By Luther Weeks on January 30, 2012
It really is remarkable how far this issue has come in about three years; Pew’s election team and its huge coalition of partners including OVF, the Pentagon’s Federal Voting Assistance Program and the Uniform Law Commission (whose Uniform Military and Overseas Voting Act is one ongoing vehicle for state and local reform) should be deeply gratified at everything they have accomplished.
Posted in Internet Voting, National
By Luther Weeks on January 26, 2012
Coalition finds continuing problems with audit integrity
Provides calculations and official data on the web for public review and verification
For the first time, in the interest of public information and transparency, we are making all official municipal audit reports and the data we complied available for everyone to review on the web. Citizens can see the reports from their own town, other towns, and perform their own audit of the Coalition’s data entry and calculations based on those official reports. The November post-election audits still do not inspire confidence because of the continued:
- Lack of integrity in the random district selection and race selection processes.
- Lack of consistency, reliability, and transparency in the conduct of the audit.
- Discrepancies between machine counts and hand-counts reported to the Secretary of the State by municipalities and the lack of standards for determining need for further investigation of discrepancies.
- Weaknesses in the ballot chain-of-custody.
<Full Report, Press Release, Excerpts> <Review detail data and municipal reports>
Posted in National
By Luther Weeks on December 28, 2011
This is seriously dangerous. If you don’t join Americans Elect, their vote could determine the President. If you do join Americans Elect, the vote could be manipulated in the backroom or by hackers. Or the self-appointed board could override the actual vote.
Posted in Internet Voting, National, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on December 19, 2011
Hackers threaten Presidential Primary. The particular threat may or may not be real. Yet, being concerned with electronic skulduggery is Right, Left, and Center
Posted in National, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on December 19, 2011
This is serious stuff. The words that come to mind are: Illegal, unacceptable, unconscionable, ridiculous, unconstitutional, and undemocratic.
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National, Our Editorials, Post-Election Audits, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on November 29, 2011
There should be an investigation, however, we suggest that determining the cause is not a complete cure. I could happen again. It could have happened in the past. Maybe in Connecticut.
Posted in CT, Electronic Vulnerability, National, Post-Election Audits, Recounts/Recanvasses
By Luther Weeks on November 26, 2011
From Aspen we have a discussion of the value of anonymous ballots and the meaning of the secret ballot. What voting free from coercion requires is the secret casting of ballots and the ongoing safeguarding of those ballots along with the anonymity of the voter associated with each ballot.
Posted in Chain of Custody, CT, National
By Luther Weeks on November 21, 2011
Even if ecommerce transactions were safe, the security technology underpinning them would not suffice for voting. In particular, the voting security and privacy requirements are unique and in tension in a way that has no analog in the ecommerce world.
Posted in Internet Voting, National
By Luther Weeks on November 14, 2011
UPDATED: Representative Larson to introduce “Weekend Voting Act”. We do not find a compelling, complete case for this particular change. Our own suggestion would be to make election day a holiday, and even better change it to Wednesday, to get the election as far from the weekend as possible, reducing the temptation to use it as convenient four day extended vacation.
Posted in CT, National
By Luther Weeks on November 10, 2011
We were just too optimistic, yet prophetic when we suggested the founders might not be happy with anything but their type of candidate.
Posted in Internet Voting, National, Skulduggery and Errors
