VOTING GLITCHES AHEAD. Our local papers in Connecticut carried a report by Neil Vigdor on October 10 about how: “For the second time in two weeks, a ‘stress test’ conducted on Connecticut’s centralized voter registration database Wednesday exposed serious glitches in the system. (Here is the article from the Greenwich Time. I saw it first in the Darien News.) It’s a problem affecting the entire state. About 100 of the 169 voting units in the state participated in the tests. Vigdor says that the first test produced “what registrars described as abominable results that cast doubts about whether the system can handle the rigors of the upcoming election.” One of the sources of the problems is a change in the computer mainframe. I posted here on problems we experienced in Connecticut in 2008, but I am confident that Connecticut is not the only state with these kinds of problems.
There are a lot of elections coming up.