http://ctvoterscount.org because Connecticut voters count Thu, 23 May 2013 13:32:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://ctvoterscount.org/op-ed-internet-voting-security-wishful-thinking-doesnt-make-it-true/ http://ctvoterscount.org/op-ed-internet-voting-security-wishful-thinking-doesnt-make-it-true/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:38:07 +0000 Luther Weeks http://ctvoterscount.org/?p=6716 This was a simple online poll that was easily compromised. Internet voting vendor software will be harder to compromise, but this shows that computer security is hard and claims must be proved. Before we entrust critical public functions such as voting to such software, the public deserves a solid demonstration that such claims are truly substantiated, and policy makers need to be schooled in a proper skepticism about computer security. That has not yet happened.]]> http://ctvoterscount.org/op-ed-internet-voting-security-wishful-thinking-doesnt-make-it-true/feed/ 0 http://ctvoterscount.org/why-not-let-overseas-military-fax-votes-home/ http://ctvoterscount.org/why-not-let-overseas-military-fax-votes-home/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:18:13 +0000 Luther Weeks http://ctvoterscount.org/?p=6692 Connecticut does need to improve the voting process for military voters — but Internet voting is not the answer. Every day, headlines reveal just how vulnerable and insecure any online network really is, and how sophisticated, tenacious and skilled today's attackers are. Just last week, we learned that the U.S. has already experienced our first-ever documented attack on an election system, when a grand jury report revealed that someone hacked into the Miami-Dade primary elections system in August 2012.]]> http://ctvoterscount.org/why-not-let-overseas-military-fax-votes-home/feed/ 0 http://ctvoterscount.org/others-weigh-in-on-election-reforms/ http://ctvoterscount.org/others-weigh-in-on-election-reforms/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:40:18 +0000 Luther Weeks http://ctvoterscount.org/?p=6511 http://ctvoterscount.org/others-weigh-in-on-election-reforms/feed/ 0 http://ctvoterscount.org/usa-today-electronic-voting-the-real-threat/ http://ctvoterscount.org/usa-today-electronic-voting-the-real-threat/#comments Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:00:52 +0000 Luther Weeks http://www.ctvoterscount.org/?p=6351 http://ctvoterscount.org/usa-today-electronic-voting-the-real-threat/feed/ 0 http://ctvoterscount.org/courant-keep-primary-in-aug-we-agree/ http://ctvoterscount.org/courant-keep-primary-in-aug-we-agree/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:17:18 +0000 Luther Weeks http://ctvoterscount.org/?p=6237 http://ctvoterscount.org/courant-keep-primary-in-aug-we-agree/feed/ 0 http://ctvoterscount.org/chicken-littles-win-in-colorado-ironically-a-new-official-privileged-class/ http://ctvoterscount.org/chicken-littles-win-in-colorado-ironically-a-new-official-privileged-class/#comments Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:29:21 +0000 Luther Weeks http://ctvoterscount.org/?p=6124 Those of us in the non-privileged majority will not have access to voted ballots until after elections are certified — too late, citizen activists persuasively argue, for effective public oversight. Many of those activists, it should be noted, have followed election issues closely for years and know a thing or two about them, too.]]> http://ctvoterscount.org/chicken-littles-win-in-colorado-ironically-a-new-official-privileged-class/feed/ 0 http://ctvoterscount.org/too-many-registrars-or-too-little-thought/ http://ctvoterscount.org/too-many-registrars-or-too-little-thought/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:07:27 +0000 Luther Weeks http://ctvoterscount.org/?p=5523 http://ctvoterscount.org/too-many-registrars-or-too-little-thought/feed/ 0 http://ctvoterscount.org/op-ed-denise-merrill-bill-ends-ballot-shortages-protects-voters/ http://ctvoterscount.org/op-ed-denise-merrill-bill-ends-ballot-shortages-protects-voters/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 14:30:57 +0000 Luther Weeks http://ctvoterscount.org/?p=4421 http://ctvoterscount.org/op-ed-denise-merrill-bill-ends-ballot-shortages-protects-voters/feed/ 0 http://ctvoterscount.org/ct-mirror-op-ed/ http://ctvoterscount.org/ct-mirror-op-ed/#comments Sat, 30 Apr 2011 07:05:26 +0000 Luther Weeks http://ctvoterscount.org/?p=4373 http://ctvoterscount.org/ct-mirror-op-ed/feed/ 0 http://ctvoterscount.org/courant-op-ed-daniel-patrick-moynihan-warns-of-national-popular-vote-risks/ http://ctvoterscount.org/courant-op-ed-daniel-patrick-moynihan-warns-of-national-popular-vote-risks/#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2011 06:39:17 +0000 Luther Weeks http://ctvoterscount.org/?p=4320 http://ctvoterscount.org/courant-op-ed-daniel-patrick-moynihan-warns-of-national-popular-vote-risks/feed/ 0