It has come to our attention that the voter information provided by the Secretary of the State’s new web tool is inaccurate in some cases.
We learned this in the course of discovering a loophole in the integrity of the post-election audit random drawing process.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on September 1, 2010 - CTThe recent Hartford close vote, recanvass and election challenge provides an example to highlight the limitations of the Connecticut recanvass law. Read our op-ed published today in the CTMirror.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on August 30, 2010 - CT“The Office of Secretary of the State is charged with safeguarding everyone’s right to vote and I will do everything in my power to ensure open, fair and secure elections. Everyone’s vote must count. “
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on August 27, 2010 - Election2010In our opinion, in a race a close as this one, the only satisfactory solution is a complete, manual, adversarial recount. While some of Mr. Green’s allegations are cause for concern, even if the recanvass was performed competently, thoroughly, and legally there may be ballots that were not properly classified due to insufficient scrutiny for voter intent and voter identification. Such differences could easily change the winner is this close a race, disqualifying two votes or reversing just one vote could make a tie.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on August 26, 2010 - CTGreenwich Time article: Greenwich picked – yet again – to audit primary results. Greenwich registrars and Secretary of the State debate value of audit and random selection of Greenwich.
Plus – Registrar and we agree: Audit Absentee Ballots Too!
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on August 26, 2010 - CTThere are several recent stories about the low turnout in the August 10th primary and Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz suggesting the primary date be changed from August to June. This is not a voting integrity issue, yet we place it in the category of “Fighting the last [election] war” (i.e. Changes/reforms that look good when attempting to correct a recent, assumed election problem, without looking at all the consequences.)
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on August 23, 2010 - CTThis kind of intimidation will hit the hearts of volunteers and no volunteer will come forward if this kind of thing happens in future, that’s the reason I’m going to take in on, and I’ll face it, so that the volunteers get inspired by me…whatever research we have done, whatever work we have done is right
– Hari Prasad
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on August 22, 2010 - NationalToday the Secretary of the State’s Office conducted the random drawing. Members of CTVotersCount and the League of Women Voters performed the selections.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on August 18, 2010 - CTMust Watch: From the EVT/WOTE conference, Dan Wallach presents today’s word: “Out of Site, Out of Mind”
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on August 15, 2010 - NationalThis week at the 2010 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop on Trustworthy Elections in Washington, D.C., Dr. Alex Shvartsman and his team from the Uconn VoTeR Center delivered a significant paper. It covered research into the cause of the complete failure of the AccuVote-OS memory cards, at an unacceptable rate — We suggest the costs of mitigating the problems should be born by the manufacturer and/or distributor since the ultimate cause is the inadequate design of the memory cards for their intended purpose.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on August 11, 2010 - CT
