Following a September election event, a Connecticut state mental health worker has been accused of defrauding Republican vote licenses to Democrat.
Arlanda Brantley, 57, a worker for the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, is accused of “five counts of false subscription and primary or membership violations,” according to Fox 61. As the Hartford Courant reported, authorities arrested her Monday.  ,
After a “national voting event” at the Western Connecticut Mental Health Network in Torrington, Connecticut on Sept. 17, Brantley allegedly changed” several” voter registration cards with an affiliation of” Republican” or” No” to” Democrat” “without the consent of the registrants”. According to Fox61, she then reported the tickets to the Torrington Registrar of Voters secretary.
Authorities noticed light out on the voter licenses, Torrington Registrar of Voters Clerk Melissa Russell told The Federalist. A “handful” of filings — near to 10 — were affected, according to Russell. She claimed she is unaware if Brantley changed the registration accounts in different states, but the damaged Torrington voters changed their party affiliation before the November election.  ,
According to reports, the Torrington Police Department and the State Elections Enforcement Commission were in charge of the investigation.  ,
Authorities got a warrant for Brantley’s imprisonment and she turned herself in on Monday, studies say. As of Tuesday, she was out on a$ 10, 000 friendship and scheduled to appear in Torrington Superior Court on Feb. 10.
Republican state Rep. Joe Canino said he was “outraged” to hear about the scams, adding that he and his crew are” committed to fixing cracks in our election laws that allow these occurrences to take place” through “increased police of election related crimes, voting identifying requirements, chain of custody requirements, and other proposals related to vote security”.
” What was meant to be a non-partisan, state-led, voter registration occasion, has now been tainted by Ms. Brantley’s improper steps”, Canino posted to Facebook on Tuesday. The bottom line is that voting fraud is occurring in Connecticut, whether it be this one in Torrington or something less serious in Bridgeport where people were stuffing votes into a drop box at the eleventh hour before an poll.”
Republican State Rep. Craig Fishbein posted on X that he agrees with Canino, adding,” Vote scams, and the intentional manufacturing of voter registration data has NO PLACE in the State of Connecticut”!
Voter fraud in Connecticut is a specially worrying state. In Bridgeport, the country’s most popular capital, a video surfaced in September 2023 evidently showing provincial employee Wanda Geter-Pataky— affiliated with the former mayor’s campaign — stuffing ballot boxes, as The Federalist’s Mark Hemingway reported at the time. Following this information, a judge overturned the benefits and ordered a fresh election. Geter-Pataky and Democrat city councillor Alfredo Castillo also reportedly helped a” Spanish-speaking” noncitizen voting the same year, according to a problem.
Brantley’s reported fraud following September’s “national election function” in Torrington recalls how “get-out-the-vote” initiatives are prone to negative players. As The Federalist has recently reported, like campaigns have recently aided activists by allowing them to use political targeting and data planting. Former President Joe Biden largely ordered federal authorities to “get-out-the-vote” from left-leaning populations through his” Bidenbucks” programme, which Trump has since rescinded.  ,
Logan Washburn is a staff writer who writes about the dignity of elections. He is a The College Fix flower 2025 fellow. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo’s journal associate, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan grew up in rural Michigan but is originally from Central Oregon.
