By Luther Weeks on February 25, 2010
“Your investment in me today is an investment in a healthy democracy,” Garcia said. He vowed give voice to the voiceless by getting more people to the polls.
Posted in Election2010
By Luther Weeks on February 25, 2010
The Secretary of the State’s office is “a place where fair and clean elections must be guarded,”
Posted in Election2010
By Luther Weeks on February 23, 2010
I debated testifying. The hearing was about the Citizens Election Program. IRV [Instant Runoff Voting] was really off topic. However, this was the first time to my knowledge that IRV has come up in the Legislature. Perhaps with a few words I could express an alternative view before a large number of legislators take a position; so that they would know that there are alternative views and significant concerns.
Posted in CT, Instant Runoff Voting, Our Editorials
By Luther Weeks on February 22, 2010
The scheme involved duping people to walk away from the voting computer before they had finished their elections, then changing their choices…White said she also went into the booth with people who had sold their vote to make sure they cast ballots for the candidates who had paid.
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on February 18, 2010
Hartford has three Registrars of Voters: Democratic, Republican, and Working Families Party. Apparently that is hardly enough when each registrar is responsible for their own party’s primary. There is a name for this in Hartford: Business as Usual.
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on February 17, 2010
We are deeply concerned about the public impact of ES&S’s purchase of Diebold’s Premier Election Solutions, Inc… Fortunately, the Federal Government has expedited its research into purchaser ES&S’s accelerated absorption of PESI assets into ES&S and the business goliath’s concerted attempt to achieve a de facto dissolution of PESI before the DOJ can act.
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National
By Luther Weeks on February 16, 2010
The article is focused on the Farrell campaign and a comparison with Brinson campaign, but possibly the most significant news is that according to the party chair, Richard Abbate is not going to continue as a candidate.
Posted in Election2010
By Luther Weeks on February 15, 2010
“With more and more money pouring into politics as it will this year with the recent Supreme Court case it will be increasingly important to protect our electoral process from the potential influence of that money”
Posted in Election2010
By Luther Weeks on February 9, 2010
Primaries would run the office an estimated $15,000 each. While primaries are likely to occur, no one’s certain at this point. “I don’t know what I’m going to do in August and that is the key,” said Ron Skurat, the Democratic Registar of Voters… Skurat did the math on the salaries and came up with roughly $6.81 per hour for the work he and Pelletier put in.
Posted in Costs, CT
By Luther Weeks on February 4, 2010
“I believe there cannot be effective oversight of an election (by an election official or by the public) if any of the election records are a secret.’
Posted in Chain of Custody, National, Other Editorials