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01/28 State employee arrested for voter reg fraud

01/28 State employee arrested for voter fraud

OtherNews 2024

12/27 CT continues trend of certifying obviously wrong election results

09/24 Phony Voter Registration Notices Sent To Avon Residents

09/05 Fairfield democrats respond to allegations

09/05 Fairfield registrar accused of deleting voter registrations

08/22 Another Bridgeport referral

08/12 Early Voting unpopular with registrars

06/27 Is hand counting the answer for SD?

06/24 What happened to the the Internet Observatory?

06/06 Gov appoints Ranked Choice Voting Working Group

04/17 SEEC refers 2 Bridgeport election cases to state’s attorney

02/10 Letter: No one prepared for Early Voting

01/09 Early Voting and other challenges for 2024

01/02 Bridgeport Election Monitor suggests changes to law

OtherNews 2023 July-December

12/27 SOTS outlines new monitoring steps for Bridgeport primary

12/17 How the battle for absentee ballots defined the Bridgeport election

12/15 To get the latest voting machines, NH may have to wait beyond 2024

12/06 Gomes campaign charged with ballot stuffing, similar to Ganim campaign

11/21 LitterDrifter on the loose, could infect voting machines

11/22 Voter fraud, not just for big cites in CT

11/01 Judge orders new primary in Bridgeport. Then what?

10/15 Town and Registrar disputes continue in Fairfield

10/04 DNA, saliva, and fingerprints preserved in Bridgeport AB probe

09/17 Bridgeport AB fraud video. Or was it?

09/15 Advocates Push for Funding for Voting Tech Upgrade

09/06 SOTS considering if Trump should be on CT ballot

08/31 CT Early voting change collides with holidays

08/31 Three recommended for criminal probe in Bridgeport AB scheme

08/28 Thomas warns time running out to get new voting machines

07/30 SOTS Thomas on Early Voting and New Voting Machines

OtherNews 2023 Jan-June

06/16 Supreme Court details West Haven election ruling

06/05 CT underfunds early voting

06/05 Far right targets ERIC which reduces voter fraud

05/11 Appeal in Stamford ballot fraud case

04/26 SOTS Thomas says no early voting in 2023

04/12 Costs of Early Voting and new machines (Double the number of machines we currently have)

04/06 Registrars have concerns with Early Voting

04/02 Secretary Thomas on Early Voting

03/13 Early voting not simple

03/04 Poll worker “volunteer” form. Please consider a contribution to democracy!

02/25 Another reason to be cautious about NPV Compact

02/16 ePollbook problem causes unrecoverable vote

01/30 Don’t rush early voting rules. Aim for 2024.

01/27 Bill for ranked choice voting for Congress and Presidential Primaries in CT

01/19 Secretary calls for 10 days of early voting starting in 2023

01/19 Privacy debate between SOTS Office and Fairfield registrar

OtherNews 2022 July-December

12/25 SOTS elect now considering more days of early voting

12/25 (Some) Registrars say our voting machines are old and tired

12/11 How Long Should Connecticut Voters Get For Early Voting?

12/14 CSP Working Group Releases Statement on Developing Standards for Internet Ballot Return

11/17 SOTS Elect Thomas on Where We Live

11/11 Sen Flexer on Early Voting

11/14 CT likely to have short Early Voting period

10/31 East Hampton Registrar Arrested for Felony

10/14 The threat of wireless modems in voting machines

10/04 Judge Orders New Democratic Primary In Bridgeport

09/14 NY County Elections Commissioner Indicted for Voting Fraud

09/12 Fairfield R Registrar Resigns (Details in embedded links)

09/12 Stamford Democratic Chief Found Guilty of 28 Felonies in Ballot Fraud Case

09/12 FOI requests as a means to destabilize elections

09/09 SOTS intervenes in Fairfield tabulator storage issues

08/17 Recanvass fiasco in Bridgeport

08/10 Voting machine failures blamed on heat wave

08/01 Candidate for SOTS under investigation for election fraud

07/29 Stamford AB trial begins, continues in a month

07/07 Insider threats finally being recognized

07/02 Candidate wins 2 to1, not good enough

05/28 A huge challenge to petition on to the ballot in CT

OtherNews 2022 January-June

06/30 Mark Kohler appointed Secretary of the State

05/31 CT to hire$150,000 election misinformation specialist for mid-terms

05/19 A PDF File Is Not Paper, So PDF Ballots Cannot Be Verified

05/24 Yes Michigan, there is votING fraud

04/04 Rapini for Secretary of the State

03/28 P2 Internet voting big fail

03/28 P1 Internet voting big fail

03/25 FL to ban pro bono and other legal aid to election officials

03/20 The Case Against Initially Hand Counting Votes

02/16 Rep Terrie Wood joins crowded field for SOTS

02/15 SOTS Candidate Lesser on NH Independent (Video)

02/14 Bridgeport registrars make critical mistake, will anyone help?

01/01 Cynthia Jennings running for SOTS

01/03 The battle against the touch screen is hard to see

OtherNews 2021 July-December

12/21 County election official harassed – by Attorney General

12/16 Rep Santiago interview <video>

12/01 Rep. Stephanie Thomas running for SOTS

11/29 Ranked Choice Voting fuels Josh Elliot’s run for SOTS

11/21 U.S. Called Backsliding Democracy

11/19 Candidate in Bridgeport sues over alleged AB write-ins not counted

11/16 Challenge based on unendorsed ABs in West Have

11/12 Candidate seeks ballots from West Haven recanvass.

11/12 Rob Simmelkjaer announces exploratory committee for SOTS <video>

10/25 Emails outline AB application controversy

10/11 Shelton: AB Signature(s) may break rules

10/12 Matt Lesser’s case for Secretary of the State

10/02 Third parties would take a hit in For the People Act

09/30 Rich guy’s science denying quest for Internet voting.

09/20 Darryl Brackeen Makes His Case for Secretary of the State

09/17 Josh Elliott’s case for SOTS

09/14 Dominic Rapini interview for SOTS

09/13 Rep Santiago explores run for Secretary of the State

08/27 Lesser and other looking at run for SOTS

08/20 Now there are two candidates for Secretary of the State

08/13 Anyone can hack a voting machine in 30 min

07/29 DOJ AZ ballots and officials in jeopardy

07/28 Bridgeport councilor charged in AB and voter registration fraud

07/20 Bad-faith election audits are sabotaging democracy

07/07 ES&S test for software integrity lacks integrity

OtherNews 2021 January-June

06/28 Andrew Appel testimony to Georgia on BMDs

06/23 Denise Merrill will not seek 4th term

06/09 CalVoter Report: Harassment of Election Officials

05/27 Survey: Voters w/Disabilities better served in 2020. Few want Internet voting.

04/28 Manchin opposes For the People Act

04/26 Audit circus in Arizona

04/21 SOTS plan to plan to upgrade voting systems

04/16 NJ – The costs of early voting

04/11 Philip Stark – Evidence Based Elections, Ralph Nader Hour (27.5min in)

03/26 Analysis of the Antrim County, MI Nov 2020 Election Incident

03/24 Online Election Hacked

03/05 Hash codes of software will not protect voting macines

02/27 From Bad to Worse: Internet voting to Blockchain voting

02/24 Senator claims election fraud, yet has no complaint

02/03 Votaz, Block Chain, Coverup, and Denial a sad combination

02/04 Would RCV really have prevented 1/6?

02/01 BMDs still leave Georgia elections vulnerable, questionable

01/28 Another example of why “wet” signatures are an important election integrity tool

Other News 2020 July-December

11/16 50 Election integrity experts counter Trump’s claims

11/13 Voting fraud is real, just not at 2020 presidential scale

11/12 Good questions for GA officials. A recount or an audit etc.?

11/09 CT Officials ask for money for early and absentee voting

11/03 Beware Privatized, Copyrighted Ballots

11/01 Shutting out science and wasting money in SC

10/13 Secretary and Vernon official spar over voters being sent incorrect ballots.

