{news} CTVotersCount - Update & Observation Sign Up

Thu Nov 11 09:32:42 EST 2010

Thought this might be of interest to you.  

As part of the change-over to optical ballot counting machines, actvitst
groups insisted on the right to observe the mandated hand re-count of
ballots (audits) of districts.  Now they are looking for volunteers to be
observers of the official audits.  I'm signing up, and so is Doug Lary.
Wndham has been randomly chosen before, but there's no telling which towns
will be recounted.

I'm particulary interested because I know that one of my votes was not
counted--I had a write-in that's not listed on the official tally.  Were
there others?  Did the machines work?

Jean de Smet

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IN THIS ISSUE:
- Sign Up NOW! For Nov Post-Election Audit
- Invite Others to Join the Observation Team
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- Sign Up NOW! For November Post-Election Audit
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Investment? One Day
Value to Democracy? Priceless

 We are pleased to announce that the Connecticut Citizen Election Audit
Coalition (League of Women Voters of Connecticut, Common Cause, Connecticut
Citizen Action Group, and CTVotersCount.org) will observe the Connecticut
November 2010 Post-Election Audits.  The observations will occur between
November 17th and December 8h. 

HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!
The Coalition needs to increase the number of volunteer observers by 50% to
fully cover this election.

Sign-Up  http://ctelectionaudit.org/sign-up-for-post-election-audits-now/
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 More information, flyer http://www.ctelectionaudit.org/ObservationFlyer.pdf
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- Invite Others to Join  the Observation Team
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To reach our goal of covering every audit with at least two observers will
require more volunteer observers.  We have added new observers but need
more! - in total we need about 50% more than last year.

Our largest gaps are in the areas of North Western, Northern, and all of
Eastern Connecticut.  We need more observers in those areas and more
observers willing to travel a little further to provide us the flexibility
to cover the entire state.

Who might be interested in Litchfield County?  The Quiet Corner?  near Rhode
Island? or near Massachusetts?

We have a flyer at:  http://www.CTElectionAudit.org/ObservationFlyer.pdf
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Wee are covering the November Governors race, see our summary of the
integrity issues raised by the close race and controversies surrounding the
counting:
  http://www.ctvoterscount.org/connecticut-governors-races-integrity-issues/
Perhaps the winner will be election integrity, caused by long overdue public
awareness.

Nationally, attention is finally being brought to the risks of Internet
voting, based on recent testing in Washington D.C.
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/internet-voting-faces-the-music-hats-off-to-d-c
-and-michigan/

While Connecticut provides real service to our service people, long with
overseas voters:
http://www.ctvoterscount.org/connecticut-follows-move-act-avoids-flaws-other
s-follow-the-money/

And the recent Coalition audit report, released October 20th. From the
report:

http://ctelectionaudit.org/aug-10-election-observation-report-incremental-im
provement-new-integrity-issue/

Citizen observation and analysis shows some improvements along with a newly
uncovered problem with the random selection process.We conclude that August
post-election audits still do not inspire confidence because of:

*	failure in the integrity of the random district selection process, 

*	lack of standards for determining need for further investigation of
discrepancies, 

*	weaknesses in the ballot chain of custody, and 

*	lack of, consistency, reliability, and transparency in the conduct
of the audit. 

the list of polling districts for the random audit drawing was missing some
districts and is otherwise inaccurate and ambiguous. The integrity of the
audit requires an accurate list of districts that is verifiable by the
public. We have extended our recommendations to the Legislature to include
an efficient fix to this problem.

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