The woman also “may have filled out the ballots herself” and “provided the voters with stamps, instructed them how to vote or mailed their ballots in for them. All of these actions would be in violation of section 9-140 of the Connecticut General Statutes, which states that absentee ballots may only be handled by the individual voter or his or her family member or caretaker.” “This is the fifth time in the past four years that charges of ballot fraud have been leveled in New Haven elections.”
More on the New Haven voter fraud scandal involving a campaign volunteer for Democrat Ward 8 Alderman Michael Smart accused of “unlawfully handling the absentee ballots of at least eight voters in a Wooster Square elderly living complex.”