It's not known if the old Election Day joke about dead folks voting in Bridgeport carries any truth. But in every southwestern Connecticut municipality, if the deceased could get to the polls, they would still be eligible to vote.
University of Connecticut students conducted a study using three public databases in their research, including one that went back as far as 1937. They also used the state's master death file that dates back to 1974.
The students found 293 dead people remain on Bridgeport's voter rolls. But a dozen dead people were still registered in Easton; 161 in Shelton; 177 in Milford; 223 in Norwalk and 71 in Stratford.
Alas, there's no evidence that anyone drifted out of local cemeteries and cast their ballots, although human error at the polls was responsible for marking them erroneously as having cast ballots.
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Dead on voter lists in 13 cities, towns.
Bridgeport- 293
Ansonia - 70
Danbury - 68
Derby - 56
Seymour - 30
Milford - 177
Fairfield - 111
Shelton - 161
Monroe - 29
Easton - 12
Norwalk - 223
Stamford - 71
Stratford - 18
Can someone get Mary Ann Doran on the phone or is she too busy laughing it up with the City Clerk who NEVER seems to be in her office?
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On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
The amended complaint states that plaintiffs sought to remedy the continued discriminatory and unauthorized enforcement of federal immigration laws against the Latino residents of the City of Danbury by Danbury's mayor and its police department.
Plaintiffs allege that the arrests violated their Fourth Amendment rights and the Connecticut Constitution because defendants conducted the arrests without valid warrants, in the absence of exigent circumstances, and without probable cause to believe that plaintiffs were engaged in unlawful activity. In addition, plaintiffs allege that defendants improperly stopped, detained, investigated, searched and arrested plaintiffs. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants violated their Fourteenth Amendment rights when they intentionally targeted plaintiffs, and arrested and detained them on the basis of their race, ethnicity and perceived national origin. Plaintiffs raise First Amendment, Due Process and tort claims.
Plaintiffs request declaratory relief, damages and attorneys fees.
On September 26, 2007, ten plaintiffs filed suit in response to an arrest of aday laborers at a public park in Danbury, Connecticut. Plaintiffs amended their complaint on November 26, 2007.
