Just days after President Donald Trump alleged there was widespread voter fraud and election interference, the Department of Justice (DOJ) lost a major court battle: a federal district judge ruled it cannot have access to Connecticut’s voter registration data.
At the start of the year, the DOJ requested every state submit a list of not only registered voters—which is publicly available information—but also their Social Security numbers, voting history, and other private information. Attorney General Pamela Bondi sued Connecticut, 22 other states, and Washington, D.C. for refusing to comply with this order.
On Friday, July 17, Judge Kari Dooley of Connecticut ruled that the federal government does not have the authority under the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to require the state to hand over a statewide voter registration list.
A district judge in New York struck down the DOJ’s lawsuit against the state for their voter roll data a week earlier.
“This Court does not write on a blank slate, and has the benefit of numerous (though non-binding) decisions by sister courts as to many of the issues presented,” Dooley wrote in her decision. “In short, because the Court concludes that Connecticut’s SVRL does not fall within the scope of Title III, the United States is not entitled to its production. The Court does not therefore reach the myriad of other issues raised by the parties.”
During the Democratic primary for the 2023 Bridgeport mayoral election, municipal cameras captured people submitting multiple absentee ballots into drop-boxes. Seven people were charged with offenses related to this voter fraud scheme. Two of these people pleaded guilty to charges involving voter fraud.
The DOJ did not bring up this instance in its complaint against Connecticut. The DOJ also did not claim that any voter fraud occurred in Connecticut during federal elections.
On Monday, Gov. Ned Lamont, Attorney General William Tong and other state officials held a press conference to reassure voters about the security of Connecticut’s elections.
“Last week, the president used primetime television to try to convince Americans that our elections can’t be trusted, and he did it without a shred of evidence,”Lamont said in a press statement released by his office. “Connecticut has spent its time building up our elections, and every vote here is backed by a paper ballot. That’s why our residents can vote with confidence.”
In March, the legislature voted to update the state’s election laws to implement more privacy protections for voters. Lamont signed a bill expanding absentee voting in May, so it is now available to all Connecticut residents.
“We are winning in court across numerous fronts to protect our democracy from the repeated demands of a president seeking to exert unlawful control over who can vote and how we cast our ballots,” Tong said in the press statement from Lamont’s office. “The Constitution is clear—the president does not control our elections, and he cannot micromanage and manipulate state [elections to] influence our free and fair elections. Despite the president’s anti-democratic efforts to sow chaos and confusion, Connecticut’s elections will remain fair, legal, transparent and accurate.”
More than half of the DOJ’s lawsuits against states concerning voter registration data have been dismissed.
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Just goes to show that KING NED and his Corrupticut government and its legal system is so corrupt! No transperancy for the LEGAL voters and residents of this state, so shameful.
We have a voting problem in CT!
1. Young girl received jury duty assignment.. names for jury duty are obtained from voter rolls, tax returns and car registrations?
2. Bridgeport ballot stuffing cases (5 people charged)
3. Tabulators stopped working last election in several towns
4. Town ran out of ballots last election (don’t they know how many people are in their voter rolls?)
5. A state employee is facing charges for voter registration fraud in Torrington. Brantley allegedly altered several voter registration cards, changing the affiliation party from “No” or “Republican” to “Democrat.” Brantley turned herself into police on Monday and was charged with five counts of fraudulent registration and five counts of primary or enrollment violations.
6. Bridgeport City Councilman Alfredo Castillo was arrested for the fourth time on a charge of illegally possessing a woman’s absentee ballot in the recent election.
7. Angelo Reyes, 37, was charged with four counts of unlawful possession of another’s absentee ballot, four counts of being present while an absentee ballot is executed, two counts of attempt to possess an absentee ballot and two counts of attempt to be present when an absentee ballot is executed.
8. Victor Cuevas, a former Democrat Connecticut State Representative, was charged by the federal government with one felony count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud after submitting fraudulent signatures on a candidate ballot petition. He was hired by a Democrat candidate to gather 1,000 ballot petition signatures to be eligible to run in the 2017 New Haven Probate Judge primary election. Cuevas and his co-conspirators fraudulently obtained ballot petition signatures by forging signatures of registered voters.
9. John Mallozzi, former Chair of the Stamford Democratic City Committee, was convicted following a bench trial of 14 counts of second-degree forgery and 14 counts of making false statements in absentee balloting
The crazy part is that that most of them are from one party… and that is the same party that doesn’t want voter ID? Riddle me that :-/
This is just another democratic party appointed “judge”.
The democratic party is totally corrupt and
wins elections with continued voter fraud
over and over again.
This is how democrats continue to win elections.
Thats why the democrats always vote down any kind of voter ID.
If thairs nuttin tuu hide. Turn ova tha documents
Unless they turn over the voter roles thousands of voters will not vote for democrats as it will go against their conscience.
Why will Lamont and Tong release the voter roles to the Federal Government ? If they still say there is no illegals on the roles then what are they trying to hide. Connecticut is not a separate country and should abide by the Federal laws.