The Secretary of the State website previously broke down votes for candidates by town, county, and congressional district. Now, the site only shows this data for the candidates who were on the ballot. For those who received write-in votes, the only data made available to the public is the total number of votes. The write-in candidates already have to jump through hoops for votes cast in their favor to be counted at all; they should receive the same treatment as the more popular candidates. Obscuring vote tallies undermines democracy and erodes faith in the system.
Richard
And we are still jumping through hoops this week. Too much of hoop jumping could just cause an old fellow to burn the circus tent down.
But someday, say amen, the crooked will be made straight, and the slime bags will be chased back under the rocks from which they came.
Todd
There are 5 voters in Hartford who have not yet had their votes counted. At least three are in the process of filing complaints with the SEEC. There are also others still in Rocky Hill and West Hartford who’s votes have not been registered.
The way in which write-in voters were able to discover the counting problems was the SOTS page that broke down the returns by towns. Now I don’t speak legalese, but the elimination of this page seems to me to say: 1. “we didn’t count your vote,” 2. “we eliminated your ability to check if we did count it,” and 3. “now prove it.”
This absolutely does undermine democracy.