1st Bridgeport ballot tampering suspect pleads guilty
Josephine Edmonds will get three years’ probation for witness tampering and illegally possessing ballots during the 2019 election.
One defendant in Bridgeport’s ballot tampering cases has pleaded guilty.
Josephine Edmonds will get three years’ probation for witness tampering and illegally possessing ballots during the 2019 election.
That’s if a judge approves the plea deal.
Seven people in total, including three current or former Bridgeport City Council members, already face election fraud charges.
Earlier this year, three City Council members and two other suspects made their first court appearances on 156 election crime charges.
The charges include bribing people for votes, harassing voters, forging signatures and harvesting hundreds of absentee ballots.
Wanda Geter-Pataky, the vice chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Party, faces the most serious charges – 92 counts of illegally possessing ballots, fraudulent voting, watching someone vote and misrepresenting eligibility requirements to vote absentee.
