{"id":6509,"date":"2008-10-13T16:09:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T23:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6509"},"modified":"2008-10-15T09:54:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T16:54:46","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-october-13-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6509","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ For October 13, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

22 days until Election Day. <\/p>\n

In what may be a program unique to Connecticut, UConn ‘s VoTeR Center performs a pre-election audit of the memory cards for the state’s Premier AccuVote Optical-Scan tabulators. This is a smart program that should be mirrored across the nation. <\/p>\n

The University just released a report of its audit of the memory cards used in the state’s August primary election. The cards were programmed by LHS Associates, which also provides voting systems, programs memory cards, and does other election work for the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. UConn received 185 memory cards directly from LHS. Ten of those cards or 5.4% had nothing but “noise”\u009d on them. How many bad cards were sent out to polling places in CT? How many bad cards were sent to polling places in the other states LHS services? …<\/p>\n

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