10/17 7 States not required to solve non-problem by risky Internet voting

11/08 New Haven sends wrong return envelopes and inner envelopes to voters

10/11 Court to Georgia: BMD’s risky, but too late to fix

10/12 CA one party apparently creating illegal dropboxes

10/02 Elections should not be funded by private donors

09/15 Is the Electoral College Racist?

09/14 CalVoter Rejected Mail Ballots Study

09/08 Votaz’s Supreme Court Brief – to kill security research

09/04 Don’t vote twice. You could end up in jail.

09/03 Online-voting company pushes to make it harder for researchers to find security flaws

09/03 Why experts are overwhelmingly skeptical of online voting

09/01 Claims of Darknet hacking of CT voter registration: False

08/31 The Problem CT Has Avoided: Electronic Pollbooks

08/21 More on work dumped on town clerks

08/19 State to Towns: Mailing Absentee Ballots is Your Problem

08/11 Identify proofing not very reliable (video). Another hole in online voting.

08/03 Town Clerk provides information that should come from Secretary of the State

08/04 Contentious race for registrar in Montville

07/29 MIT: Votes Lost by Mail-In

07/26 NY mail-in voting deluge fuels uncounted ballots, confusion

07/22 Vernon ‘Refuses’ State Election Drop Box, Builds ‘Safer’ Version

07/21 An interview with cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter

07/20 CT Towns, cities prepare for Aug. 11 vote amid COVID-19 concerns

07/16 Twitter Hack Revealed: An Election System Teeming With Risks

07/15 Internet voting OK for Dem Convention, since votes are not secret

07/13 CT officials concerned with flood of absentee ballots

07/08 Stratford story goes on. Strapped watchdog will be miss critical deadline.

07/02 Norwalk Registrar Resigns: Due to Facebook posts.

Other News 2020 January-June

06/26 Insider VotING fraud, via AB in Patterson, NJ.

06/18 Delaware listens to scientists, backs out of mobile voting!

06/11 ES&S denies officials access to election results, by contract

06/11 Georgia Debacle: More ineptitude than pandemic.

06/08 Online voting system used in two states – unsafe

05/27 Sec Merrill addresses Absentee Ballot fraud issues (listen)

05/21 Companies touting internet voting as secure and reliable can’t back up their claims.

05/11 New AB systems and Vote Centers dramatically raise costs of recounts

05/21 Insider paid to add votes in Philadelphia

05/11 Feds Warn States That Online Voting Experiments Are ‘High-Risk’

05/06 CT SOTS broad interpretation of sickness for absentee balloting

05/04 State and Fed legal entanglements possible in Nov

05/04 CT Secretary’s COVID-19 Voting Plan

05/01 Legal case for and against no-excuse scheme

04/28 States expand Internet voting, raising security fears

04/27 Merrill mulls sending every registered voter an AB application

04/25 Report confirms early voting, little effect on turnout

04/21 Lawyers Committee: Recommendations for COVID-19

04/17 Vendors likely not able to handle expanded mail-in elections

04/16 Palast: Mail-in could cost Dems the election

04/09 Am Assn Advancement of Science: Internet Voting Not Secure – Blockchain no help

03/31 Rick Hansen on the Majority Report <video>

03/30 Post Office may close just in time for main-in primaries

03/27 Experienced Mail-In experts: Massive undertaking to convert for NOVEMBER

03/24 NASS Leader: Mail-in mandates from Congress ‘recipe for disaster’

03/22 Voting by mail is the hot new idea. Is there time to make it work?

03/23 Time: Coronavirus Spurs Vote-By-Mail Push, But Barriers Remain

03/19 State of WA advice on large increase in mail-in ballots

03/19 CT Presidential Primary moved to June 2

03/19 Ten Recommendations to Ensure a Healthy and Trustworthy 2020 Election

03/18 Zetter: Challenges and risks of expanding vote by mail in emergency

03/11 NY: Groups warn against ExpressVote/XL

03/10 Hand sanitizer on ballots, clogs scanners

03/06 Freedom to Tinker: Ballot-level comparison audits: precinct-count

03/06 Takeaways from “super” Tuesday

03/03 Shocking lack of voting vendor oversight

03/02 Disturbing start to 2020 with new SC voting machines

02/29 30% of CT Registrars uncertified

02/21 Not just Russian threat: Hacks actually come from rival campaigns.

02/21 Do you want results in a hurry? Or accurate results?

02/17 Hope this does not happen to CT Voter Reg Database near or on Election Day.

02/13 Now they tell us: Ransomware attack before 2016 election

02/13 Votaz system sloppy, does not even use block-chain for votes

02/13 MIT: Votaz can expose votes, user info, and alter votes

02/08 Nevada Gamble: An app by any other name could be just as thorny

02/07 NBC News review of Iowa caucus vote finds potential errors, inconsistencies

02/04 Merrill touts “rigorous” post-election audit

01/25 New Hampshire needs election audits

01/24 The costs of vendor non-disclosure agreements – voting credibility

01/22 WA Editorial: Resist push for online ballot box

01/20 CT needs to share election security test results

01/16 Expert: Georgia election server showed signs of tampering

01/15 Internet voting could destroy our elections

01/09 Alex Shvartsman to help protect Georgia elections

01/08 New study confirms voters hardly verify BMD votes

01/02 The latest on NC potential hack

Other News 2019 July - December

09/24 Insider AB fraud in MI

12/26 Merrill still claims that machines disconnected from the Internet cannot be hacked

12/13 Former candidate pursuing election reforms

12/12 Express Vote XL does not follow PA law, does not serve those with disabilities, and is insecure

12/10 Bridgeport’s controversial Democratic registrar of voters to retire

11/30 In PA, costly machines, huge errors

11/24 Recent Brennan Center Report calls for oversight of election vendors

11/20 Merrill would like to get new voting machines

11/19 Sen Wyden requests Denise Merrill release ePollbook research

11/14 Brooklyn CT: Flawed recanvass leads to rerecanvass and a run-off

11/13 Election critics under investigation in GA

11/12 U.S. holds balloons to stricter standards than it does voting machines

11/03 Breathalizers plagued by same problems as voting machines

11/01 Court: Not enough evidence to overturn Bridgeport result

10/23 Hamden Voters Seek To Stop Absentee Ballot Fraud Before Election

10/21 Public, election officials may be kept in the dark on hacks

10/21 CT looks for cyberhelp after departure of Arthur House

10/18 Computer attacks hit CT towns. SOTS believes early voting would make attacks on election day less of an issue.

10/14 Oh No Ohio: Flawed voter purge caught by citizens and transparency

10/11 Sloppy AB work no problem in Bridgeport?

10/09 More Bridgeport AB issues in court

10/09 Testimony shows Moore Campaign has its own AB issues

10/01 Judge delays Bridgeport primary challenge

10/02 Philly voting machines violate 2016 settlement

10/02 Five more SEEC complaints accepted against Bridgeport

09/26 Maine election office hit by cyber attack

09/24 Russia developing massive threat to 2020 election

09/27 Bridgeport’s problems are state’s too

09/24 Lawsuit seeks Bridgeport primary do-over

09/23 FAQ on Bridgeport AB voting

09/23 Records subpoenaed in Bridgeport mayoral primary

09/24 What to know about newspaper’s Bridgeport AB probe

09/20 SOTS calls for investigation of Bridgeport Primary

09/17 As we have been saying, its not just cybersecurity

09/13 Bridgeport: LWV concerned with ABs prior to election

08/30 RI risk limiting audit pilot report and recommendations

09/02 Looming self-inflicted Overseas Vote Disaster

08/30 The fight over Independent Party continues

08/30 DNC does the right things – outlaws Iowa virtual caucus

08/24 Catch 22: DNC virtual caucus or guaranteed hack

08/23 SEEC: Voter registration errors normal

08/20 Blockchain voting system broken in 20 min

08/20 Denise Merrill testimony to Congress

08/19 The mythical value of parallel testing of BMDs

08/17 Deputy Secretary Bates leadership of Port Authority questioned

08/16 Landmark Decision: Georgia ordered to scrap old voting machines

08/15 Blumenthal, Merrill press conference on election security

08/08 Free speech railroaded at New Haven Union Station

08/08 Expose leads to RI investigation into election vulerability

08/09 US Election Systems Exposed Despite Industry Denials

08/02 Merrill shocked by congressional cyber inaction

08/01 Trump admin move may suppress overseas vote and increase cyber risk

08/01 Peggy Reeves retires

07/24 The perils in phone voting for the Iowa and Nevada primaries

07/23 Microsoft reveals 740 election site hacks

07/23 Understand foreign interference, a pizza analogy

07/13 CT Voting machines programed by system due to expire

07/11 Secret audit in WV provides no confidence

07/11 Judge grants Georgia plaintiffs access to vote data

07/11 Propaganda, education, or information?

