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Former Stamford Clerk Pays $8,000 Fine In 2015 Absentee Ballot Fraud Case
By Paul Hughes, Staff Writer
Nov 6, 2025
HARTFORD — Former Stamford Town Clerk Donna Loglisci
has paid an $8,000 fine for participating in an absentee ballot fraud scheme
with the former city chairman of the Democratic Party in 2015, state election
regulators said.
The State Elections Enforcement Commission on
Wednesday unanimously approved a consent order and agreement that settled a
complaint lodged against Loglisci a decade ago. The settlement required that
Loglisci pay an $8,000 civil penalty and agree to comply with state election
laws.
Staff attorney William B. Smith advised the SEEC
that the signed check and consent order, and the agreement had been received
from Loglisci and her attorney on Monday.
In September 2022, a state Superior Court judge
found John Mallozzi, the former chairman of the Stamford Democratic City
Committee, guilty of committing 14 counts of second-degree forgery and 14
counts of false statement in absentee balloting in the city’s 2015 election
when Loglisci was town clerk. Two months later, he was sentenced to two years
of probation and fined $35,000. A three-judge panel of the state Appellate
Court upheld his conviction in a June 2024 decision.
Smith noted Loglisci testified as a witness for the
state that she gave absentee ballots to Mallozzi and two other people even
though the ballots were for voters other than him. She admitted she broke the
law by doing so but was not charged with any crimes.
Under state law, a town clerk is supposed to mail or
hand an absentee ballot to the person who applied for it, though there are
exceptions for situations such as a hospitalization.
The SEEC launched an investigation after Lucy
Corelli, the Republican registrars of voters, filed a complaint in 2015 that a
city resident voted twice in the 2015 election. The resident told SEEC
investigators he initially was turned away when he tried to vote in person at
his polling place on Election Day because he had been marked down as having
voted by absentee ballot. The resident signed a statement swearing he had not
voted by absentee ballot and was allowed to cast his vote in person.
The investigation eventually was turned over to the
state’s attorney’s office for the Stamford and Norwalk Judicial District.
Mallozzi was arrested on charges of absentee ballot fraud in January 2019.
Loglisci, a Republican, ran for reelection in 2017,
but Democrat Lyda Ruijter defeated her. Ruijter lost her reelection bid Tuesday
running as an Independent Party candidate.
Connecticut
Former Stamford Clerk Pays $8,000 Fine In 2015 Absentee Ballot Fraud Case
By Paul Hughes, Staff Writer
Nov 6, 2025
