Please Complain! The CT Write In Vote Count is Flawed

Dear Friends,

As you may have heard, there have been serious vote counting errors regarding write in candidates in Connecticut. The Green Party and Socialist Party of CT have each filed complaints with the State Elections Enforcement Commission. I am now asking you to support the efforts to have every vote counted. Whether you chose to vote for a write in candidate or not is irrelevant, what is at stake is the principal that every vote must be counted.

We are talking about uncounted votes for official registered write-in candidates in the State of CT. These are candidates who lacked the resources to overcome the extremely prohibitive 2 party ballot access laws but chose to run as write in candidates despite the odds.

Below you will find the email addresses for the State Elections Enforcement Commission and Secretary of State's office accompanied by a sample letter of complaint.

I urge you to please have solidarity with your fellow voting citizens and file a complaint to demand that this counting error be corrected.

Thank You Very Much,
Todd Vachon
www.votevachon.com


email address for Elections Enforcement Commission: SEEC@ct.gov
email address for the Elections Division at The Secretary of State's Office: lead@po.state.ct.us


CT State Elections
Enforcement Commission
20 Trinity St
Hartford, CT. 06106
SEEC@ct.gov

November 12, 2008

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to register a complaint about the official write-in vote count from the recent election (11/4/08). Several voters who chose to vote for write in candidates have found their votes were not counted. This includes votes for: Cynthia McKinnney for President, Brian Moore for President, Todd Vachon for Congress, and likely other registered write in candidates as well. The counting error is very evident to individuals who checked their town's vote tally and discovered that it did not reflect their votes. These identifiable discrepancies represent the disenfranchisement of dozens of voters and suggest that perhaps less noticeable, but similar errors may have occurred throughout the state.

Every Vote must Count!

I urge you to please look into this matter.

Thank You,
(your name here)