For Councilman Castillo, Another Election Complaint, Another Criminal Investigation

From Brian Lockhart, CT Post:

The state’s top criminal prosecutor is scrutinizing whether a city councilman already facing trial on election fraud charges from 2019 interfered with curbside voting during last November’s municipal election.

More specifically William Smith, a lawyer for the commission, asked that group’s members to forward the Castillo matter to the latter agency “for consultation” along with “any evidence of possible criminal violations related to potential election law violations discovered in the course of the commission’s investigation.”

Castillo, who did not respond to requests for comment, has served on Bridgeport’s 20-person legislative body since 2013 representing the Hollow neighborhood. And he was on the Nov. 7, 2023 ballot for another two-year term.

That election day Callie Heilmann, who helps run the Bridgeport Generation Now civic group and its political offshoot, Generation Now Votes, submitted a complaint about Castillo to the Office of the Secretary of State. In it Heilmann claimed Castillo, in violation of state elections law, “has been driving voters to the polls and doing curbside voting with them while he stays in the car. He has also been observed rolling his windows up while voters are in the car with their ballots.”

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