Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz announced that election results audits will include the 12 city voting precincts authorized by a state judge to remain open two extra hours following the Election Day madness. The city says SuBy has no authority to make such a request. Statement from the city:
“City Attorney Mark Anastasi, acting on behalf of the Registrars, had spoken to an attorney in the elections division of the Secretary’s office on Monday afternoon to indicate that no one in the city had agreed to such a recount, and seeking an explantion as to what legal authority, if any, existed for either the Secretary to order, or for anyone else to undertake a selective, non-random, recount of all or a portion of the ballots cast in the City of Bridgeport. Also, it was requested that the Secretary outline how such a procedure would be undertaken and how her office would fund it. It seems the Secretary was mistaken both as to whom her office spoke with from the City of Bridgeport and what was said on Monday…
…The City can find no legal authority which either requires or even allows the State or the City to conduct such a recount. We believe that the Secretary of the State is equally aware of this absence of legal authority.”
List of Polling Precincts in Bridgeport with extended hours on Election Day November 2, 2010:
· Beardsley School, 500 Huntington Avenue;
· Read Middle School, 130 Ezra Street;
· Central High School, 1 Lincoln Blvd.;
· John Winthrop School, 85 Eckart St.;
· Hallen School, Division St.;
· Thomas Hooker School, Roger Williams Rd.;
· Black Rock School, 545 Brewster St.;
· John F. Kennedy Campus, 700 Palisade Ave.;
· Blackham School, 425 Thorme St.;
· Park City Magnet School, 1526 Chopsey Hill Rd.;
· City Hall, 45 Lyon Terrace; and
· Longfellow School, 139 Ocean Terrace.
*** Not impressed! ***