Authorities in the state of Connecticut investigated and charged a state employee accused of altering voter registration cards from Republican or independent identification to Democratic.

Arlanda Brantley, a fifty-seven-year-old employee of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, allegedly changed the party registration of new voters at a September voting event before submitting the registration cards to the registrar office.

But when the clerk examined the cards, evidence of alteration was discovered, prompting the agency to notify the Connecticut State Elections Enforcement Commission and the Torrington Police Department. Brantley turned herself in to be arrested following an investigation.

The employee was charged with five counts of fraudulent registration and five counts of primary or enrollment violations, and was shortly released from custody on a $10,000 surety bond.

Connecticut Republican State Representative Joe Canino, who represents the Torrington municipality west of Hartford, condemned the alleged conduct in a statement to local news.

“I am outraged to hear that a state employee was knowingly fabricating voter registration information without the consent of our registrants,” Canino commented in the statement.

“There is no room for election fraud in Connecticut,” he added. “Whether it’s this incident in Torrington, or down in Bridgeport where individuals were stuffing ballots into a drop box during the eleventh hour before an election, the bottom line is that voter fraud is happening.”

Republicans have repeatedly raised concerns about potential voter fraud in recent years, advocating for more stringent election monitoring and voter registration requirements.