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Ten Myths In The Nutmeg State

By Luther Weeks on March 1, 2008

Ten Myths About Electronic Voting In Connecticut: Myth #1 – Connecticut has the toughest and strongest audit law in the country because we audit 10%.

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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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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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Greenwich Complains: Democracy Too Much Work. Too Expensive.

By Luther Weeks on January 7, 2008

We often hear election officials and politicians lamenting the lack of participation in Democracy, especially in Connecticut. We also hear that our late primary leaves us out of the process of selecting the Presidential candidates. Secretary Bysiewicz, to the appreciation of many, has led the charge to move our primary to February from March. Not […]

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LHS Drops Support For 41 Mass Communities

By Luther Weeks on December 12, 2007

Worcester Telegram: Election technology needs update, Vendor won’t service city’s current system <read> City Clerk David J. Rushford said LHS Associates of Methuen, the company that provides technical support for the cityâ€™s election system, has indicated it will cease providing such support for the generation of Accu-Vote System machines used by the city as of […]

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Harftord Courant: Vote Recounts Prove Tedious, Time-Consuming

By Luther Weeks on November 17, 2007

We are likely to see more articles like the one in the Courant today: Vote Recounts Prove Tedious, Time-Consuming, <read>. General comments on the article: We arrived at this point by knee-jerk reactions in Washington, resulting in the Help America Vote Act and little heed to advocates in Hartford when the audit law was written […]

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New Britain – Shortage of Election Officials. Questionable Procedures? Short Fuses?

By Luther Weeks on November 1, 2007

Update 11/3, more arguments <read>, no wonder they are having problems recruiting. Between pay increases for poll workers and a candidate’s company moving voting machines, New Britain voting officials have had their share of the news lately. Now Rick Guinness reports on a shortage of poll workers, a shortage of cooperation between registrars, and frustration […]

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Ballots More Costly Than A Sufficient Audit

By Luther Weeks on October 26, 2007

We have been saying that a sufficient audit would cost $0.20 to $0.50 per ballot cast. Now we have an example in Connecticut demonstrating that at least for one town, ballots cost $0.40 each to print. Given that extra ballots must be printed, it is clear that counting the paper is less costly than printing […]

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Council approves raises for poll workers using new technology

By Luther Weeks on October 1, 2007

Post-election audits have been called unfunded mandates by registrars and municipalities (Note: audits are actually being paid for at this time by Federal HAVA funds). But raises justified by the new optical scan machines seem to be no problem in one Connecticut town. <read> The Common Council has approved raises for poll workers, who will […]