By Luther Weeks on December 28, 2010
How do we know that our Dieblod/Premier/Dominion AccuVote-OS voting machines count ballots and votes accurately in each election, in each polling place? Maybe sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t.
Posted in CT, Electronic Vulnerability, Post-Election Audits, Recounts/Recanvasses, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on December 24, 2010
CTVotersCount is opposed to expansion of main-in-voting including no-excuse absentee voting, primarily for reasons of security and secondarily because it does not deliver on its promise of increased participation. Today we highlight a comprehensive article covering why it tends to be popular and pleasing to election officials in California, but tends to reduce turnout and raises a variety of concerns from advocates.
Posted in Mail/Absentee Voting, National
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 20, 2010
Reports over the weekend said that Rep Spall0ne had been offered the job. Now it is official.
Posted in CT
By Luther Weeks on December 16, 2010
“New York’s audit laws require a further hand count of paper ballots, accepting the machine results and declaring a winner outweigh the public’s right to know who really won the election”
Sadly, after three years and six major elections Connecticut has none of the three voting integrity items Bo recommends for New York.
Posted in National, Recounts/Recanvasses
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 23, 2010
I will be taking a brief hiatus from posting at CTVotersCount. We will be very busy counting some ballots in Bridgeport
Posted in CT
By Luther Weeks on November 20, 2010
We agree with Secretary Bysiewicz that we cannot look to her to deliver on voting integrity. We also cannot rely on each and every one of the 339 elected registrars for voting integrity.
We caution agains patchwork solutions. The problem goes well beyond the number of ballots printed; voting integrity and confidence call for a much broader study and action than proposed by the current Secretary
Posted in CT, CT Law
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 16, 2010
At the drawing the Secretary announced an agreement with the Bridgeport Registrars that the 12 districts with the copied, hand counted, ballots would be voluntarily audited with all the ballots for the race for Governor counted. Surprise Surprise! It seems that not everyone in Bridgeport government agreed to the agreement
Posted in CT, Post-Election Audits