The State Elections Enforcement Commission finally ruled on a complaint regarding the 2012 election in which several Hartford residents claimed that votes had failed to be recorded and registered, specifically, votes for third party presidential candidates Jill Stein and Stephen Durham.

During the investigation, the citywide recount resulted in an amendment of returns in districts 5 (United Methodist Church on Farmington Avenue) and 11 (United Way on Laurel Street). The SEEC finds the failure to record write-in votes unintentional, yet says that the Hartford Registrars of Voters is responsible, nonetheless, for such information.

The HROV has been told by the SEEC that it will “take extra care when overseeing the recording and transmitting of write-in votes in future elections.”