A minister from Connecticut was slapped with charges of forgery and perjury in connection with a failed effort in 2024 to petition for a Democratic primary in the 33rd House District of Middletown, according to information revealed by the chief state’s attorney. Prosecutors obtained an arrest warrant for the Rev. Robert K. Hoggard, 33, accusing him of submitting several petitions containing forged signatures and falsified circulator certifications two years ago.
Hoggard was later released from custody on a promise to appear. The minister was charged with a total of 14 counts of second-degree forgery and six counts of perjury. Election law in Connecticut requires challengers who want to force a primary with party-endorsed candidates to gather signatures from at least 2% of voters who are enrolled in that party.
Hoggard’s case was referred to prosecutors by the State Elections Enforcement Commission after an investigation into complaints made by voters that claimed their signatures appeared on petitions they never signed. John Kennelly, Hoggard’s attorney, has thus far denied his client participated in any wrongdoing.
“We are confident that after a full investigation my client will be vindicated,” Kennelly went on to say, according to the CT Mirror. “These situations are a product of years going by between the collection of signatures and the investigation by the state.” The attorney then said that the case is mostly built on the recollections of individuals about “a 30-second interaction two-plus years ago.”
Hoggard was seeking a seat that was won in 2020 by Rep. Brandon Chafee (D-Middletown). Folks were not at all shocked to hear of election fraud happening in the state of Connecticut, as many took to social media platform Facebook to give their thoughts on Hoggard and the trouble he got himself into. One individual wrote, “Corrupticut never fails to live up to its name.” Another said, with more than a little snark, “No election fraud in Connecticut though.”
“So what. He’ll pick up garbage on the medians of the interstates and WTIC will give him a radio show critiquing theft like Rowland. Unless he’s related to Hillary, Maxine, or Hunter. Then we’ll all have to apologize and elect him to Secretary of State,” someone else wrote, slamming the judicial system for so often allowing Democrats to seemingly get away with corruption.
Another user joked, “What’s the big deal? Isn’t that a Democrat way?” A man humorously replied to the story, “But, but, but, it doesn’t happen, especially not with the Democrats.” Someone then commented, “Repeat after me: It isn’t possible to cheat! Cheating doesn’t happen! Democrats do not cheat!” A woman further down in the comments said, “Always a Dem. It’s all they know.”
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User Jim wrote, “But the Democrats told me voter fraud doesn’t exist.” To illustrate the reason for the jokes, information was recently released by the Department of Homeland Security that found hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens were registered to vote and many of them cast ballots in previous elections. Most of these individuals were found in states like New Jersey and California, proving that election fraud is alive and well.