Allison Totaro
State Investigates Complaint of Election Law Violation in New Canaan
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State election officials are investigating a complaint regarding a poll worker stationed at New Canaan High School on Election Day last year. Allison Totaro at least five times “used her position to intentionally influence the vote by telling voter[s] that as a ‘Republican they were only to vote for 4 candidates’ when in fact a voter had the opportunity to vote for up to 6 candidates regardless of their party affiliation,” according to a complaint lodged Feb. 14 with the Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission.
“Witness testimony as set forth in the affidavits clearly confirm this was a violation of election law and the 2013 Moderator handbook guidelines,” Christina Fagerstal and Lisa Hannich—current and immediate past chairs, respectively, of the New Canaan Democratic Town Committee—said in their complaint, obtained from the SEEC by NewCanaanite.com through a public records request. “In addition to the misinformation, the Moderator failed to remove the Respondent from the polling location.”
The DTC on Election Day (Nov. 2, 2021) “received multiple complaints regarding officials inside the polls providing intentionally misleading ballot information,” the complaint said.