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96.6% Of Memory Cards OK, Half Of Registrars Follow Last Minute Procedures

By Luther Weeks on January 26, 2008

At the request of the Secretary of the State, Dr. Alex Shvartsman and his team at the UConn VoTeR Center tested memory cards which were shipped to UConn by registrars across the state. <full report> From the summary: The total of 522 cards were received and tested by the VoTeR Center, out of which 378 […]

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Legislature To Hold Public Hearings On Optical Scan Elections

By Luther Weeks on January 25, 2008

The leadership of the Government Administration and Elections Committee(GAE) announced a series of five public hearings at a press conference yesterday. One hearing will be held in each of the five congressional districts in the state. Towns where the hearings will be held were announced with no specific dates or locations. Their goal is to […]

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TalkNationRadio On NH, CT, Outsourcing, and Audits

By Luther Weeks on January 25, 2008

Dori Smith interviews Brad Friedman, Dr. Alexander Shvartsman, and yours truly. She talks to Brad about the recount in NH, outsourcing to LHS, the chain of custody in NH, and implications for Connecticut. She talks to Dr Shvartsman about NH procedures, vendors on election day, and his soon to be released report on memory cards […]

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Correction: What Do Elections Cost?

By Luther Weeks on January 21, 2008

I recently wrote elsewhere that: A good audit costs $.25 to at most $.50 per ballot cast – (less than the cost of one mailing by a candidate or one of those newsletters from our state representatives and senators) The costs of running an election is over $3.00 to $20.00 per ballot cast Candidates spend […]

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Connecticut Reporter Uncovers Voting Machine Problems In New Hampshire

By Luther Weeks on January 13, 2008

Dori Smith of TalkNationRadio.org articulates problems with voting machines in New Hampshire for Brad Blog in Diebold Voting Machine Failures Found Across State During New Hampshire Primary <read> Election Officials Confrim that Employees from LHS Associates, Diebold’s Sole Programmer, Vendor, and Service Provider in NH, Were Allowed to Access Vulnerable Optical-Scan Systems Throughout Election Day […]

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Recounts: Some Good News. Some Not So Good News.

By Luther Weeks on January 11, 2008

Update: 1/11/2008 I have scanned in the actual report of the New Canaan recount sent to the Secretary of the State’s Office. Read the full report <here> the critical information provided by the Head Moderator is: Totals were the same as the original count or close with the exception of Paul Foley (-31 votes) [MINUS […]

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Doth The Courant Protest Too Much?

By Luther Weeks on January 11, 2008

Perhaps there is one thing worse than a voting system we cannot trust, outsourced, and unaudited. It is a media we cannot trust, downsized, outsourced, bent only on profits, oligarchical, and failing to actually do the work necessary to do the research and reporting necessary for democracy.

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DemocracyNow! Interviews New York Times Author

By Luther Weeks on January 10, 2008

<read, listen, view> More scary and devastating than reading the article in the New York Times Magazine. Still does not fully address the similar issues of optical scan which are only solved with sufficient post-election audits. Yes, recounts of the paper from optical scan is vary reassuring, yet recounts are seldom done, even in cases […]

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NH Exit Polls Agree With Pre-Election Polls

By Luther Weeks on January 10, 2008

Chris Mathews confirms that exit polls also had Obama beating Clinton by 8%.  Brad Friedman covers the story: <read> Even the Exit Polls showed that Obama should have won, according to Chris Matthews on Hardball today. It’s the first specific indication that we’ve seen that the raw, unadjusted Exit Poll data, which only corporate mainstream […]

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Hacking Our Voting Machines and The Perils Of Outsourcing

By Luther Weeks on January 8, 2008

Bev Harris has a new video on UTube showing the Hursti Hack in Florida with Ion Sancho and some testimony in New Hampshire by Hari Hursti and John Silvestro. John Silvestro is President of LHS Associates the Diebold distributor in that programs all our elections in Connecticut in secret in Massachusetts. Apparently in New Hampshire […]

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