07/12 Outrageous: In Hartford, no real penalty for violating election law

07/10 DHS says no to more election security money

07/03 The hunt for data and official integrity in Georgia goes on

07/03 In the still of the night they attempted to kill the SEEC

Other News 2019 January - June

06/18 Hoboken ahead of Stamford in AB fraud by a factor of 15 or more

06/20 All that’s wrong with the DNCs electronic primary plan

06/04 Recount in PA uncovers huge machine count error

06/04 All-in-one voting includes hack to modify verified ballots

05/30 The good reason CT does not have ePollbooks

05/21 The country that messes in too many elections

05/21 AB Fraud in Miami

05/09 Chain Letter: Breaches of cryptocurrency exchanges hacks have become commonplace

05/08 Bridgeport: apparent loser calls it AB fraud

05/07 State Senator fears AB fraud in Bridgeport. SOTS can’t help.

05/07 Philly: Rigged election procurement, for a rigged election?

05/07 Microsoft offers security tool for election vendors

04/09 CA Motor Voter Hack, Glitches, and Coverup

04/18 Mueller says Florida county was hacked in 2016

04/05 Blockchain Voting: Unwelcome Disruption or Senseless Distraction?

03/25 FL victims demonstrate the risks of absentee voting

03/19 Blockchains for Voting: An idea whose time will never come

03/19 Philip Stark explains why Georgia needs voter marked paper ballots

03/12 Why CT needs to stick with ERIC

03/12 Researchers find backdoor in Swiss online voting system

03/07 Groton: 77 voters were rejected in poll worker error

03/05 Election stolen by online voting, in Canada

03/01 New Haven hearing on EDR lines

02/22 VotING fraud in NC leads to new election

02/13 International observation report on Nov midterms

02/19 Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked

02/12 Philly from bad to bad

02/16 CT will comply with voter registration and HAVA acts at long last

02/16 Merrill files 18 complaints, receives some as well

02/12 The smoke behind Georgia election concerns. And the official smokescreens

02/12 Yes Virginia! Connecticut can miss-district voters too!

02/08 Judge orders 2nd redo of Georgia electoin

02/07 Secretary Merrill’s Legislative Agenda

02/04 In GA four incorrect voters causes close vote do-over

02/01 Alison Lundergan Grimes and how not to run a SOS office

02/01 Superbowl ad calls for hand-marked paper ballots!

01/25 Public officials hide information through private association

01/23 Group says Merrill supports RCV

01/22 How Voting-Machine Lobbyists Undermine the Democratic Process

01/11 House committee begins review of contested election

01/10 WI court rules in favor of Jill Stein investigation

01/11 Georgia commission recommends expensive, risky marking system with paper trail

01/08 Winner to take office while CT House reviews contested election

01/08 Legislators pitch changes to state election laws

01/07 HB.1 has strong voter marked paper ballot provisions

01/06 RCV advocates advise ignoring the details

01/02 New Haven meeting: Simplify pitch for RCV

Other News 2018 July - December

12/27 CT’s first Data Plan

12/21 Court decides no jurisdiction over legislative elections in CT

12/19 GA Secretary had no evidence for claimed Dem hack

12/18 Manipulating IRV elections, with small changes in early rounds

12/15 NC Ballot security sounds similar to some Connecticut towns

12/13 Main RCV recount crawls along, weeks to go

11/28 Denver Risk Limiting Audit <video>

12/05 The North Carolina Absentee Ballot Scandal — What Happened and When?

11/28 Jill Stein gets paper ballot/audit agreement for Pennsylvania

12/04 Fraud via AB in North Carolina

11/29 AB issue with Post Office in Iowa

11/20 Georgia to illegally overwrite election data

11/20 Why CT Election Results Take Time

11/14 Kim Zetter: Florida’s Recount Isn’t Really a Recount

11/13 Questionable ups and downs in Broward County

11/14 Florida Ballot Design Mistakes – May decide Senate race

11/11 Courant: 5 fixes for election system

11/09 International observers: Nothing fixed in U.S. since 2016

11/05 Free and fair elections requires more open elections in U.S.

10/25 10 ways to cheat with voting machines

10/25 VOX: Midterms may already be hacked

10/25 Used voting machines come with data included

10/18 Blockchains won’t fix internet voting security – and could make it worse

10/18 Voting In Connecticut, Then And Now

10/13 Colin McEnroe with Kim Zetter (listen)

10/12 WNYC with Susan Greenhalgh (listen)

10/11 The Shaky Case That Russia Tipped the 2016 Election

10/11 Federal Courts may secure our elections

10/05 While WV uses unsafe online voting, several states suppress overseas vote

09/25 CT Federal Security Funds Press Conference

09/24 CT Federal Security Funds Budget

09/09 India: Nationwide biometric ID system compromised.

09/11 Do you think Internet voting is safer than airlines?

09/07 Did Kobach win by incorrectly rejected ballots?

09/07 CT’s plans for Federal Cybersecurity money

09/05 Video from DEFcon countering official statements

09/04 Georgia suit moves forward. Official criticize “so-called experts”.

09/03 Too Little Too Late – to upgrade election security for 2018?

08/28 Block chain smartphone voting raises security concerns

08/28 Nevada’s huge machine failures in primary

08/22 Brennan Center Protection Tool Kit for Election Officials

08/21 Election security bill loses paper audits, and support

08/15 NSA breaks into several VPNs

08/19 We Don’t Know What Our Computers Are Doing

08/16 DEFCON views of a recent election official

08/09 The Kobach in the voting coop

08/09 GA has high turnout, 243%. And low integrity.

08/04 DEF CON Launches First Ever Public Hacking of Entire Voting Infrastructure

07/20 Don’t you wish the Power Grid could have a paper backup?

07/17 Good Grief! WV at it again with online voting.

07/16 After SOTS SNAFU: Judge does the right thing

06/20 State officials kept in the dark on potential Russian hacks

11/26 Electronic result totals not always even close to accurate

Other News 2018 January - June

10/10 Win the easy way – purge your opponent’s voters

06/26 MD SNAFU: Are you actually registered to vote? How do you prove it?

06/21 Election Officials wined and dined [at our expense].

06/21 Pollworkers and those responsible for training them not perfect

06/20 Don't trust Block-Chain with your money, let alone votes <video>

06/06 Another State. Another mistake, officially covered up

06/06 118,522 voters accidentally left off rolls – so we/they think

06/02 Is Russia inviting you to rally at the Whitehouse?

06/01 One more reason to suspect hacking in NC voting shutdown

05/24 States need more than paper ballots for security

05/20 CA 'Jungle Primary' not working

05/14 Legislature hacked by Italian hactivists

05/11 Suspicious attack from 100 countries hard to identify, yet headline names one country

05/12 Should you be reading Mad Magazine before the Times and the WaPo?

