By Luther Weeks on January 28, 2009
We conclude, based on our observations and analysis of audit reports submitted to the Secretary of the State that the November post-election audits still do not inspire confidence…Among our greatest concerns are the discrepancies between machine counts and hand-counts reported to the Secretary of the State by several municipalities. In many cases, these discrepancies are not thoroughly and reasonably explained. We believe that the ad-hoc counting procedures used by many municipalities were not sufficient to count ballots accurately and efficiently
In some cases as many as twenty-four (24) fewer ballots were counted by hand than recorded by optical scanners. For individual candidate races, vote counts between hand counts and scanner tapes varied by as much as three-hundred-sixty-six (366) votes in one race or as much as 46% in another.
We find no reason to attribute all errors to either humans or machines.
Posted in Chain of Custody, CT, Post-Election Audits
By Luther Weeks on January 8, 2009
We call for action to enhance integrity and confidence in Connecticut elections, during the 2009 legislative session.
We believe the incremental costs of post-election audits that meet the requirements of the petition are appropriate considering the key role voting plays in democracy. Yet, we recognize that less costly alternatives may need to be considered.
Posted in Chain of Custody, CT, CT Law, Post-Election Audits
By Luther Weeks on October 9, 2008
A full hour on voting integrity: I especially recommend the 2nd segment with Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner. She demonstrates that while she has her hands full in Ohio, she understands the issues and has moved aggressively to improve voting integrity and voter access. She commissioned the Everest reports and has used them to […]
Posted in Chain of Custody, Electronic Vulnerability, National
By Luther Weeks on September 17, 2008
Things have not been looking good in Puma Arizona. But, some good news is that the Election Integrity Commission is acting to audit ballot security. This is what is supposed to happen with an independent board — when problems are found they are investigated and not ignored or explained away: <read> A Pima County Elections […]
Posted in Chain of Custody, National, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on September 15, 2008
(Full disclosure: I contributed to, participated in reviewing, and editing this document) Released today at a press conference in Alexandria, VA, after many months of work: http://www.electionaudits.org/files/best%20practices%20final_0.pdf These principles were written to guide the design of high-quality post- election audits. They were developed by an ad hoc group comprising many stakeholders, including election officials, public […]
Posted in Chain of Custody, CT Law, National, Post-Election Audits, Reports
By Luther Weeks on September 4, 2008
Update: As more details come out the story keeps changing. But the problem also gets larger. The latest is that 2500 ballots may actually be missing, the results of additional races in the same election may be questionable, and good old chain-of-custody issues may be more or as much as a problem as anything electronic […]
Posted in Chain of Custody, National, Skulduggery and Errors
By Luther Weeks on August 21, 2008
She was the leader in moving that the 2004 vote be examined by congress. Here she is in “Help America Vote…On Paper” (about 4min 40sec in and 8min20 sec) <video> This whole video is also a good 18 minute primer on electronic voting issues: The risks of electronic voting, the perils of outsourcing, the advantages […]
Posted in Chain of Custody, Electronic Vulnerability, National, Post-Election Audits
By Luther Weeks on August 4, 2008
Last week I attended EVT ’08, 2008 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workship, in San Jose. <program and papers> It was pleasing to see a UConn paper on memory card testing accepted and presented. Their work has been previously covered here. Over the next few days I will cover a couple of the other papers presented. […]
Posted in Chain of Custody, Electronic Vulnerability, National, Post-Election Audits
By Luther Weeks on August 2, 2008
Hats off again to Representative Rush Holt. Once again he offers emergency legislation to protect our vote. Even this streamlined bill is unlikely to pass. We admire Representative Holt for not giving up. We encourage him to persevere until we have election integrity. Meanwhile Senator Feinstein supports a phony, star-wars expensive, delaying plan. Here in […]
Posted in Chain of Custody, CT, CT Law, National, Post-Election Audits
By Luther Weeks on July 8, 2008
Last night I was on a panel in Fairfield with Deputy Secretary of the State Lesley Mara, Dr. Alex Shvartsman from the UConn VoTeR Center, and Michael Kozik of the Secretary of the State’s Office. The event was video taped by the sponsors. If possible I will make the video availabe here. For now, here […]
Posted in Chain of Custody, CT, CT Law, National, Post-Election Audits
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