Who are the 5 people who are charged with election crimes in Bridgeport?

On February 21, five people who were associated with the Democratic Party of Bridgeport resulted in the police on February 21 after a comprehensive criminal examination of the city's democratic regulations, which ended in allegations for absent ballots and a new judicial election.

The more than 150 charges, which were issued against a campaign employee, three members of the city council of Bridgeport and deputy chairman of the city's democratic city committee, represent one of the most significant criminal persecution of election crimes in the history of Connecticut.

The public prosecutor's office of the public prosecutor claimed in the arrest that the five defendants had told the people about the authorization requirements for absent votes, fake signatures, which have noticed non-state members to vote, the votes, the votes were changed and dozens of absentee were delivered in the city boxes.

So who are the five defendants? And what are each of them accused of?

Wanda Geter-Pataky

The vast majority of the criminal complaints presented this month were aimed at Wanda Geter-Pataky, the deputy chairwoman of the local democratic party of Bridgeport. Many people who have followed Bridgeport Politics are familiar with Geter-Pataky.

The 68-year-old Bridgeport Democrat was already exposed to the absence of another person and witnesses that were associated with the democratic area code of Bridgeport 2019 before the election-related charges.

It was also caught on the face of the election scandal of 2023, after it was captured on video surveillance material, in which stacks of absence to a drop box in front of the state government center Bridgeport, in which she worked, was put into a drop box.

The public prosecutor's office caused the video surveillance material from 2023 and dozens of witnesses collected by Bridgeport voters to accuse Geter-Pataky this month. The accusations against them include misleading people about absent -minded coordination requirements that illegally have the absent ballots of the voters are present, while the voters filled their ballot papers and conspired with others in order to take possession of absent ballots.