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CT: Voter Reg System Said To Be Working Well

By Luther Weeks on November 3, 2008

Update: Roundup P.M Carpenter: The American Gauntlet of Election Day <read>. Video example of hurdles in Philadelphia: <view> ************Original Story************** Stamford Advocate story <read> Karen Lyons has not been the biggest booster of Connecticut’s new centralized voter system, a database accessible to registrars statewide to help them prevent voter fraud. Lyons, Norwalk’s Republican registrar of […]

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Video: Hacking Voting Machine in 6min 51sec

By Luther Weeks on November 2, 2008

Princeton Professor Andrew Appel hacks voting machine in 6 min and 51 sec for CNN host: <video> Anyone familiar with Connecticut’s Diebold AccuVote-OS would be able to beat that 6 min and 51 sec, especially if they had a copy of one of the keys for the machine (hint they are all the same key, […]

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U.S. Map of Presidential Post-Election Audits

By Luther Weeks on October 27, 2008

Verified Voting has created color coded map of the state of post-election audits of the Presidential race in each state: <view> States are classified in 6 categories based on the existence and details of their post-election audit laws relative to the Presidential race and the 2008 election. How does Connecticut rate? We are in the […]

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Nationwide: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

By Luther Weeks on October 23, 2008

We won’t go into all the details here, but in case you have not been keeping up, there have been many small and large problems occuring across the country lately.  It started with recent elections in Washington D.C., Palm Beach, and Rhode Island highlighted at CTVotersCount.org <read> <read> Now with early voting and problems with […]

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CT: Misstatements In Stamford Advocate

By Luther Weeks on October 18, 2008

Three days ago we pointed out misleading statements made by the Secretary of the State on WNPR. Now we see some similar misinformation in the Stamford Advocate. <read> Was the Secretary of the State misquoted or misleading? Legislation introduced this year that would have required poll workers to give all voters privacy folders and to […]

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CT: Are Connecticut Voters Left Behind By Web Site?

By Luther Weeks on October 16, 2008

Update 3/21/2009: Another analysis rates CT’s election web site in the lower tier.
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PEW project report, Being Online Is Not Enough, State Elections Web Sites
Connecticut rates 48th out of 51 (50 states and D.C.)

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Report: Is America Ready To Vote?

By Luther Weeks on October 16, 2008

Verified Voting, Common Cause, and the Brennan Center for Justice released a major report today: <press release> <report> Is America Ready to Vote? State Preparations for Voting Machine Problems in 2008 States Get Mixed Reviews on Readiness for Voting Machine Problems — Citing Improvements, Election Experts Call for Backup Measures to Secure the Vote on […]

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CT: Secretary Of The State: Misstatements on WNPR

By Luther Weeks on October 15, 2008

(Note: We have offered the Secretary of the State’s Office an opportunity to comment on this post) Secretary of the State, Susan Bysiewicz, was on “Where We Live” on WNPR this AM. She made several misstatements and misleading omissions (these are not exact quotes as we have no transcript) Misstatement: Bysiewicz: UConn tests the cards […]

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After You Vote: Help Make Sure Your Vote Counts

By Luther Weeks on October 14, 2008

Become a Volunteer Post-Election Audit Observer Join the team: Sign-Up For Nov  <click>

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UTC Ends Bid To Buy Diebold

By Luther Weeks on October 14, 2008

Hartford Courant article <read> In a letter to Diebold released Monday, UTC Chairman George David said UTC was withdrawing its offer of $40 a share, which valued Diebold at about $2.6 billion… On Sept. 30, Diebold filed a late 2007 annual report with securities regulators. It also filed revised quarterly reports for the second and […]

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