Southington, CT – This afternoon, Connecticut Republican Party Chairman J.R. Romano issued the following statement announcing the organization of a new Citizen Voter Fraud Task Force:
"Decades of irresponsible Democrat leadership has created a voting system full of irregularities and bad data that ends today.
"Our voter rolls are a mess, with dead and moved voters remaining eligible to vote for years. Now Secretary of the State Denise Merrill has made an already bad system even worse by unilaterally sending tens of thousands of absentee ballot applications to voters across the state.
"Our state party headquarters has been inundated by confused voters wondering whether the absentee ballot application they received was legitimate, whether the polls remain open on Election Day, and whether they should vote in person or mail the request, or both. Denise Merrill has created chaos and confusion exactly when our citizens need it least.
"This reckless experiment will have serious consequences in November, when many elections are are expected to be razor close. Secretary Merrill is already casting doubt over the integrity of the results by overwhelming vote counters with questionable absentee applications and ballots,
"Republicans are taking democracy directly to the people of Connecticut.
"With today's formation of the Citizen Voter Fraud Task Force, we are empowering individuals to stop their votes being cancelled out by illegitimate ballots. Working in tandem with our local Republican Town Committees, we are dedicated to ensuring the integrity of Connecticut elections.
We are urging citizens to report any and all irregularities through our free Ballot Integrity Alert System online or by texting FRAUD to 555888, our new text hotline.
Now Connecticut voters can fight voter fraud in real time, absolutely free and without the hassle of government red tape.
"Denise Merrill clearly doesn't take her job seriously, but Connecticut Republicans do. Today we are empowering the people of our state to ensure that our elections are fraud free."
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