Five people have been arrested and more than a hundred criminal election fraud charges have been filed against city officials and workers in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The city was forced by a court to hold four elections between September 2023 and February 2024 just to figure out who their new mayor would be.
Bridgeport has now been rocked by the arrests of city council members and public employees who engaged in election fraud tactics that were shocking, brazen, and cartoonish in nature.
Another important thing to know about this story is that everyone arrested and charged is a Democrat.
We covered the Bridgeport election fraud extensively in 2023 and 2024 when it happened. Most readers will remember the shocking video of city employee Wanda Geter-Pataky stuffing a ballot drop box with dozens of illegally harvested absentee ballots:
That scandal led to a judge tossing out the city’s Democrat primary election for mayor in September 2023. Three additional city elections were required to sort the mess out.
Investigators subsequently found that Geter-Pataky stuffed the drop box with ballots many additional times in advance of the 2023 primary. She’s now been charged with an additional 90 criminal election fraud charges, including illegal possession of ballots, fraudulent voting, lying to voters about absentee ballot requirements, unlawfully hovering over citizens as they filled out their private absentee ballots, and conspiracy.
Bridgeport City Councilman Alfredo Castillo has been arrested for working with Geter-Pataky on the scheme. A Bridgeport family told investigators that Castillo and Geter-Pataky came to their apartment and instructed them to fill out applications for absentee ballots. The two then came back to the family when their ballots were delivered.
The family was then very explicit in explaining that Geter-Pataky and Castillo filled out their ballots for them. Charging documents say the husband “stated Alfredo and Wanda selected the candidates by bubbling in the circles on the ballot.”
Then, they took the family’s ballots and delivered them to a drop box. City Councilman Castillo has been charged with 18 counts of election fraud.
City Councilwoman Maria Pereira has also been arrested for election fraud, but she was cheating on behalf of the other Democrat running for mayor in Bridgeport!
One witness said that Pereira came to her apartment the day after she had had surgery. When she didn’t get off the couch to answer the door, Pereira tried to crawl through her front window.
“If you don’t answer the door I’m coming in there,” Pereira shouted at the woman. She threatened Pereira, who then left.
Later, the woman found an absentee ballot application in her mailbox with three sticky notes attached to it. Pereira had filled out most of the form and forged the lady’s signature on it. One of the notes instructed her to fill in the last four digits of her social security number, mail the form, and then call Pereira to let her know it had been mailed.
The city’s housing authority banned City Councilwoman Pereira from two apartment complexes for her outlandish behavior of trespassing and threatening voters.
Pereira was also accused of coming to voters’ apartments after they had mailed in their ballots for her opponent. She allegedly told voters that there had been mistakes on their ballots and had them fill out a form for a new one. When a request for a new ballot is issued, it cancels the ballot that was already cast. Pereira then stole the new ballots and cast them for herself. She’s been charged with 20 election fraud counts, including forging voter signatures.
Three additional city employees have also been arrested on charges related to these schemes on behalf of both Democrats who ran for mayor in 2023.
Democrat cheating in Bridgeport is so out of control that Connecticut Republicans are calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to have the Justice Department step in. Democrats are so filled with lust for power that they are willing to crawl through your window, steal your absentee ballot, and fill it out for you.
Many of these same tactics were used to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump, although this is the first time we’ve seen a Democrat accused of trying to crawl through somebody’s window.
Election fraud is real and one political party has turned it into an art form. AG Bondi should definitely step in and start hitting these people with federal charges. They’re out of control.