Luther Weeks

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 […]

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The Times, they are a Learning

By Luther Weeks on July 31, 2008

A new editorial on the New York Times lays out the case for election integrity and credibility in: A Tale of Three (Electronic Voting) Elections <read> Electronic voting has made great strides in reliability, but it has a long way to go. When reformers push for greater safeguards, they often argue that future elections could […]

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Partisan Consultant Behind The Congressional Firewall

By Luther Weeks on July 30, 2008

Should partisan consultants be totaling our elections? Be provided access behind our firewalls? Managing data for congressional committees? Especially committees involved in voting technology? Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press: Behind the firewall: Bush loyalist Mike Connell controls Congressional secrets as his email sites serve Karl Rove <read> One has to wonder about the implications of […]

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Feinstein to Voters: Waste $, jeopardize Democracy.

By Luther Weeks on July 27, 2008

Update: Take Action: E-Mail our Senators to oppose S. 3212 <read and send> This is especially important because Senator Dodd is on the committee and the hearing is this week! The well intentioned but flawed 2002 Help America Vote Act launched the large scale move to electronic voting. Many states have paperless DREs (Touch Screens), […]

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Audio: Voice Of The Voters – Connecticut Update

By Luther Weeks on July 24, 2008

Update: Audio is now available of the Nutmeg State update on Voice of the Voters. The Connecticut segment is about 2/3 of the way through just after the weekly update by John Gideon <Audio> We look forward to more state updates over the coming weeks. So far, Connecticut is the best of the litter. but […]

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Witness To A Crime

By Luther Weeks on July 24, 2008

I have just completed reading Witness To A Crime, by Richard Hayes Phillips. The result of three years of persistent, detailed investigation of the 2004 election in Ohio. This book proves several times over that the election was stolen. From the book: “it is unlikely that 14 voters in one precinct in inner-city Cleveland were […]

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Debunking Pre-Election Testing Myths

By Luther Weeks on July 21, 2008

We have said it here as one of our Ten Myths: Myth #6 – Memory card errors cannot affect the outcome of our elections because election officials conduct pre-election testing of our electronic voting systems. Reality Pre-election testing of electronic voting systems will detect only basic errors such as junk memory cards, wrong candidates, and […]

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Tampering Questions: Georgia 2002, Ohio 2004

By Luther Weeks on July 18, 2008

The Raw Story: GOP cyber-security expert suggests Diebold tampered with 2002 election Georgia 2002 (When surprising results gave the Governorship to Sonny Purdue and Max Cleland lost his re-election to the Senate): Spoonamore received the Diebold patch from a whistleblower close to the office of Cathy Cox, Georgiaâ€™s then-Secretary of State. In discussions with RAW […]