05/08 Hackers broke partway into Alaska's election system

05/05 CT Senate and House pass NPV Compact

05/03 Hackers attempt to change votes from online vote

05/04 How voters (YOU) lost the freedom to access the voting information of their choice

05/04 Ransomeware attack hit CT agencies in Feb and March

05/02 From Estonia to New South Wales Online Voting PROVEN…to be unsafe

05/02 TN: Simple DNS attack crashes county website on election day

04/30 AK voting costs go up with all mail voting

04/26 Equal justice for votER and votING fraud – Not in Texas

04/23 Experts letter on spending $380,000,000

04/23 East Haven joins cities with votING fraud via Absentee

04/15 Election Security Means Much More Than Just New Voting Machines

04/13 One more NPV Compact claim refuted

04/08 60 Minutes Hacking Elections 2017

04/05 NYTimes Video Op-Ed. I hacked the election with Alex Haldeman <view>

04/04 Meet the guy who will count military votes in WV via blockchain

04/01 EFF issues timely AFD warnings

03/27 Cyberattack Hobbles Atlanta, and Security Experts Shudder

03/26 Georgia needs paper ballots <video>

03/26 $3-$5m to CT for election security

03/22 CT Beefs Up Election Security

03/20 Cambridge Analytica 1st reported in 2015. Not the only problem.

03/18 MI post-election audits no better than CT's

03/17 How your Facebook data was stolen and used for Republican candidates

03/05 CA Top Two Cited as Reason DCCC Attacks Dems

02/24 What's The Best Way To Verify Votes? (Listen to Marian Schneider)

02/22 Are voting-machine modems truly divorced from the Internet?

02/21 Malloy pushes for no-excuse absentee voting

02/20 Courant coverage of Does Your Vote Count event

02/19 ABs at risk: Only in one election? Only in Brideport?

02/20 GOP cyberattacking opponents

02/17 Hack a "friend" and go scott free

02/13 US Warns Congo Against Electronic Voting

02/09 Don't fall in love with the FISA Court

02/10 Time is just about up to secure Nov elections

02/08 NASS we are taking cyberthreat seriously

02/08 Malloy signs executive order to study mail voting

02/05 Nunes Memo: Plenty of hypocracy to go around.

01/29 DEFCON Video: How easy is it to hack a voting machine?

01/25 Dutch watched Russian group hack DNC and election

01/23 Bridgeport primary on hold while judge decides

01/17 Internet voting and digital disenfranchisement

01/21 Editorial: Auditing can ensure integrity of elections

01/11 Verified Voting: Federal legislation a crucial 1st step

01/03 Trump throws in towel, cancels Voting "Integrity" Commission

Other News 2017 July - December

12/18 Georgia's Election System Can't be Tristed [Or Observed]

12/12 GM vs. Ralph Nader in spades: Spies hired to watch activists

12/01 [Even] with all mail voting, WA sets record low turnout

11/28 BradBlog: Undercounted presidential votes in Wisconsin, 2016

11/27 Bridgeport AB saga: Court no shows

11/27 FBI Overwhelmed or finger on the scale of Presidential Election?

11/22 AB questions go to court in Bridgeport

11/17 Amid multiple allegations, E. Haven mayor's race heads to court

11/15 11 years in, Portland officias mystified by operaton of scanners

11/15 PA glitch allowed multiple votes for a candidate

11/13 Greenwich: Limitations of Election Night Reporting System

11/09 Former Yahoo CEO: Hacks Spare No One

11/09 Barbara, The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper

11/08 Dpm't depend on ePolbooks attached to the Internet

11/06 NYC electoral disfunction: Rampant

11/06 Voting systems less regulated than laundry scales

11/02 Uconn plans to assist with state security and use audit station for 2017 election

10/31 NY 40 state legislators call for probe of Absentee Balloting

10/31 GA Congressman questions if election was stolen

10/29 From a Millennial: Five Ways To Get A Millennial’s Vote

10/26 Georgia center wiped servercrucial to voting security lawsuit

10/25 NYC admits illegal purge befroe 2016 Presidential Primary

10/25 NSA may have messed up, not Kaspersky

10/24 Merrill – Turmp Commssion more of a threat than security

10/23 Merrill decides again not to send date to the Trump Commission

10/15 CT Election officials espress (Over)confidence election systems are safe

10/12 AZ also disputes that it was targeted by Russians

10/13 Are Americans beginning to care about Election Integrity?

10/05 The puppies that stole the election for $44,000

10/05 Editorial: Connecticut must remain vigilant in wake of hacks

09/28 Another Russian hacking story falls apart

09/22 Merrill said Feds said Connecticut system scanned by Russians

09/22 "Russian" "Hacking" of 21 states may not be by Russia, Russians, and not actually Hacking

09/22 Alaska voters exposed not just to nearby Russia

09/20 Trump lnominee apparently commiteed Voter Frauc

09/20 RI joins CO in Risk-Limiting Audits

09/18 A new backdoor for software attack

09/14 Denise Merrill: Clash between officials and cyber experts?

09/14 Mr. Trump: Keep your Hans of the commission.

09/11 CA parties recognize problems with Top Two

09/11 Heritage voter fraud database proves that it is rare

08/21Insider fraud via provisional ballots

09/07 Forget the Russians, the real threat to Democracy – the 60 cent stamp

09/05 Electonic Voting as safe as banking, Estonia edition

09/05 the NPV Compact Lobby

09/03 Cash strapped states consider election cyber security

08/30 See No Evil, Keyna/John Kerry edition

08/29 Cyber experts blocked in patching election systems in 2016

08/26 Elected registrars mess up, three years later Hartford fined.

08/23 Few officials get cybersecurity training

08/22 Man who uncovered GA voter data speaks out

08/21` Insider in NC alterered Primary results

08/18 Voting vendor exposes data on 1.8 million voters

08/18 Denise Merrill to seek third term as SOTS

08/02 Voter registration systems easy to hack

07/31 I.e. is 25 commonly used voting machines hacked

07/31 Experts demonstrat how easy it is to hack voting machines

08/01 DHS sees no voting machine hacks, by not looking

07/28 Woodbridge Dem running for Secretary of the State

07/28 Trump Commission Likely To Find Lots of [Fake} Fraud

07/22 Air-gapped network taken down by a coffee machine

07/24 POSSIBLE FAKE NEWS: Hackers changed voter registrations in CA

07/08 Lesser quarter report and transparency

07/04 Georgia suit over uncheckable, vulnerable voting machines

07/03 Merrill reconsiders response to Trump Commission

07/02 100% Audit of Magnet School Admissions, no complaints that too costly!

Other News 2017 January - June

06/29 Merrill responds to Trumpfraud commission

06/30 DHS sees no voting machine hacks by not looking

06/27 NPR: A little would go a long way to secure elections

06/24 CIA via Wikileaks: How to hack computers not connected to the Internet

06/22 Stamford: Voting fraud via AB. It is not just Hartofrd and Bridgeport.

06/21 Merrill repeats myth that "tamper-evident" seals are "tamper-proof"

06/22 Russians not the only threat to our elections

06/19 Six things we must do to prevent chaos

06/19 GOP leaks data on 200m Americans

06/01 Robert C. Koehler: Democracy in a Cage

05/11 The technology we need: Paper

05/11 How sure can we be that voter ID cost Wisconsin electoral votes?

05/10 Reeling in gullible officials and prominent friends

05/09 Sen King has the right idea, make elections auditable

05/09 Study: Voter fraud non-issue in 2016 election

05/08 Voter data breached in Illinois

05/03 Secret evidence, leaves us wondering if Russia really hacked election

04/22 Study: Internet voting does NOT increase turnout

04/12 Can India's voting machines be hacked? Can they actually be tested?

04/12 Possiblity of Brexit hack

04/10 Russian arrested. May have hacked US election

04/04 GA investigation concludes researcher breached system

03/29 Can Science explain why election officials deny all vulnerabilities?

03/21 Easier to hack an election than Citibank

03/27 CrowdStrike retracts some claims of Russian hacking

03/21 Former CO party chair charged with voter fraud via AB

03/21 Speak no Election Hacking a good idea?

02/13 Sometimes it costs to complain: in character assination.

01/31 Reeves on voter fraud and absentee voting

01/24 Scott Bates, Deput SOTS, a buzz in Hartford

01/21 Former CT Secretary of the State candidate faces prison

01/18 Banking in CT, about as safe as online voting

01/16 KS Voter Fraud? You decide.

