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Registrar of Voters suit: Alleged to have fudged petitions for herself and relatives

By Luther Weeks on February 18, 2010

Hartford has three Registrars of Voters: Democratic, Republican, and Working Families Party. Apparently that is hardly enough when each registrar is responsible for their own party’s primary. There is a name for this in Hartford: Business as Usual.

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New Registrar and Two Databases add to campaign dustup

By Luther Weeks on January 19, 2010

Fred DeCaro III, the Republican registrar of voters, said two separate databases have been used by the town over the years to record votes and one wasn’t checked when his office received its first inquiry on McMahon in September.

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Courant: Ballot Access Should Require Two People Of Opposing Parties

By Luther Weeks on November 23, 2009

“The process was corrupted. When you go by yourselves, just you two, it gives the appearance of impropriety.”

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Chain-Of-Custody Education In Haddam

By Luther Weeks on November 18, 2009

A tight Board of Education race in Haddam provides an example four understanding chain-of-custody and recounts vs. recanvasses.
* The chain-of-custody is important and its enforcement is important
* Every vote is important, counting every vote accurately, transparently, and credibly is critical to democracy
* Recounts and recount laws are important

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Retail Fraud – A Stitch In Time Could Save Democracy

By Luther Weeks on November 15, 2009

So, in Hartford, it seems that nothing is wrong with a little tax evasion a “lot of people” do it. It seems that voting fraud is regarded as almost in that same category except we don’t really know if a “lot of people” and officials do it or not. Maybe it is treated casually elsewhere in Connecticut and around the country. This is one of the two reasonse we are against expanded mail-in voting which includes no-excuse absentee voting – at a minimum it will mean more retail fraud and more voters unknowingly disenfranchised.

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How To NOT Instill Confidence In Election Integrity

By Luther Weeks on November 12, 2009

one of the voting machines had broken down Tuesday evening, forcing poll workers to switch to a separate machine to count the remaining ballots. Some of the ballots had been photocopied because election officials believed they had run out of the official ballots. It was later revealed that officials had more than 1,000 unused ballots locked in the registrar of voters’ office.

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Hartford Advocate: A New Day? [For Elections Enforcement]

By Luther Weeks on October 30, 2009

Views of elections enforcement from Representative Chris Caruso and SEEC Director Al Lenge.

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Low Tech, Computer Hack

By Luther Weeks on October 28, 2009

Just a little reminder that we can have all the physical security, encryption, open source, and source disclosure in the world. Yet, there are still low tech ways to hack systems available to high school “D students”.

Update: Nationwide: Computers Increase Students’ Temptation To Cheat

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The Day: New London has problem with math

By Luther Weeks on October 19, 2009

Actually it is more a problem of complexity and communications

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Connecticut: Land of Steady [and Slow] Habits

By Luther Weeks on June 23, 2009

Connecticut takes criticism from Brad Friedman for the slow and unpredictable speed of election enforcement. As those of us who have submitted complaints know, they can take a long time to be completed. But as Brad points out, some are resolved much quicker than others.

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