Weeks after election, CT stopped monitoring online voter fraud talk
Kasturi Pananjady and Dave Altimari, CTMirror.org
Jan. 18, 2021
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A Connecticut Official Ballot Drop Box that was installed across from Milford City Hall next to FedEx, UPS and USPS boxes is photographed on July 20, 2020.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media
In the immediate aftermath of the Nov. 3 election, an intelligence analyst named Hannah Glidden was working for the Connecticut Secretary of the State’s office under a novel contract. Her job was to flag any social media talk of voter fraud or disinformation about the election in Connecticut.
It didn’t take long to find some.
Electoral College affirms: Biden is the president-elect.
Presidential Elector William Smith, 94, of Hartford, casts his ballot for Joe Biden in the Connecticut Senate.
Connecticut cast its seven Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden on Monday, normally a perfunctory postscript to a presidential election. The state’s GOP chairman was ready to move on, even if President Donald J. Trump was not.
“This is the process that has played out,” said J.R. Romano, chair of the state Republican Party. Romano accepted the result but refused to say if Trump should, too. “All that matters procedurally is that the Electoral College voted today. That’s all that really matters.”