01/09 Maricopa County hires team to hack into election system | The Arizona Republic

01/03 WI Officials Overestimated Cost of Recount

01/03 Studies Show Early Voting Did Not Increase Turn-Out

Other News 2016 July – December

06/01 Robert C. Koehler: Democracy in a Cage

12/31 “The most basic civil right, no other right stands if you don’t get to vote for who represents you in government,”

12/30 U.S. did not make the case for Russian hacking

12/18 The Painfully Vulnerable Election System and Rampant Security Theater

12/06 FL recount good for national election integrity

12/06 Broken ballots and broken laws in Michigan

12/06 Recounts aren't useless, they're scientific

12/03 NPV: Trump claims non-uniform recount like Gore v. Bush

12/02 Canada: No online voting for now

11/29 Merrill: Fast results over EDR voters

11/29 Security Experts Back Call for Manual Recount

11/23 Hacked or Not, Audit This Election (And All Future Ones)

11/24 Barbara Simons on Jill Stein recount and vulnerablities ( Podcast: starts at 12.00)

11/22 Experts Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results in 3 Swing States

11/21 New Haven: Working and reputation worse than Harford and Bridgeport

11/19 Merrill, Courant to renew push for early voting

11/18 Oops: Results fast, yet not so accurate

11/16 Rs Want Secretary of State to violate EDR law and Federal Motor Voter

11/16 When the race is close, no matter the party, the apparent looser wants a recount

11/16 Don't complain about CT results being a couple hours late. Consider California.

11/15 ME: Ranked choice will take time, so will results

11/10 Michael Moore abolish the Electoral College by Constitutional Amendment

11/12 Eric Holder abolish Electoral College by Constitutional Amendment

11/11 CT Glitches plague state election results website

10/28 Risks to Voting You Probably Never Thought of

10/30 Trust the officials, any charge of rigging is insulting them

10/28 Testimony: Maryland Can Do Better

10/28 Editorial: Maryland Audit Falls Short

10/27 Secret Ballot losing to free speech

10/26 Snowden: Cybersecurity, arms race YOU cannot win

10/21 Fairfield: Registrars continue to conflict

10/21 Racist "Rigged Election" Attack

10/21 CT Officials express confidence in elecitons, we express caution

10/12 Americans fear Government Corruption more than Terrorist Attack

10/17 MSM [,advocates, and officials] can’t Get Its Story Straight on Election Hacking

10/17 National: Elections at Risk Part IV: Securing the Vote

10/15 John Oliver on Voter Suppression

10/14 Is there a shred of evidence Russia behind election hacks?

10/13 Elections at Risk, Part III: Vote Database Security

10/12 Elections at Risk , Part II: Variety is the Spice of Hacking for Voting Machines

10/12 CT: Chief Cyber Security Risk Officer appointed

10/11 Elections at Risk in Cyberspace, Part I: Voting Lists

10/07 Govt cyber aggression makes us vulnerable, Yahoo Edition

10/07 Wm Binney on NSA code leak

10/01 Statement by Secretary Johnson About Election Systems' Cybersecurity

09/29 Memphis: GEMs mixes up votes, just like the industry

09/28 Edward B. Foley – No good way out of election disputes

09/29 Andrew Appel to U.S. House

09/28 Election Glossary

09/26 Who votes by early voting?

09/23 How Much Faith Do You Have in the Vote Counting Process? <Audio>

09/26 Keep the Internet away from vote counting

09/21 Knee-Jerks or the start of something good?

09/20 NYTimes: Almost no votER fraud.

09/20 Study: Most data breaches found by outsiders

09/14 Officials and Computer Experts disagree

09/12 America can't promise a secure vote

09/09 Callenger finds hole in WA voter reg system

09/06 WaPo, Courant: "The Russians are Coming"

09/05 "Shocking" truth about election rigging

09/02 Merrill appoints "cybersecurity committee w/o experts"

08/30 Election Fraud, is not just about votes

08/30 DemocracyNow! Could the Presidential Election Be Hacked? FBI "Flash" Alert Urges States to Bolster Security

08/29 Hack Pointless (Or State of Denial)?

08/28 States resist Federal election security help

08/29 Two states had voter registration systems hacked.

08/27 Bridgeport could get 3 registrars of voters

08/22 A Cyber-Attack on a U.S. Election is Inevitable

08/22 Election Error, Administrator Resigns

08/18 Online Vote: More votes than voters. No clue why.

08/18 Why voting systems must be as secure as the U.S. power grid

08/16 Merrill Touts Voting System Security

08/17 SOTS defends voting system

08/17 NSA hacking tools exposed: Designed for cyber aggression.

08/11 AB Fraud allegation in East Haven

08/09 Ignoring problems in CT, PEW ranks our elections performance in top 5

08/10 Justice delayed is justice denied: SEEC handcuffed

08/10 Once Again, Ballot selfies not a good idea, illegal, bad example

08/09 Listen to Mother: Where it is difficult to prove election integrity

08/05 Spook QR codes with your smartphone, and create boarding passes

07/29 Voting technology is critical infrastructure

07/27 – CT votING fraud via AB investigation

07/12 Court rules we are all likely criminals

Other News 2016 January – June

10/14 Denise Merrill can't even imagine how elections could be rigged

09/08 The Conspiracies to create and discredit "Conspiracy Theories"

06/29 Is actually counting paper records 'abuse'?

06/21 Uncounted CA, <video>

06/18 A Skeptics Guide to DNC Strike

06/17 State plans secret talks to avoid secret attacks

06/14 DC Registrations fipped by faulty smartphone registration

06/09 CA: New "Normal" is "Unusual"

06/09 Time to overhall a broken voting system

05/17 CT to get automatic voter registration in two years

05/13 OR Automatic Registration and Closed Primary don't mix

05/11 Shvartsman (UConn) not ready to certify ANY epollbook

05/12 MD Decertifies Baltimore Results

05/11 Kiniry, Sancho, and Smith on Internet voting, auditing, and voter Id risks (audio)

04/26 Don't say: "Who could have imagined NY voter purge!"

05/06 New Haven disenfranchises again

04/30 If bankers can't bank safely online, how can we vote safely online?

04/27 New voting system an overall success, officials say

04/24 How Much of the Electoral Process Is Illusory?

04/19 Secretary Merill touts new onlike reporting and results system

04/04 FBI Says a Mysterious Hacking Group Has Had Access to US Govt Files for Years

03/29 Ballot controversy in MA mischaracterizes CT

03/25 A Conversation on Privacy Greenwald, Chompsky, Snowden

03/23 AZ: Shuttered polling places, endless lines, and widespread disenfranchisement

03/23 Exceptionalism: U.S. Elections ranked WORST

03/22 Value of Utah Online Voting (Hastles, lost votes)

03/21 Risks of Utah Online Primary

03/17 SOTS gives 14 days to bid on Revolution

03/02 What campaigns (and businesses) know about you

02/26 Apple decryptes the FBI suit

02/26 Your voter data. Its everwhere.

02/21 Hallow victory for transparency

02/11 Elections Supervisor candidate hacks elections website

02/08 CT Contributions Battle

02/08 Merrill proposes automatic voter registration

02/05 Are Brookfield Republicans democratic?

02/05 No paper ballots, no recount.

02/01 CA Initiative battles continue

01/29 National: Internet voting is just too hackable, say security experts

01/29 Why You (Still) Can’t Vote Online

01/28 U.S. Judge: Out of staters can collect signatures, this year

01/28 KS request for access to machine tapes moves forward

01/27 FL Candidate hacks into elections server

01/24 – Did the USPS disenfranchises voters in OH?

01/21 Is the NSA in favor of security and privacy?

01/22 John Washburn 1962-1916

01/14 Internet voting by another name – just at thorny

Other News 2015 July – December

12/23 Catch 22 – NSA known, undesclosed backdoors, leave U.S. Government itself vulnerable

12/21 Election night reporting servers can get overloaded

12/17 Lack of signature does not invalidate EDR ballot

12/13 GAE Co-Chair Jutilia not seeking reelection

11/30 [How] Do You Know, if your AB was actually counted?

