BRIDGEPORT — Democratic Chairman Mario Testa’s alleged personal use of the police force to collect absentee ballots during a recent City Council primary has raised eyebrows among political officials in town and at the State Capitol in Hartford. “This is not the usual way this process works,” said Gabe Rosenberg, head of communications for Secretary of the State Denise Merrill. Rosenberg on Tuesday said he spoke with several experienced staff members and “no one had really ever heard of it happening this way before.” “It doesn’t seem like the right procedure at all,” agreed Linda Grace, Bridgeport’s Republican Registrar of Voters. Michael Garrett, who runs Bridgeport’s GOP, went a step farther: “I don’t think it’s legal to do that.
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