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CT: Historic: Third Party Registrar Elected In Hartford

By Luther Weeks on November 7, 2008

Hartford Courant: Working Families Party Candidate Makes History in Hartford <read> Add Urania Petit’s name to the list of people who made election history Tuesday. Petit, a social worker and Working Families Party candidate for registrar of voters in Hartford, outpolled her Republican counterpart by more than 200 votes. With that, city voters made Petit […]

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CT: Glitches In ConnPost Article

By Luther Weeks on November 6, 2008

ConnPost: “Glitches didn’t affect election outcome” <read> CTVotersCount.org: “Not So Fast, Please” A ConnPost article gives a broad brush feel good assessment of the election. We are not ready to agree that everything went fine. We have no reason to doubt that the results were accurate enough that the voters’ intent was realized in the […]

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CT: A Long Valuable Day As An Election Official

By Luther Weeks on November 5, 2008

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. – Confucius One of my goals this year was to obtain more hands-on experience in the election process by serving as an election official. In August I attended moderator training. I became a certified moderator which, in no way qualified […]

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CT: Voter Reg System Said To Be Working Well

By Luther Weeks on November 3, 2008

Update: Roundup P.M Carpenter: The American Gauntlet of Election Day <read>. Video example of hurdles in Philadelphia: <view> ************Original Story************** Stamford Advocate story <read> Karen Lyons has not been the biggest booster of Connecticut’s new centralized voter system, a database accessible to registrars statewide to help them prevent voter fraud. Lyons, Norwalk’s Republican registrar of […]

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Video: Hacking Voting Machine in 6min 51sec

By Luther Weeks on November 2, 2008

Princeton Professor Andrew Appel hacks voting machine in 6 min and 51 sec for CNN host: <video> Anyone familiar with Connecticut’s Diebold AccuVote-OS would be able to beat that 6 min and 51 sec, especially if they had a copy of one of the keys for the machine (hint they are all the same key, […]

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