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Ten Myths In The Nutmeg State

By Luther Weeks on March 1, 2008

Ten Myths About Electronic Voting In Connecticut: Myth #1 – Connecticut has the toughest and strongest audit law in the country because we audit 10%.

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David Dill, Founder VerifiedVoting.org

By Luther Weeks on February 28, 2008

People will make incorrect claims about state, and especially national, laws about electronic voting,… In one local state or community, people could make some problem sound totally insolvable, when in fact it’s routinely solved in other places. Once you know that and have that perspective, it’s easier to get something done.

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Bysiewicz Defends Audits – Registrars Express Blind Faith In Machines

By Luther Weeks on February 22, 2008

Bonus: RFK Jr. interviews election official, Ion Sancho, who understands the issues <watch> Why do we need independent audits? – Because people too close to the system have too much faith in its integrity and too much stake in proving it worked perfectly. Today we welcome and heartily applaud the defense of random post-election audits […]

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Testimony – Nowalk Public Hearing

By Luther Weeks on February 18, 2008

I testified for about ten minutes in two segments, one formal and one informal, at the Government Administration and Elections Committee Public Hearing in Norwalk. A separate blog on this site covers the flow as testimony at the Norwalk hearing, another the earlier Norwich hearing. Yesterday, I completed an expanded version of my testimony covering […]

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Norwalk GAE Hearing

By Luther Weeks on February 18, 2008

Testimony submitted and posted at GAE site. Once again I have been procrastinating a bit in writing up the Norwalk GAE Public Hearing held last Thursday. The tone of the hearing was much different than the one in Norwich. This blog has a separate entry with my formal testimony. In Norwich, for the most part, […]

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71 Polling Places Selected For Audit – Bysiewicz Announces Voting Board

By Luther Weeks on February 15, 2008

71 Districts were selected today in a random drawing for the Presidential Primary post-election audits. Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz also announced the formation of a Voting Security and Accessibility Board. <read> Secretary Bysiewicz with CTVotersCount member Melinda Valencia ten percent of the polling precincts used in the election are subject to an audit. […]

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Norwich GAE Hearing

By Luther Weeks on February 13, 2008

Testimony submitted and posted at GAE site. Update: Testimony of Beth Angel, East Hampton <read> in my hometown, East Hampton, at the last municipal election. The results of the election required a recount effort, which ended up necessitating 3 recounts. Each recount delivered differing results from the initial count after the November 6 election. Those […]

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Public Input Sought On New Voting System

By Luther Weeks on February 9, 2008

Stamford Advocate discusses Public hearings starting next week. <read> See the schedule our our Calendar. “We’ve got to do everything humanly possible to ensure the integrity of the electoral process. I think it’s incumbent upon us to be vigilant and seek information from the public,” said state Rep. Chris Caruso, D-Bridgeport, chairman of the General […]

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ComputerWorld Interview With Rep. Rush Holt

By Luther Weeks on February 4, 2008

Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ) is a physicist who has been working for some four years to provide integrity and confidence in voting. While waiting for a longer term solution, he has introduced an emergency bill, H.R. 5056 to encourage states to move to paper ballots and sound audits in time for the 2008 presidential election. […]

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TalkNationRadio: Dr. Shvartsman Outlines Memory Card Failures

By Luther Weeks on February 1, 2008

We have covered the memory card issues and the reports from Dr. Shvartsman’s team at the UConn VoTeR Center <here> and <here>. This week, Dori Smith of TalkNationRadio interviewed Dr. Shvartsman <audio and transcript>. The UConn reports reported 3.5% and 8% failure rates. These are outrageous. Not only do they represent a huge and unacceptable […]

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