If the election was based only on absentee ballots, then Roberto Alves is our next mayor of Danbury.
The latest absentee numbers from city hall show that Danbury Democrats put in the work and more than DOUBLED their abs ballots returned (2019: 290; 2021: 777) with the most notable abs gains in the 4th and 6th wards.
In contrast, Danbury Republican's trend line between 2019 and 2021 is a net negative of 30 returned ballots (2019: 273; 2021: 243) with fewer ballots in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th wards.
How does a net gain of 487 Democratic ballots will factor into tomorrow's election? If I were the Dems, I'd be thrilled with their results as it might give them the edge to get over the 20-year slump and put the state's seventh-largest city back under Democratic leadership.
If I were the GOP, I would be concerned about the numbers as they should have improved from their 2019 totals. In politics, abs are free votes, and it's the responsibility of the town committee to collect as many of those free votes as possible.
How this will impact tomorrow's race is yet to be determined. Are these absentee votes from people who ususally vote or new voters? Remember, we're in the COVID era where more Dem residents vote absentee verus Republicans who prefer to vote in person.
If anything, these numbers makes for great local political banter...we'll see if it's a factor in the election tomorrow :-)
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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.