11/20 CO ballot access should be at reasonable cost

11/20 Encryption back doors, helps, not hurts terrorists

11/06 A pot of Pot questions on Ohio

11/10 11,000 votes off in OH, at least a couple of problems

11/09 – CT gets 'F' in Public Access to Information

11/05 Vendor deletes votes. Now OK thanks to paper ballots.

11/05 CT lags other states in election results posting

10/01 CT open government foes are winning

09/18 No matter how much we test it does not prove even a single machine is accurage

09/17 Merrill discusses Registrar Certification

09/14 Bridgeport, more info on AB controversy

09/13 How Gray won is not black and white

09/11 Bridgeport: 3 of 3 candidates complain of AB irregularities

09/09 Registrar Certfication Launched

09/02 eVoting too risky for Swiss

08/25 The Illusion of Online Privacy

08/24 FOI good. Single partisan official not so good

08/22 AB hijinks past and future in Bridgeport

08/21 Sunlight not for Federal Election Commission

08/17 Selectmen don't like paying for registrar training

08/17 America's Worst Voting Machines

08/17 Courant: Plaudits for Audit[ors]

08/11 Flawed Times Encryption Op-Ed

07/31 UConn servers hacked for months before detection

07/31 SOTS names Hartford election monitor

07/31 Enable encryption, some think you are supporting terrorism

07/29 Regional election moinitors, and unfunded mandate

07/30 Is Internet voting creeping our way?

07/17 SEEC Investigating While Under Fox's Control

07/15 A Right View on Internet Voting

07/15 The Sad Result of Merging Watchdog Agencies

07/10 US Vote Foundation: Internet voting study

07/06 E-voting problems -> Shoot the messinger

Other News 2015 January – June

06/15 Open Source LA voting system: 5 yrs off.

06/11 Trust Technologists: Be wary of technology.

05/20 Election offiicals charged with fraud

05/20 Programming error keeps voters from full vote

05/05 Internet voting lobbyist and pentagon liaison provide "misleading" testimony

05/02 UK: Avoid Internet Voting

04/14 Court rules Hartford registrars keep jobs

04/13 DRE's – not safe for Republican primary in VA anymore

04/10 Brookfield: Hearing to kick-out two party members

04/01 Kansas statistican seeks tapes to understand election anomoly

03/30 SOTS and ROVAC praise elections bill

03/28 Registrar: Removal would be unconstitutional

03/27 ROVAC OpEd: Modernize our way

03/27 SOTS OpEd: Strength through less oversight

03/22 Internet voting, real election, actual vulnerabilities

03/19 Rep Himes statement on cyber threats

03/10 The CIA's war on Apple and You

03/02 Fraud maybe, AB disenfranchisement for sure

02/20 "Who could have imagined?" – not even CTVotersCount

02/19 If you cannot bank or communicate privately on your cell phone, how can you vote safely?

02/19 FBI seeks authorization to spy on any server, anywhere

02/16 The Equation. Is it the NSA?

02/15 Denise Merrill on Morning Edition

02/14 What is good for the Whitehouse, is NOT good for Google

02/12 AZ proposed law to facilitate vote selling and intimidation

02/10 Charges returned, against Hartford Registrars

02/08 CA Top Too, still not tops

02/08 Email encryption depends on one guy

02/07 Replacing registrars difficult, yet not compared to also holding elections this year

01/21 Hidden threat to free speech

01/22 Democratic Registrar plans to fight ouster

01/22 Under investigation, Merrill pleads not responsible

01/21 Hartfords only newspaper, recommends single registrar for town

01/20 Hartford Council Looks to Remove Registrars

01/17 NSA Preps America for Future Battle

01/16 President should pardon Gov. Siegleman

01/08 Democracy and Freedom (1984 version)

01/05 New Standards for Election Data

Other News 2014 July - December

12/15 Voter ID does not lower turnout: Not proven

12/24 GAE Co-Chair plans to look at campaign finance and registrar issues in 2015

12/23 Passing the buck ends with voters paying

12/22 Hartford: Discrepancies in AB votes vs. ABs checked-off

12/16 Unfunded mandate 1000 times more than post-election audits

12/10 Appointing officials, not necessarily cure for Hartford's election admin problems

12/09 Fairfield elections to be reviewed by panel

12/06 "Safe Encryption" a Non Sequitur?

12/05 Vote like you shop: "Your Money And Your Democracy"

11/21 Signature verification flaws hold up Colorado elections

12/01 Add AZ to states slower than CT in reporting results

11/30 Hackett: Appoint Registrars and Probate Judges

11/28 ROVAC President responds

11/25 All-mail voting: Not so fast, not so easy, not so simple

11/25 The Maine question: Will 21 mystery ballots change looser into winner?

11/25 MN lowest turn out since 1986

11/24 Future of CT Registrars Debated

11/19 Candidate requests audit. SOTS powerless

11/17 NJ not so quick in reporting results

11/13 .pdf votes easily hacked

11/04 100 voters turned away from EDR in New Haven

11/09 More on the Hartford fiasco

11/09 What happened and didn't in Hartford

11/08 Rep Jutila: Snarls may prompt legislation

11/07 Pssssst – 37 heroes of FOI

11/03 Be suspicious of statistics and statisticians

11/03 Our risky American election system

11/02 USAToday: Internet voting not feasible

11/03 Buy shoes online, don't vote that way

11/01 Be thankful we have voter verified paper ballots

10/31 Post Office saves the day from damper on election. This Time.

10/29 SOTS statistics on online voter registration

10/26 Pentagon watchdogs scrutinize states’ push toward online voting

10/23 Sen Looney opposes no-excuse, past AB fraud allegaions in New Haven

10/23 DHS: Value and savings in open source for Government

10/21 Machine miscounts, but paper ballots can save the day

10/23 Mistakes absentee voters make

10/21 Mass Democracy too costly?…even at less than $ per voter?

10/13 CA's top two complaints

10/05 CTPost: Mayor, SOTS please sideline elected official

10/01 AZ: AG Candidate committed vote fraud

10/01 Mail, don't email your vote

09/29 Winner declared in Governor's race: Media

09/26 Rep Alaya charged with fraudulent voting

09/26 Its Security. No its Lawlessness. NO its Orwellian Government!

09/18 Like most errors at base a 'human error'

09/01 Social Media: Just another venue for Self-Censorship?

08/28 Ballot initiative – Democracy? or Pricey insider playground?

08/26 Top two not good for CA, WA, OR…

08/17 Count the 169 ways petitions [don't] work

08/14 Another election, another AB fraud allegation in Bridgeport

08/05 The blind leading the blind in circles?

08/02 Election Commission: Electronic votes 'not secure'

07/30 As goes law school exams, so goes Internet voting?

07/30 Great risk touted for the disabled

07/29 – Don't bank on your Anderoid for voting

07/21 – Integrity too costly in CA

07/17 Leg weakens finance reform. No reason to be surprised at result.

07/10 WaPo – VotER fraud mostly a myth

07/08 More questionable AB applications in close referendum

07/05 Looming crisis in voting technology

Other News 2014 January - June

06/24 13 Wisconsin moments, untouchable by Voter-ID

06/23 CA Primary "Jungle", "Perverse"

06/22 34%+ shift from polls to results. Was this primary hacked?

06/19 Add a Tea Party vote to Republicans and Democrats for protecting the Secret Vote

06/16 Ohio proves once again: Early Voting does not increase turn-out

06/15 – DoD to watchdogs – E Voting report "pre-decisional"

06/13 Another voting fraud…Mail-in, not preventable by voter id

06/06 Yee wacky result, break the law, drop out, almost win

06/09 Top two, not too good.

05/28 The Perils of the Online Ballot Box

05/27 Simple error. Candidate needs to sue to get it corrected.

05/20 Another fraud via AB?

