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Nov. 14, 2023 - Epoch Times
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Judge Overturns Primary Election Amid Overwhelming Evidence of Fraud | Facts Matter Clips
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A judge over in Connecticut overturned a primary election because the evidence of ballot fraud was just so overwhelming.
You heard that right.
The evidence of fraud was just so unmistakable, including video footage of people stuffing dozens of ballots into the boxes, that the judge in the case had pretty much no other choice other than to just throw out the results and call for a new election.
And the details in this particular case are just wild.
So let's go through them together right after you take a super quick moment to smash those like and subscribe buttons, which will quite literally force the YouTube algorithm to share this important information out to ever more people.
Now, the election in question here was the city of Bridgeport's Democrat primary race for mayor, which was at least officially held on September the 12th.
And just for your reference, Bridgeport is located in the southwestern part of the state, and it is the largest city in Connecticut, at least based on population.
And this particular election had multiple different candidates, but the two major candidates were the following.
You had the incumbent, Mayor Joe Ganim, who was endorsed by the local Democrat Party, and then you had the main challenger, Mr.
John Gomes.
And this particular election, just like many elections across the whole country now, it included thousands of absentee ballots.
Specifically, according to the official tally which came in after the polls closed, the incumbent mayor, Joe Ganim, he received 4,212 votes, of which 1,564 were by absentee ballot.
Meanwhile, the challenger, Mr.
John Gomes, he received 3,961 votes, of which only 861 were absentee.
Meaning that in practical terms, if you look only at the people who voted in person on election day, you would find that they decidedly voted for the challenger, Mr.
John Gomes.
But, strangely, out of the people who voted by absentee ballots, somehow the ratio was completely flipped.
Out of the absentee ballot group, the incumbent mayor got nearly twice as many votes as the challenger, which put him ahead just enough to clinch the victory, by a tiny margin of just about 251 votes.
However, smelling that something was perhaps fishy with these absentee ballots, Mr.
John Gomes, he went ahead and he filed a lawsuit against several officials, at both the city and the state level, citing improprieties with the election.
And as a part of the lawsuit, Mr.
Gomes presented video surveillance footage which allegedly shows unauthorized city employees depositing huge amounts of absentee ballots into the ballot drop boxes.
Now, the first set of video footage appears to show this woman right here, Ms.
Anita Martinez.
She is a city councilwoman who happens to be a big supporter of the incumbent mayor.
To the point where they campaigned together, they knocked on doors together, and prior to the election, she posted this on Twitter right here.
And perhaps it's also worth mentioning that Ms.
Martinez was also on the ballot during this particular election cycle.
And so with that as the general background, well, take a look at the surveillance footage that was presented as evidence in court.
The first video here shows footage outside a drop box on August 27th at about 5 p.m.
For reference, this ballot drop box is located at 950 Boston Avenue, right outside of a fire station.
And this video, it shows Miss Anita Martinez coming out of her black BMW and depositing what appears to be at least a dozen ballots, one after the other, into the ballot drop box before getting back into her car and driving away.
We then fast forward two days to August 29th, and we pretty much get a repeat performance.
Miss Anita Martinez returns, deposits what appears to be at least 10 ballots, and once again drives away.
Then we fast forward again to September the 4th, and Miss Anita Martinez appears to return again, this time at night, and proceeds to deposit more and more ballots.
Now here it's hard to tell how many she deposited just because it's so dark, but we can safely say that it's more than one.
Then two days later, on September the 6th, even later at night, you have the same black BMW return again, and what appears to be Miss Martinez, she gets out of the car, and once again deposits even more ballots.
And so that was Miss Martinez.
The next set of footage shows a different dropbox as well as a different city employee.
This woman right here, Ms.
Wanda Getter, she is a city official in the city of Bridgeport.
She is the vice chairwoman of the Bridgeport Democrat Party Town Committee, and also, in regards to the mayoral election, She was a supporter of the incumbent mayor.
And this is the video footage that was again played during the trial showing what appears to be Ms.
Wanda Getter either placing multiple ballots into the ballot drop box herself or coming up to the box with other people as they drop ballots into the box and she just watches.
And this appears to be happening across multiple different days leading up to the actual election.
Furthermore, This particular ballot drop box was located right outside of the City Hall building where Ms.
Getter works, and so there is other footage showing Ms.
Getter interacting with people inside the building before going out to either deposit the ballots herself or sometimes have someone else deposit the ballots.
And just by watching the footage, you can tell that the number of votes that this represents is not small, especially given the fact that the margin of victory was just 251 votes.
Now, I will quickly pause here for a moment to mention that both Ms.
Martinez as well as Ms.
Getter, they have both not been found guilty of anything as of yet.
And of course, here in America, everyone, no matter who they are, is innocent until proven guilty.
All I'm doing is I'm showing you the specific surveillance footage that was shown in the courtroom by Mr.
Gomez and his legal team.
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