By Luther Weeks on January 5, 2011
[Republican Registrar of Voters] Borges also said that the Bridgeport registrar’s office is stretched too thin.
[Bysiewicz] feels the Bridgeport office is well-staffed — it spends $551,466 annually, most of that in salaries for two registrars
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors
By David Bedell on December 23, 2010
The SOTS [Secretary of the State's] reporting of election results appears to have improved since 2008. That year, many votes on the Working Families Party line went unreported or were lumped in with the counts on the Democratic line…
However, the SOTS or the town officials seem to have overlooked some votes for Independent gubernatorial candidate Tom Marsh: in Bozrah and Shelton, the SOTS reports 0 votes while the Hartford Courant reports 27 and 198 respectively.
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors | Tagged Governor, Independent Party, Tom Marsh, Working Families Party
By Luther Weeks on December 12, 2010
Given the circumstances I am not surprised that the Coalition found such differences. However, understanding how it happened does not justify complacency, it calls for appropriate action. Connecticut voters deserve a more accurate and resilient system. Democracy requires it.
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors, Recounts/Recanvasses
By Luther Weeks on November 17, 2010
“Training was not evident. Professionalism was not evident,”
Update: OnlyInBridgeport video of former GAE Chair, Rep Chris Caruso. Articulates the problems, possible solutions, and obstacles, including impeachment
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on November 8, 2010
Editorials and legislators are already reacting and taking sides to solve the “ballot printing” problem.
It is critical to understand the entire scope of issues and inadequacies in all aspects of the election process; then review all the options, look for local best practices in Connecticut and explore what other states do well; then and only then develop a comprehensive cure. This is the common sense way to proceed, unfortunately it is hard work from start to implementation. Otherwise we are destined to react to one problem at a time, with one expensive, disruptive band-aid after another.
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors, Our Editorials
By Luther Weeks on October 29, 2010
“People have been stopping into the office to express concern over telephone calls that they’ve received in which they are directd [sic] to a web site where they believe they’re being told they can vote online,”
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors, Internet Voting
By Luther Weeks on October 20, 2010
Citizen observation and analysis shows some improvements along with a newly uncovered problem with the random selection process…We conclude that August post-election audits still do not inspire confidence because of:
- failure in the integrity of the random district selection process,
- lack of standards for determining need for further investigation of discrepancies,
- weaknesses in the ballot chain of custody, and
- lack of, consistency, reliability, and transparency in the conduct of the audit.
the list of polling districts for the random audit drawing was missing some districts and is otherwise inaccurate and ambiguous. The integrity of the audit requires an accurate list of districts that is verifiable by the public. We have extended our recommendations to the Legislature to include an efficient fix to this problem.
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors, Post-Election Audits
By Luther Weeks on September 1, 2010
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.
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on August 11, 2010
This 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.
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors, Post-Election Audits, Reports
By Luther Weeks on June 7, 2010
“What started out as an investigation into a missing voter registration card a few months ago ultimately led to the unveiling of 50 voter registration cards stashed away in a desk drawer for years.”
Posted in CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors
