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Election Costs $ – Democracy? Priceless!

By Luther Weeks on August 14, 2008

We have said that conducting elections cost from $5.00 to $20.00 per ballot cast and that our estimate of $0.20 to $0.50 for an audit is a small price to pay to assure that the votes are counted as the voters intended. But the news from Norwalk indicates we may need to revise the high-end […]

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New York – Test/Think Before You Buy

By Luther Weeks on August 13, 2008

New York has an extensive testing and review program to test voting machines before they purchase them. Of course that means, given the information we have from various reports in California, Ohio, and Connecticut, its quite predictable that none will pass reasonable tests and review <read> New York Stateâ€™s new voting systems are failing certification […]

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Too High A Barrier?

By Luther Weeks on August 12, 2008

(Without editorial comment, see Editor’s Note) Hartford Advocate article on the petitioning effort required to get on the presidential ballot: <read> In a rare show of third party unity, the campaigns of Nader, Libertarian Bob Barr and the Green Party’s Cynthia McKinney, the last two former Congress members, are joining forces across state lines to […]

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CT Irony #3: Passed in 2005: Tougher Audits and Custody for Equipment/Paper We Don’t Use

By Luther Weeks on August 10, 2008

In 2005 the Legislature passed the Voter Verified Paper Trail Bill. They also passed post-election audits along with a minimum one hundred and eighty day seal on the paper. Unfortunately, they had not anticipated optical scan, limiting the audit to DRE (Touch Screen) equipment. We actually have tougher post-election audits and custody laws on the […]

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Editor’s Note

By Luther Weeks on August 5, 2008

CTVotersCount.org concentrates on issues related to computerized voting and issues related to the voters’ intent being realized. There are many other issues related to voting such as voter fraud, voter suppression, voter registration, campaign finance, candidate qualification etc. for which we have not taken positions. However, occasionally we present news items associated with those issues.

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WaPo: Fear Mongers (Scare Voters From Registering)

By Luther Weeks on August 5, 2008

(Without editorial comment, see Editor’s Note) WaPo Editorial, Fear Mongers, Virginia’s GOP tries to scare new voters away from the polls: <read> Republicans are increasingly anxious about retaining their hold on a state that GOP presidential candidates have carried since 1968. What is surprising is their utterly baseless charge of “coordinated and widespread voter fraud […]

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EVT ’08 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop

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. […]

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Times: Feinstein Bill is Bad – First, do no harm!

By Luther Weeks on August 3, 2008

Update: Senator Feinstein replies to The Times with letter to the editor – that is, with excuses to counter the substance of objections to the bill <read> Another right on editorial from the New York Times, A Bad Electronic Voting Bill <read> Some have faith in the “‘hearings” held last week, that were packed with […]

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Connecticut Fails Lastest Holt Standard

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 […]

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Lou Dobbs Gets It – Deseret News Does Not

By Luther Weeks on August 1, 2008

We don’t always agree with Lou Dobbs, but he has nailed it on electronic voting and the Feinstein/Bennett bill. Amazingly the Senator goes against her state and also claims she really cannot do anything but this “compromise” bill. She could do nothing, it would be much much better than this bill. Video: <watch> Meanwhile in […]