Moore Fights on to November as Write-in Candidate.

State Senator Marilyn Moore will continue her campaign for mayor of Bridgeport as a write-in candidate in November. Moore surprised incumbent Joseph Ganim by falling only 248 votes shy of tipping over the favorite.

Moore defeated Ganim on the machine count but was walloped in the absentee ballots, a means of voting that is often dominated by the party organization. Moore has raised questions about the absentee ballot procedures since losing to Ganim on September 10th. Local party leaders expected Ganim to win on the machines by 1,000 votes, Daily Ructions has learned, and were astonished at Moore’s strength.

A write-in campaign is a challenge, but it has been done with success before. In 2005, Michael Jarjura lost the Democratic primary for mayor but won re-election by 2,400 hundred votes in a November write-in campaign, defeating Democrat and Republican nominees. Moore is a lot easier to spell than Jarjura.