05/23 Good for Facebook, Good for Democracy

05/22 von Spakovsky – Online not in the foreseeable future

05/21 Register to Vote via App

05/16 Wisconsin: No fraud Voter-Id would have prevented

05/14 What you worry? Vote from that smartphone

05/12 No voter fraud that ID would prevent in Iowa

05/10 Iowa Dems urge party toward 2016 Internet Voting

05/05 The death of encryption in 11 cuts

05/04 Thoughtful authentic dissent

04/28 CT State Computers sitting ducks – Saddly, we told you so.

04/23 Speaker Sharkey concerned, House divided on NPV Compact

04/15 We told you so. Top 2 primary not panacea

04/11 Interference in WV election

04/02 Secretary Merrill meets NH Register Editorial Board

04/02 The value of pre-election testing

04/01- Errors Happen

03/29 Online voting is as save as…military networks

03/28 Secret vote issue in Wisconsin

03/13 Stratford registrars will be full-time.

03/12 They came for blacks, then moslems, then me, and now DiFi

03/03 SOTS Newsletter, questionable yet legal

03/03 – New details on Miami AB fraud case

02/27 OR maybe not Internet voting

02/25 CoINTERNETpro: NSA after your phsche and group online

02/21: Oregon: Web not safe for other applications

02/21 – Oregon: Internet voting for all, what us worry?

02/19 Safe Internet Voting – not on Navy computers.

02/19 Out-of-state trips precede Oklahoma Senate NPV vote

02/14 Be CAreful what you ask for. We told you so edition.

02/14 NASS Task Force on Emergency Preparedness

02/13 Moore warnings on Internet voting

02/06 Selling YOUR secrets

01/29 Voting via smartphone – For the Birds

01/27 Probation for attacking opposing registrar

01/27 Verified Voting: Why audit elections?

01/23 Nichols: American Democracy is Disfuntional

01/26 3rd Candidate for SOTS

01/18 Glossing over problems with Election NIght Reporting

01/14 If banking online is risky, why vote online?

01/06 NSA Threatens Interinet Security – Including Voting

01/03 Fishy vote hacking

Other News 2013 July - December

10/13 Some AB fraud, followed by some jail time

12/26 Courant and we agree: Restore Open Government

12/20 Nadar on FL 2000 <Video>

12/12 Huge Secirtiy Hole in Interent

12/17 Kerry approves of another questionable election

11/28 The NSA made simple (Video)

11/20 CT – failure to report EDR results

11/13 Easton challenge

11/11 Legal Schnauzer jailed for blogging truth

11/08 Data bring questions of fair facts, in Fairfax

10/30 VotER fraud? Or VotING fraud? In New Haven?

10/28 Instant Random Crap-Shoot Voting

10/22 State Rep/Political Operative accused of intimidation

10/21 Fairifed Registrar charged in assult

10/19 Should Bridgeport Registrar step down now?

10/16 CT Legislator accused of Voter Fraud – Registrar (mom) may be conspirator

10/14 Let "Establishment" Journalists not Apply

10/07 Some considering run for Secretary of the State

09/19 AB fraud charges in Detroit

09/17 Surprise minor parties not on ballot

09/17 Voting "Just Like New York", No thanks.

09/05 – Registration fraud in FL

09/03 – AB fraud conviction in Hartford confirmed

09/03 – AB fraud alleged in Bridgeport

09/03 – Another failed hunt for voter fraud

08/16 0/17 Illegal voting suspects were illegal

08/10 Guilty 300 counts of fraud, close to CT

08/07 – 94 counts of AB fraud by top insider

08/02 – NPV faces tough 2nd half after six year 1st half

07/30 – Internet deathbead looms?

07/15 – Amazing – The FEC will act even slower

07/01 – Official Zombie Hunt fails in SC

07/09 – Bill to improve MOVE Act

Other News 2013 January - June

06/13 – Inside the NSA: The Secret War

06/11 – Not a conspiracy? Just corporate connections/collections.

06/09 – NSA Whistleblower explains and warns us all

06/06 – These folks bought wooden nutmegs from our ancestors

05/22 – Criminalizing free information. Are bloggers next?

05/17 – Justice delayed four years: [Most] Aspen ballots released

05/14 – Incorrect results certified

05/06 – Lots of clams for IRV

05/07 – Constitutionality of early vote bill in question

05/04 – Working Families Party provides voice for residents

04/23 – Democracy requires courage

04/08 – Online voting in Canada, not so smoothe

03/26 – (Video) Rep Larson, Esty, forum on election reform

03/27 – Miami-Dade not 1st cyber attack on elections

03/25 – 1st Candidate announces for 2014 SOTS

03/18 – CSMonitor: Significance of first KNOWN cyber attack on U.S. Election

03/15 – NIST hacked: Irony? or Just another warning to be ignored?

03/18 – Cyber attack on election, via AB

03/15 – Alberta follows Edmonton nixing online voting

03/13 – Nun tempted by deamon AB

03/10 – Will CT Legislature follow 3rd world?

03/07 – Once Again, Organized VotING Fraud

03/05 – We have met the enemy and its is U.S. (Chamber)

03/01 – Accused of hacking military web sites

02/22 – Oscars Vote: The only scientist in Congress

02/23 – Kentucky nixes email and fax voting

02/15 – Hundreds of CA voters disenfranchised via absentee voting

02/06 – Federal Reserve Hacked

02/07 – Absentee Voting, Absent Saturday Delivery?

02/04 – Its Risky, Its Expensive, Its Been Hacked

02/04 – "GOP" Plan to Blow Up The Electoral Vote

01/28 Edmonton questions Internet voting (prototype compromised)

01/23 – Video: Why we need a secret ballot

01/20 – To avoid problems like FL, OH, emulate…FL and OH

01/20 – Why we say "Do for Elections what we have done for Probate"

01/16 – Internet voting NO. Online reg YES.

01/15 – Surprise! When Banks Oversee Their Own Review 'No Harm Found'

01/15 – Civil rights concent decree stands

01/10 – Push for early voting in NY begins

01/09 – Sandy storm exposes need for voting contingency plans

01/07 – Early voting easier said than done

01/07 – President powerless to fix election problems?

Other News 2012 July - December

12/28 – Mass Absentee Ballot Fraud (pun intended)

12/19 – Casting doubt on Internet voting for Edmonton

12/12 – Barking up the wrong tree?

12/11 – Do somthing! Do anything! Ask questions later.

12/11 – What Us Worry! Does your absentee vote count?

11/29 – Merrill promotes early voting, proven ineffective in increasing turnout

11/16 – There is a Quirk loose in Colchester

11/14 – Long lines and hours in Hartford, success or problem?

11/12 – West Hartford – False economy leads to calls for spending on early voting

11/13 – Manchester – Too few lines and ballots, leads to long waits

11/13 – Citing discrepancies, candidate calls for recanvass

11/12 – Student voter registrations misplaced

11/06 – NJ: Email Voting Chaos

11/03 – Recount Roulette

11/02 – Insider fraud: mail-in votes

10/30 – Why Aren't Write-In Candidates' Names Posted at Polling Places?

10/25 – E-voting puts vote accuracy at risk in four key states

10/10 – CT Voter registration DB performance concerns

10/09 – MD not ready for Internet voting, how about CT municipaliteis?

10/06 – NYTimes: The rise of mail voting fraud and error

10/05 – Machines Like CT: "It is wrong to assume that the machines are always right. They’re not"

10/03 – Registrarion Fraud – who know what, when?

10/02 – RI scanner counts differently four times!

09/27 – Vote counting companies tied to candidate

09/28 – Campaign finance reform vs. a corporate person

09/26 – Court rules, Republicans get top line

09/26 – Firm actually doing voter registrartion fraud

09/13 – New PC Banks "for you" – could it vote for you too?

09/19 – A revote Oct 2nd in Hartford/Windsor

09/06 – 'No Funds' for democracy in Hartford?

09/07 – Once again, votING fraud, not votER fraud, via AB

09/05 – Found, the Enemy of Military Voting and it is…

08/25 – Problems with database matching to eliminate voters

08/20 – Scientist says Internet voting proponents ignorant of science

08/17 – MA possible, actual votER fraud

08/20 – Missing ballot? Or original overcount?

