{"id":504,"date":"2018-11-13T17:27:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T17:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/11\/13\/cabrerarally\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:40:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:40:46","slug":"cabrerarally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/11\/13\/cabrerarally\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabrera holds rally in Ansonia, calls for voting transparency during recount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">On Monday evening, Jorge Cabrera, Democratic candidate for Connecticut\u2019s 17th state senate district, stood on the steps of Ansonia City Hall and spoke anxiously to a few dozen supporters, calling for more integrity and transparency in the voting system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Last Wednesday morning, Cabrera found out that he won the state senate race. He spent the rest of that day into Thursday night celebrating with his friends and extended family. It was at the celebration luncheon on Thursday, however, that he learned something had gone wrong.<\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-hidden\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:1000.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:75.0%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1_Image-2.jpg\" alt=\"Image-2.png\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1_Image-2.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1_Image-2.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1000x750\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.0,0.5\" alt=\"Image-2.png\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5beb01bb4fa51ac87d428ada\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cImmediately, we didn\u2019t know what had happened,\u201d Cabrera said at the rally. \u201cWe knew that the city of Ansonia had resubmitted the numbers and all of us were left scratching our heads.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Officials are currently recounting votes after a mistake was made. What the mistake is specifically, officials don\u2019t know for certain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cIt appears it was a mistake made in reporting from the Registrar\u2019s office to the Secretary of the State,\u201d Ansonia City Attorney John Marini told WTNH News 8\u2019s George Colli. \u201cEssentially, from what we\u2019re being told, it was a data entry mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The latest count has Incumbent Republican George Logan earning 18,513 votes compared to Cabrera\u2019s 18,448 votes, according to Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill. The slim 65-vote margin calls for a recount, but the reporting error further complicates the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here was the scene before the rally last night in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ansonia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ansonia<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cabrera4Senate?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cabrera4Senate<\/a> and his family and supporters gathered to discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/voter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#voter<\/a> transparency and the integrity of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/electoral?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#electoral<\/a> system. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/recount?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#recount<\/a> for CT&#39;s 17th senate district continues. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nznkmz4vP4\">pic.twitter.com\/nznkmz4vP4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; HQ Press (@hq_press) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hq_press\/status\/1062390652057632768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThere\u2019s something bigger at stake here. It\u2019s not about the candidates, and it\u2019s not about a political party. It\u2019s the principle of making sure that every single vote counts; making sure that every single person that took the time to vote on Election Day knows that their vote was counted,\u201d Cabrera said. \u201cNothing lessens the integrity of our election system than what we\u2019re looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">State Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, who stood next to Cabrera during the rally, said that the voting system loses integrity when numbers are misreported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cWhen you have confusion in the electoral system, like what we\u2019ve seen on Thursday, that takes people\u2019s confidence away from the electoral process,\u201d said Duff. \u201cWe\u2019re actually seeing that throughout this nation right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In Florida, the results of the U.S. Senate race between Governor Rick Scott (R) and incumbent U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D) are being recounted. Brenda Snipes, Broward County Supervisor of Elections, has come under fire from republicans since Election Day. Some republicans claim that the delays in the counting process may suggest Snipes\u2019s office was part of an election fraud scheme. Former Florida Republican Gov. Jeb Bush on Monday called for Snipes to be removed from her position in office, while President Donald Trump said last week that Snipes has a \u201chorrible history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cAn honest vote count is no longer possible-ballots massively infected. Must go with Election Night!\u201d Trump tweeted.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">As the recount continues, Jorge Cabrera takes to rallying at Ansonia City Hall to drive home the need for a better voting system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hamden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}