See anything unusual here?

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

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



20 errors and counting in the 2010 SOV.

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

See anything unusual in district 140B?

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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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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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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So what chance is there that Foley actually won?

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.

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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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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.