Opinion writer Jonathan L. Wharton says he appreciates the state-level effort to set up election monitoring in Bridgeport as another absentee ballot controversy unfolds in court, but the city’s own leaders first need to stand up to machine politics to build renewed faith in the election process.

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Jonathan L. Wharton, Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science and urban affairs at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven.
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