08/14 – MA: AB votING fraud (450 fake voters)

08/17 – Voter ID, while ignoring real threat

08/13 – Update: Wisconsin ballots survive, for now

07/31 – New Haven registrars innundated after incorrect district mailing

08/09 – Republican Party sues for ballot position

08/08 – How to pass a ballot question – use the word "reform"?

08/03 – Video: The Mirage free IDs and Mirage of votER fraud

08/03 – Gov Siegelman resentenced

08/04 – Bridgeport: Since 1988 14 voting frauds with penalties

08/02 – Entering politics without really trying

08/02 – This is votING fraud, not votER fraud

07/26 – FOX: Military Internet/email voting vulnerable

07/25 – USAToday: States put overseas voters at risk with Internet/email voting

07/23 – FOX: Military Internet voting vulnerable

07/17 – Windham man fights to revamp registrar’s office

07/14 – Can we do for Elections what we have done for Probate and Higher Education?

07/13 – Ooops who is not eligible to vote in Texas?

07/10 – Ripe For Theft and Meltdown in 2012

07/07 – CT Reminder Official Audit is not Independent

07/03 – West Haven candidate files suit

07/03 – WI: Should integrity concerns depend on reported winner's party?

07/04 – NYC: How to win big without really counting

07/04 – Alaska: Election from Mars, swearing in from Hawaii

Other News 2012 January - June

06/24 – Embarrasing voter registration software

06/23 – Independent Party feud ensnares McMahon bid

06/14 – Wisconsin: Statistical improbability?

06/15 – How the Legislature [does not] work

06/07 – An American Folly: Americans Elect

06/07 – Malloy vetoes bill to consolidate polling places

05/28 – Massive international cyber-attack discovered after two years

05/15 – Americans Elect gone in little more than a Friedman unit.

05/14 – ES&S Scanners can mistally 70% of votes

05/09 – Trooper demonstrates how to hack email voting

05/01 – OK election not OK

05/01 – Americans Elect – yet another silent majority of almost none takes first bite of dust.

04/26 – Computer glitch blocks online registration

04/24 – Student hacks online election (Others raise grades etc.)

04/24 – Downsizing newspaper favors mail-in voting to save money

04/23 – Denise Merrill Interview (video)

04/22 – Voter Fraud Special – Light On Voter Fraud

04/20 – Absentee Ballot Fraud, Made Easy

04/18 – This Modern Americans Elect

04/17 – "Amazing machines…impossible…to go haywire"

04/02 – Op-Scan results corrected by hand count

03/27 – eVoting sabotage. It could happen anywhere

03/27 – Absentee fraud complaint dismissed

03/21 – GAE passes EDR

03/18 – Pandemonium at MO GOP Caucus

03/12 – EDR bill delayed

03/07 – Is Hartford Spending Enough for Presidential Primary?

02/18 – Bowen: Mail ballot disenfranchisement "nightmare"

02/16 – Internet voting on PBS Newshour

02/16 – Elections Watchdog losing bite?

02/11 – FAIR: The 1% President

02/10 Merrill/Comcast: College Video Contest

02/04 – Indiana election chief found guilty of voter fraud

02/03 – SEEC appoints Hamden attorney to be top elections watchdog

01/31 – BradBlog: 'Worse than what ACORN was accused of'

01/31 – Voting reform one of Dems top legislative goals

01/29 – The “National Popular Vote” Interstate Compact Is a Bad Idea

01/25 – Fix a Flawed System – Use the National Popular Vote

01/23 – National Popular Vote Compact: Empowering the Political Fringe

01/29 – Don't choke Clean Elections in the cradle

01/26 – Recall election brings new Saguache clerk

01/20 – Early voting benfits campaings with money

01/16 – Students to file complaint against proposed Elections Enforcement Chief

01/13 – Ethics/Elections Chairs criticize choice of enforcement chief

01/12 New Election Enforcement Ex Director named

01/05 – Who won Iowa? Santorum? Why we need recounts.

Other News 2011 January - June

06/16 NPR: Hackers Eye U.S. Government Targets

06/13 Merrill: 1.2m Fed Grant To Enhance Voting Technology

06/04 Prospects slim for NPV

05/27 Hackers breached U.S. defense contractors

05/26 China military admits cyberwarfare unit exists

05/25 Denise Merrill would like to have done more Bridgeport reform

05/23 VoTeR Center and SOTS Win 2010 EAC Grant

05/18 UConn and SOTS to develop own electronic auditing tool

05/16 WI: Candidate replys to editorial board attack

05/12 Merrill emphasizes making voting easier

05/09: Election Rigging, Sentences 156 Years

04/27 A Giant Step Backward On Elections Watchdog

04/25 OP-ED: The Office of Government Accountability MINUS Accountability

04/13 Siegelman: Ten Years of Injustice–and Counting

04/06 GAE Chair: Bill will provide "Voting Integrity"

04/14 Federal Reserve among financial institutions hacked

04/06 CO: Ballot access debate continues

03/06 Bridgeport, Denise Merrill on The Real Story

03/03 Indiana Secretary Of State Indicted On Voter Fraud Charges

03/03 Bridgeport Election Review Panel Report

02/04 Republicans Make Small Exception For Technical Changes

01/28 Enfield changes course, saves face

01/27 The Meaning of Gore v. Bush?

01/24 White House Broke Elections Law

01/24 Denise Merrill on Where We Live

01/07 Video: Denise Merrill's Forum

01/12 Report: Ranked Choice Voting Causes Confusion, Fatigue In SF's District 10

Other News 2011 July - December

12/30 – A Gentle Introduciton to Risk-Limiting Audits

12/23 – EAC ES&S Scanners count inaccurately

12/23 – IN: SOS Removed for Vote Fraud

12/18 – Is it constitutional to remove a party member?

12/15 – Letter: Low Turnout Not A Crisis

12/09 – The Slick Thtick of Americans Elect

12/08 – Race to the bottom – Will CO weaken security?

12/05 Vote by phone, kiss anonymous ballot goodbye

11/23 Typo Leads to Election of Wrong Man

11/09 Feds: Cyber Criminals Hijacked 4 Million Computers

10/30 Videos – Caltech/MIT: Election Integrity – Past, Present & Future

10/28 Vendor attempts to block audit

11/15 SOTS Performance Task Force Videos

10/25 $800,000 for new voting machine

10/18 U.S. Considered Cyber Attack Before Bombing Libya

10/14 Nutmeg State prepared for Online Voting?

10/12 Officials not responding to EAC data requests

09/29 Official: Attacks on utilties rising

09/30 Sen Slossberg to push for Provisional Ballots in 2012

09/24 Candidates' observers barred from polling places

09/22 State plans random poll checks for Bridgeport primary

09/22 NJ error and/skulduggery 4 parts available

09/19 Internet voting as safe as nuclear and defense components

09/21 Merrill responds to editorial

09/14 Outsourcing absentee ballot printing, counting, and integrity

09/10 Reject early voting scheme

09/09 Secretary of State looking for an improved voter experience

09/06 Election Enforcement: Al Lenge to retire

09/07 Secretary, little power in municipal elections

09/04 Hackers steal SSL certificates for CIA, MI6, Mossad

09/05 The Push For Early Voting Constitutional Amendment

09/04 Merrill on Early Voting – The Real Story

08/25 ME Voter Registration System Breached

08/24 Complaint: Registrar rejects petitions, based on her technical error

08/18 Q&A With Secretary of the State

08/22 Millions for the media in 2012. (Will there be pennies for integrity?)

08/15 Five months of hacker attacks

08/12 CO – ES&S Facing Contempt Charges

08/07 Tom Tomorrow explains Tom Friedman

08/03 Governments, IOC and UN hit by massive cyber attack

07/29 OP-ED: Problems Belie CT’s Strong FOI Laws

07/29 State intervention causes confusion in Bridgeport election process

07/27 The Mouse that gored

07/26 Cyber Chief quits after attacks

07/24 "Transparency" Colorado style

07/12 Massive breach: 90,000 military passwords and more