Even as their party labels Trump supporters “election deniers,” democrats in Connecticut and Philadelphia have been charged with election fraud. Let’s pray against any and all attacks on our elections!

From Just the News. Democrats are facing new charges of election fraud going back to 2021, despite their party pushing back on election integrity and voter fraud claims since the 2020 presidential election.

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While Democrats have long criticized Republicans who are concerned about election integrity by smearing them with the pejorative label “election deniers,” new allegations regarding election fraud are being made against Democrats. Five Democratic Party members in Bridgeport, Conn., and Philadelphia have been criminally charged with numerous counts of voter fraud …

Bridgeport had to redo primary and general elections last year after evidence surfaced of alleged ballot harvesting in the Democratic mayoral primary in September 2023.

Ballot harvesting

The incumbent Democratic mayor, whose supporter was the reason for the redo elections after allegedly committing ballot harvesting, won the redo elections. The mayor denied any knowledge of the alleged ballot harvesting. …

Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee Vice Chairperson Wanda Geter-Pataky, and Bridgeport Democratic City Council Members Alfredo Castillo, Jazmarie Melendez, and Maria Pereira were all criminally charged, as well as a woman from Stratford. …

Being targeted for “political retribution”

“The Office of the Chief State’s Attorney takes allegations of voter fraud seriously and I commend the Statewide Prosecution Bureau’s investigative efforts that resulted in these arrests,” Chief State’s Attorney Patrick Griffin said in a statement on Friday. …

Melendez’s lawyer said that his client “categorically denies the baseless allegation” and is being targeted for “political retribution.” …

The woman from Stratford who was charged has been unable to be reached for comment. All five charged in the 2023 election matter are to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court on March 6th. …

In Millbourne, a Philadelphia suburb of about 1,200 people, three politicians were indicted by a federal grand jury last Tuesday for attempting to win a 2021 mayoral race by illegally casting about three dozen mail-in ballots.

Allegedly forged voter signatures

Mohammed Nurul Hasan, who was vice president of the borough council, Mohammed Munsur Ali, who had won the Democratic primary for borough council, and Mohammed Rafikul Islam, who lost the Democratic primary that year in seeking to be reelected to the council, all allegedly conspired to register people to vote in the election who lived outside of Millbourne.

Hasan had lost the Democratic mayoral primary that year and ran as a write-in candidate in the general election that fall. He lost the general election, 165 votes to 138. Hasan, Ali, and Islam had mail-in ballots sent to them, then completed and returned the ballots to the Delaware County elections board.

The federal grand jury alleged that Hasan and Ali told friends who lived outside Millbourne to register in the municipality and “that they would not get in trouble as long as they did not vote in another election in November 2021,” according to the indictment. However, other voters were unknowingly registered to vote in Millbourne, per the grand jury.

The three men allegedly forged voter signatures on return envelopes and are charged with fraudulent voter registration, false information in registering, and conspiracy. …

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(Excerpt from Just the News. Photo Credit: Tiffany Tertipes on Unsplash)