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Wanda Geter-Pataky and others were arrested, but it took years for the State Elections Enforcement Commission to refer for criminal charges.

Joe Ganim secured another four-year term on Tuesday after defeating John Gomes in Bridgeport's fourth mayoral election in under six months.

Gov. Ned Lamont is supporting Ganim and some are wondering why he would get involved in a race that has been in the national spotlight for election fraud.

The endorsement comes as Ganim prepares to face off against John Gomes, now running as an independent in this month’s general election.

Governor Ned Lamont endorsed Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim Tuesday while touring a city high school being constructed, a week before the city’s mayoral election.

Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim declared victory Tuesday in the Democratic primary re-do ordered by a Superior Court judge following absentee ballot discrepancies.

The wheels of justice will never turn if Connecticut's so-called leaders fail to act on decades of ballot harvesting in Bridgeport.

Punishment has been reduced by one year

Opinion writer Jonathan L. Wharton says he appreciates the state-level effort to set up election monitoring in Bridgeport as another absentee ballot controversy unfolds in court, but the city's own leaders first need to stand up to machine politics to build renewed faith in the election process.

Preliminary results showed Mayor Joe Ganim defeated challenger John Gomes. But Gomes suggested he’d run as an Independent Party candidate.