By Luther Weeks on September 30, 2007
Dori Smith completes her four part service to Connecticut Voters with two interviews. <read> Excellent interviews with Daniel Seligson from the PEW Research Center and Prof Michael Fisher, President of TrueVoteCT. However, I must take exception to Daniel Seligson’s faith in Connecticut’s audit law. Has he read it? Or has he fallen into the trap of believing the [...]
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National
By Luther Weeks on September 27, 2007
Your editorial “Fail-Safe Voting?”, September 20, 2007, could be titled “Myth-Based Voting?”.
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, National, Other Editorials
By Luther Weeks on September 26, 2007
What if a post-election audit uncovers a problem with the machine count? Wouldn’t it be a good idea to examine the memory card and the voting machine for evidence that could be used to detect fraud or to understand the cause of the problem so it could be prevented next time? Unfortunately, audits must start [...]
Posted in National, Post-Election Audits, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on September 25, 2007
While not a question. This statement has been raised a couple of times in the last few days. A candidate was concerned that by raising the issue of election integrity it could cut voting at the polls. A registrar called to tell me that there were a lot seniors in her town that would be [...]
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By Luther Weeks on September 23, 2007
Recently I attended a meeting of the Cornell Club of Hartford as a guest of a member. She had invited me and several other voting advocates because the speaker was Cornell Professor of American Studies, Glenn C. Altschuler. He is an expert on election history. Professor Altschuler was an entertaining speaker, spiking the talk with [...]
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By Luther Weeks on September 22, 2007
TalkNationRadio.org Part 3 of 4 <read> It’s not in LHS’s interest to have their machines viewed as failure prone and I don’t think that they should be in the pipeline between the moderator and the registrar on the one hand and the SOS on the other. So I think the whole flow of information that [...]
Posted in CT, Electronic Vulnerability, National
By Luther Weeks on September 21, 2007
Debra Bowen is California Secretary of the State responsible for the Top To Bottom Review, and the decertification of electronic voting machines from Diebold and two other vendors: <transcript and conference call> Some people have criticized the Review as being biased and not conducted in the real world, and it certainly was not, it was [...]
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By Luther Weeks on September 21, 2007
“Hackers Welcome” is a refreshing read, at least for the technically inclined. A great comparison of how different companies treat the discovery of software problems by outsiders – as things to be covered up or as gifts to be appreciated. Insiders who do the same are either appreciated, suppressed, or out themselves for our benefit [...]
Posted in Electronic Vulnerability, Internet Security Issues, National
By Luther Weeks on September 15, 2007
Doubts Cast On Voting Machines. Westport News – An excellent summary of the concerns with the AccuVote-OS in Connecticut. Cromwell Vote To Be Audited. Middletown Press – “Town officials learned of the audit in a telephone call from a reporter Thursday night.” I wonder what the official plans are to notify registrars that their towns [...]
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