayor’s eighth term. A state judge overturned Ganim’s narrow victory in the Democratic mayoral primary in September after Gomes, also a Democrat, released video of Ganim supporters depositing stacks of what appeared to be ballots into drop boxes. Connecticut has strict rules about who can help voters return their ballots.
Ganim, who denied knowledge of or involvement in any ballot fraud scheme, defeated Gomes again in the general election in November, but he was still forced to run again this week to continue his eighth term as mayor.
Still, the do-over is unlikely to put fraud concerns to rest.
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