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NJ: Questionable practices – Questioning courts and watchdogs

By Luther Weeks on September 16, 2011

Rigged election or three human errors – we may never know for sure.

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EVT/WOTE: When is the CT Recanvass law totally inadequate?

By Luther Weeks on August 9, 2011

To be reasonably sure that the correct candidate is officially designated as the winner in a race with a write-in candidate, it would be prudent to assume the possibility of a 25% undercount of write-in votes. Then require a recount of all write-in votes in a race where the write-in candidate received at least 42% of the votes in a two candidate race (or 42% of the votes necessary to win in a more than two candidate race.)

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Ohio 2004: Case Not Proven – Smoke yet no fire

By Luther Weeks on July 30, 2011

Distortion obscures the real story and learning available from the 2004 Ohio case. This is a seriously risky and vulnerable system, both from its complex, weak design and outsourcing to partisans. Elections results should be accumulated by computer and human systems that we can trust.

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Round-Up: O Me O My O – Errors in Jersey and Fraud in Ohio

By Luther Weeks on July 9, 2011

We frequently highlight stories of election error and fraud nationwide. We do this as a service to provide references to counter the frequent statements from election officials and legislators claiming no record of such errors and fraud.

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Flip-Flopping has its place, but not in voting

By Luther Weeks on June 8, 2011

Reading and listening to the media we are led to believe that flip-flopping is the worst possible political sin. Wrong. Much of the time we spend writing, voice-mailing, or speaking with legislators is working to convince them to understand a more complete picture; to change their positions on issues.

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Security Theater: Scary! Expert Outlines Physical Security Limitations

By Luther Weeks on April 1, 2011

Connecticut’s ballots and voting machines are vulnerable. We are subject to many of the characteristics of “Security Theater” outlined by Dr. Roger Johnston of Argonne Lab’s Vulnerability Assessments Team. “Security” seals can be compromised, undetected in seconds. That is only the tip of the iceberg. Forget those Dracula movies. Contemplate the value of ballots to our democracy while watching the video.

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NJ Chain-of-Custody: Six unsuccessful attempts to seal voting machines

By Luther Weeks on January 25, 2011

Nothing approaching these six regimes and court challenges could happen in Connecticut! Unlike New Jersey, we have no standard seal “regime”, no standard for seals or ballot containers and any election regulations and procedures going beyond the law are unenforceable. Similar court challenges in the “Nutmeg State” would be about as useful as carved wooden nutmeg seals.

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Why We Need Audits and Recounts: AccuVote Missed 0.4% of Ballots in Aspen Elections

By Luther Weeks on December 28, 2010

How do we know that our Dieblod/Premier/Dominion AccuVote-OS voting machines count ballots and votes accurately in each election, in each polling place? Maybe sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t.

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Video: Dan Wallach channels Stephen Colbert

By Luther Weeks on August 15, 2010

Must Watch: From the EVT/WOTE conference, Dan Wallach presents today’s word: “Out of Site, Out of Mind”

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Faith in Technology: Drilling, Driving, and Voting

By Luther Weeks on August 3, 2010

“Deep anxiety aroused by the deaths in the water and on the interstates is calmed by the ameliorating belief that technology will save us, and if not now, soon. After all, the promise of technology is in the better life to come.”

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