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« on: May 21, 2012, 04:19:21 PM »

From the 2010 Enfield CT election results. These were the official results reported to the SotS.

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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2012, 04:39:59 PM »

Wait, wait, this one's just too funny:



20 errors and counting in the 2010 SOV.
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2012, 04:54:34 PM »

Haha, wow. Good finds!

What sort of voting system does CT use, by the way?
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2012, 05:07:43 PM »

Haha, wow. Good finds!

What sort of voting system does CT use, by the way?

Optical scan. Paper ballots fed into a machine. Our ballots look like this.
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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2012, 12:18:31 PM »

Ive seen this here, where the Marxist-Leninist Party wins a precinct, with the Liberal candidate getting 0 votes in a Liberal seat. The MLP even "led" the district, as it was the first precinct to report, and it surprised the national newscaster as he announced it back in 2004.
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« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2012, 01:59:08 PM »

Ive seen this here, where the Marxist-Leninist Party wins a precinct, with the Liberal candidate getting 0 votes in a Liberal seat. The MLP even "led" the district, as it was the first precinct to report, and it surprised the national newscaster as he announced it back in 2004.

Which seat, out of curiosity?
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« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2012, 04:51:34 PM »

http://www.norwalkct.org/DocumentCenter/Home/View/1259

See anything unusual in district 140B? Wink

How can they not see an outrageous total like that for a very minor third party candidate? When this error gets corrected, Mertens' statewide vote total will drop by 1.5%.

22 errors and counting in the 2010 SOV.
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« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2012, 05:21:24 PM »

Ive seen this here, where the Marxist-Leninist Party wins a precinct, with the Liberal candidate getting 0 votes in a Liberal seat. The MLP even "led" the district, as it was the first precinct to report, and it surprised the national newscaster as he announced it back in 2004.

Which seat, out of curiosity?

Check out Poll 73C: http://www.elections.ca/scripts/OVR2004/23/5142.html
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« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2012, 01:51:10 AM »

Haha, wow. Good finds!

What sort of voting system does CT use, by the way?

Optical scan. Paper ballots fed into a machine. Our ballots look like this.


Good, there's something to recount rather than a Diebold electronic vote stealing machine or the like.
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« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2012, 08:32:38 AM »

Found some weird stuff in a 2008 report from Bristol yesterday. The Republican candidate for Registrar of Voters seems to be missing anywhere from 1500 to 2000 votes in her official tally as reported by the Secretary of the State, and Larson is missing about 500 from the Working Families line.

News at eleven...
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« Reply #10 on: June 19, 2012, 09:28:41 PM »

Holy shit...

After looking over their district-by-district tally, I think that Stamford, CT may have counted its absentee ballots twice over in 2010.
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« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2012, 11:59:03 PM »

So what chance is there that Foley actually won? Tongue
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« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2012, 06:26:24 PM »

So what chance is there that Foley actually won? Tongue

Even if Stamford counted its absentees twice over, I'd still need to find 6,000 lost Foley votes for that to be the case. Then again, those 6,000 are probably all in Bridgeport, and I'm still waiting on their results. Grin
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« Reply #13 on: July 06, 2012, 04:48:04 PM »

LOL, I worked on the Norwalk one. Those optical scans suck
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« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2012, 01:07:36 AM »

You have to use a number two pencil?
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« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2012, 09:05:24 AM »

You have to use a number two pencil?

Black marker. Pencils would break or need to be sharpened multiple times during voting day.
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« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2012, 05:40:27 PM »

You have to use a number two pencil?

Black marker. Pencils would break or need to be sharpened multiple times during voting day.

Wait a minute, you have to physically mark the ballot yourself? That's the sort of thing I would expect from a backwater state like Oklahoma, not Connecticut.
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« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2012, 02:11:18 PM »

You have to use a number two pencil?

Black marker. Pencils would break or need to be sharpened multiple times during voting day.

Wait a minute, you have to physically mark the ballot yourself? That's the sort of thing I would expect from a backwater state like Oklahoma, not Connecticut.


Yeah, it's pretty weird. It's a horrible system and I wished we would have gone onto a better system.
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« Reply #18 on: July 09, 2012, 10:21:13 PM »

So I spent an hour today in the basement of an abandoned school with the Registrar of Voters in [withheld], CT. We looked through old boxes in search of tally sheets from past elections because they weren't at the Town Clerk's office at City Hall. Nothing labeled, nothing organized, everything relies upon the memory and experience of the officials currently in office.

Needless to say, record-keeping in some of Connecticut's decaying industrial cities isn't exactly impressive.
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