Connecticut SoS Wants to Make 20% Audit Permanent

[Bill Bored]

Gee do you think it's significant that this is Chris Author-of-HAVA Dodd's state?:



Secretary of the state would make Conn. national model for election security
By Keith M. Phaneuf, Journal Inquirer
01/12/2007

HARTFORD - Hoping to make Connecticut a national model for safe elections, Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz unveiled a proposal this week calling for mandatory annual audits of one-fifth of all polling places.

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"We owe it to the voters to allow them to always feel confident that they have an fair and transparent election process," Bysiewicz said during an interview in her Capitol office.

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And while an ongoing debate on Capitol Hill includes a proposed national standard of audits in at least 2 percent of each state's voting precincts, Bysiewicz says she's looking at a much tougher standard.

The secretary said Thursday she is submitting a proposal to the state legislature's Government Administration and Elections Committee that would require audits in at least 20 percent of the state's 769 voting precincts, to be selected randomly.

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<http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17707463&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=6>

[w4rma]

1. Very very good. (nt)

[orleans]

2. great. let's do it. in every state--no matter how the state voted. n/t

[eridani]

3. Just because we won doesn't mean we ignore this problem

We would have won bigger with transparent elections.

[Stevepol]

4. What a great idea! This would do the trick I think.

[GuvWurld]

5. The link doesn't work for me

Anybody else? BB can you please post it again?

[Kurovski]

7. Me neither. It times out before loading.(nt)

[Ellipsis]

6. It's only proposal, let's see where it goes.

It certainly deserves a K&R

[Bill Bored]

8. New Link to the story:

<http://zwire.townnews.biz/site/news.cfm?notn=1&ncdr=1&newsid=17707463&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=6>

And a VoteTrust article:
<http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2193&Itemid=113>

Enjoy! :hi: