I'm meeting Ned Lamont tomorrow. Any questions for the man?

[MarkDevin]

Please, no snarky responses from the Lieberman/DLC crowd.

If you have a polite and legitimate question you'd like me to ask Ned Lamont on your behalf, please post it. Thanks!

Personally, I'm going to ask Mr. Lamont about his stance on Israel; not just the current crisis with Lebanon, but on the never-ending Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Not from CT (unfortunately), but if I was I'd ask this:

What will you do as Senator to show that you are truly representing the wishes of the people of Connecticut?

[MarkDevin]

2. My offer is to all of you, not just to those in Connecticut.

Should've specified that; sorry!

[movonne]

3. Your question is the one I would like to ask...so say it twice...

[Peace Patriot]

4. What does he think of Bushite corporations, Diebold and ES&S, gaining

control of our election system with TRADE SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code, and virtually no audit/recount controls, in the new election theft system, engineered by Tom Delay, Bob Ney and Christopher Dodd?

Who is counting the votes in Connecticut? Is it Diebold, ES&S or Sequoia (all with ties to the Bush regime, the Republican Party and/or far rightwing causes)? Is it someone else--and if so, does he know what their political connections are? HOW are the votes being counted? Are they using trade secret code? Is there a paper ballot backup (optiscan), and if so, what happens after the vote is separated from the evidence of the vote, and what are the chances that the evidence of the vote (the ballot, if there is one) will ever be seen again (audited, reviewed in a recount)? If it's touchscreens (DREs), how on earth can he (or anyone else) verify the result?

What does he think of Christopher Dodd's role in creating this electronic voting disaster--with the country now inflicted, on a large scale, with electronic voting machines that are known to contain huge security holes, that routinely break down and miscount, and that only corporate technicians know how to "fix"--and that furthermore are completely NON-TRANSPARENT?

What measures is he taking to challenge this election theft system, if it produces suspicious results?

Is he going to conduct INDEPENDENT exit polls?

[saltpoint]

5. No questions, but wish him good luck and let him know many of

us are rooting for him.

He's a good man.

[Bjorn Against]

6. Ask about any issue that is important to you besides the war

While the war is one of the most important issues to me, I would not ask Lamont about it.

The Lieberman campaign is trying to paint him as a single issue candidate and Lamont needs to be given the chance to speak on other issues of importance. I know that he isn't given the chance to articulate the issues very often, and I think it would really help his campaign to be given the chance to speak on other issues.

I won't tell you what to ask him, just pick an issue that is important to you and ask him about it.

[Peace Patriot]

7. Found this at Bradblog: CT rejected e-voting in Jan. '06

Bradblog says CT rejected e-voting for '06.



http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2235

"BLOGGED BY Brad ON 1/4/2006 2:31PM  

"ANOTHER STATE REVERSAL! Connecticut Ditching Electronic Voting Machine Plans for 2006!"Feds Said to Approve Return to Lever-Style Voting Equipment!

" Voting Company Danaher Reportedly Misled State! ALSO: CT is Home to HAVA Author Sen. Christopher Dodd!

"Great news! Just in from WTHN.com in Connecticut…

"There likely will not be a high-tech voting machine in your future this year. After announcing late last year that Connecticut's 3,300 mechanical, lever-style voting machines could no longer be used, the secretary of the state reversed herself. It's all about a big foul-up by companies bidding for Connecticut's business.
…
"'I am stopping the purchasing process for electronic voting equipment in Connecticut,"\' Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz. 'The state will use lever voting machines in the 2006 election.'

"After a much publicized, public testing of modern electronic voting technology late last year, it was determined that none of the high-tech devices met all of the requirements of new state and federal rules. In addition to being user friendly for those with disabilities, voters must be able to see the entire ballot all at once and there must be a voter verifiable paper record of their vote. Not even one of the machines tested qualified.

"So the secretary of the state announced the process must start all over again.

"At our invitation, two professors of computer science from a group called True Vote Connecticut watched. They had tried to raise the red flag on the electronic machines. Their complaints were dismissed last month by Secretary Bysiewicz, but today they learned that their observations were right on the money."

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So, I guess a stolen election is not as big a threat in CT as it is elsewhere. That's weird, given Dodd's role in HAVA.

I'M CHANGING MY QUESTION: Generally, what does he think of the transparency and verifiability of CT elections? Of elections for other Congress members?

and

What are his policies on electronic voting, trade secret, proprietary programming code, Bushite election machine vendors, security and transparency of e-voting?

[MissWaverly]

8. would you ask him if he is committed to listening to bloggers

I have donated to his campaign as a result of an ad at Daily KOS. Once he's elected will he
be aware of the blogosphere. David Brooks has made the charge that politicos really despise
and fear bloggers. I would like to know that he sees the blogosphere as more than a cashcow.
I am alarmed at how remote and isolated this Congress is from the people. They will take
a stand like Lieberman and think if they only browbeat you enough that you accept something
that you don't like: ie privatization of social security.