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Still Trusting the System?

By Kerri Provost

November 13, 2010

In case anyone is wondering about their write-in votes in Hartford, the Secretary of the State website is still not showing any votes for several of the third party candidates.

To put this in perspective, I can retrieve a backup manual for my food processor in less than five minutes online. Using Amazon or almost any other bookseller, I can order and receive books within days. To read, comment on, and grade roughly 360 pages worth of student writing, it takes me about seven days. I can even renew my license in less time than it is taking to simply post the handful of votes that these candidates received. This election has been a fiasco for a number of reasons and it erodes the trust that Americans have in our electoral system.