State Republican chairman Chris Healy is asking for formal investigations of the gubernatorial election by the U.S. Attorney's office, the chief state's attorney's office, and the new secretary of the state who will take office in January.
The state Republican Party has hired well-known attorney Ross Garber, who said in a letter to federal and state authorities that the GOP discovered evidence of "significant deficiencies, irregularities and improprieties'' in Bridgeport on election night.
In a radio interview Monday morning with commentator Jim Vicevich, Healy said that the election in Bridgeport was "a circus'' that was "completely out of control.''
"I'll make a little news here,'' Healy said on the radio show on WTIC-AM. "We are going to formally ask for an investigation from the federal authorities - in writing. ... We're going to ask the U.S. Attorney to look into it. We're going to ask the state to look into it. I'm going to ask the new secretary of the state to look into it.''
Healy also described the Bridgeport election as "a complete farce'' that needs to be investigated.
"By any standard - or lack thereof - the voting that went on in Bridgeport, whether it was incompetence, negligence or outright, premeditated fraud, was a complete farce - and in fact, disenfranchised the very people that went there casting their ballots freely and openly,'' Healy said. "There were no controls here on the issue of copying ballots. ... The Democratic registrars were in charge of ordering ballots. They ordered 21,000 ballots.''