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Will Gov Patrick assign MA votes to states with touch screens and voter suppression?

By Luther Weeks on July 20, 2010

Perhaps Governor Patrick will consider the arguments of Democrats like Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz who opposes the Agreement and Minneosota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie who objects for the difficulty in counting the popular vote. We are not in principle against a national popular vote, but as a prerequisite we would require sufficient uniform national voting franchise and integrity laws, enforceable and enforced.

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Candidates Qualify For Public Financing For Primary

By Luther Weeks on July 17, 2010

With a couple of close calls near the deadline, it seems that all the statewide office candidates that wanted to participate in the program have met fundraising criteria.

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Two Courts Rule For And Against Citizens Election Program

By Luther Weeks on July 13, 2010

Disagreeing with the lower court on leveling the playing field for 3rd party candidates. Lifting the ban on lobbyist contributions, while leaving the ban in place for state contractors and apparently also ruled against providing supplemental grants to candidates faced with high spending opponents.

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Internet Voting Called Unfair, Not Observable, and Not Transparent

By Luther Weeks on July 9, 2010

“Voting methods that utilize web-based technologies and telephone-based balloting do not allow the necessary levels of observability and transparency that exist within the current election process.”

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What Do YOU [still] Want?

By Luther Weeks on July 8, 2010

You are committed to the proposition that Democracy survive and flourish. We have serious work to do. It can happen in Connecticut. Voting Integrity, like the Constitution, can start here in the Constitution State and spread to the Nation. “Anything worth doing is worth failing at, and failing at, and failing at…until you succeed”

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New York: Leveling the playing field for mail-in voting?

By Luther Weeks on July 6, 2010

We suggest that anyone concerned with the disenfranchisement from New York’s ill programmed voting machines should also be concerned and warn the public of the even greater risks they take when they mail in their votes.

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Unsafe at any cost – Internet voting

By Luther Weeks on July 5, 2010

High tech solutions to military and overseas voting seem like the equivalent of a star wars sledgehammer to hit a small nail.

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